@xankarn
#USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#Elections2024
Excellent article of yours, Alexander.
"Political fences can be mended, if there is goodwill on both sides. Cultural rifts, on the other hand, can be impossible to bridge. 👉American democracy cannot survive four more years of derisive [#MAGA] laughter at the expense of our unity."👈
I agree very much with your closing statement, and yet, here we are, on the eve of the #NextCivilWar, which become more likely by the week.
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/18/the-corruption-of-maga-comedy/
The corruption of MAGA comedy - Salon.com

The cruelty and crassness of Donald Trump’s dark sense of humor is quickly spreading

Salon.com

#BreakingNews #USpol
#TrumpMuskDuumvirate

End of the #Bromance?

After the #Wisconsin #SupremeCourt election debacle, wäre #ElonMusk failed to procure the seat for the #MAGA candidate, bis dayy as #DODGE's #ChainsawMan are numbered:

Via #RachelBade @ #Politico:

"Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon
The president is pleased with Elon Musk, but the decision comes as the tech mogul increasingly looks like a political liability.... "

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/02/trump-musk-leaving-political-liability-00265784

@TonyStark

#USpol #Education
Dismantling of #DoE

That is all correct but just scratching the surface. 👉This is no partisan fight anymore. This is an all-out assault on #democracy.
Destroying education for the masses again is the aim👈:

2)
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114191854138931406

ETA:
The #TrumpMuskDuumvirate is merely bringing to completion #RonaldReagan's, #RichardNixon's, and #SpiroAgnew's brainchild 1) that #RonaldReagan jumpstarted in his 1966 gubernatorial campaign in #California. 2)

1):

@GreenFire

#USpol

#StopMAGA #CEUM #Resist

(1/n)

I agree with both oft you: the best way to stop RhE #TrumpMuskDuumvirate to hurt all Americans but the #Technofeudalists is to cause them maximum economic pain.

Sanctions, as in the #Kremlin case, would only worsen the #TrumpeanTradeWars.

Most of the Western allies are to weak to stand up to the #OrangePeril by themselves, even the #EU.

The👉 new #Résistance must be organized internationally, like the #MAGA movement👈

What if...

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

#USpol

Yes, the hot phase of the #NextCivilWar might be coming. But it quite likely is not imminent yet.

I'd say, the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate still has to eviscerate #Congress, after having finished off all the federal agencies.

The nightmare is entering a new chapter.

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110128712544929842

@davidaugust

@xankarn

#UShistory #USpol #Fascism
#TrumpCoup

(1/n)

I cannot think of a #Coup in the #History of #Democracies that has ever been so openly discussed before the fact (campaign speeches, #Project2025, etc.,) than the #TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate.

The thing to watch, among all over things, is the traditional #Purge of key #Military positions, which has been ongoing. For those of them that were shocked, they are not much of a loss for the 🇺🇸, as they..

https://www.vox.com/donald-trump/401174/trump-fired-generals

What Trump’s military purge was really about

How the Friday night massacre could change America’s armed forces.

Vox

#TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#Deportation of #German tourist
More than 1m of soletary confinement

"Tagelange Einzelhaft
Wie im "Horrorfilm": Berlinerin landet in #US-Abschiebehaft

Eigentlich wollte sie nur einen Monat in #Kalifornien verbringen – doch dann wurde die Berlinerin #JessicaBrösche an der US-Grenze festgesetzt..

Seit dem 25. Januar sitzt die 29-jährige Berlinerin Jessica Brösche in US-Abschiebehaft an der Grenze zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und Mexiko fest... "

https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/internationale-politik/id_100623860/usa-deutsche-touristin-aus-berlin-landet-in-abschiebehaft-horrorfilm-.html

8 Tage in US-amerikanischer Einzelhaft: Berliner Touristin spricht von "Horrorfilm"

Eigentlich wollte sie nur einen Monat in Kalifornien verbringen – doch dann wurde die Berlinerin Jessica Brösche an der US-Grenze festgesetzt. Ihre Freunde konnten sie lange nicht aufspüren.

t-online

@noelreports

#UKRpol #WarInUkraine #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#Extortion

(2/2)

...after Prohibition.

#Mobsters such as #AlCapone and New York’s Five Families expanded their underworld empires by 👉infiltrating organized labor.👈 Through intimidation and corruption, the mob used the labor unions for everything from 👉extortion, bribery and embezzlement to price-fixing and #kickbacks3)."👈

2)
https://www.history.com/news/how-mafia-infiltrated-american-labor-unions

3)Since this week also called #GoldCards
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/trump-5-million-gold-card-path-citizenship/6164319/

How the Mafia Infiltrated American Labor Unions 

Through extortion, bribery and embezzlement, mobsters made labor racketeering a major source of income after Prohibition.

HISTORY

@noelreports

#UKRpol #WarInUkraine #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#Extortion

(1/2)

#tRump and #JDVance are quickly turning the #US Executive Branch into an international #mobster organization.
tRump is extorting arguably the largest sum in protection money ever paid in #history from #UKR.

Compare with this story:

"👉How the Mafia Infiltrated American Labor Unions 👈
Through 👉extortion👈, bribery and embezzlement, mobsters made labor racketeering 👉a major source of income👈...

https://babel.ua/news/115761-ukrajina-ta-ssha-vipracyuvali-ostatochniy-variant-ugodi-pro-ridkozemi-prem-yer-shmigal-rozpoviv-detali

Україна та США випрацювали остаточний варіант угоди про рідкоземи

Україна та США фактично випрацювали остаточний варіант угоди про рідкоземельні ресурси

Бабель

@[email protected]

#TrumpCoup #TrumpMuskDuumvirate

Well, Philip, I have long been calling for the right measure, the #TarpeianRock punishment for traitors of the Republic.

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111713425850261518

Alas, no-one listened to me and now, America's biggest enemies can probably be heard laughing on Mars, while its erstwhile allies are crying out in pain.