"Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country."
~ Mariann Edgar Budde
#Trump #Republicans #Americans #cruelty #fascism #arrogance #bullying #ignorance #immigrants #deportations #militarization #AmericanExceptionalism
/4
"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
/5
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/david-de-jong-nazi-interview-trump-musk
Edited 52d ago
"To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to give one Nazi salute is unfortunate, but to give two, well that’s simply political carelessness. After all, surely even in its bastardized, post-literate, post-moral, pro-Trumpian state, America in the year 2025 has a residual memory of the fact that the Nazis were very, very, very bad people."
~ Sasha Abramsky
#Trump #ElonMusk #fascism #Nazi #NaziSalute #Jewish
/7
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-assault-american-democracy/
Edited 52d ago
"Yet, Musk’s itchy arm, so similar to that of Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick’s classic nuclear-apocalypse satire, apparently simply couldn’t resist the lure of the Sieg Heil gesture.
And that, I think, is an apt metaphor for this first week of Trump’s foul second presidency."