UNDERNEWS: America is now a dictatorship

January 3, 2026

America is now a dictatorship

Sam Smith - With the unconstitutional powers used by Donald Trump against Venezuela and the assumption that one man has the right to execute these powers, it is fair to say that America's days as a democracy are over and we are now under a dictatorship. Further, the free press - illustrated by the weakness of its challenge to this historic disaster - is doing to little to rescue us.

The comments of a president treating the takeover of Venezuela as acorrect function of his office was one of the most bitterly sad TV shows I have ever seen. While his paste proposed takeover of Greenland could be dismissed as hype, the same can't be said of Venezuela. After all, he did it.

Our president feels its is proper to take over another country that he doesn't like. That is not something allowed by a constitutional democracy but rather a sure sign that dicatorship is now par for the course.

1 comment:

Strelnikov said...: We have no idea if Maduro and Wife are actually alive, I haven't seen a photograph of both in shackles. The UN must invade America to save it.; January 3, 2026 at 3:22 PM

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