[sanderjd]

I honestly don't feel like anyone feels like the water is heating up slowly. Just sitting here in a coffee shop for an hour, I've overheard about five different conversations about everything the current administration is screwing up, and I had another one at the bus stop this morning. People aren't unaware and they aren't happy.

[nirav72]

Yet his approval rating is higher than its ever. There is a segment of the population that seems love the bull in the china shop approach to governance.

[sanderjd]

It isn't higher than ever, because it's been dropping for a few weeks, as the initial benefit of the doubt honeymoon period has already begun to fade.

[ribadeo]

What is anyone going to do about it? MAGA house reps have already fulminated impeachment proceedings for a judge who tried to rein in a lawless Trump admin. The US Marshalls are part of the DOJ that Trump has already pwned, so forget about any consequences for the executive branch completely ignoring the judicial branch selectively. With MAGA congressional majorities, we have literally no possibility of checking an overreaching Trump administration. All mechanisms have been subverted already. There will doubtless not be any midterms, and meanwhile HN doesn't want to be political, yet standing up for our republic is now a partisan effort, and it's being cast as disloyalty to a supreme leader, who apparently now embodies the law and government. Research scientists are denied US entry for having Trump-critical conversations on their phone.

The frog is boiling. Dang will say to pipe down and stop screaming, while the frog cries out for its life, because some foolish boss types still persist in the delusion our house speaker persists in: thst they can ride this bucking bronco to work. They cannot. The bronco owns them. Lights out and noting this is considered partisan. What is more radical than harassing our friends and allies and uniting the world against us? But if you let out a peep, it's political. We are supposed to enjoy bowing and scraping to obey our overlords, and insufficient display of joy at being suffocated is now partisan.

It didn't need to be this way. TRUMP has already dismantled much of our republic and yet the articles posted here do not reflect this.

What part of "we are becoming the new nazi state entity" does ycombinator not understand?

[almostgotcaught]

> I honestly don't feel like anyone feels like the water is heating up slowly.

that is the entire point of the metaphor/idiom/parable - you do not feel anything - until it's too late - you're dead or in jail or homeless or deported.

[sanderjd]

No, my point is that everyone feels the water being too hot already because it has happened quickly, not that nobody has noticed it heating up because it has happened too slowly.

It's more like draining the water in the pot and pouring in already-boiling water, than it is like heating it up slowly.