"MAGA’s closing pitch to voters: economic pain and health care sorcery

William Lindsey :toad:

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."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/7

William Lindsey :toad:

"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

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/8

Donald Trump’s American Oligarchy

The billionaires are lining up to get their bread buttered.

(www.thebulwark.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"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
/9

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)

William Lindsey :toad:

"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

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/10

I Hate Hate

Sadly, it's on display

(elliotkirschner.substack.com)

DeterioratedStucco

@wdlindsy
The only way this flies, electorally, is if they don't actually care which way people vote.

Ergo, there's a Plan B.

vruz

@wdlindsy

Not completely uncharted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Tyrants

wondrng1

@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.

vruz

@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.

William Lindsey :toad:

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

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/11

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)

William Lindsey :toad:

"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

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/12

Trump's Lawless Crash (video)

Ending the Rule of Law Brings Down the Economy

(snyder.substack.com)

FallsMom 🟦 🤖 🌻🌴🥥

@wdlindsy

So glad I got to see him in person here recently!

William Lindsey :toad:

"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

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/13

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)

William Lindsey :toad:

"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."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/14

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/26/trump-deportation-fail-hurdles/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzI0ODE3NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzI2MTk5OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MjQ4MTc2MDAsImp0aSI6ImUyYzZhMzNjLTMxNjAtNDIzYy1hNDVjLTU3YTIwMDkyNzRkYyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI0LzA4LzI2L3RydW1wLWRlcG9ydGF0aW9uLWZhaWwtaHVyZGxlcy8ifQ.lAjUECc0Lx8uxio8B4LqQkWwuX2TA0PwZr8hw7uF7ek

William Lindsey :toad:

“'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."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/15

William Lindsey :toad:

"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

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/16

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)

MegatronicThronBanks

@wdlindsy Yes the bog-down the attempt would create on Day 1 would wreak widespread destruction throughout the US. Which would be amusing to watch from afar but not to be involved in.

@wdlindsy

He's more likely to just put them on flimsy rafts and push them out into the ocean.

floydgump

@wdlindsy

William Lindsey :toad:

"One of the most frustrating things about U.S. politics is that people who aren’t engaging with it much will look at you like you are some kooky leftist propagandist if you simply outline what the Republican Party is doing wherever it is in charge and explicitly promises to be doing in the future."

~ Thomas Zimmer

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/17

It Could Definitely Happen Here

Many Americans struggle to accept that democracy is young, fragile, and could actually collapse – a lack of imagination that dangerously blunts the response to the Trumpist Right

(thomaszimmer.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"It’s difficult to convey to people how much the GOP has radicalized, how much the power centers of conservative politics are in the hands of extremists, how much the rightwing intellectual sphere is dominated by some really radical ideas that are being pushed into the mainstream."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
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