#politicsofdestruction — Public Fediverse posts

The decline of literacy can be attributed to the time spent by society, notably kids, spend on social media on the phones. Instead of getting educated on health issues, environmental issues, scientific developments and humanitarian issues etc., they get get hung up on useless worthless trends which do not contribute to the making of a life-saving human being. #literacy #socialmedia2026 #politicsofdestruction

"I remember thinking when I saw the footage of the workers chiseling the name of the headquarters of USAID from its building that this was a terrible omen. It predicted something frightening: a Donald Trump unleashed from law and order and norms."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #USAID #PoliticsofChaos #PoliticsofDestruction #norms #Constitution #ethics #immunity #SupremeCourt #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-nation-not-of-laws-not-of-men-but

How #ElonMusk and his hostile takeover of #USPolitics and government could end very badly. “…Allison Stanger, a distinguished endowed professor of politics at Middlebury, lays it out clearly: Putting an unelected corporate executive with massive conflicts of interest in control of key parts of the U.S. government is more than just a move to enact President Donald Trump’s policy agenda.
Couched in language about reducing waste and improving efficiency are worrying moves potentially giving Musk personal control over Americans’ private data, financial well-being and ability to limit government power.
Stanger warns, “The question facing Americans, therefore, isn’t whether government needs modernization – it’s whether they’re willing to sacrifice democracy in pursuit of Musk’s version of efficiency.” #democracy #politics #PoliticsOfDestruction #coup #AmericanCoup

https://theconversation.com/efficiency-or-empire-how-elon-musks-hostile-takeover-could-end-government-as-we-know-it-249262

“It is no accident that those who seek to seize this country for their greed and self-interest are targeting segments of society where people are often motivated to work for the common good—government, education, science, medicine, public health, the arts, social activism, community groups, immigrants, and many others.”

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Musk #Trump #PoliticsofDestruction #FederalGovernment #research #healthcare #education

https://open.substack.com/pub/elliotkirschner/p/grasping-for-equilibrium?r=2xjx0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

“The U.S. Forest Service will fire roughly 3,400 federal employees across every level of the agency beginning Thursday, according to two people familiar with the plans.”

~Marcia Brown, Jordan Wolman

#Musk #Trump #Republicans #cruelty #FederalGovernment #billionaires #PoliticsofDestruction #jobs #family #economy #housing #food #healthcare #TaxCutsforRich

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/13/forest-services-fires-3400-employees-00204213

Every single person now suddenly losing a job because of what YOU have chosen in the name of an "ethic of life" has some kind of commitments to others, in most cases, a family, and now has to worry about food, housing, bills, healthcare for others, too.

#Musk #Trump #cruelty #destruction
#WhiteChristians #Republicans #cruelty #FederalGovernment #billionaires #PoliticsofDestruction #jobs #family #economy #housing #food #healthcare #TaxCutsforRich
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Every single person now suddenly losing a job because of what YOU have chosen in the name of an "ethic of life" suddenly has to think about how to put food on the table, pay for housing, pay bills, get healthcare, etc.

#Musk #Trump #cruelty #destruction
#WhiteChristians #Republicans #cruelty #FederalGovernment #billionaires #PoliticsofDestruction #jobs #family #economy #housing #food #healthcare #TaxCutsforRich
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To the white Christians who chose all of what's happening now, including massive loss of jobs, in the name of a — my God! — "pro-life" ethic:

Every single person now suddenly losing a job because of what YOU have chosen in the name of an "ethic of life" is a human being with a human life.

#Musk #Trump #cruelty #destruction
#WhiteChristians #Republicans #cruelty #FederalGovernment #billionaires #PoliticsofDestruction #jobs #family #economy #housing #food #healthcare #TaxCutsforRich
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"We've got many more [massive cuts] to come, like Social Security. We have many more to come, like the Department of Education."

~ Ralph Norman

Have to find a way to pay, after all, for those massive tax cuts coming down the line for the filthy rich.

