"Trump 47 isn’t a sequel.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"This newsletter is for all Americans, but especially those 75 million of you who didn’t vote for Donald Trump because you knew, or at least suspected, his fully authoritarian bent would reveal itself sooner rather than later.

Welcome to sooner."

~ Dan Rather

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/7

Wait. Who? For What?

Trump’s Cabinet nominees may be the most unqualified in history

(steady.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"This is a story about government corruption. ...

Corruption is going to be one of the most important themes of the next four years. Trump has been unleashed to grab every dollar he can for himself, and use the power of the government to enrich a parade of America’s worst people…."

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/8

Trump and Musk's Department of Government Corruption

Anyone who thinks this is about "efficiency" is being conned.

(paulwaldman.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Trump’s team apparently hopes that a pliant Supreme Court will declare the 1974 Impoundment Control Act unconstitutional, permitting Trump—or Vice President J.D. Vance, should Trump not be able to fulfill his term—to shape the government without consulting Congress.

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/9

November 14, 2024

Two snapshots today illustrate the difference between the economic—and therefore the societal—visions of the Biden-Harris administration and of the incoming Trump administration.

(heathercoxrichardson.substack.com)

[wood5y@mastodonapp.uk]

@wdlindsy What is a state run by a bunch of asset strippers and malicious incompetents - a klepto-kakistocracy?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"[RFKJr] will destroy our public health infrastructure and our vaccine distribution systems. This is going to cost lives.”

~ Robert Garcia quoted by Maya Yang

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/10

RFK Jr condemned as ‘clear and present danger’ after Trump nomination

Nominee for health secretary decried as ‘vaccine denier and tin foil hat conspiracy theorist … this is going to cost lives’

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"If Trump aims to turn America into a police state, these are the officials he will utilize. After only 10 days as president-elect, he appears to be on his way."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/11

Total control

If Trump aims to turn America into a police state, these are the officials he will utilize. After only 10 days as president-elect, he appears to be on his way.

(robertreich.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Trump wants to use the military against the American people. Do you trust that Pete Hegseth wouldn’t obey an unlawful order?"

~ Evan Hurst

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/12

Pete Hegseth Is Trump's Choice For Siccing The Military On 'The Enemy Within' (AKA Americans)

You didn't think it was about his brains, did you?

(evanhurst.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"A new Trump regime would also operate under conditions that are vastly more favorable to its political cause. Almost all the factors that inhibited the extreme Right during the first Trump presidency are no longer present; all the guardrails that kept Trump and the more extreme rightwing factions in check after 2017 have been vastly weakened or destroyed entirely."

~ Thomas Zimmer

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/13

Why the Second Trump Regime Will Be Far More Dangerous

This will be a much more radical regime – and it will operate under conditions that are vastly more favorable to its extremist cause

(thomaszimmer.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Donald Trump's MAGA fascism has clearly been embraced by a majority of Americans who voted. ...

Let's be honest and admit that things are going to get worse."

~ Wendell Griffen

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/14

THINKING ABOUT THE 2024 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FROM FARMING AND DISEASE PERSPECTIVES

The 2024 U.S. presidential election result is being analyzed by pundits, commentators, journalists, and historians as has been done followin...

(fierceprohetichope.blogspot.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

And there's this, which is absolutely not disconnected from all the things mentioned in the thread above:

"The price of bitcoin hit an all-time high of more than $93,000 yesterday."

~ Lora Kelley

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/15

What Crypto Wants From Trump

With a crypto-friendly president-elect and a Congress stacked with crypto supporters, the industry is getting closer to its ultimate goals.

The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)

[bouriquet@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy They already suspected Trump of violating the ICA in 2019. But how could SCOTUS declare ICA unconstitutional when it supports separation of powers? The President still can veto a funding bill for the budget, but fortunately does not have line item veto.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@bouriquet I fear we've seen that SCOTUS will do anything it wishes — this SCOTUS — without any regard for precedent or even basic human decency.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@wood5y A good term for it.

[wood5y@mastodonapp.uk]

@wdlindsy Thank'ee kindly!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"These appointments remind us that 'Make America Great Again' is actually a crusade on an unprecedented scale to take down America, weakening the country both domestically and internationally."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/16

Trump's Cabinet Nominations: Welcome to the Upside-Down World of Authoritarianism

And Strongmen becomes a New York Times bestseller!

(lucid.substack.com)

[timo21@mastodon.sdf.org]

@wdlindsy I'm expecting for the North Korean bases set up in the USA, like in the remake of the movie 'Red Dawn"

[greengordon@spore.social]

@wdlindsy

"Make no mistake. MAGA fascism will not go away on its own. White supremacy, racism, patriarchy, sexism, xenophobia, and free market fundamentalist capitalism have been part of the U.S. political environment across the history of the republic, but have never been unopposed. In the same way that brave and strong-minded people challenged those forces in the past, brave and strong-minded people must challenge them during Trump's next term of office."

[greengordon@spore.social]

@wdlindsy

I wish I did not agree with everything that article said.

"when Orange Hitler seizes power in January, he’s gonna try to instigate a civil war with tyrannical policies that target immigrants, minorities, and Democrats.

"If Democrats try to defend themselves, we also get a civil war. But then we’ll be in a much weaker position...

"Either way, Putin wins and gets exactly what he wants: the US will destroy itself from within.”

#uspol

[cassandravert@indieweb.social]

@wdlindsy
Just like last time but more so.

[helderweb@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy I am in full withdrawal of news, cable, CSPAN....even my favorite podcasts and YouTube programs.

I took time to read this article about the horrific choices of celebrities to lead important federal agencies.

Thank you for helping me get back to public discourse...it will take some more time.

Really America...a convicted rapist?