The Trump administration:

* wants to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. That means declaring martial law.

* wants to accept a $400 million luxury plane as a gift from Quatar

* doesn't think they need to uphold the Constitution.

Republican in Congress response? CRICKETS.

#RethuglicansTakeTheWheel
#Trump
#TrumpCorruption
#HabeasCorpus

The chaos is intentional: “Our federal government rests on the U.S. Constitution. The three different factions of Trump's MAGA Republicans agree that the government must be destroyed, and they are operating outside the constitutional order, not eager to win legal victories so much as determined to slash and burn down the government without them.”

#Politics #USPolitics #USConstitution #RethuglicansTakeTheWheel #USConstitutionalOrder #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1-2025

“‘Dr. Phil is here to livestream your arrest’ is almost too stupid to take seriously. But that may prove to be the defining feature of life under the second Trump administration: For now, to survive and move strategically, we will have to live with the whiplash of having to take the cruelty of men who are not very bright very seriously.l”

#Politics #USPolitics #CruelAndStupid #TrumpRegime #RethuglicansTakeTheWheel #ElectionsMatter #DemocracyVsOligarchy

https://newrepublic.com/article/190759/trump-immigration-homan-dr-phil

“If you were taking a measured approach to see how things played out once Trump took office, the waiting is over. It’s a five-alarm fire at the Justice Department.”

#Politics #USPolitics #JusticeDepartmentPurge #DemocracyVsOligarchy #ElectionsMatter #RethuglicansTakeTheWheel #DemocracyInDanger

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-takes-his-corrupt-retribution-against-the-justice-department

From @gruber: “The idea of the U.S. government buying a 50 (not 51?) percent stake in a social media company is nutty, quite overtly socialist (perhaps owning the means of distraction is the new owning the means of production?), but Trump is nutty so who knows what he means here?”

#Politics #USPolitics #TikTokBan #DemocracyVsOligarchy #RethuglicansTakeTheWheel

https://daringfireball.net/2025/01/briktok

“For all those progressives and liberals and other assorted never-Trumpers who have said — understandably — that they needed a vacation from the news after the cataclysm that was November 5th, it’s time to buck up.”

#Politics #USPolitics #DemocracyVsOligarchy #RethuglicansTakeTheWheel #BillionairesShouldNotExist #WorkingClassPolitics #EconomicPopulism #DemocracyInDanger

https://coloradosun.com/2025/01/19/donald-trump-inauguration-opinion-littwin/

And no one has been sworn in yet: “Civil war has broken out within the MAGA Republicans. On the one side are the traditional MAGAs, who tend to be white, anti-immigrant, & less educated than the rest of the U.S. … On the other side are the new MAGAs [lead by Musk] who appear to have taken control of the incoming Trump administration.”

#Politics #USPolitics #MAGACivilWar #RethuglicansTakeTheWheel #DemocracyVsOligarchy #BillionairesShouldNotExist #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-27-2024