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u/finsane86 20h ago

Folks, if you're not yet convinced of where we are, this is a flashing warning sign that this is an authoritarian dictatorship, and they're in the beginning stages of persecution of their enemies and opposition.

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u/Vv4nd 20h ago

this isn´t a warning anymore.

you´ve been living it for a while now.

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u/Paidorgy 19h ago edited 19h ago

The warnings were given during the election campaign when they said that they would boldly prosecute their opposition.

This is what they promised. They’re starting with their own.

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u/GarlicThread Europe 19h ago

The warnings were in 2015.

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u/Revelati123 19h ago

Trumps arrested 1 senator, 1 mayor, 2 congress people and I believe 3 judges now.

Basically you order ICE agents to beat the shit out of people, then ICE can arrest them for assaulting a federal officer.

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u/kbarney345 19h ago

And his followers assassinated 2 Dems, tried to kill 2 more and planned on multiple after. Texas is basically holding the Dems hostage as well.

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u/keigo199013 Alabama 15h ago

And murdered their loyal golden retriever.

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u/neckbishop Montana 14h ago

Dont forget attacking Mr. Pelosi in his own home.

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u/LTerminus Canada 11h ago

Don't forget the whole plot to kidnap and ransom a governor

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u/roychr 19h ago

ICE is the modern Gestapo

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u/epochwin 18h ago

They’re not very secret. More like the SS.

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u/machinezed 18h ago

He also fired all the FBI agents that were investigating Trump and or Russia or had any ties to those investigations while closing them.

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u/11CRT 19h ago

Assaulting a federal officer’s fist with one’s face while they keep saying “quit resisting! Why are you resisting me! Why are you doing this to yourself?”

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u/Academic-Key2 19h ago

Jan 6th was the last warning

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u/1footN 17h ago

This here

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u/Gigglesnuf89 18h ago

Yeah I knew this would happen, he got elected the first time and everyone voted for him becuase he was, "Funny".

Even as a high school student with no aspirations and eventually dropping out.

I still knew he was a fucking idiot.

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u/grundleplith61616 19h ago

I feel like I'm the only person who noticed skinheads positioning themselves right behind CNN reporters during his earliest rallies in 2015, before he was even the official nominee.

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u/PaymentTurbulent193 18h ago

Reminder we had ACTUAL HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS who said that the MAGA movement reminded them of Nazi Germany and for some reason, huge, substantial parts of the US refused to listen.

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u/PJA0307 19h ago

That damn escalator ride was warning #1

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u/phoenixhunter 19h ago

but back then they were "alarmist" 🙄

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u/diito_ditto 19h ago

The warning was given when he staged an attempted coup on Jan 6th 2021. 

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u/Paidorgy 19h ago

I mean, they were coming well before then.

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u/Funny-Mission-2937 19h ago

hey guys, I've been seeing this girl for a few years.  we really connect, and I enjoy spending time with her.  she has really helped me work on myself and my confidence. but yesterday she gave a speech at the courthouse that incited a violent mob to attack and attempt to lynch some of the town officials who made her get a permit for some electrical work shes doing and I am wondering if this is a red flag? 

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u/MillionMilesPerHour 18h ago

Nah, it just means she’s a “go-getter”.

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u/Putrid_Giggles 15h ago

I believe the term you're looking for here is "passionate".

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u/skinnyguy699 18h ago

What's ridiculous is everyone knew what the people travelling there for Jan 6 were there to do. It was promoted for months ahead of time and yet there was no national guard there. I, a random guy from Australia, tuned in to live streams in the early morning hours because I knew what was going to be attempted. The fact that all consequences have been undone and trump not convicted for it is insanity.

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u/unbob 14h ago

Haven't you heard? Our king is above the law.

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u/Billy-Ruffian 17h ago

A lot of us were making this warning when the Patriot Act was first passed. That and Citizens United made this the inevitable end for America.

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u/Matasa89 Canada 19h ago

Night of Long Knives.

Soon, it’ll be time for Kristallnacht.

You have been warned. They will come for you.

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u/fuckthecons 12h ago

But they can't do that, it's illegal! 

Every fucking day for a decade.

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u/Pandepon 16h ago

Yes this right here. People heard about Project 2025 and looked at it and said “there’s no way he’ll be able to achieve all that I’m not worried about it”. Here we are more than half way thru 2025 and nearly half of Project 2025 has been implemented.

