The only way you ‘charm’ #FeloniousTrump is by offering him something that benefits him personally. And why is Mandelson involved in any of this? He has not been elected in UK’s recent General Election. He was involved in some dodgy finances back in the day when he was an actual MP, very nearly lost his position because of that too. Since then he, like Blair, have failed upwards financially ever since. #UKPolitics #Trump #USA https://mastodon.scot/@Fife4Europe/113488810539035914

#Republicans Are Already Trying to Grant #Trump Dangerous Powers

Opinion by #HafizRashid
November 15, 2024

"House Republicans are trying to push through a bill that would give President-Elect #DonaldTrump powers as president to designate #nonprofit organizations as '#TerroristSupporting' even after it was seemingly defeated earlier this week.

"The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act #HR9495 would allow the secretary of the treasury the ability to revoke any nonprofit organization’s tax-exempt status by branding it with a terrorism label. Earlier this week, the bill failed to receive the necessary two-thirds majority in the House to advance to the Senate.

"But on Monday, the House Rules Committee plans to hold a hearing that could set up a new vote on the bill, which initially had the support of all but one Republican and 52 Democrats. With the GOP only holding a seven seat majority in the chamber, they would need the support of more Democrats to advance the bill, which was introduced to combat #protests against #Israel’s war on #Gaza.

"Under any circumstances, the bill would threaten #FirstAmendment rights to #FreeSpeech, but after Trump’s election last week, there are now fears that the president-elect could use these new powers to crack down on his enemies with little recourse. Many #universities and #NewsOutlets are nonprofit organizations in addition to #activist groups.

"After the bill’s initial failure on Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU] celebrated the rejection of 'new broad and easily abused powers.'

"'The freedom to #dissent without fear of government retribution is a vital part of any well-functioning democracy, and now is not the time to grant the executive branch new powers to investigate and functionally shut down and silence its critics,' said Kia Hamadanchy, senior policy counsel for the ACLU, in a statement.

"Now, the bill could be given a retooling and sent up for a vote again, giving a president who has already threatened to use the #military against his critics even more sweeping powers. The question is if #Democrats will recognize the bill as granting dangerous powers to the presidency, or see it as a chance to clamp down on protesters they have tried to ignore at their peril for the past year.'"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-are-already-trying-to-grant-trump-dangerous-powers/ar-AA1uaihv

#ClampDown #WorkingForTheClampDown #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DonTheFascistCon #StopHR9495
#CriminalizingDissent #KristiNoem
#Blackwater #ErikPrince #Autocracy
#SilencingDissent #ClimateActivists
#AntiWarActivists #WaterProtectors
#PeaceActivists #ClimateJustice #Protests #StandWithStandingRock
#GazaGenocide #LebanonGenocide

Latest entry in #LeopardsAteMyFace

#Muslims who voted for #Trump upset by his pro- #Israel #cabinet picks

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-who-voted-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-2024-11-15/?utm_source=reddit.com

“For now, I am moving with a clarity of purpose that has allowed me to remain calm. I know that calm is not permanent. There will be days when I will find myself shaking. There will be mornings when I try to sing and find myself weeping. When those days come, I hope that I will make room for that complexity.” https://www.patreon.com/posts/must-reads-and-116082464?post_id=116082464&utm_id=b1bf2558-afb0-4adf-84a8-09f20edecaf8 via @MsKellyMHayes

#activism #politics #USpol #journalism #Trump #fascism #news

🚨 On se retrouve à 19h sur Le Média TV pour une nouvelle émission des "Indiscrets". Avec une enquête sur les pressions de Macron sur le pape pour le faire venir à Notre-Dame. On percera les rouages de la trumpisation des politiciens en France et les menaces sur les fonctionnaires après la réélection de Trump et les misères du RN, qui commence déjà à chercher un plan B à Marine Le Pen... Soyez au rendez-vous 🙏

#Politique #Trump #Macron #Pape #Religion #Media #Off #RN #FonctionPublique

I was rattled out of my liberal bubble at the doctor's office this morning: the TV was playing hard-fascist propaganda about how teacher's unions are the enemy within for opposing America's champion, President Donald Trump

The TV was set to a local news station owned by Sinclair, showing the unbranded National News Desk
#fascism #trump #sinclair #media #uspol #unions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XisTLqbryMU

Sounds like #ACLU will have its hands full time to protect #Haitians, #Venezuelans and #Ukrainians

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/us/trump-immigrants-temporary-protected-status.html #Trump #TrumpFascist #DonaldTrump #ukraine #Haiti #Venezuela

#Ukraine #us #usa #uk #Israel #trump

Mit der #Trump-Präsidentschaft droht die Lage in #Israel und #Palästina weiter zu eskalieren.

