The wheels are off the klown kar

[MrScorpio]

These motherfuckers are intentionally trying to bring down the government from within. I've never seen anything like this in my entire life.

FDT.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Is it intentional or are they such inept amateurs

that they do weapons-grade-stupid shit without understanding how monumentally stupid it is?

[Wounded Bear]

5. Bannon has been quoted that it is his goal...

most Repubs use the rhetoric, and have no idea what it would really mean, of course.

[Volaris]

48. Yep he wants the Deep State shredded, so that what they do

Will take a century to unmake.

[MrScorpio]

6. I think that they're trying to destroy the function of government

Congress and the courts need to act ASAP.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Congress, controlled by GOPers, won't do squat.

I believe the courts - even the Supreme Court as currently staffed - will. Judges, especially in the federal system, are pretty protective of their role as a coequal branch of government, and they actually take the Constitution seriously. Even a dickbag like Scalia wouldn't have put up with this kind of shit.

[MrScorpio]

10. Agreed nt

[Tatiana]

7. Considering Bannon, I think it is intentional.

They know the EO is illegal. That's why they didn't want to send it to the relevant departments for the customary review.

They are also defying at least 4 court rulings -- intentionally -- by continuing to detain people who have green cards or permanent resident status.

It's on purpose. They want chaos. They want a sense of crisis.

They want us to look the other way while they continue to plan whatever the big thing is they are planning.

[pangaia]

28. Putin is getting what he paid for,,,,

chaos..here and working on it in Western Europe

[GP6971]

8. I think it's also arogance

They think they know so much more than anyone else.

[Doitnow]

34. Either way, we are the ones getting it in the neck

[leftstreet]

2. DURec

[Phoenix61]

3. And God willing, we won't see anything like it again

Just need to get the clowns out of the car and the wheels put back on.

[bdamomma]

4. you don't see

that McConnell saying shit. Oh let the courts decide????? about the Muslim ban??? karma will get you.

[VOX]

11. I've seen JFK, MLK, Jr., & RFK blown away, and Watergate...

And other horrible aspects of American psychosis, but this is a new one. A far-right-wing coup with help from Russia??? WTF?? Religious "tests"? Mass deportations??? Is this the United States??

The perps are the same people who screamed daily bullshit about Obama "born in Kenya" and "trampling on the Constitution." Now they are *in fact* vaporizing it, blowing it into mere mist.

If I were younger, I'd get the hell out, because it'll take decades to unfuck this Category 5 shitstorm. And it's just started.

[MBS]

13. " " " " "

This is QUALITATIVELY worse than anything else that has happened since the Civil War.

[VOX]

22. Absolutely! And the lines are crisply drawn. n/t

[ananda]

23. It sure is!

I'm impressed with the protests and demos, though.

It is clearly up to us, the people, to right the ship of state!

[MBS]

31. Yes!!! n/t

[Generic Brad]

43. I think corporations will step in too

This is devastatingly bad for business. When you hit the richest mofo's in their pocketbooks - there is always hell to pay.

[Lucky Luciano]

39. Strong statement

We did actually detain Japanese American citizens and had Jim Crow.

However, this has been the biggest step taken in the wrong direction after decades of progress.

[LeftInTX]

19. All within one week

[VOX]

21. Spread out over a year would be crazy, but, as you say, one week.

I still have trouble grasping the fact that such world-changing, mega-insanity, emanating from in this country, could be so utterly compacted in time. It's definitely new territory.

[Rhiannon12866]

24. Same with me, it's almost impossible to comprehend.

I haven't voted for the majority of presidents who "won," but I've never felt like this before, this terrible fear and anger.

[iluvtennis]

40. +1 nt

[world wide wally]

12. Those are Putin's orders.... Destroy America and its institutions from the inside.

[dalton99a]

14. +1

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. That's okay Trump has a strong back

[GliderGuider]

16. This thread shows a remarkable amount of strategic awareness

about the nature of what is happening. congrats to all.

This seems to be a mostly ideological war, and the destruction of American democracy and liberal values seem to be its goals. The reduction of American global hegemony is to be a side effect of meeting those goals.

The cancer of the Cold War has metastasized. This is the tumor. The prognosis is poor.

[AlexSFCA]

36. I know right?!

It took two days and I am proud to see folks are finally see what we see. Question is when will mass media wake up and explain to the public what just happned?

[meow2u3]

17. K&R for exposure

[Initech]

18. They're a virus, plain and simple. And right now we have no immune system.

[AlexSFCA]

33. correct

virus is a good example because there is no stop button to the mechanisms that got activated. It is on auto-pilot. Massive education campaign is needed on what is happening but I don't know how.

[yuiyoshida]

20. k and R

bigtime! Tweeted!

