#destructiveness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #destructiveness, aggregated by home.social.
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"For Israel, War Is the Only Answer":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/opinion/international-world/israel-war-strategy.html
"War is increasingly the Israel’s go-to response to geopolitical challenges — not just the strategy but the norm."
#HumanRights versus #Israel #recklessness #destructiveness -
On Sunday, '60 Minutes' interviewed three Catholic Cardinals who were appropriately critical of the wars and behavior of Donald Trump.
One Cardinal said: "We are seeing the possibility of war after war after war" started by Donald Trump.
Trump ordered military attacks against Iran, then Venezuela, now Iran again, and in the near future maybe against Greenland and Cuba.
#Trump is in a #WorldWarAgainstTheWorld. #politics #military.
#recklessness #destructiveness #extremism #incompetence. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom, about Donald Trump: "It is a disgrace what he’s doing in Minneapolis. It is a disgrace what he’s doing all across America. It is a disgrace what the Department of Homeland Security is posting. It is a disgrace the white supremacy and grift the Trump Administration is promoting. None of this can be normalized — he is terrorizing communities."
#extremism #destructiveness copy: @renewedresistance #politics -
This extreme injustice is one more way that Donald Trump is the #WorstPresidentEver:
"The Trump administration plans to freeze $10 billion in funding for child care subsidies, social services and cash support for low-income families in five states controlled by Democrats, claiming widespread fraud throughout those states":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/us/politics/child-care-funding-cuts-trump.html
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #cruelty #destructiveness -
Elon Musk wrote: "It is heartwarming to see so many Venezuelans celebrating their country freed from a brutal tyrant."
Musk's comment is misleading because it implies that Musk has a heart. The Elon Musk who took a chainsaw to destroy the careers of so many good people in government appeared to be heartless.
Also, most of the same people who were running Venezuela before Trump's attack are still running Venezuela, so Venezuela is not free.
#values #destructiveness #politics -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/115828096734264521
Dennis Hogan: "It is hard to imagine something more anti-kid, anti-family, and anti-worker than this. Not to mention anti-economy, since childcare subsidizes parental participation in the workforce. It is just an all around horrific decision, seemingly calculated to push people into desperation."
#Trump #destructiveness #cruelty #greed #economy -
Trump Administration did a lot of damage,
but they did it less competently than feared,
and it will have less durability,
according to Tom Nichols.
#politics #history #destructiveness -
In one of the examples described here, "The Department of Homeland Security informed a Santa Rosa-based nonprofit that it should end all of its work funded by the grant — helping legal immigrants navigate the complex pathway to American citizenship — by the end of the day, because it no longer aligned with the department’s priorities. More than $300,000 in remaining funding was terminated":
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/doge-program-nonprofit-government-21208289.php
#DOGE #destructiveness #racism #politics -
"A task force formed by Pres. Trump to consider changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency has recommended that it should not be abolished ... a position that conflicts with Mr. Trump’s earlier assertion that the agency should go away”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/climate/fema-review-council-report-trump.html
#Trump #incompetence #destructiveness #disasters #politics -
Joyce Vance: "Last week, Donald Trump demolished the East Wing of the White House, scarring The People’s House. The East Wing was the location where people from all over the world entered for public tours of the White House. Donald Trump has put an end to that. All tours have been suspended indefinitely. Americans need food on their tables and affordable medical care. Instead, they will get a gilded ballroom for the ultra-wealthy."
#Trump #destructiveness #politics copy: @renewedresistance -
Sen. Rand Paul said: "China is not buying any of our soybeans this year. The tariff war with China has led to this. And Republican senators don't have the guts to say this because it's their president. And frankly they are afraid. They are afraid that he will do to them what he's trying to do to me. That's too bad. It'd be easier if there were other people willing to stand up and oppose bad policy."
#Trump #destructiveness #mismanagement #politics -
Stuart Stevens: "I someone wants to make the case that Donald Trump is not systematically attacking every element of successful American civil society, have at it. I’d like to hear your argument. The 'why' doesn’t really matter. It’s what he and the Republican Party are doing that matters."
#destructiveness #sabotage #Trump #WorstPresidentEver #politics -
Jesse Lee: "It’s kind of absurd to talk about solutions for political violence while Trump is arbitrarily choosing which 'Democrat-run city' he is going to deploy the military into against their will."
#incompetence #destructiveness #Trump #WorstPresidentEver #politics -
"The Trump administration clearly embraced the strategic cultivation of uncertainty and ignorance ... It is turning away from the government’s responsibilities as a steward of information by minimizing, cherry-picking, misusing, and sometimes even destroying data":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/opinion/trump-facts-statistics-data.html
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #destructiveness #mismanagement #politics -
The Supreme Court's majority has "effectively greenlighted Pres. Trump’s explosive and law-busting agenda ... Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is being accused of betraying the very legal edifice he is supposed to protect":
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/justice-john-roberts-supreme-court
Recent Supreme Court decisions "have the potential to cause untold suffering to millions of people targeted by Trump."
