8/ What could Trump demand as part of a quiet loyalty pledge?
Public shows of support from executives for all his economic policy. Contributions to his political efforts. Promises to police employees’ support for his political opposition.
Public shows of support from executives for all his economic policy. Contributions to his political efforts. Promises to police employees’ support for his political opposition.
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As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.
https://bsky.app/profile/nickgilpin.bsky.social/post/3llvsaczsrc2v
Trump didn’t invent this strategy. It’s the playbook for democratically elected leaders who want to stay in power forever.
Torch the economy
Enshrine monopoly
Decimate social safety net
Nullify independent judiciary/legal profession
Handcuff dissent
Hamstring voting, buy elections
Centralize/arm surveillance/security/military forces
= compliant, watched, desperate, hopeless, powerless, cheap, trapped feudal labor
https://jlmccoy.substack.com/p/when-bullies-strike
but to establish a system where the people are completely unnecessary.
~ Hannah Arendt, ‘The Origins of Totalitarionism’
But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs.
The people still have the power.
https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909416/is-the-nerd-reich-taking-over-the-government
WWE.
Don't fall for Mitch McConnell and his accountabuki.
Schumer seems to think the court will save agencies, public service staff and assets taxpayers bought/built.
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Remember he’s a grifter.
Everyone that wants to get out from under a tariff will have to pay for “protection”.
He will try to keep it secret of course but you’ll know who paid.
With tRump there are always devious reasons for what he does. Glad you are on top of it. Now all the American 🇺🇸people need to rise up and push back!
Owning YOUR Power
Deminishes tRump!
https://bsky.app/profile/economist.com/post/3llvl4efjos23
👇Klemlin's most trusted financial operator/messenger is in Washington.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/world/europe/russia-envoy-us-visit-trump-dmitriev.html
- Economic blackmail, using state levers to control civil society
- Conditional loyalty, where dissent is punished through denial of economic opportunity
Your thread should have started, “Y’all, we’re thoroughly fucked.”
There is no emergency justifying Trump's emergency actions!!!
Deny unanimous consent to EVERYTHING until the tariffs are lifted. Demand the power back, or shut everything down.
Do they exist?
Why the need to legislate against something that’s already refuted by our Constitution?
& also keep the people starving and working 3 jobs so they won’t have time to protest
At what point do they realize that their silence is killing our future?
Steps to a real DEMOCRACY
Exposure + Motivation + Coalition building + Revolution
Exposure: Tariffs - WTF https://www.keithalanhamilton.com?p=10821
tap/click image to read
Yes, you read that right. We’re taxing nothing from no one.
And the world is watching 🌓✨
https://substack.com/@shadowandlight1/note/p-160474075?r=32a29y&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
'This is not a fight to win. This is a fight to fight'
Die with the boots on
No surrender
If you do not even know what a plan looks like, you can't get us out of this.
'Here's what the problem is, and Here's what we can do.' Paraphrased.
But no, you’ll all just narrate whats going on and hope someone else does something
You didn't do that.
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Dems got only 4 votes, but did get them.
Now it goes to the house where Mike Johnson is blocking it from a vote
unfortunately...
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I typically do not agree with Rand Paul, but his comments regarding abuse of power was spot on this afternoon.
Thank you Senator for your continued efforts to fight for what is right.
Also a reminder Trump has a bank account in China and paid more in taxes to China than the U.S.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/21/donald-trump-china-bank-account-nearly-200000-taxes-report
Now what the fuck are YOU going to do about it, SENATOR?!?!?!
Spoiler Alert:
IT’S CONGRESS!!!
these vague bromides are why we as your constituents are PISSED OFF at you, our Democratic leadership. Give me and others a clear call to action. "Get out on April 5 to a hands off protest event and yell like your life depends on it!"
#PassTheTorchChuck
And thanks for everything else you do for our democracy.
Can we get around Johnson?
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Any Republicans that lost a job today send a thank you card to Mike.
, thanks for your clarity on tariffs.
