"It should have been a moment of national unity, a moment of national mourning. (And, Trump, let us remember, promised during his inauguration speech that he was going be a 'peacemaker and unifier.') The president’s reaction to this horrible loss of life wasn’t to do any unifying, however. It was to engage in divisive finger-pointing."
[#]Trump #PlaneCrash #AirSafety #leadership #character
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"Every day, the world seems to get stupider and stupider and our leaders seem to get nastier and nastier. Nobody expects empathy or accuracy from Donald Trump but, even by the extremely low standards to which he is held, his reaction to the tragic mid-air collision in Washington DC that killed 67 people on Wednesday night was shocking."
~ Arwa Mahdawi
[#]Trump #PlaneCrash #AirSafety #leadership #character
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/01/trump-responds-washington-plane-crash
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"The sad accident over the Potomac has revealed Trump’s irredeemable character once again. He will always spontaneously exploit tragedy to display his self-regard."
~ Sidney Blumenthal
[#]Trump #PlaneCrash #AirSafety #leadership #character
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/01/trump-plane-crash-character-sidney-blumenthal
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"Musk truly believes he can do to America what he did to Twitter, to simply bend us to his will and make us more like him — a racist, rapacious psychopath — so he can fulfill his teenage destiny of being 'The Elon.'
So far, I am sad to report, he’s right.:
~ Jim Stewartson
[#]Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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https://www.mind-war.com/p/hyper-racism-rage-and-the-twitterization
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"Billionaire Elon Musk spent at least $288 million to help elect President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, according to a Washington Post analysis of new Federal Election Commission filings that offered an end-of-year snapshotof what was spent during the 2024 election cycle."
~ Trisha Thadani, Clara Ence Morse, and Maeve Reston
[#]Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/31/elon-musk-trump-donor-2024-election/
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"Elon Musk appears to be trying to do to the federal government what he did at Twitter/X: massively disrupt its functioning and drive out experienced employees not on board with his transformations and his personality cult."
~ Seth Masket
[#]Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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https://smotus.substack.com/p/friday-night-musk-acre
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We will only learn the hard way, it seems, when things fall apart and we ourselves are hurt by the cruelty we have freely, gladly chosen for others — many of us, choosing it, even as we brandish our bibles and our crosses and trot off to church to sing and pray.
[#]Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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When a cunning dictator-to-be harnesses that lust to attain power and inflames that lust in a large sector the population, the consequences are always beyond brutal — including for the very people who applauded him, voted him into office, told him he was doing a splendid job as he hurt their "enemies."
[#]Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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This is America! he was told. Germans may have acted that way. We don't, not in America.
His experiment has been replicated over the years in different periods of time and different cultural-social circumstances. Each time, the results are the same.
There is a deep lust inside us to demean, attack, harm, erase targeted others.
[#]Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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As I watch, I think of what the Milgram experiment proved about us over 60 decades ago.
A majority of us will, told by an authority figure to harm someone else, willingly comply with the order. Even (or especially?) when we witness the pain we're inflicting….
Milgram was brutally attacked for publicizing the results of his experiments.
[#]Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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It's being reported now that Trump's approval rating is the highest it has ever been.
I watch, unsurprised at the widespread approval of my fellow Americans as the federal government is dismantled, websites taken down, Black and female history erased from government websites, trans people erased, foreign-born people are targeted, hounded, rounded up, shipped out, economic policies that will inflict huge pain on us are enacted, etc.
[#]Trump #MilgramExperiment
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"There are flashing red lights where a moment like this could also be an opportunity to look at the future of aviation, aviation safety, to protect the American public. That window was about three hours. Trump just closed it. And that is the long-term consequences of having a president like this."
~ Juliette Kayyem
[#]Trump #AirSafety #AirTravel #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AviationSafety #DEI
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https://newrepublic.com/article/190977/angry-trump-snaps-journos-harshly-expose-plane-crash-drivel
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"The real story here isn't about DEI policies at all — it's about how quickly Trump moved to exploit a tragedy that killed 67 people to advance his political agenda. While families were still learning whether their loved ones had survived, Trump was already spinning conspiracy theories about diversity initiatives.
This matters because it's a preview of how Trump will govern."
~ Parker Molloy
[#]Trump #AirSafety #AirTravel #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AviationSafety #DEI
/21
https://www.readtpa.com/p/trumps-response-to-the-potomac-crash
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'The FAA used to be called the gold standard for a government agency overseeing aviation. Other nations, when they had problems, when they had accidents, that weren’t even in any way related to the United States, not involving a U.S.-built aircraft, not involving a U.S. airline, they would turn to the FAA and the NTSB and ask for assistance. We are no longer the gold standard."
~ W. McGee
[#]Musk #Trump #AirSafety #AirTravel #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AviationSafety
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https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/31/reagan_airport_crash_trump_dei
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"All religions hold that it is wrong to use the tragic deaths of people as an excuse for making false statements about them or their deaths.
Sir, your behavior, statements about the tragic deaths of 67 people, and your administration’s actions and statements that falsely characterize their deaths as attributable to DEI, is deplorable."
[#]Trump #AirSafety #AirTravel #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AviationSafety #MoralValues
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"For the record, I am a pastor in the religion of Jesus and a retired judge.
My faith tradition, like that of other traditions, is clear about the moral and ethical issues that arise when people die in tragic circumstances.
All religions recognize that we should grieve with people who grieve, not disrespect their sorrow."
[#]Trump #AirSafety #AirTravel #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AviationSafety #MoralValues
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My friend Judge Wendell Griffen, who pastors New Millennium Baptist church in Little Rock, Arkansas, addresses Donald Trump:
"Sir, your response, and that of your staff, was inexcusable.
The world has long known that you lack empathy for others. But until Thursday the world did not see your disdain for the sorrow of so many people displayed with such mendacity."
[#]Trump #AirSafety #AirTravel #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AviationSafety #MoralValues
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https://wendellgriffen.substack.com/p/deplorable-mr-president
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"Despite the industry’s (often undeserved) reputation for liberalism, its reactionary foundations were baked in almost from the beginning. As Silicon Valley enters a second Trump administration, the gendered roots of its original reactionary movement offer insight into today’s rightward turn. ... The current wave of rightwing tech titans are building on Silicon Valley’s foundations."
[#]SiliconValley #TechBros #broligarchy #Musk #Zuckerberg #gender #MaleEntitlement #misogyny #heterosexism
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As Becca Lewis notes,
"[Silicon Valley's techbro] industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s."
[#]SiliconValley #TechBros #broligarchy #Musk #Zuckerberg #gender #MaleEntitlement #misogyny #heterosexism
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism
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"A perfect storm of:
• ICE raids and threats causing farmworker shortages
• Egg prices skyrocketing from bird flu, with no end in sight
• 25% tariffs on Mexico, which supplied 63% of our vegetable imports and 47% of our fruit & nut imports in 2023
RIP grocery budgets"
~ Adam Carlson quoted by Greg Dworkin
[#]Trump #immigrants #FoodPrices #groceries #ICE #deportations #economy #Mexico #tariffs #agriculture
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/31/2300314/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-The-honeymoon-is-over-The-dregs-remain
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