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Heather Cox Richardson offers a valuable explanation of why Musk-Trump are dismantling the federal government and how they're accomplishing this:
"Last month, journalist Gil Duran of The Nerd Reich noted that Curtis Yarvin, a thinker popular with the technological elite currently aligned with the religious extremists at Project 2025, laid out a plan in 2022 to gut the U.S. government and replace it with a dictatorship."
"Yarvin called for 'giving absolute sovereignty to a single organization,' headed by the equivalent of the rogue chief executive officer of a corporation who would destroy the public institutions of the democratic government. ...
If the administration is working not to save money but rather to destroy the government, the cuts that threaten the well-being of American citizens make more sense."
#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #dictatorship #authoritarianship #Yarvin #Project2025
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Ruthlessly gut government so that one can seize control of the carcass and do what one wishes with it:
"Today, Emily Davies and Jeff Stein of the Washington Post reported that Trump officials are looking for cuts of between 8% and 50% of the employees in federal agencies. ...
Washington Post reporters Lisa Rein and Hannah Natanson warn that 'Social Security is breaking down.'”
#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #dictatorship #Yarvin #Project2025 #SocialSecurity
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@wdlindsy@toad.social"In a televised Cabinet meeting on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she planned to 'eliminate FEMA,' the Federal Emergency Management Agency that responds to national emergencies like hurricanes."
#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #dictatorship #Yarvin #Project2025 #SocialSecurity #FEMA #KristiNoem #NaturalDisasters
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"Yesterday, Apoorva Mandavilli, Margot Sanger-Katz, and Jan Hoffman reported in the New York Times that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has suddenly cancelled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states. That money supported mental health services, addiction treatment, and programs to track infectious diseases."
#Musk #Trump #Yarvin #Project2025 #dictatorship #FederalGovernment #HHS
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"Today HHS announced it will be cutting 10,000 employees on top of the 10,000 who have already left and the more than 5,000 probationary workers who were fired last month."
#Musk #Trump #Yarvin #Project2025 #dictatorship #FederalGovernment #HHS
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"Across human history, fascism has been imposed upon democracy mostly in one of two ways. First, by brute force—a military coup, that sort of thing. Second, a bit more stealthily, and legally—through legislation, executive decrees, and court decisions that hand more power to the leader."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Musk #Trump #Project2025 #fascism #FederalGovernment #chaos #destruction #ChaosFascism
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"Donald Trump is inventing a new way. Call it chaos fascism. Destroy the institutions of democracy until they’re so disfigured or dysfunctional that a majority no longer cares about them.
That’s exactly what’s happening with Social Security."
#Musk #Trump #Project2025 #fascism #FederalGovernment #chaos #destruction #ChaosFascism
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"Trump will orchestrate no military coup. The Republican Congress will probably pass no laws that make Trump president for life. That would be too obvious. What they’ll do is make stealthier moves across the board that discredit and destroy our democratic institutions until he and his billionaire friends can strip them for parts. Chaos fascism is here to stay."
#Musk #Trump #Project2025 #fascism #FederalGovernment #chaos #destruction #ChaosFascism
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Driving what Musk-Trump are doing, Dave Troy thinks, is end-times fervor:
"In common across all of these is prophecy about some future time when the foretold will be realized. The ideologues who have captured our government believe that future is happening now — and it's impossible to overstate the danger we are in. They believe they have permission to follow their own rules — which they are making up on the fly."
#Musk #Trump #Project2025 #chaos #destruction
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https://america2.news/why-signalgate-marks-our-official-descent-into-end-times-ideology/
"Perhaps, in retrospect, the most important turning point in the evolution of the contemporary far-right elite occurred in April 2020, just a month into a pandemic that would ultimately become a mass extinction event, killing more than seven million people worldwide. Condemning public health restrictions, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said, 'There are more important things than living.'”
~ Liza Featherstone
#Musk #Trump #Project2025 #chaos #destruction
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https://newrepublic.com/article/193290/trump-musk-cancer-nuclear-bird-flu
@wdlindsy Hitler, and many of his fiercest detractors as well, fully believed that Naziism was here to stay. They touted a thousand-year reich that only existed for twelve years. Twelve really shitty years, but that was it. Not that it would’ve ended without violence, and I don’t see this one passing peacefully either, though it may die of its own incompetence rather than succumbing to outside foes or revolution.
@wdlindsy Chaos fascism is a good assessment of the current regime, but the idea is about as brilliant and eternally sustainable as something created by a not particularly bright 12-year old bully. Shock, horror and a lot of co-conspirators in the judicial and legislative branches have set the country back on its heels, but that’s not going to last.
@wdlindsy Trump and his cronies seem unaware that the only thing keeping them alive is widespread respect for the law. When that’s gone this country splits open. What comes after that may not be something we want(it probably won’t), but they aren’t gonna be running it.
@wdlindsy
If all the extremely poor little grandparents in the Deep South don’t get their Social Security money, there will be a social emergency beyond compare. I don’t think most middle class people realize that poverty stricken people live on a tiny amount, especially the rural poor. These old, decrepit elders will be out on the streets very quickly. Probably less than a month. And many of them feed the grandchildren from that money.
@sparkleskydonna You're absolutely right. My own Southern grandparents, none of whom had much money, wouldn't have made it economically without Social Security. That program is one of the best things that has ever happened to the very people now voting across the white South to empower the people who want to take it away from those who need it.
@wdlindsy Is Musk trying to implement Gilded Age eugenics?
https://news.gsu.edu/research-magazine/wrestling-with-the-legacy-of-eugenics-paul-lombardo