I wonder what they are doing in the archives.
Trump isn't that smart, but he understands blackmail very well.
also it's not at ALL clear that bending the knee to this fucko actually gets what you paid for.
which is a pretty good reason to yknow not comply in advance.
and yet.
Read Dr. Sarah Kendzior
Call your congressman and tell them that there is no state of emergency and to block the tariffs
Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121
Tariff-loving moron?
YES!
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Putin, Musk, Trump, RFK Jr and all the rest of the human chain saws are destroying our country, our livelihoods — and our lives.
Please keep doing what you’re doing and get others to speak plainly about ALL of this. 🚨🚨🚨
Why? Because they don’t want us to be independent individuals.
They want to control us: what we think (library, universities, education depart), what we learn (news orgs), who defends us (law firms), and how we survive (economy).
WAKE UP PEOPLE!
#HandsOff, all way off!
+ #TeslaTakedown / #BoycottTesla = all for one, one for all, all for love of one another❣️
A better #USA is ours for the making 🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇸
What's next, because we'd better plan a what's next.
Work stoppage (national sick in)?
Farmers drive tractors into d.c., other capitols, clog streets and disrupt? Like Europeans have done?
Other ideas, next year's elections ARE REALLY CLOSE.
I saw his spokesperson effectively saying that he could overturn a court judgement because the judge worked for the DOJ
How will the party block anything he says he can do?
Trump wants the power and the money while his cronies want Project 2025.
But why isn’t there one Republican brave enough to take this man on? What is hanging over their heads?
He's an evil lil' twit.
I hope it happens but I’m incredibly scared of the Republican capitulation to authoritarianism.
Much more quickly than I imagined.
#OustTeamFelon47
#TheFilibooker #CoryBooker #RockOnSenator #GoodTrouble #ComeOnDems #MeetTheMoment #WeNeedSomeHeroes #Rise
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-03-theyre-not-tariffs-theyre-sanctions/
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What is the mechanism to remove the current Leader?
Meet our new reciprocal TARIFF. #CatsEatNazis4Snacks
Malignant narcissists have a need for power and control and will do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, even if it means harming others in the process. They are often prone to fits of rage and can be physically violent towards those who cross them.
And somewhere along the line, he's going to steal something huge. It's not about power, it's about money. We need to be ready, catch him red-handed, and persecute.
Those guardrails do not exist this time. He has removed every Inspector General and Jag Officer that could stop him. He has explicitly prepped the DOD for this eventuality. You just know hegseth is primed.
It's how the mafia, drug lords and African warlords have been doing it for ages though not on a world scale.
I see all this.
But he is elderly and physically weak. What about when he dies and we have a President Vance?
-run authoritarian state.
Hello?!
Congress gets to wield Tariff policy, not executive.
Republicans in both the House and the Senate will absolutely NOT stop him now
DJT & Co are taking scissors to our economic nutsack & are cutting it clean off
Prong 1: DOGEings, clawbacks, shutdowns & defunding
Prong 2: currency & stock manipulations, tariffs, CryptoCrap, sovereign wealth fund & 180 alliance shifts
Bullshit. We sent Democrats to control the White House, Senate and House immediately after Trump's coup attempt.
It is fucking outrageous that our Democratic representatives let the leaders of an insurrection get off scott free, enabling them to try again to seize power.
You had the power, we gave it to you, we trusted you, and you failed hard.
Don't bullshit us that we are the ones that have to fix it. We aren't given the privilege of serving in the Senate.
If you want us to solve it, at least give us access to your cafeteria and gym, it's only right.
Do I sound pissed off, Senator? Cause I am!
We can only fix this TOGETHER. Not just throw it on the people. Feels like a cop-out.
We asked for recounts: Nada
We asked for #14thNow: Nada
Leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers? They were still just foot soldiers, not the leaders of the coup.
MAGA ignores rules, precedent, ethics...
Dems are stuck within the old handbook, playing by the 'rules', they won't even try to wield power when they have it.
