They have longed for this moment. It’s been their dream like…for forever.
They have wanted to unleash this cruelty on the American populace for at least a generation.
No Democrat better give one vote for the horrors that the GOP wants to do to the American Social Safety Net.
NOT. ONE.
And, for those who voted for the GOP…may you get everything you voted for.
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 6:01 AM on Sat, Feb 22, 2025:
Remarkable: Trump’s own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico.Yet GOP is about to slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts!
New piece:
https://t.co/VQpmbnqTxp
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1893269812559728648?t=fbQLLHp2XQUC6ud-vAJZrQ&s=03)Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 6:30 AM on Sat, Feb 22, 2025:
Trump’s pollster found that in 18 swing House districts, 68% are unhappy about their financial situation. Majorities want ACA’s expanded subsidies to continue and oppose corporate tax cuts.Swing voters want the opposite of what Trump/Rs are set to do.
https://t.co/VQpmbnqTxp https://t.co/IKbwmAVKLL
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1893277211802611856?t=taV7IEq7nJbmI8T4aFwvVw&s=03)Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 6:38 AM on Sat, Feb 22, 2025:
Next week, House Republicans will vote on a blueprint that could lead to $880 billion in Medicaid cuts, big cuts to spending on food stamps, and more big tax cuts for rich/corporations.Trump’s own pollster finds broad opposition to these priorities.
https://t.co/VQpmbnqTxp https://t.co/nSOHVT7Ji1
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1893279140943433865?t=-0n-4ThxRYCzZ2pHnsRheg&s=03)Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 6:46 AM on Sat, Feb 22, 2025:
As @mattyglesias recently suggested, fights over these broad differences in priorities can unite the Democratic Party and fracture the new Trumpier GOP coalition.I think this is what Trump’s pollster is subtly warning against with his memo findings.
https://t.co/JcAvMA029e https://t.co/4o2QmqPe19
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1893281139734839461?t=Sur_zWQ-baoBiwjok4GBHQ&s=03)Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 6:50 AM on Sat, Feb 22, 2025:
Adding to @mattyglesias, there’s precedent for this. Recall in 2018 Republicans were certain they could run on Trump’s tax cut for the rich by pretending it was pro-worker. After the public argument started, Rs basically stopped talking about it entirely.https://t.co/VQpmbnqTxp https://t.co/SeD44Z2wfC
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1893282338601046515?t=_DAUWyUfX0D_mkrFNI12lw&s=03)Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 6:58 AM on Sat, Feb 22, 2025:
The showdown over expanded ACA subsidies is also an opening for Dems to fracture GOP coalition, b/c it will hit GOP voters.“House GOP constituents would see the biggest shock from these tax credits expiring,” KFF’s Larry Levitt says.
(h/t @citizencohn)
https://t.co/VQpmbnqTxp https://t.co/cz923gceTH
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1893284325509997049?t=OZm4y8bhhMcFDG7Dpm0UTw&s=03)Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 7:04 AM on Sat, Feb 22, 2025:
Some tend to respond to this kind of thing with, “well, we’re not having elections anymore, so…”For Trump’s pollster to put out this memo suggests some Rs are acting very much as if they’ll have to face the voters again, and they’re worried about it.
https://t.co/VQpmbnqTxp https://t.co/oiX7j2jNWh
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1893285830078148651?t=KH2n2Vwj5gYdE86TFl-OBA&s=03)
FROM ANOTHER BLOG:
YY_Sima Qian
February 28, 2025 at 3:06 pm
The people around Trump are accelerationists trying to usher in a Darwinian world of ethno-nationalist multipolarity, interspersed w/ a corporatist multipolarity, but w/ the U.S. & select parts of the American corporate sector being unquestioned Alphas. A world of toxic masculinity run amok. Better come to grips w/ that reality.
