What is happening involves not only purging nonpartisan civil servants, but also replacing them with trained Trump loyalists. Obviously, this is a bloodless digital coup.
If this is really such an emergency, then it would help to see the left moderate their positions to appeal to more voters and choose different, more effective leaders. I see no signs of that happening. What might explain this?
Sure, there's plenty of blame to dole out to the cowardly GOPers who know better, but in practice the only fix will come from the opposition party figuring out a way to appeal to more voters--and quickly.
Hi, moderate exactly which positions? Kamala Harris and Biden were moderate politicians with more in common with Lincoln party republicans than progressive democrats especially if you look at their voting records over the span of their political careers. There are areas to morally stand firm upon like protecting vulnerable populations from abuse. Financial policy? Foreign policy? They were willing to work with conservatives had conservatives been willing. Trump killed the last of the bipartisan efforts before entering the office.
What are you talking about? What positions? Who is ‘the left’? Elections are not happening right now! What ‘appeal’? Can we focus on stopping the destruction of America?
Agreed. The dems have to capitulate to a modern era. Bring on Chris Murphy, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jasmine Crocket and others. Schumer and Pelosi, thank you for your service.
This is great analysis and provides strong evidence that Trump 2.0 is lawlessly destroying whatever he and his Muskreants determine smacks of democratically-tainted ideas, people, and institutions. The clear end game is a soft coup just like Orban did in Hungary to transition to oligarchic rule. But this plan is flawed. The vast majority of Americans like our heritage and our leadership in promoting democracy and overall wellbeing at home and abroad. The utterly callous and cruel firing of people of good will working for the public good, like park rangers, in communities all across the country is so stupid but predictable. But it is showing in real time and with real harm, what the Trump regime would look like. Americans will rise=up and soon vote and throw the bums out.
My main concern is that they’re attacking our elections, too! We could very well vote to “throw the bums out” but if they’re messing with our elections (and I believe they already have) we may not get the opportunity to get rid of them. I’ve read the work of Nathan Taylor from the Election Truth Alliance and seen info from Greg Palast re voting suppression, etc. We may not be able to vote them out!!! They are attacking us from every possible angle. How do we stop this runaway train? It must be NOW! Before we are at a point of no return. I don’t know how to help but I’m not willing to give up.
Isn't it a little weird that woke commissars in agencies like the Dept. of Education would feel entitled to keep pushing their propaganda on America, regardless of what the voters say every four years? The crazy thing is that no previous GOP president had the wit or the cojones to do something like this. Half the country is ready to put Drumpf on Mount Rushmore for these purges alone.
When invoked by those on the right, the manner and context in which it is used indicates it’s real meaning is something like…. “I don’t like what you are saying, but I don’t have any evidence to counter it, so I’ll just label it with the vaguely derisive moniker “woke”, so people can fill in that space with their own disfavored descriptors.
Here’s a conservative political book author struggling to say what woke is.
Thanks for this and the statistics. It required rusty mechanisms in my system to recall the math. Yes, TrumpCorp is dismantling the US, although he is the puppet. The handlers that we can see, Vought, Miller, Rubio are significant, but more significant are those we can’t see. We must continue to fight, obviously. The winners in this are easy to see, Russia-Putin, China-Xi, Saudi Arabia-BinSalman. These
are the real deals he has made to drain the US and make us a slave country.
Of course this is political, when the government has been taken over in large measure slowly by the left, a massive cutting is going to look like pure politics, when in reality, there is little to no justification for large swaths of the government (certainly not constitutionally).
It's Orwellian NewSpeak. That's why critical thinking and media literacy aren't taught. You can only recognize lies and bullshit when you're cognizant you're being lied to and scammed.
Nice work. Have you considered offering this statistical analysis to the ACLU or the labor unions that represent fired government employees? They could probably put that information to good use.
Would be good to have numbers on how many firings there are and what percent of the agency is affected. I've been looking for some kind of data on that and haven't found anything. Of course the numbers are changing daily (in both directions since they are rehiring some people).
What is happening involves not only purging nonpartisan civil servants, but also replacing them with trained Trump loyalists. Obviously, this is a bloodless digital coup.
If this is really such an emergency, then it would help to see the left moderate their positions to appeal to more voters and choose different, more effective leaders. I see no signs of that happening. What might explain this?
Sure, there's plenty of blame to dole out to the cowardly GOPers who know better, but in practice the only fix will come from the opposition party figuring out a way to appeal to more voters--and quickly.
