U.S. President Donald Trump warned people on Tuesday against protesting at the weekend military parade in Washington marking the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary.
"For those people that want to protest, they're going to be met with very big force," Trump told reporters in the White House's Oval Office.
Vice President Vance (why can't he have a name rather than initials?) recently expressed his concern about free speech in Europe.
Now we can see very clearly how the administration he serves views free speech. Free speech, as permitted in the USA by the First Amendment, is to be countered with the use of force.
This is already happening in LA. We can assume Trump means precisely what he is saying.
The Constitution has ceased to be relevant in the USA. We are living in the Age of Aggression, as I called it at the time of his inauguration.
The only question left to answer is how to survive that, and come out the other side.
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When JD Vance was talking about free speech in the UK he was talking about potential restrictions on social media, and therefore silicon valley. Given how much Starmer goes on about AI, I can only assume that he has capitulated to whatever Peter Thiel’s mouthpiece, JD Vance, the Mouth of Sauron, has demanded. FYI, the Trump regime is starting to put more pressure on YouTube to suppress independent news media. More free speech there.
I think that a real risk.
Further evidence that Starmer has bowed to silicon valley is the fact Labour are so focused on nuclear. The data centres they are planning to build all over the country will soak up a lot of power. There is no way tech monopolists would want a power source they couldn’t control, like decentralised renewables. They want a single point of control. The tech industry really have joined climate change and fascism to be the defining danger of our time.
Agreed
US sources on BlueSky noting USAF and US Navy on full alert, UK warning traffic in Gulf. Israel may launch attack on Iran.
I’d just like to clarify something that may not be apparent to Brits. Trump’s threat about meeting protesters to his um, “parade” “with extreme violence” is nothing to be concerned about. It is simple deflection, because for many weeks multiple organizations at all levels have been coordinating a massive national protest we are calling “NO KINGS DAY”. We have very deliberately and openly planned peaceful protest activities everywhere in the country EXCEPT Washington, DC.
Thousands of events have registered all over the US and beyond, and millions of people signing up – more already than at HANDS OFF DAY in April, and more every day. Trump knows this. His “threat of violence” is meant to make it seem as if we are staying away out of fear. Nope. We are laughing, because this is already common knowledge. IF he wants an audience, he’ll have to bus them in as he has at other of his events.
The people showing up at our protests are not just Democrats: there are Republicans, Progressives, Independents, and people who’ve never been involved before, but are now.
I urge you to take everything else as a serious threat, because the man is, as the saying goes, batshit crazy, and has no sense of unintended consequences of his decisions. He literally wants to be KING, which in his mind means there are no limits to his power.
As an American, I am embarrassed. But as an American, I am also doing what I can to head this off along with all those other people who feel as disgusted as I do. It’s going to rain Saturday where I live, but I’ll still be out there with my flag and my sign that says “NO KINGS”. This is how our Constitution is set up, and that’s how we want to keep it.
We appreciate your moral support, if you can see your way to grant it,
Good luck
I’ve been reading about the planned “No Kings Day” protests, and it sounds promising. My hope for you all is that it shows the American media that the majority stand against Trump, and it emboldens them to stand up to him more. At the very least, the protests on his big day and the fact that no one will be watching his parade will embarrass him into further missteps.
Robert Reich has been heavily promoting these protests