It's a moot point to debate whether Trump is a Russian asset or not. Either way, he's acting as if he was.
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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It matters a lot, actually; when you recognise Trumpian fascism as the product of domestic, structural, problems, you can make the kind of policy changes that reverse the slide into fascism. But when you blame all the countries problems on the sinister machinations of perfidious foreigners, you're just going to end up rushing even faster into jingoism, militarism, and McCarthyism, which will ultimately only accelerate the slide into fascism.
Future Republicans are going to be very ashamed of the Republicans who support Trump, they still exist in the future.
Oh sorry, you must have just woken from a coma you entered in 1995.
Republicans? Ashamed?
I see you haven’t met many Republicans.
Good joke.
Lol, I heard the same thing about George Bush
The scenario I've been imagining would go like this. The Cheney/Romney/McConnell GOP would abandon the Republican name to the MAGoos and do a hostile takeover of the Libertarian Party. Right now the Libs have about 800,000 nation wide. The Cheney bloc could join and overwhelm the old guard and be on the ballot in all fifty state instantly.
Moscow Mitch doesn't get a pass,
Get real.
Mitch is going to die comfortably and probably have some schools named after him after he's gone.
There would have to be a lot of people killed before things changed wnought to change that, and I don't think it's worth the cost.
If history is the best way to predict the future, current Republicans will be ashamed of future Republicans, but in private. In public they'll play along.
They have long since eliminated the part of their personalities that feel shame.
It's a moot point to debate whether Trump is a Russian asset or not. Either way, he's acting as if he was.
Yes, but we do get to abuse brown people right?
WINNING...right?? Are we winning yet?
You're winning so much that you're starting to say oh no it's too much winning, ah, please stop.
Russian and Chinese hackers certainly are.
Yes, you are winning, of course you are. You are winning big time, greatest win of all times, very greatest, and nobody (left) who could deny that.
They're going t0 be recruited by Palantir or other government contractor and keep doing the same job with less oversight
How else is the Kremlin supposed to finish destroying the US. Duh!
in complete fairness. even without high technology augmenting US Military, it's still about 500 years ahead of Russian infantry.
the only way we would lose a war is if military leadership doesn't coup and leaves the current regime in power.
USA will not face a hot war with russia.
USA is already lost in fake news and lies and due to that the people voted for dictatorship. Now the USA is an ally of russia and it is working to cement that further by cutting its bonds with the free world. USA just united with russa in UN votings. Even China and Iran did not unite with russia in that voting. US President Trump wants to be like Putin. US Americans need to face it.
I hope that this will not happen in europe as well. Russia disinformation campaigns are working successful in Europe as well.
Russia realized this in the 80s against the USA, so they sought to use propaganda to undermine the USa, whine worked. And conveniently found trump during that time too
I even think russia and usa may work together more closely in the future. Just because they want the same oligarchy and yet there is no need for them to clash against each other. China on the other hand could be a real threat and rival for the USA, just because both are mighty super powers. I wonder how Canada, Europe and India will fit into this.
russia pays most of the right wing governments all over the worlds, its not a coinidence they all came out of the woodwork all at once, and the grifter(russian funded) started making huge noise. additioanlly they also fund white supremecist groups in the us too.
Europe is fucked for the same reason America is: because they've completely bought into their own propaganda about being the "exceptional free world" and thus have become incapable of even acknowledging the existence of domestic structural issues, instead scapegoating all of their problems onto the corrupting influence of the foreign Other, which is an ideological path guaranteed to lead to fascism.
Don't worry, soon there won't be any state secrets left to keep, then Pentagon can save all that money used to keep it.
America becomes even more weak, thanks to traitor president trump
Weakening our country, one idiotic step at a time
I‘m sure one of Musk’s underage geniuses will take over as a oneman-army 😂
Of the 14 members of the office, a dozen, including Director Jennifer Hay, have requested the Trump administration’s deferred resignation option and plan to leave by May 1. Two other staffers are also leaving in that time frame.
“Although DDS was excited to support DoD’s efforts to improve efficiencies and champion software modernization initiatives, the Administration was not leveraging DDS and hiring freezes, rescinding remote work, and travel restrictions were making us non-mission capable,” the current office member told The Hill. “As a result, most of the team elected to resign.”
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Still, DDS efforts are expected to continue elsewhere. The member who spoke with The Hill said the office has “found permanent homes for most of our ongoing projects.”
So:
- it's not a huge office
- seems more of a protest than being forced out (though maybe that was inevitable, we don't know)
- projects are continuing, just under different management - so expect delays, but projects aren't cancelled
I would really like a rolling breakdown of the impacts Trump and DOGE have had on government functions, with potential and actual impacts spelled out, and ideally as impartial/unbiased as possible. Anyone have a source for something like this?
The impacts are going to be compounding and felt for decades. People do not understand the work federal employees do, and many federal employees don't even always comprehend how far the work can reach.
It might be impossible to understand the downstream compounding effects.
People do not understand the work federal employees do, and many federal employees don't even always comprehend how far the work can reach.
This 100%. People have no fucking concept of the permanent damage that has already been done.
One hacker to hack them all
One hacker to bind them
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What could go wrong