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Trump chooses to be the best of friends and support in every way possible, those dictators and nations that are not friends of the United States and want our demise. Why is that? Why does Trump say that the only real enemy of America is Americans.
Trump PAST RESURFACES after Biden CALLED HIM OUT – Meidas Touch
Why do people worship Donald Trump and why does he worship dictators across the world? Why is he so quick to call Americans his enemies and claim they are enemies of the United States?
Trump will give Ukraine to Putin and give Alaska back to Russia to please his friend and give him the Arctic that Putin is really after. Trump and Republicans will give Taiwan to China and if there is any doubt, remember how quick Republicans were to use a whistleblower serving as an agent of China that is an illegal arms dealer, selling arms and sanctioned oil. Trump as an American president saluted North Korea’s leader in one of the most shameful displays of bowing to an enemy who wants to use nuclear weapons to blow our nation off the face of the planet.
Why can’t Trump be a friend to the United States after everything he has and that his Dad and his family has, that is directly because of the freedom, rights, democracy and opportunities offered by the way our nation is? Why isn’t he living in any of those nations he so favors and whose dictators he worships and admires, like Hungary, North Korea, China, Russia or any other place run by dictatorship? Does he believe we are his enemy because we are the enemy of his friends and he must please them to get what he wants – to be accepted and given favor by them?
Mr. Putin would like to thank his entire Republican party, and a special shout-out to his piss boy Donald Trump, without whom none of these awards would have been possible. #Oscars2024
Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks
Since Trump took office in January 2017, his administration worked aggressively to turn back the clock on our nation’s civil and human rights progress. Here’s how.
2017
On December 21, it was reported that Sessions rescinded 25 guidance documents, including a letter sent to chief judges and court administrators to help state and local efforts to reform harmful practices of imposing fees and fines on poor people.
2018
On January 4, Sessions rescinded guidance that had allowed states, with minimal federal interference, to legalize marijuana. This move will further reignite the War on Drugs.
On January 8, Trump re-nominated a slate of unqualified and biased judicial nominees, including two rated Not Qualified by the American Bar Association.
There’s a whole timeline on that site which proves that Trump made a deal to get into office in his first shot at it by giving away power to those organizations and their agendas that would help him get the presidency. Once he was there, Trump and his administration officials used the opportunity to steal every right, freedom, piece of legislation already passed and signed, every change to support the people of the United States and our national security, that they could find a way to roll back, dismantle, abrogate, defund, de-authorize, and alter to make it meaningless.
Nobody elected the Heritage Foundation to run our country. Nobody elected nor voted for them or for the hundreds of thousands of their sister organizations that are bundled into the Republican fascism machine.
Jared Yates Sexton on the state of America after Trump’s continued annihilation of political norms.
Mar 10, 2024Author Jared Yates Sexton joins Anthony Davis to discuss the state of America after Trump’s continued annihilation of legal and societal norms. How the judiciary deals with a white privileged criminal and how the November election might play out in the face of rising political extremism, only on The Weekend Show.
There’s a lot in this video and it takes a while to watch all of it, but it’s well worth the time and effort to get the information rich content it has. In every way that this discussion covers some of how we got here and the efforts of those (also unelected) who did it.
That is no longer true: today’s Republican Party and the larger “conservative” movement and white right view multiracial pluralistic democracy, the rule of law, the Constitutional order, and its governing institutions as illegitimate and corrupt. They are to be torn down and replaced with a system of competitive authoritarianism and White Christian herrenvolk tyranny of the minority where the Republican fascists and larger right-wing rule for all time and by any means necessary – including violence.
(. . . ) Agenda 47 would consist of an end to birthright citizenship, further criminalizing transgender people and the LGBTQI community more broadly, expanding the thought crime and other censorship laws to end the teaching of “critical race theory” and to defeat “Woke” and “Black Lives Matter”, attacking academic freedom and replacing it with “patriot education”, implementing a national stop and frisk law, pardoning the Jan. 6 terrorists, putting homeless people in camps or some other designated area under threat of arrest, building high tech “freedom cities”, ending the professional civil service and replacing it with right-wing political appointees and other such partisan agents, gutting the Department of Justice and other parts of the government that opposed Trump’s attacks on democracy and the rule of law, executing drug dealers, starting a trade war with China, and making “peace” with Vladimir Putin by withdrawing support for the Ukrainian people and their freedom struggle.
In many ways, Agenda 47 is a continuation of the fascist and other authoritarian policies Trump put in place during his first regime but now made even more extreme and cruel.
