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What is occurring now in the United States has very little to do with making the government more “efficient,” or rooting out “incompetence," or “depoliticizing” parts of government that should be nonpartisan.

Nor is it motivated chiefly by Trump’s desire get rid of “D.E.I.” and “woke,” or “weaponize” law enforcement, or establish white Christian nationalism, or wreak vengeance on his enemies.

The real story is this.

In every part of the government that involves the use of force — the military, the investigation and prosecution of crimes, the authority to arrest, the capacity to hold individuals in jail — Trump is putting into power people who are more loyal to him than they are to the United States.

He has purged (or is in the process of purging) at the highest levels of the Department of Defense, the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the Inspectors General, and the FBI, anyone who is not personally loyal to him.
Trump is rapidly gaining a personal monopoly on the use of force. This is his most fundamental goal. This is the essence of tyranny.

On Friday, he fired Air Force General CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, as well as the principal military adviser to the president, secretary of defense, and National Security Council.

This was followed by the firings of Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti and Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force General Jim Slife.

The media sees the firings as “part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.” This may be part of Trump’s motivation, but it is not the major driver. The firings are part of a campaign to purge the Defense Department of leaders who are not totally loyal to Trump.

For Brown’s replacement, Trump has nominated retired Air Force Lt. General John Dan “Razin” Caine. Caine has not served in any of the positions — Joint Chiefs vice chairman, chief of staff for one of the branches of the armed service, or head of a combatant command — that nominees are legally required to have held in order to be nominated.

Trump isn’t putting Caine in this pivotal position because of the national interest. He’s putting Caine there because of Caine’s unequivocal personal loyalty to Trump. Trump boasted to an audience at last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference that Caine had told him, “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.”
The same is occurring at the Justice Department, where Emil Bove, Trump’s former criminal lawyer who’s now the chief enforcer there, is imposing a Trump loyalty test on prosecutors — demanding they comply with Trump’s demands, however unacceptable and incompatible with norms, or leave.

On Sunday night, Trump announced that MAGA podcaster Dan Bongino will be deputy director of the FBI, alongside newly installed chief Kash Patel. Bongino is a former cop, Secret Service agent, conspiracy theorist, and Fox News commentator who joined Trump’s MAGA world in the 2010s and now hosts a popular podcast.

Bongino’s most important attribute is the same as Patel’s — unswerving personal loyalty to Trump. As elsewhere, Trump is turning the FBI into an extension of his personal will.
 
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fishonjazz said:
The real story is this.

In every part of the government that involves the use of force — the military, the investigation and prosecution of crimes, the authority to arrest, the capacity to hold individuals in jail — Trump is putting into power people who are more loyal to him than they are to the United States.

He has purged (or is in the process of purging) at the highest levels of the Department of Defense, the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the Inspectors General, and the FBI, anyone who is not personally loyal to him.
Trump is rapidly gaining a personal monopoly on the use of force. This is his most fundamental goal. This is the essence of tyranny.
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This. Could it be anymore obvious? Right off the bat he fired 7 Inspector Generals at federal agencies. What Donald Trump is doing is undeniable: he is appointing loyalists, who he is no doubt counting on obeying him, and not the constitution, should Trump decide a situation calls for it. He will always put himself above the Law. That’s been clear for many years. It is tyranny. Clearly recognizable as un-American. Remember how George Washington made it clear he had no interest in being a king? By retiring. Trump’s design is the opposite of Washington’s. People are free to support this approach if they want, many people in Western democracies prefer authoritarianism anyway. But, this is the foundation steps in creating Strongman rule. This is Trump aiming to be just like his role model, Vladimir Putin. This is most certainly what we don’t want to happen, and time will tell if Trump succeeds in achieving his goal: he wants it understood that, in the United States, Donald Trump IS the State.
 
Political Jazz Fan said:

View: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1894305457801761103?t=8D_FvsN8FHgvQgkR9R_jiA&s=19
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The problem with this narrative, and the reason it didn't blow up back when it happened, is that it wasn't Obama who did it. Yes it was "Obama's IRS" and Obama let it happen, but the politician who weaponized the IRS to go after conservative groups was John McCain. I'm sad he didn't live long enough to join Liz Cheney on Kamala's stage so that he could be ceremonially strapped to his beloved Deep State Democrats.

 
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Red said:
It is tyranny.
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Do you know what you can't do in a tyranny? You can't criticize the leader.

You are criticizing Trump and no one is coming for you. People are laughing at you as you huddle in your aluminum foil deflector beanie, but in this country you are free to be that way if you wish. Hope your day is going well.
 
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Red said:
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.
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Wow.
 
BabyPeterzz said:
No, that you didn’t read it on Facebook. Where did you learn about the thing you said?
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South Park season 7, episode 4.

Our nation was set up from the founding to be the best in the world at making war and to be the loudest at complaining about war to disguise how good we are at making war. It is a brilliant episode.
 
fishonjazz said:
It's funny how trumpers say that zelensky cancelled elections.
It's written in their constitution that elections can't be held while this war is being waged.
trumpers want zelensky to go against his countries constitution.
I guess trumpers figure that constitutions are meant to be ignored so they expect zelensky to act the dictator like trump and Putin would.
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Ukraine's parliament has passed a resolution affirming the legitimacy of Volodymyr Zelenskyy as president and confirming that elections are not possible until after the war ends.

The parliament noted on Tuesday that Zelenskyy was elected in legitimate elections and his mandate is not in doubt. It also said that no elections can be held until the lifting of martial law after the coming of a "just and lasting peace."

Zelenskyy was elected in a landslide in 2019, but his term expired last May. Ukraine is under martial law which under its constitution forbids the holding of elections.

Most Ukrainians, including major opposition parties, agree that holding credible elections now amidst the war is not possible because millions are abroad as refugees, hundreds of thousands are fighting.


Also, duh. trump administration was simply saying what putin wants it to say, per usual.
 
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Ukraine's parliament has passed a resolution affirming the legitimacy of Volodymyr Zelenskyy as president and confirming that elections are not possible until after the war ends.

The parliament noted on Tuesday that Zelenskyy was elected in legitimate elections and his mandate is not in doubt. It also said that no elections can be held until the lifting of martial law after the coming of a "just and lasting peace."

Zelenskyy was elected in a landslide in 2019, but his term expired last May. Ukraine is under martial law which under its constitution forbids the holding of elections.

Most Ukrainians, including major opposition parties, agree that holding credible elections now amidst the war is not possible because millions are abroad as refugees, hundreds of thousands are fighting.


Also, duh
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Yes truth has to be reinforced with the ultimate pathological liar pushing false narratives to hurt people.
 

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Consumer confidence plummeted in February, indicating worry about the direction of the U.S. economy under President Donald Trump.

A gauge of consumer confidence registered its largest monthly drop since August 2021, the nonpartisan Conference Board said on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the share of consumers who expect a recession within the next year surged to a nine-month high, the data showed. A growing portion of consumers believe the job market will worsen, the stock market will fall and interest rates will rise, the report added.

Earlier this month, Trump announced 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada as well as 10% tariffs on products from China.

Trump paused the tariffs on Mexico and Canada for one month after striking a deal with each of the two countries on drug trafficking and border security. On Monday, Trump said he plans to go forward with the tariffs when that pause lifts next week.

Seven of every 10 American adults believe tariffs will raise prices, an Ipsos survey found last week.

"Consumers who fear the impact of higher tariffs, spending cuts, and deportations are getting worried and are likely to be more cautious," Bill Adams, chief economist at Comerica Bank in Dallas, told ABC News.
 
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