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Full text of Heather Cox Richardson's latest essay:

February 1, 2025 (Saturday)

Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal government. Now we are watching them do it.

The group that serves President Donald Trump is gutting the government both to get revenge against those who tried to hold him accountable before the law and to make sure he and his cronies will never again have to worry about legality.

Last night, officials in the Trump administration purged the Federal Bureau of Investigation of all six of its top executives and, according to NBC’s Ken Dilanian, more than 20 heads of FBI field offices, including those in Washington, D.C., and Miami, where officials pursued cases against now-president Trump. Acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove, who represented Trump in a number of his criminal cases, asked acting FBI director Brian J. Driscoll Jr. for a list of FBI agents who had worked on January 6 cases to “determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary.”

Clarissa-Jan Lim of MSNBC reported that Trump denied knowing about the dismissals but said the firings were “a good thing” because “[t]hey were very corrupt people, very corrupt, and they hurt our country very badly with the weaponization.”

Officials also fired 25 to 30 federal prosecutors who had worked on cases involving the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and reassigned others. Bove ordered the firings. Career civil servants can’t be fired without cause, and these purges come on top of the apparently illegal firing of 18 inspectors general across federal agencies and a purge of the Department of Justice of those who had worked on cases involving Trump.

Phil Williams of NewsChannel 5 in Nashville, Tennessee, reported on Friday that federal prosecutors were withdrawn from a criminal investigation of Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) for election fraud; Ogles recently filed a House resolution to enable Trump to run for a third term and another supporting Trump’s designs on Greenland. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss an election fraud case against former representative Jeffrey Fortenberry (R-NE). Trump called Fortenberry’s case an illustration of “the illegal Weaponization of our Justice System by the Radical Left Democrats.”

That impulse to protect Trump showed yesterday in what a local water manager said was an “extremely unprecedented” release of water from two dams in California apparently to provide evidence of his social media post that the U.S. military had gone into California and “TURNED ON THE WATER.” In fact, water was released from two reservoirs that hold water to supply farmland in the summer. They are about 500 miles (800 km) from Los Angeles, where the fires were earlier this year, and the water did not go to Southern California. “This is going to hurt farmers,” a water manager said, “This takes water out of the summer irrigation portfolio.” But Trump posted that if California officials had listened to him six years ago, there would have been no fires. Shashank Joshi of The Economist called it “real ‘mad king’ stuff.”

Trump’s loyalists overlap with the MAGA crew that embraces Project 2025, a plan that mirrors the one used by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán to overthrow democracy in Hungary. Operating from the position that modern democracy destroys a country by treating everyone equally before the law and welcoming immigrants, it calls for discrimination against women and gender, racial, and religious minorities; rejection of immigrants; and the imposition of religious laws to restore a white Christian patriarchy.

Former Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson has been a vocal proponent of Orbán’s ideology, and J.D. Vance this week hired Carlson’s son, 28-year-old Buckley, as his deputy press secretary. Although Trump claimed during the campaign he didn't know anything about Project 2025, Steve Contorno and Casey Tolan of CNN estimate that more than two thirds of Trump’s executive orders mirror Project 2025.

You can see the influence of this faction in the indiscriminate immigration sweeps the administration has launched, Trump’s announcement that he is opening a 30,000-bed migrant detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and officials’ revocation of protection for more than 600,000 Venezuelans legally in the U.S. and possibly also for Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans. You can see it in the administration’s attempt to end the birthright citizenship written into the U.S. Constitution in 1868.

It shows in the new administration's persecution of transgender Americans, including Trump’s executive order purging trans service members from the military, another limiting access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth, and yet another ordering trans federal prisoners to be medically detransitioned and then moved to facilities that correspond to their sex at birth, an outcome that a trans woman suing the administration calls “humiliating, terrifying, and dangerous.”

The administration has ordered that federal employees must remove all pronouns from their email signatures and, as Jeremy Faust reported in Inside Medicine, that researchers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must scrub from their work any references to “[g]ender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female.” Faust notes that the requirements are vague and that because “most manuscripts include demographic information about the populations or patients studied,” the order potentially affects “just about any major study…including studies on Covid-19, cancer, heart disease, or anything else.”

Those embracing this ideology are also isolationist. As soon as he took office, Trump imposed a freeze on foreign aid except for military aid to Israel and Egypt, abruptly cutting off about $60 billion in funding—less than 1% of the U.S. budget—to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which provides humanitarian assistance to fight starvation and provide basic medical care for the globe’s most vulnerable and desperate populations. The outcry, both from those appalled that the U.S. would renege on its promises to provide food for children in war-torn countries and from those who recognize that the U.S. withdrawal from these popular programs would create a vacuum China is eager to fill, made Trump’s new secretary of state, Marco Rubio, say that “humanitarian programs” would be exempted from the freeze, but that appears either untrue or so complicated to negotiate that programs are shutting down anyway.

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) appears to be beside himself over this destruction. “Let me explain why the total destruction of USAID…matters so much,” he posted on social media. “China—where Musk makes his money—wants USAID destroyed. So does Russia. Trump and Musk are doing the bidding of Beijing and Moscow. Why?” “The U.S. is in full retreat from the world,” he wrote, and there is “[n]o good reason for it. The immediate consequences of this are cataclysmic. Malnourished babies who depend on U.S. aid will die. Anti-terrorism programs will shut down and our most deadly enemies will get stronger. Diseases that threaten the U.S. will go unabated and reach our shores faster. And China will fill the void. As developing countries will now ONLY be able to rely on China for help, they will cut more deals with Beijing to give them control of ports, critical mineral deposits, etc. U.S. power will shrink. U.S. jobs will be lost.” Murphy speculated that “billionaires like Musk who make $ in China” or “someone buying all that secret Trump meme coin” would benefit from deliberately sabotaging eighty years of U.S. goodwill on the international stage.

And that brings us to the third faction: that of the tech bros, led by billionaire Elon Musk, who according to year-end Federal Election Commission filings spent more than $290 million supporting Trump and the Republicans in 2024. Musk appears to consider colonizing space imperative for the survival of humanity, and part of that goal requires slashing government regulations, as well as receiving government contracts that help to fund his space program.

