Trump Admin II: Orange Fascist Boogaloo

https://bsky.app/profile/thedesk.net/post/3lh54f5hz7s2o

https://bsky.app/profile/jsweetli.bsky.social/post/3lh5hr3hsc22k

already does. I've seen reports from advocates.

I get all the well-meaning cautions against doomerism but it's necessary to face reality - if things don't change DRASTICALLY by spring, at the latest, we are well and truly fucked as a country (and I don't mean just those who are Trump targets, I mean the whole damned thing).

Ceaser has no opposition, his own party is almost universally complicit (the outliers can be counted on the fingers of one hand) and the considerable majority of the "opposition" party is either stunned into silence or supplicating themselves like Klobachar.
Where the actual fuck does she get her "very clear" idea from? Dem consultants? It's an utterly insane view. MAGA wants one-party authoritarian government where people like her and anyone to her left never hold any office or wield any influence. The rest of us want the opposite of that. None of us give a damn if y'all can agree to build 10 more warships or what to name a goddamn post office.

We're already in a defacto authoritarian nation. As that becomes clear some states will stand in defiance, most won't, and there will be a reckoning.
Meanwhile, much suffering will ensue. I'm old enough to remember when all of this which is happening now was warned about and we were told to stop being hysterical. Now it's here, and in the absence of true opposition it will get much much worse.

Preemptive submission in the private sector, utter supplication and performative displeasure by pols who refuse to defy.
Gird up your loins.

Now POTUS says a trade pact isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on…the credibility of this/any future agreement will be lost. N. American manufacturing will revert to inefficient, fragmented natl industries. & to think people imagined Trump would be good for business.
The announced tariffs violate the very trade agreement he crowed about negotiating last time.

The End of North America - Paul Krugman

Meanwhile,
Remember that Musk promised there would be mass suffering - and Russell Vought promised mass trauma.
People are dying because Trump illegally cut off foreign aid. He’s purging civil servants and law enforcement officers deemed insufficiently loyal. He unilaterally suspended Medicaid and froze trillions in funding. All of this is unlawful! And Democrats are … touting areas of bipartisan compromise?

CDC has removed its PLACES data. This interactive tool provided chronic disease and other health-related data for U.S. counties, census tracts, zip codes

Trump Orders Schools to Ease Sex Assault Rules

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Trump Admin Emails Air Traffic Controllers: Quit Your Jobs

Since roughly Trump took office, there's been news story after news story about businesses in my area closing down and laying people off. It's been a mixture of mom-n-pop places and multinationals. I just passive-aggressively share them on FB, waiting for one of the pro-Trumpers I know to notice that things ain't looking so good.

To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class

What is Trump's endgame with the tariffs? To eliminate the trade deficit? Is he aware of why it exists in the first place?

Elsewhere he's been ranting about attempts to replace the dollar as world currency. Well, this will be the fastest way to do that.

Short answer: Because he can. Longer answer: So that anyone who might be hurt by the other shit that he's pulling will be distracted and say, "Ha, ha! Fuck those motherfuckers!"

https://apnews.com/article/doge-mus...aid-security-35101dee28a766e0d9705e0d47958611

https://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.lol/post/3lh77ekgdas2h

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/01/education-department-diversity-training-00201957

Told you before, its a transfer of the tax burden from the rich to the poor.

https://bsky.app/profile/beastquake.bsky.social/post/3lhacanmioc2e

Someone told him a tilted history of the Gilded Age and the Robber Barons and he thought "everyone important got rich - lets do that!"

It is absolutely wild that there is a coup going on right now, with Elon Musk and his incel cronies just raiding US databases and locking officials out. USAID officials put on leave because they tried to keep him out of files he didn't have security clearance to access.

https://bsky.app/profile/angiyo.bsky.social/post/3lhafjruops2h

Came across this.



Can’t believe freedumb loving Republicans aren’t up in arms about this.

A sociopathic billionaire has access to all our money and financial information.

And he did it without firing a shot. So much for your guns protecting you against tyranny.

Yeah, fuck him. He's a spineless little shit.

This is a true story.

Some braindead Republican woman politician SERIOUSLY wants to put a 5th head on Mount Rushmore , & guess WHO'S head she wants up there?

That's right!

You guessed it!

TRUMP'S!!

WTF?!?!

I had to take a second look to make sure it wasn't an Onion article I was reading , but NO , it was an actual legitimate real true news story.

Not the free market. Daddy government has had his thumb on that scale for a LONG time.

No more than the typical working human can afford, if it were truly decided by "the market."

Ah, yes. The cherrypicking game. Pass.

It's cute that you people think this is a new thing.

Chicken tax.