Während seiner ersten Amtszeit hat Trump bereits Jerusalem einseitig als Hauptstadt Israels anerkannt und die amerikanische Botschaft dorthin verlegt.

#Trump's first promise to #Israel, reported by Israel's Channel 12:

"On the first day of my term, I will cancel all restrictions and delays on the transfer of armaments and combat equipment to Israel".

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/flashes/645056

#Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage - https://www.cjr.org/the_trump_reader/trump-threatens-new-york-times-penguin-random-house-critical-coverage.php a bitter taste of things to come... #journalism #censorship

Friday November 15 2024.
Day 169 of former #president #trump as a #convicted #felon.
#guilty
#election2024
#2024election

“[T]he Washington Post reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu was rushing to advance a #Lebanon #ceasefire with the aim of delivering an early foreign policy win to #Trump, who is expected to be strongly pro-Israel.”
#Israel #Hezbollah
https://reut.rs/40NHzod

#Trump on Thursday said that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will be announced Friday as his pick for secretary of the US Department of the Interior.

https://www.cnn.com/webview/politics/live-news/trump-transition-news-11-14-24?cid=ios_app#cm3i2lhzb000x3b6nzxpa0fa4

People who think employees of the FDA are an unaccountable elite voted to have a billionaire government contractor who hangs out with the president select who gets to be elected to office based on his feelings.

#USPol #Trump

#Israel’s #WestBank #settlers hope #Trump’s return will pave the way for major settlement expansion.

Mm hmm. It's not just #Gaza, but West Bank too. All the voters who hated #KamalaHarris for her stance towards Gaza ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/112851254385165082 can rejoice, now that #Trump will be in charge.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-israel-settlers-west-bank-gaza-e1813d86ac1d930c2354db0937abf5f2

"There will be a reversal of human rights, an erosion of safety for millions of people (and, sadly, including the nations we influence around the world), the rejection of basic principles of the law, and an increasing enslavement of democracy to oligarchs and billionaires.

That’s what Christian nationalists want. That’s Project 2025."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #chaos #WhiteChristianNationalists
/7

"All the cabinet picks and staffing announcements this week prove that the Jeremiahs among us were right in advance — and what might be left will be lament in the coming rubble."

~ Diana Butler Bass

#Trump #Gaetz #MattGaetz #chaos
/6

https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/im-not-disappointed

"Trump's choice of Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard for top roles signals darkness and chaos ahead. … This shows right off the bat that MAGA chaos is going to reign."

~ Greg Sargent

#Trump #Gaetz #MattGaetz #chaos
/5

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily-blast-with-greg-sargent/id1728152109

Several of them tell me that getting their parents, other elders, friends of that generation, to acknowledge that they made a colossal mistake in colluding with the Nazis was never possible. Their parents and elders could not and would not admit that they had made horrible choices even when the error of their ways was glaringly obvious in the destroyed nation all around them.

#Trump #Gaetz #MattGaetz #chaos
/4

Helping to usher in a fascist regime, as many Germans did in the Nazi period, inevitably leads to chaos, rubble, destruction — including for the very people who made the decision to help the process.

But getting people to see the folly of their very stupid, blind choices even when everything is in rubble around them: that's not easy.

I have German friends who were children during WWII.

#Trump #Gaetz #MattGaetz #chaos
/3

Let's hope. Let's hope that the chaos Trump is inducing, his attempt to break the government and expose it to ridicule — serving Putin's wildest dreams — shows many of us including some Republicans who a clown show he runs.

I have my doubts, though, that his supporters will see any of this anytime soon. I doubt, frankly, that the chaos they've willingly helped set in motion, which will immiserate them along with their "enemies," will open their eyes.

#Trump #Gaetz #MattGaetz #chaos
/2

"Yes. It’s horrible. Everything is horrible. But this Gaetz nomination (along with the other two) may finally convince people that Trump really is the menace to America that Democrats and never-Trumpers have been warning he was. There may be no better person than Gaetz to convince the Republicans who hate him how poor Trump’s judgment is."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #Gaetz #MattGaetz #chaos
/1

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/13/republicans-get-to-chew-on-matt-gaetz-for-two-months-and-a-week/

"Donald Trump’s election is a triumph for the politics of the doomsday bunker, which is bad news for the world’s environment.

This is the idea that in an age of climate disruption, nature extinction and ever wider social inequality, the best chance of survival for those who can afford it is to construct a personal shelter, where they can keep the desperate masses at bay. It is survival of the richest."