It's gotta change, the fascists are rolling over Democrats, who seem incapable of rising to the occasion.
We know it’s a part of a plan to screw us all.
Now what?
https://bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3llw4ma4vp22f
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03/27/three-prominent-yale-professors-depart-for-canadian-university-citing-trump-fears/
There's something called skyview to help with that. Now you can share it anywhere
https://skyview.social?url=https://...
But, he should be withholding unanimous consent on every vote.
How do people still not understand this?
▪️make shitloads of noise on TV & SM
▪️Since 2016 we've been hearing about the private grumblings of conservatives—time to peel them away, if we get one, we can get more
▪️Restoring separation of powers would demonstrate that Trum ain't God
It's past time for democrats to do a full court press.
▪️make shitloads of noise on TV & SM
▪️Restoring separation of powers would demonstrate that Trum ain't God
4 Sen x over 2 resend Canadian tariffs.
GOP Reps x over 2 on remote vote
(johnson did not have the votes, so he cancelled)
It is the start of the beginning
We need to support any resistance voices,
No matter how small, or political POV
Remember
gop NOT🟰republican
maga NOT🟰conservative
#resist
It’s sad that Congress, from the beginning, has been silent.
It’s sad that Congress nominated all the buffoons completely incapable.
A guy who’s anti-vaccine, a bimbo who’s pro-Russia.
It’s unbelievable that you’re only understanding now.
This serves their purpose (P2025)
It is not sad. It is infuriating.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
They were far ahead up to the Trump tariffs / 51st state baloney, so we have to thank him for that.
Confederates do not believe in democracy or laws. They believe in violence and coercion to enforce their twisted social order.
The US will need a second Reconstruction after this Trump term, if it even survives
Be better.
https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/no-evidence-2012-trump-post-calling-impeachment-if-dow-drops-by-1000-points-2025-03-11/
They have no 🏀🏀.
Thank you very much for the thread.
The examples are rife. A majority or Republicans in power are fine with what is happening.
All of us, and a few democrat leaders, are the response to this crisis.
Strap in.
You need to make yourselves on the left bigger than the threat. How? I'm not sure, but we can explore.
Check the link below to see when, where, and time Hands Off
is happening and your state.
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
https://bsky.app/profile/thejenniwren.teamlh.social/post/3llmlo5znsc24
https://touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/protesting-under-fascism/
198 Ideas
https://www.brandeis.edu/peace-conflict/pdfs/198-methods-non-violent-action.pdf
Important Book
https://fullspectrumresistance.org/
Pranks
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501756061/pranksters-vs-autocrats/#bookTabs=1
Gum Up Autocracy
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
Radical Care
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349800/pirate-care/
I especially liked the Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services. Originally created for use during WWII.
It's Putin.
It's the federalist society.
It's the heritage foundation.
It's the Republican party.
They've been working on this for 50 years, maybe longer.
Trump is the patsy, effective because he's the master of distraction. They point, he signs.
Those factions seem like they would definitely prefer a system that forces fealty, even if their beloved market crashes first.
“We should be aware of the demagogues.”
he set the stage for this
plenty of better people have said better things about the subject
fuck reagan
Perhaps?
It was to enable southern states to continue using armed slave militias to chase down escaped slaves.
by and large congressional democrats are coming through this just fine
25th needs to be invoked now. How can Repubs be so dumb. They are being led off a bridge.
https://bsky.app/profile/shriketron.bsky.social/post/3ll4miemcoc2d
In any case the sheer magnitude of chaos required to get this Congress to impeach Trump? It would be so breathtaking, Congresscritters might sooner flee D.C. on foot.
Then GOP might go against him
We need a more direct hammer like mass protests.
We need buy in from Celebrities, Sports figures, Churches, labor unions (what's left of), influencers. Basically the "normies".
this helps them achieve Project 2025
No autopsy, quickly-planned funeral, oversized-heavy coffin for ashes???
