https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/steve-bannon-calls-elon-musk-racist
Bannon and MAGA hate DEI but call Musk “racist.”
I see.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/11/politics/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-deportations/index.html
«President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan has privately told Republican lawmakers to temper their expectations for the incoming administration’s initial deportation operation, citing limited resources, according to multiple sources involved in the conversations.»
We need to start keeping track. First, Trump says reducing inflation is going to be harder than he expected. Then he said ending the war in Ukraine is going to be harder than he expected. Now he says (through a mouthpiece) deporting all our undocumented immigrants is going to be harder than he thought.
For those who are thinking, “I’d like to help, but what can I do?” There’s always “call your representative.”
I believe that if you have the energy to pick up the phone, that matters.
Whenever I see one of these headlines, I think of this:
«But that diagnosis completely misses the life-threatening illness America is really struggling with: a billionaire-captured system that doesn’t work for most people, and justifiable disaffection and anger at this system. Americans are fed up, and people are perpetually in the mood to throw the bums out, whoever the bums in charge are.»
In the context of a major media outlet allowing some rich guy to post some pile of garbage labelled “opinion”…
I can tell said plutocrat is lying because I see his lips moving, so the real question is: why? What is said plutocrat hoping to accomplish?
«Trump, while campaigning in California in October, vowed to take care of farmers’ “water situation” by threatening to withhold disaster aid in the state.»
Go get ‘im, HuffPo!
«Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that his budget-cutting effort on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump would most likely not find $2 trillion in savings, backtracking on a goal he set earlier as co-head of a new advisory body, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
Musk told political strategist Mark Penn in an interview broadcast on X that the $2 trillion figure was a “best-case outcome” and that he thought there was only a “good shot” at cutting half that.»
*Gasp!* Goal cut in half! (At least.) Who could possibly have expected *this*???!!1!1
(Any particular idiot who’s paying attention would know there ain’t no trillion dollars to cut from the budget, especially after basically decades of Republicans trying to cut to the bone already. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/ )
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/07/china-salt-typhoon-hack-threat-panic-washington/
«There is little that infuriates politicians more than the idea of foreign intrusion into private lives, especially their own.»
*snerk*
«Countries with a recent experience of dictatorship, like South Korea, tend to be a lot more sensible about what to do when a would-be dictator attempts to seize power, and as a result their institutions are a lot stronger.»
I’m not so sure this part is true.
The rest – yeah, institutionalism for its own sake is not serving us well right now.
https://wapo.st/3W9ZceT (gift)
Weee shall seeee.
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