Trump II: Screwing you, enriching billionaires, betraying America

• Slashing consumer protection, healthcare, and education
• Corruptly turning over your private data to Musk
• Imposing job-killing, price-hiking tariffs
• Pushing tax breaks for billionaires
• Pardoning violent criminals

“Are we going to break something?” acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek asked, referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. “I don’t know."

https://www.propublica.org/article/recording-reveals-leland-dudek-thoughts-trump-doge-social-security?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

DoubleSpeak: "If you ask a National Park Service ranger how the Trump administration’s cost cutting will affect your next park visit, you might get talking points instead of a straight answer.

A series of emails sent late last month to front-line staff at parks across the country provided rangers with instructions on how to describe the highly publicized staff cuts. Park leaders further instructed staff to avoid the word “fired” and not blame closures on staffing levels.

On Feb. 14, at least 1,000 park service employees were terminated as part of broad reductions to the federal workforce by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. As a result, visitor centers have reduced hours, tours of popular attractions have been canceled, lines have spiraled, bathrooms may go uncleaned, habitat restoration has ceased and water has gone unchecked for toxic algae.

Meanwhile, rangers have been ordered to describe these cuts — or “attrition” and “workforce management actions,” according to the talking points — as “prioritizing fiscal responsibility” and “staffing to meet the evolving needs of our visitors.” They also should tell visitors the parks will continue to ensure “memorable and meaningful experiences for all.”

If asked about limited offerings, one park’s rangers were instructed to say “we are not able to address park or program-level impacts at this time.”"

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-parks-staff-cuts-talking-points

"As the world’s richest men slash American aid for the world’s poorest children, they insist that all is well. “No one has died as a result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding,” Elon Musk said. “No one.”

That is not true. In South Sudan, one of the world’s poorest countries, the efforts by Musk and President Trump are already leading children to die.

Peter Donde was a 10-year-old infected with H.I.V. from his mother during childbirth. But American aid kept Peter strong even as his parents died from AIDS. A program started by President George W. Bush called PEPFAR saved 26 million lives from AIDS, and one was Peter’s.

Under PEPFAR, an outreach health worker ensured that Peter and other AIDS orphans got their medicines. Then in January, Trump and Musk effectively shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, perhaps illegally, and that PEPFAR outreach program ended. Orphans were on their own.

Without the help of the community health worker, Peter was unable to get his medicines, so he became sick and died in late February, according to Moses Okeny Labani, a health outreach worker who helped manage care for Peter and 144 other vulnerable children.

The immediate cause of death was an opportunistic pneumonia infection as Peter’s viral load increased and his immunity diminished, said Labani.

“If U.S.A.I.D. would be here, Peter Donde would not have died,” Labani said."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html

BAN #X in EUROPE! This is a call for an immediate ban on Elon #Musk 's social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) in the European Union. This platform has become a breeding ground for #disinformation, hate speech, and abuse that threaten the values of inclusivity and truth in our society.
https://www.change.org/p/ban-x-in-europe-elon-musk-must-be-stopped-in-eu?signed=true

This is what is expected to happen when you put a billionaire with a severe drug addiction problem in charge of monitoring the Federal Government spending of the world's largest economy

"“DOGE Has 10 Staffers at Social Security in Hunt for Dead People,” the headlines read this past week.

I found a dead person on Social Security. Right here in Seattle, on Capitol Hill.

Of course the circumstances of Ned Johnson’s death were completely the opposite of what Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had claimed was rampant.

“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”

That’s the biggest difference — my deceased guy turns out to be very much alive. Musk is contending that hordes of dead people are listed as alive in the Social Security databases, and are fraudulently still drawing benefits (which the Social Security director disputes).

Johnson is 82 and still kicking. Yet sometime last month, someone or something led Social Security to both tag him as dead and start clawing back his benefits.

Johnson’s strange trip through the netherworld began in February, when a letter from his bank arrived addressed to his wife, Pam."

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

#FirstAmendment, #1A, #FreeSpeech, #FreedomOfSpeech, #FreePress, #FreedomOfThePress, #Bezos, #JeffBezos, #Amazon, #WashingtonPost, #MarkZuckerberg, #Zuckerberg, #Meta, #Musk, #ElonMusk, #X, #PoliticalCartoon, #EditorialCartoon, @Rattoons1776

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/abridge-too-far?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=100119

Analysis: "The fundamental weakness of Western Civilization is empathy” ~Elon Musk

Arguably, the most damaging new war by Musk & the broligarchy is against the very notion of "empathy".

Musk, et al. frame empathy as a "trait to be eradicated in a quest for some kind of evolutionary advancement.... Empathy needs to be excised for civilization to progress."

The truth is that fascists are afraid of empathy. With good reason.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/14/a-sea-of-feces-philosophical-musings-from-the-techno-feudalists/

#Musk #Psychopathy #Fascism #USPol

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How an obscure #US government office has become a target of #Musk, remember #18F

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/15/elon-musk-18f-x-false-claims?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Peaceful march & protest in Suffolk, Virginia, against Jen Kiggens' refusal to meet her failure to stand against the Trump-Musk coup #uspol #jenkiggans #musk

"Sociologist Brooke Harrington says that for the world's wealthiest people, many of the laws and rules followed by the rest of us simply don't apply. The lives of the richest people in the world are so different from those of the rest of us, it's almost literally unimaginable. National borders are nothing to them. They might as well not exist. The laws are nothing to them. They might as well not exist."

https://www.npr.org/2016/10/25/499213698/whats-it-like-to-be-rich-ask-the-people-who-manage-billionaires-money

#USpol #SiliconValley #Technofeudalismus #Trump #Musk

USA: vom "Demokratie-Experiment" zum Technofeudalismus--wer steht hinter Trump*

Dieser Beitrag erklärt hervorragend, wie die neuen Machthaber im Weißen Haus ticken und wie ihr Denken die Welt beeinflusst

Guter Einstieg für die, die letzten 10 Jahre sich wenig für Politik interessiert haben, super "recap" für alle.

ZDFheute: Die Strategie hinter der digitalen Reizflut
Die Strategie hinter der digitalen Reizflut

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wissen/soziale-medien-fake-news-medienflut-terrax-lea-dohm-kolumne-100.html#at_medium=Social%20Media&at_campaign=ZDFheuteApp&at_specific=ZDFheute&at_content=Android

In the 1930s and until 1941 there was an anti-democratic, anti-socialist, proto fascist political organisation called Technocracy Inc. in the USA and Canada.

One of it's aims was a pan North American state that would consist of the USA, Canada, Panama, and Greenland.

Remind you of someone?

Oh, BTW. Joshua N. Haldeman, the maternal grandfather of one Elon #Musk was a member until the organisation was banned in 1941.

What a coincidence. A pre WWII Fascist coincidence.

Oh, and someone is constructing a Technocracy Inc website since 2023.

The coincidences just keep piling up.

#FuckTrump, #FuckNazis, #FuckMusk

Brick Lane, east London, seen yesterday.

Via random FB profile/page.

#Tesla #civilwar #Musk

A Tesla showroom in Oregon has been shot up for the second time in a week. Again zero human injuries but at least a dozen bullets trashed windows and cars causing "extensive damage" to both.

Looks to me like the civil war may have already started: Trump invoking the Enemy Alien Act and rounding up student protesters without charge, but heavy retribution falling on Elon Musk in the form of guerilla strikes against Tesla. In one week two shooting incidents and three fires.

In addition the university President's mansion at Columbia University got a paint job a couple nights ago