"Trump 47 isn’t a sequel.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Trump 47 isn’t a sequel. It’s a series finale."

~ Greg Olear

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/1

Make Ableism Great Again

Trump 47 isn’t a sequel. It’s a series finale.

(gregolear.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"And just like that, Donald Trump broke the federal government."

~ Franklin Foer

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/2

Why the Gaetz Announcement Is Already Destroying the Government

With his Cabinet picks, Donald Trump is causing a civil-service exodus that may hobble federal infrastructure for generations.

The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Trump moves to burn down the rule of law. His cabinet nominations are obscene and augur dark days to come."

~ Lisa Needham

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/3

Trump moves to burn down the rule of law

His cabinet nominations are obscene and augur dark days to come.

(www.publicnotice.co)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Ultimately, this is not about building the future, but about ripping apart the world most Americans count on for safety and security."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/4

Let Us Not Be Surprised

We should have expected Trump to make clownish picks—even for Defense, Justice and Intelligence—driven by fealty. Are there enough sane senators to stop him from dismantling the government?

(www.americaamerica.news)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Trump will use the next 4 years to dismantle democracy, just like Erdogan did in Turkey, and Orban did in Hungary."

~ Oliver Markus Malloy

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/5

Winter is coming: We're witnessing the end of democracy.

I know this is not what you want to hear, but it's what you need to hear. You can't win a war, if you don't even know you're in a war.

(badchoicesmakegoodstories.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Less than 10 days from having been elected to return to the White House, Donald Trump has made it clear that he wants to hobble, if not destroy, significant parts of the federal government.

That could cause widespread harm. That, in turn, could lead Trump to seek to use those harms that he causes as excuses to invoke emergency powers — granting even more authority to himself and his cronies. It only gets darker from there."

~ Chris Geidner

#Trump #fascism
/6

Trump wants his criminal lawyers at DOJ, RFK Jr. at HHS, and no one holding him back

Republican senators are going to have to think hard about their role.

(www.lawdork.com)

[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!