The Confederacy runs through the veins of America. It was a power system that exploited racism and ignorance. Poor white farmers were being put down by the slave oligarchy but kept it in power because at least the system allowed them to believe they were better than their Black counterparts who were raped and owned by other humans. One of my ancestors said growing up, “the Civil War is still being fought in the heads of many in this nation especially in a certain region.” Not all, but many. Racism takes language away from people to discuss their problems. It cripples people who are conditioned to push for populism through the lens of social hatred and supremacy. All by design.
For Republicans, the n-word has been replaced by DEI. The Civil War never ended. It's been rolled out in phases throughout the decades. The Southern Economic Development Model (www.epi.org) was developed by the Heritage Foundation when it was founded by Paul Weyrich in 1980 for the Reagan administration. Nothing has changed. It's just evolved.
Totally agree. Slavery has been the underlying seed of destruction since the beginning. No matter how we progressed it has always come back to bite us in the ass. And while this hate for non-whites continues to divide us the ultra-rich are quietly enriching themselves more. How stupid can we be.
The question is who is doing the polling?? How do they ask the questions.
Robert Reich did some polling by comparing Trump's agenda to that of Biden without mentioning the candidates, 80% liked Biden's agenda better.
The problem is that the media especially Fox don't mention what we are going to lose.
With tariffs prices will go up not down, removing most of the essential workers/migrants will destroy farmers, close down factories and hurt construction and many other businesses.
Trump is a cruel sadistic man who enjoys hurting people, he is a psychopath with some grey matter missing in his frontal lobe (just like Musk). The cruelty of watching TV for 3 hrs while his mob savagely beat 143 policemen and were trying to kill his own vice president. Calling it a "love fest". Can you imaging if Biden had done that?? He would have been in jail the next day and we would never hear the end of it. The Dems are no match for the "GOP"/white supremacists.
Tariff's are a confusing thing. If applied right they foster economic growth.
Here is an example: My 14th great grandfather was a wool dyer, an acher in the levy of Sir John Pilkington (a family tradition). When a Pilkington dtr got pregnant out of wedlock, by a royal heir, he was bribed with land and mentorship, to marry that teenage girl (no the child was not my ancestor, nor anyones ancestor).
With he Pilkington land, connections and mentorship, the lad built up a raw wool dynasty.
Along came Henry Tudor, claimed the throne of England, discovered that he had fought to wear the crown of a country that was the poor man, the armpit of Europe. So poor that oxen paths had potholes big enough to drown a mule cart. (Google picture of Henry VII), then google same or his son, see he difference.
H7 set about to remedy the problem, he imposed an export tax, a tariff) on raw wool, which was England's main export, and tariffs on the import of silverware, swords, muskets and fine goods including clothing.
This forced the English to develop their own industries. Within 50 years my ancestral family had built fulling mills, textile mills, bought up land, became landlords, even leased a coal mine to Abraham Shaw.. My 10th great grandfather a wealthy merchant of London, gave his third son a purse of silver, he bought shares in the Virginia Company and boarded a ship for Virginia.
His son, H8, inherited an England so well off, that even the commoners dressed like nobility, which angered the nobility, causing H8 to issue a Sumptuary Law, that forbade commoners from wearing silks, furs, fine linen, feathers, ruffles and dressing like nobility,; So wealthy that the sons of commoners could go to university, become lawyers and even sit at the right hand of H8 like Thomas Cromwell
So wealthy that in a hundred years it led to a Civil war of commoners versus royalty.
And there in lies the motivation behind the Powell memo, and the oligarchic takeover of America.
The goal is to reduce Americans to hard scrabble neo serfs.
As your Congresswoman, your priorities are my priorities. I have received your inquiry on Elon Musk and the Treasury Department and appreciate you bringing it to my attention!
I reached out to the Treasury Department to get clarity on the recent happenings of the department and here is their response:
I am writing in response to your letter … regarding payment systems operated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
The Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service) operates vital payment systems for the federal government, and those systems should promote financial integrity and operational efficiency. The Fiscal Service disburses nearly 90 percent of all federal payments, in over 1.2 billion transactions per year. Treasury is committed to ensuring that the Fiscal Service is functioning in a manner consistent with the highest levels of efficiency and in accordance with the expectations of taxpayers to prevent waste, fraud and abuse.