#Musk #Trump #Republicans #cruelty #FederalGovernment #billionaires #PoliticsofDestruction #jobs #family #economy #housing #food #healthcare #TaxCutsforRich
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https://www.alternet.org/gop-lawmaker-social-security/

"The Department of Veterans Affairs announced major layoffs on Thursday."

~ Naomi LaChance

Have to find a way to pay, after all, for those massive tax cuts coming down the line for the filthy rich.

#Musk #Trump #Republicans #cruelty #FederalGovernment #billionaires #PoliticsofDestruction #jobs #family #economy #housing #food #healthcare #TaxCutsforRich
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https://www.alternet.org/veterans-trump-doge/

"As you read this, thousands and thousands of federal employees are being fired."

~ Daily Kos

200,000 federal workers have been fired this week.

#Musk #Trump #Republicans #cruelty #FederalGovernment #billionaires #PoliticsofDestruction #jobs #family #economy #housing #food #healthcare #TaxCutsforRich
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/13/2303622/-Worst-than-the-Saturday-Night-Massacre-Thousands-of-federal-employees-fired-today-and-tomorrow

"As planes crash, the price of eggs skyrockets with no plans to address bird flu, NIH prepares to shut down funding for cancer treatment, and the WH prepares to defy the courts, it’s comforting to know that President Musk has it all under control."

~ Greg Dworkin

#Musk #Trump #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction #healthcare #cancer #NIH #eggs #BirdFlu #AirSafety #AirTravel
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/10/2302629/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-FAFO-continues-apace

"Thanks to Elon and his goons, attempting to take apart the Federal government piece by piece, we’re all about to get educated about what the Federal government does and how it impacts everything from healthcare to public education."

~ Melissa Ryan

#Musk #Trump #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction #healthcare #education
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https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/elons-smash-and-grab

"While Trump and his henchmen deconstruct the administrative state, his lawyers are embracing the logic of dictatorship. The core argument emerging in their legal filings and executive orders — one without support anywhere in the Constitution or the law — is that simply by being elected, Trump has the power to do whatever he wants."

~ Lisa Needham

#Musk #Trump #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-article-2-dictator-logic

“'I have lived through a dictatorship before,' said another. 'I know what these look like, and the writing is on the wall for me.'”

~ USAID worker quoted by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy

#Musk #Trump #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-trump-musk-destruction-may-have-broken-law

"Calling what’s happening a constitutional crisis 'does not even begin to capture the radicalism of what is unfolding in the federal bureaucracy.'”

~ Margaret Sullivan quoting Jamelle Bouie

#Musk #Trump #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/we-need-righteous-indignation-not

"Over the weekend, Musk and JD Vance each posted statements asserting that the president should or could defy court orders. A Harvard law professor joined the conversation by endorsing the notion that judicial restraints on the president violate the separation of powers doctrine."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Musk #Trump #Vance #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/we-are-not-sheep-get-louder-take

"On Sunday, Vice President JD Vance declared that 'judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.'”

~ Robert Reich

#Musk #Trump #Vance #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-to-do-about-a-lawless-president

"The constitutional crisis took several giant steps forward over the weekend as the Trump administration crossed into more or less open defiance of federal court orders."

~ Liz Dye

#Musk #Trump #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/maga-flips-off-judges-as-doj-argues

"Trump, the convicted felon, proves each day that he is unfit for the high office he holds. He aims to destroy the fundamentals of American democracy: the separation of powers, civil and voting rights, secularism, free speech and equality under the law. He is a menace to global peace, stability and prosperity."

#Trump #authoritarianism #PoliticsofDestruction #cruelty #RuleofLaw
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"The ethos of destruction can cause relatively little collateral damage if all you’re destroying is a company. But when you’re destroying the government, the effect on the lives of Americans, and even many people in other countries, will be sweeping and profound. Livelihoods will be ruined, communities will suffer, lives will literally be lost, all on a potentially huge scale."

