Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding. So as we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure… pic.twitter.com/0GQqTpWrYq
Miller: If a 5-year-old or 6-year-old goes to school or 7-year-old goes to school and the teacher tries to turn the boy into a girl or girl into a boy, that's child abuse. pic.twitter.com/4UWZRtEssf
Stephen Miller: "If you had a choice between a doll from China that might have lead paint from it that is not as well constructed, as a doll made in America that has a highly environmental and regulatory standard … and those two products are both on Amazon, that yes, you… pic.twitter.com/HfisWdbJ0b
Uhm, the Trump administration has defenestrated the EPA, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the FDA so we’re all going to be eating lead paint chips in our food before long because there’s not going to be any regulations anywhere. But sure, buy American.
An easily provable lie. But that’s the idea. “You can believe us or you can believe your lyin’ eyes.”
REPORTERS: The US Chamber of Commerce says tariff relief is necessary in order to save small businesses and stave off a recession. Is the administration considering small business tariff relief?
MILLER: The relief for small businesses is gonna come in the form of the largest tax… pic.twitter.com/G6fv5C9haj
“… the largest tax cut in history.” Uh huh. Sure. Good luck with that.
REPORTER: GM says tariffs will cost the company between $4 and $5 billion. Ford says they can't commit to not raising prices. Is this administration open to doing more to give automakers relief?
He goes on to say that American car manufacturers are expanding all over the country which is a lie. Of course. “because for the first time in our lives, they are giving preferences to American cars in American markets.”
If the American public was educated they would know that as Miller constantly accuses the Democrats of being communists, they are openly advocating for central planning (by morons) of the economy. I don’t even think it’s a troll. These guys just believe that Trump should have unfettered power to control every aspect of our lives.
It’s pretty clear by now that Stephen Miller is not just running immigration. He’s running the entire domestic agenda and a good bit of foreign policy as well. He’s got his hands firmly wrapped around Trump’s id and he knows just how to squeeze it.
I doubt they will hold it against him — he’s perfect in their eyes — but he never told the cult that there would be any pain with his tariffs. And, by the way, he didn’t tell the non-cult dolts who voted for him because of the price of eggs either.
In the ABC News interview, journalist Terry Moran mentioned to Trump that economists say his tariffs will raise prices. Moran then noted Trump said in a social media post in early April that Americans should “hang tough” amid his trade battles and that “it won’t be easy” (before, he said, the US wins).
As Moran was asking Trump whether Americans should indeed expect “some hard times,” Trump said: “I’ve said that during my campaign.” Trump added moments later: “I said all of these things during my campaign. I said, ‘You’re gonna have a transition period.’”
But he didn’t say that during the campaign.
A CNN review of Roll Call’s Factba.se database, the most comprehensive public database of Trump’s comments, turned up no examples of Trump warning during the campaign of a “transition period,” or anything like that, related to tariffs or his economic agenda; he used the word “transition” in the context of transgender people and the presidential transition process before Inauguration Day.
When CNN asked the White House on Wednesday for any evidence for Trump’s claim about his campaign rhetoric, a White House official responded, on condition of anonymity, by providing a single link – to a comment Trump made in an interview more than a month after the election, as president-elect, in which he said he “can’t guarantee” Americans wouldn’t have to pay more because of tariffs.
Even in that interview, Trump said “I don’t believe that” consumers ultimately pay tariffs. Regardless, a post-campaign comment clearly doesn’t corroborate Trump’s claim about what he said during the campaign.
I was surprised to see in all the polls just how aware most people are about the effect of tariffs. Somehow the knowledge that they will pay the price for them has sunk in and his lies about it didn’t — at least for a majority. The rest are about to find out and I’m sure many of them will find reasons to blame Biden or the weather or anything but Trump. But most will know exactly who did this and Democrats should make sure they see footage of all those assurances that they would pay nothing.
Kennedy’s thoughts and actions make a lot more sense when you realize he doesn’t believe in a foundational scientific principle: germ theory. […]
It’s important to note here that our understanding of Kennedy’s disbelief in germ theory isn’t based on speculation or deduction; it’s based on Kennedy’s own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled “Miasma vs. Germ Theory,” in the chapter “The White Man’s Burden.”
In the chapter, Kennedy promotes the “miasma theory” but gets the definition completely wrong. Instead of actual miasma theory, he describes something more like terrain theory. He writes: “‘Miasma theory’ emphasizes preventing disease by fortifying the immune system through nutrition and by reducing exposures to environmental toxins and stresses.”
Kennedy contrasts his erroneous take on miasma theory with germ theory, which he derides as a tool of the pharmaceutical industry and pushy scientists to justify selling modern medicines. The abandonment of miasma theory, Kennedy bemoans, realigned health and medical institutions to “the pharmaceutical paradigm that emphasized targeting particular germs with specific drugs rather than fortifying the immune system through healthy living, clean water, and good nutrition.”
According to Kennedy, germ theory gained popularity, not because of the undisputed evidence supporting it, but by “mimicking the traditional explanation for disease—demon possession—giving it a leg up over miasma.”
To this day, Kennedy writes, a “$1 trillion pharmaceutical industry pushing patented pills, powders, pricks, potions, and poisons, and the powerful professions of virology and vaccinology led by ‘Little Napoleon’ himself, Anthony Fauci, fortify the century-old predominance of germ theory.”
In all, the chapter provides a clear explanation of why Kennedy relentlessly attacks evidence-based medicines; vilifies the pharmaceutical industry; suggests HIV doesn’t cause AIDS and antidepressants are behind mass shootings; believes that vaccines are harmful, not protective; claims 5G wireless networks cause cancer; suggests chemicals in water are changing children’s gender identities; and is quick to promote supplements to prevent and treat diseases, such as recently recommending vitamin A for measles and falsely claiming children who die from the viral infection are malnourished.
According to an email viewed by WIRED, the Integrated Research Facility in Frederick, Maryland, was told to stop all experimental work by April 29 at 5 pm. The facility is part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and is located at the US Army base Fort Detrick. It conducts research on the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases that are deemed “high consequence”—those that pose significant risks to public health. It has 168 employees, including federal workers and contractors.
God help us. If you have a little extra money to set aside, I’d suggest you do it and make sure your passport is in order just in case you need to go to another country for a life-saving medication of some kind. That’s assuming other countries would allow Americans to enter seeing as we’re likely to all be contagious with something deadly before long.
I honestly feel that this is the worst thing Trump is doing to us and that’s saying something. The economic threat is overwhelming and the constitution is under siege. But the insanity of putting this woo-woo weirdo into this position makes me believe that we might not make it out of this alive.
Headlines at The New York Times too often soft-pedal stories critical of our would-be dictator. “Fight Like Our Democracy Depends on It” above its May Day Editorial Board offering is refreshingly blunt, even if the text fails to convey five-alarm-fire urgency (gift link):
The first 100 days of President Trump’s second term have done more damage to American democracy than anything else since the demise of Reconstruction. Mr. Trump is attempting to create a presidency unconstrained by Congress or the courts, in which he and his appointees can override written law when they want to. It is precisely the autocratic approach that this nation’s founders sought to prevent when writing the Constitution.
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Since it’s been happening in plain sight and in bold headlines since Jaunary 20, it’s nice to see the Gray Lady acknowledge that, left unchecked, Trump 2.0 will go from bad to worse. He’ll pave the way for future presidents, should there be any, “to pursue a similarly unbound approach, in which they use the powers of the federal government to silence critics and reward allies.”
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So get busy checking him, willya? But heaven forfend you should do it “reflexively or “performatively.” The patriotic response, the Board urges solemnly, is
… to build a coalition of Americans who disagree about many other subjects — who span conservative and progressive, internationalist and isolationist, religious and secular, business-friendly and labor-friendly, pro-immigration and restrictionist, laissez-faire and pro-government, pro-life and pro-choice — yet who believe that these subjects must be decided through democratic debate and constitutional processes rather than the dictates of a single man.
Take a few years to build that coalition and get back to us … if you can from El Salvador.
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So y’all do something, the Times urges. Just be “principled” and “effective,” okay?
True, there is no simple way to defend American democracy from him. The founders sought to create so many checks and balances partly because they understood that a president who aspired to be a king might very well succeed. Neither Congress nor the courts have military forces or intelligence agencies at their disposal to enforce their decisions. Only the president does. As a result, our constitutional order depends to a significant degree on the good faith of a president.
If a president acts in bad faith, it requires a sophisticated, multifaceted campaign to restrain him. Other parts of the government, along with civil society and corporate America, must think carefully and rigorously about what to do. That’s especially true when the most powerful alternative — Congress — is prostrate.
Or you could take the the streets en masse or engage in a national strike. Just so long as you’re “sophisticated” and “multifaceted” about it.
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Every way and every day that you push back helps. It may not seem like much, but persistence in numbers builds. It undermines the autocrats and weakens their grip. I see no reason that death by a thousand cuts can’t work for us for a change. “Trump’s Already Lost,” Josh Marshall believes. Make it so.
