Trish Holmgren

i’m just a girl in this world 🌎 her/she

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

Trump missing his hair piece? I guess he’s not doing the weave?

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

It is insane.

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

Marc Elias’ take on Donald Trump:

“Donald Trump is not Hitler. He is not Stalin. His vision of America is neither pre-war Germany nor the post-war Soviet Union. The United States is not at risk of falling into totalitarianism.

The United States has its own history and culture. It has a unique way of manifesting its politics. That does not mean, however, that we cannot learn from other places and other times. As Mark Twain, the most American of American writers, wrote: “History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”

So, let’s start with what we know. Trump is a deeply unserious man. In a different era, he would have been a carnival barker. If not born to privilege and wealth he would be running a low level scheme or selling supplements on a sketchy website. Instead, he is the president-elect who, in addition to hawking schlocky items on the internet, will soon command the highest, most powerful office on earth.

We know that he admires modern day dictators and strongmen. He seeks their favor and rejoices in their flattery.

He rejects liberalism — things like the rule of law, impartial government and fundamental rights. He has contempt for democratic norms and institutions. Elections are only fair when he wins and rigged when he loses.

For Trump, the presidency exists to exact the spoils of electoral victory rather than a public trust.

Like many of you, I have spent the last few days trying to make sense of things — asking how this happened and what comes next. As for the second question, I have been doing a lot of reading.
It is something that preoccupied the Founders, who were afraid of the reemergence of a king. Decades after the founding, John Adams was still concerned. In 1814 he wrote to a colleague that “democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

As part of my processing, I went back and reread several of Hannah Arendt’s works. She is best known for her account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann in which she coined the phrase “banality of evil.” In her telling, the Nazi SS leader was a mediocre joiner. In her words a “clown.”

But, in my opinion, her most important book was The Origins of Totalitarianism, in which she attempts to explain the mechanics of how totalitarian movements come to power. One observation of hers strikes me as most relevant today.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” 

It is hard to make sense of Trump’s recent cabinet nominations without coming back to this central truth: He is nominating “crackpots and fools” because that is what Trumpism requires. It is required both by Trump himself but also by his followers.

As a narcissist, Trump surrounds himself with people who, like him, reject science, expertise and the idea of objective facts. As a leader, he must continue to promote ever more extremist conspiracy theories to explain why his last conspiracy theory failed to come true.”

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[Anele Mdoda @Anele]

The fact that we have to fight old
Men to not have sex with children is wild.

[House Judiciary Dems @HouseJudiciary]

“With no prosecutorial experience of his own, Gaetz’s longest time with a prosecutor was likely during his own sex trafficking investigation involving allegations with a minor.”

Rep. Jerry Nadler’s statement on Rep. Matt Gaetz's nomination as the U.S. Attorney General:

[WeThePeople🇺🇸🇺🇸 @PrincessBravato]

Russia is bragging they interfered.
This is fucking insane to me.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump’s top advisor says Trump has a mandate to assemble an “extinction level event.”

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

X Corp's new CFO, Mahmoud Reza Banki, received pardon from Donald Trump along with Steve Bannon and others on January 20, 2021.
https://t.co/lp5ZmSWaoS

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

.@POTUS, you are failing the test. Your entire Presidency hinges on this moment. There ARE things you could do, and, respectfully, sir...you should f*cking do them. At the moment...this nation is watching nothing but weakness and apathy from your administration. If it were different, I'd say so. It's not. At least what we are seeing, and what we are seeing...or not...matters a hell of a lot.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

There were people who had suffered from childhood cancer, beat it, hit their 'lifetime maximum," and were uninsurable for THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.

Trump want to bring this back.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Here's the formal resolution, authored by Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) "reaffirming the vailidity and applicability of the 22nd amendment"

Citing Trump's statements about 3rd terms

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[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Senators call for federal probe into Musk's contact with Russia https://t.co/UGyJKvqxG9

[Trish Holmgren @fishhomeagain]

RT @CheriJacobus: When someone tells you who they are, believe them. If Trump was seeking to destroy American democracy, the American stat…

[Tea Pain @TeaPainUSA]

Trump’s strategy will essentially be to not keep any promises and just say he did.

That will leave him more time for stealing massive sums of money from the American taxpayer.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

Guess we’re never gonna knownwho planted the pipe bombs on January 6

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Just read this.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Trump wants to avoid FBI background checks for the likes of Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard?

A president who cared about the country would want to make sure their nominees were not child sex traffickers or fond of dictators.

But it’s never been America first. Only Trump first.

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

Not cool. @VivekGRamaswamy wants to cut people’s Social Security who have been paying into it longer than he’s been alive.

[Cheri Jacobus @CheriJacobus]

Putin commandeering Trump cabinet picks is performance art for the rest of the world to show he does, indeed, own Trump. Similar to when he ordered GOP Senators to Moscow for the 4th of July. Putin was showing off to other world leaders, "Look -- I control the American GOP!"