[thread 4/x] Trump2: buckle up
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Here are the people Trump has picked for key positions so far
https://apnews.com/article/trump-staff-picks-stefanik-wiles-stephen-miller-tom-homan-243d73610b03a3ee18c4d5f68756af7c#see-more-transition
#USpol #Trump2 #Trumpism #GOP
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation
#antiLGBT #transphobia #ParentalRightsMovement
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #AmericaPAC #Progress2028 #libertarianism
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #transgenocide #Gilead #misogyny #sexism #paternalism
"Terrifying prospect." Trump will use U.S. military to carry out mass deportations
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/19/terrifying-prospect-confirms-he-will-use-the-us-military-to-carry-out-mass-deportations
* plans to declare national emergency
* response to 2024-Nov-08 Truth Social post f. Tom Fitton, president of conservative group Judicial Watch
* critics: military round up costly/dangerous
* big price tag: astronomical economic costs
* requires unfeasible infrastructure
#TomFitton #JudicialWatch
#USpol #USmilitary #MassDeportations
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #xenophobia #Project2025 #hatred
Gender Wars Are an Early Warning Sign for Authoritarianism
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/19/gender-wars-are-an-early-warning-sign-for-authoritarianism
* women’s rights are at the forefront of resistance
* across the world, women have/are playing incredible roles as bulwarks against rise of authoritarianism
#authoritarianism #Trumpism #WomensRights #TransRights
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #Project2025
#capitalism #libertarianism
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #theocracy #antiLGBT #transphobia #misogyny #sexism
Sex misconduct allegations: Trump’s picks
https://19thnews.org/2024/11/sexual-misconduct-allegations-trump-cabinet-picks/?itm_source=parsely-api
* Trump: dozens of accusations of sexual misconduct back to 1970s
* surrounded by men who face similar allegations
* 4 of Trump’s top picks accused of sexual assault, harassment, or child sex trafficking
Matt Gaetz: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113477966815684871
Elon Musk: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113473035331153428
RFK Jr.: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113476752158702515
Pete Hegseth: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113473222430772097
JD Vance confirms Trump's regime change at FBI
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/20/jd-vance-accidentally-confirmed-that-wants-regime-change-at-the-fbi
* fire Trump1 appointee Christopher Wray
* replacement incl.
Mike Rogers (R-MI)
Kash Patel: Trump1/hardline loyalist
Fmr FBI agent Daniel Brunner: “someone like Kash Patel in the position of director of the FBI is, I believe, extremely, extremely dangerous”
#USpol #FBI #Trump2 #GOP #fascism#JDVance #KashPatel #MikeRogers
#Project2025 #MassDeportations #xenophobia
#libertarianism #privatization #PrisonIndustrialComplex
Veteran news editor expects Trump 'to go after the press in every conceivable way'
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/20/nx-s1-5192627/trump-press-marty-baron-david-remnick
* New Yorker editor David Remnick: Trump's anger "has been never so intense as it's been against the press"
* Trump: news media the "Enemy of the American people"
* threatened retribution
* suggested NBC, CBS, ABC have licenses revoked
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #Project2025 #disinformation
#IndependentPress #NewsMedia #FreePress #censorship
Trump orders GOP to snuff out press freedom bill
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/20/republicans-must-this-bill-orders-to-snuff-out-press-freedom-act
* act under attack would shield journalists f. being compelled to turn over their reporting & sources
H.R.4250 - PRESS Act (2024)
Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4250/text
* would make curr. DoJ rule barring prosecutors f. compelling release of journalists' sources into federal law
#journalism #NewsMedia #FreePress
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #extremism #censorship #PressAct #HR4250
Hegemonic masculinity: Trump's cabinet of sex predators
https://theconversation.com/a-trump-cabinet-full-of-alleged-sexual-predators-heres-why-it-makes-perfect-sense-244374
* men accused of sex. abusing women/girls
* Elon Musk, Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
* + Linda McMahon: woman alleged to have enabled such abuse
Hegemonic masculinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemonic_masculinity
* practice that legitimizes men's dominant position in society
* dom. over women/other gender identities perceived as "feminine"
Biden weighs preemptive pardons for those on Trump's enemies list
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/05/biden-weighs-preemptive-pardons-for-those-on-enemies-list
* concern: Trump2 officials e.g. Kash Patel serious about threats on political opponents
Biden White House Discussing Preemptive Pardons for Those in Trump’s Crosshairs
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/12/04/biden-white-house-pardons-00192610
Update:
Biden commutes 1.5k sentences/pardons 39 people
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113640692993246671
#Biden #pardons
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #Project2025
#KashPatel #FBI #revenge #PoliticalCorruption
Want to fight Trump? Act now to strengthen democracy
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/07/want-to-fight-trump-then-act-now-to-strengthen-democracy
* Americans don't want Trump2 hatred