#injustice #destructiveness #cruelty #politics copy: @renewedresistance -
"Trump cuts questioned as role of #FEMA in Texas highlights agency’s importance in natural disaster response":
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/12/fema-natural-disasters-eroded-capacity
#TexasFlood #TrumpMakesProblemsWorse #destructiveness #politics -
"Trump cuts questioned as role of #FEMA in Texas highlights agency’s importance in natural disaster response":
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/12/fema-natural-disasters-eroded-capacity
#TexasFlood #TrumpMakesProblemsWorse #destructiveness #politics -
"Trump cuts questioned as role of #FEMA in Texas highlights agency’s importance in natural disaster response":
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/12/fema-natural-disasters-eroded-capacity
#TexasFlood #TrumpMakesProblemsWorse #destructiveness #politics -
"Trump cuts questioned as role of #FEMA in Texas highlights agency’s importance in natural disaster response":
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/12/fema-natural-disasters-eroded-capacity
#TexasFlood #TrumpMakesProblemsWorse #destructiveness #politics -
A "Supreme Court decision paves the way for the Department of Transportation to terminate the 700 workers it had sought to let go in February — but problems with air traffic control this year, including a midair collision between a helicopter and a passenger jet that killed 67 people near Washington, could affect the calculus." Here is how different federal agencies will be affected:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/federal-workers-supreme-court-doge-musk-layoffs-00445234 #Trump #incompetence #greed #destructiveness #politics -
It takes a special type of MAGA stupidity to see the loss of life from recent flooding in Texas and then to reject the good idea of rehiring federal workers to increase the effectiveness of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Weather Service.
#FEMA #NWS #DOGE #destructiveness #Trump #greed #politics -
A quotation from Abraham Lincoln
Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? And when such an one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.
Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm, yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1838-01-27), “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions,” Young Men’s Lyceum, Springfield, IllinoisSourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7732…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #abrahamlincolnquotes #ambition #autocrat #demagogue #despot #destructiveness #menace #teardown #tyrant
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A quotation from Abraham Lincoln
Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? And when such an one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.
Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm, yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1838-01-27), “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions,” Young Men’s Lyceum, Springfield, IllinoisSourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7732…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #abrahamlincolnquotes #ambition #autocrat #demagogue #despot #destructiveness #menace #teardown #tyrant
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A quotation from Abraham Lincoln
Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? And when such an one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.
Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm, yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1838-01-27), “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions,” Young Men’s Lyceum, Springfield, IllinoisSourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7732…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #abrahamlincolnquotes #ambition #autocrat #demagogue #despot #destructiveness #menace #teardown #tyrant
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"The technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency who’s gone by the name 'Big Balls' online, has resigned":
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-coristine-doge-resigned-us-government/
#DOGE #destructiveness #politics -
"The Waste Musk (and Trump) Created": In a warehouse in Africa "are boxes piled high with millions of doses of medicines donated pharmaceutical companies for a #USAID program. Yet the medications are gathering dust, and some are approaching their expiration dates and may have to be destroyed, at immense expense ... Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/waste-musk-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.MFa8.D83Zs5aWzLWg&smid=url-share
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David Bier, about Trump's attacks on Harvard University: "This will cause damage to America's reputation that will take a generation to recover from. America's universities are the best in the world, in large part because it can get the best talent in the world. This is lawless, malevolent, and self-sabotage."
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #revenge #destructiveness #politics -
"Donald Trump’s bid to gut the top US consumer watchdog* has left the agency unable to protect consumers amid mounting fears of recession":
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/19/trump-consumer-financial-protection-bureau
* The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
#Trump #destructiveness #politics -
"While the United States saved modest sums by allowing little girls to starve, it escalated the Biden bombing campaign in Yemen, striking targets almost every day" and accomplishing nothing:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/opinion/yemen-war-trump.html
#destructiveness #cruelty #Trump #ineffective #politics -
"Two weather service offices were enduring critically reduced staffing levels after meteorologists were fired" by #DOGE. They stopped "producing daily weather forecasts and warnings for life-threatening weather events such as flash floods, wildfires and blizzards." Instead of this, Trump will have more money for tax cuts for billionaires:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/nws-weather-service-noaa-california-staffing-cuts-20329638.php
“Lives can be lost due to degraded services.”
#greed #destructiveness #politics #MakeNaturalDisastersWorseAgain -
"With both Congress and the courts unwilling to provide legal backing, the (Trump) administration is running out of ways to ensure its reductions hold, raising the risk that DOGE’s sweeping disruption may leave little lasting impact":
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/14/trump-impoundment-doge-cuts-congress-00350322
#Trump #destructiveness #politics -
"The World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump. As Pres. Trump guts American research institutions, world leaders see a once-in-a-century brain gain opportunity”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/economy/trump-research-brain-drain.html
How can anyone be so stupid as to think that the way to make America great again is to stop having America's researchers working in the United States?
#MAGA #idiocy #destructiveness #science #politics -
"The hidden ways Trump and DOGE are shutting down parts of the U.S. government. Limits on spending have incapacitated parts of agencies as varied as the National Park Service and the Pentagon":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/11/trump-government-operations-halt-funding-cuts/
#mismanagement #destructiveness #Trump #WorstPresidentEver #politics -
Bruce Bartlett: "What bothers me even more than all the budget cuts imposed by #DOGE is the utterly arbitrary and capricious way it's been done. No analysis, no evaluation, no research, no transparency, just mindless slashing and burning."
#Trump #incompetence #destructiveness #politics -
DOGE "cuts funds that aren’t going to make a dent in the federal budget. But they have also entirely disrupted the way most people think government should work. It’s not a technical victory, but a cultural victory":
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/16/silicon-valley-elon-musk-washington-00204388 #Trump #politics #cruelty #carelessness #malice #destructiveness #LackOfCommonSense -
Why Musk's DOGE process cuts off cancer research, axes genomics departments, and ends AIDS assistance:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/16/silicon-valley-elon-musk-washington-00204388 #Trump #politics #cruelty #carelessness #malice #destructiveness #LackOfCommonSense