Notices by janhoglund (janhoglund@mastodon.nu)

”Since Musk poured $290 million into getting Trump elected in 2024 and then burst into the news with his “Department of Government Efficiency,” he has seemed to be in control of the administration. But he has stolen the limelight from Trump, and it appears Trump’s patience with him might be wearing thin.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, April 8, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-8-2025
#musk #trump #elonmusk #donaldtrump

”With Trump’s extraordinary tariffs now threatening the global economy, some of those who once cheered on his dictatorial impulses are now recalling the checks and balances they were previously willing to undermine.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, April 8, 2025
#trump

”…Trump’s undermining of the global economy reflects forty years of Republican emphasis on the myth that a true American man is an individual who operates outside the community, needs nothing from the government, and asserts his will by dominating others.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, April 8, 2025
#trump #republicans

”…Republican leaders are worried about Trump’s voters abandoning him as prices go up and their savings and jobs disappear. After all, voters elected Trump at least in part because he promised to lower inflation and spur the economy.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, April 8, 2025
#trump #republicans

”…tariffs are paid by consumers…—Trump’s larger motivation is clear: he wants to get rid of income taxes.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, April 7, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-7-2025
#trump #tariffs

”Income taxes spread costs more evenly, according to a man’s ability to pay. The switch from tariffs to income taxes helped to break the power of the so-called robber barons, the powerful industrialists who controlled the U.S. economy and government in the late nineteenth century.
—Heather Cox Richardson, April 7, 2025
#trump #tariffs #oligarchy

“The near-universal consensus is that…Trump’s new tariff policy…is likely to be among the worst economic policies in history. … The question is why.  Why, why, why is…Trump doing something that seems so suicidal from the perspective of the United States, and indeed the whole world? As a former psychology professor, I want to raise four possibilities: dementia, cognitive impairment, ego, and extortion (of him, by somebody else).”
—Gary Marcus
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/questions-about-president-trump-from
#trump #usa #tariffs

Folksam säljer alla Tesla-aktier
https://www.dn.se/direkt/2025-04-02/folksam-saljer-alla-tesla-aktier/
#folksam #tesla

”…ägarstyrning är viktigt för Folksamgruppen, men nu ser vi ingen möjlighet att få till en förändring och därför har vi avyttrat hela innehavet”
—Marcus Blomberg, chef för kapitalförvaltning och hållbarhet
#folksam #tesla

“Musk-Trump inherited a state with unprecedented power and functionality, and are taking it apart. They also inherited a set of alliances and relationships that underpinned the largest economy in world history. This too they are breaking.”
—Timothy Snyder
https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenland
#musk #trump #usa

”…Vance opposes helping Ukraine, spreads Russian propaganda…, and is best known for yelling at Ukraine’s president in the Oval Office. …the response of Musk-Trump has been to ignore this larger reality completely while allowing Biden-era aid to Ukraine to come to an end. Denmark meanwhile has given more than four times as much aid to Ukraine, per capita, as does the United States.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #vance #usa #russia #ukraine

”It takes some patience to unwind all of the nonsense… When Vance says that Denmark is not protecting Greenland…, he is wishing away generations of cooperation, as well as the NATO alliance itself. … The threat in the Arctic…is Russia… But right now the United States is supporting Russia… No one is doing more to contain the Russian threat than Ukraine.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenland
#vance #usa #denmark #greenland #nato #russia #ukraine

“Greenland, Denmark, and the United States have been enmeshed in complex and effective security arrangements…for the better part of a century. Arctic security, an issue discovered by Trump and Vance very recently, was a preoccuption for decades during and after the cold war.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #nato

“There are only a couple hundred Americans at Pituffik where once there were ten thousand; there is only that one US base on the island [Greenland] where once there were a dozen; but that is American policy, not Denmark’s fault.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #nato

“We really do have a problem taking responsibility. The United States has fallen well behind its allies and its rivals in the Arctic, in part because members of Vance’s political party denied for decades the reality of global warming…”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenland
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #arctic #climatechange

“The American imperialism directed towards Denmark and Canada is not just morally wrong. It is strategically disastrous. The United States has nothing to gain from it, and much to lose.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #usa #denmark #canada

“As with everything Musk-Trump does, however, the cui bono question about imperialism in Greenland is easy to answer: Russia benefits. Putin cannot contain his delight with American imperialism over Greenland. In generating artificial crises in relations with both Denmark and Canada, …the Trump people cut America loose from security gains and create a chaos in which Russia benefits.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #canada #russia

“Musk-Trump are creating the bloodily moronic situation in which the United States will have to fight wars to get the things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking. And of course wars rarely turn out the way one expects.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #usa

“The comparison between life in the United States and life in Denmark is not just polemical. Musk-Trump treat Europe as though it were some decadent abyss… But Europe is not only home to our traditional allies; it is an enviable zone of democracy, wealth and prosperity with which it benefits us to have good relations, and from which we can sometimes learn.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #europe

“Hans Christian Andersen told the unforgettable tale of the naked emperor. In Greenland what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland