Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested after attacking ‘corrupt’ Maga movement | NFL | The Guardian
“Maga is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy and most importantly, Maga is explicitly a Nazi movement,” Kluwe, who was part of the Minnesota Vikings for most of his career, said. “You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that’s what it is.”
The executive editor of the Associated Press sent a letter to the White House on Wednesday criticizing its decision to block two of its journalists from attending press events on Tuesday after the outlet refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as “the Gulf of America”. “I write on behalf of The Associated Press, an independent global news organization that reaches billions of people every day, to object in the strongest possible terms to the actions taken by the Trump administration against AP yesterday,” Julie Pace, the AP’s executive editor, wrote in the letter addressed to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff. “The issue here is free speech – a fundamental pillar of American democracy and a value of the utmost importance to all Americans, regardless of political persuasion, occupation or industry.”
Joseph N. Welch – Wikipedia stood up to McCarthy
You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
February 9, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson
The executive order says that the Second Amendment “is foundational to maintaining all other rights held by Americans.”
In fact, it is the right to vote for the lawmakers who make up our government that is foundational to maintaining all other rights held by Americans. …
The people who think that bearing arms is central to maintaining American rights are the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election by storming the United States Capitol because they do not command the votes to put their policies in place through the exercise of law outlined in the U.S. Constitution.
February 7, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson
“This is important,” King said. “The cumbersomeness, the slowness, the clumsiness is built into our system. The framers were so fearful of concentrated power that they designed a system that would be hard to operate. And the heart of it was the separation of power between various parts of the government. The whole idea, the whole idea was that no part of the government, no one person, no one institution had or could ever have a monopoly on power.”
“Why? Because it’s dangerous. History and human nature tells us that. This division of power, as annoying and inefficient as it can be,… is an essential feature of the system, not a bug. It’s an essential, basic feature of the system, designed to protect our freedoms.” …
Project 2025 is nothing less than a blueprint for the shredding of the Constitution and the transition of our country to authoritarian rule. He’s the last person who should be put in the job at the heart of the operation of our government.”
“[T]his isn’t about politics. This isn’t about policy. This isn’t about Republican versus Democrat. This is about tampering with the structure of our government, which will ultimately undermine its ability to protect the freedom of our citizens. If our defense of the Constitution is gone, there’s nothing left to us.” …
King’s appeal to principle and the U.S. Constitution did not convince his Republican colleagues, who confirmed Vought.
At least he didn’t appoint Hulk Hogan to head the Kennedy Center, er, the new Trump Center.
The number of Republicans who want Musk and Doge to have “a lot” of influence in the Trump administration has fallen significantly, to 26%, according to the Economist/YouGov poll conducted this week, reported by the Hill.
The same poll taken in the days immediately after Trump’s November election win revealed that enthusiasm among Republicans for Musk’s role stood at 47%.
The disquiet also appears to have spread to a number of Republican senators, who have begun voicing alarm at Musk’s tightening grip. …
In the House on Wednesday, the Wisconsin Democratic congressman Mark Pocan filed legislation called the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act, AKA the Elon Musk Act.
“Elon Musk is ripping us off and like millions of Americans across the country, I’m pissed. I’m taking action [to prevent] grifters like him from getting richer while pillaging our tax dollars for himself,” Pocan said.
I know I’m spitting into the wind, but I remember MAGAts bragging that dt kept America out of war. I read that America First (throwing up now) was isolationist.
Now, wannabe Emperor Trump has declared an interest in taking over:
(Why not Mexico? That would really solve the problem with migrants. Well, there has been talk about invading Mexico, too, but not taking ownership.)
Are people who voted for dt *happy* with this? Are they so joyous with the destruction of government and the Constitution that they don’t care about empire building (and hotel selling)? Has anyone explained how this *bullshit* is “good”? Does dt have to drop his trousers at a press conference for loyalists to feel uneasy?