Before he took office, Trump named Musk and another billionaire, Vivek Ramaswamy, to an extra-governmental group called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), but Musk has assumed full control of the group, whose mission is to cut the federal budget by as much as $2 trillion.

Musk is interested in the government for future contracts, although a report from January 30, when Musk’s Tesla company filed its annual financial report, showed that the company, which is valued at more than $1 trillion and which made $2.3 billion in 2024, paid $0 in federal income tax. Today, Musk’s X social media company became a form of state media when the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it would no longer email updates about this week’s two plane crashes—one in Washington, D.C., and one in Philadelphia—and that reporters would have to get their information through X.

Musk’s goal might well be the crux of the drastic cuts to federal aid, as well as the attempt last week from the Office of Management and Budget to “pause” federal funding and grants to make sure funding reflected Trump’s goals. After a public outcry over the loss of payments to local law enforcement, Meals on Wheels for shut-ins, supplemental nutrition programs, and so on, the OMB rescinded its first memo, but then White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt immediately contradicted the new memo, saying the cuts were still in effect.

The chaos surrounding the cuts could have been designed to make it difficult for opponents to sue over them. This method of changing government priorities through “impoundment” is illegal. Congress—which is the body that represents the American people—appropriates the money for programs, and the president takes an oath to execute the laws. After President Richard M. Nixon tried it, Congress passed a 1974 law making impoundment expressly illegal. But the on-again-off-again confusion appeared at first to stand a chance of stopping lawsuits. It didn’t work: a federal judge halted the funding freeze, suggesting it was a blatant violation of the Constitution.

But then, yesterday, Elon Musk forced the resignation of David A. Lebryk, the highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department. Lebryk had been at Treasury since 1989 and had risen to become the person in charge of the U.S. government payment system that disburses about $6 trillion a year through Social Security benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, contracts, grants, salaries for federal government workers, tax refunds, and so on, essentially managing the nation’s checkbook.

According to Jeff Stein, Isaac Arnsdorf, and Jacqueline Alemany of the Washington Post, Musk’s team wanted access to the payment system. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) demanded answers from Trump’s new Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, warning that “these payment systems simply cannot fail, and any politically-motivated meddling in them risks severe damage to our country and the economy. I am deeply concerned that following the federal grant and loan freeze earlier this week, these officials associated with Musk may have intended to access these payment systems to illegally withhold payments to any number of programs. I can think of no good reason why political operators who have demonstrated a blatant disregard for the law would need access to these sensitive, mission-critical systems.”

Now, though, with Musk’s people at the computers that control the nation’s payment system, they can simply stop whatever payments they want to.

Wyden continued by reminding Bessent that the press has reported that Musk has previously been “denied a high-level clearance to access the government’s most sensitive secrets. I am concerned that Musk’s enormous business operation in China—a country whose intelligence agencies have stolen vast amounts of sensitive data about Americans, including U.S. government employee data by hacking U.S. government systems—endangers U.S. cybersecurity and creates conflicts of interest that make his access to these systems a national security risk.”

This afternoon, Wyden posted that he has been told that Bessent has given the Department of Government Efficiency full access to the system. “Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.”

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo posted: “This is more or less like taking the gold from Fort Knox and putting it in Elons basement. Anyone who gets a check from soc sec or anything else[,] he can cut it off or see all y[ou]r personal and financial data.” Pundit Stuart Stevens called it “the most significant data leak in cyber history.”

All three of these factions are focused on destroying the federal government, which, after all, represents the American people through their elected representatives and spends their taxpayer money. Musk, who is an unelected adjunct to Trump, this evening gleefully referred to the civil servants in the government who work for the American people as “the opposing team.”

But something jumps out from the chaos of the past two weeks. Instructions are vague, circumstances are chaotic, and it’s unclear who is making decisions. That confusion makes it hard to enforce laws or sue, although observers note that what’s going on is “illegal and a breach of the constitutional order.”

Our federal government rests on the U.S. Constitution. The three different factions of Trump's MAGA Republicans agree that the government must be destroyed, and they are operating outside the constitutional order, not eager to win legal victories so much as determined to slash and burn down the government without them.

Today, senior Washington Post political reporter Aaron Blake noted that while it is traditional for cabinet nominees to pledge that they will refuse to honor illegal presidential orders, at least seven of Trump’s nominees have sidestepped that question. Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi, director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard, now-confirmed defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, small business administrator nominee Kelly Loeffler, Veterans Affairs secretary nominee Douglas A. Collins, and commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick all avoided the question by saying that Trump would never ask them to do anything illegal. FBI director nominee Kash Patel just said he would “always obey the law.”

#current events #us coup

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mariacallous · 8 months ago

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lol philadelphia inquirer bodying nyt

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/first-presidential-debate-joe-biden-donald-trump-withdraw-20240629.html

President Joe Biden’s debate performance was a disaster. His disjointed responses and dazed look sparked calls for him to drop out of the presidential race.

But lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump’s usual bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering. His performance demonstrated once again that he is a danger to democracy and unfit for office.

In fact, the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

Trump, 78, has been on the political stage for eight years marked by chaos, corruption, and incivility. Why go back to that?

To build himself up, Trump constantly tears the country down. There is no shining city on the hill. It’s just mourning in America.

Throughout the debate, Trump repeatedly said we are a “failing” country. He called the United States a “third world nation.” He said, “we’re living in hell” and “very close to World War III.”

“People are dying all over the place,” Trump said, later adding “we’re literally an uncivilized country now.”

Trump told more than 30 lies during the debate to go with the more than 30,000 mistruths told during his four years as president. He dodged the CNN moderators’ questions, took no responsibility for his actions, and blamed others, mainly Biden, for everything that is wrong in the world.

Trump’s response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection he fueled was farcical. He said a “relatively small number of people” went to the Capitol and many were “ushered in by the police.”