* e.g. post-election CBS poll: maj. support for promise to deport undocumented immigrants
* more nuanced poll, Data for Progress, showed exactly the opposite:
mass deportation highly unpopular when you shift question f. abstraction to specific details
deporting members of these groups was opposed >3:1
Welcome to the New Dark Ages
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/07/welcome-to-the-new-dark-ages
* Trump choosing loyalty as most imp. virtue
* mockery of merit even as nominees claim to uphold meritocracy
* nominees
denigrate science/expertise
subscribe to conspiracy theories
hostile to arts/education
xenophobic
anti-LGBT
* next 4 yrs will be far worse than Gilded Age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism
#racism #xenophobia #Christofascism #transgenocide
#capitalism #libertarianism #billionaires
Trump Provides Details for Dystopic/Sweeping Presidential Agenda
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/trump-just-provided-details-for-his-dystopic-and-sweeping-presidential-agenda/
"They should go to jail." Trump: Liz Cheney sh. be invest. by FBI over Jan. 6 committee
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/08/they-should-go-to-jail-says-cheney-should-be-investigated-by-fbi-over-jan-6-committee
* all U.S. Congress who took part in Jan 6 investigations sh. be imprisoned
Trump maintains 2020 election denial
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/08/too-big-to-rig-maintains-2020-denial-in-meet-the-press-interview
* interview w. NBC's "Meet the Press"
Attempts to overturn 2020 U.S. presidential election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election
Trump Expands Deportation Threats to Include U.S. Citizens
https://newrepublic.com/post/189146/trump-deport-american-citizens
* [unlike Trump1] "the only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together & you have to send them all back"
* Trump calmly acknowledged how evil, damaging, & unpopular the policy would be to American families
* also wants to end birthright citizenship, a basic tenet of U.S. Constitution
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #Project2025 #authoritarianism
#USConstitution #BirthrightCitizenship
#Christofascism
Elon Musk warns Republicans against standing in Trump or his way
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-politics-trump-7e26c829af224a1f9d67c27cea085e68
* Trump2 comes with specter of world’s richest man serving as political enforcer
Musk, 2024-Dec-10: $364.2 billion USD
https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111049297750914546
* if Musk spent $1M/day: 360,000 d to deplete wealth
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #VivekRamaswamy #DOGE
#Christofascism #Project2025 #transgenocide
#capitalism #billionaires #ElonMusk #libertarianism #oligarchy #meritocracy
Polls show people of all stripes want immigrants treated w. dignity
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/12/11/new-polling-shows-people-of-all-stripes-want-immigrants-treated-with-dignity
* est. 11M undocumented immigrants in U.S.
* Trump vowed to deport them
* Am. overwhelmingly think that deportations should focus on immigrants who commit violent crime
* families should be kept intact
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation #Project2025 #MassDeportation
#xenophobia #immigrants #HumanRights
#Christofascism #transgenocide
Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency
https://apnews.com/article/biden-pardons-clemency-4432002d67334e6716c2776fd73f3cc8
* commutes: 1,500 people released f. prison/home confinement during COVID-19 pandemic
* pardons: 39 Am. convicted of nonviolent crimes
Biden weighs preemptive pardons for those on Trump's enemies list
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113601489149666665
#Biden #pardons
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #Project2025
#KashPatel #FBI #revenge #PoliticalCorruption
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How to Protect Your Reproductive Health During Trump’s Second Presidency
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/12/16/how-to-protect-your-reproductive-health-during-trumps-second-presidency
* comprehensive guide for protecting access to birth control, abortion medication, emergency contraception before Trump takes office
#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #misogyny #sexism #paternalism
#Christofascism #OpusDei #Catholicism #antiabortion #transgenocide
#WomensRights #abortion
#SelfDetermination #ReproductiveRights
Trump2 Blueprint: Use Helms Amendment to Enforce Total Global Abortion Bans
https://msmagazine.com/2024/12/16/trump-project-2025-helms-amendment-abortion-bans-usa-foreign-assistance-aid
* Project 2025 looks to Helms Amendment as a tool
* decades-old policy; keeps women abroad f. accessing safe abortion
Helms Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms_Amendment_to_the_Foreign_Assistance_Act
* N.C. segregationist Jesse Helms
#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025
#GlobalConservatism #conservatism #GlobalConservatism #antiabortion #HelmsAmendment
#Christofascism #transgenocide
How We Can Resist Trump’s Deportation Plans
https://progressive.org/op-eds/how-we-can-resist-trumps-deportation-plans-montange-20241216
As we approach a second Trump Administration, we need to build solidarity within our communities and expand local-level efforts to defend immigrants
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #Project2025
#xenophobia #WhiteNationalism #immigrants #MassDeportation #ICE
#Christofascism #transgenocide
Terrifying Line of Shock Troops Likely in Trump2 DoJ
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/donald-trump-doj-pam-bondi-shock-troops.html
* state attorneys
Drew Wrigley, ND Attorney Gen.