Treasury has no higher obligation than managing the government’s finances on behalf of the American people, and its payments system is critical to that process. In keeping with that mission, Treasury is committed to safeguarding the integrity and security of the system, given the implications of any compromise or disruption to the U.S. economy. The Fiscal Service is confident those protections are robust and effective. Therefore, expanding on efforts that began under the prior Administration, Treasury has been undergoing a review of these systems to maximize payment integrity for agencies and the public.
Importantly, the ongoing review of Treasury’s systems is not resulting in the suspension or rejection of any payment instructions submitted to Treasury by other federal agencies across the government. In particular, the review at the Fiscal Service has not caused payments for obligations such as Social Security and Medicare to be delayed or re-routed. To be clear, the agency responsible for making the payment always drives the payment process. Currently, Treasury staff members working with Tom Krause, a Treasury employee, will have read-only access to the coded data of the Fiscal Service’s payment systems in order to continue this operational efficiency assessment. This is similar to the kind of access that Treasury provides to individuals reviewing Treasury systems, such as auditors, and that follows practices associated with protecting the integrity of the systems and business processes.
Mr. Krause is conducting this effort in coordination with veteran career Treasury officials, and all operational processes continue to be conducted only by career Treasury staff in accordance with all standard security, safety, and privacy standards. Mr. Krause is a longtime technology executive. His decades of experience in building companies and managing balance sheets as a chief financial officer are of great benefit to this review. In order to allow him to perform this function, he has been hired as an expert/consultant by the federal government and designated in a role commonly used across Administrations—a “special government employee” —pursuant to applicable law. This role involves a hiring process that includes a review of a candidate’s credentials and background, and demands the same ethical standards of privacy, confidentiality, conflicts of interest assessment, and professionalism of other government employees.[1] These assessments are conducted by career legal and ethics officials. Mr. Krause is subject to the same security obligations and ethical requirements, including a Top Secret security clearance.
Treasury will continue its efforts to promote efficiency and effectiveness in its operations, and to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.
Please let it be noted as well that on Saturday February 8, 2025 a federal judge in New York filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration essentially blocking persons within Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from making financial assessments. This is an evolving matter that myself and my team are closely monitoring at this time.
By learning what is important to my constituents, I can effectively represent Florida’s 27th District. My staff will be looking further into ways we can address this issue.
As always, I truly appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns. Please continue to send me your thoughts on how I can better represent you. The best way to keep up with my office is through Twitter (@RepMariaSalazar) and Facebook. You can also subscribe to my weekly newsletter here.
I'm sure you are paid via the Treasury from budgeted funds that Congress authorized.
SSA retirement and disability and Medicare funds come from trust funds that do not come from budgeted funds.
I wonder whether the FBI performed a background check on people like Mr. Kruase?
Also, I understand that he is enjoined and must destroy any records.
I had written to you previously in support of donations to trust funds so that they can remain solvent even if Congress does not act. I hope you will pursue it.
Thank you also for your interest in protecting humanitarian visas. I expect that most of the sponsorged aquiesence to Russs live here, many in your district. Please pursue this with other people who are similarly situated.
I also hope you have challenged any attempt to elevare Russia, a second rate world power, as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. You have supported Ukraine's sovereignty and this is the time to stand up against Putin, a war criminal.
Musk is ignoring lawsuits, Vance in effect said: Make me. The few times SCOTUS rules in favor of the plaintiff is camouflage to prove that they are independent.
Damn right, Daniel! I thought I'd participate in the PEW poll I received since it was election time. It was four pages of BS. I got to the part that essentially said: even though your answer isn't here, pick one anyway. Recycled the paper.
I would like to see direct attacks on the corporate media when they fail to challenge the lies and misinformation and especially going after Fox. Families which have been torn apart by their malice and negligence should sue and spell out just how members have been indoctrinated and lured into the cult of fear mongering and xenophobia. There are surely plenty of lawyers who would be happy to file cases, and the model was created for us by the Dominion lawsuit and others.