After scheming to overturn the 2020 election, Trump refused to say if he would accept the results of the 2024 election. Unless, of course, he wins.

The debate served as a reminder of what another four years of Trump would look like. More lies, grievance, narcissism, and hate. Supporters say they like Trump because he says whatever he thinks. But he mainly spews raw sewage.

Trump attacks the military. He denigrates the Justice Department and judges. He belittles the FBI and the CIA. He picks fights with allies and cozies up to dictators.

Trump is an unserious carnival barker running for the most serious job in the world. During his last term, Trump served himself and not the American people.

Trump spent chunks of time watching TV, tweeting, and hanging out at his country clubs. Over his four-year term, Trump played roughly 261 rounds of golf.

As president, Trump didn’t read the daily intelligence briefs. He continued to use his personal cell phone, allowing Chinese spies to listen to his calls. During one Oval Office meeting, Trump shared highly classified intelligence with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.

Trump’s term did plenty of damage and had few accomplishments. The much-hyped wall didn’t get built. Infrastructure week was a recurring joke. Giant tax cuts made the rich richer, while fueling massive deficits for others to pay for years. His support for coal, oil drilling and withdrawal from the Paris Agreement worsened the growing impact of climate change.

Trump stacked the judiciary with extreme judges consisting mainly of white males, including a number who the American Bar Association rated as not qualified. A record number of cabinet officials were fired or left the office. The West Wing was in constant chaos and infighting.

Many Trump appointees exited under a cloud of corruption, grifting and ethical scandals. Trump’s children made millions off the White House. His dilettante son-in-law got $2 billion from the Saudi government for his fledgling investment firm even though he never managed money before.

Trump’s mismanagement of the pandemic resulted in tens of thousands of needless deaths. He boasts about stacking the Supreme Court with extreme right-wingers who are stripping away individual rights, upending legal precedents, and making the country less safe. If elected, Trump may add to the court’s conservative majority.

Of course, there were the unprecedented two impeachments. Now, Trump is a convicted felon who is staring at three more criminal indictments. He is running for president to stay out of prison.

If anything, Trump doesn’t deserve to be on the presidential debate stage. Why even give him a platform?

Trump allegedly stole classified information and tried to overturn an election. His plans for a second term are worse than the last one. We cannot be serious about letting such a crooked clown back in the White House.

Yes, Biden had a horrible night. He’s 81 and not as sharp as he used to be. But Biden on his worst day remains lightyears better than Trump on his best.

Biden must show that he is up to the job. This much is clear: He has a substantive record of real accomplishments, fighting the pandemic, combating climate change, investing in infrastructure, and supporting working families and the most vulnerable.

Biden has surrounded himself with experienced people who take public service seriously. He has passed major bipartisan legislation despite a dysfunctional Republican House majority.

Biden believes in the best of America. He has rebuilt relationships with allies around the world and stood up to foes like Russia and China.

There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be.

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 28 days ago

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Barbara Rogan

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

February 1, 2025

Heather Cox Richardson

Feb 02, 2025

Now, though, with Musk’s people at the computers that control the nation’s payment system, they can simply stop whatever payments they want to.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Letters From An American #Heather Cox Richardson #the U.S.Constitution #illegal orders #wrecking ball #burn down the government #history #Musk #impoundment #CDC #Project 2025

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misfitwashere · 29 days ago

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HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Now, though, with Musk’s people at the computers that control the nation’s payment system, they can simply stop whatever payments they want to.

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#heather cox richardson #letters from an american

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milverton · 4 months ago

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I watch Jake Broe's update videos on the war in Ukraine pretty religiously, so I wanted to share what he had to say in his latest video because I at least felt a little better about this whole new trumpocalypse fiasco after hearing some of the points he made.

Here's his tweet that summarises what he says in the video, but I would recommend still watching the whole thing! (I've bolded the main points)

Okay! We all needed a day to reflect on what happened and I have good news and bad news for Ukraine about Trump returning to the US Presidency.

Let's start with the bad news for Ukraine…

Trump could end all US military cooperation

Trump could lift all sanctions on Russia

Trump could return all frozen assets to Russia

Yes, that is all very bad, but there might be good news.

First, Trump is always transactional. It does not matter if Russia was helping Trump or not in the past, Trump does not feel like he owes anyone anything for past favors. If Trump ever gives something up, then he will want something in return at the same time.

Russia will make demands that Trump is happy to accommodate, but only if Russia agrees to something that makes Trump look good. If Russia refuses, then Trump will rapidly escalate against Russia out of spite. American weapons in Ukrainian hands have already killed hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers. Putin might refuse any kind of transactional deal with Trump. Nobody knows what either Trump or Putin will do. Trump could inadvertently destabilize Russia without even meaning to.

Second, Trump does not take over until January 20th, which means we know for a fact that Russia is not going to use a nuclear weapon before Trump returns to office. Russia is not going to start a nuclear war if they think Trump will give them favorable terms. Meaning there is no risk of escalation management the next two months. Take the gloves off!

For the next two months Ukraine should be given permission to hit whatever they want with whatever is given to them anywhere on Russian territory. Additionally, Biden now is forced to rush deliver and allocate the rest of America's available funds allocated by Congress to Ukraine this winter.

If instead Harris was re-elected and MAGA controlled Congress, military aid would have ended anyways and Biden would have tried to stretch these funds out until next summer. Biden can't do that now. So Ukraine is actually going to get a huge boost in military aid right away.

Third, even though I do not think Trump cares at all about Ukraine, he does care about his own image and legacy. He is never running for office ever again, but he loves to be loved by his supporters. He does not want to look weak and if Ukraine refuses to a negotiated capitulation and instead fights on without US help, these are going to be top headlines daily (maybe the fall of Kharkiv or the fall of Odesa) and this will make Trump look weak. He hates that. These would be images that would look worse for America than the US withdrawal of Afghanistan.

Forth, Trump hates Iran. Trump fiercely supports Israel and Iran is currently trying to destroy Israel. If Trump takes any military action against Iran (or looks the other way when Israel does) this could weaken or cripple one of Russia's most important allies. Harris was never going to do anything about Iran. Trump might actually cripple Iran and their Russian allied proxies in the Middle East.