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #Musk #DOGE #chaos #PoliticsofChaos #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/appetite-for-destruction

"These changes hurt the information ecosystem just as much as any threat against a news outlet. An analysis by the NYT found thousands of deleted web pages affecting info about 'vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes and scientific research, among many other topics.'"

#Trump #Republicans #CDC #EPA #ClimateChange #diversity #DEI #ScientificExpertise #healthcare #research #PoliticsofDestruction #PoliticsofChaos #vaccines #veterans #HateCrimes
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"The Atlantic: 'CDC data are disappearing.' NBC: 'Government webpages vanish.' AP: 'Federal agencies begin removing DEI guidance from websites.' NPR: 'Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies.' The Lever: 'Trump’s EPA just deleted climate change.'"

~ Brian Stelter

#Trump #Republicans #CDC #EPA #ClimateChange #diversity #DEI #ScientificExpertise #healthcare #research #PoliticsofDestruction #PoliticsofChaos
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https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1738591916854a25cd9c519ad/raw

"Pay attention. Watch it unfold. Protest where you can. Direct your energy toward helping those harmed by this administration’s actions. Declare loudly and often who’s to blame. Connect the dots, over and over again, for people who stubbornly refuse to engage in dot-connecting."

~ Rex Huppke

#Musk #Trump #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #PoliticsofDestruction #resistance

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/02/groundhog-day-trump/78024144007/

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/04/25/all-the-kings-horses/

This is a real cri de cœur - from the heart and the soul. #EssentialReading whatever your country - because the same kind of thing is happening all over the world.

The #proud and the #cruel are taking over.

#ScottishIndependenceNow
#politicsofdestruction

"Governing is complicated, messy, and (sometimes) difficult to explain. Spreading falsehoods is simple and lazy.

Still, the media can no longer ignore the GOP trainwreck in Congress and Trump's struggles in the courtroom and on the campaign trail. Nor can the media ignore that President Biden will once again achieve his legislative agenda after months of effort."

#Biden #Republicans #MAGA #extremism #PoliticsofTheater #PoliticsofChaos #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofDestruction
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"There is a growing sense of two competing political universes in America. President Biden and the Democrats are doing the hard work of governing the country while Trump and MAGA extremists are play-acting in the pretend world of performative politics.

Governing is hard. Stoking outrage with lies is easy."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Biden #Republicans #MAGA #extremism #PoliticsofTheater #PoliticsofChaos #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/sanity-prevails-in-the-senate

What drives Trump supporters, John Pavolvitz asks? His answer: spite:

"MAGA voters would rather give a strident middle finger to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton even at the expense of the air their kids breathe and the schools they attend."

They're happy to tear it all up — for themselves and their own children — as long as they feel they're owning the libs.

#Trump #Republicans #PoliticsofDestruction #PoliticsofChaos

https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/destroying-america-to-own-the-libs

"In Republican hands, this is also the least productive House congressional session in a generation."

~ Jay Kuo

#Republicans #House #PoliticsofChaos #PoliticsofDestruction #PoliticsofTheater #obstruction #NoAdultsinRoom

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/biden-2024-truman-1948-inflation

"The attempt of a Republican minority to impose its will on the majority of Americans appears to be sparking a backlash. In today’s election in New York’s Third Congressional District to replace indicted serial liar George Santos, a loyal Trump Republican, voters chose Democrat Tom Suozzi by about 8 points."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Republicans #NewYork #Santos #Suozzi #border #immigration #NATO #Ukraine #PoliticsofChaos #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-13-2024

"The Trump wing of the Republican Party isn’t interested in policy—it’s interested in sending signals. The MAGA crowd would rather impeach Mayorkas, even if they know he won’t be convicted and it won’t change anything, than enact a law that actually affects the border. The point is expression, not legislation."

~ David A. Graham

The Republican party IS the Trump wing.

