By week’s end, the Musk-Trump partnership increasingly resembled less a functional constitutional democracy and more a mafia-style racketeering organization that blended private business profit with official government power. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-musk... - ThreadSky

vermontgmg.bsky.social • 53 days ago

By week’s end, the Musk-Trump partnership increasingly resembled less a functional constitutional democracy and more a mafia-style racketeering organization that blended private business profit with official government power. https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-musk-shred-constitutional-protections-as-country-lurches-toward-mafia-state

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prudencegoodwife.bsky.social•53 days ago

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini

xtcxgr8milenko.bsky.social•52 days ago

Mussolini wasn't ever known for saying this ... but he did say:
"Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere." -Benito Mussolini, 1935, The Doctrine of Fascism, Firenze: Vallecchi Editore, p. 32

seekingserenity.bsky.social•53 days ago

📌Invaluable summary as usual.

moominpapa.bsky.social•52 days ago

Blending government and corporate power, eh? Seems I've heard that somewhere before.

lightscavenger.bsky.social•53 days ago

I'm ridiculously grateful for these two words: "unquestionably illegal" -- all the more so for their conspicuous absence in US reporting these last few weeks. Thank you.

patfeb55.bsky.social•53 days ago

Extortion as a cornerstone of the enterprise.

cmurf.com•53 days ago

Patrimonialism

marionette.bzky.team•53 days ago

So it looked more like capitalism than what we’re used to?

schmolaf.bsky.social•52 days ago

ebishirl.bsky.social•53 days ago

This is great. Every news outlet should be covering the current US regime this way, but - of course - most will not. Thanks for the clear-eyed take on what's happening.

sprywit.bsky.social•53 days ago

Grifter-in-Chief

samhalpert.bsky.social•53 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaerlich.bsky.social/post/3lkqutmqdzs22

billymusicguy.bsky.social•53 days ago

RICO STATUTE
RICO STATUTE
RICO STATUTE

noncynic.bsky.social•53 days ago

That would require

- a DoJ willing to prosecute
- a president who won't pardon violations of federal law

billymusicguy.bsky.social•53 days ago

very true, very ugly.

billyisagoat.bsky.social•53 days ago

They seem to be HATCH’ing quite a few efforts….

ccdude8.bsky.social•52 days ago

Mussolini style fascism.

hopefulbob.bsky.social•53 days ago

Graff hits it on the head: "Weeks after some of the nation’s normally independent prosecutors pledged fealty to Musk & promised to back his junta forces with their law enforcement resources, it is increasingly impossible to tell where Musk’s business empire ends and the official government begins."

darwinwoodka.bsky.social•53 days ago

elect a mob boss get a mob

blhiiii.bsky.social•53 days ago

This Mafia thing has legs.

42eyes2ears.bsky.social•53 days ago

It's kinda shocking to me firefights haven't broken out in DC amongst the Feds themselves.

tpasinet.bsky.social•53 days ago

CC: @slotkin.senate.gov, @debbiedingell.house.gov

No money and no votes for Ds until they change their leadership and start fighting.

xtcxgr8milenko.bsky.social•52 days ago

This kind of thinking leads to Trump Supporting Republicans gaining ground... though I agree that leadership needs to be held feet to the fire responsible, not voting for Dems at all is enough to lead to unwanted results.

tpasinet.bsky.social•52 days ago

Rs have already gained the ground they need to install fascism. By not using what power they have, Ds have effectively surrendered completely. They are no longer an effective political party let alone an opposition party.

unlabeledelder.bsky.social•51 days ago

It's fascism.

Call it fascism.

barrybarnes.bsky.social•53 days ago

aka: the Kremlin klepto model

vbe-banshee.bsky.social•53 days ago

It IS a racketeering organization.

fry69.dev•53 days ago

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