"MAGA’s closing pitch to voters: economic pain and health care sorcery
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"In the closing days of the election, one party and its leading candidate are promising to inflict economic pain on the electorate; stating that they will turn over the top health agencies to one of the country’s leading vaccine skeptics; and pledging to pursue a disruptive, 'massive reform' to the nation’s healthcare system—historically, the sort of move that has proven extremely unpopular."
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"Elon Musk, Trump’s richest and loudest backer and his 'secretary of cost-cutting'-to-be, has repeatedly suggested that the opening act of a second Trump presidency could be a period of serious economic turbulence. On a call last Friday, he warned that 'some temporary hardship' would be necessary to put America back on a sustainable fiscal course."
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"And on Monday, he replied to an X account predicting 'markets would tumble' thanks to an 'initial severe overreaction in the economy' if Trump followed through on his mass-deportations strategy, before ultimately resulting in 'a healthier, sustainable economy.'
'Sounds about right,' Musk replied."
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"Last night, antivax crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—a man who once said Covid was possibly a bioweapon that had been 'deliberately targeted' to spare Ashkenazi Jews—told a group of supporters on a video call obtained by CNN that Trump had promised him 'control' over America’s public health agencies."
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"'I'm gonna let him go wild on health,' Trump said this week, referring to Kennedy. 'I'm gonna let him go wild on the food. I'm going to let him go wild on medicines.'"
~ Maya Boddie
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Boddie quotes Jake Tapper of CNN:
"Just a reminder, RFK Jr has no medical license, and has made wildly inaccurate claims about all sorts of medicines. Frankly, this is what he said — kind of a deranged remark — about coronavirus."
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"If Trump wins, we’re entering uncharted territory where private actors with vast wealth and power join with a corrupt president to pursue their own ends and not those of the people of the United States. Welcome to oligarchy, American style."
~ Mona Charen
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Donald Trump’s American Oligarchy
The billionaires are lining up to get their bread buttered.
(www.thebulwark.com)
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"Elon Musk could never have got himself elected into office in the US. But as the cost-cutting tsar, a made-up role Trump has promised him, he would exert extraordinary power to cause pain, with the only choice left to citizens being whether or not to hug it."
~ Zoe Williams
#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics – just as academics predicted
Politicians have always courted the wealthy, but Elon Musk and co represent a new kind of donor, and an unprecedented danger to democracy, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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"This campaign is fueled by hate—hate for diversity, for progress, for women, for democracy, for expertise, for facts, for the truth itself. At its center is a pathetic, egotistical would-be dictator, fueled by his own petty, self-serving hatreds."
~ Elliot Kirschner
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@wdlindsy
The only way this flies, electorally, is if they don't actually care which way people vote.Ergo, there's a Plan B.
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@wdlindsy — we’ll be like Putin’s Russia if tfg gets elected. I predict markets will not correct, because dictatorial & oligarchic rule will torpedo investment strategies based on predictable scenarios.
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@wdlindsy I might add that four full years of Trump rule weren't uncharted territory, but a Prologue including the death of one million Americans through neglect and despondency.
And a little bit of hate too.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Jay Kuo says that :Trump wants to destroy our government institutions, and he's recruited just the team to do it."
Kuo provides a list of Trump's proposed wrecking crew, led by Elon Musk and RFK Jr. He concludes,
"Fascism thrives in chaos and misery, and that is what a second Trump term expressly seeks to create."
~ Jay Kuo
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Trump's Wrecking Crew
Donald Trump wants to destroy our government institutions, and he's recruited just the team to do it.
(thinkbigpicture.substack.com)
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"Some people talk about Trump’s economic plans; others about his intention to undo the rule of law. In this five-minute video, I try to explain how the two relate: how lawlessness will wreck the economy."
~ Timothy Snyder
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So glad I got to see him in person here recently!
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"If Trump returns to the White House, his plans for mass deportation would unfold on 'an incomprehensible scale,' as Melissa Gira Grant writes in an excellent essay for The New Republic. Removing 15 million people is equivalent to emptying out the populations of entire countries such as Belgium or Bolivia."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Trump's Mass Deportation Machine in the Making
Trump's migrant detention system while president rehearsed his plans to turn the state into a mass deportation machine on an epic scale
(lucid.substack.com)
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"When the goal is to crash the economy and cause widespread despair and ruin, depriving America of a labor force necessary for our productivity is just part of the plan. Here is the assessment of Washington Post economic columnist Edoardo Porter based on a 'reduced' proposal by Trump to deport 'only' 11 million 'unauthorized immigrants' from the U.S."
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“'By my calculations he will need 58,201 flights in fully loaded Boeing 737-800s to fly them all out' and five large-scale staging grounds the size of Houston, Porter reports, concluding that it is an impossible enterprise and Trump will fail, not before creating immeasurable hardship."
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"It’s easy to look back at the Trump years and declare, “We survived!”—unless you’re one of the thousands of Americans whose death from COVID might have been avoided if not for Trump’s mismanagement, demagoguery, selfishness, penchant for conspiracy theories, and incompetence. There’s no guarantee that any of us, in the next crisis, will be lucky again."
~ Cathy Young
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Trump’s COVID Response: A Preview of Disasters to Come
Based on his past record, Trump should not be anywhere near American government during the next national emergency.
(www.thebulwark.com)
