„Völlig illegal“: Trump verschärft seine Rhetorik zur Ächtung politischer Meinungsverschiedenheiten und Kritik | „Das liegt außerhalb des autokratischen Spielbuchs. Wenn Autokraten ihre Macht festigen, sobald sie im Amt sind, wird alles, was ihre Macht bedroht, illegal“, sagte die Historikerin Ruth Ben-Ghiat.

So much for free-speech. Trump and Musk don’t understand free speech. They just want a platform to spread their hate and misinformation but would never tolerate actual free speech, dissent, and criticism of them or their power.

TIL… Trump wants to shut down Fox News and Breitbart.

If, and I know it’s a big if, he wins, just wait for Project 2025. It will be more than just escalating.

It’s not illegal if the Trumpy SCOTUS says it isn’t…

This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/totally-illegal-trump-escalates-rhetoric-outlawing-political-dissent-c-rcna174280) reduced by 91%. (I’m a bot)
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> Donald Trump is ramping up his rhetoric depicting his political rivals and critics as criminals, while dropping a long trail of suggestions that he favors outlawing political speech that he deems misleading or challenges his claims to power.

> Trump voters have mixed views on revenge Trump rallied a raucous crowd Wednesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania, launching personal attacks on Harris and drawing jeers and boos from a sea of red MAGA-hatted supporters as he spoke of the "Enemy from within" – government officials with whom he's clashed.

> Debbie Hendrix, a Pennsylvanian who attended the Trump rally donning a "MAGA" hat, said she's excited to vote for Trump a third time.

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This is the reason I don’t trust polls. Why would I answer a poll in the off chance this idiot gets in and forces them to tell him the phone numbers and who they picked for the polls. Nope nope nope. Just vote

This man has never bothered to ask legal experts about any of these claims, much less read the constitution/laws applicable himself. He doesn’t understand what he’s talking about and he doesn’t care. He knows that the people that come to his pep rallies largely don’t care either. When you’re pandering to a group of people who will tell their pastors unironically that the more compassionate teachings of their lord and savior “dont work anymore”, you can assume that they don’t actually give a shit what the law is or what the constitution says or even what the declaration says.

They believe that whatever aligns with their own personal understanding of the world is what these documents say, because if that were not the case, then they would be wrong and not as patriotic as they’ve been told that they are and they might have to deal with that.

Orange man will keep feeding that willful ignorance, and the pep rally attendees will keep feeding his ego. It’s a codependency problem, but it’s going to become everyone’s problem.

We apes learn nothing from History. The World At War documentary series from the 70’s documented the first and second world wars. Now I am not suggesting Trump is planning to go to war with other countries – yet, but the playbook he is adopting is frightening parallel.