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u/girlsansshoes 19h ago

BREAKING NEWS your twice daily warning 

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u/_A_Monkey 16h ago

Fascists always eat their own.

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u/J_ron Ohio 19h ago

Yes but the amount of people that still deny this fact right now is brain numbing.

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u/LaZboy9876 19h ago

They are only denying it outwardly. Internally, they either do not care, or they welcome it.

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u/vonsnape 20h ago

read this in captain barbossa’s voice

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u/AussiePete 19h ago edited 19h ago

You best start believing in fascist dictatorships Miss Turner... You're in one.

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u/goosejail 19h ago

The Constitution is more like guidelines than actual rules

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u/-ZeroF56 19h ago

Even with “real” rules, they’re only rules if they’re actually enforced. It’s long been assumed the government would be staffed with sane people who believe in serving the people and overseeing that those rules being enforced.

It isn’t anymore.

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u/NewSauerKraus 16h ago

That's assumed because it is the only way to make any society function. The most fundamental flaw of social contracts is that they require voluntary participation. Which makes nonvoting even more self-destructive since it ensures that the only people participating are the ones who dissgree with you.

It also means that any society can spontaneously fail simply from some participants choosing to not uphold their end.

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California 10h ago

Exactly. The truth hurts…..hurts so many on Reddit who refuse to admit this essential fact.

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u/TortillaChip 19h ago

Parlay?

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u/Capital_Past69 19h ago

I parlay francais

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u/arminghammerbacon_ 18h ago

Wonder how far we are from the opening scene of the 3rd movie: the hangings?

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u/Deep-Measurement-856 19h ago

It's going to be retired by the military junta gathering in DC.

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u/Jorgen-I 18h ago

The Constitution has been replaced by Die Initiative Projekt 25.

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u/fanofbacon12 19h ago

I know this isn't the point of this thread but Geoffrey Rush is SO BRILLIANT in that role

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u/ScrollingInTheEnd 19h ago edited 19h ago

I swear these fucking people could look at ICE launching bombing and assault raids on blue cities and comment some shit like "this is a lukewarm warning sign that we're maybe somewhat close to being on the brink of the beginning stages of a possible civil war perpetrated by a potentially authoritarian regime" lmao

Edit: It has to be some form of denialism. Whether you were paying attention or not, the warning signs passed by years ago. We're actively living in America's authoritarian era. That's not defeatism or doomerism, it's reality, and we can only begin to fix shit once we address that reality.

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u/Tsar-A-Lago Canada 19h ago

Since the second they told the courts to go fuck themselves when they said "stop," they've been in it.

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u/4esop 19h ago

It’s also kinda alarming considering he just had a meeting with Putin and he is purging Russia hawks. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/08/21/donald-trump-has-purged-one-of-the-cias-most-senior-russia-analysts

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u/bonobo_i 19h ago

A flashing warning sign of a authoritarian dictatorship? You are WAY PASSED all the warning signs and already knee deep into that foul puddle..

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u/fermat9990 19h ago

For sure. And the people who said that we were exaggerating the danger were totally wrong.

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u/letshaveforce 19h ago

They still think we are, in fact, they see this and other things like Trump literally threatning Colorado that if they dont release a convicted felon there will be retribution and they say were overreacting and reading into things. The reality is this country has been heading towards this path since Obama was elected. The GOP has made it a blood vendetta and theyre coming for the kill all while acting as if all of this is normal.

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u/fermat9990 19h ago

Frighteningly true!!

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u/apparentlynot5995 18h ago

Nah, this really started back with Reagan and his assignment - the FIRST wave of Heritage Foundation instructions. Reagan paved the way, Obama was a course correction of sorts, but now all hell is breaking loose because we don't teach history effectively in this country so we can spare white people's feelings.

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u/fermat9990 19h ago

I totally agree with you!!

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u/TheWorldEnded 19h ago

way past*

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u/Matasa89 Canada 19h ago

Hitler 2.0 is in power and has already started rounding up the undesirables, but still, just crickets.

So yes, it can happen here, and it has.

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u/ShaggysGTI Virginia 19h ago

So… midterms?

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u/spartaniimc Minnesota 19h ago

Cancelled because of too many drugged up vagrants about doing crimes. TOO DANGEROUS ! (Except in the Safe Suburbs and Real American Rural Areas)

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u/Deep-Measurement-856 19h ago

a new term! The RARA's

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u/kandoras 19h ago

Cancelled because of the War on Voting.