That's not going to work
walk out of your jobs close your bank accounts draw the money out and bury it in the garden , just buy essential food and take to the streets
he would be removed within weeks
#SelfCoup
#Autogolpe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup
Earn your fucking votes.
It's always waahh, we don't have 50 votes to pass things. Waahh, we don't have 60 votes to break the filibuster. Republicans have no issue holding things up whenever they're out of power.
Look up unanimous consent.
Bingo! That's what I said. He doesn't even know how to spell tariffs, let alone know what the ramification of them can cause. This is Vought and Stephen Miller
https://theplotagainstamerica.com
https://theplotagainstamerica.com/
She was correct when she warned us.
I put all hope in us, the people,the anonymous cloud. #3E
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/republicans-trump-threats
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Senate Democrats need to do more, or we'll find someone else who will.
No, withholding unanimous chosen and voting “no” are not in any way like “crying wolf.” Handing him those things on a platter makes no sense whatever.
And how many of those have you tried to roll into being sane people in the last 8 years
Yelling at the battered wife that she's complicit in her abuse is unhelpful, even if it might be accurate
The longer that fuck sits there the worse it it.
its project 2025 to the letter and they will put us on the street.
I have been looking for someone to say this, and befuddled by economists and the talking heads of the stock market talking in circles and at a loss.
This is why the liberal arts in education are so important.
That said I'd be interested in what u would do as a Dem Senator right now.
The 'how we fight back' bit is disappointingly short though.
I don't necessarily believe it, but I hope so.
I actually don’t have a clue. I’m just throwing ideas around. :)
But Shitler is the only one of them with the powerful hold over his cult-like base. Without him, Maga falls apart.
he’s a psychopath
Massive, idiotic grift that will destroy our democracy & crash markets.
But, hey, the oligarchs will buy low/sell high with their billions insulating them from the economic consequences.
Look at how many businesses raised prices due to "covid inflation" under Biden, yet also reported record profits.
Yeah wonder who got that unneeded job out of nowhere.
Ok
Depression Incoming
Stay strong! Stay mad! Channel your anger into action.
https://Handsoff2025.com
He was always in the Star Enquirer or some other gossip rag weekly
Kings (and the aristocracy) do whatever they want, and peons just suck it up and give up all their hard-worked earnings.
He did not anticipate the rebellion from other countries or the pure hatred for musk and his little twits.
Sacrificing social security while the stock market is crashing shows just how amateurish they are.
Now stop grand standing and do your damn job
When MAGA says this is like a kitchen renovation, you say: “They forget to say the end where you run out of money to finish the job, and you’re stuck with an unfinished kitchen. And a house you can’t sell.”
he is a mobster and an extortionist.
Complex dynamic systems cannot be reset brutally.
Prev tarrifs
Ming dynasty
Cultural revolution
Every office restructure
Mergers
Trumpcession coming right up!
Wonder how many cops will “volunteer” to escort Trump’s motorcade next time.
He’s not a rocket scientist, he is shaking down the world economy one law office, one social media company, one university, one country and one global company at a time.
Thanks to John Roberts and a corrupt SCOTUS, there is no recourse.
Follow the money. Literally, someone follow the money.
Don the Con
Because there were signed checks, a paper and money trail.
Crypto solves all those problems. That’s why kidnappers, extortionists, & trump prefer it. Eric Trump, leading their family crypto effort, went on TV TODAY urging countries to step up quickly.
Step 2: Crash the economy
Step 3: Provoke civil unrest
Step 4: Declare martial law
Step 5: Suspend democratic elections
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=q26w2Wa-oJisJ1_r
something around 1,400 for former lands that went belly up that are still sitting on the market. Those will go first.
He does it all the time!
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5224229-trump-makes-history-by-pardoning-a-corporation/
Its embarrasaing!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/premiers-washington-lobbyist-checkmate-1.7458770
challenge and debate.
Dictators eliminate people until they have "loyalty."
How Trump swindled every one a second time would be hard to understand...but MAGAdonians make up around half of American voters...so...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/premiers-washington-lobbyist-checkmate-1.7458770