Be very afraid: Trump’s “Agenda 47” is no joke – July 2023
Joe: Far-right invented Christian nationalism, and it gets more extreme every week
Mar 7, 2024 • #FarRight #Politics #IVF
Senate Republicans in February blocked legislation that would protect nationwide access to in vitro fertilization. Joe Scarborough discusses how how the far-right invented Christian nationalism and why it won’t stop at IVF.
From Paul Weyrich and Richard Viguerie to Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson (Christian Broadcasting and 700 Club) – our nation has had far rightwing Christian Nationalists with their fascist agenda choking our nation’s very founding principles and democracy to be rid of it once and for all.
In his role as a political commentator for the mainstream media, former Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has increasingly advanced an anti-Semitic, racist, and anti-immigrant ideology. Many of the views he holds are identical to those of self-declared “white nationalists.” Buchanan repeatedly demonizes Jews and minorities and openly affiliates with white supremacists. Among his frequent claims is that the sovereignty of the United States is being undermined by Israeli control and Mexican incursion, a belief which he disseminates on mainstream cable and network television and in his prolific writings. Buchanan has released a book nearly every two years, many of which take the view that non-white immigrants destroy Western culture. (…)
In addition to his book, Buchanan’s columns from 2010 and 2011 paint a picture of an America where whites have lost their privilege and will suffer due to “a multiracial, multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual stew of a nation that has never before existed, or survived.”
Patrick Buchanan: Unrepentant Bigot
Influencers of the old school variety have been in full swing since this –
Powell Memorandum, 1971
See also: Corporatocracy, Merchants of Doubt, Inverted totalitarianism, and Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
On August 23, 1971, prior to accepting Nixon’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Powell was commissioned by his neighbor Eugene B. Sydnor Jr., a close friend and education director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to write a confidential memorandum for the chamber entitled “Attack on the American Free Enterprise System,” an anti-Communist and anti-New Deal blueprint for conservative business interests to retake America.[16][17]
It was based in part on Powell’s reaction to the work of activist Ralph Nader, whose 1965 exposé on General Motors, Unsafe at Any Speed, put a focus on the auto industry putting profit ahead of safety, which triggered the American consumer movement. Powell saw it as an undermining of the power of private business and a step toward socialism.[16] His experiences as a corporate lawyer and a director on the board of Phillip Morris from 1964 until his appointment to the Supreme Court made him a champion of the tobacco industry who railed against the growing scientific evidence linking smoking to cancer deaths.[16] He argued, unsuccessfully, that tobacco companies’ First Amendment rights were being infringed when news organizations were not giving credence to the cancer denials of the industry.[16]
The memo called for corporate America to become more aggressive in molding society’s thinking about business, government, politics and law in the US. It inspired wealthy heirs of earlier American industrialists, the Earhart Foundation (whose money came from an oil fortune), and the Smith Richardson Foundation (from the cough medicine dynasty)[16] to use their private charitable foundations−which did not have to report their political activities−to join the Carthage Foundation, founded by Richard Mellon Scaife in 1964.[16]
The Carthage Foundation pursued Powell’s vision of a pro-business, anti-socialist, minimally government-regulated America based on what he thought America had been in the heyday of early American industrialism, before the Great Depression and the rise of Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s New Deal.
The Powell Memorandum ultimately came to be a blueprint for the rise of the American conservative movement and the formation of a network of influential right-wing think tanks and lobbying organizations, such as the Business Roundtable, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and inspired the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to become far more politically active.[18][19][20]
CUNY professor David Harvey traces the rise of neoliberalism in the US to this memo.[21][22] Historian Gary Gerstle refers to the memo as “a neoliberal call to arms.”[18] Political scientist Aaron Good describes it as an “inverted totalitarian manifesto” designed to identify threats to the established economic order following the democratic upsurge of the 1960s.[23]
Powell argued, “The most disquieting voices joining the chorus of criticism came from perfectly respectable elements of society: from the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.” In the memorandum, Powell advocated “constant surveillance” of textbook and television content, as well as a purge of left-wing elements. He named consumer advocate Nader as the chief antagonist of American business. Powell urged conservatives to undertake a sustained media-outreach program, including funding neoliberal scholars, publishing books, papers, popular magazines, and scholarly journals, and influencing public opinion.[24][25]
This memo foreshadowed a number of Powell’s court opinions, especially First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, which shifted the direction of First Amendment law by declaring that corporate financial influence of elections by independent expenditures should be protected with the same vigor as individual political speech. Much of the future Court opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission relied on the same arguments raised in Bellotti.Although written confidentially for Sydnor at the Chamber of Commerce, it was discovered by Washington Post columnist Jack Anderson, who reported on its content a year later (after Powell had joined the Supreme Court). Anderson alleged that Powell was trying to undermine the democratic system; however, in terms of business’s view of itself in relation to government and public interest groups, the memo could be alternatively read to simply convey conventional thinking among businessmen at the time.