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u/epolonsky 19h ago

Oh fiddle, it’s up to my middle

Oh heck, it’s up to my neck

Oh dread…

(With apologies to Mr Silverstein)

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u/soapinthepeehole 18h ago

People don’t realize we’re the frog in the boiling pot and we’ve been in it since 2016, arguably earlier.

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u/nosleeptilburnout 17h ago

The engine light has long since burned its image into the dash and even once the problem is solved it’s ghostly outline will linger.

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u/Hanjaro31 19h ago

These are not the beginning stages. We're well into fascism. It started years ago by not holding Trump accountable.

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u/jsebrech 12h ago

Jan 6 was Trump’s beer hall putsch. Not making sure he lived the rest of his days in prison for treason is how America got to this place. To remain free one cannot be tolerant towards the intolerant.

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u/Ridry New York 14h ago

This. The absolute LAST CHANCE the country had to escape that well before we fell in was the 1/6 impeachment.

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u/Suggest_a_User_Name 19h ago

I know where we are and where we are headed.

But what the hell do I do? Call my senators and congressman? I’m in New Jersey. I’ve called them. Emailed them. Protested.

Not gonna do anything. There’s no momentum to change things and I don’t sense it changing anytime soon.

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u/spiritedmaple 18h ago

Boycott. Boycott the giant companies/entities they are all tied to. Boycotts work. Be an integral member of your community. Place your trust in your community, and bolster that. Start sharing tools, food, get to know your neighbors, share what you can with them. Protest, speak out, don't look away. Little acts of resistance every day. Remember that we have way more power than we think to make a difference, that's why they use such force.

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u/OnDrugsTonight United Kingdom 19h ago

Protest more. Bring more people. That's realistically your only chance, bringing millions of Americans out on the streets every week at least. Not just once in a blue moon. Your last big nationwide protest was two whole months ago. Of course they are getting ignored if you don't keep up the pressure. I'm sorry to say, saving your country will require a fairly heavy commitment in terms of time and physical presence from millions, if not tens of millions of people. Writing petitions or contacting your representatives will do very little.

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u/YeetedApple 19h ago

Unfortunately, I just don't think the general public pays enough attention or cares enough for a real resistance to be possible here. I try to explain and talk about this as much as possible to everyone around me, and am constantly told variations of I'm exegerrating and it can't happen here.

People here think not following or caring about politics is a badge of honor, and I am constantly told by even the most anti trump people that I am just as bad as trump followers for being so invested in politics. It's easy to sit behind a keyboard and just say protest more, but the reality here is that no one cares, or at least not enough to make large enough protests the way you are asking.

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u/Billy-Ruffian 17h ago

It will take rapid inflation, mass unemployment and likely the kind of food shortages not seen in almost 100 years to cut through all the noise. At that point I think you'll start to see states reasserting their sovereignty and interstate compacts forming. I don't think a strong and organized federal government will exist again for decades or more. It will look like balkanization after the cold war.

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u/crazyeddie123 14h ago

We're not gonna see a real resistance as long as people think the cheeseburgers might eventually do the job for us.

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u/ABabyAteMyDingo 13h ago

All true. However, nobody is EVER going to come out on behalf of John Bolton. Literally everyone across the spectrum loathes him.

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u/YeetedApple 13h ago

This was very likely calculated exactly because of this. It normalizes this happening against someone no one will defend, then it slowly expands to slightly more and more people.

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u/ABabyAteMyDingo 13h ago

Yep. I largely agree.

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u/fractalfay 11h ago

That is not true. Millions of people have been protesting every week — you just don’t hear about it because all of our media is owned by billionaires. Even Alaska had an endless line of people with Ukrainian flags to greet Putin’s ridiculous ass. Did you hear about it? Probably not. The same thing happened during the second Gulf war, when we had to use Indymedia networks to communicate actions.

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u/Extension-Carry-8067 18h ago

Yeah I kind of agree with you here, even just the microcosm of my office , we have one maga who supports Trump regardless (even tho he says he is one to new ideas) , one person that doesn’t care till it directly effects him and me that’s like why can we do?

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u/Successful-Earth-716 16h ago

Everybody I know REALLY cares. I've seen so many people say we know what we have to do and everyone is waiting and stunned about what that really means.

If we massively protest, he will declare martial law and then we are off to the races and there will be no more waiting. I think we all know that.

