@xankarn
#USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#Elections2024
Excellent article of yours, Alexander.
"Political fences can be mended, if there is goodwill on both sides. Cultural rifts, on the other hand, can be impossible to bridge. 👉American democracy cannot survive four more years of derisive [#MAGA] laughter at the expense of our unity."👈
I agree very much with your closing statement, and yet, here we are, on the eve of the #NextCivilWar, which become more likely by the week.
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/18/the-corruption-of-maga-comedy/
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#BreakingNews #USpol
#TrumpMuskDuumvirateEnd of the #Bromance?
After the #Wisconsin #SupremeCourt election debacle, wäre #ElonMusk failed to procure the seat for the #MAGA candidate, bis dayy as #DODGE's #ChainsawMan are numbered:
Via #RachelBade @ #Politico:
"Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon
The president is pleased with Elon Musk, but the decision comes as the tech mogul increasingly looks like a political liability.... "https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/02/trump-musk-leaving-political-liability-00265784
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#USpol #Education
Dismantling of #DoEThat is all correct but just scratching the surface. 👉This is no partisan fight anymore. This is an all-out assault on #democracy.
Destroying education for the masses again is the aim👈:2)
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114191854138931406ETA:
The #TrumpMuskDuumvirate is merely bringing to completion #RonaldReagan's, #RichardNixon's, and #SpiroAgnew's brainchild 1) that #RonaldReagan jumpstarted in his 1966 gubernatorial campaign in #California. 2)1):
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I agree with both oft you: the best way to stop RhE #TrumpMuskDuumvirate to hurt all Americans but the #Technofeudalists is to cause them maximum economic pain.
Sanctions, as in the #Kremlin case, would only worsen the #TrumpeanTradeWars.
Most of the Western allies are to weak to stand up to the #OrangePeril by themselves, even the #EU.
The👉 new #Résistance must be organized internationally, like the #MAGA movement👈
What if...
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Yes, the hot phase of the #NextCivilWar might be coming. But it quite likely is not imminent yet.
I'd say, the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate still has to eviscerate #Congress, after having finished off all the federal agencies.
The nightmare is entering a new chapter.
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#UShistory #USpol #Fascism
#TrumpCoup(1/n)
I cannot think of a #Coup in the #History of #Democracies that has ever been so openly discussed before the fact (campaign speeches, #Project2025, etc.,) than the #TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate.
The thing to watch, among all over things, is the traditional #Purge of key #Military positions, which has been ongoing. For those of them that were shocked, they are not much of a loss for the 🇺🇸, as they..
https://www.vox.com/donald-trump/401174/trump-fired-generals
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#TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#Deportation of #German tourist
More than 1m of soletary confinement"Tagelange Einzelhaft
Wie im "Horrorfilm": Berlinerin landet in #US-AbschiebehaftEigentlich wollte sie nur einen Monat in #Kalifornien verbringen – doch dann wurde die Berlinerin #JessicaBrösche an der US-Grenze festgesetzt..
Seit dem 25. Januar sitzt die 29-jährige Berlinerin Jessica Brösche in US-Abschiebehaft an der Grenze zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und Mexiko fest... "
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#UKRpol #WarInUkraine #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#Extortion(2/2)
...after Prohibition.
#Mobsters such as #AlCapone and New York’s Five Families expanded their underworld empires by 👉infiltrating organized labor.👈 Through intimidation and corruption, the mob used the labor unions for everything from 👉extortion, bribery and embezzlement to price-fixing and #kickbacks3)."👈
2)
https://www.history.com/news/how-mafia-infiltrated-american-labor-unions3)Since this week also called #GoldCards
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#UKRpol #WarInUkraine #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#Extortion(1/2)
#tRump and #JDVance are quickly turning the #US Executive Branch into an international #mobster organization.
tRump is extorting arguably the largest sum in protection money ever paid in #history from #UKR.Compare with this story:
"👉How the Mafia Infiltrated American Labor Unions 👈
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#TrumpCoup #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
Well, Philip, I have long been calling for the right measure, the #TarpeianRock punishment for traitors of the Republic.
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111713425850261518
Alas, no-one listened to me and now, America's biggest enemies can probably be heard laughing on Mars, while its erstwhile allies are crying out in pain.
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@cdarwin
#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate #Fascism
#NationalArchivePS
I'm aware that #the #NationalArchives are neither the #InternetArchive,nor #Wikipedia , but #Longtermist #ElonMusk is already coming for them, too:https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/
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@cdarwin
#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate #Fascism"👉#NationalArchives Head Resigns as Trump Takes Control of Records👈
Sources name conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt
+ far-right journalist John Solomon as potential replacements."What the #US fascist party, #AmericaFirst, didn't accomplish in the 1940's, is happening now.
This is what I wrote a year ago:👉If I were a fascist dictator, I'd have it raided and eliminated right after holding the reins of power.👈
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#TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#USpol
#Tariffs #Economics(4/n)
...👉 widespread smuggling👈 . The constraints of #mercantilism were a cause of friction between #Britain and its #American colonies and were arguably among the elements that led to the #AmericanRevolution. " 2)
👉 To be sure, this knowledge is but an "Economics 101" or "European History 101" at college!👈
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#TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#USpol
#Tariffs #Economics(5/n)
... [#Dutch?] #EastIndiaCompany and the #French #EastIndiaCompany. Restrictions on where finished goods could be purchased 👉 led in many cases to burdensome high prices for those goods.👈
👉 Commercial rivalry tended to result in military rivalry as well, notably during the Anglo-Dutch Wars.👈 Colonists seeking to get around the trade restrictions mandated by #mercantilism 2) resorted to...