Meanwhile Musk and the BIG Three are in competition in the automotive industry. Musk is anti- union. So long collective bargaining?
The NLRB filed a letter with the Fifth Circuit indicating it would not address SpaceX’s challenge to the agency’s constitutionality. SpaceX’s primary argument is that the Board’s structure is unconstitutional because it limits the removal of ALJs and Board members. As of today, no interested parties have stepped in to address SpaceX’s constitutional arguments in the NLRB’s stead.
The Utah Senate passed a House bill on Thursday that would outlaw public sector collective bargaining. Once signed by the governor, it will usher in one of the country’s most severe and restrictive rollbacks of union rights in recent memory. .
Agreed. It's overwhelming. But everyone who is able should be looking for ways to oppose the fascists and the enablers and going full steam ahead. This kind of info is invaluable.
Drump is not going to heal from his dis-ease. He is going to spread the virus as far as possible to normalize Trumpism. The protests around the world get no play in the American media as if they never occurred. The bubble of the American people living in seems normal. Only a movement can change the path the human ego wants to take us down. This will happen the only question is will it be for the spread of the virus or its antidote.
How deservingly tragic this feels for the culture we live in. Yet it's hard not to mourn the loss of our democratic ideals and poignant to realize the lofty values we thought we all shared lie in tatters around us. This has been a long time coming. Indigenous people we replaced and enslaved people we exploited might think it's been too long.
It's been in a super-deep coma since 1968, when Tricky sabotaged LBJ's Paris peace plan.
Nowadays?
We can try to animate our democracy, not unlike Victor Frankenstein did his monster.
Otherwise, we are as William, Victor's young brother, waiting for the monster's vise grip around democracy's neck. Waiting for the pressure to increase up to strangulation level into lethality.
As for Ds on The Hill, they have neither torches nor pitchforks.
No Judge can stop Trump's acces to your personal data: He already has it.
Lt’s stop pretending, shall we? A lawless administration cares nothing for a judgment telling them to cease and desist. A lawless administration has only one response to such an order: Make me.
With the DOJ in the hands of Donald J. Trump and with Pam Bondi as Trump’s Attorney General, who do you think will force Musk to give up the access he has?
Musk has already rehired the child who resigned after the stink about his admitted racism. “Normalize Indian hate.” That was this kid’s mantra. Meanwhile, Vice President J.D. Vance supported the Musk protégé, who was also quoted as saying, “I was a racist before it was cool.” If Musk’s Nazi salute was not enough to trouble you, this should send a chill down your spine.
The salient point of Germany circa 1933 is the fact Christian Germans were anti-Semitic dating from the Middle Ages to the early 19th Century when some writers actually began writing on solving the "Jewish problem" with eliminationist solutions. Hitler capitalized on this latent anti-Semitism in the German psyche to make it manifest. His Brownshirts help sow fear, disorder and chaos sowing fear throughout society.
White America with some exceptions suffers from a latent problem of racism dating back to the early 1600's. There is little doubt Republicans have capitalized on this racism to their benefit and today's "Dear Leader" has made it manifest throughout white society. The "caste" system that is the source of white America's latent racism began with the arrival of the first African slaves in the 17th Century. Isabela Wilkerson's book "Caste: The Source of our Discontent" does a masterful job of explaining why racism in America is in-bedded in white America. Racism has never been tackled in a systematic fashion in America and consequently has survived for over 300 years. Any attempts of addressing it have always been met with a vigorous and at times violent push back from first the planter class, then the Confederacy and eventually the Republican Party of the last 60+ years.
I'm rather stunned that people aren't in the streets by the hundreds of thousands. To say they're too busy assumes they don't really understand the depth of the crisis we're in. A vice is around our collective necks and people just haven't accepted what's being done to them. It's absolutely no different than in Nazi Germany. Give the vice another two months to complete its grip and it's going to be too late. How are we allowing it? Where are the Democrats. Friends are working politically at the local levels, but that was fine several years ago. If Trump/Musk get their way, we won't have local elections to worry about. Our country is being dismantled today, not later. Action is needed now. The hatred they're pushing is incomprehensible. Every minority is being attacked so that white nationalist men can rule here and abroad. It's truly frightening.
