By Professor Marc Murphy of the Brandeis School of Law
I’ve never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media. They reported NOTHING negative about Trump for months? Why? Fairness? But Kamala got fucked every headline ''Job Numbers trending up, but are the numbers too soft because of Harris? " type of bullshit.
Almost as if the rich and powerful have WAY too much control. Break out yer guillotines!
The pathway to authoritarianism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting
I hope as fuck that everyone who said that eventually realize they were warned, and take some humility into the future
Maybe, maybe, break Cassandra’s curse. At least for a little bit
Yea, and then they’ll say “never forget” and build a monument and a museum. And then everyone forgets 2 generations later. Just look at Israel, the families there still materially experience the lingering effects of genocide yet they continue to perpetrate another one.
That is the unfortunate reality of it. I wish I could say that I hope it will be different this time but…
About the one hope I have is that during the next iteration we overhaul society’s systems to so solidly work for the average person that it helps counteract this cycle, but it’s hard to stay optimistic for sure
There are plenty of people overreacting, so stop overreacting about no overreaction /s
Mr. President, a second presidency just hit the south tower.
They’re building a third tower now
2016 was worse for America than 9/11.
Retrospectively? Would give someone’s left nut for 2016 murca and not fucking bullshit 2025 fucking Russia (the one between Maine/Alaska/Hawaii/Florida under the orange thumb)
Hope your kids never wanted to ski outdoors Heritage Foundation!
Yes. Trump’s failure during Covid was killing a 9/11’s worth of Americans weekly.
Republicans preventing the US from joining the first world probably kills more than that every week.
First, second, and third world country idealogy is outdated.
Well, the US has joined the second world now, but not in the way that the parent commenter means it.
give 'em some time. it’s still early in the first quarter and he’s still getting warmed up
And yet somehow there are still far more people in the USA than there were before COVID struck. What gives?
What gives? Your logic for sure.
Yes, it’s a real mystery why a country that has over 3 million births per year is increasing in population after 1 million more people than usual died over a few years.
Yeah this is 2025, you can’t just say something overtly dumb and expect people to understand it was a joke.
Far more? How about some support for that statement.
US Population in 2019 was approximately 334 million, it’s now approximately 343 million.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/population
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Jr Bush/ Cheney laid an awful lot of the groundwork for Trunk One’s malevolence
Karl fucking Rove
Lee Atwater, Newt Gingrich etc etc etc
Andrew Johnson.
Never ForgetWe Forgor
Needs an update:
Now of course the “Rule of Law” is already destroyed and the plane should be headed for the 2nd one…
I do think that Trump’s first administration was fascist-lite. He had set precedence that future politicians will do. However, his second term has now gone full fascist and it is no longer “setting precedence”, but making breakthrough and ripping apart the very heart of democracy and what it means to be human.
Kick a narcissist out of your home and tell them you don’t want them anymore, and if they manage to get back in, you won’t ever forget you crossed them.
The media called his second run a “revenge tour”, and they weren’t fucking wrong. Trump’s only objective this time around is to stick it to the people who held him back the first time. First his old cabinet, then career civil servants, then judges, and eventually, the rest of us.
Just need a 2nd plane labelled “republican traitor filth”.
I don’t know why you would write the same term 3 times.
They could be labeled trump 2024 and trump 2028
It was rejected for being extremely distasteful.
It’s not wrong, but there’s no tie in to the administration that makes the image need to be the scene of thousands of people murdered by terrorists.
Trump and his cult are terrorists though
Trump’s terrible response to COVID19 resulted in a daily thousand people dead for nearly three years, 10,000 a week at it’s peak, almost a million in total.
His admin has also been accused many times of using terror tactics.
I think 20 years is long enough that political cartoonists can make 9/11 similes without worrying too much about pearl clutching.
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Americans aren’t very good at history, but most of them can at least keep this millennium straight…
Not really. “Conservative”/now far right media “entertainment” networks went wild for those 20+ years and managed to garner greater support for an ever further learning pro-fascist edge. It was overly effective for some and now it’s a runaway train.
I took the analogy not as “Trump equals terrorism and death” but that Trump’s attack on the rule of law and the Constitution is at least as big of a threat and should be met with an equally vigorous response by a united United States. The cartoonist could have done it in the style of the Pearl Harbor attack and it would have achieved the same metaphor, though probably wouldn’t have had the same gut-punch effect.
Point is it should be a lightning rod for America to act. Sad that it is not.
Also, not condoning the wars that followed 9/11 and the Patriot act and all of the other bullshit we got because of it.
Thousands of people are on the verge of being murdered/deported by terrorists now, seems like a fair comparison to me.
How much blood will be on their hands before this is over. I totally get this image.
He’s killed way more than 911
It’s kinda tasteless and doesn’t really say anything.
I’d have rejected it 6 years ago for not being good
Doesn’t say anything? It clearly implies that Trump’s actions are deliberately trying to sabotage US stability and democracy.
If this guy could read he would be very upset with you
You guys have a really low bar to think this is a clever cartoon
I don’t think it’s that clever, I just think it is making a good point.
Political cartoons are supposed to be clever and this is not. “9/11 was really bad. Trump is also really bad.” Wow… Never thought about it like that…
And it’s in bad taste, using 9/11 almost as a punchline. Replace the twin towers with any tragedy and it’s the same “joke.” How about a cartoon in Uvalde? The kids can be wearing that text on their shirts.
Agreeing with the message doesn’t blind me to how r/im14andthisisdeep this is. It’s just not a clever cartoon.