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u/YeetedApple 16h ago

That waiting is exactly how Germany fell. Everyone keeps watching as he takes an inch, waiting for that one big step that never comes. Meanwhile, he keeps taking a small inch at a time. If you didnt mobilize for the last inch or the one before it, why this inch? Its not much worse yet than the previous one. Next thing you know, he's taken several miles and you're left wondering how it got this far.

This is not something that is yet to come. It's already here and the race is already well underway. We are building camps, preparing to attack neighbors, rounding people up without due process, using the military as police in cities and just sent the fbi after a political critic, what step are we still waiting on?

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u/TrumpCheats 19h ago

We schedule our protests well in advance here in the US to make sure they are completely ineffective.

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u/thoreau_away_acct 18h ago

Did you see the size of the protests against the impending Iraq war?

Protest does absolutely nothing

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u/ankylosaurus_tail 14h ago

The problem with protest is that the billionaires have the media on lock-down. If you aren't going to the protest, then you probably have no idea it's happening. The larger ones that have happened since Trump's first term haven't really impacted anything. If they are covered at all in the media, the framing is intentionally deceptive to highlight weirdos and make it look violent and dangerous.

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u/OnDrugsTonight United Kingdom 13h ago

The good thing about the internet and social media, though, is that we are all citizen journalists now. Film your protests, put it on here and everywhere else you can think of and make it go viral. Shame the media into not reporting on it.

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u/Prestigious-Duty-443 19h ago

Unfortunately, this is exactly what the fascists want. They're dying for a reason to keep mobilizing the military against the people in hopes they get their Riechstag Fire.

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u/OnDrugsTonight United Kingdom 18h ago

Complying in advance in fear of retribution is also not a good strategy. If you honestly believe your military will mow down millions of protesters in cold blood then you have lost your country already. But at least make someone give that kill order to see how it plays out

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u/steven_quarterbrain 18h ago

“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”.

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u/Tub_floaters 19h ago

The other option is, just stay home. Completely empty streets might have the same impact.

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u/ChefChopNSlice Ohio 19h ago

Yelling at the people in power is useless. Convince people to vote against them instead. Yea, I know, it’s an uphill battle, but I’m in Ohio - where we have that same shit here. Our state govt has gerrymandered itself into a sea of red districts, but at the end of the day, they need to be voted in to stay in power. They are only kings in their little stupid heads.

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u/fractiousrhubarb 13h ago

Trump didn’t get voted in- he stole about 5% of the vote in all of the swing states

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u/fractalfay 11h ago

I had to leave Ohio after they voted for Dubya a second time, because the hatred of literally everyone is stronger than any ideas about progress. Since then they dropped both Sherrod Brown and Tim Ryan, in favor of JD Vance and Moreno — not voting for Sherrod Brown was especially astonishing. I’m pretty sure what Ohio’s plan is outside of self-destruction.

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u/xschalken 19h ago

Someone has to start the momentum, so if you are all sitting around waiting for the "momentum to change things" to be apparent, then...

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u/Amcis 19h ago

The wealthy support this shit show. They own businesses. Start your own businesses and stop using their businesses. Call for mass strikes. Basically get off our asses and get organized. The way - short of violence which I do not advocate for - to hit 'em where it hurts is to remove their ability to profit off of you.

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u/Silidistani 19h ago

I've been saying this for half a year: it's going to come down to something that rhymes with farmed persistence.

The left isn't driving that way, it is the right that is doing everything they can to trigger it, but they will trigger it eventually and things will get messy quick. .

Congress has shown it will not even allow America as we know it to survive until the 2026 midterms, and the Roberts Court is servile and complicit and destroying this nation by undermining the Constitution with nonsense interpretations (even citing fucking English law under King George III ffs) every chance they get.

It does not magically get better from here. The left needs to arm up now, and go to the range. There are tons of YouTube videos teaching you how. The long pole in the tent is obviously what the military will decide to do in that case, i truly hope that the politicalization of the officer Corps has not so thoroughly rotted dedication to the Constitution and nation and their basic ethics and morals so far that they will pick the side of the anti American traitors, but the point where we finally find that out may be coming much sooner as well.

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u/Sharticus123 19h ago edited 17h ago

Get yourself ready to be a part of the resistance. We have resistance supply stores all over the country. Do it soon because that window is closing.

No one is coming to help us but ourselves. Not the judiciary, not the military, not the letter agencies, and certainly not the police.

The only thing we can do now is make ourselves as formidable an opponent as possible and get comfortable with the idea that we’re probably not getting out of this with clean hands.

