Trump Dictatorship and All Things Politics
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Red
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Loyalists to Trump everywhere. We had to expect this. Right? We could see what was going to happen from the start, correct? Could predict it all from 1/6/21 onward, we knew the Strongman playbook would include loyalty to Trump, and not loyalty to the constitution. We have reached Banana Republic status.
View: https://x.com/tbailey1976/status/1894125641701691581
Apologists for authoritarianism will always be able to justify the actions of the leader, and will always be blind to the obvious. Always ignorant of history.
This is what creating “the enemy within” can do in a society. The Big Lie. The enemy within. Not like such a playbook was unheard of in history. Those who embrace it as justified should be ashamed of themselves, for the wholesale abandonment of truth and Justice it represents, but most likely, as history shows, that shame will have to wait for history to assign. So many Americans sleepwalking through their own time, all too human, insistent on learning the hard way.
View: https://x.com/tbailey1976/status/1894125641701691581
Apologists for authoritarianism will always be able to justify the actions of the leader, and will always be blind to the obvious. Always ignorant of history.
This is what creating “the enemy within” can do in a society. The Big Lie. The enemy within. Not like such a playbook was unheard of in history. Those who embrace it as justified should be ashamed of themselves, for the wholesale abandonment of truth and Justice it represents, but most likely, as history shows, that shame will have to wait for history to assign. So many Americans sleepwalking through their own time, all too human, insistent on learning the hard way.
Step-Back Lauri
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I knew you were
He didn't come up with the martial law, but you're either an idiot or pro Russian/Trump regime troll so that's about it.
He's made less constitutionally iffy things in years than Trump in weeks.
And for the moderators of this board: do we really need this troll in JF? The only purpose this person plays for anymore is parroting pro dictatorship propaganda now. We don't need it.
He didn't come up with the martial law, but you're either an idiot or pro Russian/Trump regime troll so that's about it.
He's made less constitutionally iffy things in years than Trump in weeks.
And for the moderators of this board: do we really need this troll in JF? The only purpose this person plays for anymore is parroting pro dictatorship propaganda now. We don't need it.
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No, that you didn’t read it on Facebook. Where did you learn about the thing you said?
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Red
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Looks like a stand alone tweet. Posted 16 hours ago, as of this reply to you…..
Al-O-Meter
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That may be, but none of that means Zelensky isn't a dictator. Putin too abided by Russia's constitution. They still are both dictators.
Being a dictator isn't in and of itself a problem. The United States has worked with many dictators over our history. The problem with Zelensky is that he wants to be seen as a man who will stand up to the United States and Trump. He is too cowardly to actually stand up to Rubio in person, so he says what he thinks Rubio wants to hear and then runs to the press to say the opposite in an effort to puff himself up as some sort of badass.
It is one thing when an adversary like Putin tries to stab you, but it is something else entirely when someone you thought was a friend, someone who you went to a great effort to help in a time of need, stabs you just to make himself look big. We are the adults in the room and we will try to bring this war to an end, but it is tempting to completely pull out of the conflict and let these two little dictators have each other until both of their countries are rubble.
Al-O-Meter
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It was responding to the victory the USAO had just won in court.
Judge rejects immediately restoring AP's access to White House but urges government to reconsider
A federal judge has refused to immediately order the White House to restore The Associated Press’ access to presidential events, saying the news organization had not shown it had suffered irreparable harm in the matter.
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Al-O-Meter
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Really? Does information not reach you? Did you not know the issue was challenged in court and the AP lost? It is not like the news only appears in right leaning sources. They AP themselves reported on it, as it Reuters, NPR, and NY Times.
Judge Declines to Intervene in AP Lawsuit Over Trump Access
But the judge hinted that future rulings in the suit could go differently, cautioning the White House to “think about whether what they’re doing is really appropriate.”
That people crawl into silos to shield out news they don't like is weird. I don't get it. Why does someone want to be uninformed about the world?
Red
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I believe the bottom line, from responses I’ve seen on social media, and elsewhere, is that many MAGA supporters think it’s appropriate for Musk to speak to federal employees, federal servants, as if they were leeches, living off the government. Haters of our civil servants would be surprised at the number of such employees who view “service to their nation” as a noble enterprise. People like Donald Trump do not understand the concept of “service”. You need a degree of humility to recognize and embrace service to nation. And humility is foreign to Trump. Service is an unknown concept. Remember, he broadcast his inability to even know what service was(!!!) not understanding the very concept of citizen-soldiers serving their country by asking “what’s in it for them?”!!
There is nothing whatsoever that Trump supporters or Trump apologists can ever utter, to justify such an atrocious way to treat our public civil servants. And from the get go: insult them, intimidate them. Be like Musk: think the worst of those among your fellow citizens who have chosen public service as their life’s work..
And while you’re at it, confuse the hell out of all of us: Goid luck understanding these conflicting statements. Trump 2.0 will surely be the most incompetent administration in our history, judging from the first month.
View: https://x.com/Eeindc/status/1893990487893090484
View: https://x.com/Curly400/status/1894058709258514457
www.independent.co.uk
Less than 24 hours before the deadline, Musk hinted that the emails were simply a ruse to ensure federal employees were “capable of responding” to his correspondence.
In the early hours of Monday morning, Musk replied to American venture capitalist Garry Tan on X after he shared a post claiming that DOGEwouldn’t be capable of reading all of the federal workers’ responses, calling the initiative “stupid” and “performance art.”
