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Sat Feb 15, 2025, 06:25 PM Feb 15

'Tomorrow Belongs To Me: On Boogers and Bullshit'

"In a freakish snapshot of the GOP's descent into brutal, gonzo nihilism, this week saw the brash Nazi-Oligarch-in-Chief helming an Oval Office presser to hype his political, economic, cultural demolition of democracy 'in compliance with the President’s executive orders' - no more health care or feeding hungry kids, lots of Kid Rock - as his four-year-old son wiped boogers on the Resolute desk where an impassive, discomfited Trump sat in the 'most powerless image of a President ever.' Nothing to see here."

"In a record three weeks - it took Hitler 53 days - the Musk/Trump regime has created, mostly illegally, a Stasi-like state in the name of 'right-sizing the Federal inventory,' which in their wee twisted minds means slashing almost every government agency to eliminate, according to their Orwellian mantra, 'fraud, waste and abuse.' Offering no evidence, and with his usual depth and nuance, Trump says they've already eliminated 'billions and billions of dollars' that didn't need to be spent, coincidentally, invariably on behalf of helping vulnerable, marginalized, hungry or sick people. 'The whole country looks like it's a fraud. It's fraud, waste and abuse,' he exclaimed. 'What Elon and his group of geniuses have found is unbelievable.' Unbelievably brazenly, he has now called on the heads of all federal agencies to 'promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force' with the lofty goal of him and his rich buddies getting ever more ginormous tax cuts."

https://www.commondreams.org/further/tomorrow-belongs-to-me-on-boogers-and-bullshit

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