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"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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"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
@wdlindsy @AnnaAnthro America is a “teetering capitalist democracy” insofar as a broken vase is a teetering vase. And that’s before we get to the oxymoron that is “capitalist democracy”.
@aral @AnnaAnthro And, key to what Rupar and Benson are saying:
"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)."
Yuk.
Looks like they're seeing a longer term direction now that needs to be followed.