Musk demanded access to more than $6 trillion in US government payouts–everything from Grandma’s Social Security check and all her personal information to Medicare/Medicaid payments, government contracts, and literally tens of thousands of financial functions affecting every single American. Trump’s indentured squad had to fire a few key folks to clear the way, but now, in the name of efficiency, it’s all there for Musk.
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Election Theft in the Context of Racism
America is a liberal democracy. Its greatest blessing is freedom, the right to live and act in accordance with one’s conscience. This freedom unleashes boundless energy and creativity, and, along with other western nations, liberal democracies have advanced at an astonishing pace, far surpassing autocratic and theocratic nations by every measure, especially quality of life.
While each of these actions must be subject to vigorous, sustained challenges—in the courts, through legislation, and in the streets—it is essential that at the top of the list is Mr. Trump’s decision to release violent criminals who attacked police and ransacked the Capitol. Many of them, including leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, are flaunting their newfound freedom, ominously pledging retribution against those who investigated, prosecuted, and imprisoned them.
The U.S. is the only NATO member to ever activate the defense alliance. Yet the U.S. has the audacity to lecture Canada on our domestic spending priorities while simultaneously needing support from Canadian and Mexican firefighters. Even while receiving international firefighting support, the U.S. has halted almost all aid to others.
As you recall, the fable “ The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs” was used as a metaphor to highlight the urgent and potentially catastrophic fate of America’s Federal Budget. If government officials don’t intervene to stop the budget from being gutted, we could be hurtling toward a severe economic crisis. It’s not the greedy and senseless farmer robbing the budget. It remains a platoon of clandestine thieves operating as accounts payable personnel, lobbyists, fraudsters, and complicit, wasteful executives/managers.
WOW! What a statement from a Yale man. And with this, they have a plan. If this is it, then we are all in trouble because this rhetoric is no bubble—it’s reality. This is what he truly believes, conditioned by his own narrow world view. Hillbilly Elegy may be in his bones, but that philosophy is kicking me and all others like me from the very land we’ve called home—land that has been ours for centuries, long before 1619 or even 1492. Millions had already roamed, lived, and made this land their birthright and their God-given right to exist, free of atrocity and injustice. And now, here we are, confronting a vile, diabolical idea that threatens our existence once again.
Donald Trump’s actions on Day One of his presidency, and each day since then, have laid bare his willingness to undermine the health and wealth of working families. He is determined to pollute our air and water. And for all his tough talk about China, he is rapidly ceding vital economic ground to China as he attempts to shutter the new factories powering our nation with clean energy. A true “America First” agenda would focus on American leadership on the global stage. And it would put the American people first. Instead, he is putting Americans’ last by sacrificing our health and our jobs in favor of corporate greed.
Thus Alexandra Villarreal, writing in the Guardian about Trump 2.0’s first day in office (on Dr. Martin Luther King Day), noted: “He immediately involved the military, ordering the armed forces to ‘seal’ the US’s borders ‘by repelling forms of invasion including unlawful mass migration.’
Reincarnation is a core belief of the Hindu faith. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna explains that changing one’s body is like changing one’s clothes. I accept that possibility as I accept the idea of a Christian afterlife. Both speculations are fascinating.