Chris
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Just like in other countries, the idea is to make sure that if they want to try a second coup attempt, the military, CIA, FBI, Secret Service, etc will support it. Last time (Jan 6), the military/CIA and Secret Service were neutral and the FBI ended up helping to prosecute it.
Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we *instantly* recognize in other contexts.
EXCLUSIVE: Candidates for national security roles in the new administration have been posed loyalty questions, such as: Was Jan. 6 an inside job, and Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? They were asked to give straight "yes" or "no" answers. Here's our story.
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February 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Just like in other countries, the idea is to make sure that if they want to try a second coup attempt, the military, CIA, FBI, Secret Service, etc will support it. Last time (Jan 6), the military/CIA and Secret Service were neutral and the FBI ended up helping to prosecute it.
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New type of U.S. Treasury default just dropped: the fascist clowns in charge accidentally/intentionally declaring some of the debt invalid.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
February 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
New type of U.S. Treasury default just dropped: the fascist clowns in charge accidentally/intentionally declaring some of the debt invalid.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Their goal- tank OPM, crash the market, decimate the economy & destabilize global trade to completely devalue the dollar ; thereby forcing the globe into Crypto. Every destructive chaotic action they make becomes crystal clear if you understand this. Know the play, create your offense.
February 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Their goal- tank OPM, crash the market, decimate the economy & destabilize global trade to completely devalue the dollar ; thereby forcing the globe into Crypto. Every destructive chaotic action they make becomes crystal clear if you understand this. Know the play, create your offense.
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4/
When this bubble bursts, here’s what happens:
📉 401(k)s and pensions crash
🏦 Banks freeze withdrawals
💰 The U.S. dollar weakens
🔥 Inflation surges
💼 Mass layoffs begin
This isn’t some distant threat. Your paycheck, savings, and job are on the line.
When this bubble bursts, here’s what happens:
📉 401(k)s and pensions crash
🏦 Banks freeze withdrawals
💰 The U.S. dollar weakens
🔥 Inflation surges
💼 Mass layoffs begin
This isn’t some distant threat. Your paycheck, savings, and job are on the line.
February 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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When this bubble bursts, here’s what happens:
📉 401(k)s and pensions crash
🏦 Banks freeze withdrawals
💰 The U.S. dollar weakens
🔥 Inflation surges
💼 Mass layoffs begin
This isn’t some distant threat. Your paycheck, savings, and job are on the line.
When this bubble bursts, here’s what happens:
📉 401(k)s and pensions crash
🏦 Banks freeze withdrawals
💰 The U.S. dollar weakens
🔥 Inflation surges
💼 Mass layoffs begin
This isn’t some distant threat. Your paycheck, savings, and job are on the line.
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Add “Default on your debt” to the mix and we have a perfect storm
If I was a foreign power wanting to cripple US power, I'd:
1. Purge intel agencies + expose agents
2. Mess w/Treasury
3. Politicize military
4. Turn off foreign aid
5. Shutter anti-corruption + election interference teams
6. Sow discord with allies
Wait, I'm getting an update...
1. Purge intel agencies + expose agents
2. Mess w/Treasury
3. Politicize military
4. Turn off foreign aid
5. Shutter anti-corruption + election interference teams
6. Sow discord with allies
Wait, I'm getting an update...
Trump Justice Department shutters specialized FBI team combatting foreign election interference threats --> www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
February 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Add “Default on your debt” to the mix and we have a perfect storm
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⚡️Musk calls for shutting down US-funded outlets Radio Free Europe, Voice of America.
"Yes, shut them down. Europe is free now (not counting stifling bureaucracy). Nobody listens to them anymore," Musk wrote on Feb. 9.
"Yes, shut them down. Europe is free now (not counting stifling bureaucracy). Nobody listens to them anymore," Musk wrote on Feb. 9.
Musk calls for shutting down US-funded outlets Radio Free Europe, Voice of America
"Yes, shut them down. Europe is free now (not counting stifling bureaucracy). Nobody listens to them anymore. It’s just radical left crazy people talking to themselves while torching $1B/year of US ta...
kyivindependent.com
February 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
⚡️Musk calls for shutting down US-funded outlets Radio Free Europe, Voice of America.
"Yes, shut them down. Europe is free now (not counting stifling bureaucracy). Nobody listens to them anymore," Musk wrote on Feb. 9.
"Yes, shut them down. Europe is free now (not counting stifling bureaucracy). Nobody listens to them anymore," Musk wrote on Feb. 9.
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Let's cut to the chase here: Republicans are preparing to work with Trump to selectively cut funding — from medical research and wildfire disaster relief to Social Security and Medicare — in blue states that refuse to bend to their will.
It's economic warfare, used like international sanctions.
It's economic warfare, used like international sanctions.
Look at this garbage MAGA hypocrite Senator.
She wants Musk/Trump’s brutal and devastating cuts hitting medical research hitting all other states just not her backyard in Alabama.
F*** off Karen.
She wants Musk/Trump’s brutal and devastating cuts hitting medical research hitting all other states just not her backyard in Alabama.
F*** off Karen.
Katie Britt vows to work with RFK Jr. after NIH funding cuts cause concern in Alabama
UAB and UAH are among Alabama institutions that could be affected by cuts.
www.al.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Let's cut to the chase here: Republicans are preparing to work with Trump to selectively cut funding — from medical research and wildfire disaster relief to Social Security and Medicare — in blue states that refuse to bend to their will.
It's economic warfare, used like international sanctions.
It's economic warfare, used like international sanctions.