“Most people don’t understand LLMs have changed the nature of management already, and this will be a bit of a shock to people,” Tan tweeted on Sunday night, speaking of large language models: a type of machine learning model designed for processing large data sets of text.
Musk responded that LLMs would not be needed for his task.
“This was basically a check to see if the employee had a pulse and was capable of replying to an email,” Musk said. “This mess will get sorted out this week. Lot of people in for a rude awakening and strong dose of reality. They don’t get it yet, but they will.”
On Sunday afternoon, Musk also referred to the emails as a “very basic pulse check.” That evening, Musk added that a response was indicative that employees have “two working neurons.”
And yet!:
View: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1894177129887404484
And yet!!:
www.bbc.com
“They're succeeding in driving us insane," one employee who works under HHS told the BBC, and asked not to be named for fear of retaliation.
On Monday afternoon, OPM held a call with the heads of human resources at federal agencies and said it was up to each entity to determine how they want to handle the directive employees received Saturday, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner.
The same afternoon, President Trump told reporters at the White House that Mr Musk's demand was a "genius" move.
"There was a lot of genius in sending it," he said. "We're trying to find out if people are working and so we're sending a letter to people, please tell us what you did last week. If people don't respond, it's very possible that there is no such person or they're not working."
"And then if you don't answer like you're sort of semi-fired or you're fired because a lot of people are not answering because they don't even exist," Trump said.
Mr Musk maintained he was acting on instructions from President Donald Trump.
"Subject to the discretion of the President, they will be given another chance," he wrote on X, apparently referring to workers who did not respond to his demand by the end of Monday. "Failure to respond a second time will result in termination."
"The email request was utterly trivial, as the standard for passing the test was to type some words and press send!" he said in another post. "Yet so many failed even that inane test, urged on in some cases by their managers. Have you ever witnessed such INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are being spent?"
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I hope this is all perfectly clear now, for all our citizens, including MAGA, including our “enemy within”(I’m one such, but I prefer “somebody who cares about the ideals at the foundation of our experiment in governance”, which really just seems so much more accurate than “the enemy within”.
There is nothing whatsoever that Trump supporters or Trump apologists can ever utter, to justify such an atrocious way to treat our public civil servants. And from the get go: insult them, intimidate them. Be like Musk: think the worst of those among your fellow citizens who have chosen public service as their life’s work..
And while you’re at it, confuse the hell out of all of us: Goid luck understanding these conflicting statements. Trump 2.0 will surely be the most incompetent administration in our history, judging from the first month.
View: https://x.com/Eeindc/status/1893990487893090484
View: https://x.com/Curly400/status/1894058709258514457
Elon Musk admits email to government workers was a ruse
Department of Government Efficiency head says he wants to test whether federal employees are ‘capable of replying to an email’
www.independent.co.uk
Less than 24 hours before the deadline, Musk hinted that the emails were simply a ruse to ensure federal employees were “capable of responding” to his correspondence.
In the early hours of Monday morning, Musk replied to American venture capitalist Garry Tan on X after he shared a post claiming that DOGEwouldn’t be capable of reading all of the federal workers’ responses, calling the initiative “stupid” and “performance art.”
“Most people don’t understand LLMs have changed the nature of management already, and this will be a bit of a shock to people,” Tan tweeted on Sunday night, speaking of large language models: a type of machine learning model designed for processing large data sets of text.
Musk responded that LLMs would not be needed for his task.
“This was basically a check to see if the employee had a pulse and was capable of replying to an email,” Musk said. “This mess will get sorted out this week. Lot of people in for a rude awakening and strong dose of reality. They don’t get it yet, but they will.”
On Sunday afternoon, Musk also referred to the emails as a “very basic pulse check.” That evening, Musk added that a response was indicative that employees have “two working neurons.”
And yet!:
View: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1894177129887404484
And yet!!:
Confusion over Musk demand that federal workers justify their jobs
Employees get conflicting advice over compliance with a Musk-backed order to list their last week's work or face termination.
www.bbc.com
“They're succeeding in driving us insane," one employee who works under HHS told the BBC, and asked not to be named for fear of retaliation.
On Monday afternoon, OPM held a call with the heads of human resources at federal agencies and said it was up to each entity to determine how they want to handle the directive employees received Saturday, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner.
The same afternoon, President Trump told reporters at the White House that Mr Musk's demand was a "genius" move.
"There was a lot of genius in sending it," he said. "We're trying to find out if people are working and so we're sending a letter to people, please tell us what you did last week. If people don't respond, it's very possible that there is no such person or they're not working."
"And then if you don't answer like you're sort of semi-fired or you're fired because a lot of people are not answering because they don't even exist," Trump said.
Mr Musk maintained he was acting on instructions from President Donald Trump.
"Subject to the discretion of the President, they will be given another chance," he wrote on X, apparently referring to workers who did not respond to his demand by the end of Monday. "Failure to respond a second time will result in termination."
"The email request was utterly trivial, as the standard for passing the test was to type some words and press send!" he said in another post. "Yet so many failed even that inane test, urged on in some cases by their managers. Have you ever witnessed such INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are being spent?"
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I hope this is all perfectly clear now, for all our citizens, including MAGA, including our “enemy within”(I’m one such, but I prefer “somebody who cares about the ideals at the foundation of our experiment in governance”, which really just seems so much more accurate than “the enemy within”.
There is only one justifiable reason to go to war. Stopping genocide.
We usually go to war over land, religion, and economics. None are justified.
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