Evil has learned over time to never wear its true face. It always appears as something other than what it is. Rationally speaking, this would be sound tactics. No one wants to be accused of supporting evil. But, mask and mantel it in something appealing, and arguably satisfying, and suddenly evil has its opening. The facilitator may not even be aware of their own evil. They may just be a rube who got absorbed and never had a clue. But, now they seek power and authority to justify their choices and camouflage. They desperately want to be accepted and ruthlessly work to achieve this desired position. One of the "give aways" of evil that I have witnessed over the ages is that the one who is occupied by evil forces will always promote themselves first. They never understand or know how to engage with God's Grace. They feel superior and justified in their posturing. Nothing larger than themselves has value. And so here we are.
The Confederacy runs through the veins of America. It was a power system that exploited racism and ignorance. Poor white farmers were being put down by the slave oligarchy but kept it in power because at least the system allowed them to believe they were better than their Black counterparts who were raped and owned by other humans. One of my ancestors said growing up, “the Civil War is still being fought in the heads of many in this nation especially in a certain region.” Not all, but many. Racism takes language away from people to discuss their problems. It cripples people who are conditioned to push for populism through the lens of social hatred and supremacy. All by design.
For Republicans, the n-word has been replaced by DEI. The Civil War never ended. It's been rolled out in phases throughout the decades. The Southern Economic Development Model (www.epi.org) was developed by the Heritage Foundation when it was founded by Paul Weyrich in 1980 for the Reagan administration. Nothing has changed. It's just evolved.
Totally agree. Slavery has been the underlying seed of destruction since the beginning. No matter how we progressed it has always come back to bite us in the ass. And while this hate for non-whites continues to divide us the ultra-rich are quietly enriching themselves more. How stupid can we be.
Neo-Confederates are a miniority, shrinking daily.
As of 2022, the U.S. population was 50.49% female and 49.51% male. The U.S. has had more females than males since 1946.
The Census Bureau projects that the non-Hispanic white population will decrease from 58.9% in 2022 to 44.9% in 2060.
Neo-Confederates have taken over the government. Please let them know why they can't do that!!
Well put, but the possibility of minority rule still hangs over the nation like the sword of Damocles.
It's all in a name isn't it? Thank you for being a good steward. Telling the truth in America has never been more important.
The question is who is doing the polling?? How do they ask the questions.
Robert Reich did some polling by comparing Trump's agenda to that of Biden without mentioning the candidates, 80% liked Biden's agenda better.
The problem is that the media especially Fox don't mention what we are going to lose.
With tariffs prices will go up not down, removing most of the essential workers/migrants will destroy farmers, close down factories and hurt construction and many other businesses.
Trump is a cruel sadistic man who enjoys hurting people, he is a psychopath with some grey matter missing in his frontal lobe (just like Musk). The cruelty of watching TV for 3 hrs while his mob savagely beat 143 policemen and were trying to kill his own vice president. Calling it a "love fest". Can you imaging if Biden had done that?? He would have been in jail the next day and we would never hear the end of it. The Dems are no match for the "GOP"/white supremacists.
Tariff's are a confusing thing. If applied right they foster economic growth.
Here is an example: My 14th great grandfather was a wool dyer, an acher in the levy of Sir John Pilkington (a family tradition). When a Pilkington dtr got pregnant out of wedlock, by a royal heir, he was bribed with land and mentorship, to marry that teenage girl (no the child was not my ancestor, nor anyones ancestor).
With he Pilkington land, connections and mentorship, the lad built up a raw wool dynasty.
Along came Henry Tudor, claimed the throne of England, discovered that he had fought to wear the crown of a country that was the poor man, the armpit of Europe. So poor that oxen paths had potholes big enough to drown a mule cart. (Google picture of Henry VII), then google same or his son, see he difference.
H7 set about to remedy the problem, he imposed an export tax, a tariff) on raw wool, which was England's main export, and tariffs on the import of silverware, swords, muskets and fine goods including clothing.