Fifth, Trump loves the idea of cheap oil. He might actually find ways (cutting regulations, building more pipes, granting access to more public lands) that brings the global price of oil down so much that this ends up bankrupting Russia faster. That is not Trump's goal, but he might accidentally do it.

Sixth, Europe might finally militarily wake up once Trump stops answering their phone calls. Europe has the population and the economic power to support Ukraine and defeat the Russians without America's help. This is Europe's moment. They can't use America as an excuse anymore for holding them back.

Lastly… this is crazy, but Trump's economic plan of tariffs and trade wars might actually trigger a massive recession in the United States. When the US goes into recession, this almost always triggers a global recession. We realistically need an economic collapse of Russia to defeat them and Trump might accidentally cause this without even wanting to.

It is all weird to think about. But we just do not know what will happen or what the state of the war will be three months from now. It is a complete mystery to everyone, including the Russians.

Keep supporting Ukraine. Russia will be defeated.

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#ukraine #donald trump #us politics #war in ukraine #ukraine war #russia is a terrorist state #russian invasion #russia #jake broe #youtube #video

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sageandred · 7 months ago

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Today, I saw someone say "I do not want that genocide on my conscience" in regards to voting Democrat or Republican, and opting for a third party in place. I ask you, do you want stripped rights of American minorities on your hands or innocent children's lives due to gun violence and no efforts to reform? Because that's what this is! For the love of god, I do not understand the take of fighting for a better outcome and aiming for world peace when the unlikelihood of a third party is evident as history has shown. We live in a democracy (supposedly), but we live under a system, regardless. It's Democrat or Republican; it's Democrat or Trump, now; it's Democrat or fascist. I'm not arguing that Kamala is perfect or parts of where she focusses her attention in policies won't disappoint; that's of the reality with anyone that gets in office; that's every politician. The goal has never been vote the "lesser of two evils;" do nothing else. (I hate the indication of "evils" when I don't think every politician is an awful human being (in a system guaranteed to codemn them with questionable ethics, but that's another post). The goal is make the logical and correct decision, so you have the chance to make it better again and for them to make it better in office. If you vote third party on the basis of moral terror, you will not have that chance to make the world better how you aim to. Trump has shown you what he'll do, and made it worse.

You are fighting the war for Palestinians and all who are being attacked by Israel, because they are targeted minorities and you cry for the innocent lives of children being taken, but that ethnic and communal cleansing is exactly what Trump is fighting for in dictatorship in America. If you vote third party, you will also have blood on your hands, because you are voting for Trump based on the historical unlikelihood of the 3rd candidate winning. If you choose not to vote, you are forfeiting your choice and indirectly voting for whoever comes into office. You will not feel like there is no blood on your hands if you see what comes of his presidency. The amount of people I've known & seen who felt stupid for abstaining in his election after the reality of his leadership is a large pool and proof of the regret and realized actuality. Do not put yourself in the position to feel like them!

Trump has said, he will have it "fixed" so you will never have to vote in another election again if he wins. You do not get to easily rectify your choices if your opted third party loses. You will not have that chance. (Let it be noted, that also the 4 years a president spends in the house are not so easily reversible (we have still been dealing with Trump's damage in Biden's term).

P.s. Here's what Kamala has said about Gaza:

x x

Here's what Trump has said:

Former President Donald Trump said that Israel needs to “finish what they started” and “get it over with fast,” as he continued arguing Israel was “losing the PR war” because of the visuals coming out of Gaza.

“You’ve got to get it over with, and you have to get back to normalcy. And I’m not sure that I’m loving the way they’re doing it, because you’ve got to have victory. You have to have a victory, and it’s taking a long time,” Trump said in an interview with The Hugh Hewitt Show that aired Thursday.

Harris also recognized antisemitism, showing support for the community that's faced it, and that's not what this is.

Be definitive; make the choice; and don't be passive when your options are historically laid out between two separate parties!

Vote for hope, not a never-ending apocalyptic genocide with Trump.

Also, relevant to note, it's just as important to vote down ballot. Get supporting figures who will back the better choice, so that it's not all for nothing.

#us politics #2024 presidential election #kamala harris #donald trump #politics #current news

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sage-nebula · 1 month ago

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This should come as no surprise considering that Trump blatantly said during a stump speech that his supporters would "never have to vote again" if he won, but it sucks to see it starting so soon. A few key takeaways:

To ratify the 22nd amendment, the bill has to pass through Congress, which requires a 2/3rd majority in both the House and the Senate. Republicans have majorities in both, but only by three seats. It is vital we rip even those three seats away from them in the 2026 midterms.

If it did pass Congress, then 38 states would have to ratify the change to the amendment. Trump won 30 states in 2024. We don't want to get to the point where we have to beg 8 states to hold out, so again, we NEED to lock in for the midterms.

The change to the amendment would prevent three of the still living presidents from being elected again (Clinton, W Bush, and the one I'm sure they were most worried about, Obama). They worded it very carefully.

As the article points out, even if the change doesn't happen, there are still loopholes Trump could exploit to stay as president, and given his openly stated desire to be dictator, you know he'll be looking for them.

#uspol #it's doubtful they can do this right now bc their congressional majority is so slim #but if we don't fix that shit in the midterms? well.#we knew he was going to try this tho. he literally said so.#and his base venerates him as a god-king as Rep Ogles did in his proposal #so. yeah. i hate it here

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justsayyesmiss · 22 days ago

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CLIMATE

PAGE ONE

Panel 1

Trump, on a horse, charges toward the reader in front of four other horses — the apocalyptic riders from Revelations. The riders are hooded, and one is coughing in the dust Trump’s horse is kicking up.

CAPTION:

The Christian Nationalists behind Project 2025 have replaced the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with the Three Horrors for the Conservatives…

TRUMP:

I like Conquest, but pay no attention to War, Famine, and Death.

Panel 2

Trump and his horse both rear back in fear as they come to three doors. One has a Black Lives Matter flag, one has the Progress Pride flag, and the third shows a climate action icon.