Hi, moderate exactly which positions? Kamala Harris and Biden were moderate politicians with more in common with Lincoln party republicans than progressive democrats especially if you look at their voting records over the span of their political careers. There are areas to morally stand firm upon like protecting vulnerable populations from abuse. Financial policy? Foreign policy? They were willing to work with conservatives had conservatives been willing. Trump killed the last of the bipartisan efforts before entering the office.
What are you talking about? What positions? Who is ‘the left’? Elections are not happening right now! What ‘appeal’? Can we focus on stopping the destruction of America?
Agreed. The dems have to capitulate to a modern era. Bring on Chris Murphy, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jasmine Crocket and others. Schumer and Pelosi, thank you for your service.
This is great analysis and provides strong evidence that Trump 2.0 is lawlessly destroying whatever he and his Muskreants determine smacks of democratically-tainted ideas, people, and institutions. The clear end game is a soft coup just like Orban did in Hungary to transition to oligarchic rule. But this plan is flawed. The vast majority of Americans like our heritage and our leadership in promoting democracy and overall wellbeing at home and abroad. The utterly callous and cruel firing of people of good will working for the public good, like park rangers, in communities all across the country is so stupid but predictable. But it is showing in real time and with real harm, what the Trump regime would look like. Americans will rise=up and soon vote and throw the bums out.
My main concern is that they’re attacking our elections, too! We could very well vote to “throw the bums out” but if they’re messing with our elections (and I believe they already have) we may not get the opportunity to get rid of them. I’ve read the work of Nathan Taylor from the Election Truth Alliance and seen info from Greg Palast re voting suppression, etc. We may not be able to vote them out!!! They are attacking us from every possible angle. How do we stop this runaway train? It must be NOW! Before we are at a point of no return. I don’t know how to help but I’m not willing to give up.
I suggest how to approach resistance in my latest post: https://open.substack.com/pub/jonthinks/p/trump-20-la-cosa-nostra-writ-large?r=mrvx1&utm_medium=ios
Thank you! Will read it.
here is a data set I like to use
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/#quarter:140;series:Net%20worth;demographic:networth;population:1,3,5,7,9;units:shares;range:1989.3,2024.3
Isn't it a little weird that woke commissars in agencies like the Dept. of Education would feel entitled to keep pushing their propaganda on America, regardless of what the voters say every four years? The crazy thing is that no previous GOP president had the wit or the cojones to do something like this. Half the country is ready to put Drumpf on Mount Rushmore for these purges alone.
Please define “woke”.
When invoked by those on the right, the manner and context in which it is used indicates it’s real meaning is something like…. “I don’t like what you are saying, but I don’t have any evidence to counter it, so I’ll just label it with the vaguely derisive moniker “woke”, so people can fill in that space with their own disfavored descriptors.
Here’s a conservative political book author struggling to say what woke is.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/W7iWEEcPKoQ
What
Thanks for this and the statistics. It required rusty mechanisms in my system to recall the math. Yes, TrumpCorp is dismantling the US, although he is the puppet. The handlers that we can see, Vought, Miller, Rubio are significant, but more significant are those we can’t see. We must continue to fight, obviously. The winners in this are easy to see, Russia-Putin, China-Xi, Saudi Arabia-BinSalman. These
are the real deals he has made to drain the US and make us a slave country.
Was it based on meritocracy?
Of course this is political, when the government has been taken over in large measure slowly by the left, a massive cutting is going to look like pure politics, when in reality, there is little to no justification for large swaths of the government (certainly not constitutionally).
No surprise
It's Orwellian NewSpeak. That's why critical thinking and media literacy aren't taught. You can only recognize lies and bullshit when you're cognizant you're being lied to and scammed.
As evidenced by a $6 billion increase in defense budget in the stop-gap funding bill.
Nice work. Have you considered offering this statistical analysis to the ACLU or the labor unions that represent fired government employees? They could probably put that information to good use.
And… who cares? We WANT Marxists purged from American positions of power.
I say this is a Good Thing®.
Nothing different than past presidents. Clinton fired all the attorney generals he didnt like as well as the head of the FBI.
Obama fired all his top military advisors to the tune of nearly 200 officers, plus anyone else he didnt like.
Biden same thing:
https://www.cato.org/commentary/bidens-firing-spree
Oh, Lookie that! A right wing think tank says right wing stuff. Yawn.
We need effective pushback. And we need it now. Otherwise, there will be nothing left by 2026, even if they do let us hold an election.
Would be good to have numbers on how many firings there are and what percent of the agency is affected. I've been looking for some kind of data on that and haven't found anything. Of course the numbers are changing daily (in both directions since they are rehiring some people).