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"The cruelty is a feature, not a bug.

After all, gratuitous, seemingly gleeful cruelty has been a hallmark of DOGE’s operations. Even if you think DOGE’s mass layoffs — some quickly reversed when it turned out that critical workers were fired — make sense, think of the way they are being carried out."

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #cruelty #SocialSecurity #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #seniors
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"In general, workers are being fired with no warning, no chance to make plans for the future, and often face insulting (and false) claims that they were poor performers."

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #cruelty #SocialSecurity #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #seniors
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"No Republican alive has felt the kind of intoxicating surge of power they are experiencing right now, not because of the size of their 2024 electoral victory but because they have collectively decided that with sufficient aggression and creativity, they can go after just about every individual or institution that ever pissed them off."

~ Paul Waldman

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #cruelty #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-real-goal-of-trumps-war-on-universities

"Even as they set about destroying the federal government, they are expanding its power to harass and intimidate their enemies wherever they may be found."

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #cruelty #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment
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"Every day we need to go through the painful ritual of waking up and reminding ourselves that none of this is normal, that we are living in an America dangerously close to a slide into tyranny. Destroying the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary is always a first step for would-be dictators. Trump is no different."

~ Joyce Vance

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #cruelty #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/john-roberts-weighs-in

"Be prepared for Trump’s own Reichstag fire, particularly if the economy continues to sour and he needs to create an emergency in order to justify an iron rule. He’s already invoked a 'national emergency' over the border to justify tariffs and the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to justify summary deportations."

~ Jay Kuo

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #cruelty #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #fascism #NationalSecurity #immigrants #deportations
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-musk-bogeymen-trojan-horses

"And from there, his 'Trojan horse' gift of using U.S. troops to, say, put down the 'riots' could become his permanent way of ruling through military force instead of by the consent of the governed."

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #cruelty #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #fascism #NationalSecurity #immigrants #deportations
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"[Judge Ana Reyes] characterizes the ban [of Trump's administration on trans soldiers] as 'soaked in animus and dripping with pretext.'”

'Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit, and its conclusions bear no relation to fact,' Reyes writes."

~ S. Baum

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #cruelty #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #fascism #trans #military
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https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/soaked-in-animus-federal-judges-strikes

"The Trump DOJ asserted that the President’s removal power is so all-encompassing that he could fire all female agency heads or those over 40 years old, without recourse. The assertion came in oral arguments at the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in a consolidated case on the without-cause firings of members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board."

~ David Kurtz

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #cruelty #women #misogyny
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-suffers-series-of-court-setbacks