No doubt at all.

Leaders who engage in cruelty are tacitly admitting that their authority is illegitimate and use force to terrorize because they have no other way to ensure they'll stay in power.

Not strength. You are correct.

Trump’s whole shtick is his supposed strength - from his shoe lifts to his hideous fitting suits.

Pfffttt

Anything that 'owns the libs' is good.

He is never leaving that office alive, if he gets his way. And penis boy Johnson is all in. Don't look for help from a house led by him. The mid-terms cannot be lost.

The administration's strategy is to break laws repeatedly until held accountable.
Laws are merely "suggestions" until and unless they are enforced.

The Fascists’ Playbook 
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/08/the-fascists-playbook/ 

10 Small Steps:

Executing the Fascist Playbook 
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/10-small-steps-executing-the-fascist-playbook_b_585dfec2e4b04d7df167cfab

Gabby Giffords…

BUT (and it's a big one) I'm pretty sure Stephen Miller is telling him what to do. He's pulling all the strings and pushing all the buttons now that Eloon is gone.

Tell the truth. Is there anyone here who wouldn't be upset if Stephen Miller were shot dead in broad daylight?

on what to do are coming from Stephen Miller. In saying that, I'm acknowledging that the United States is being led by a trueform, dyed-in-the-wool Nazi. THIS should not stand. I don't care who he is. If he's a Nazi and he's governing or influencing the governing of this country, someone needs to at least arrest him and charge him with being an enemy of the State, as well as a domestic terrorist. And, while they're at it, they can stop by Bannon's office and add him in to the mix, as well. And if someone would shoot any of these people, the shooters would get as good PR as the guy that took out the health care CEO. Of course, he IS in massive trouble from doing it, but there were a lot of people taking his side, for whatever reasons. I think this would be the same way. In fact, that's where jury nullification might actually come in handy.

What happens now, or later after the next outrage of this administration?

Where is the line in the sand?

but we're not an organized group to do anything. We're several disorganized groups and individuals. Goals are more likely to be achieved when there's an organized group to gather around, and a leader who listens to all, but makes decisions and acts. That's why the coup happened so easily and in plain sight. The R's had been planning this since at least Nixon was in office. And each election they moved closer and closer to achieving their goals.

Our problem is not only are Democrats not an organized group with a charismatic, active leader willing to put everything on the line for the country, but we're time-constrained, too. What R's took decades to achieve, we have weeks... months. A midterm election, if we're lucky. The lines have been drawn in the sand over and over, and the R's just say "make me". What do you do beyond what we're all trying to do right now?

Secretly allow russia to send their nuclear missiles at us, as long as they could make it to a fallout shelter first.

Female AND a latina.

his veep get lynched by a neo jim crow mob. And that didn't shock me.

He. Is. A. Psychopath.

Timidity is why we are here.

I weep for the millions of Americans who will never see it leave

I am totally not surprised. Sick to my stomach and livid, yes, but surprised? Nope.

To jail them. Maybe try them as traiters.

These people are out of control.

waiting to see if they'll cross.

but he'll not actually get his tiny hands dirty...

He'll always leave the dirty work to his minions...

but he sure won't be the last.

...I always end up believing the unbelievable.

I didn’t expect it to be law enforcement.

or the military who crossed the line first. After seeing the way they acted in his first maladministration, it was obvious there has been either a sea-change in personnel or hiring notations had changed, to where they only hire those on the more violent side of personality traits.

I said to friends that republicans want to kill us and they will start with those who stand up and challenge them..
Some thought I was going way too extreme.

Guess what? Not at all. Republicans will shoot us down because they want a complete autocracy.

It is straight out of the dictator's playbook. Putin has tutored him well.

If tRump isn't stopped soon. He's going to do a lot worse, and incite others to more violence.