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"Why Historians Are Warning About Trump's Next Eight Weeks"

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"Is Trump Entering the Most Dangerous Phase of His Presidency?

Historians and political violence experts warn that weakened strongmen can become more aggressive, purge doubters, and target opponents.

Could the next eight weeks be America's most dangerous?

" Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, who's studied strongmen her entire career and wrote a brilliant book about them, calls this "late-stage radicalization," the dangerous phase when a weakened autocrat purges wafflers from his regime, strengthens his loyalists, and lashes out at anybody who may oppose him.

" Obama advisor Robert Pape, who runs the University of Chicago's project on political violence, just said that the next eight weeks until Democrats are sworn will be the most dangerous weeks of our entire lives."

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Americans haven't forgotten that in 2015 as a Republican US Senator from Florida, vapid Marco Rubio introduced debilitating riders into the Affordable Care Act (ACA; AKA Obamacare'). Now because of the BBB, many Americans lost their ACA subsidies and can't afford to buy health insurance, a problem unheard of in Canada, the Nordic countries, or NATO member states.

Source: Marco Rubella Undermines ACA

After leaving office, Marco Rubio, a supporter of Israel's vicious ethnic cleansing, will enjoy himself quite a comfortable federal pension, combining his utterly useless tenure as a US Senator and USSECSTATE.

Forsooth, one of the world's worst persons, without a molecule of doubt:

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Flock lawsuits test legal limits of license-plate reader networks
www.reuters.com

... Does your right to privacy end when you back out of your driveway?

That question is driving a flurry of lawsuits against Flock Safety and others over cameras that automatically read and record the license plates of passing vehicles.

Plaintiffs' lawyers are united in arguing the technology enables police to conduct unlawful mass surveillance, generating billions of scans each month showing the location and movement of cars on roads across the country.

Where they diverge is in identifying a viable legal theory for their challenges. Are the scans an illegal search in violation of the US Constitution's Fourth Amendment? Do they run afoul of state privacy statutes? Is Flock's network of about 120,000 cameras across 49 states negligently designed and operated? ...


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