I guess I'd also like people to know that the Trump government is getting more awful not because it is growing in strength, but because it is weakening and the rats are grabbing for what they can while they still have the means.

[alexwild@mastodon.online]

I guess I'd also like people to know that the Trump government is getting more awful not because it is growing in strength, but because it is weakening and the rats are grabbing for what they can while they still have the means.

The government is tanking in the polls, things are falling apart in places, and it is clear that the regime will lose Congress by historic margins even with their newly rigged districts.

This is a tremendously dangerous time, the lashings about of a drowning dictator.

[mast0d0nphan@beige.party]

@alexwild Also, Trump is dying and is pushing to grab as much power for his legacy before he kicks it.

[alexwild@mastodon.online]

@mast0d0nphan Yeah, and all the people around him who want things: mass deportations, for example, or Greenland, are going for it.

[gepasi@fediscience.org]

@alexwild but a dying dictator is extremely dangerous, eg wanting to use insurrection act ...