"All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them."
~ Andrew Coyne, writing from Canada
#Trump #Republicans #Americans #cruelty #fascism #arrogance #bullying #ignorance #immigrants #deportations #militarization #AmericanExceptionalism
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-view-from-north-of-the-border
"America’s love affair with confident stupidity continues to reach awful new heights. The bill will come due. The piper will need paid. The damage will be extensive."
~ David DeWitt
#Trump #Republicans #Americans #cruelty #fascism #arrogance #bullying #ignorance #immigrants #deportations #militarization #AmericanExceptionalism
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“When I walk away from this experience, one of the things that is most alarming to me is just how easy it is to actually control people. It doesn’t take secret police. It doesn’t take guns. It doesn’t take gulags.”
~ David Pressman
#Trump #Republicans #Americans #cruelty #fascism #arrogance #bullying #ignorance #immigrants #deportations #militarization #AmericanExceptionalism
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/magazine/david-pressman-interview.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
"Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country."
~ Mariann Edgar Budde
#Trump #Republicans #Americans #cruelty #fascism #arrogance #bullying #ignorance #immigrants #deportations #militarization #AmericanExceptionalism
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This week, the Bishop of Washington delivered a sermon in front of President Trump urging him to show mercy towards LGBTQ+ and migrant communities. The president condemned it as ‘nasty’. We reproduce it in full
"The unholy pact between Trump and America’s richest and most influential tech entrepreneurs marks a significant difference from his first term, when prominent business leaders mostly kept him at arm’s length (or outright opposed him). But partnerships of this sort are far from unprecedented in teetering capitalist democracies."
~ Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson
#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #TechBros #SiliconValley #oligarchy #broligarchy #fascism
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/david-de-jong-nazi-interview-trump-musk
"To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to give one Nazi salute is unfortunate, but to give two, well that’s simply political carelessness. After all, surely even in its bastardized, post-literate, post-moral, pro-Trumpian state, America in the year 2025 has a residual memory of the fact that the Nazis were very, very, very bad people."
~ Sasha Abramsky
#Trump #ElonMusk #fascism #Nazi #NaziSalute #Jewish
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-assault-american-democracy/
"Yet, Musk’s itchy arm, so similar to that of Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick’s classic nuclear-apocalypse satire, apparently simply couldn’t resist the lure of the Sieg Heil gesture.
And that, I think, is an apt metaphor for this first week of Trump’s foul second presidency."
"The thugs who broke cops’ bones, the creeps who used bear spray against the Republic’s defenders, the ones who express no remorse and say they’d do it all again, the ones judges warned about as at risk for reoffending if freed—they’re all walking free. And they’re walking free for one reason only: because they did it for Trump.
It’s a sad day for America. It deserves lasting infamy."
~ Walter Olson
#Trump #violence #criminals #Jan6 #police #LawandOrder
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-obscene-jan-6-pardons-will
"Even some close allies of Mr. Trump had opposed granting clemency to those rioters found guilty of violent crimes, especially the more than 600 who were convicted of assaulting or resisting police officers. Of those defendants, nearly 175 used a dangerous or deadly weapon, prosecutors say."
~ Alan Feuer and Dmitriy Khavin
#Trump #violence #criminals #Jan6 #police #LawandOrder #pardons
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/us/politics/jan-6-trump-pardon-capitol-riots-video-evidence.html
President Trump pardoned men who violently attacked police officers on Jan. 6 along with nearly 1,600 other people who had been charged in connection with the riot. But his grant of clemency did not erase the video evidence of their crimes.
"Four years later, the violence they committed is still shocking — and the facts of what happened are right there in the images, many of them now iconic.
Here are some of the most egregious acts of violence that took place during the Capitol attack, as seen in videos."
Note that you can access the New York Times article at https://archive.ph.
#Trump #violence #criminals #Jan6 #police #LawandOrder #pardons
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"This is how the Trump vengeance machine works. Trump is the mob boss who keeps his hands clean while others do his dirty work.
Who else is likely to do Trump’s dirty work?
Trump has pardoned all the men who attacked the U.S. Capitol on his behalf on January 6, 2021."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #violence #criminals #Jan6 #police #LawandOrder #pardons
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/heres-how-trumps-vengeance-machine
William Lindsey 
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