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"Yes. It’s horrible. Everything is horrible. But this Gaetz nomination (along with the other two) may finally convince people that Trump really is the menace to America that Democrats and never-Trumpers have been warning he was. There may be no better person than Gaetz to convince the Republicans who hate him how poor Trump’s judgment is."
~ Marcy Wheeler
Let's hope. Let's hope that the chaos Trump is inducing, his attempt to break the government and expose it to ridicule — serving Putin's wildest dreams — shows many of us including some Republicans who a clown show he runs.
I have my doubts, though, that his supporters will see any of this anytime soon. I doubt, frankly, that the chaos they've willingly helped set in motion, which will immiserate them along with their "enemies," will open their eyes.
Helping to usher in a fascist regime, as many Germans did in the Nazi period, inevitably leads to chaos, rubble, destruction — including for the very people who made the decision to help the process.
But getting people to see the folly of their very stupid, blind choices even when everything is in rubble around them: that's not easy.
I have German friends who were children during WWII.
Several of them tell me that getting their parents, other elders, friends of that generation, to acknowledge that they made a colossal mistake in colluding with the Nazis was never possible. Their parents and elders could not and would not admit that they had made horrible choices even when the error of their ways was glaringly obvious in the destroyed nation all around them.
"Trump's choice of Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard for top roles signals darkness and chaos ahead. … This shows right off the bat that MAGA chaos is going to reign."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #Gaetz #MattGaetz #chaos
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily-blast-with-greg-sargent/id1728152109
"All the cabinet picks and staffing announcements this week prove that the Jeremiahs among us were right in advance — and what might be left will be lament in the coming rubble."
~ Diana Butler Bass
"There will be a reversal of human rights, an erosion of safety for millions of people (and, sadly, including the nations we influence around the world), the rejection of basic principles of the law, and an increasing enslavement of democracy to oligarchs and billionaires.
That’s what Christian nationalists want. That’s Project 2025."
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #chaos #WhiteChristianNationalists
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"There is no conceivable argument from US national interests to propose Tulsi Gabbard for that most critical position. She has zero relevant experience. The only thing for which she is known is her support of Putin (and Assad). Her candidacy is, quite literally, a proposal that can only have emerged in Moscow, where she is known as a "Russian agent" or as 'our girlfriend.'"
~ Timothy Snyder
"These choices aren’t just shocking. They’re sending the message that Donald Trump cares about loyalty over basic competence. And perhaps more importantly, they’re setting a norm from the beginning: that no matter what Trump does, he expects Republicans to comply."
~ Jill Filipovic
"Trump is giving his middle finger to America.
Nominating the alleged sexual trafficker Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General, Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense, and bizarro Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence, are acts of nihilistic disruption."
~ Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-wants-robert-f-kennedy-jr-to
I don't think I'll ever wrap my head around how it is that these criminal conmen grifting Mob-style Robber Barons so successfully duped 75M voters...
I know they did.
Just not sure I'll ever be able to achieve the mental gymnastics to fully understand voters embracing it.
Especially for a 2nd time.
@wdlindsy@toad.social@lupus_blackfur I ask that question, too, but because I grew up in the US South during the Civil Rights period and saw first-hand the bitter determination of many of my fellow white Southerners to resist rights for people of color and to believe all kinds of nonsense to justify that resistance, I have long seen how factors like racism get many of us to vote, over and over, against our self-interest. Racism (and other -isms) is a powerful drug, and a powerfully stupefying one.
Yes.
My circumstances very similar.
Was as stupefied by it then as I am now.
As a young-un, I remember the juxtaposition between "who I think I am" and "is what they are what they want me to be... What I'm supposed to be"...
Very confusing until I was old enough that "who I think I am" took over.
@lupus_blackfur I hear you. Your journey sounds much like mine. Glad to meet a kindred soul.