# A Reminder of where America is heading **URL:** \ **Category:** Political Topics\ **Created:** [July 11, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440 "2021-07-11T05:18:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/343 "2025-02-16T17:23:22Z")
Brilliant article on the perils of “anticipatory obedience” which is happening at a breathtaking pace. [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/opinion/trump-power-surrender.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.xU4.3vJj.WxPNTuo5kney&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/opinion/trump-power-surrender.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU4.3vJj.WxPNTuo5kney&smid=url-share) ---
**Author:** ![now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/now_samantha/32/24815_2.png) [@now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/u/now_samantha)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/344 "2025-02-16T17:29:06Z")
lol at irony of that appearing in the NYT ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/345 "2025-02-16T19:26:39Z")
NYTimes has been very vocal about the dangers of a Trump dictatorship. What more should they be doing? ---
**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/346 "2025-02-16T19:34:13Z")
> **[Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell...](https://clarksvillenow.com/local/books-mentioning-slavery-civil-rights-removed-from-shelves-at-fort-campbell-schools/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIe2-RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVGrScXBR6df4uOBrRnDGN2_eqxT8Tc1OyYFy341D1neiRONXXRKCCcXtw_aem_XWmt17HtVUmgVNmaqHIgog)** > > At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement and anything else related to diversity, equity... ---
**Author:** ![now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/now_samantha/32/24815_2.png) [@now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/u/now_samantha)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/347 "2025-02-17T14:14:45Z")
NYT has been terrible on Trump. During the first term, they were a leading source of sanewashing so that Haberman could continue to have access. They were heavily anti-Biden, and ran very few stories calling Trump old while attacking Biden for his age (the WSJ and Washington Post both had more even coverage). They recently ran a cray cray op ed piece supporting Trump’s attempts to ignore the 14th amendment, still have many sanewashing headlines. They also spent years running anti-trans propaganda, fired a bunch of staff who complained, and now are shocked! shocked! that Trump is enacting anti-trans EOs. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/348 "2025-02-17T14:33:47Z")
And it continues… These guys sure are focusing on the important stuff /s > **[Trump Pressures Romania Over Tate Brothers](https://politicalwire.com/2025/02/17/trump-pressures-romania-over-tate-brothers/)** > > "The Trump administration has pressured Romanian authorities to lift travel restrictions on the self-described misogynist influencer Andrew Tate, a champion of the U.S. president who is facing criminal charges in Bucharest," the Financial Times... ---
**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/349 "2025-02-17T18:31:56Z")
Pressuring the justice system in another country on behalf of sex traffickers… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/350 "2025-02-17T18:34:52Z")
Turkish proverb…which I think is very applicable here. > [@](#): > > When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus. ---
**Author:** ![Rastiln](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/rastiln/32/77682_2.png) [@Rastiln](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Rastiln)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/351 "2025-02-17T21:04:43Z")
Trump tried to nominate a sex trafficker to Attorney General. He invited somebody to the White House who was banned from Twitter for posting child p\*\*n before Elon Musk specifically reinstated him. Sex trafficking and similar crimes aren’t out of the norm in this administration. ---
**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/352 "2025-02-17T21:16:33Z")
Given the QAnon obsession with elites and sex trafficking, it’s even more bizarre that now they like sex traffickers. ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/353 "2025-02-17T21:37:27Z")
but her emails and the pizza place… ---
**Author:** ![mavvj](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mavvj](https://community.goactuary.com/u/mavvj)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/354 "2025-02-17T21:56:52Z")
Perhaps they could release the last season of Handmaid’s Tale early so we can all know what lies ahead. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/355 "2025-02-17T23:17:15Z")