TRUMP:

You should really worry about DEI, gender, and climate action.

CAPTION:

Climate action is a singular horror to them because it might cost their masters short-term profit.

Panel 3

Trump tentatively opens the climate door.

CAPTION:

They find unwanted initiatives addressing all three problems everywhere…

CAPTION:

…and since it’s no secret that Project 2025’s authors want to say what goes on in everybody’s bedroom, here’s what they find under various government agencies’ beds.

Panel 4

In one half of this panel, Trump is in bed, hugging a chicken in fear. The chicken looks unhappy. From beneath the bed, pink tentacles stretch upward toward Trump. In the other half of this panel,

CAPTION:

And what they want to do about it.

CAPTION:

For the USDA…

TRUMP:

“[The USDA] should not place ancillary issues, such as environmental issues, ahead of agricultural production itself.” [2025, p. 290]

CHICKEN THOUGHT BALLOON:

Just what we needed…more factory farms. And since when is climate “ancillary” to agriculture?

Panel 5

Trump is joined in the bed by a Mr. Moneybags figure in a top hat and monocle. Trump sucks his thumb, terrified of the outstretched tentacles.

CAPTION:

The Federal Reserve…

TRUMP:

“The Fed should not be allowed to incorporate ‘environmental, social, and governance factors into its mandate’.” [2025, p. 661]

PAGE TWO

Panel 1

Trump remains in the tentacle-surrounded bed, still fearful, hugging a dribbling oil pipeline with one arm and a coal smokestack with the other.

CAPTION:

The Department of Energy…

TRUMP:

“Eliminate the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, [whose mission is] to minimize the environmental impacts of fossil fuels while working towards net-zero emissions.” [2025, p. 376-377]

SMOKESTACK and PIPELINE (together):

Ohhh, Donald!

Panel 2

Trump hides beneath the covers of the bed as the walls around him crumble.

CAPTION:

They even find it in Housing and Urban Development…

TRUMP:

“Repeal climate change initiatives and spending!”

TRUMP:

And “reverse all actions taken by the Biden Administration to advance progressive ideology.” [2025, p. 508]

Panel 3

Trump peers over the headboard of the bed. The walls have fully crumbled at his feet.

TRUMP:

The global warming hoax, it just never ends. [1]

CAPTION:

That’s what Project 2025 thinks, anyway, and they also find climate monsters hiding in the EPA (of course), the Department of Labor and Transportation, NOAA (so scary they want to dismantle it), the Treasury…

Panel 4

Trump is finally asleep and dreaming. A thought balloon stretches from his mind with a dream image of him building a wall, sweating as he does so, a brick in one hand. Next to him, a thermometer reads 110 degrees.

TRUMP (in dreams):

Don’t believe your lying eyes!

CAPTION:

And they’re…sort of right. There is a hoax, and it’s them trying to wish climate change away.

Panel 5

In another dream thought balloon, we see Trump continuing to build his wall while refugees approach, their tents stretching back to the horizon.

CAPTION:

Which brings us back to War, Famine, and Death. Project 2025 also gets something sort of right about those horsemen when they talk about climate change and USAID.

Panel 6

In another dream thought balloon, Trump stands in the middle of a burning map of the United States, its borders constructed entirely of brick walls.

TRUMP:

“The aid industry claims that climate change causes poverty, which is false. Enduring conflict, government corruption, and bad economic policies are the main drivers of global poverty.” [2025, p257]

CAPTION:

That’s…kind of true! Climate change isn’t the only cause of misery around the globe.

PAGE THREE

Panel 1

Trump shakes hands with Vladimir Putin.

CAPTION:

Enduring conflict is a cause of poverty.

TRUMP:

You didn’t pay? … I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage [Russia] to do whatever the hell they want. [2]

Panel 2

A close-up of Trump’s mugshot. He is wearing an orange jumpsuit.

CAPTION:

So is government corruption.

Panel 3

Trump stands at a podium during one of his rallies. Behind him, supporters hold up signs with slogans like “Drill Baby Drill,” “Deport Illegals,” and “Make America Great Again.”

CAPTION: And so are bad economic policies.

TRUMP: I’ll get rid of the Green New Scam. And we’re gonna drill, baby, drill. [3,4]

Panel 4

Trump stands alone at the same podium, but around him we see only a roaring fire.

CAPTION: That’s your climate future under Trump and Project 2025. The bad news: you can already feel the heat.

CAPTION: The good news: you can vote for a better future.

SOURCES

[1] “Trump muses on war with Russia and praises Kim Jong Un,” by Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post, March 6, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/

[2] “Fact-checking Trump’s comments urging Russia to invade ‘delinquent’ NATO members,” by AP, PBS News, February 12, 2024, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-trumps-comments-urging-russia-to-invade-delinquent-nato-members

[3]

“A second Trump term could slow the shift from fossil fuels as climate threats grow,” by Michael Copley, Morning Edition (NPR), June 25, 2024, https://www.npr.org/2024/06/25/nx-s1-5006573/trump-election-2024-climate-change-fossil-fuels

[4]

“Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency,” by Oliver Milman, The Guardian, May 13, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/13/trump-president-agenda-climate-policy-wind-power

[2025] “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” by The Heritage Foundation, 2023, https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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cachien · 4 months ago

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As a queer, disabled climatologist, I am quite frankly upset about today's news. But it's important now more than ever that we continue to resist and we continue to hold out hope and we continue to hold in our anger and despair and frustration. The people who voted Trump into office might never change their minds. But they will see the power they have if we give up or fall into despair.

So I'm going to keep studying climate change and I'm going to keep working on my research and I'll publish it unofficially somewhere if needed. I'm going to keep publicly showing off that I'm bi, that having a husband doesn't make me less bi, that my gender isn't always constant. I'm going to keep wearing revealing clothes when I feel like it and I'm going to get another IUD put in ASAP because birth control is and should be a right in a country that prohibits abortion. I'm going to keep dressing eccentrically feminine with hot pink and cleavage and heels that don't make sense in a STEM building. I'm going to talk about my disabilities and make them other people's problems and keep advocating for the fact that being in the workplace means I am legally obligated to be accommodated. I will not have my symptoms dismissed as anxiety or stress or PMS or anything else. I will be acknowledged and heard and change will happen.

