The Donald vs Big Tech

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Kash Patel (Trump's nomination for head of the FBI). Asked if he knows who Stew Peters is [I didn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stew_Peters]. Patel answers "not off the top of my head." Senator: "You made eight separate appearances on his podcast."

Surely the FBI deserves a better liar/snake than this at its head! 

[Ducky]

Actions of a perfectly reasonable human being...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/immediate-assessment-of-aviation-safety/

[Ducky]

Most empathetic human...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-site-aviation-crash-you-want-me-to-go-swimming_n_679bf21fe4b0e1faebeef7e9

[Ducky]

Most law-abiding foreign national 🥰🥰🥰

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

French made documentary here, but there's almost no narration at all beyond the intro, just local folk talking with French subtitles. Taking place in a small town in Pennsylvania, it follows two rival campaigns to get school commission representatives elected, Democrats and "moderate" Republicans on one side up against Christian nationalist MAGA-leaning Republicans on the other. Some of the scenes are just incredible. Notably some of them, if you kept the dialogue the same, word for word, but dressed them up to look like Muslims, people would immediately be saying it was some kind of radicalization/terrorist training group. At one point, a state representative is asked by an elderly man if he would support legislation against military-grade assault weapons being available to the public. Representative says no. Elderly man asks for a valid reason why they should be available, why someone would buy something like that. The representative for the state of Pennsylvania replies, "Hamas come to mind. Like, Hamas coming into your kibbutz. It'd be real nice to have an AR-15."

https://youtu.be/lX35yUAtWuI?si=UNyia0IrU0wpX0To

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Hegseth has announced he'll be bringing Breitbart into the Pentagon press fold. Which would be the equivalent, if they were the "left-leaning authoritarians" some would like us to believe them to be, of the DNC bringing Jacobin or similar in. Something which, let me see here... has never happened.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Multiple credible reports of vast numbers of CDC and NIH web pages and resources (evidently all those deemed incompatible with MAGA doctrine) being heavily edited, gutted of content, or whole urls simply deleted.

This started being reported more or less just after this had happened:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

It's really going to be non-stop for the foreseeable with the unprecedented ripping up of the already thin veil between the political and the corporate. I wonder if and when those who helped usher this in will in fact say... stop!

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates about two plane crashes that occurred earlier this week.

Moving forward, the federal agency tasked with investigating transportation-related accidents and disasters said news organizations and reporters will have to follow the agency's official account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, where "all NTSB updates about news conferences or other investigative information" will be posted moving forward.

https://thedesk.net/2025/02/ntsb-moves-plane-crash-press-updates-x-twitter/

That Mussolini quote again: "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has directed agency officials to review and remove content related to climate change from its public websites, according to internal emails obtained by ABC News.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/usda-orders-removal-climate-change-mentions-public-websites/story?id=118312216

[Ducky]

Would love love love to hear our resident right-winger justify all of Trump's shit of the last few days.

And also explain how cruelty isn't the point.

C'mon Mr. Superior Intellect, school us woke lefties on how any of the shit going down right now is good for anyone bar Trump and his cronies...

[Ducky]

Nothing to see here...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-federal-payments-system.html

[Carnage]

The American Experiment is a failure.

[Ducky]

Most stable of geniuses 🥰🥰🥰

https://www.alternet.org/trump-california-water/

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

World's richest man granted exclusive administrator access to the US Treasury:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/musk-rips-fraudulent-treasury-payments-reports-mount-doge-has-access-federal-payment-system

"Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it"

the merger of state and corporate power.......

[Mooncat]

Not looking forward to this trade war with Canada, it feels like that is just going to fuck both countries. Turning on both your neighbouring countries, and in Canada's case, one of your biggest allies, all within your first 2 weeks...