Substack has been very helpful in offering us people who have been kicked off the WaPO and the NYT. People who have expertise and informed opinions are what I feel the deepest need for. There is a mountain of toxic waste building up in cyberspace.
This morning there is a substantive conversation between Paul Krugman and Kim Schappelle, called “From Orban to Trump, part II.” They are discussing the way we are being manipulated and turned from democracy to autocracy. One of the scary parts is how each inroad makes return to full democratic function less possible. We have to keep staying aware and pushing back. In my opinion the right-wing under DT is attempting to destroy the government. I think a lot of people think he is just trying to maneuver and build a kleptocracy, but I think he truly wants to be a dictator, and has henchmen who want to help him do it. The Project 2025 agenda is being executed very clearly. There is a lot of distraction, and smaller but significant issues, losses. and moral injury to important people who are being fired without cause, to take away responsibility and accountability from each agency!
What I think is happening is that DT is orchestrating the chaos, talking wildly, not substantively, to distract people from the main issue we face. If the Congress fails to refund the government on 3/14, we have been erased as a democracy, and the Constitution lies fallow. Trump the dictator takes over. The corporate taxes are due 3/15. The personal taxes are due 4/15. Trump and his henchmen are simply going to empty the coffers and put our tax money to their own uses. Including transferring wealth and power to Russia, which is already probably almost done, through the computers they have forced the State Department to open to Russia, and close to Ukraine. None of our allies can trust us, as long as this is the situation. DOGE has locks and surveillance keys on the computers of the IRS, and the Treasury. They have taken away as much oversight as possible for each of the agencies, and reduced the power of the supposedly “in charge” heads.
How can we put appropriate pressure on DT and these treasonous people? Not pay the taxes. If we all do not pay the taxes, and Congress then says that we can impeach him, we can get the government back. This is a huge long-shot.
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