~ Jonathan Watts

#Trump #EconomicElites #SuperRich
/2

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/14/survival-of-the-richest-trump-climate-and-the-logic-of-the-doomsday-bunker

The precedent for #trump action in America has been established by #israel. Decades of flouting and downright ignoring international law, with zero consequences.

Doom 2024 [Leica M3 | 50mm Summicron | Kodak Portra 400]

#trump and #ElonMusk are #fascism #womensrights are lessened
#genocide in #gaza is glorified #climatechange and #xenophobia rage #profitsarepreferable to #people , convenience and security to #freedom opinion bests reality
compassion cedes to indifference

Do not let the anguished cries fall on deaf ears. Engage in radical #directaction and #mutualaid

@analog #filmphotography #analogphotography #analog #FilmMastodon #filmisnotdead

Only the best people

Via Kyle Griffin:

#Trump's Cabinet picks:

Gaetz: Just resigned from the House to, reportedly, block a damning report from the Ethics Committee, which was investigating him for sexual misconduct.

Gabbard: Secretly met with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in 2017 and blamed the U.S. and NATO for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Hegseth: Lobbied Trump to pardon U.S. service members accused of war crimes and has argued women should not serve in combat roles.

Cegados por la #ideología....

#China no es comunista...
#Trump habla de #paz y #europa tiembla
Von der Layen habla de incendiar europa en una #guerra y la aplauden...
#Israel bombardea indiscriminadamente #civiles, #ONU , y no tiene sanciones..

Qué pasa? No ven lo que está ahí...

Más allá de si es este o aquel el que hace tal o cual cosa, mirar lo qué hace...

"Trump’s chaos calibrates itself … inside a unified and powerful ecosystem of rightwing news, online content and viral disinformation that has grown more powerful throughout this era, spewing the same falsehoods in unison day after day, on repeat, for years. It is the 'political technology' by which swathes of the population have voted in effect to anoint a king in the belief it will amount to more freedom."

~ Oliver Laughland

#Trump #fascism #disinformation
/9

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/ive-been-to-more-than-100-trump-rallies-since-2016-this-is-why-i-think-he-won

"The decline in voter participation is what allows the Republicans to cosplay a mandate. If the elite political media plays along, that play-pretend becomes reality. Any story you read that uses the word mandate in any way except ironically is playing you for a fool…."

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #disinformation #VoterApathy #media
/7

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62896778/presidential-election-2024-turnout/

"This election was about identity after all—an American identity which has become more tolerant of authoritarianism and less committed to democracy over the past decade. As Trump’s opponents try to figure out why they were defeated and how they can resist him over the next four years, they need to confront the dark reality about who we have become as a nation."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education #IdentityPolitics
/6

"Americans didn’t elect Trump because they were offended by the Democrats—they elected Trump because they like him. They know everything they need to know about Trump. He has been broadcasting his cruelty, hatred, and self-obsession into every American home for nearly a decade."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
/5

"The old narratives about the Democrats’ contempt for the working class and their racially divisive politics don’t apply to this election. The argument that Americans are in so much economic pain that they had to vote for Trump doesn’t hold up: Unemployment is just over 4 percent, the stock market was hitting all-time highs before Trump won, and inflation has plummeted from a peak of over 9 percent to 2.4 percent."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
/4

"A cultural and political chasm has opened up between Americans who still care about the integrity of their democracy and those who do not. We have entered an age of political nihilism in which our traditional conceptions of ideological and identitarian conflict must be abandoned. This election was about the identity of the United States as a whole, and it didn’t tell an inspiring story."

~ Matt Johnson

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
/3

"The median age of a Fox News viewer is 68, and liberals have joked about the network 'brainwashing' their conservative parents. But rightwing social media content has effectively targeted and radicalized younger people, who — unlike the typical Hannity-obsessed grandpa — can vote for the next several decades.

#Trump #fascism #disinformation #YoungVoters #SocialMedia #YoungMen #gender #MaleEntitlement
/2

It's not the first time a criminal beats a cop.
#Uspol #USA #Harris #Trump

Jan 6 rioters to be pardoned?

I ams are they are hoping but whether Trump’s useful fools can expect any loyalty from a man who clearly has little to anyone I wonder. After all someone might do the same to him.

http://archive.today/2024.11.13-163210/https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/january-6-prisoners-trump-what-will-happen-xdthd6k3t (archived)

#USPol #Trump #Pardons

#Trump has picked Evangelical Christian Mike #Huckabee as the US Ambassador to #Israel.

Huckabee: "So the Muslims will go to the mosque, and they will have their day of prayer, and they come out of there like uncorked animals - throwing rocks and burning cars."

#Islamophobia #Christianity #Judaism