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gromet's avatar

Good writeup. About the best I've seen yet in response to a man whose every 15-word sentence begs for a 200-word explanation of the ways in which it is a lie that reveals a dangerously broken psychology. And whose moronic policies and appointments will have endless bad effect.

Did you know he said of Adam Schiff today that the man looks like someone took a baseball bat to his face? Seems to me that one purpose of saying that is to greenlight some lunatic with a baseball bat. This is some real two-bit movie gangster shit.

But for every worrisome development in front of a camera, there's more going on that is not getting attention. A friend of mine in the sciences has reported that since the inauguration, her world has been buzzing with stories of grant panel meetings abruptly ended mid-meeting without explanation, indications that grants will be pulled. Nothing concrete yet -- but then, uncertainty is a key ingredient of dictatorship. I'm hoping *someone* in the CinC's orbit can persuade him that science is crucial to our GDP and global power. The mood, though, among research university professors, is currently one of fear for livelihoods and fear that studies with practical benefits for the country are going to be halted.

"Dictatorship takes shape" should be hyperbole, but you look at the chaos and incompetence taking root, and -- it's just the facts on the ground.

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Cheez Whiz's avatar

We're all waiting for the rubber to meet the road, for soldiers at the border being given the order to fire, for the show trial indictments, the SCOTUS ruling on the 14th Amendment. For blatantly illegal orders and decisions that force others outside this administration to make a decision. There is no mystery what the Trump administration will do, the mystery is how the country will react.

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