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#TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#USpol
#Tariffs #Economics(4/n)
...the 19th and 20th century popularized the saying, Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant, many residents will learn the meaning of this latin phrase of the late #Roman period./s
PS:
Historically, #Mercantilism 2) has never worked as officially intended, except for the smugglers and war-mongers:"#Mercantilism 2) led to the creation of #monopolistic trading companies, such as the...
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#TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#USpol
#Tariffs #Economics(3/n)
...foreign competition is priced out of the #US market by #Tariffs, but prices will not recede much, if at all.
d) a further measurable #US impact in #GlobalWarming and the #ClimateCatastrophe.
Ingnoring political and social repercussions, in my view, these outcomes will rip through the #US like the recent #LA wildfires, seen from an bi-annual, maybe only annual, perspective.
s/: As writers from...
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#TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#USpol
#Tariffs #Economics(2/n)
...#redistribution, "trickling up", of wealth, and power(!), to the #TechnoFeudalists 1) and #oligarchs
b) a massive weaking of #US influence globally, as #tRump alienates its closed allies, e.g. #NATO and #Canada/ #Mexico, continuously showing how unreliable the #US are as a partner.
c) a further reduction in product and service quality (#Shrinkflation,) as....
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#TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#USpol
#Tariffs #Economics(1/n)
Exactly. In my view, the reactionary, #Mercantilist 2) #TradePolicy based on insane tariffs, in combination with the gutting of #Federal #US institutions will chiefly lead to two things:
1) US corps, who've become experts at #Shrinkflation, will continue to boost profit margins, despite imported inflation through the global #TradeWar that tRump ignited.
2) This will result in: ...
a) yet another...
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#USpol #TrumpCoup #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#History #Hitler #Fascism
#OccupyDemocrats(3/3)
...'the politics of catastrophe,' by which [media mogul #Hugenberg] 👉sought to polarize public opinion and the political parties with incendiary news stories, some of them #Fabrikationen—entirely fabricated articles intended to cause confusion and outrage.👈" [aka a special kind of #FakeNews]
👉 DO read on: 👈 [gift article]
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#USpol #TrumpCoup #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#History #Hitler #Fascism
#OccupyDemocrats(2/3)
... the electoral capital that made possible #AdolfHitler’s appointment as chancellor.
Before #Hugenberg sealed his pact with #Hitler a close associate had warned Hugenberg that this was a deal he would come to regret:
👉“One night you will find yourself running through the ministry gardens in your underwear trying to escape arrest.”👈
"Hugenberg practiced what he called #Katastrophenpolitk,...
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#USpol #TrumpCoup #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#History #Hitler #Fascism
#OccupyDemocrats(1/3)
👉#ElonMusk is close to become today's #Hugenberg, #AdolfHitler's ill-fated centrist financier. He brought #FakeNews into the playbook of #fascists:
#Katastrophenpolitik.👈"He was among the richest men in the world.
He made his first fortune in heavy industry. He made his second as a media mogul. And in January 1933, in exchange for a political favor, #AlfredHugenberg provided... -
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#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(7/7)
...on thriving oceans and productive fisheries for their jobs, businesses, and seafood dinners, and our oceans depend on #NOAA,”..."
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Do read on:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters
1) *👉#RachelMaddow on the dismantling of the Fourth Estate in the #US (excellent report:)👈*
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#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(6/n)
...non-profit #Oceana, said doing so “will have a ripple effect that sacrifices the communities, jobs, and coastal economies that rely on healthy oceans. And the #NationalWeatherService, part of #Noaa, provides daily weather forecasts and 👉lifesaving storm alerts that protect our communities across the country and mariners at sea.”👈
"...“Millions of Americans depend...
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#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(5/n)
...prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it, such as weather forecasting services.
He also argued there is 👉no legal authority to abolish NOAA or reduce its budget👈, outside of reducing it through #Congress...."
'...#BethLowell, #US vice-president of the #OceanConservation...
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#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(4/n)
...by several former #Trump staffers [and coordinated by the infamous rightwing #HeritageFoundation], has 👉called for the agency to be “broken up and downsized”, claiming the agency is “harmful to #US prosperity” for its role in #ClimateScience.👈 [aka "#BigOil" and tRump's crucial #DrillBabyDrill campaign.]
...it’s been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on Noaa data to...
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#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(3/n)
...concerns of downsizing at the agency.
“They apparently just sort of 👉walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems👈, as they have in other agencies,” [e.g. the #US #Treasury]...
They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”
#Project2025, written...
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#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(2/n)
...envisaged at #NOAA by #MAGA's #Project2025 also means less data can be collected, analyzed, and provided.
Via @theguardianrss
"Staffers with #ElonMusk’s “department of government efficiency” (#Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the #NationalOceanicAndAtmosphericAdministration (#Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting...
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#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#NOAA #DefundScience #WeatherControl(1/n)
👉*Trump-Musk duumvirate grabs weather control*👈
...or at least data access thereof
Public access to crucial weather data might soon be a thing of the past. Jointly with the multiple- pronged attack on the free press 1), reports on e.g. #ClimateChange induced devastations caused by hurricanes, flashfloods, or raging wildfires might be "contained." The staff "slaughter..."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters