Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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Zoo_View said:
I’m confused.

She’s a former Chinese Communist Party employee AND she and her family have ties to right-wingers in India.

Is she a communist or a fascist?
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I wouldn't get too hung up on these labels when it comes to China, they dont practice Communism there, its more like a lifestyle brand to neuter the class discussions entirely in China as nothing in modern China is remotely communist. Arguably China is perhaps the most fascist country in the world today given the whole ethnic Han supremacist worldview going on, not to mention the obsession with genetics and CRISPR technology, etc. It's very complicated to understand internal power dynamics of China as an outsider, and who maps to whom, but there are generally 3 main power factions: the Princeling faction (Xi Jinping), the Shanghai Clique (formerly Deng Xiaoping's faction), and the Communist Youth League faction (Hu Jintao and Li Keqiang's faction). A way to understand it is Xi Jinping is more like the MAGA/Trump faction of America, Shanghai Clique was more akin to Bush-Era Republicans, and the Communist Youth League were more like the Clinton/Obama technocratic centrists.

You could imagine a situation where Usha's involvement in China isn't about her being communist, but more linking with Xi Jinping's power network, which at the time she was there would have been the weakest of the three factions. I don't think it's an accident all these nationalists emerged when they did across multiple countries, there is clearly a global cooperative network going on here, especially when you consider that Shinzo Abe and Xi Jinping both took charge about 4 weeks apart, in the same year (2012) which Putin took charge in Russia. Modi then took charge about 18 months later. Just saying, its not an accident all these things happened when they happened, there was obviously a very coordinated, rather shadowy effort to bring these four populist nationalists to power within a 2 year window, which clearly had the ripple effect on accelerating Trump's rise soon after.
 
AlbionAmerican said:
I wouldn't get too hung up on these labels when it comes to China, they dont practice Communism there, its more like a lifestyle brand to neuter the class discussions entirely in China as nothing in modern China is remotely communist. Arguably China is perhaps the most fascist country in the world today given the whole ethnic Han supremacist worldview going on, not to mention the obsession with genetics and CRISPR technology, etc. It's very complicated to understand internal power dynamics of China as an outsider, and who maps to whom, but there are generally 3 main power factions: the Princeling faction (Xi Jinping), the Shanghai Clique (formerly Deng Xiaoping's faction), and the Communist Youth League faction (Hu Jintao and Li Keqiang's faction). A way to understand it is Xi Jinping is more like the MAGA/Trump faction of America, Shanghai Clique was more akin to Bush-Era Republicans, and the Communist Youth League were more like the Clinton/Obama technocratic centrists.

You could imagine a situation where Usha's involvement in China isn't about her being communist, but more linking with Xi Jinping's power network, which at the time she was there would have been the weakest of the three factions. I don't think it's an accident all these nationalists emerged when they did across multiple countries, there is clearly a global cooperative network going on here, especially when you consider that Shinzo Abe and Xi Jinping both took charge about 4 weeks apart, in the same year (2012) which Putin took charge in Russia. Modi then took charge about 18 months later. Just saying, its not an accident all these things happened when they happened, there was obviously a very coordinated, rather shadowy effort to bring these four populist nationalists to power within a 2 year window, which clearly had the ripple effect on accelerating Trump's rise soon after.
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You mentioned the labels.

It’s obvious you adhere to lots of conspiracy theories.
 

They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.​

Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.​


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They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.

Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.
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“… The White House hasn’t released figures on how many have been fired, but news reports have begun to take stock: about 750 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which plays a central role responding to pandemics; more than 1,000 staffers at the National Institutes of Health, which funds and conducts life-saving research; dozens at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which manages public health care and insurance programs; and scores of employees at the Food and Drug Administration, which oversees the safety of food, drugs and medical devices.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to gut the federal health centers, stating “entire departments” at the FDA should be cut. Neither the administration nor the federal agencies responded to ProPublica’s questions, but a White House spokesperson has previously said they were removing newer employees who were “not mission critical.”

