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thecrusher2011, Your misguided condescension betrays you. How Trump plans to seize the power of the purse From Congress
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Once the narratives have taken hold, the autocratic leader can change the hardware that runs the country. Most of these steps are incremental and might even be defensible on their own. But together, they build a formidable institutional power base that can keep the leader and his party in power permanently.

Here are some of those steps.

— Strengthen Executive Power. After serving one term as prime minister, Orbán lost office in 2002. He resolved that next time, he is going to be much more aggressive in strengthening his hold on power. Trump and his team have prepared for their second term in a similar way. Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation behind the infamous Project 2025, portrayed Hungary as “the model for conservative statecraft.” Project 2025 echoes Orbán’s playbook, pushing to dismantle liberal influence in the “administrative state” and strengthen executive power. As Trump’s initial nominees also show, we can expect systematic efforts to sweep out officials deemed disloyal to the president. Trump also plans to centralize control over institutions, ranging from the Federal Reserve Board to the Federal Communications Commission.
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This is very good, from Rick Wilson:
The Last Sunday
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Remember This America
Remember this America: flawed yet remarkable, filled with cruelty and compassion, selfishness and selflessness, folly and genius. Remember that this nation’s principles, values, laws, Constitution, and history—imperfect at its founding—still bound and blessed us to a slow but steady climb toward a better nation.
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A Feast of Crows
As the monster stands in the Capitol Rotunda, remember that the changes of his final term won’t move us toward greatness or innovation. Instead, they’ll plunge us into a dangerous, chaotic feast of crows. It’s going to be uniquely terrible.
P - Our lives, liberties, and rights will face immediate and systemic threats. The radical transformation he and his allies plan aims to create a post-democratic (and most certainly, post-Democratic) nation.
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Elon, Zuck, and the Oligarchs: A Bad Bet On Trump
Trump’s enablers among Wall Street and Silicon Valley’s kleptocratic class have forged an unholy alliance with the screeching hordes hyped on a steady diet of Trumpian agitprop. Fueled by the fantasy of a Final Battle before some imagined rapture, these supporters believe absolute loyalty will protect them.
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Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project 2025’ is just the latest action plan from a group with an over 50-year history of steering GOP lawmaking
Published: July 18, 2024 10.32pm AEST Updated: July 19, 2024 3.00am AEST
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Inside the rise of US oligarchs and how it opened a dark money 'floodgate'
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[Insert: Musk is a megalomaniac whose free speech position is as artificial as his persona ..
Musk flummoxes internet with 'Kekius Maximus' persona
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Gates, in a statement to the New York Times, said he had a history of being bipartisan but had donated to the Harris campaign this time.
P - "I support candidates who demonstrate a clear commitment to improving health care, reducing poverty and fighting climate change in the US and around the world," he said.
P - Outside of politics, Musk has joined The Giving Pledge, a concept Gates co-founded, which sees billionaires agree to give half of their wealth to philanthropic causes.
P - "Americans have grown to accept that wealthy people can influence politics," says Professor Harrington.
P - "I don't know what's in the hearts and minds of Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg. Maybe they do some good things and maybe they do some bad things.
P - "But what I have to question is: is this still democracy? If so, how can it be
that there is a handful of people in our country who have amassed so much
wealth that they can effectively buy the politicians and the policies they want."
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Wait, the Guy From The Apprentice is PRESIDENT?!?!?
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He pulled us out of the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization, and formally proclaimed Billy Mitchell Donkey Kong Champion for Life. He obstructed cancer research and directed the Pentagon to make umbrellas easier to close. He did all kindsa dumb shit. My brain would run screaming from my skull were I to list it all here.
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Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency
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You should also be aware your misguided condescension not only betrays you, but marks you
as just yet another common troll. It seems to be a very ordinary trait of so many of you guys.