If he’s any good at it he’ll pass an Enabling Act at the start (like Hitler did in 33), and then a halt to elections as an emergency measure later on.

Finally an electable party in Japan!

They weren’t funny, or socialist enough.

Resulting in them coming off as:

Serious, and Corporatist…

…which is what they are (although the Trumps are obviously way more Corporatist).

Putin has groomed him, taught him that fewer Oligarchs means tighter control over the country. Big win for Russia.

No one knows the political lean of who didn’t vote.

…I think the people who voted for Trump probably played the bigger part though.

You just listed tactics used on most modern day protests then told me to pay attention?

That’s not proof of fascism. That’s just a Tuesday.

Like I hate the guy, but this is a bad proof. He’s a generic corrupt Capitalist politician. It’s a best proof he’s good at trolling the left.

He held the bible for a photo op? That’s your proof he’s tangibly doing fascist actions?

You know a large majority get sworn in on that thing?

It also isn’t anything Trump has actually done. He jokes about being violent or fascist to get attention and goad the left into giving him even more attention - and they fall for it every time. He laughs at them with his supporters about this.

Yeah, that said - I don’t think he’s a fascist yet. I think he’s an extreme Capitalist with a narcissistic personality.

He likes to joke, play, and dance with violent rhetoric to get views and likes. He goads the left into giving him attention, and his supporters find it funny.

So I think he’ll be a more run of the mill candidate than most on the left are claiming. This is because American democracy is already corrupt, already serves mostly the wealthy and bigotted, at the cost of the stupid, poor, vulnerable, and ignorant.

So he won’t be a noteworthy fascist unless there’s a government action results in a mass violence, OR he refuses to leave office.

No they won’t they’ll implement 50 - 75 percent of it. Ditching what’s not popular enough or appealing enough to business men and their popular base.

They’re libertarian business men who want little kingdoms of their own, they’re willing to play on fascism to get it, but they’re not going to be gunning people down in the streets. Especially not now interest rates are being cut by the fed, and the COVID recovery is ready to boost the economy again.

Part of why Trump won was people calling them fascist garbage and stupid. All the people Trump makes feel good about America took offense to that.

Trump bought into their offense by saying “I’m with you, I’m on your side, I’ll even drive the garbage truck. Hahaha”

… and the left’s only response was to double down with “you look stupid and crazy for not automatically agreeing with us, with no discussion or appeal from us”.

That same cycle of LEFT: “you’re a stupid crazy fascist”

RIGHT: “no we’re playing to make ourseves feel happy and edgy, and unpopitician like”…

LEFT: “Well that’s stupid and shouldn’t be popular”

Went on for 8 years. That emotional interaction/cycle was on repeat.The majority didn’t give them an off ramp or even try to appeal to them, or reason with them.

Studying fascism so you can call them fascist idiots better isn’t going to change the emotions at play, if anything it’s going to amplify them.

No, you have to make America’s history of exploitation and greed, of racism and corruption, of international business cartels, seem good and like winning. Because that’s how he makes them feel: like it’s fun and good and winning to be an American.

They’re saying they don’t want serious politics as usual. You’re saying “if I just call them fascist idiots better they’ll agree with me that they’re fascist idiots!”

That’s not a discussion that’s going to resolve any different or better by perfecting your very serious and sad and angry condemnation of them.

…and he makes that seem fun.

This video explains it well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzIaIiiZIpY

Basically Trump is a very American person, stemming from a very American history and culture.

He’s not an ideal, he’s not what they want American history and culture to have been. He’s a product of what it actually has been.

Depends what his business interests tell him to do.

Probably nothing too obvious.

Some supreme court justices are going to take the opportunity retire though, so it will be a Republican SCOTUS for the next two decades.

The call is coming from inside the house!

My bet is they’re both interested in selling of National Parks.

Trump’s backers, and especially Peter Thiel, whom JD Vance is an avatar for (Thiel put forward Vance as VP to Trump, and had sponsored Vance’s entire political career, which is only two years old), all read Curtis Yarvin.

Yarvin is Silicon Valley’s chosen “philosopher” - he advocates for the end of democracy and a return to monarchy, with billionaires as royalty and monarchs.

The article makes it clear that the Chinese botnet is targeting Microsoft azure accounts, usually for large organizations involved with governments, infrastructure, legal professionals, science and technology.

It also states that the attacks can be disinfected by regularly restarting your router, but that this doesn’t prevent reinfection later.

The US intelligence services also says you should regularly restart your phone.

This is Microsoft’s posting about it which other news sources are quoting from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/10/31/chinese-threat-actor-storm-0940-uses-credentials-from-password-spray-attacks-from-a-covert-network/

It has a recommendations section which suggests “credential hygiene” and strong passwords help.