“The implications for the health of the public are grave,” said Susan Polan, an associate executive director at the American Public Health Association, which is suing the Department of Government Efficiency, the group leading the firings, for violating federal transparency laws. “It is unfathomable that anybody thinks these cuts have value and are doing anything other than being performative.” …”
 
1moretimeagain said:
“U.S. President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office, previously unpublished U.S. Department of Homeland Security data show, far less than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns in the last full year of Joe Biden's administration.”

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www.reuters.com

Trump said they intend deport 20 million illegal immigrants. At their current pace that will take 44 years.
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They are already claiming it is because Trump is so respected and feared that immigrants quit coming and many here self-deported rather than face his wrath.

I do thing a lot of immigrants without legal status have become much more cautious about movements in public — gone to ground to the extent possible so as not to be an easy target and hoping that they won’t be nabbed at work. Not sure how long that will last.

I heard a story on CNN this morning about a permanent legal resident and military veteran who was nabbed by ICE on January 22 and remains in detention today even though he and his wife have documented his legal resident status.
 

Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct​

Trump executive order ends National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which he proposed creating in 2020.

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“The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed, deleting a resource that experts said improved public safety by helping to prevent bad officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over with clean records.

The database was first proposed by Trump in 2020 in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. But it wasn’t created until two years later when an executive order from President Joe Biden launched the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database. Trump issued an orderlast month revoking Biden’s orders, and the database.

The national database encompassed nearly 150,000 federal officers and agents, from the FBI and IRS down to the Railroad Retirement Board. And though it launched only in December 2023, by the end of last year all 90 executive branch agencies with law enforcement officers had provided thousands of disciplinary records dating to 2017, a report issued by the Justice Department in December said.

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“President Trump believes in an appropriate balance of accountability without compromising law enforcement’s ability to do its job of fighting crime and keeping communities safe," the emailed statement from the White house said. "But the Biden executive order creating this database was full of woke, anti-police concepts that make communities less safe like a call for ‘equitable’ policing and addressing ‘systemic racism in our criminal justice system.’ President Trump rescinded the order creating this database on Day 1 because he is committed to giving our brave men and women of law enforcement the tools they need to stop crime.” …”
 
nycfan said:

Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct​

Trump executive order ends National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which he proposed creating in 2020.

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www.washingtonpost.com

“The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed, deleting a resource that experts said improved public safety by helping to prevent bad officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over with clean records.

The database was first proposed by Trump in 2020 in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. But it wasn’t created until two years later when an executive order from President Joe Biden launched the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database. Trump issued an orderlast month revoking Biden’s orders, and the database.

The national database encompassed nearly 150,000 federal officers and agents, from the FBI and IRS down to the Railroad Retirement Board. And though it launched only in December 2023, by the end of last year all 90 executive branch agencies with law enforcement officers had provided thousands of disciplinary records dating to 2017, a report issued by the Justice Department in December said.

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“President Trump believes in an appropriate balance of accountability without compromising law enforcement’s ability to do its job of fighting crime and keeping communities safe," the emailed statement from the White house said. "But the Biden executive order creating this database was full of woke, anti-police concepts that make communities less safe like a call for ‘equitable’ policing and addressing ‘systemic racism in our criminal justice system.’ President Trump rescinded the order creating this database on Day 1 because he is committed to giving our brave men and women of law enforcement the tools they need to stop crime.” …”
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“… Lauren Bonds, executive director of the National Police Accountability Project, said, “Trump has made clear through actions such as this that he doesn’t think law enforcement accountability advances public safety.”

Though the database includes only federal officers, Bonds noted that covers “a potentially impactful group who can impact a lot of vulnerable people’s civil rights” in areas such as immigration and Border Patrol. “Even though databases are the bare minimum of tracking, it’s a low bar, but it’s still a bar we should have in place.” …”
 


Reminds me of Captain Quint in Jaws pushing his boat’s engine to go faster even as smoke is billowing out of the hold.

richard dreyfuss jaws GIF
 
Grandpa must’ve gotten into the stims this morning — he is rip-snorting ready to go for his CPAC appearance.