A heated argument broke out between President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and Vice President JD Vance in the White House Oval Office. The confrontation occurred before a deal was supposed to be made between Ukraine and the United States in which Ukraine would give the U.S. critical minerals in exchange for some unspecified help in dealing with Russia’s invasion. Trump and Vance accused Zelensky of being “disrespectful,” ungrateful, and of gambling with starting a global war. Before the argument began, President Trump was asked by reporters if he would provide Ukraine with security guarantees, but he declined to affirmatively answer these questions. President Zelensky said Ukraine needed security guarantees and that a ceasefire would not be sufficient. A scheduled news conference between the two leaders was subsequently canceled after this meeting.
Phillips P. OBrien
@PhillipsPOBrien
Ok. Once and for all. Trump is anti Ukraine, anti Democracy, anti Europe and, above all, pro Putin. There can be no more doubt—it’s just a disaster it’s taken so long for people to understand it.
12:42 PM · Feb 28, 2025
https://x.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1895545222740001098
Phillips P. OBrien
@PhillipsPOBrien
The other thing to say is that it’s a good thing for Europeans and lovers of democracy around the world to have seen this. This is what Trump has always stood for, he just revealed it more fully
12:45 PM · Feb 28, 2025
https://x.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1895545941564014884
Since this is an Open Thread,
May I just shake my head in disgust at the Head of ICE saying that he was going to Boston and ‘ make an example out of them’.
Why won’t he just go to those Red States? They would be more than willing to give him those ‘ visuals’ of cruelty that he wants.
FROM ANOTHER BLOG:
Geminid
February 28, 2025 at 1:10 pm
Wow! Ankara-based Clash Report just put up a twenty post, blow-by-blow account of the press conference held at the end of the Trump/Zelensky meeting. Zelensky didn’t take any of Trump’s shit, just threw it back in Trump’s face. A Ukrainian MP commented that this marks the end of the US/Ukrsine relationship.
J.D. Vance got a little talk with Zelensky afterwards. Zelensky didn’t take any of that weasel’s shit either.
David Frum (@davidfrum) posted at 5:54 AM on Fri, Feb 28, 2025:
Trump “gold card” immigration idea is an even better deal for foreign oligarchs than it looks, because it comes with a huge tax loophole not available to US citizens or other immigrants. https://t.co/Qo5YHc0LIZ https://t.co/H1VOO4RUm5
(https://x.com/davidfrum/status/1895442549260894515?t=heBM3OFW0-wZp50oJIDsTg&s=03)
Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH (@GeauxGabrielle) posted at 5:54 PM on Thu, Feb 27, 2025:
ATTENTION: Everybody go save the PDF file in this link.
This is the 2025 Adult Immunization Schedule by age group and it includes ALL the specifications and different types of contingencies (pregnancy, etc.) you need to know to effect when you get vaccinated.
If you ever have any questions about this related to any other vaccines, the CDC STILL has the color coded Adult immunization schedule chart. The childhood immunization chart is also color coded and on a separate link. And on that same page is the whens and specifics and such.
They also have a chart for those who have different conditions and immunocompromised statuses
https://t.co/RPI4dEhSTa
(https://x.com/GeauxGabrielle/status/1895261350416523412?t=Wu8dmvK_1BwHZLxTgDlruw&s=03)
David Frum (@davidfrum) posted at 6:19 AM on Fri, Feb 28, 2025:
I cannot think of a previous example in US history of a president
a) inheriting a successful fast-growing economy;
and
b) promptly capsizing it by his own freely chosen policies motivated by his prejudices and ignorance.
Yet that’s Trump 2025.
(https://x.com/davidfrum/status/1895448683602403828?t=3gBgfJm_NEWjqpIMi7eozA&s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 5:02 AM on Fri, Feb 28, 2025:
but certain non-Black liberals want me to “give MAGA the space to see the error of their voter choice”
gurl, please; ¿have you met OG, three-peat MAGA? They want me back on a plantation because “Make America Great Again” meant “Make America 1859 Again. Or 1865-1900. Fuck that.
