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Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and journalist Maria Ressa was arrested after Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines. She wrote the book 'How to Stand Up to a Dictator.' Ressa said Trump, like Duterte did, is quickly moving to get rid of government's checks and balances: "There is a dictator's playbook, and you can look first at Russia, actually, even before that, Turkey, Hungary, Russia, right, with Putin taking office. And the first step is really to get elected, once you're elected, to crush the systems of checks and balances, and then replace them with your own --- we're starting to call them the broligarchy, because it's far more potent, the tech guys are more potent than just normal oligarchies. This is political largess, political patronage. You have to decide the world you want to live in. You have to decide whether rule of law exists. You cannot normalize impunity. And if you don't, over time, we normalize that and you lose more and more of your rights. But here's a positive note. Rodrigo Duterte's term ended. He had one six-year term. He did try to extend. And perhaps if the military had supported him, I wouldn't be here. But we now have another president and those 10 criminal cases that I have had, I have now won eight of those 10 and two left. I still have to ask the Supreme Court for approval to travel, but we're here. It's alarming to see it happening all over again."

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-- Mia Farrow (@miafarrow.bsky.social) March 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM

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This is partly the Dems fault. They put up perhaps the worst presidential candidate of all time. Handing the election to Trump. Thanks Dems.

And thanks Republicans for not picking a better Republican candidate for president. Both sides flunk.

#1 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-03-04 08:00 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Either candidate that ran against Trump was far, far better than he was. Blame the misogyny of this country and idiots that believe Trump cares about anyone but the mega-rich elites.

#2 | Posted by MBlue at 2025-03-04 10:26 AM | Reply

She is spot on and we are clearly in that spiral at the moment.

#3 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-03-04 10:44 AM | Reply

They put up perhaps the worst presidential candidate of all time. Handing the election to Trump
- willyDaAgent

Chuck Todd on Biden

saying that Biden's image as a family man was utter bull droppings and that "he never should have been there [in the Oval Office] in the first place.

Biden should have never been the front runner. This caused the US to slide in so many ways. Trump is just augmenting the auger into the ground.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-04 10:57 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

YABH about Trump

Obsession isn't just a perfume!

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-04 10:58 AM | Reply

The noxious orange -------- is running the economy through a wood chipper and maga dumfux are cheering.

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-04 11:00 AM | Reply

What about the 80 million registered voters that didn't vote.

We deserve what we get.

#7 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-03-04 12:49 PM | Reply

Obsession isn't just a perfume!

#5 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Obsession? With the most evil president ever who thinks he can rule by fear and oppression and revenge and retribution?

Yeah I would call it that a normal reaction.

So you think America should just lay back and take it?

Americans have not even begin to fight back. Oh there is lot of talk and whining and a pushback here and there. But it's all been weak sauce.

The real action has yet to begin.

Stand back and stand by.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-04 01:54 PM | Reply

FAGligarchy.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-04 04:44 PM | Reply

It's odd to me how supporting The Baby-Killer Twins Putin and Trump is somehow even remotely comparable to supporting Dem policies.

Russia's civilian-based invasion, which took out more family condos, and the families, yesterday, which tactic he also used in Syria, is somehow less egregious than Zelenskyy asking for Security Guarantees for any Cease Fire, when Putin is a habitual Cease Fire breaker?

These two things are not nearly the same.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-04 05:03 PM | Reply

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