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Very clear-eyed analysis of the reality of the end of the post-WWII world order and the need for Europe to recognize that Trump is aligned with Xi and Putin to see the world as being carved up into spheres of influence based on hard power (military might). He urges Europe to understand they have no seat at the table based on soft power or reliance on rules-based international organizations — the ticket to a seat at this table is hard power.
 
nycfan said:


Very clear-eyed analysis of the reality of the end of the post-WWII world order and the need for Europe to recognize that Trump is aligned with Xi and Putin to see the world as being carved up into spheres of influence based on hard power (military might). He urges Europe to understand they have no seat at the table based on soft power or reliance on rules-based international organizations — the ticket to a seat at this table is hard power.
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On Trump — Russia believes that Trump is buying what they are telling him, which diminishes his leverage. “… and I saw this happen in Afghanistan where he gave away the biggest concession before we even started. It’s a strange ‘Art of the Deal’ honestly …”
 
altmin said:
gizmodo.com

DOGE Staffer Known as 'Big Balls' Reportedly the Grandkid of a KGB Spy

Sure, why not?
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From the link:

“… So, you know that DOGE staffer who goes by “Big Balls,” otherwise known as 19-year-old Edward Coristine—an alleged former member of online cybercriminal organization The Com and a cybersecurity worker who reportedly got fired from his job for leaking company secrets? Well, turns out there’s another layer to his dubious background. According to independent journalist Jacob Silverman, Coristine is the grandson of Valery Martynov, a former KGB spy.

Per Silverman’s research, Martynov was an officer in the technical espionage division of the Russian intelligence agency back in 1980, when he was sent to the United States to serve as an undercover agent at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. About two years into his stay, Martynov got flipped by the FBI and started to feed the US government Soviet secrets.

Martynov was eventually identified as compromised by KGB counterintelligence officer Victor Cherkashin, who had himself successfully developed sources within the US intelligence agencies. In order to get Martynov back to Russia without him suspecting that he was found out, Cherkashin was asked to escort another Soviet spy back home (it’s a long story that Silverman explains in detail). As soon as the plane touched down, Martynov was arrested and ultimately executed.

His widow eventually moved to the United States permanently, where she and her children would settle, marry, and have kids—including Edward. …”
 
nycfan said:
They are already claiming it is because Trump is so respected and feared that immigrants quit coming and many here self-deported rather than face his wrath.

I do thing a lot of immigrants without legal status have become much more cautious about movements in public — gone to ground to the extent possible so as not to be an easy target and hoping that they won’t be nabbed at work. Not sure how long that will last.

I heard a story on CNN this morning about a permanent legal resident and military veteran who was nabbed by ICE on January 22 and remains in detention today even though he and his wife have documented his legal resident status.
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That could impact border encounters. I don’t think it would have any impact on deportations. At least not yet.
 

GSA says workers who took ‘fork’ won’t get a full payout — then reverses itself​

The inconsistency marks the latest twist in an error-plagued rollout of the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to incentivize federal workers to quit.

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“Officials with the General Services Administration told staff in emails sent last weekend that probationary workers who took the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer would not necessarily be paid through Sept. 30, going back on a guarantee made to all federal workers.

Instead, GSA leaders wrote in messages obtained by The Washington Post, probationary staff would see their payments stop when their probationary period expired, if that date came before the end date of the resignation program.

Hours after The Post contacted the U.S. Office of Personnel Management about the issue, GSA reversed itself, communicating the decision in a note from the agency’s chief of staff that said, “Things change.”

Probationary employees will receive their pay through Sept. 30 “regardless of their probation end date,” he wrote in an email obtained by The Post.

The inconsistency marks the latest twist in an error-plagued rollout of the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to incentivize federal workers to quit — a deal the government promised repeatedly would permit all approved employees to get paid for not working through September. Dozens of probationary workers in recent interviews have detailed challenges with taking the deal, as agencies raced to implement a Trump administration directive to shed those jobs.

In particular, some probationary employees who accepted the resignation offer reported they were fired anyway, spurring confusion and chaos. When The Post contacted OPM to ask about the firings, agencies began reinstating terminated workers to the resignation program. The mistaken firings and corrections transpired at several agencies including the Education Department and the Agriculture Department, The Post found. …”
 
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