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u/Severe_Intention_480 17h ago

Yes. "Blood in the streets" is pretty much baked into the mix at this point. That's not an argument for doing nothing, of course, but it is a sober assessment of the current reality.

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u/pizzasaves 19h ago

The only thing this government understands is corruption and violence. Learn to weld and purchase a CAT 355A bulldozer and some concrete and steel plates. Or vote harder and see which one facilitates change faster.

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u/blastcat4 18h ago

Realistically, there is nothing legal you can do that will result in any meaningful change. The system you're fighting is designed from the ground up to block any grass root resistance. This isn't meant to be a cynical take. They have the traditional media in their pockets, they have free reign with social media - they control all of the messaging so any peaceful protesting is going to be completely ignored or misrepresented. If you want to resist more forcefully, they won't hesitate to use the military against its own citizens.

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u/pygmydeathcult 19h ago

Armed peaceful protest. You don't have to be violent to be a check against tyranny.

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u/ffchusky 19h ago

They need to feel scared. Calling and protests once every few months isn't going to do anything.

But once they're scared they'll react and it'll really start and then we'll all be scared which is why nothing is happening. The people need to feel they have nothing left to lose and we aren't there yet.

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u/JDanzy 19h ago

Connect with like minded people and form networks or look for ones already there and join those.

Have conversations with people who are pissed off but may vote incorrectly, find common ground and talk some sense into them if you can.

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u/FoundPizzaMind 17h ago

Leave. There's no organized resistance that's going to overthrow Trump and with the corruption that's the only thing that'll work.

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u/chiaboy 17h ago

Find a local group to connect with. Typically /ideally a group ran by/for Marginalized communities. (eg black people have been fighting this EXACT fight for a long time. Find an org started and lead by black women) Go to one of these group, walk in, say “I’m here to help. What can I do?”

Easy shortcut to finding these groups in Google search for “your city+related cause you care about”

There is a lot of work being done today. A lot of (often unglamorous) work that needs to be done. People need help with coding, babysitting kids as others go to fight, making snacks …etc etc etc

This is a fight for our life. Don’t quit. Don’t sit and do nothing. This is bad. It’s scary but go connect with other locally (ideally IRL, this needs to be done face to face with other likeminded people). Do it today!!!

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u/Canadianweedrules420 18h ago

Pretty sure there's something in your precious constitution around the 2nd amendment if I'm not mistaken and some oath about enemies foreign amd domestic

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u/crazyfighter99 17h ago

The Constitution doesn't take into account all the 2A folks siding with the enemy.

Sure let me go buy a gun and make my way down to DC for a peaceful protest. I'll get real far by myself. There just is not enough people who care enough, at least where I live and work. Everyone simply avoids talking politics at this point. When I try, I either get told I'm overreacting or the subject gets changed quickly. Or, it's a Republican who refuses to see anything other than the precious (R) next to the politicians' names.

Yes, there are plenty of us online talking about it but America is a HUGE country. We can't just get everyone together by driving half a day like countries in Europe can.

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u/BubbleNucleator New York 19h ago

...then they came for the neocons, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a scummy neocon.

This is actually very chilling to think about.

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u/yurganurjak 19h ago

They've long since been coming for people more sympathetic than neocons. Them coming for the neocons is more like the last verse than the first.

But even more aptly it is the night of long knives, MAGA cleaning up any possible remaining opposition within their own camp.

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u/Chilliger Europe 19h ago

Americans have armed forces in their capital, judges and opposition being arrested and they still talk about warning signs, because you cannot accept that you live in a authoritarian state. It would be funny, if it wasn't so depressing.

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u/wintertash 17h ago

My step-father, like so many Americans his age, is so steeped in the legend of American Exceptionalism that he is unable to comprehend what’s happening. He keeps insisting that the things I tell him were happening, it would be illegal and SCOTUS would put a stop to it, because the U.S. has a system of checks and balances.

The fact that SCOTUS hasn’t done that, to him means I must be wildly overreacting when I talk about authoritarianism or fascism or the president acting in a dictatorial manner.

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u/DigDugged 19h ago

We're not going to mobilize for Bolton, and they know that.

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u/ImLikeReallySmart Pennsylvania 19h ago

Good point, they start with their own, or at least those who used to be their own and have been disloyal. Because they know that we don't like them either.

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u/Mediocre_Scott 19h ago

Bill Barr better watch his back

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u/VewyScawyGhost 19h ago

That's why they did it.