I'm not toning any of it down. My existence is resistance. In a country that hates women that aren't tradwives, in a country that's regressing on LGBT+ rights, in a country that is actively turning its back on science and the environment, I will not stop being a, what did they call it? Childless cat lady?

Anyway. My point is: exist loudly. Keep your anger to safe places and show the Trump supporters that they don't win. They might have the office for the next four years but that man is the oldest person ever elected. He also can't get a third term. We've endured worse as a nation than the current times, when information is everywhere and communication is endless and we know that there are so, so many of us. And the louder and prouder and more out we are, the more of us we will see.

Keep going.

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I will never understand why American libs worship canada as some kind of progressive utopia for them to take refuge when things here go tits up. As if Canada isn't also a settler colony rife with racism and bigotry. But now that Trump is in office all of the white middle class libs are talking about moving. It makes me so angry because even well before Trump was in office I've never felt safe in America but now that their ignorance bubble is going to pop people with money would rather abandon ship so they can find a new place to comfortably ignore problems that don't directly affect them.

Yeah, I think it's definitely bc Canada has very good PR about being a kind and progressive utopia compared to the US, like the US without all the evil parts, even though Canada has many of the same problems and committed the same evil as a white supremacist settler colony - and unfortunately, Canadians (not just the white ones either) are extremely insecure while still being nationalists, so too many form their entire identity on being not the US and better than the US, so they do a lot of shilling for the country that liberals eat up (Listen to Own Voices TM lol).

Anyway, yeah, I always laugh at white US liberals crying about how they run away to Canada whenever the GOP wins an election bc like, okay, good luck when Canada has a notoriously difficult and expensive immigration system, and it's especially laughable this time when the guy who is like 99% guaranteed to become the next PM with a Conservative majority government this year is a white supremacist fascist who loves Tr*mp and was involved with the trucker rallies (since US libs still cry about January 6 even though it did nothing, those were basically the Canadian equivalent, and lasted longer and had further reach across the country), and for people screaming about Tr*mp trying to get a third term and how that is dictator behaviour - you know Canada has no term limits, right? It's a regular occurrence for PMs and parties to be in power for ten years before Canadians get bored and flip to the other major party by default, so longer than US presidents who get two terms, like, if you move to Canada, you will most likely be under a far right government that is just as bad as the GOP for longer than waiting out Tr*mp to finish a second term or die of old age at this point, and no, you are not getting free healthcare as a perk, do you even know how healthcare works in Canada (rhetorical question) lol

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tomorrowusa · 11 months ago

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Never mind the 22nd amendment. Some Trumpsters are already talking about a THIRD Trump term.

The American Conservative magazine published an article last week in which the author, Peter Tonguette, argued that Trump should be able to run for a third term in office in 2028. This drew some attention in non-Trump circles as a potential trial balloon by Project 2025, the authoritarian policy agenda that is guiding Trumpworld right now. Tonguette argued that Trump’s victory in the GOP primary contest this year shows that voters still support him—and that they should be allowed to do so indefinitely. “As the primary season has shown us, the Republicans have not moved on from Trump—yet the Twenty-second Amendment works to constrain their enthusiasm by prohibiting them from rewarding Trump with re-election four years from now,” he wrote, perhaps getting ahead of himself a bit. I do not doubt that Trump would run for a third term if he could. He has addressed the possibility before, suggesting in 2020 that he should get to run for one “because they spied on my campaign,” referring to his political opponents. And at a closed-door fundraiser in 2018, Trump also favorably referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping for eliminating the two-term limit in that country. “He’s now president for life, president for life, and he’s great,” he reportedly told his supporters. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday.”

Maybe Trump's campaign slogan for 2028 should be: Make America Belarus. The dictator of Belarus, a Putin satellite, has been using rigged elections to remain in power since 1994.

Never mind the US Constitution. Trump's trained seals on the US Supreme Court will gladly find some loophole allowing him to be president in perpetuity.

If somebody says he wants to be a dictator, believe him – especially if he's already a big fanboy of despots like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, and Xi Jinping.

It's almost always easier to prevent a dictator from taking power than it is to get rid of one who is already in power.

#donald trump #republicans #us constitution #dictatorship #the 22nd amendment #dictator on day one #trump's third term #project 2024 #peter tonguette #democrats = democracy republicans = dictatorship #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

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your take on biden is correct and valid and I am in no way going to try and tell you he's not a piece of shit. however. I don't believe the solution to "they're both shitheads I don't want either of them in office" is to refuse to vote or to vote for a third party that doesn't have a chance of winning.

I hate having to choose too but there is no way this situation will improve with trump in office. I choose to believe we have a chance of making a difference if we put enough pressure on the biden administration and the only way we get there is by keeping him in office. however much I hate that concept.

”if we just put enough pressure on genocide joe maybe he’ll just stop committing genocide and stop encouraging police brutality on protestors. Maybe he’ll just stop lying about hamas and be nice :(“ do you hear yourself?

It’s an ELECTION YEAR, the time we have THE MOST leverage against him and he still doesn’t care. He made a few empty threats to stop funding the genocide and then just quietly approved more funds to be sent to help the IDF.

Picking the lesser of two evils really doesn’t work when you have two wannabe Hitlers running. You can’t say “well MAYBE Biden will sign in some environmental protections to distract from him committing genocide” as though that’s any reason to vote for him.

There is no lesser of two evils when both options staunchly support the same genocide.

