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Jane B In NC🌼's avatar

Great writing. I’m glad I listened to the audio .

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ML S's avatar

Flathead

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Trixie's avatar

Congress, do your jobs and stop Trump.

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Vanessa Miller's avatar

I love this… he's too stupid to realize that he's his own worst enemy. Thankyou for this enlightening article. I think you've just lowered my blood pressure and decreased my anxiety by leaps and bounds. I'm willing to sit back and wait now for his term to finally be over. I also don't fear that his sons (Beavis and butt-hole) will try to run, while I think they're dumb too, they're either smart enough to know they'll never get elected, or their wives will make sure they never throw their hats in the political ring.

Have you noticed their names haven't been mentioned lately? They're not narcissistic like their daddy is. THANK GOD. Nor is Ivanka. In my opinion she seems like she wants nothing to do with him.

Anyway, thank you for giving us hope.

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Dolcemaria's avatar

Excellent piece informative 🙏

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Jo A.'s avatar

The Heritage Foundation, Musk, Miller, WCNs, the billionaires and the entire GOP must be thrilled with this regime.

Forty years following the end of Reagan’s tenure, the country is a shitshow and we are—most likely—being proffered up to Russia.

Are we great yet?

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Marte McNally's avatar

ADIOS

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Marte McNally's avatar

Adios

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Gatekeeperken's avatar

FEMA money is gone….gone!

Trumps gets 300 million for police protection when he plays golf. 300M

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IcarusDOS's avatar

subcaption - “QuarterPounder with Cheese claims another victim…”

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Sandra Kolka's avatar

Wow this man can write.

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Dannys's avatar

Trump

“One stop shopping for corruption”

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Sue R's avatar

What a stellar psychological profile of this man who would be king. Yes, the Resistance is real. Not only can we “help preserve and ultimately restore the America we so value,” we can strengthen and improve our country to benefit all. Unite, boycott, resist; let's be strong together.

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Kathleen Thayer's avatar

Medias

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Miriam Boland's avatar

Hope, where there isn’t a lot left…. Thanks you David! People in my area Delaware County, PA are holding resistances every weekend. Swarthmore College is here, as well.

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Louise Champagne's avatar

I believe you have misread Musk and misconstrued the real purpose of what DOGE was created to do; why Musk has been given this power; and what he has accomplished — that is far from over; whether he’s in the spotlight, or officially part of the administration, or not.

You wrote that the “DOGE effort that is far, far from producing the results Musk once promised.” But those results weee just a cover, a smokescreen for a shadow agenda.

Musk is not MAGA. As he said at Madison Swuare Garden, he is “Dark MAGA.”

DOGE is just a front for the strategy espoused by Curtis Yarvin’s political scheme which he calls “The Dark Enlightenment.” Part of the Dark MAGA playbook is to traumatize federal employees and to disrupt and dismantle federal agencies and departments; to implode our democratic structure and replace it with a techno-monarchy run like a corporation with a tech billionaires CEO.

This is JD Vance — in 2021 —on the podcast “Jack Murphy Live.”

“There's this guy, Curtis Yarvin. Who's written about some of these things. A lot of concerns that said we should deconstruct the administrative state. We should basically eliminate the administrative state. And I'm sympathetic to that project. But another option is that we should just seize the administrative state for our own purposes.

“I think that what Trump should do, like if I was giving him one piece of advice, fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people. And then when the courts stop you, stand before the country, like Andrew Jackson did, and say the Chief Justice has made his ruling, now let him enforce it.”

Source: “JD Vance and the rise of the 'New Right'”

PODCAST August 1, 2024

“On Point” (WBUR/Boston)

Complete transcript on their website:

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/04/05/jd-vance-new-right-curtis-yarvin

Guests:

Ian Ward, reporter with Politico and Politico Magazine. He reports on the conservative movement and the American Right.

Gil Duran, freelance journalist writing about tech politics.

Michael Malice, author of the 2019 book "The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics."

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