#Trump #Republicans #border #impeachment #PoliticsofChaos #PoliticsofTheater #PoliticsofDestruction

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/trump-republican-national-convention-chaos-2024/677375/

"even when that posture consistently leads to outcomes farther from this hard-right group’s stated goals, since they completely remove themselves from the negotiating table. …

For a party so lacking a coherent worldview, where doling out losses and humiliations and bending the knee to Trump are the only guiding stars, it’s no wonder that basic governing has become impossible."

#Republicans #ChaosAgents #PoliticsofDestruction #CrueltyIsthePoint
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"We now have a Republican Party where power, divorced of any cogent, animating policy aims, is king. Spectacle, muscle flexing, reflexive opposition and, most importantly, owning the libs, is the currency of the realm. That dynamic not only allows for no compromise, but makes compromise with Democrats a capital crime —" (continued in /2)

~ Kate Riga

#Republicans #ChaosAgents #PoliticsofDestruction #CrueltyIsthePoint
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republicans-break-legislature-johnson-speaker

"The storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, which sent Graham and his peers of both parties running for their lives, was a revolutionary act that declared nothing to be off limits to the pursuit of power."

#Trump #authoritarianism #strongman #amorality #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction
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"This is the fourth time the extremists have defeated special rules in the House this year, and as deputy chief of staff for Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) Aaron Fritschner pointed out, their doing so is highly unusual. In the previous 20 years the House voted down no such measures at all.

Although they were in the middle of a 17-vote series, the Republicans then recessed the House until after Thanksgiving."

#Republicans #extremism #PoliticsofDestruction #chaos #ChaosAgents #Trump
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"Extremist Republicans today shut down House business by refusing to pass a procedural vote to take up a spending bill, as they had threatened to do in retaliation for the passage yesterday of the continuing resolution to fund the government into the new year."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Republicans #extremism #PoliticsofDestruction #chaos #ChaosAgents #Trump
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-15-2023

"Anyone who doesn’t yet realize Trump would, quite literally, burn the country down to save his business and spare himself prison isn’t reading the room. And we enter dangerous terrain with Don Jr. testifying this Wednesday, Eric scheduled for Thursday, and Ivanka on Friday."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #Republicans #democracy #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #PoliticsofDestruction

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-8e4

"Even as Americans watch as the mean-spirited, violence-threatening, authoritarian face of the GOP rears itself, they are being taught a valuable lesson that would never have occurred had Democrats simply done the 'nice' thing—the “expected” thing—as they nearly always do, in keeping Rep. Kevin McCarthy afloat."

~ Dartagnan

#Republicans #McCarthy #RepublicansinDisarray #chaos #ChaosAgents #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/18/2200161/-The-American-public-needs-to-take-a-good-look-right-now-at-the-Republican-chaos-in-the-House

"Not for the first time, we must observe that among the many things the Framers could not have foreseen is the state of today’s Republican Party: devoid of any respect for institutions and hell-bent on writing blank checks to the biggest extremists in its midst. That the GOP has made a farce of such a basic task as electing a leader should really come as no surprise to anyone."

~ Jason Linkins

#Republicans #chaos #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://us13.campaign-archive.com/?e=3b92356f5b&u=50c0086c172f8ed1f515abcb1&id=2192ebee60

"McCarthy thought he could harness forces of disruption. Instead they devoured him.

As far back as 2009, the future House speaker tried to channel the anti-politician, tea-party wave building into a political force, but the movement crushed him."

~ Paul Kane

Destroying is what destroyers do. Unleash those energies, and there's no controlling them.

#McCarthy #Republicans #PoliticsofDestruction #chaos #ChaosAgents

https://wapo.st/46m7V0K

"We wake up today to a Republican Party in disarray, bitterly divided, at war with itself, and seemingly shocked that nurturing and appeasing its lunatic fringe could end this badly.

If only they had been warned."

~ Charlie Sykes

#McCarthy #Republicans #CultureWars #ClownShow #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-fall-of-kevin-mccarthy