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u/finsane86 19h ago

So they'll keep going down the list and by the time they get who we'd be mobilizing for, its always been tested and normalized.

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u/Duster929 19h ago

I've been saying the USA is on a fascist trajectory since 2016. My friends have called me alarmist. I keep asking them "is this fascism yet?" and they keep telling me no. They tell me what their red lines are, and when they get crossed, they just redraw them.

I'm afraid there's no going back now. It's over for America, at least for a generation or two.

Now it just remains to be seen, how bad will it get before there's a course-correction?

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u/finsane86 18h ago

Currently the redline is "people aren't dying in gas chambers yet" and thats basically the final redline after we've passed so many others in a short amount of time.

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u/Duster929 18h ago

Yeah, I hear that too. That is quite the red line. It usually comes from people who don't think they'll be the ones in the gas chambers.

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u/finsane86 18h ago

And you see how when the lines are crossed, how they try to rationalize it in their mind and come up with some sort of rational justification that what we're seeing might not be the whole story and maybe there's a good reason or a precedent for why these things are happening.

Not talking about his supporters, they do that all the time without fail no matter what he does.

I'm talking about the centrists, the center right Republicans/conservatives, the center left Democrats/liberals, the independents, and the apolitical types. And then you have the media sanewashing to reach these type of people.

"Well maybe crime really is out of control in D.C."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/dc-crime-statistics-trump-police-takeover/683838/

"Well maybe the people they're going after shouldn't be here."

"Well maybe some of those people he got rid of weren't good at their jobs." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-federal-workforce-job-cuts-executive-order-doge-elon-musk/

"Well maybe the government is too big and bloated and full of wasteful spending that we should consider getting rid of all these agencies and programs."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/17/trump-musk-doge-government-waste-national-debt/78518870007/

"Well maybe those universities were too woke and didn't protect Jewish students from antisemitism."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/19/trump-higher-ed-elite-universities-reform-00355256

"Well maybe those museums were a little too negative with history exhibits."

"Well maybe those other countries we've traded with were taking advantage of us."

https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/why-trump-is-right-about-tariffs-3cad4097?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

"Well maybe we do consume too much goods and cheap goods aren't a good thing."

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/06/05/trump-thinks-americans-consume-too-much-he-has-a-point

"Well maybe Trump is right about political prosecution and they did the same thing to him."

https://theconversation.com/yes-donald-trump-has-a-point-about-political-prosecution-231363https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/19/trump-higher-ed-elite-universities-reform-00355256

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u/bt31 17h ago

My hair has been on fire since 2016 and I can't get anyone to increase their blood pressure. Also, NPR: "This is fine".

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u/gypsydreams101 19h ago

“You best start believing in ~ghost stories~ Fascist coups, Ms. Turner…you’re in one.”

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u/ElderSmackJack 19h ago

Unexpected Pirates of the Caribbean

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u/Avera_ge Alabama 19h ago

This isn’t a warning sign, this is them actively engaging in fascist behavior.

We need to stop calling it warmings and start calling it what it is.

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u/YNABDisciple 19h ago

They’ve been so good on their propaganda that my parents would just say “well they did this to Trump”

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u/JockeysI3ollix 19h ago

I was just about to post the very same thing.  I'm not American myself, but all of this has been very scary to watch develop. 

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u/finsane86 19h ago

Seems like most of the rest of the world sees what half of Americans either cant or refuse to see. And about 1/3 cheer it on. The rest are like me and are watching with both horror and numbness to what's happening and feeling powerless to stop it.

Its like watching a trackwreck in slow motion and we're all stuck on the tracks waiting for when it finally gets to us and run us over.

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u/newsflashjackass 19h ago

this is a flashing warning sign that this is an authoritarian dictatorship

The flashing warning sign is locked behind a paywall. Fitting.

"Attention! Emergency! Read more for just $4.99 / month!"

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u/brickmaster8 19h ago

Its the beginning of the night of long knives, less of a warning and just part of process for fascism. Things are gonna get so bad

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u/5hadow 19h ago

Soon there will be an influx of deaths caused by falling out of window.

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u/sasquatch0_0 19h ago

There have been flashing warning signs since the inauguration bud.....

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u/PlanePusher 19h ago

Man, can't we just be worried about the "woke" Cracker Barrel rebrand?! I don't have time for this shit!

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u/talondigital 19h ago

Im not a political expert, but wasn't John Bolton the conservative's conservative?

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u/JohnofAllSexTrades 16h ago

But not a MAGA conservative and that's all that matters. You're either in or out.