“No you can’t vote third party what if trump wins :(“ then congrats, it’ll be exactly the same as what we’re dealing with now. “Every vote counts” brother in Christ there is quite literally no way in gods green earth Biden is winning this election. Sorry, but he’s not. ~60% of Americans want an end to the genocide, and neither candidate wants to even humor that idea. Biden is too much of a lunatic to even pick a centrist take, he wants Palestine gone because it is more profitable for Israel to control that region. He’s not changing his mind if he hasn’t been smart enough to pull his head out of the sand already. At least with trump we’re probably going to see more of him wasting his term arguing and throwing a fit that he isn’t allowed to be a dictator and get impeached AGAIN. There’s at least the threat of trump getting some consequence, Biden is never going to.

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 8 months ago

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Iam not usually one to offer diagnoses of people I’ve never met, but it does seem like the pundit class of the American media is suffering from severe memory loss. Because they’re doing exactly what they did in the 2016 presidential race – providing wildly asymmetrical and inflammatory coverage of the one candidate running against Donald J Trump.

They have become a stampeding herd producing an avalanche of stories suggesting Biden is unfit, will lose and should go away, at a point in the campaign in which replacing him would likely be somewhere between extremely difficult and utterly catastrophic. They do this while ignoring something every scholar and critic of journalism knows well and every journalist should. As Nikole Hannah-Jones put it: “As media we consistently proclaim that we are just reporting the news when in fact we are driving it. What we cover, how we cover it, determines often what Americans think is important and how they perceive these issues yet we keep pretending it’s not so.” They are not reporting that he is a loser; they are making him one.

According to one journalist’s tally, the New York Times has run 192 stories on the subject since the debate, including 50 editorials and 142 news stories. The Washington Post, which has also gone for saturation coverage, published a resignation speech they wrote for him. Not to be outdone, the New Yorker’s editor-in-chief declared that Biden not going away “would be an act not only of self-delusion but of national endangerment” and had a staff writer suggest that Democrats should use the never-before-deployed 25th amendment.

Since this would have to be led by Vice-President Kamala Harris, it would be a sort of insider coup. And so it goes with what appears to be a journalistic competition to outdo each other in the aggressiveness of the attacks and the unreality of the proposals. It’s a dogpile and a panic, and there is no one more unable to understand their own emotional life, biases and motives than people who are utterly convinced of their own ironclad rationality and objectivity, AKA most of these pundits.

Speaking of coups, we’ve had a couple of late, which perhaps merit attention as we consider who is unfit to hold office. This time around, Trump is not just a celebrity with a lot of sexual assault allegations, bankruptcies and loopily malicious statements, as he was in 2016. He’s a convicted criminal who orchestrated a coup attempt to steal an election both through backroom corruption and public lies and through a violent attack on Congress. The extremist US supreme court justices he selected during his last presidential term themselves staged a coup this very Monday, overthrowing the US constitution itself and the principle that no one is above the law to make presidents into kings, just after legalizing bribery of officials, and dismantling the regulatory state by throwing out the Chevron deference.

Trump’s own former staffers are part of the Heritage Foundation’s team planning to implement Project 25 if he wins, which would finish off our system of government with yet another coup. “We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” said the foundation’s president the other day. This alarms me. So does the behavior of the US mainstream media, which seems more concerned with sabotaging the only thing standing between us and this third coup.

“Why aren’t we talking about Trump’s fascism?” demands the headline of Jeet Heer’s piece in the Nation, to which the answer might be a piece by the Nation’s own editor-in-chief titled “Biden’s patriotic duty” that proposes his duty is to get lost. Sometimes I wonder if all this coverage is because the media knows how to cover a normal problem like a sub-par candidate; they don’t know how to cover something as abnormal and unprecedented as the end of the republic. So for the most part they don’t.

Biden is old. He was one kind of appalling in the 27 June debate, listless and sometimes stumbling and muddling his words. But Trump was another kind of appalling, in that almost everything he said was an outrageous lie and some of it was a threat. I get that writing about the monstrosity that is Trump faces the problem that it’s not news; he’s been a monster spouting lurid nonsense all his life (but his political crimes are recent, and his free-associating public soliloquies on sharks, batteries, toilets, water flow and Hannibal Lector, among other topics, are genuinely demented). He’s a racist, a fascist and a rapist (according to a civil-court verdict).

We are deciding whether this nation has a future as a more-or-less democratic republic this November, and on that rides the fate of the earth when it comes to acting on climate change. If the US falters at this decisive moment in the climate crisis, it will drag down everyone else’s efforts. Under Trump, it will. But the shocking supreme court decisions this summer and the looming threat of authoritarianism have gotten little ink and air, compared to the hue and cry about Biden’s competence.

Few seem to remember that Biden’s age and his verbal gaffes were an issue in the 2020 campaign. Biden is a lifelong stutterer, and the effort to keep his words on track means that he operates under an extra burden with every unscripted answer he gives, particularly under pressure (though he had a long, easygoing conversation with Howard Stern a couple of months ago, in which he discusses his stuttering at about the 1:13 mark).

Some speech pathologists have suggested he may (not does, just may) have a disorder that sometimes accompanies stuttering, called cluttering, which is not an intellectual deficiency but a sometimes hectic and disorderly translation of thoughts into words. In recent months, actual gerontologists have said in print that Biden appears to have normal signs of aging, not signs of dementia. Nevertheless, the amateur armchair diagnosticians have been out in packs, and their confidence in their ability to diagnose from watching TV is itself an alarming delusion. I am not giving Biden a clean bill of health; I’m saying that I don’t have a basis to render a verdict (and neither do the august editors of large publications).

Few seem to remember that Biden’s age and his verbal gaffes were an issue in the 2020 campaign

Although the Biden administration seems to have run extremely well for three and a half years, with a strong cabinet, few scandals and little turnover, a thriving economy and some major legislative accomplishments, the narrative the punditocracy has created suggest we should ignore this record and decide on the basis of the 90-minute debate and reference to newly surfaced swarms of anonymous sources that Biden is incompetent. Quite a lot of them have been running magical-realism fantasy-football scenarios in which it is fun and easy to swap in your favorite substitute candidate. The reality is that it is hard and quite likely to be a terrible mess. Nevertheless, this pretense is supposed to mean that telling a presidential candidate in mid-campaign to get lost is fine.