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1895429360162894197?t=I4LpZBE0L1cycexcL84ZAA&s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 4:38 AM on Fri, Feb 28, 2025:
what’s about to happen to Black people is the biggest withdrawal from civil rights since Reconstruction faded and gave way to the first wave of Jim Crow in 1877
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1895423287083368742?t=0D_TZRqXJwgP3zibyfTv_Q&s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 6:08 AM on Fri, Feb 28, 2025:
reasons why I can’t stand David H⁰gg:
~he arises from intergenerational white patriarchy, and as such, has retrograde, bigoted opinions about women & minorities
~he’s DSA and actually hates Democrats
~white normie Dems know none of this and think he’s the next generation
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1895445955937554918?t=-M6I02Hpv_sHgFcL13JqZg&s=03)
Dr. Allison Wiltz (@queenie4rmnola) posted at 1:43 PM on Thu, Feb 27, 2025:
Far too many White people
are raising their children to hate Black people. That’s why they don’t want black history taught in school. They don’t want them to become educated and reject their teaching
(https://x.com/queenie4rmnola/status/1895197989309919330?t=23wo7C6zjnaEcYlpGleclw&s=03)
Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) posted at 3:17 AM on Fri, Feb 28, 2025:
America. They want complaints about discrimination to “End DEI” … let’s help them out since the very portal is operated by racists it will be easy.
Shame if it got flooded with complaints about the Racist-in-Chief until they took it down.
(https://x.com/MalcolmNance/status/1895402868456484904?t=r4ssGCSqJoCZDdULekJClA&s=03)
Robert Welch II (@WelchRobII) posted at 2:32 AM on Fri, Feb 28, 2025:
Joe Biden still isn’t in decline. Kamala Harris wasn’t in decline either. The only person in decline was Donald Trump. The whole narrative was another crock of shit MAGA media and the white progressives cooked up together.
(https://x.com/WelchRobII/status/1895391554707292339?t=LKvMs8q8pdvBNmN20cbvoQ&s=03)
Isaiah Martin (@isaiahrmartin) posted at 9:48 PM on Thu, Feb 27, 2025:
The DOGE idiots canceled the office space for federal prosecutors going after gangs at the border. Now they can’t work because of Trump’s stupidity!
THE MOST INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT IN HISTORY! https://t.co/pAPuvdW8gI
(https://x.com/isaiahrmartin/status/1895320132018413711?t=xf0AHIRF3pWF-AtH5dfzGQ&s=03)
Sen. Cory Booker (@SenBooker) posted at 4:32 PM on Thu, Feb 27, 2025:
Trump and Elon Musk have wiped out the national database of police misconduct. Nearly 150,000 records of misconduct by federal officers erased, like it never happened. Why would Trump get rid of the database he created? Because Trump will drastically scale back police accountability to appease right-wing TV and X commentators.
(https://x.com/SenBooker/status/1895240696908386319?t=_o4aOuUALVGs0079alWBXw&s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 5:52 AM on Fri, Feb 28, 2025:
as Gaza fades & Bernie fades, what’s left of both overlapping movements is a variety of ethnicities of hyper-extreme lefties openly asking which white celebrity has Jewish heritage and attempting to cancel them for no logical damn reason 😒
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1895441986347586011?t=8bq-gdsHYY2G4UTFMagpwQ&s=03)
Jay Bookman (@jaysbookman) posted at 8:05 AM on Thu, Feb 27, 2025:
Damage isn’t a side effect of DOGE incompetence. Damage is the goal.
They aren’t attacking the federal government because it doesn’t work. They’re attacking it because it does work. They’re not trying to make it work better, they’re trying to ensure it doesn’t work, period.
(https://x.com/jaysbookman/status/1895113103257284810?t=S2qlhtli7Z7ej-NN7WegvA&s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 0:45 AM on Thu, Feb 27, 2025:
Western leftist movements are so universally toxic, radioactive, even infectious with anti-Blackness & anti-Semitism that both phenomena occur to the point of banality, such that constant, casual ethnic insults roll off leftist tongues with the ease of the elderly oblivious bigot
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1895002351385366997?t=tiJNrgxRpZmDYlv53c93IQ&s=03)
Tiff4Mahogany_44 🇺🇸 NATO MEMBER (@tiff4mahogany) posted at 11:43 PM on Wed, Feb 26, 2025:
See how dishonest & unhelpful leftists are. They use terms like uniparty when 1 party passed that atrocious bill.