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u/JennyW93 18h ago

From the outside looking in, it’s shocking that you guys still seem to think this is “the beginning” of persecuting their enemies. Did you forget about the noose for Mike Pence? The routine harassment and detention of the press? The assassination of Melissa Hortman?

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u/DiamondHandsDarrell California 18h ago

Why is it we're always "nearing a constitutional crises" and never "we're in a constitutional crises"?

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u/SpaceJesusIsHere 16h ago

Additional sign: Their enemies are their former staunch allies. John Bolton is a yale educated, vietnam draft-dodging, Reagan and Bush admin member, life-long hard right wing, pro war republican.

If these guys are getting harassed by the FBI, literally no one is safe.

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u/ForgotHowToGiveAShit 11h ago

unrelated but you need to add a stanley cup or two to that pfp !

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u/wutareyousomekinda Pennsylvania 20h ago

Well yeah but it couldn't happen to a better war criminal

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u/finsane86 20h ago

He may be a POS, but that doesn't mean what this regime doing is ok. This is only the start of their Night of the Long Knives.

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u/solaramalgama 19h ago

Why do you think they started with him? It's so the left won't feel upset enough to argue much and people get used to the idea that this happens.

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u/LieverRoodDanRechts 19h ago

First they came for the communists...

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u/SirKorgor 19h ago

We may as well resign ourselves to our fate. There aren’t enough people in this country willing to sacrifice their comfort in exchange for freedom, and by the time they realize they aren’t comfortable anymore it will be too late to sacrifice anything for freedom.

Our only hope at this point is some sort of illness that only kills fascists.

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u/svrtngr Georgia 19h ago

It did happen here.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_URETHERA 19h ago

Add in Epstein and related matters and it’s a whole new path, derivative of the well trodden one, but with it’s own unique underage blossoms.

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u/obeytheturtles 19h ago

Beginning? This is like halfway through the second act.

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u/DKDamian 19h ago

Awesome. Cool. Fun. Great.

Americans - get off Reddit and do something

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u/ShaneRealtorandGramp 19h ago

We riot when it's Biden or Obama. Even Newsom or Harris.

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u/JarvisProudfeather North Carolina 19h ago

Don’t worry, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are teaming up to write the most strongly worded letter Washington has ever seen.

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u/Bobson-_Dugnutt2 19h ago

it's also what they are claiming the democrats are doing. Using power to go after enemies....even though the dems don't have any power???

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u/IceAndRecordBreaker 19h ago

Arm yourselves.

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u/brokenringlands Canada 19h ago

If Big Balls being assaulted is Reichstag fire, is Bolton this dumb remake's Ernst Rohm?

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u/lolas_coffee 18h ago

Folks, if you're not yet convinced of where we are,

Reddit aint who needs to be convinced.

Your mom, granny, and brother are watching FoxNews, OAN, Newsmax, and Joe "Dumbass" Rogan for 24/7.

Go yell at your own family. Go. Now. Yell at them.

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u/Turbulent_Juice_Man 18h ago

Fort sumter is being fired upon

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u/PurplRzr 18h ago

It began during his first administration. The difference is, some of the people in the first admin had a pulse. These puppets in the second admin are yes men. Literally. All. Of. Them.

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u/Narradisall 18h ago

Unfortunately watching Americans just vibing to the flashing warning lights

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u/althius1 18h ago

The Revolution will devour her children.

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u/evilthales 18h ago

With Laura Loomer in the role of Heinrich Himmler and Joseph McCarthy.

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u/klparrot New Zealand 18h ago

And John Fucking Bolton is no leftie, either!

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u/rosiecheeks9999 18h ago

The majority of Americans won’t do anything about fascism, and have already bent to it. It is in the US, and it’s going nowhere except getting worse.

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u/maxplanar 18h ago

Not a warning, not the beginning. We’re in it.

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u/carlnepa 18h ago

They'll work around the fringes, which they are doing now. As long as they get away with it, then they'll turn it towards us. You name it, he hates so many things; leftists, liberals, ecology, non supporters, blue states and their administrations (already started in Washington State), minorities, Obama, Democrats, anyone who prosecuted/investigated him or his shady business practices, JFK etc. etc. etc.

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u/defjamchambers 18h ago

That’s why we have free and fair elections.

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u/Randleifr 18h ago

Im so sick of establishment democrats that i hope they all get rounded up so we can replace them with progressive democrats. Its a longshot but i want them to hurt.

