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#Autocracy

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Interview: "End Times Fascism”

The Far Right “Don’t Believe in the Future”

"Wealthy elites are preparing for the end of the world even as they contribute to growing inequality, political instability & the climate crisis."

Billionaires want to escape to bunkered enclaves or even to space, while Trump & other autocratic leaders run militarized fortress states to keep out immigrants & repress their own people.

democracynow.org/2025/5/5/naom

#endtimesfascism #thiel #musk #uspol #autocracy .

Democracy Now! · “End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right “Don’t Believe in the Future”By Democracy Now!
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@carnage4life

I see where you're coming from and embrace your sarcasm but...I can't help myself...

I think your prediction has a bit of rosy colored glasses syndrome.

Most people in the US are not willing or able live the way we do today paying US manufactur ing costs. So lifestyle will be cut back and more costly.

If those jobs get here they will be diluted by low wages and automation.

Trump wants a return to generational jobs, company stores and serfdom.

It’s really quite straightforward and I don’t understand why so few observers are pointing this out. Like Caligula of old, Trump is mentally ill. It’s been obvious for years, even before his first disastrous term as POTUS. Whether it’s dementia, Neurosyphilis or something else, he’s clearly seriously, deeply unwell. #Trump #MAGA #RonVara #Tariffs #Musk #Vance #Thiel #TechBros #TrumpCrimeFamily #Treason #BatshitCrazy #Obscurantism #autocracy #ChristoFascism #NewDarkAge
theaimn.net/trump-can-be-anybo

The Australian Independent Media Network · Donald Trump can be anybody he wantsTrump posting a picture of himself as the Pope is quite the visual. This isn’t the first time Trump has imagined himself as an historical or iconic figure. The Pope image is just the latest [...]

On Inauguration Day, Donald Trump seemed to be on top of the world. One hundred days later, he’s all but a lame duck. He can rage and he can bluster — and he will do a lot more damage — but the fact of the matter is that he can be beaten. Now the task is to deliver him his defeat.
#authoritarianism #fascism #dictatorship #USpolitics #autocracy #legal #constitution #Trumpism
nytimes.com/2025/04/30/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | Donald Trump, You’re No Franklin RooseveltBy Jamelle Bouie
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“No American president has ever so flagrantly ignored our nation’s spending laws or so brazenly denied the American people investments they are owed,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) said in a statement releasing the tracker.

Budget experts say the #Trump admin needs to follow #budget #law & either put cuts to a vote in #Congress or abandon the effort to freeze money without lawmakers’ approval.

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#Trump & #DOGE have aggressively flouted #Congress’s power with potentially [definitely] #illegal freezes on spending, & many of the moves have ended up in #court, where judges have at least temporarily reversed some actions.

Trump has frozen or canceled at least $430 billion in funds since taking office, according to an estimate compiled by the top #Democrats on the #House & #Senate #appropriations committees.

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…The idea for #Congress to pass #Musk’s cuts dates to a closed-door lunch between lawmakers & Musk in March. Sen Rand Paul & others suggested to Musk that the #Trump admin should send billions of dollars in #DOGE cuts to Congress in the form of a #RescissionPackage, which would take only a bare majority to pass the #Senate. That would probably protect the cuts from being struck down by the #courts. Musk reacted enthusiastically to the idea, acc/to several senators.

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“None of the activities of the #DOGE have heretofore had any impact on the #budget, the #debt or the #deficit. Until #Congress acts, those [dubious] savings don’t really become real,” said Robert Shea, a #Republican who served in senior political roles at the White House budget office.

The #Trump WH has to choose between implementing the funding Congress approved or violating federal budget #law, triggering a #ConstitutionalCrisis, acc/to Shea & several other budget experts.

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As the #Trump WH prepares to release its budget proposal Friday, the impasse over #DOGE reflects a looming challenge for the admin’s vision of a sprawling overhaul of #FederalAgencies. With both the #courts & #Congress refusing to provide #legal cover to spending cuts that #Musk forced through, the admin is running out of options for ensuring that its #unilateral reductions take effect—potentially limiting DOGE’s lasting impact despite the #disruption it brought to the govt.

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"#DOGE has already begun enacting spending savings that are supposed to go through #Congress unilaterally," Jessica Riedl, a budget expert at the right-leaning Manhattan Institute said. "And the president's budget may essentially provide a preview of what DOGE will attempt to enact unilaterally, even if Congress doesn't act."

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#Harvard is among the vast majority of public & private #universities & #colleges that are #TaxExempt.

Under the #law, the #IRS initiates investigations based on established criteria & procedures, not based on presidential directives. The IRS is expected to operate independently & without political pressure.

If the IRS found that Harvard’s tax-exempt status should be revoked, Harvard would be given notice & an opportunity to contest the finding in court.

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The #CivilRights Prosecutors refused to compile such a list that could be given to #ICE agents….

#EmilBove then shifted his focus to obtaining a search #warrant for the group’s #Instagram account…. He ordered prosecutors to apply for a search warrant for the nonpublic data associated with the account, these people said.

The premise of the application was also contentious within the department.

#law#DOJ#ethics