1: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
2: Shock and awe, previously known as "blitzkrieg," is dazzling in the short run, but in the long run, assuming one survives the initial assault, it is an invitation to rope-a-dope, as exemplified in the Battle of Britain, the French Resistance, the Czechoslovakian slowdowns, Muhammad Ali's later matches, and the Vietnamese resistance to both the US and France from the mid-40s to the mid-70s, and countless others, including to an extent present day Ukraine.
If your attacker expends his strength on a series of failed haymakers which you manage to endure, you can begin to attack his belly, his legs, his joints, his nerve centers. It's slow, it's ugly, it's painful. But it's proven to work.
Something is shifting,” scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder posted on Bluesky yesterday. “They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few days.
Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular. People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power.”
Rather than backing down on their unpopular programs, Trump and the MAGA Republicans are intensifying their behavior as if trying to grab power before it slips away.
Trump’s blanket pardons of the people convicted for violent behavior in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were highly unpopular, with 83% of Americans opposed to those pardons. Even those who identify as Republican-leaning oppose those pardons 70 to 27 percent. And yet, on February 20, the Trump Justice Department expanded those pardons to cover gun and drug charges against two former January 6 defendants that were turned up during Federal Bureau of Investigation searches related to the January 6 attack.
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Physical laws:
1: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
2: Shock and awe, previously known as "blitzkrieg," is dazzling in the short run, but in the long run, assuming one survives the initial assault, it is an invitation to rope-a-dope, as exemplified in the Battle of Britain, the French Resistance, the Czechoslovakian slowdowns, Muhammad Ali's later matches, and the Vietnamese resistance to both the US and France from the mid-40s to the mid-70s, and countless others, including to an extent present day Ukraine.
If your attacker expends his strength on a series of failed haymakers which you manage to endure, you can begin to attack his belly, his legs, his joints, his nerve centers. It's slow, it's ugly, it's painful. But it's proven to work.
Something is shifting,” scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder posted on Bluesky yesterday. “They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few days.
Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular. People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power.”
Rather than backing down on their unpopular programs, Trump and the MAGA Republicans are intensifying their behavior as if trying to grab power before it slips away.
Trump’s blanket pardons of the people convicted for violent behavior in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were highly unpopular, with 83% of Americans opposed to those pardons. Even those who identify as Republican-leaning oppose those pardons 70 to 27 percent. And yet, on February 20, the Trump Justice Department expanded those pardons to cover gun and drug charges against two former January 6 defendants that were turned up during Federal Bureau of Investigation searches related to the January 6 attack.