Kathy Chamberlin

THIS STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN ‼️

The Trump administration will be vetting their own cabinet and giving themselves security clearances.

This is kind of like how police do it: “We investigated ourselves and found out we did nothing wrong.”

What to watch for: The weaponization of government Part One in a series on the biggest threats posed by a second Trump term

“Trump frequently told Kelly to ask the FBI to open investigations into critics. Kelly did not relay the requests. ‘The lesson the former president learned from his first term is don’t put guys like me in those jobs. The lesson he learned was to find sycophants.’”

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Trump and Musk have already stated that their plan is to crash the economy. Picking a trade war with China, Mexico, and Canada will do that. They have no plan to restore the economy. This is how they plan to cull part of the population and pummel the rest into subservience.

Papi Newsom is a man after my petty heart LOL.

“70% the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours.” - President Sheinbaum to Trump.

The Tariff Act of 1930 was designed for protectionist trade. It imposed high tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods which led to retaliatory tariffs from other countries.

Why am I telling you this?

In case you're ever asked "what were the key contributors to the Great Depression?"

The mo' you know

If you needed even MORE of a reason to switch to Bluesky, China is "troubled" by the fact that they've invested so much time on Twitter buying ads, bots, and influencers... only to see the people they're seeking to manipulate (us) flee the site.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

What to watch for: The weaponization of government Part One in a series on the biggest threats posed by a second Trump term

“At this point, I see little reason to think Trump won’t attempt his most authoritarian and destructive campaign promises. Whether he succeeds will depend on how much resistance he gets from the courts, Congress, the federal bureaucracy, and the rest of us.”

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Republicans gerrymandered 3 times as many congressional districts as Democrats did.

Senate Republicans blocked bills to end gerrymandering that House Dems had passed in 2019 & 2021.

And Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices in 2019 barred federal courts from overturning partisan gerrymanders

phew it's a good thing our constitution is extraordinarily difficult to amend and wannabe autocrats can't do something like get their co-partisans on the constitutional court to recognize an atextual immunity from criminal law.
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if nothing in american politics makes sense to you just know that one side is actively trying to bring about the literal end of the entire world and is closer than anyone wants to accept and the other side would like to live in comfort until then

Today, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman put Rudy Giuliani in his place.

Disbarred, disruptive, and disgraced, Giuliani sat in a Manhattan courtroom and ranted about his impoverished existence now that he’s been forced to surrender his assets to the Georgia election workers he defamed — …

This is going to piss a lot of men off, but ignore them, too!

Goldman Sees ‘Significant’ Hit to US From Trump’s Canada Tariffs US consumers face “significant consequences” from President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on Canada, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., with the bank casting doubt over its implementation.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I agree 100 %. It's so annoying.

IKR?

It's not only dis-heartening, but also maddening.