The Weekly List - This Is How Democracy Ends

[Inmate Trump]

https://theweeklylist.org


This site contains a running list week-by-week of Trump's presidency and all of the scandals ridden within it.  Literally every single week is a new scandal that would take down any other president.



"Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember."

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

ok

[Progressive Pessimist]

I have already run out of post-it notes.

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

The only thing I've noticed changing around me lately is the weather.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

People at my workplace (tech company) no longer discuss politics. At all. If something political comes up, it gets swiftly abandoned, almost like they're embarrassed or a little worried to be discussing it. That's all issues, left and right, foreign and domestic.

When I started working there, politics was a regular topic of discussion alongside everything else. Foreign policy, civil liberties and social issues, gun control, state candidates and issues, national candidates and issues, it was all fair game. Everything stayed polite, or at least as polite as it did on things like movies, music, and sports teams, but it was a part of the conversation along with office gossip, industry gossip, hobbies, hardware and software, and everything else.

At some point in the run-up to  and fallout-from 2016 it stopped being a topic of conversation. There was no change in company policy, but people just stopped talking about it. The closest to a political conversation I can remember participating in or hearing in the last year at work was a debate about software licensing. Even the looming trade war has scarcely generated a peep.