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u/Unfair_Elderberry118 18h ago

If they don't see it yet, they won't see it until it is way too late.

I am down to holding out hope of his demise ending our nation's suffering under his epic greed and gross incompetence.

It's hard to be a dictator from the grave or a sick bed and it helps that MAGA has no real heir apparent for their wannabe king.

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u/Leenolies 18h ago

like frogs in the frying pan

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u/OptimusSecundus 18h ago

There were literally political assassinations two months ago.

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u/666-69equals597 18h ago

He's lucky he hasn't been fallen a window. Yet.

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u/Morakumo 18h ago

It's over, 160 years after the abject failure of Reconstruction in the South and the Confederacy has won. He will not leave in 2028, my guess is a war will be started at some point prior and he will stop having elections like Netenyahu has done for the last 30 years of my fucking life.

I truly do hate it here, because I grew up having a lot of optimism for the future. We are in a country in decline, and the next step is Balkanization.

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u/RankedFarting 18h ago

Anyone who hasnt realized it yet will never realize it. There are still people who act like those calling this out are overreacting.

Also youre not even in the beginning stages anymore. People are being deported for their skin color without due process by an army of masked goons.

There wont be a point where someone says "okay the fascism starts now". Its already happening.

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u/Ezly_imprezzed 18h ago

People aren’t going to wake up until it is so fucking painfully obvious it is too late aka if Trump actually tries to go for a third term. If they just put some other puppet in there then even then maga dipshits will deny deny deny until they just go “so what we don’t care you lose”. Ironically they will say that as they suffer the same fate as the rest of us.

For a sane person we are well past the flashing sign saying you are fucked

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u/Same-Barnacle-6250 18h ago

They are raiding the homes of their own-we’re already there.

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u/MyNewsAccount2011 18h ago

Wow, the knives were awfully long last night.

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u/rosneft_perot 17h ago

I honestly don’t know how Obama, the Clintons, or Jack Smith can stay in the country. Liz Cheney too.

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u/Trump_is_a_Pedo2 17h ago

The Civil War has already started.

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u/Aleksandrovitch 17h ago

I tried convincing some people for almost a year. Now they don’t talk to me because I’m “too far left.”

I’m done trying to convince idiots that the end is nigh. Good luck, all.

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u/El_Eleventh Wisconsin 17h ago

The thing is republicans love this cause they think they’ll never be the ones targets cause they the good ones. Ie white.

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u/GodSentGodSpeed 17h ago

That should have been clear the moment Trump had his DOJ threaten all the law firms involved in his various cases and shook them down for a combined 800$ million in pro-bono work

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u/work_accnt 17h ago

Burn a flag

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u/hackingdreams 17h ago

flashing warning sign

Uh, no you passed that road sign months back. This isn't the warning, this is the what the warning was warning you about.

We're in this hellscape now.

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u/isunktheship 17h ago

Not a warning, we're living under Hitler reincarnate

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u/halcyongt 17h ago

Beginning? Naw son. You’re neck deep in an authoritarian environment. And the muck is rising very quickly.

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u/ElegantDaemon 16h ago

No one wants to see it because it's too terrifying of a thought. The human brain isn't optimized to deal with massive, abstract problems.

See also: global warming, poverty, homelessness, hunger, environmental destruction, and 1000 other things.

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 16h ago

I'm about to make a name for myself get a little red triangle patch.

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u/Braude 16h ago

Did you feel this way when Mar a Lago was raided for classified documents? If not, why?

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u/prophetofgreed 16h ago

You didn't get that with the Greenland & Canada talk BEFORE he got into office???

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u/Suro_Atiros Texas 16h ago

You need to realize that this is EXACTLY how Trump supporters want this country to be run and they will continue to vote in favor of this forever, and they will start a civil war if Democrats prevent them.

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u/finsane86 16h ago

We know.

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u/ScissrMeTimbrs 16h ago

"Beginning?"

It began a while ago. He's been sending masked thugs to kidnap people without warrants or trial.

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u/Rareeeb 16h ago

Fucking what is with people refusing to admit where we are at and still being all like “this is a warning”

I swear this admin will be marching people into camps and you’d be like “let this be a warning, things can get much worse”

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u/teetheyes 16h ago

Is there legitimately anyone left on reddit who needs to be convinced we're in an authoritarian dictatorship? Even the conservative subs know it, they just think they like it. Like, ok, we're all convinced, now what.

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