People are rightly worried about Elon getting into the treasury and stopping payments he personally dislikes. But if you have that access to the checkbook, you can also write new ones. Where might that money be going? The potential for corruption is unlimited
Trump & Musk are threatening to cancel entire Christian denominations that don't support them loudly enough, and happy to let people starve just to punish Lutherans.
Trump & Elon want to replace the dollar with crypto because they can own even more of it, have full control of it, and thus even more control of you www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
"Trump already unleashed his Jan 6th terrorists on us. Several are convicted child molesters, one killed in a shootout with police, and another just killed an innocent person by drunk driving. Which of Trump's biggest fans will kill someone else next?"
You start to realize that there's an evil bargain at work here: MAGA accepts people who should have no role in any decent society, specifically because those people will happily pledge total loyalty to any movement or faction that gives them permission to be utterly indecent.
"You hear constantly about DEI from these guys. Just know that in their minds DEI means 'fire people who aren't white'. It's their real goal, and what they want. Otherwise, why would they intentionally tank the EEOC - the folks who help make sure that 'whites only' hiring policies remain illegal?"
"Trump & Elon have decided to just shut down the US government. Good luck getting your social security checks or payment for your medicaid bills. But what do you want to bet that SpaceX is still getting their cash? And maybe getting yours now too?"
I think Dem Rep. Sean Casten gets it.
“If you are a Senator right now confirming ANY Trump nominee who will not unambiguously defend their oath to the Constitution even if that means standing up to Trump you are completely misunderstanding the risk of this moment." www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
"Republicans are spineless cowards, refusing to stop trump from ruining the US government. Take Thom Tillis - people are saying that he asked Hegseth's sister-in-law to testify about his abusive drunkeness. But he then approved Hegseth anyway. Rolls right over for the wanna-be dictator."
Soft-pedaling helps no one. How about this: "Trump is tying to make you unemployed and hungry. He's shutting down the programs that democrats worked hard to get Minnesota: school lunches, money to keep our rural hospitals going, and farm support. I'll stop the Senate until he undoes this."
"Trump has turned the US government into a group of lawless thugs. They're out there arresting any US citizens who look less white than they might like. Want your mom in lockup for no reason? Your sister, son, or daughter? Speak up and fight back against every republican you know."
"Trump is coming for unions because that's what all of his front-row billionaires are paying him for. He's tearing up the constitution to eliminate the only people who might try to stop him. It's totally corrupt, and designed to send your money to the assholes who already have all of it."
You literally couldn’t design a worse Democratic response to Trump in a lab. This abandons democracy, gaslights the Dem base, encourages other media to underreact to Trump, cedes attention, all while ensuring Dems continue to focus on the issues they KEEP LOSING ON.
When i say the Democratic leadership has no clue what to do in this moment, this. is what I mean.
useless
"Trump is firing the government employees who get the real work done, and replacing them with political cronies whose whole purpose is to loot your tax dollars and put it in republican's pockets. Totally corrupt from top to bottom."
"Trump has given out fake quotas for his immigrant round-ups. It's like a speed-trap in a small town: a cop spending all day busting people for nothing instead of working on real crimes. So they'll arrest all of the farm workers & bus drivers, while real criminals go free."
"Trump is taking everything we built and just kicking the country in the nuts. Scientists working on cancer? Stopped & kicked in the nuts. Building anything with computer chips? Tariffs that raise the price and kick consumers in the nuts. Total incompetence. Just the stupidest people in charge now."
"Did you know Trump is trying to bring back HIV? Millions of people died from it before drugs were invented to control it. Now Trump is shutting off those drugs. And some of his idiotic health nominees even believe it's not a real disease. These people will kill you and your family for trumpism."
"Urges the wanna-be dictator to do what he politely requests, thus re-enforcing the dictator's power to do it at all"
"It's the end of the world for Republicans when normal citizens vote, because it means they lose. They only win if they can rig the system with bogus rules, fake IDs, and ridiculous districts that only have Republicans in them. Voters only have power if they can fire the corrupt people in office."
"I have one power as a Senator, and that's to slow shit down. Remember Tuberville pausing all approval for new Generals? I'm doing that for everything until this is stopped. We'll make it clear what Democrats stand for, and dare the republicans to stand up of the country instead of just for Trump"
"Trump and the republicans want to hold disaster aid to California until we rig elections the same way that Texas, Florida, and other anti-democratic shitholes have done. We'll preserve voting rights of our citizens above all else, and stop all congressional action until CA gets what it deserves."
"So Trump has shut down cancer research and lots of other stuff your congress voted for you to have. Where is that money going? Into Trump's pocket? Into Elons? To invade fucking Greenland? It's all so corrupt, and republicans are letting it happen."
"Did you know trump has shut down all environmental protections? Now companies can put whatever they want in your drinking water and no one will bat an eye. People who used to do that job are now being dragooned into squads to spy and beat up American citizens speak up against Trump. So corrupt"
"Tump is shutting down he government. I'll do everything i can to shut down congress until Republicans stand up and make him reverse course."
"Do you want Trump in charge of deciding whether you personally get your social security check? Whether your doctor who voted for a Democrat is paid for your medical care? Whether you get your VA benefits without cheering loudly enough for him? He's corrupting the whole system right in front of us."