Trump Administration did a lot of damage,
but they did it less competently than feared,
and it will have less durability,
according to Tom Nichols.
#politics #history #destructiveness
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"A task force formed by Pres. Trump to consider changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency has recommended that it should not be abolished ... a position that conflicts with Mr. Trump’s earlier assertion that the agency should go away” […]
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Joyce Vance: "Last week, Donald Trump demolished the East Wing of the White House, scarring The People’s House. The East Wing was the location where people from all over the world entered for public tours of the White House. Donald Trump has put an end to that. All tours have been suspended […]
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Sen. Rand Paul said: "China is not buying any of our soybeans this year. The tariff war with China has led to this. And Republican senators don't have the guts to say this because it's their president. And frankly they are afraid. They are afraid that he will do to them what he's trying to do to […]
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Stuart Stevens: "I someone wants to make the case that Donald Trump is not systematically attacking every element of successful American civil society, have at it. I’d like to hear your argument. The 'why' doesn’t really matter. It’s what he and the Republican Party are doing that matters." […]
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Jesse Lee: "It’s kind of absurd to talk about solutions for political violence while Trump is arbitrarily choosing which 'Democrat-run city' he is going to deploy the military into against their will."
#incompetence #destructiveness #Trump #WorstPresidentEver #politics
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"The Trump administration clearly embraced the strategic cultivation of uncertainty and ignorance ... It is turning away from the government’s responsibilities as a steward of information by minimizing, cherry-picking, misusing, and sometimes even destroying data" […]
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The Supreme Court's majority has "effectively greenlighted Pres. Trump’s explosive and law-busting agenda ... Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is being accused of betraying the very legal edifice he is supposed to protect" […]
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"Trump cuts questioned as role of #FEMA in Texas highlights agency’s importance in natural disaster response":
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/12/fema...
#TexasFlood #TrumpMakesProblemsWorse #destructiveness #politics
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"Millions Will Die Unless #USAID Money is Replaced":
outsidethebeltway.com/millions-will-die-unless...
#extremism #destructiveness #cruelty #Trump #WorstPresidentEver
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A "Supreme Court decision paves the way for the Department of Transportation to terminate the 700 workers it had sought to let go in February — but problems with air traffic control this year, including a midair collision between a helicopter and a passenger jet that killed 67 people near […]
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It takes a special type of MAGA stupidity to see the loss of life from recent flooding in Texas and then to reject the good idea of rehiring federal workers to increase the effectiveness of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Weather Service.
#FEMA #NWS #DOGE […]
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"The technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency who’s gone by the name 'Big Balls' online, has resigned":
www.wired.com/story/big-balls-coristin...
#DOGE #destructiveness #politics
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"The Waste Musk (and Trump) Created": In a warehouse in Africa "are boxes piled high with millions of doses of medicines donated pharmaceutical companies for a #USAID program. Yet the medications are gathering dust, and some are approaching their expiration dates and may have to be destroyed, at […]
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David Bier, about Trump's attacks on Harvard University: "This will cause damage to America's reputation that will take a generation to recover from. America's universities are the best in the world, in large part because it can get the best talent in the world. This is lawless, malevolent, and […]
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‘I Even Believe #Trump Is Destroying the American #Presidency’: One thing stands out amid all the #chaos, #corruption and #disorder: the wanton #destructiveness of the Trump presidency. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/o...
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“One thing stands out amid all the #chaos, #corruption and #disorder: the wanton #destructiveness of the #Trump #presidency.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/o...
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"Donald Trump’s bid to gut the top US consumer watchdog* has left the agency unable to protect consumers amid mounting fears of recession":
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/19/trum...
* The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
#Trump […]
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"While the United States saved modest sums by allowing little girls to starve, it escalated the Biden bombing campaign in Yemen, striking targets almost every day" and accomplishing nothing:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/opinion/yemen...
#destructiveness #cruelty #Trump […]
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"Two weather service offices were enduring critically reduced staffing levels after meteorologists were fired" by #DOGE. They stopped "producing daily weather forecasts and warnings for life-threatening weather events such as flash floods, wildfires and blizzards." Instead of this, Trump will […]
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"With both Congress and the courts unwilling to provide legal backing, the (Trump) administration is running out of ways to ensure its reductions hold, raising the risk that DOGE’s sweeping disruption may leave little lasting impact" […]
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"The World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump. As Pres. Trump guts American research institutions, world leaders see a once-in-a-century brain gain opportunity”:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/econ...
How can anyone be so stupid as to think […]
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"The hidden ways Trump and DOGE are shutting down parts of the U.S. government. Limits on spending have incapacitated parts of agencies as varied as the National Park Service and the Pentagon":
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/11/trump-... […]
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Bruce Bartlett: "What bothers me even more than all the budget cuts imposed by #DOGE is the utterly arbitrary and capricious way it's been done. No analysis, no evaluation, no research, no transparency, just mindless slashing and burning."
#Trump #incompetence #destructiveness #politics
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"White House Tech Bros Are Killing What Made Them (and America) Wealthy":
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/ventu...
#science #research #Trump #destructiveness #PutinsPuppet #politics
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Matthew Yglesias pointed out that Trump could be supporting the Bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act to Combat Wildfires, but Trump instead choose to sharply cut money and personnel from the U.S. Forest Service […]
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Linda Wonn: "The entire (Trump) administration is populated with crackpots, grifters, imbeciles, posers, drug addicts, felons, and assorted freaks. They will crash the economy, set science back decades, undermine public and personal health, foul the environment, destroy alliances, and impoverish […]
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Axios: "The Elon Musk-led effort to cut down on alleged fraud at the Social Security Administration is threatening the agency's ability to execute its core mission and the financial stability of millions of people across the country.
Why it matters: What the richest person in the world has […]
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Financial Times: "JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon warned that a global trade war risked tipping the US #economy into a #recession and driving prices higher, while undermining the country’s long-term #alliances." #Trump #destructiveness #politics
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Both Donald Trump and Elon Musk have plenty of money, but they are willing to ruin the economy and cause many people pain or death in order to gain more riches for themselves. Their #cruelty, #sadism, #recklessness, #greed, and #destructiveness are willingly tolerated by Republican politicians […]
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