She was right on the money. > [@](#): > > An end of American democracy. I have absolutely no doubt about that, and he’s made it very clear. You look at [Project 2025](https://www.project2025.org/about/advisory-board/), which is a thousand pages on how you dismantle the federal government that has protected civil rights, provided a basic social safety net, regulated business and promoted infrastructure since 1933. The theme of his 2024 campaign is retribution. > > I don’t think people understand now that, if [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) wins again, what we’re going to put in power is those people who want to burn it all down. By that I mean they want to hurt their enemies for sure but, so long as they can be in control, they don’t care if it means that Nato falls apart or that Americans are starving or dying from pandemic diseases. As long as somebody gets hurt, that’s enough for them.” > **[‘An end of American democracy’: Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s historic...](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/07/american-democracy-heather-cox-richardson-trump-biden)** > > The historian and Substack superstar says the US is in peril not seen since the civil war – and Joe Biden is its best defender ---
**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/356 "2025-02-18T02:58:15Z")
![c624520a-7778-41d2-b50c-32b353463f26](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/b/2/b2efba8896b41ba4c6ebd52a1b419321d17b245e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/dr_t_non-fan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 6:32am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/357 "2025-02-18T06:32:34Z")
“Sex trafficking for me, not for thee!” Also apt: every accusation is an admission. ---
**Author:** ![now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/now_samantha/32/24815_2.png) [@now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/u/now_samantha)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/358 "2025-02-19T12:27:34Z")
> The Kennedy Center canceled a concert planned for May 21 that was to feature the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC, performing alongside the National Symphony Orchestra. The two groups were planning to collaborate on a piece called “A Peacock Among Pigeons,” with GMCW serving as the orchestra’s guest chorus. No explanation was given. > > In a statement, the chorus says it’s “deeply disappointed” by the news. “We believe in the power of music to educate and uplift, to foster love, understanding, and community, and we regret that this opportunity has been taken away.” > > The Kennedy Center has seen a [raft of cancellations](https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/02/15/kennedy-center-cancellations-trump/) since President Trump took over the arts center last week and installed his loyalist Ric Grenell as its interim president and himself as chairman of the board. Trump had complained about drag shows at the complex (which accounted for [a fraction of its programming](https://www.npr.org/2025/02/08/nx-s1-5290955/three-takeaways-from-president-trumps-kennedy-center-takeover)), but as the _Wall Street Journal_ reported recently, Trump told his aides he “[never felt at home at the performing arts center](https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-kennedy-center-board-takeover-78c2f122).” Grenell has begun to fire employees at the center, the _Journal_ reports, and it says that Trump hopes to reconfigure the Kennedy Center Honors to reflect his tastes, perhaps honoring Sylvester Stallone and Lee Greenwood. > **[Trump’s Kennedy Center Cancels Pride Concert That Would Have Featured Gay...](https://washingtonian.com/2025/02/18/kennedy-center-pride-concert-gay-mens-chorus-canceled/)** > > No explanation was given, the chorus says: "We regret that this opportunity has been taken away." ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/359 "2025-02-19T13:17:03Z")
Its people like this guy that are the problem. He will sell his soul for career advancement. No sense of ethics whatsoever. You are going to end up with a Govt full of just these kinds of people. All they need to do is be completely loyal to Ill Duche that is currently squatting in the WH. Once they are embedded into the executive structure, its going to be very difficult to get them out. > **[Emil Bove takes leading role in implementing Trump takeover of DoJ](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/donald-trump-eric-adams-justice-department)** > > Dismissal of case against Eric Adams reflects new directive for prosecutors to toe line on White House’s policies ---
**Author:** ![SteveGrondin](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/stevegrondin/32/3257_2.png) [@SteveGrondin](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveGrondin)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/360 "2025-02-19T13:52:33Z")
I am not so sure getting them out is a problem, outside of the problem of winning the next election. Bove’s position is a traditional political appointee level, normally turned over. It is the long term damage they will do that will be harder to repair. If you are talking about the mid-level career positions, well, a new precedent has been set. ---
**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/361 "2025-02-19T18:24:05Z")
> [@The\_Polymath](#): > > completely loyal to Ill Duche In this particular instance, i prefer to pronounce this word douche. ---
**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/362 "2025-02-19T19:04:25Z")
HHS launches new anti trans campaign. Here are some of the first materials. > **[Protecting Women and Children | Office on Women's Health](https://womenshealth.gov/protecting-women-and-children)** > > This webpage provides guidance on sex-based definitions and other resources on efforts to protect women and children. [Previous page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440.md?page=17) [Next page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440.md?page=19)