Notices by huntingdon (huntingdon@mstdn.social)

@Infoseepage

Wealth has always been accumulated by violence.

"Thousands of US health agency workers laid off in overhaul led by RFK Jr."

"Overhaul?" Given the context of the destruction Trump has wrought across the USG in a little over two months, that headline is malpractice.

Bobby Kennedy is following Trump's order. Like his peers, he's destroying the agency he's in charge of, because Trump's patrons believe it should never have been part of the USG. The sociopathic Kennedy is the perfect tool for the job.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/trump-health-agency-layoffs-cuts

@georgetakei

Congratulations, George!

@GottaLaff

As many speculated, political leadership forced the loading of Signal onto secure govt devices - in violation of standing protocols to avoid it - precisely so that it could be used to discuss the secret workings of govt and to keep those discussions secret from that govt by setting it to auto-delete. That almost certainly constitutes serial criminal violations of the law.

@spocko @GottaLaff

The Trump administration's argument -- that citizens cannot access their earned benefits through SSA, unless Elmo the Dick is allowed access to their most sensitive private data -- is normally called extortion, a felony.

@maskedscheduler

Trump loves the poorly educated because he loves himself.

Chuck Schumer is playing hide the pea. He says we're not at the point where democracy is at risk. He then switches gears to say that a govt shutdown does not threaten democracy. No shit, Schumer. It's the President and Congress that are threatening democracy.

A lawyer for Tom Homan admits that some of those swept up and deported to a country they've never been to committed no crime. But they might, so we were entitled to deport them.

The argument is facetious. Not coincidentally, it could be used against any target group, their followers, fellow travelers, and anyone found on the same street.

This vicious arrogance and cruelty will become more extreme as Trump becomes more desperate to show that he's an untouchable king.

@DemocracyMattersALot

Like Trump, RFK Jr has been swallowed by his childhood trauma, and wants to make the whole world pay for it.

@georgetakei

Well, and except for Trump's Visa Goldcard immigrants and the retainers they bring with them and pay for.

When the govt tells a federal judge, "We're not telling you the facts - and you can't make me," the facts are really bad. It's similar to obstruction: you commit obstruction, which carries severe penalties, generally because the penalties for an underlying crime are even worse.

"Major News Outlets Edit Out Trump's Insanity In Oval. AP, Foreign Policy.com, and GlobalNews.ca omitted Trump's "Hunter Biden's bathroom" rant from *their transcripts* of Friday's Oval Office ambush of Zelensky"

Those were important aspects to Trump's rant. Censoring them normalizes Trump's chaos, personalization of policitics, and probable dementia. It's NOT news coverage.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/major-news-outlets-edit-out-trumps

@GottaLaff

Trump wants to exclude govt spending from calculations of GDP. Well, he is an expert at cooking the books. Can't wait to see what Paul Krugman has to say about the consequences of that.

"Kennedy Jr backtracks and says US measles outbreak is now a ‘top priority’ for health department. Health secretary earlier said outbreak was ‘not unusual’ but with first US measles death in decade steps up response."

Bobby Jr probably spent more time at Harvard selling drugs than attending class. But he's used to pulling his own strings, and doesn't know what to do when someone is pulling is. The safest and most responsible thing he could do for all of us is resign.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-health-department

@GottaLaff

Which means that Trump had already planned to shut off aid to Zelensky before this debacle, which is one reason it happened as it did. Trump always needs someone else to blame for what he chooses to do.

SecDef Pete Hegseth is a drinking alcoholic, serial abuser, and avatar of a DEI hire. His last and most senior command was running a Fox News entertainment show. But he had the balls to repeat a White House-initiated smear campaign.

He *wondered* out loud whether former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, C.Q. Brown Jr -- a four-star Air Force General with an impeccable record, whom he fired yesterday -- was promoted because of his race. No, like most of his peers, he was promoted in spite of it.

@salixsericea

I'm surprised Trump's KGB codename wasn't "Boris and Natasha."

"Head of ICE removed as Trump 'frustrated' by low deportation numbers."

As if it were needed, firing your acting head of ICE a little over a month into his tenure, because he hasn't met the quota for some fantastical number of people deported, says all we need to know about the reality of Trump's project.

It ain't about crime, or safety, or a chaotic immigration process that needs reform. It's about the propaganda of making Trump look good.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-deportation-2671195598/

@tfiebig @bitboxer

IBM's Tom Watson took a recurring fee on every one of those machines, and all the ones used by Nazi Germany throughout the Reich.

Born in 1874, he was IBM's chairman 1914-1956. His machines and their punch cards (millions, only available through IBM) were site and use specific. He knew where each was and the commission due on it. They kept the Nazi railroads running, and managed the "throughput" at Nazi labor and death camps.

@georgetakei

Why not. That giant magnet is what keeps Donny's hair up.