Why say uniparty?
Because they despise the Democratic Party for its commitment to civil rights.
Even the community notes author know this is dishonest framing. https://t.co/Njmmsnh3kS
(https://x.com/tiff4mahogany/status/1894986796234125493?t=x8HbjaH6aj7zP29yWRE_Zg&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 6:46 AM on Thu, Feb 27, 2025:
“It is terrifying that we have political leadership that is not willing to tell the truth to the American people in such an acute situation where children’s lives are at risk.”
Public health expert Stephanie Psaki on what Trump/RFK should be saying:
https://t.co/9vmbY0JDcm https://t.co/DFY2cyCcFk
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1895093267760320841?t=07KXKtTwPU2_d3wf0ujnlA&s=03)
Tim 🇺🇸 (@trouble_man90) posted at 4:05 PM on Tue, Feb 25, 2025:
Democrats and democratic voters have been protecting and saving this country from republicans’ true intentions for decades and we have been repaid in dust, ridicule, and scorn. My well of empathy has run dry.
(https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/1894509019642863867?t=9UEATiaO_yct7SNAJkH5ZA&s=03)
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 11:02 PM on Wed, Feb 26, 2025:
Brett Meiselas: Right now, we have a president and his billionaire oligarch buddy, who are essentially leading a coup against the United States from within. And I think people are looking right now for people to call this out for what it is every single day, unapologetically, https://t.co/LRf7ZXd0KP
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1894976311661306230?t=wmmPhKf-FHV5D15jT_NeFQ&s=03)
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 10:19 AM on Thu, Feb 27, 2025:
“It’s worse than you think because so far all DOGE has done is drop a boulder into the middle of a pond. If you think this is bad, wait for the ripples.” https://t.co/6DYv0AL9Jq
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1895146718246690959?t=QxuUXde496UVvz33B2eEdA&s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 10:34 AM on Thu, Feb 27, 2025:
The most fatefully bad thing that the white far left learned from the white supremacist right, their literal fathers & brothers in real life, is that Black voices should be silenced.
We are literally dealing with Jim Crow segregationists pretending to be liberals & leftists.
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1895150480625709446?t=mm9X6FdAN06AQh-ui2QF1w&s=03)
Chris Rilling (@tokitaeII) posted at 8:28 AM on Thu, Feb 27, 2025:
The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon and HANDING IT OVER TO STARLINK.
– Musk fires FAA employees
– Musk gets an inside look at Verizon’s contract
– Musk gets inside look at the communication system being built by Verizon
– Musk cancels Verizon
(https://x.com/tokitaeII/status/1895118776133394437?t=VabppOGX1c1VTcUMWHN89A&s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 9:47 AM on Thu, Feb 27, 2025:
The white far left learned from the white supremacist right how to worship sh-tty & mediocre white men who do nothing with their privilege but tear down America, sh-t on women & minorities and attack the Democratic Party from all angles & political persuasions.
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1895138820456399305?t=VBEZSe-vAdISfUCMC3CGuw&s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 10:41 AM on Thu, Feb 27, 2025:
The real “segregationist” was not 1970s Joe Biden; no one white in this country born before 1945 could support busing for school integration and still stay in office.
The real segregationists are white Millennial Berners who gentrify formerly POC neighborhoods.
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1895152406054498582?t=sU5WboTjrLBrY59M9xxr2w&s=03)
Tara Copp (@TaraCopp) posted at 6:50 PM on Wed, Feb 26, 2025:
The @AP has obtained the full list of 875 contracts to be cut at the @DeptVetAffairs, lauded by DOGE and now paused for more review. They include: Cancelling a contract that supports disability ratings assessments; a contract to answer 24,000 requests for military records to help veterans with proving their toxic exposure and other conditions were connected to their time in service; the engineering needed to integrate VHA, DOD, VA and other agency datasets to assist with medical histories; calibrating radiation detection equipment … and many more. apnews.com/article/doge-v…
(https://x.com/TaraCopp/status/1894912997211988168?t=dpGjdKDbQTc6l3WXH50wqg&s=03)
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