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Julie Hughes @juliehuz@mastodon.world
· 2w ago

#History may not repeat, but it often rhymes...isn't that the saying? 😬🤔

#Hitler was obsessed with:

  • #tariffs;
  • seizing #Greenland
  • firing Germany's Central Bank head
  • adding an expensive new wing to the Reich chancellery & grandiose architectural ambitions for the capital
  • muzzling the #press,
  • purging the civil service of dissent
  • inflaming the populist grievances of his base, and spurred angry young men to take paramilitary action against perceived enemies. #uspol #uspolitics #DOGE
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b҉ @b@convo.casa
· 4w ago
https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=KC5QpS5xwos re: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vdgdahnuq75koqlyfprftovy/post/3mv2h4aakhc2d #racism #apartheid #southAfrica #brandaFassie #elonMusk #fascism #DOGE #MAGA #usaid #USAIDcuts #nazis #rhodesia
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Charlie McHenry @CharlieMcHenry@connectop.us
· 1mo ago
Trump-shaped ecstasy pills can be fatal, Dutch drug institute warns - I’d 🤣 but…turns out it’s not just pills. #TrumpRegime policies can be and often ARE fatal. Think #ICE murders of citizens, #DOGE cuts that have killed thousands, #SNAP reductions, and of course, the #HHS public health policies of brainwork #RFKjr. FFS, kids are dying of measles, after it was once eliminated. Next, the #repubilcans are going to go after #Medicare and #SocialSecurity. Cruelty IS the point with #Trump. https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-shaped-ecstasy-pills-can-be-fatal-dutch-drug-institute-warns/
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🍀 Egghat НетBойне 🍀 @egghat@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
TAGESSPIEGEL: Wasserzeichen deutet auf KI-Erzeugnis hin: US-Außenministerium löst mit falscher Afrika-Karte Wirbel aus https://www.tagesspiegel.de/internationales/wasserzeichen-deutet-auf-ki-erzeugnis-hin-us-aussenministerium-lost-mit-falscher-afrika-karte-wirbel-aus-15899666.html #DOGE-#Trump: „Wir stellen die Entwicklungshilfe ein, weil unser Geld nie dort ankommt, wo wir es hinschicken“. Schaut auf diese Karte! #rotfl
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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu
· 2mo ago
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…Musk’s team had essentially “pulled the wires out of the wall on the payment system,” as one senior official put it. Even when waivers were approved, the money still wasn’t moving. Rather than making things more efficient, DOGE had trashed the place. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #doge #usaid
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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu
· 2mo ago
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Trump had no interest in funding anything to do with human rights or the promotion of democracy. … And yet, the vicious terms Musk used to describe USAID—calling it “evil” and “criminal”—mystified even some of the agency’s most ardent critics in the administration and on Capitol Hill. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #trump #doge #usaid
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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu
· 2mo ago
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If Elon triggered controversy, all the better, in Trump’s view. Let him absorb the bad press… It was not unusual for Musk to call Trump directly late at night, tell him…of his plans to decimate an agency, and Trump would give his blessing, often with only the vaguest notion of what he was actually blessing. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #trump #doge #usaid
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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu
· 2mo ago
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The United States Agency for International Development…had been at the heart of American soft power… It was a projection of American values that had enjoyed bipartisan support for decades. …nothing would prepare Washington for the all-out attack on the agency by Musk (or DOGE)… —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #trump #doge #usaid
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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu
· 2mo ago
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Susie Wiles would start telling people that she was canceling plans because she didn’t want to be away from her phone or computer, so she could be prepared for whatever Musk and the DOGE team would do next. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #susiewiles #elonmusk #musk #doge
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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu
· 2mo ago
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Within the span of weeks, he would go from being regarded at the top levels of the administration as the greatest “genius” in the world to a “true nut” who was careening out of control. …Musk sometimes appeared unhinged. And he seemed to enjoy scaring people. His essential strangeness was a regular topic of conversation among the White House staff. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #doge #whitehouse
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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu
· 2mo ago
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Musk thought nothing of taunting and humiliating people who worked at his companies… He brought the same outlook to DOGE—assuming the federal workforce was, at best, lazy, and, at worst, dead. … He was making wild claims, untethered from evidence, but that mattered little. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #doge
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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu
· 2mo ago
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Musk would not step away from his companies or take any steps to address his conflicts of interest… For several weeks, most of the White House staff had no idea what he was doing until it was done —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #doge #usaid
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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu
· 2mo ago
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Authorized by the President of the United States but overseen by no one, Musk would momentarily usurp the powers of Congress to control public spending, essentially impound billions of dollars in already-appropriated money, and trample the prerogatives of the President’s new cabinet secretaries. All in secrecy and often in the middle of the night. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #trump #doge
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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu
· 2mo ago
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Within weeks, Musk and his crew…tried to access some of the government’s most sensitive computer systems, including those that controlled government payments. … Musk kept a tiny office on the West Wing’s second floor but rarely used it…—though he’d still slip back now and then to play video games in the dark. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change #musk #doge
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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu
· 2mo ago
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In a move that critics said shielded him from public accountability, Musk was not named the DOGE administrator. Instead, he would be a “special government employee”… Being a special government employee made him simultaneously an insider and outsider, answerable to the President alone. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #doge #musk #trump
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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu
· 2mo ago
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Musk carried himself with the bravado of a man accustomed to ruling his companies by fiat, but that was not the way the government worked. … He had little knowledge of the labyrinthine federal system, nor how its budget functioned. And he had even less interest in the Constitution, which could severely hobble the dramatic unilateral reengineering of the government he imagined. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change #musk #doge
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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu
· 2mo ago
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…Musk evangelized about the urgent need for a smaller government. He was chafing at the regulatory oversight of his companies, and was embroiled in bitter disputes with nearly a dozen federal agencies. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #doge
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