We welcome Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman to what has been obvious about 8 months now. Please take a stale donut and join the advocacy. But even late awareness is better than no awareness; they're in a position to do something and that's not useless.
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I'm not familiar with this "Daily Boulder" site, does anyone know how reputable it is?
the article is setting off my AI clickbait detector - the author is "Staff Writer", and there's no original reporting in it, just a summary of a YouTube clip.
also, seven emdashes.
I didn't click but I just read an NYT article that essentially states the same:
Mr. Trump’s move to formally deem his campaign against drug cartels as an active armed conflict means he is cementing his claim to extraordinary wartime powers, legal specialists said.
And forgive my lack of humility; I've already been saying this for - well years really. Not to mention two people very close to Trump who said this in 2017: "He will not go willingly". He proved them right once already, don't wait for the second time when he's better prepared.
an NYT article that essentially states the same
that NYT article is about Trump ordering the military to murder people on boats in the Caribbean.
this article, on the other hand, is summarizing a YouTube video that was responding to what Trump said in his speech to a bunch of generals at Quantico.
so other than Trump doing authoritarian shit, there isn't really any connection.
they're both examples of bad journalism, just in different ways. the NYT article does some classic both-sides shit that boils down to "legal experts say it's illegal to murder people, but a White House spokesperson disagreed". and this article is just AI-written slop with a clickbait headline.
Sure but they do both point at the same thing essentially. I get it, you want to talk about bad journalism instead, but the larger issue is still valid.
"Staff Writer" is an AI journalist.
Overall, we rate The Daily Boulder Left Biased and Questionable based on a lack of transparency, poor sourcing, promotion of propaganda, and failed fact checks.
That’s why he sent troops into cities. “See! We’re at war within our country! We must delay the polls!”
So there is an interesting concept in studies of authoritarian regimes, namely that a personalist authoritarian leader must maintain the illusion that they will be in power for the forceable future up until the last moment, if they don’t, then their whole power structure breaks down.
The dynamic of a personalist regime is one of competition between subordinates, with the leader acting as a key figure that arbitrates disputes between the subordinates and protects them from each other. In turn, the leader is able to extract loyalty and power from the subordinates through this role. This dynamic hinges on the idea that the leader will be there for the foreseeable future performing this role, the moment there is any sort of uncertainty, the system breaks down as the subordinates become more interested in shoring up their own power bases and positioning them selves to fight each other for their chance at the top spot, or a better position under the next leader, rather than maintaining the power of the current leader.
Regardless of the feasibility or practicality, the leader must maintain an internal fiction with in the regime that they will always be there, and that they have a plan to always be there. The subordinates don’t even have to believe it, they just need to think all the other subordinates believe it.