Surviving a second Trump admin

[GoCubsGo]

Oh good, as well as making us all broke they're perfectly happy to poison our children.

MAGA!



Fluoride no, lead yes!

[Vrede too]

Oh good, as well as making us all broke they're perfectly happy to poison our children.

MAGA!

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Fluoride no, lead yes!

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Ugh. My note to my SiL:

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Whether or not your job is at risk it must be horrible at the CDC these days. It's like sci-fi - every time you look away colleagues wink out of existence. I'm so sorry.

[GoCubsGo]

They're on a roll.

[Vrede too]

Tim Walz says that if owners are worried they can use floss to remove the "TESLA" and logo I didn't know that.

Yeah, people that haven't been able to unload them have been de logoing them.

Maddow: Heat logo first with a hair dryer, use fishing line to cut through the adhesive, use alcohol or other gentle solvent to wipe off remaining adhesive. Inexpensive Audi or other logos are available to glue in place of the old Tesla logo.

Also, flooding the market with used Teslas brings down the price of all of them, including new ones. Then, charging at home or work means Elon gets less money.

[O Really]

I wouldn't use an Audi logo or other real car. It's still recognizable as a Tesla. I'd replace the logo with something like this:

[1 CAT FAN]

I wouldn't use an Audi logo or other real car. It's still recognizable as a Tesla.

Real car.

[GoCubsGo]

I wouldn't use an Audi logo or other real car. It's still recognizable as a Tesla. I'd replace the logo with something like this:

Or...

[GoCubsGo]

[GoCubsGo]

The most transparent administration evah!

Trump administration sued after taking down public spending tracker

[1 CAT FAN]

The most transparent administration evah!

Trump administration sued after taking down public spending tracker

Purchase one of those fancy drones, fly it over the inside of O Really's gated community.

[neoplacebo]

The most transparent administration evah!

Trump administration sued after taking down public spending tracker

I guess this means that all the subsidies to framers that are coming and the payments to foreign countries to accept deportees expenses will not be transparent in this most transparent administration in history. Meanwhile, morons obsess over nonsense while giggling like fools.

[1 CAT FAN]

The most transparent administration evah!

Trump administration sued after taking down public spending tracker

Purchase one of those fancy drones, fly it over the inside of O Really's gated community.

Watch out for bobcats though.

[Vrede too]

The most transparent administration evah!

Trump administration sued after taking down public spending tracker

I guess this means that all the subsidies to farmers that are coming and the payments to foreign countries to accept deportees expenses will not be transparent in this most transparent administration in history. Meanwhile, morons obsess over nonsense while giggling like fools.

Spot on.

The Battle For American Thought
If Trump can control what ideas are allowed to be discussed, he can reshape American life as we know it.

... For years, the Republican Party has fashioned itself as the party of free speech. They have alleged that diversity of opinion, beliefs and thought was central to their ideology and anyone who disagreed was trying to censor them. And while their protestations always seemed shallow — after all, they seem to only be arguing for the right for conservatives to say what they want without repercussions — with Donald Trump back in power it seems as if we’ve entered a new phase in the battle over not just free speech, but the ability to shape the way Americans think in the first place.

From trying to exert control over what universities can teach and which students they admit, to attempting to defund public media, or deporting college students whose opinions they don’t like, the Trump administration is trying to police the thoughts and beliefs of many of America’s major institutions.

Ii's the Fascist DerSantis model.

... In his second term, Trump isn’t just trying to exert control over the entire federal government — he’s also taking aim at the major institutions that shape public life. If Trump can control what colleges can teach, which news outlets can report on his harmful policies, and what ideas are allowed to be discussed, he can reshape American life as we know it.

“Authoritarian rulers have strong incentives to control the information environment in order to suppress individuals, ideas and organizations that can enable mobilization against them,” Jennifer Pan, a political scientist and professor at Stanford University, told HuffPost.

Trump’s multifaceted war on information boils down to the need to suppress criticism and opposition. But it also encompasses the need to quash the ability for dissenting ideas to spread to others — just last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted on social media that it was their job to prevent illegal ideas from crossing the border.

Totalitarianism, by definition.

We’ve already seen this ideological battle play out in Republican-led states. After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) won the governor’s race in 2022, he started a campaign against “wokeness,” claiming radical leftists were indoctrinating children at school. Now the Sunshine State is home to some of the most repressive laws, including ones that limit discussions about racial justice or LGBTQ+ themes in classrooms and remove books that can help schoolchildren learn the benefits of a multiracial and democratic society. The result has left Florida educators afraid to speak freely in their own classrooms and created an atmosphere of fear among the LGBTQ+ community.

Yep, as I just said.

It’s a model that could take over the country if Trump and his cronies are successful in their plan to attack all of our public institutions. Trump doesn’t just want universities to hire his supporters or for CBS to say nice things about him, he wants the entire country to bend to his will.

“It’s important to note that censorship is one of a bundle of strategies used by authoritarian regimes to hold power,” Pan said. “Censorship is used alongside cooptation, repression and propaganda, and these elements can be mutually reinforcing.”

We're not old enough, O Really.

[GoCubsGo]

Why does DonOld want to destroy our country?

[Vrede too]

Why does DonOld want to destroy our country?

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One thorough answer to your question, though it's more about the how than the why:

The real reason Trump is destroying the economy
Story by Zack Beauchamp • 2 weeks ago

... In fact, it’s probably more accurate to see Trump’s tariffs as a symptom of democratic decay — of America transitioning into a kind of strange hybrid system that combines both authoritarian and democratic features....

Now, it’s still possible that Trump steps back from the brink. But even if he does, and the worst outcome is avoided, the lesson should be clear: the long decay of America’s democratic system means that we are all living under an axe.

And if this isn’t the moment it falls, there will surely be another.

We're not old enough, GoCubsGo.

Zack Beauchamp
Senior Correspondent

Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers challenges to democracy in the United States and abroad, right-wing populism, and the world of ideas. He has received funding awards from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to report on democratic decline in Israel and Hungary in the field, and is the author of On The Right, a newsletter on the American conservative movement. He has appeared on a wide range of television and radio networks, including MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, BBC, CBC, ABC (Australia), and Al Jazeera.

His book on democracy, The Reactionary Spirit, was published 0n July 16 — and you can purchase it here.

[Whack9]

[GoCubsGo]

I'm sure DonOld peversely relishes the power to move markets with a single twooth, even in the downwad direction.

There's the same money to be made when markets go down as up.

Think he tips off his buds beforehand so they can get in on the action?

[1 CAT FAN]

America's fast food chain McDonald's has several locations in France. I hear McDonald's has the best French Fries.

[GoCubsGo]

Didn't quite make it to 100 days, but they lasted longer than I would have predicted.

It's gonna start getting entertaining.

As controversies pile up, Trump allies increasingly turn on one another

The infighting and backstabbing that plagued Trump’s first term have returned as a threat to his second, with deepening fissures over trade, national security and questions of personal loyalty.

[Vrede too]

I'm sure DonOld peversely relishes the power to move markets with a single twooth, even in the downwad direction.

There's the same money to be made when markets go down as up.

Think he tips off his buds beforehand so they can get in on the action?

MTG reveals she bought big during stock market dip—now people want her investigated
MTG bought very low.

Opps.


Trump’s Republican critics hit his flip-flop on weaponizing the IRS

Now, PINO is going all in on weaponizing it.