Well Marco Rubio, how will you dance the trump tango with Russia and China? How will you maintain ties to long time allies after trump blows them up? How will you explain that a war criminal is suddenly our ‘partner’ in subjugating Ukraine?

Trump’s lies

“Zelensky is a dictator and Ukraine should hold elections” Actually he was elected and Ukraine’s laws prevent elections during war
“We gave Ukraine 350 billion and half of its missing” Actually we gave 100 billion and Kellogg said ‘we have a pretty good idea where it went

And so on

No more LL Bean for me

Here is a list (verified) of companies supporting Project 2025.

This didn’t have to be. Decades of right wing propaganda brought us here. Maybe an equal communication effort in counter to it will reverse some of its effect, I know some influencers are trying. But I fear the critical mass has been exceeded - only a generational crisis will reverse this tide

Tho I hope the special elections in Florida in April (to replace Gaetz and Waltz) might miraculously swing left and help stall things, but it appears Trump is going to ignore Congress anyway and count on his Supreme Court friends for cover. 🧵

Huge protests may prod these forces into action, over a tipping point, again at large personal cost to the participants. We can’t count on future elections - they are very likely to be truly rigged as the Federal Election Commission is already compromised🧵

There may be help that when tariffs and catastrophic goofs by Trump tumbles the markets oligarchs will join them to remove Trump, Vought and deport Elon but that will require a true national emergency and upheaval. 🧵

Until a core group of bipartisan legislators bind together and convince the rest that the demise of the US means that they, personally, and their families will suffer great harm ir some other closely personally held value will be los, I see no out.🧵

The GOP core is quickly eroding into a MAGA mess, quivering like puppies in front of wolves lest they be primaried or lose what little power they retain. 🧵

They will likely ultimately disappear as they are rounded up or neutered, reported to superiors for disloyalty by their MAGA peers, thanks to legislation enabling this. The Dems have utterly failed and seem incapable of punching their way out of a paper bag. 🧵

They will likely ultimately disappear as they are rounded up or neutered, reported to superiors for disloyalty by their MAGA peers, thanks to legislation enabling this. The Dems have utterly failed and seem incapable of punching their way out of a paper bag. 🧵

What will it take to stop this? Stalwart servants like the 7+ prosecutors who resigned rather than cave into Bondi’s transparent and illegal dismissal of charges against Eric Adams or thousands of others who stay in their positions give us a slim hope we can tie up these efforts in court🧵

Elon excuses himself saying he will make mistakes and fix them - meanwhile the damage is done and the fix serves Elon and Trump, with no accountability for backdoors or whatever havoc his coders are doing. Now in charge of the Treasury system and our personal data, there is no limit to the damage🧵

But its overriding purpose is to traumatize and demoralize the career bureaucrats in a shock troop attack, beyond his grievances with business regulators. To accomplish this he lies about the waste he has found (condoms to Gaza ?? 150 year olds getting benefits??) 🧵

Elon appears to target agencies that have sought enforcement action against his businesses with his DOGE squads. His broad brush ‘buyout’ of Federal employees could wipe out decades of effort to promote US soft power, consumer protection, environmental protection and more. 🧵

Trump, Bannon, Elon are dismantling the government for their own reasons that align with Vlad’s.

Elon says he is attacking waste by going after 11 agencies that oppose Russian, Chinese and Iranian influence in the world. His efforts affect less than 1% of the budget so far. 🧵

I sit astounded at what is transpiring in our nation’s government

After electing the felon, a broad sweeping effort at regime change is unfolding. Kruchev’s promise to undo us without firing a shot is at hand. Putin is giddy with his success. 🧵

Anyone else start seeing ‘FrontPageNews’ in their email inbox?
They claim ‘Our reporters gather stories from trustworthy, fact-checked news sources and we avoid sensationalism and politically influenced reporting’
Every story has a right wing slant. Eg they love Bondi
Unsubscribe. More propaganda.

NATIONAL SECURITY NEWS ALERT RINGING THE ALARM: THE POLITICIZATION OF THE FBI

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

@paramountplus.bsky.social are you going to bend the knee too? Will you kiss the orangutan’s ass and settle with him? Or will you show spine and stand for journalistic freedom??

FAA Chief Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign Michael Whitaker had only been in the role for a year but the SpaceX chief accused him of “harassment.”

I missed this entirely:

The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines.

Musk demanded he resign.

He did.

On January 20th.

www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...

Hey Donny, you promised to end the Russian war in Ukraine in a day, where’s the meat? You promised to be tough on China but Tik Tok thanks you. Slam our allies and kiss up to our adversaries. What a weak pathetic leader

Mark Thompson @cnn.com - Moving Acosta to the graveyard shift because Trump hates him is bending the knee and giving Trump and other oligarchs what they want. And throwing your ethics out the window. No wonder you are failing.

Thank you Judges Howell, Chutkan, Lamberth, Nichols, and Kollar-Kotelly who refused to runner stamp Trump’s dismissal of Jan 6 convictions without comment. Look up what they said. Strong words for prosperity

Congrats MAGA idiots. Trump just raised your generic drug prices

Thank god the orangutan is here to stop wars. Like russian’s horrendous war on Ukraine

“Making a ridiculous post about tariffs on Truth Social was his secret plan to end the war in 24 hours?” wrote editor Ron Filipkowski of MeidasNews. “What a ridiculous clown show. Idiocracy.”

A new legacy is borne - Jan 6th pardons make their mark

Mark Jacob of Stop the Presses commented: “Republicans—the Jailbreak Party.”

Harry Litman today regarding Trump’s pardon of 1600 Jan 6 insurrectionists:

““I cannot think of a remotely similar betrayal of country by a sitting president”

I’ll be posting this today

And how will Trump show leadership with the debt limit since it gets raised on his watch? Do we get another Trump shutdown? Will Elon allow that?