The main argument against Biden is not that he can’t govern – that would be hard to make given that he seems to have done so for the past years – but that he can’t win the election. But candidates do not win elections by themselves. Elections are won, to state the obvious, by how the electorate turns out and votes. The electorate votes based on how they understand the situation and evaluate the candidates. That is, of course, in large part shaped by the media, as Hannah-Jones points out, and the media is right now campaigning hard for a Democratic party loss. The other term for that is a Republican victory. Few things have terrified and horrified me the way this does.

Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell’s Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunatabua of the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

#Rebecca Solnit #Joe Biden #election 2024

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azuremallone · 7 months ago

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Azure's Corner

Or Why do I even fucking bother?

You'll note that on the leftist side of the news, there are articles blaring "Trump-ets" that Biden is changing the Constitution to add term limits and major sweeping changes to the Supreme Court.

Don't fucking buy into it.

It's a red flag psi-op. There's nothing being changed, and his calling for it doesn't mean it's going to happen, especially with what little time he has left in office. Nothing's going to happen. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Absolutely nothing.

Why?

To change the Constitution, you need to do the following:

Proposal:

By Congress: An amendment can be proposed by a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

By Constitutional Convention: Alternatively, two-thirds of state legislatures can call for a constitutional convention to propose amendments. This method has never been used.

Notification:

Once an amendment is proposed, the Archivist of the United States sends the proposed amendment to the governors of each state.

FAT CHANCE: There are 27 Republican Governors and 23 Democrat Governors.

Ratification:

The proposed amendment must be ratified by three-fourths (38 out of 50) of the state legislatures or by conventions in three-fourths of the states, as determined by Congress.

FAT CHANCE: There are 29 Republican Legislatures and 20 Democrat Legislatures. Of which, there are only TWO states where the Senate could be overridden by their Democrat Houses, which can still be vetoed by their Republican Governor.

Certification:

Once the necessary number of states ratify the amendment, the Archivist certifies it as part of the Constitution.

This means the Left is running a distraction to get everyone's eyes and minds focused elsewhere, off the important news and topics like:

Turkey threatening to attack Israel

The Bullshit Olympics (Kamala Harris's Federal violation of Election Campaign Contributions [A FEDERAL FELONY!])

Kamala's VP pick backing out and saying, "Nope."

Epstein's Client List

The Palestinian Sympathizers who stormed the Capitol building and held Senators hostage not being called an attempted coup or rebellion, an uprising, or even anything close to what they called January 6th

The silent editing on old news stories to change the wording they used then around what they called January 6th to sound more like a protest...

The attempted assassination of President Trump

The capture and identification of Palestinian Terrorists crossing the border illegally

The hundreds of thousands of migrants about to attempt to invade the United States illegally

The intentional Hezbollah murder of 12 children at a soccer game in Israel

Need I go on?

Don't be fooled or GET SCHOOLED!

#just azure things #just azzy things #wicked bitch of the midwest #what the hell is wrong with you #you got some wicked tastes girl #dankmark #dank #Azure's Corner

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rauthschild · 1 month ago

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"Francis Fukuyama: we are entering a new, dangerous period of history." Fukuyama has changed his mind, the end of history is not imminent - instead, he has heaped on new prophecies that the West is in for a host of problems.

"Expect general destabilization. Trump's rule will give confidence to populist parties, especially in France and Germany. We are already seeing defections in Eastern Europe: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fitzo is already in Putin's camp. I fear this phenomenon will intensify. There are geopolitical implications as well.

✔️ I am struck by what has happened recently. Trump has suddenly started calling for US expansionism. He has announced the takeover of Greenland, the Panama Canal and even Canada. Probably two-thirds of these can be considered fantasies that will never come true. But they still have a major impact on international relations.

✔️ One of the basic rules of the old system was that you can't just take away someone else's territory. That's why the attack on Ukraine in 2022 was such a shock. And now the US is saying "we want this or that territory and we can use military force" . This completely undermines the arguments we make against Putin. And Putin is taking advantage of that. He has suggested that Russia and the US should divide Greenland between them because no one cares about borders and sovereignty anymore.

✔️ Let's think about China. Their claim to Taiwan is certainly stronger than America's claim to Greenland. If the Chinese decide that the American president agrees that great powers militarily intimidate smaller countries, why not try to get Taiwan back? I think we are indeed entering a dangerous period.

✔️ The war in Ukraine is entering its fourth year. And it doesn't look good for the Ukrainians. Let's see what kind of deal Trump will make , and whether he will negotiate at all.

✔️ The US will surely be less reliable than before. Never before have we had a president who questioned the need for NATO. However, I think that in a practical sense Trump will have trouble implementing this idea. There is one thing he definitely doesn't want - a bad image. That's why Trump won't give up on Ukraine right away. He will approach big changes, such as cutting off aid to Ukraine, slowly. But that doesn't change the fact that he has already weakened NATO.

✔️ A common problem in the U.S. and Europe is that the rules provide for lengthy and expensive legal procedures to determine whether a person is eligible for asylum. In practice, such proceedings are impossible for large numbers of people. Migrants have realized that it is sufficient to request refugee status and thus trigger procedures that provide them with legal protection.

✔️ The idea that Europe can create a separate military entity without the US doesn't make sense. I don't think it's possible.

✔️ I think in 2016 Trump didn't believe he was going to win, and when he took office he didn't have people ready. He had to rely on the party. For the first 3 years he was very unhappy with his cabinet that was disloyal to him. It was only in the fourth year of his term that he started to allocate his people. This time, the most important criteria for nominations will be loyalty to Donald Trump. His candidates so far are already showing how radical he will be.

✔️ Musk is like an unguided missile that sows destruction wherever it appears. And at the same time, his character makes a pretty strong argument that democracies should not allow anyone to accumulate so much money. Billionaires used to be businessmen. Now this guy wants to rule the world. I don't know what he's going to do. Obviously, Musk is already breaking away from Trump himself and his hard-line supporters."

#blacklivesmatter #blackvotersmatters #donald trump #joe biden #naacp #blackmediamatters #blackvotersmatter #news #ados #youtube

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