The explicit goal of the memo was not to destroy democracy, though its emphasis on political institution-building as a concentration of big business power, particularly updating the Chamber’s efforts to influence federal policy, has had that effect.[26] Here, it was a major force in motivating the Chamber and other groups to modernize their efforts to lobby the federal government. Following the memo’s directives, conservative foundations greatly increased, pouring money into think-tanks. This rise of conservative lobbying led to the conservative intellectual movement and its increasing influence over mainstream political discourse, starting in the 1970s and 1980s, and due chiefly to the works of the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation.[27]
Lewis Powell served from January 7, 1972, until June 26, 1987, when he retired from the Court.[32]
Powell was among the 7–2 majority who legalized abortion in the United States in Roe v. Wade (1973). Powell’s pro-choice stance on abortion stemmed from an incident during his tenure at his Richmond law firm, when the girlfriend of one of Powell’s office staff bled to death from an illegal self-induced abortion.[33]
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. – The Powell Memo, 1971; from wikipedia
“There’s this guy and he notices that the heads of countries in a lot of the world must give their approval for anything to get built or developments constructed in their large cities. But they don’t have to talk to him. So he fixes that by becoming the president of the United States and they have to talk to him when he calls. And, they have to talk about whatever he wants to talk about when he calls.” This was a note I made about Trump in his first run at the White House. Now, he has something else in mind and it is more to do with revenge against America for not voting for him in 2020.
In his own testimony, Cohen said Sater talked with him about having Trump visit Russia during the campaign and pitched the idea of offering Russian President Vladimir Putin a free penthouse in the planned tower as a marketing stunt to drive up the price of condos.
House panel to subpoena Russian-born exec after no-show, 2019
Jan 6 planned & March 4 projected as takeover dates according to rightwing social media for when Trump will be installed as rightful king president dictator., I noted in 2021. They also thought so in 2022 and 2023. There seemed to be no end to MAGA and Trump supporting Republicans believing in lies and disinformation sent throughout their echo chambers as if there were no ways anything else but that could happen.
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Where are the core messages going out across rightwing media coming from – where are the originating sources?
What are the purposes of the originating sources?
It looks like these messages originating from Russian disinformation and propaganda campaigns become talking points coming out of the mouths of Republican Senators, Republican Party officials, GOP House of Representative members, Republican Governors and State Legislators. Some of the disinformation comes from China and often, a vast amount of all disinformation and lies originate from the Republican Party fascist machine that serves Trump now.
The American people need to bring a class action suit against Donald Trump for inefficiency, neglect of duty, malfeasance in office, abuse of power, corruption, nepotism, cronyism, obstruction of justice, and not being a citizen in good standing & integrity therefore unqualified. AND, there needs to be a class action suit against these organizations serving him using donors’ funding to undermine democracy, destroy our nation’s Constitution, corrupt our Supreme Court justices, bribe and strong-arm our Congress members and Senators, and now, allowing Trump to use them as his exclusive piggy bank.
Nobody voted for the Heritage Foundation or the Council on National Policy to make decisions affecting our lives nor to set policies we have to live with and be oppressed by. Not only is it bad enough that Trump proudly claims to have removed women’s rights to their personal choices, privacy and the basic rights to their own bodies, he will proudly remove Social Security from millions of American seniors putting them out on the streets after paying into the trust fund for their entire working lives. He will do it because these are policies being given for him by rightwing think tanks and what are now, fascist ideology Christian Nationalist organizations supporting the Republican Party.
Barbara McQuade in conversation with Joyce Vance | How Disinformation is Sabotaging America
The Commonwealth Club of California
The Commonwealth Club of California
Mar 5, 2024 SAN FRANCISCO Join MSNBC’s legal expert Barbara McQuade as she addresses the pressing issue of disinformation and its impact on our society. McQuade delves into the ways disinformation is used to manipulate voters, undermine legal systems, and concentrate power. She highlights the dangers of disinformation, which comes from various sources including far-right opportunists and foreign influencers. McQuade also discusses how technology, particularly artificial intelligence, exacerbates the problem by amplifying false claims. In this enlightening discussion, McQuade explains the authoritarian playbook of disinformation and its historical roots, from Mussolini to Trump. She explores tactics such as demonizing opponents, fostering nostalgia, and attacking the media, and discusses their effectiveness. McQuade also examines whether America’s First Amendment freedoms make it particularly susceptible to disinformation and proposes strategies to combat its spread. Don’t miss this crucial conversation on combating disinformation and protecting our democracy.
