- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups.
In his remarks, Miller spoke of the Trump administration’s goals under National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) “to disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest, and prosecute these political terrorists.”
He said, without evidence, that there is an epidemic of violence among left-wing groups, and labelled leftists and left-wing organizations as “enemies of civilization” and a “cancer” that can “destroy a society” if not dismantled.
Miller went even further to say that not only left-wing groups, but also anyone who supports left-wing causes, must be subject to persecution. The issue with U.S. institutions, he said, is that they have grown too “soft” in cracking down on left-wing beliefs.
“Nothing that we do works if the threat of violence and terror goes on unchecked. Our political systems don’t work. Our judicial systems don’t work. Our legal systems don’t work. Our jury trials don’t work,” said Miller. “At the same time, we have to understand there’s a real threat that those who are not themselves terrorists but who support left-wing violence will create the conditions that allow that violence to go on.”
He even appears to acknowledge that a threat of widespread left-wing violence isn’t imminent, instead suggesting that the U.S. must work to “prevent a threat from occurring” and called on fellow Americans to work with the administration in targeting the left.
“It is the burden and the duty of good people of all walks of life to understand that you will always be accused of raising the alarm too loudly,” said Miller, invoking images of a “perfect family … that goes to church every Sunday” being destroyed by the left. “If you wait until the point where the worst outcome is so obvious that no one can deny it, you’ve already lost the battle.”
I honestly suspect Miller helped organize the tiki torch march.
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PeeWee Himmler is very aware that the clock is ticking, andhe knows that if he doesn’t have the entire nation under his total control by Inauguration Day 2029, he is likely to spend the rest of his life in prison - IF he’s lucky.
They entire MAGA High Command will know it, if for no other reason than HE will tell them, and make them aware how perilous their situation is. They will get increasingly desperate and violent as they get closer to the end, and find that the American people still aren’t playing along.
PeeWee Himmler thinks he can follow the Nazi playbook to success, but he’s too dumb and hatedrunk to understand that there is a big difference between controlling 65 million Germans in 1933, and controlling 340 million Americans in 2026-2028.
Political violence is a deep subject, but in the article snippets above, Miller has redefined the word “terrorist” to mean folks peacefully petitioning government for change as the First Amendment allows. The dictionary definition of “terrorist” is someone who uses violence. Peacefully petitioning government is not “terrorism”, unless the Trump Admin is successful in redefining the term.
Terrorism is so overused by the Republicans to distract from real societal problems thqt the word has lost all practical definition. Terrorism/terrorist means whatever they want it to in the moment.
Anything left of center is equivalent to Stalinism with these clowns.
nobody elected him.
nobody likes him.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
Leftism is a cancer. Rightism, aka hate, violence, fear, crime, inequality, pedophilia, corruption, bad economy, etc. is the better future. Everyone knows that.
I hope you just forgot your /s.
Come on
Seriously?
I thought it was clear as day it was sarcastic. But these days people are Idiocracy level dumb, so here it is:
I WAS BEING SARCASTIC
Yes, it was clear as day. This wasn’t idiocracy levels
But these days people are Idiocracy level
They did vote for a pedophile/rapist to “protect” women and children from the gays/transgender.
Yeah you’re right, I need to correct myself:
People these days are far dumber and ignorant than Idiocracy level.
That’s how science fiction works. Idiocracy was about the 90s, not the far future. We’re waaaaaay past that.
I’m going to laugh when this penis gets literal cancer and dies from it. Assuming the universe will be that kind to the rest of us.
He’s right in the sense that yes, I do want to destroy our current society where billionaires hoard the wealth and intend to make the lower classes slaves.
The elite are just ready to say it out loud against us and whip up idiots to their side before tossing them aside like useful tools.
Fucking human cockroach
You think they’re not going to do it?
The only violent terrorists in the US are ICE agents and cops.
To cancer cells, the surrounding healthy cells are like cancer cells: they take resources away for growth, and keep multiplying until they kill the cancer.
What I’m trying to say is the Stephen Miller is a fucking cancer and he needs to be chemo’ed out of the US political system.
Year of the medium length knives.
Yeah, I was trying to think of another democracy that rooted out leftwing parties …
