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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:

#Republicans Quietly Cede Power to Cancel #Trump’s #Tariffs, Avoiding a Tough Vote
nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/poli

"Republican leaders did so using a particularly unusual contortion: They essentially declared the rest of the year one long day, nullifying a law that allows the House and Senate to jointly put an end to a disaster declared by the president."

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House Republicans are shielding themselves from voting on tariffs.
The New York Times · Republicans Quietly Move to Relinquish Power to Undo Trump’s Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and ChinaBy Catie Edmondson
#USA#idiocracy
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janhoglund

“In 2025 the Republicans in charge of the United States of America are not the conservatives they call themselves… They are abruptly dismantling a government that has kept the United States relatively prosperous, secure, and healthy for the past 80 years. In its place, they are trying to impose a government based in the idea that a few men should rule.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 12, 2025
#trump #republicans #usa

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Paul 💙

A future problem the USA has is even after #trumps and the #Republicans demise

Is that life will never go back to what it was before t

Politicians of all shades will take advantage of the present Status Quo and everything will be too unaffordable

Your country is getting fucked forever unfortunately

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

" #Republicans in #Congress are not being told that their appropriations will be ignored: they are being told that appropriations will be selectively ignored, and they will be protected.

#DOGE is accepting requests from Republican officials to reverse cuts in their jurisdictions. It is a form of #spoils system in reverse: your pet projects will be spared from elimination."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/tru

Text from article(edited for length): No member of Congress should support an illegal theory of governing that strips them of their power. No member of Congress should vote for a bill unless they are promised that the bill will be implemented as written. Breaking such promises should trigger Congress to use its oversight powers, all the way to impeachment. This is all pretty straightforward checks-&-balances stuff. You protect your institutional power, or you become irrelevant, as does the US model for governing... So why are Republicans going along with Trump’s promises to ignore their appropriations. Many genuinely want to cut government, and don’t care about the means. But they also... want to claim credit & minimize blame. Recall all of the Republicans who opposed Biden’s infrastructure bill, and then touted spending in their jurisdiction. So what gives? Republicans in Congress are not being told that their appropriations will be ignored: they are being told that appropriations will be selectively ignored, and they will be protected. DOGE is accepting requests from Republican officials to reverse cuts in their jurisdictions. It is a form of spoils system in reverse: your pet projects will be spared from elimination. CNN describes the pattern: "Republican lawmakers are enjoying more access – and having more success – in their attempts to convince the White House to reverse cuts to certain programs and workers, while Democrats are largely striking out..."
#ElonMusk#DonaldTrump#Corruption
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

Elon Musk Finally Admits Social Security Is on the Chopping Block

The #DOGE chief has revealed his true goals in a #FoxNews interview.
newrepublic.com/post/192579/el

"Trump has said he won’t touch #SocialSecurity or #Medicare, but Musk’s entitlement math makes it clear that both those programs, as well as #Medicaid, are on the chopping block. Millions of older #Americans—many of them red-state #Republicans—will lose the vital benefits"

Headline: Elon Musk Finally Admits Social Security Is on the Chopping Block The DOGE chief has revealed his true goals in a Fox News interview. by Malcolm Ferguson March 11, 2025 / 9:24 a.m. ET
#Musk#Coup#Corruption
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"These were attempted #terrorist attacks against #America.

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine in February 2022, #Russia has attacked the #UnitedStates and #Europe on a near-daily basis using what are often referred to as “hybrid” operations, meant to hide the hand of the #Russian government and to remain below the threshold of #war so as not to trigger a response."
thebulwark.com/p/trump-courts-

Text from article: And the point of the operation wasn’t just to cause small fires in Germany and England. The ultimate targets were planes bound for the United States. These were attempted terrorist attacks against America. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has attacked the United States and Europe on a near-daily basis using what are often referred to as “hybrid” operations, meant to hide the hand of the Russian government and to remain below the threshold of war so as not to trigger a response. Russia has conducted cyberattacks on water facilities in the United States, including one in Texas that led a tank to overflow for 45 minutes. Senior British officials have blamed Russia for flying drones over U.K. air force bases where American military personnel are stationed. Russian proxies are suspected of having left explosives near a pipeline supplying air force bases in western Germany. A number of suspicious fires have broken out at weapons manufacturing facilities that supply arms to Ukraine, including at a General Dynamics ammunition plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania in April and another at a BAE Systems facility in the United Kingdom the following day. A separate explosion in July at a General Dynamics plant in Arkansas left one person dead.
#Trump#Putin#Politics
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"Those #bombs were only a test run, part of a larger operation to place explosives on cargo & passenger #planes bound for the #UnitedStates & #Canada...

Who was behind this plan that could have sent #airplanes crashing to the ground after exploding in flames?

It wasn’t al Qaeda, or ISIS, or Hezbollah, or any other designated #terrorist organization.

It was Russia."

thebulwark.com/p/trump-courts-

As Trump Courts Putin, Russians Keep Trying to Kill Americans The “gray zone” war on America and its allies isn’t going to stop. by Alex Finley Mar 12, 2025
#Trump#Russia#Putin
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

Elon Musk and the the Threat of the Over-Mighty Subject, Part I
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/e

"Trump isn’t able to manage #Musk in the way he abuses and brutalizes the other toadies who crowd around him. Musk is clearly driving this train, with #Trump perhaps excited by the pain and anguish he’s creating, but still at best only okaying things after the fact."

Text from article: Donald Trump, a legitimately if misguidedly elected President, who is licensing Musk’s wilding spree through the federal govt. If and when he chooses to shut this down, he can. But it’s clear that even Trump isn’t able to manage Musk in the way he abuses & brutalizes the other toadies who crowd around him. Musk is clearly driving this train, with Trump perhaps excited by the pain & anguish he’s creating, but still at best only okaying things after the fact. Trump has an on/off switch. But that’s it. And costs of flipping the switch to off are great, even for Donald Trump. As public opinion has turned decisively against Musk, if not yet Trump, we’ve seen his megalomania grow totally untethered. He now routinely accuses critics of crimes, demands their imprisonment. Yesterday he called Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) a “traitor” for having the temerity to show up in Ukraine while Musk is trying his best to, in his phrase, put that country into the wood chipper. Lots of people mouth off on Twitter, of course. But Musk isn’t anyone. He’s got everyone in the federal government scared of him, running on a short leash and needing to do whatever they can to appease him. He speaks with the power if not the authority of the state. But the issue is not only Elon Musk. It’s a general problem that isn’t going anywhere. It’s the reductio ad absurdum of the economic inequality debate, when levels of super power get concentrated in the hands of a single monomaniacal individual.
#ElonMusk#Coup#Corruption
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