William Lindsey :toad:
"The illegal seizure of power isn’t just another story to be swept away in the deluge of other stories. It’s the foundational framing to understanding everything."
~ Carole Cadwalladr
#Musk #Trump #coup #TechBros #broligarchy #EconomicElites #billionaires #destruction #media #power #LawandOrder
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William Lindsey :toad:
"For anti-government ideologues, it’s important that people not have good experiences with the government. Every clean energy investment in your community, every Social Security check, every child enrolled in Head Start, every improvement in air and water quality, is a threat to right-wing ideological dominance. They know it, and they want to stop Americans from having those positive associations."
William Lindsey :toad:
"One particularly sadistic aspect of Elon Musk’s and Donald Trump’s rampage through our government is that they’re cutting programs that are popular. To some observers, that might seem like bad politics, in line with the juvenile, amateur-hour image of this administration. But the unpopularity of some of these cost-cutting moves does not represent a goofy misstep on this administration’s part. Rather, it’s exactly the point."
~ Liza Featherstone
https://newrepublic.com/article/191573/musk-trump-freeze-ira-education-environment
William Lindsey :toad:
"Being above the law—or taking upon oneself to define what legitimate law is—has been the inner logic of the Christian Right for a very long time."
#Musk #Trump #coup #TechBros #broligarchy #EconomicElites #billionaires #destruction #media #power #LawandOrder #evangelicals #ChristianRight #ChristianNationalism
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~ Kristin du Mez
https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/demons-parasites-and-the-hubris-of
William Lindsey :toad:
"The desire to be above the law has also been a popular trope inside within the tech bro world. What unites both groups is the hubris that they are the deserving ones, the ones who have access to truth and ought to have the power to do what needs to be done."
#Musk #Trump #coup #TechBros #broligarchy #EconomicElites #billionaires #destruction #media #power #LawandOrder #evangelicals #ChristianRight #ChristianNationalism
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William Lindsey :toad:
"When we experience our next wave of devastating forest fires, when significant numbers of Americans begin dying from preventable diseases and faulty medical devices, remember: These disasters will be partly the fault of arrogant, ignorant men who decided to smash up a reasonably functional government."
#Musk #Trump #coup #TechBros #broligarchy #EconomicElites #billionaires #destruction #media #power #LawandOrder
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William Lindsey :toad:
"The third characteristic of the Muskenjugend is that, like Musk himself, they’re arrogant. They believe that they can parachute into agencies and quickly identify what should be cut."
~ Paul Krugman
#Musk #Trump #coup #TechBros #broligarchy #EconomicElites #billionaires #destruction #media #power #LawandOrder
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/our-government-is-experiencing-a
William Lindsey :toad:
"So last week, when the Trump administration began laying off large numbers of probationary workers, the only real questions were how quickly it would become clear that essential government functions were being compromised and just how scary the damage would be.
And the answers were that the damage became obvious almost immediately, and some of it looks very scary indeed."
#Musk #Trump #coup #TechBros #broligarchy #EconomicElites #billionaires #destruction #media #power #LawandOrder
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