Barbara McQuade in conversation with Joyce Vance | How Disinformation is Sabotaging America
This video is brilliant – the discussion is filled with insight and good information, easy and enjoyable to listen to it and very inspiring. It is straight talk about what our nation is enduring in disinformation and lies being believed by so many and being spouted 24/7 from Trump supporting rightwing media, until Republicans have come to believe and espouse that black is white, up is down and the opposite of whatever is true being believed as fact.
On January 18, which was MLK Day, Trump’s 1776 Commission issued a report calling for “patriotic education,” comparing progressivism to fascism and communism, and justifying the nation’s founding on the basis of slavery.
Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks
As reports continue to emerge, we have deepening concerns that OMB continues to demonstrate a pattern of impeding agencies’ ability to use their enacted appropriations; that recent apportionment actions taken by OMB to withhold military aid and foreign assistance funding administered by the Department of Defense, Department of State, and U.S. Agency for International Development constitute unlawful impoundments; and that OMB took the unusual and seemingly unprecedented step of delegating the authority to execute these apportionments to a political appointee, in lieu of career civil servants who have historically been the designated officials responsible for overseeing and executing these technical budget documents.[8] These actions have collectively undermined the longstanding application and predictability of federal funds management processes and require closer examination by our committees to inform appropriate legislative responses and reforms.
Chairs Yarmuth and Lowey Call on White House to Release Documents on the Withholding of Ukraine, Foreign Aid Funds, 2019
Not only were these kinds of actions being taken by Trump running our nation as a wannabe dictator during his first term, a bit on the mobster side, that withheld the funds for Ukraine, the same thing was being done with every agency and officially legislated funding for various programs and initiatives. There were no lawmakers that we elected making the decisions, there was only Trump and his cronies deciding that things already approved by our elected representatives would be aborted, dismantled and defunded to roll them back illegally.
Another entry from the list of Trump’s and his Republican Party Fascists’ changes to our civil and human rights at the same time working overtime on steroids and Adderall to undermine every possible public good that could come from our government.
On May 23, Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposed eliminating the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and transferring its functions to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). This would have impeded the work of both the OFCCP and the EEOC as each have distinct missions and expertise, and would have thereby undermined the civil rights protections that employers and workers have relied on for almost 50 years.
On June 5, Trump released an infrastructure plan that focuses on putting public assets into private hands, creating another giveaway to wealthy corporations and millionaires at the expense of working families and communities.
Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks,
If you want to know more about the organizations funding this fascist dictatorship / Christian Nationalist push to take over our nation and remove all vestiges of democracy, rights and freedoms for Americans, this series is filled with the details –
And briefly, once again –
What was the memorandum of Lewis F Powell Jr?
The Powell Memorandum ultimately came to be a blueprint for the rise of the American conservative movement and the formation of a network of influential right-wing think tanks and lobbying organizations, such as the Business Roundtable, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, Manhattan Institute for Policy …
Lewis F. Powell Jr. – Wikipedia
The Scheme 29: Fake Facts and “Knight-Errantry” at the Supreme Court
Mar 6, 2024 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, delivers the twenty-ninth in a series of speeches titled “The Scheme,” exposing the machinations by right-wing donor interests to capture the Supreme Court and achieve through the Court what they cannot through the elected branches of government. Whitehouse details the findings of his latest law review article, entitled “Knights-Errant: The Roberts Court and Erroneous Fact-Finding.” Whitehouse’s article sheds light on the Court’s propensity for relying on extra-record – and often false – facts that lend advantage to Republican or corporate special interests. The article details bogus and uncorrected facts in Supreme Court decisions, explains their consequences in disrupting settled precedents, and explores actions the judicial and legislative branches could take to ensure the Court cleans up factual errors and kicks its fact-finding habit. Law Review Article: https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-…
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, 2024
Trump’s friends are actively pursuing the dismantling of our federal government, the destruction of the authority of our Constitution and the dissolution of the United States into 50 independent nation states to suit their own purposes – from the Heritage Foundation and Christian Nationalists & Fascists running the Trump serving Republican Party that repeats Putin’s Russian disinformation and propaganda talking points to absolute fealty Trump and the Republicans pay to our known enemies who make no secret of their lust to destroy the United States. Why would we let them (and him) do that?
Americans have the vested interest in our country succeeding and staying sound, united and strong. Trump doesn’t and neither does the Russian Federation he wants to impress.
- cricketdiane, 03-11-2024
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