Scott Stewart, MS Solicitor Gen.
* nonprofit influencers
Gene Hamilton, America First Legal
Jeffrey Clark, Center for Renewing America
Katharine Sullivan, Texas Public Policy Found.
Patricia Nation, America First Policy instit.
* other
Ryan Newman, FL Gov.’s Off. (Gen. Counsel)
Lawrence Keefe, FL Gov.’s Off. (Public Safety Czar)
Curtis Gannon, U.S. Dep. Sol. Gen.
Interview: U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy’s Ominous Warning About Trump2
https://newrepublic.com/article/189552/transcript-chris-murphys-ominous-new-warning-trump-nails
Democrats sound alarm
* Trump attacks on democracy accelerating
* media folding
Chris Murphy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Murphy
* Am. lawyer/author/politician
* U.S. Sen. (D-CT) 2013+
* supporter 2SLGBTQIA+ rights 2002+
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #Project2025
#capitalism #billionaires #ElonMusk #libertarianism
#ChristianRight #antiLGBT #misogyny
#Christofascism #OpusDei #transgenocide
Let “President Musk” Run Government
https://newrepublic.com/post/189553/donald-trump-elon-musk-spending-bill
* Musk singlehandedly driving U.S. gov't into shutdown
* Trump: no opinion on proposed continuing resolution
* m/w Musk ranted for hrs
* threatening to unseat Republicans who supported it
Further Continuing Appropriations & Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act 2025
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/10445/all-info
https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/CR.pdf
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #Musk #fascism #authoritarianism
#capitalism #billionaires
#Christofascism #transgenocide
Rand Paul Suggests Elon Musk Be Next U.S. House Speaker
https://newrepublic.com/post/189554/rand-paul-elon-musk-house-speaker
Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/10445/all-info
https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/CR.pdf
* Rand Paul thinks Elon Musk should take over after his amazing work driving the government toward shutdown
Elon Musk Bullying Mike Johnson to Drive U.S. Government Into Shutdown
https://newrepublic.com/post/189539/elon-musk-bullying-mike-johnson-government-shutdown
* cyberbullying speaker of U.S. House
Trump's Demand as U.S. Gov't Hurtles Toward Shutdown: Completely abolish debt ceiling
https://newrepublic.com/post/189565/trump-debt-ceiling-government-shutdown
* opposes bipartisan spending bill
* U.S. gov't closer to shutdown
* goes against the rest of GOP
Further Continuing Appropriations & Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act 2025
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/10445/all-info
https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/CR.pdf
Debt limit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_limit
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #Musk #fascism #authoritarianism
#capitalism #billionaires
#Christofascism #transgenocide
Louisiana forbids public health workers f. promoting COVID, flu, mpox shots
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/louisian-bans-staff-from-helping-people-get-mpox-covid-flu-vaccines
* Louisiana Dept. Health face new policy
* advertising/promoting COVID, influenza, mpox vaccines must stop
* appl. to every aspect of health dept.'s work
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #Louisana
#pseudoscience #antivax #VaccineHesitancy #ConspiracyTheories #RFKjr
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#PublicHealth #EvidenceBasedMedicine #DHHS #NIH
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Trump mass deportations Jan 21+
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/18/is-planning-to-begin-mass-deportations-on-his-first-full-day-in-office-report
* Trump2 working w. immigration auth.
* massive raid Chicago Tuesday 2025-Jan-21
Trump to Begin lg. Scale Deportations
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-begin-large-scale-deportations-tuesday-e1bd89bd
nonpaywalled https://archive.fo/VfA92
* Chicago early target
* ~200 officers to carry out operation
#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism
#Project2025 #xenophobia #whiteSupremacism #MassDeportations
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #libertarianism
#Christofascism #transgenocide
@persagen we know he'll just escalate from there, it'll be anyone he doesn't like.
@persagen
Thank you for your post.
The majority of Americans and the World warn against republicans NOT standing in the way of Trump.
Peace
@persagen@mastodon.social
I'm glad Canada does accept US aid.