A conservative literally went and shot a sitting democrat politician and her husband dead. It was a news story for about 10 seconds before being replaced by the latest Trump shenanigans. They’re literally assassinating / murdering democrats in their homes man, and no one in America seems to care all that much.
And you think something’ll happen if they deport a dude who is just… in the running for mayor?
Yeah, ok, sure.
Such a wimpy style of governance from the look of all these proceedings. Even if there are legitimate complaints, the person ‘getting grilled’ could practically sit there singing the alphabet, and the outcome would be the same.
It’s like those odd sport interviews where the person just responds “I’m just here to not get fined” to every question – ie. I’m forced to be here for pageantry/contract reasons, but there’s no real point to any of it. Both the questions, and the answers, are ultimately pretty meaningless.
I agree that this is a significant issue / problem for democratic countries, and that the trend of violence towards journalists in America is an obvious concern.
That said, the media has generally turned a blind eye as Israel killed a record number of journalists the past few years - and not only that, but they continued to broadcast out that regimes narrative. Given that the media / journalists “at large” have ignored this sort of issue in another “democratic” country that’s gone authoritarian, I find it totally unsurprising that another authoritarian-trending regime feels emboldened / empowered to treat journalists the same.
More realistically… AI Trump.
They could feed all of his bullshit into a model, and have an AI Trump spewing nonsense forever. Bet it’d even take AI golf trips.
As a non US person seeing this clip, all I can think is… this isn’t a surprise at all, the tariff stuff is basically blatant violation of existing trade agreements, being done based on Trumps whims without real justification. Him doing the same ‘locally’ is just more of the same.
Musks Tesla stock holdings make it so that even if he were kicked out as CEO, the company would continue to be viewed as his personal piggy bank, and likely continue to face backlash for the stuff Musk is doing. Him liquidating his stock position would crater the stock price. It’s pretty well cooked.
In this case, it makes sense though. The recent techbro crypto bank announcement, a bank created by the same tech billionaires that intentionally crashed/destroyed SVB, is basically a play to shift the American financial system into stablecoins / cryptocurrencies entirely, as it’s something that the tech bro class figures they can control for their own benefit.
That’s all moving ahead on schedule, and is in line with Curtis Yarvin’s whole techno fascist monarchy dream for how democracies need to die. They really only need to appease Trump for so long as it takes to get control of those purse strings. Egging on destruction / chaos for things like social services also feeds this pattern, it’s easier to convince someone they need to make drastic changes to their home, if that home is currently on fire.
Having a constant tech-fascist publicly whispering these sorts of things in Trump’s senile ears helps to keep up the facade within the maga-bubble that it’s a “broadly accepted” approach to benefit everyone, that’s been agreed upon by a bunch of “data driven” science types, when it’s absolutely not. It’s tech oligarchs looking to dismantle and own most western democracies.