[flying_wahini]

25. McConnell isn't one to step on the party line... he is the party Line.

And Hell yeah, I think they know what Trump and Bannon are trying to do.... They think their going to walk into the

vacuum that Trump's impeachment will start and everything will be hunky dory. The Rep's are so shortsighted that

they think they can fix the mess in another week or two.....

I think Bannon and Trump purposefully picked the very people that can destroy the gov't from within!!

(with Putin's help)... and Pence is going to walk in and everthing will be just fine.

[coco22]

41. Paul Ryan and McConnell don't care..

They are trying to kill as many Americans as they can without Trump,look at their policies.

[BigDemVoter]

26. I've seen it before but from afar, and it was in a banana republic. . .

But that is what we have become!

[AlexSFCA]

27. reality

I'm glad to see that people at least on the DU are waking up to the unimaginable reality. I wish the media would wake - they arr basically destroying themselves. We lost the Cold War. Russia won. I expect massive ICE raids as soon as next week. I never thought the pace would be so fast. But I think it's because they know the time is running out.

Expect libel laws to open up very soon. Indendent media which publishes the truth (meaning against trump) will be sued on the basis of undermining national security. Even more so, he will punish corporations that advetise on the media - basically cutting the money. Independent media will rely on us (as Bannon said - opposition).

Remember, Conway said "he is just getting started".

He is already a de facto authoritarian. He can disobey constitution and any laws, period. He cannot be removed unless impeached or killed. And nuclear codes will keep the world on edge.

The military must obey him as commander-in-chief.

[Guilded Lilly]

29. Intentional...and planned for a long time BANNON is genuine EVIL.

First, the Democrats destroyed, then the Republicans.

[mn9driver]

30. When he's drunk enough, Bannon admits exactly this.

"...we had a long talk about his approach to politics. He never called himself a “populist” or an “American nationalist,” as so many think of him today. “I’m a Leninist,” Bannon proudly proclaimed.
Shocked, I asked him what he meant.
“Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”
...
I emailed Bannon last week recalling our conversation, telling him that I planned to write about it and asking him if he wanted to comment on or correct my account of it. He responded:
“I don’t remember meeting you and don’t remember the conversation. And as u can tell from the past few days I am not doing media.”
...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/steve-bannon-trump-s-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist.html

[Hekate]

35. Never forget

[silverweb]

44. Exactly.

[etherealtruth]

32. it sure AF appears that way

[grantcart]

37. The institutional Republicans are sabotaging Bannon

Rather than insisting that DHS and State are included in policy preparation they are letting it slide knowing that it will eventually blow up.

[TrollBuster9090]

38. The wheels have officially come off the Executive Branch CLOWN CAR...

But they won't be coming off the SENATE CLOWN CAR until they try to repeal Obamacare, and they won't come off the HOUSE CLOWN CAR until they A) try to find the money to build the wall, B) face having to raise the DEBT CEILING In March, and C) have to pass a BUDGET.

This is only the beginning of what's shaping up to be one SPECTACULAR clusterf@#k!

[Perseus]

42. They have taken the entire manual

that Hugo Chavez used in Venezuela, you should read the article in Vogue, these are Venezuelans telling the story, they feel Deja Vu with Trump.

http://www.vogue.com/13525611/trump-chavez-similarities/

I said the same thing to my friends before they voted for Trump, they would not believe it, but the article hits the nail on the head.

And I hate to say it, but marches do not work. This is what I wrote a while back on my predictions for this administration, it is a full article which I have not sent anywhere yet...this is just a paragraph and it is based on what i know from Venezuela, how chaos evolved there.

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People will conduct protest marches, some of them will include violence which will be instigated and approved by the government (you saw Trump rallies where he encouraged violence against opponents), and unfortunately there will be blood. Dictatorships condone this type of violence to create fear, to put the brakes on people who may want to conduct civil protests. They will go hard against the media, which they have already started (CNN fake news?), they don’t want any of this to be reported, they will try to manipulate the news the same way they have done through Fox News all these years.
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And be very aware and concerned if the military starts joining the administration, if Trump suddenly starts promoting people within the military, that should be a warning sign. Dictators need the military, and once they own it it is very difficult to reverse the damage.

[keithbvadu2]

45. Trump is doing his master's bidding (Putin)

[tom_kelly]

46. I know the media is bigly

responsible for Trump's presidency. But the Fox News itself takes the most credit for daily force-feedings of the RW BS that normalizes this BS in the heads of their zombie viewers. I haven't seen anything reported or talked about on how the Fox News is reporting, or normalizing, the Trump "precedentcy." If I turned it on I'm afraid of how I may react

[Rex]

47. Christofascists have been drooling for this moment for a long time. nt

nt