When you take a step back, it’s genuinely stunning how far any of this is from anything Trump campaigned on. It aligns perfectly w Project 2025 of course, but in terms of Trump’s public rhetoric, this was totally absent.
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Will be interesting to see how a state that shreds its own capacity to collect taxes can sustain global power status
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The last one is unpopular with his base.
And that is turning out to be Trumps Achilles heal.
Also he denied he would do a Federal ban on abortion. That's still to come in this apocalypse.
Sure is what Putin wants.
people who had started it, and canceling funding for a program Musk’s neurodivergent son was benefitting from.
If that happens, I think he will lose a LOT of support.
Unless of course tanking the market is part of the plan (so they can buy low after the crater).
Thiel (JD Vance’s backer) and a lot of the other oligarch’s favour similar schemes
No hair on fire about that?
Everyone is always taking the most mundane interpretation of his actions. Get scared already!
His dealings with all the authors of 2025 for years made it hard for anyone to miss.
Anyone who could spot an insurrection could spot the link to 2025.
Oh wait...
and end the war in Ukraine day 1
And in 10 years, I've *NEVER* been wrong in my assessment. Not. Once.
However bad you think it was, it was worse. However bad you think it is, it's worse. However bad you think it's going to be, it's going to be worse. The Trump Rule.
No slaves
No nazis
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Yeah, I know - big tax cut for rich cronies and "let them eat cake" for everyone else. But no reason whatsoever why we should put up with it.
You’re really shocked that a senile guy who stood on stage wandering about for hours… to weird elevator music and hits like WMCA…
Didn’t articulate a specific thing?
JFC.
Did you NOT know Trump was just their token?
Were you ASLEEP?
Yet, where's our Bismarck to save us? Be us Deutsch 1939 or Ami 2025, liberation comes from what army? USA (sigh) and Red Army (also sigh). Thus who?
If you aren't prepared to fight with everything you have, to show up for #TeslaTakedown protests and in other real world ways to save our democracy, then get the fuck out of the way of those of us that are
One man’s spending is another man’s income.
Nope. Voters hated it.
(from 10/24) https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/16/trump-transition-hiring-staffer-ban-00183208
If they’re being this draconian it’s bc they don’t think they’ll have to go through the motions of being elected ever again.
zero integrity - he's a Liar 🤥
shredding federal law to let Musk shred the whole government wasn't on the table
did the other vultures not see Trump’s decline during the last 2 years & campaign?
LIES.
If they are cutting half the employees.
Who and what else is getting cut from this agency?
RECIPIENTS??????
George Carlin predicted it
"They're coming for your social security"
https://youtu.be/sJeFrqBJF6E?si=M4WUXH6-3rvUyBj0
“A mandate to do WHAT, exactly?” you might ask.
Don’t worry; the mainstream press will never hold you to what you campaigned on. You do you. 👍🏻
For once.
If the press doesn't ask these questions, if they don't keep them honest, politicians will keep lying to the public.
Anyone who voted for him, voted for this.
https://theconversation.com/the-shutdown-drowning-government-in-the-bathtub-111333
But you guys decided in your quite finite wisdom that you needed to do 731 more stories about Biden’s age.
As if believing it would make it real, when it’s already real.
But this ISN'T what he campaigned on. Quite a few of his lower-info voters would be shocked—if anyone clued them in. We need 24/7 media signalboosting this to the high damn heavens!
Uh he does and doesn't give a damn
Privatize everything so they get richer and the poor get poorer.
He claimed to know nothing abt Project 2025 bc it was so unpopular.
And much of the press reprinted those lies as headlines of their campaign coverage.
I don’t expect either to really happen on a medium time horizon, but if they do it is a massive gift to the left.
People will flip shit when grandma gets her SS check late.
And get re-elected.
I can't see any way to save the US except by Putin being ousted in a coup & Russia turning away from the US, no longer supporting Trusk.
Biden should have had these clowns arrested for sedition before the election.
F THEM.
Fuck, I hate this timeline.
He waited until inauguration to rip the band-aid off.
Trump is playing with fire and eventually he will get burned.
No slaves
No nazis
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He doesn't care what happens as long as he gets his money
He said Elon would audit the entire government
He said they will look to cut a trillion dollars
He said he wanted Elon to shut down department of ED
This was also the call where Trump praised Elon for union busting
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elon-musk-government-efficiency-commission-e831ed5dc2f6a56999e1a70bb0a4eaeb
https://bsky.app/profile/urocklive1.bsky.social/post/3lizwkx57uk2e
Beyond just calling it out, we need to be smacking them in the face with the Frying Pan of Truth™️!!!
https://www.project2025.observer/?utm_source=www.garbageday.email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=so-based&_bhlid=67dfd911cb4f69e7dd34db15ff0db18469a2df0a
I hope MAGA sees this bait and switch for what it was.
And guess who is going to get audited.
This wasn’t the plan, but Trump is a moron and doesn’t know what his job is.
https://streamable.com/yuv5v1
For all the careers upended, services lost, valuable resources lost, that’s what they get.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/31/nx-s1-5280417/federal-workers-workforce-facts-cuts
is remarkably close to having Hannibal Lecter over for dinner though..
If you aren't prepared to fight with everything you have, to show up for #TeslaTakedown protests and in other real world ways to save our democracy, then get the fuck out of the way of those of us that are
Quite amazing.
He wants to be a dictator.
The reason MAGA voters refused to listen to their non-cultist friends and family was because they were ok with the racism, bigotry, and misogyny.
No one wants this tear down (other than the rich), which is why they're manufacturing consent with misinfo.
Someone is smiling.
He launched a terrorist attack to avoid jail.
It’s a shame the media covered the fantasy instead of the reality.
Belief
He was elected on bad faith.
Any member of the press who bought that bullshit should quit in shame.
Oligarchical feudalism with Nazi security is coming.
Don’t lose your job or money.
Being homeless means you get to work in prison farms/industry making some fat slug in GOP Oligarchs richer.
it's fucking infuriating
People (and *most* of the press) just ignorantly took his denial at face value.
Shit - Ray Charles could have seen this coming.
“DID ANYONE VOTE FOR THIS”
Repeat Repeat Repeat
The majority of the press didn’t care to press him/took at face value this answer despite the obvious dots to connect.
And the low info voters just went with that.
There’s an argument that we don’t deserve nice civic things
https://substack.com/@elenagreco/note/c-94652873?r=2cr5z&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(410)?wprov=sfti1#Background
Mr BIG PROMISES MADE
BIG PROMISES BROKEN