AP characterizes a large banner featuring Trump’s face on the exterior of DoJ headquarters today as “a physical display of the Republican president’s efforts to exert power over the law enforcement agency that once investigated him” and “a striking symbol of the erosion of the department’s tradition of independence from White House control.”
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Alt text: Several people in camouflage shirts and other pseudomilitary garb stand in front of a corner of the Department of Justice headquarters. Between a pair of decorative pillars on this diagonally-cut corner, an ominous blue-tinged banner of Donald Trump's face hangs, evoking the behavior of many past dictators.
@newsguyusa nice of them to have a big poster of America's most wanted.
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Straight out of a wannabe dictator’s handbook.
@newsguyusa I feel sick.
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@newsguyusa hey @altbot can you describe the photo for me?
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Shiznit. Over and over again. It's just all in plain sight.
I wish my brain would stop being shocked but I guess I should cut myself slack there.
I *know* what is going on and I *know* my history. But seeing it like this?
@ohmu yeah, as someone else in the comments put it, this is the establishing shot that a director uses to show you this is a fascist country, and who the main villain is.
"Trump wants his face plastered everywhere like any tinpot despot with a weak ego & a malignant narcissistic borderline personality disorder. "
Assad
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/12/photos-syrians-celebrate-fall-assad/680919/
Saddam Hussein
https://www.alamy.com/a-portrait-of-deposed-iraqi-dictator-saddam-hussein-is-defaced-outside-image3572469.html
Putin
https://www.ft.com/content/8d0f04ac-3861-4fb8-852f-6e369747bd1c
https://archive.is/rCIgU
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@newsguyusa Yea and here is the best part..... What usually happens to every leader who places themselves on statues, portraits or banners such as this one?
@newsguyusa Nazi is as nazi does
@newsguyusa nouveau-Despot art is all the rage
@newsguyusa #TheSedionistFeloninCharge shows his mugshot to everyone. These are irrefutable facts.
@newsguyusa Can anyone imagine Keir Starmer ever doing something like this once London? Or if he tried to, can you imagine any British standing for it? I suspect someone would be plotting how to tear it down. But, not here. We just roll over and sit with it and WAIT. We are such wusses.
Strong "Big Brother is watching you" vibes.
Seems familiar...
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Two.words...
Burn it.
@newsguyusa A crime in plain sight displaying the flag.
As theshadowbrokers advised:
'...celebrate it “so what if I did, what are you going to do about it”.'
@newsguyusa The military could end this today if it had the courage to enforce the oath its members took.
@newsguyusa Oooooo.... now that's some hardcore dictator shit.
No man is above the law, they say.
Not a bad idea for the DOJ to publicly display the portrait of the person appearing in the Epstein Files 1 million times.
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Is the word 'abomination' not in their dictionary?
@newsguyusa I characterize it as "a creepy display of authoritarian so-called strongman worship where personality and unswerving loyalty to a single person replaces anything resembling an ideology. The whims of the Great Leader is law now."
@newsguyusa Dear Leader vibes