"Trump’s demand for recess appointments is a way of breaking the Senate early on. Once they’ve bypassed the Constitutional dictate that they confirm the president’s appointees, there is no standing on principle to insist on strict adherence to the Constitution."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/1
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/what-letting-trump-use-recess-appointments
"Let’s not make the mistake of thinking the only reason Trump wants to use recess appointments is to get his team of deplorables confirmed. He’s not even back in office, but he’s already at work manipulating elected officials into a position where the Constitution can be tossed aside at will."
"Kennedy has devoted his life to destroying public health. He’s obsessed with a confused, quasi-fascist idea of purity, which leads him to attack medical interventions like fluoride, pasteurization, and vaccines, as well as perceived outsiders like Asians and Jewish people. That makes him a good fit for Trump and Trumpism. It also makes him a massive danger to the US and to the world."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future #RFKJr
/3
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/rfk-jr-public-health-threat-vaccines
"The wheels are coming off the bus. Keep in mind, no president has used this constitutional authority before…."
~ Sarah Binder
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/4
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily-blast-with-greg-sargent/id1728152109
""Matt Gaetz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard are a wrecking crew. …
The nominations, taken as a whole, are enormously significant and newsworthy for what they say about what is to come. And that is too important a message to be lost in incremental coverage, weak language, and insufficient shorthand."
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/5
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/searching-for-the-right-words-to
“Authoritarianism is the conversion of rule of law into rule by the lawless.
Gaetz embodies this."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Jay Kuo adds,
"One of the most frightening goals of Trumpism is that the world somehow needs to be destroyed and the people suffer great pain before the 'good' part comes to them in the name of a new order, in this case under Trump.:"
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/donald-trump-fascist-ben-ghiat
@dblobaum See Holly Berkley Fletcher on that very point this morning:
https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/why-white-evangelicals-support-trump
@wdlindsy I like to define fascism in terms of how they polarize society:
Classic #fascism: define a nebulous group or institution, dehumanize and stoke with #fearmongering. No falsehood is perceived as ridiculous by a #truebeliever. Fears become hate. They have a “them” to hate, and bind “us” tightly together.
https://popular.info/p/the-reclusive-plutocrat-who-became
Tim Mellon paid for the Texas border wall.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/06/timothy-mellon-texas-border-wall/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/21/billionaire-tim-mellon-trump-donation
Mellon funded both Trump & RFK Jr.to the tune of $165 million.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/06/21/who-is-timothy-mellon-trumps-biggest-donor-is-a-secretive-billionaire-banking-scion-who-paid-53-million-for-border-wall/
Mellon also has been infected with xenophobic paranoia too.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-09/top-gop-donor-timothy-mellon-is-former-liberal-now-trump-backer
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-timothy-mellon-is-the-poster
https://www.wonkette.com/p/meet-timothy-mellon-the-latest-weirdo
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