"The politics of the second Trump administration is a politics of fear."
~ Guillaume A. W. Attia
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military
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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politics-of-fear-in-american-history/
"It’s a statement about life in the Trump era that a government shutdown is the most normal thing happening in politics.
If people were paying attention—or if the political press had the attention span and reach to cover the shutdown—the behavior of Speaker Mike Johnson and the House Republicans would be a massive scandal."
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption
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https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/mike-johnsons-shutdown-strategy-is
"I’ve worked through shutdowns. I’ve witnessed them in Washington, and I’ve covered them for Pod Save America. What Johnson and the Republicans are doing—and why they’re doing it—is truly unconscionable.
It should be a national scandal."
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption
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"To bring a democracy under authoritarian control, you need more than a strongman. You need politicians who will assure the public, as we slide toward one-man rule, that nothing odd is happening. That’s the role Johnson is playing in Donald Trump’s takeover of America."
~ Will Saletan
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mike-johnson-abetting-trump-authoritarianism
"Today, Trump tried to pressure Democrats by telling reporters the slashing of government programs will hurt only Democrats. 'We’re not closing up Republican programs because we think they work,' he said. 'So the Democrats are getting killed, but they’re not telling the people about that…. So we are closing up Democrat programs that we think that we disagree with, and they’re never going to open again.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"The administration continues to try to demonstrate its power. Today it announced its fifth known attack on a boat 'just off the coast of Venezuela' in international waters."
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption #Venezuela
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"Of the nearly $28 billion in grants the administration has frozen or canceled during the shutdown, $27.24 billion—97 percent—was for projects in Democrat-led congressional districts."
~ The Bulwark
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption
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"During the federal shutdown, in which hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not being paid, Trump announced that he would give Argentina $20 billion in 'aid' that would go to political and social elites in that country."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption #Argentina #bailout
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/our-job-invite-disaffected-trump
"But it gets worse. Trump backtracked on the promise of the financial bailout, saying that the aid would be granted only if Trump’s preferred candidate wins in the upcoming presidential election in Argentina."
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption #Argentina #bailout
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Republicans are once again disseminating propaganda that their policies 'only hurt Democrats'.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/republicans-want-you-to-die
It's the same lie they told about covid, then thousands of Republicans died.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/25/1189939229/covid-deaths-democrats-republicans-gap-study
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/political-party-affiliation-linked-excess-covid-deaths
The engine of the US economy is blue cities & blue states. Red states are takers.
Is saying they are keeping Republican programs and ending Democrat ones just another way of saying they are ending programs that help ordinary Americans but keeping those that help the wealthy.
☝️Operation Inflation gets a mention by HCR...
"The administration is attempting to paint immigrants as violent criminals and those opposed to their raids as terrorists. They are producing slick videos to make that point. But protesters have deprived them of photo opportunities by dressing in animal costumes. ICE agents staring down a giant frog and Mr. Potato Head don’t look very dominant."
Once they find a plausible narrative, they will ban inflatable costumes at demonstrations.
They have self eliminated the anonymous argument by ICE agents masking up.
Remember the names of the Russian oil oligarchs who fund Mike Johnson.
Konstantin Nikolaev & the fossil fuel industry bought a Speakership for Mike Johnson
https://www.newsweek.com/who-konstantin-nikolaev-money-mike-johnson-1870600
https://www.newsweek.com/house-speaker-mike-johnson-donations-russia-butina-1838501
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/climate/mike-johnson-climate-policies.html
https://readsludge.com/2025/06/05/big-oil-wins-in-trump-gop-megabill/
https://eutoday.net/mike-johnson-konstantin-nikolaev/
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/28861
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/09/15/7530881/
https://www.eenews.net/articles/republican-speaker-candidates-flush-with-fossil-fuel-cash/
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