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I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...
Prebunking Elon Musk's Super Bowl Propaganda
Perception is reality.
asharangappa.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...
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Vance is pushing idea that Trump is a king with unchecked power, not even accountable to courts and the rulings of judges. This is setting up the Trump administration to break with court rulings, creating a constitutional crisis and pushing the US into full blown dictatorship.
February 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Vance is pushing idea that Trump is a king with unchecked power, not even accountable to courts and the rulings of judges. This is setting up the Trump administration to break with court rulings, creating a constitutional crisis and pushing the US into full blown dictatorship.
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The world in 2025.
Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism.
The top aide to the president of the United States supports it.
apnews.com/article/germ...
Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism.
The top aide to the president of the United States supports it.
apnews.com/article/germ...
At least 200,000 protesters rally in Munich against far-right AfD ahead of German election
More than 200,000 protesters have demonstrated in Munich against far-right extremism ahead of the German general election.
apnews.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The world in 2025.
Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism.
The top aide to the president of the United States supports it.
apnews.com/article/germ...
Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism.
The top aide to the president of the United States supports it.
apnews.com/article/germ...
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Vance is openly calling for the end of the constitutional order here, which is a betrayal of his oath of office. It is as plain as day now, Loper Bright ain’t gonna save you
Interestingly, in Loper Bright vs Raimondo, the conservative majority on SCOTUS ruled just last year that the judiciary can in fact overrule regulatory decisions made by the executive branch especially when those decisions are not specified by Congress.
February 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Vance is openly calling for the end of the constitutional order here, which is a betrayal of his oath of office. It is as plain as day now, Loper Bright ain’t gonna save you
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Republicans in Congress would rather stay on the sidelines than take a hit. youtu.be/_A02tjjFfd8
Sidelines
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
youtu.be
February 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Republicans in Congress would rather stay on the sidelines than take a hit. youtu.be/_A02tjjFfd8
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Again, when Carl Nichols asked DOJ for proof of the claims of fraud right wingers are making, DOJ had none.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/08/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/08/t...
February 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Again, when Carl Nichols asked DOJ for proof of the claims of fraud right wingers are making, DOJ had none.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/08/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/08/t...
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JIM JORDAN: This is a fundamental difference we have with the left. The left thinks, 'Oh, it's the career experts who make the decisions.' That's not how our country works. It's the guy who puts him name on the ballot.
RAJU: You're a coequal branch of government.
RAJU: You're a coequal branch of government.
February 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
JIM JORDAN: This is a fundamental difference we have with the left. The left thinks, 'Oh, it's the career experts who make the decisions.' That's not how our country works. It's the guy who puts him name on the ballot.
RAJU: You're a coequal branch of government.
RAJU: You're a coequal branch of government.
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Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.
February 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.
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Again, if this is so innocuous and harmless why are Musk’s staff blocking members of Congress from getting into the buildings? Every single one of them has more clearance than his staff does
Elon Musk will dispatch a DOGE team to Parkersburg, West Virginia, next week, where it will gain read-only access to the US government’s central accounting system.
Musk’s DOGE Team Now Seeks Access to Treasury’s Accounting Data
Elon Musk will dispatch a DOGE team to Parkersburg, West Virginia, next week, where it will gain read-only access to the US government’s central accounting system, according to a source familiar with ...
www.bloomberg.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Again, if this is so innocuous and harmless why are Musk’s staff blocking members of Congress from getting into the buildings? Every single one of them has more clearance than his staff does
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I don't know how to drive home to people that the republican house and senate HAVE NO LINE
There's nothing trump can do that will get them to say no.
Stop thinking "surely they can't let THIS go"
They can. They have. They will.
There's nothing trump can do that will get them to say no.
Stop thinking "surely they can't let THIS go"
They can. They have. They will.
I think there’s some truth to this.
But Musk / Trump have to roll out their coup quickly. And as they go cutting NIH, defense and agriculture they are going to run into further internal questions about whether GOP Sen can let these things go. Even the House, one has to expect. What will they do?
But Musk / Trump have to roll out their coup quickly. And as they go cutting NIH, defense and agriculture they are going to run into further internal questions about whether GOP Sen can let these things go. Even the House, one has to expect. What will they do?
People are delusional about what happens if Musk and Trump ignore the law, the Constitution, and court orders. Everyone is acting like this is a standoff over USAID and a few other programs, and then we'll go back to politics as normal.
February 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I don't know how to drive home to people that the republican house and senate HAVE NO LINE
There's nothing trump can do that will get them to say no.
Stop thinking "surely they can't let THIS go"
They can. They have. They will.
There's nothing trump can do that will get them to say no.
Stop thinking "surely they can't let THIS go"
They can. They have. They will.
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It’s time to start wrapping our heads around the real possibility that collective action and even a general strike are required.
Musk is working fast to solidify control, do as much damage as possible, and party “opposition” is not up to the fight.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/collective...
Musk is working fast to solidify control, do as much damage as possible, and party “opposition” is not up to the fight.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/collective...
Collective Action is the Way Out
Like it or not, the fight is here. And it's time to start fighting.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It’s time to start wrapping our heads around the real possibility that collective action and even a general strike are required.
Musk is working fast to solidify control, do as much damage as possible, and party “opposition” is not up to the fight.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/collective...
Musk is working fast to solidify control, do as much damage as possible, and party “opposition” is not up to the fight.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/collective...
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i wonder why these guys hate the CFPB so much
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February 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
i wonder why these guys hate the CFPB so much
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