This forced the English to develop their own industries. Within 50 years my ancestral family had built fulling mills, textile mills, bought up land, became landlords, even leased a coal mine to Abraham Shaw.. My 10th great grandfather a wealthy merchant of London, gave his third son a purse of silver, he bought shares in the Virginia Company and boarded a ship for Virginia.
His son, H8, inherited an England so well off, that even the commoners dressed like nobility, which angered the nobility, causing H8 to issue a Sumptuary Law, that forbade commoners from wearing silks, furs, fine linen, feathers, ruffles and dressing like nobility,; So wealthy that the sons of commoners could go to university, become lawyers and even sit at the right hand of H8 like Thomas Cromwell
So wealthy that in a hundred years it led to a Civil war of commoners versus royalty.
And there in lies the motivation behind the Powell memo, and the oligarchic takeover of America.
The goal is to reduce Americans to hard scrabble neo serfs.
From my Republican rep:
Dear Mr. Solomon,
As your Congresswoman, your priorities are my priorities. I have received your inquiry on Elon Musk and the Treasury Department and appreciate you bringing it to my attention!
I reached out to the Treasury Department to get clarity on the recent happenings of the department and here is their response:
I am writing in response to your letter … regarding payment systems operated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
The Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service) operates vital payment systems for the federal government, and those systems should promote financial integrity and operational efficiency. The Fiscal Service disburses nearly 90 percent of all federal payments, in over 1.2 billion transactions per year. Treasury is committed to ensuring that the Fiscal Service is functioning in a manner consistent with the highest levels of efficiency and in accordance with the expectations of taxpayers to prevent waste, fraud and abuse.
Treasury has no higher obligation than managing the government’s finances on behalf of the American people, and its payments system is critical to that process. In keeping with that mission, Treasury is committed to safeguarding the integrity and security of the system, given the implications of any compromise or disruption to the U.S. economy. The Fiscal Service is confident those protections are robust and effective. Therefore, expanding on efforts that began under the prior Administration, Treasury has been undergoing a review of these systems to maximize payment integrity for agencies and the public.
Importantly, the ongoing review of Treasury’s systems is not resulting in the suspension or rejection of any payment instructions submitted to Treasury by other federal agencies across the government. In particular, the review at the Fiscal Service has not caused payments for obligations such as Social Security and Medicare to be delayed or re-routed. To be clear, the agency responsible for making the payment always drives the payment process. Currently, Treasury staff members working with Tom Krause, a Treasury employee, will have read-only access to the coded data of the Fiscal Service’s payment systems in order to continue this operational efficiency assessment. This is similar to the kind of access that Treasury provides to individuals reviewing Treasury systems, such as auditors, and that follows practices associated with protecting the integrity of the systems and business processes.
Mr. Krause is conducting this effort in coordination with veteran career Treasury officials, and all operational processes continue to be conducted only by career Treasury staff in accordance with all standard security, safety, and privacy standards. Mr. Krause is a longtime technology executive. His decades of experience in building companies and managing balance sheets as a chief financial officer are of great benefit to this review. In order to allow him to perform this function, he has been hired as an expert/consultant by the federal government and designated in a role commonly used across Administrations—a “special government employee” —pursuant to applicable law. This role involves a hiring process that includes a review of a candidate’s credentials and background, and demands the same ethical standards of privacy, confidentiality, conflicts of interest assessment, and professionalism of other government employees.[1] These assessments are conducted by career legal and ethics officials. Mr. Krause is subject to the same security obligations and ethical requirements, including a Top Secret security clearance.
Treasury will continue its efforts to promote efficiency and effectiveness in its operations, and to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.
[1]See https://extapps2.oge.gov/Training/OGETraining.nsf/xsp/.ibmmodres/domino/OpenAttachment/training/ogetraining.nsf/D006291C1FEC02448525869C005BD4B8/Body/EthicsLawsApplicabletoSGEs.pdf
Please let it be noted as well that on Saturday February 8, 2025 a federal judge in New York filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration essentially blocking persons within Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from making financial assessments. This is an evolving matter that myself and my team are closely monitoring at this time.
