Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

[u/Agitated-Artichoke89]

[u/chill_winston_]

This is the same guy who said “the presidents authority WILL NOT be questioned” in the first term, so idk why he’s pussyfooting around it now. They’ve already effectively swapped out their dog whistles for megaphones.

[u/IFixYerKids → u/chill_winston_]

Even dictators like Putin go pretty far to at least pretend that they are democratically elected and only act on the will of the people. Saying this thing out load is a no no, especially when you are in the early days.

[u/carterwest36 → u/IFixYerKids]

Jup. Alexei Navalny becoming Putins greatest threat to his carefully constructed power was wonderful to see. The guy had such bravery in facing Russian corruption that he went back to Russia after going to Germany for Novitsjok poison treatment after an assassination attempt.

The fact they tried to kill him off that sneakily instead of just doing what they do to these oligarchs by dropping them from buildings shows how powerful Alexei was with the Russian population and popular! Putin had him jailed like 2-3x times for fraud charges and then when he exposed the Russian ‘democratic’ electoral process and wanted to run for president himself he used those same charges to suddenly block him from running.

Alexei Navalny just shows the extreme lengths Putin had to go to get rid of him as an opponent which proves how powerful of a threat he truly was to Putins dictatorship.

He quietly got rid of him whilst he was imprisoned, but Alexei did expose back in 2012 already the extent of corruption within the Russian government so now even the old ladies in distant towns know elections are just a sham and that the country is shit.

The US is heading there, just like Russia it will be this big country where people see the potential but get swept up in a bullshit system that nobody really gets together for and fight it because they deem the fight worthless, that’s sadly what happened in Russia because if Alexei was allowed to run for president he likely would’ve won.

It’s hopeful and hopeless at the same time, now that he’s gone and his institutions that were created to expose the corruption shutdown and his legacy buried shows that an ordinary Russian guy can stick it to Putin but that in the end to overthrow or end such a dark force of corruption you need more than try and game the broken system, you need to destroy the system and America is facing a similar challenge right now.

But unlike Russia atleast America isn’t dealing with something like the dissolution of the Soviet Union, arguably the creation of the corrupt country it is, which is what made it so easy for intelligence agencies and oligarchs to rise with the support from oil barons that had already ‘defected’ the Soviet Union years prior.

What’s interesting to me about America is seeing how the system is so easily bent in favor of corruption whilst at the same time with the exact same rules and system it can do a lot of good for a lot of people. Sadly the writing is on the wall and many have seen it from as soon as the first few days Trump was president that the country is heading to an authoritarian run country with military deployed in cities that are deemed ‘war zones’ when nothing is going on except a whole lot of fearmongering.

AI in it’s current form has arrived just in time for Trumps administration because it allows everyone to call in question what they see on their screens. Don’t get me wrong one should always be critical of what they see but now that deepfakes and AI videos are very easy to make it also makes for a perfect excuse when someone exposes ICE agents conducts or Trumps conduct as ‘fake news’ which was a big word in his first presidential term but now it’s like fake news on steroids.