By learning what is important to my constituents, I can effectively represent Florida’s 27th District. My staff will be looking further into ways we can address this issue.
As always, I truly appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns. Please continue to send me your thoughts on how I can better represent you. The best way to keep up with my office is through Twitter (@RepMariaSalazar) and Facebook. You can also subscribe to my weekly newsletter here.
It is an honor to serve you in Congress.
Gracias!
Sincerely,
María E. Salazar
Member of Congress
My response.
Thanks for your response.
I'm sure you are paid via the Treasury from budgeted funds that Congress authorized.
SSA retirement and disability and Medicare funds come from trust funds that do not come from budgeted funds.
I wonder whether the FBI performed a background check on people like Mr. Kruase?
Also, I understand that he is enjoined and must destroy any records.
I had written to you previously in support of donations to trust funds so that they can remain solvent even if Congress does not act. I hope you will pursue it.
Thank you also for your interest in protecting humanitarian visas. I expect that most of the sponsorged aquiesence to Russs live here, many in your district. Please pursue this with other people who are similarly situated.
I also hope you have challenged any attempt to elevare Russia, a second rate world power, as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. You have supported Ukraine's sovereignty and this is the time to stand up against Putin, a war criminal.
Thanks again
Dan
IMHO that poll is bull.
At best polls are opinion and not fact.
"The question for today is, “Will we stop this assault on our democracy before it’s too late?”"
First line of defense -- over 40 lawsuits. https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/
Contempt power. https://www.fjc.gov/history/work-courts/contempt-power-federal-courts Fines can be doubled to infinity.
I'm hoping we can flip 4 Republican senators and 2 House members. Special elections.
Better - pressure from constituants. Some of them have personally lost "bigly" by elimination of government sources.
Musk is ignoring lawsuits, Vance in effect said: Make me. The few times SCOTUS rules in favor of the plaintiff is camouflage to prove that they are independent.
Damn right, Daniel! I thought I'd participate in the PEW poll I received since it was election time. It was four pages of BS. I got to the part that essentially said: even though your answer isn't here, pick one anyway. Recycled the paper.
I would like to see direct attacks on the corporate media when they fail to challenge the lies and misinformation and especially going after Fox. Families which have been torn apart by their malice and negligence should sue and spell out just how members have been indoctrinated and lured into the cult of fear mongering and xenophobia. There are surely plenty of lawyers who would be happy to file cases, and the model was created for us by the Dominion lawsuit and others.
Not just media -- all companies that are complicit.
How about companies that are losing that contributed to Trump --- shareholder derivitive suits. https://www.investopedia.com/dow-jones-today-02072025-8787563
Meanwhile Musk and the BIG Three are in competition in the automotive industry. Musk is anti- union. So long collective bargaining?
The NLRB filed a letter with the Fifth Circuit indicating it would not address SpaceX’s challenge to the agency’s constitutionality. SpaceX’s primary argument is that the Board’s structure is unconstitutional because it limits the removal of ALJs and Board members. As of today, no interested parties have stepped in to address SpaceX’s constitutional arguments in the NLRB’s stead.
The Utah Senate passed a House bill on Thursday that would outlaw public sector collective bargaining. Once signed by the governor, it will usher in one of the country’s most severe and restrictive rollbacks of union rights in recent memory. .
Every union and union member should be irate.....
Agreed. It's overwhelming. But everyone who is able should be looking for ways to oppose the fascists and the enablers and going full steam ahead. This kind of info is invaluable.
Yesterday, we discussed contacting Republican politicians who may be conflicted.
Hakeem Jeffreis says there are 20 House members.
https://substack.com/@jerryweiss
https://substack.com/@jerryweiss
Drump is not going to heal from his dis-ease. He is going to spread the virus as far as possible to normalize Trumpism. The protests around the world get no play in the American media as if they never occurred. The bubble of the American people living in seems normal. Only a movement can change the path the human ego wants to take us down. This will happen the only question is will it be for the spread of the virus or its antidote.
Hate never made anyone happy or free or solved any problems.
How deservingly tragic this feels for the culture we live in. Yet it's hard not to mourn the loss of our democratic ideals and poignant to realize the lofty values we thought we all shared lie in tatters around us. This has been a long time coming. Indigenous people we replaced and enslaved people we exploited might think it's been too long.
Our democracy?
It's been in a super-deep coma since 1968, when Tricky sabotaged LBJ's Paris peace plan.
Nowadays?
We can try to animate our democracy, not unlike Victor Frankenstein did his monster.
Otherwise, we are as William, Victor's young brother, waiting for the monster's vise grip around democracy's neck. Waiting for the pressure to increase up to strangulation level into lethality.
As for Ds on The Hill, they have neither torches nor pitchforks.
It's on us to save U.S..
D senators now say they will block all further nominaaations and they set up a whistlebleower hotline.
From:https://lafosner.medium.com/no-judge-can-block-musks-access-to-your-data-2986ff28348a
No Judge can stop Trump's acces to your personal data: He already has it.
Lt’s stop pretending, shall we? A lawless administration cares nothing for a judgment telling them to cease and desist. A lawless administration has only one response to such an order: Make me.
With the DOJ in the hands of Donald J. Trump and with Pam Bondi as Trump’s Attorney General, who do you think will force Musk to give up the access he has?
Musk has already rehired the child who resigned after the stink about his admitted racism. “Normalize Indian hate.” That was this kid’s mantra. Meanwhile, Vice President J.D. Vance supported the Musk protégé, who was also quoted as saying, “I was a racist before it was cool.” If Musk’s Nazi salute was not enough to trouble you, this should send a chill down your spine.
Putin’s playbook.
The salient point of Germany circa 1933 is the fact Christian Germans were anti-Semitic dating from the Middle Ages to the early 19th Century when some writers actually began writing on solving the "Jewish problem" with eliminationist solutions. Hitler capitalized on this latent anti-Semitism in the German psyche to make it manifest. His Brownshirts help sow fear, disorder and chaos sowing fear throughout society.
White America with some exceptions suffers from a latent problem of racism dating back to the early 1600's. There is little doubt Republicans have capitalized on this racism to their benefit and today's "Dear Leader" has made it manifest throughout white society. The "caste" system that is the source of white America's latent racism began with the arrival of the first African slaves in the 17th Century. Isabela Wilkerson's book "Caste: The Source of our Discontent" does a masterful job of explaining why racism in America is in-bedded in white America. Racism has never been tackled in a systematic fashion in America and consequently has survived for over 300 years. Any attempts of addressing it have always been met with a vigorous and at times violent push back from first the planter class, then the Confederacy and eventually the Republican Party of the last 60+ years.
Thank you. It's pretty clear if you read P2025
I'm rather stunned that people aren't in the streets by the hundreds of thousands. To say they're too busy assumes they don't really understand the depth of the crisis we're in. A vice is around our collective necks and people just haven't accepted what's being done to them. It's absolutely no different than in Nazi Germany. Give the vice another two months to complete its grip and it's going to be too late. How are we allowing it? Where are the Democrats. Friends are working politically at the local levels, but that was fine several years ago. If Trump/Musk get their way, we won't have local elections to worry about. Our country is being dismantled today, not later. Action is needed now. The hatred they're pushing is incomprehensible. Every minority is being attacked so that white nationalist men can rule here and abroad. It's truly frightening.
Pace indivisible.org, "No" is a word; "Boycott & Divest" is a plan.
Evil has learned over time to never wear its true face. It always appears as something other than what it is. Rationally speaking, this would be sound tactics. No one wants to be accused of supporting evil. But, mask and mantel it in something appealing, and arguably satisfying, and suddenly evil has its opening. The facilitator may not even be aware of their own evil. They may just be a rube who got absorbed and never had a clue. But, now they seek power and authority to justify their choices and camouflage. They desperately want to be accepted and ruthlessly work to achieve this desired position. One of the "give aways" of evil that I have witnessed over the ages is that the one who is occupied by evil forces will always promote themselves first. They never understand or know how to engage with God's Grace. They feel superior and justified in their posturing. Nothing larger than themselves has value. And so here we are.
White men.
Thank you Thom for illustrating the price of apathy so well. Hope you continue to flesh this picture out.