#frankzappa #politics #theocracy #reagan #fascism
Musician Frank Zappa as a Prophet in the 1980’s
https://substack.com/@politicsusa46/note/c-99128190?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Gee.

I missed this one.

"Trump to stop enforcement of law banning #bribery of foreign officials"

#Republicans welcome the quid pro quo, it's how the #GOP has operated since #Reagan's administration.

#crooks #liars #fraudsters

https://www.alternet.org/trump-bribery-doj/

One argument often leveled against #anarchy is the old "How do you stop bad people from taking power?" gambit.

Well, uhmm...how do parliamentary democracies in tandem with capitalism stop bad people from grasping power?

Today in Labor History March 28, 1977: AFSCME Local 1644 struck in Atlanta, Georgia, for a pay raise. This local of mostly African American sanitation workers saw labor and civil rights as part of the same struggle. They saw their fight as a continuation of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. For several years, they organized to get black civil rights leaders elected to public office. They succeeded in getting their man, Maynard Jackson, elected mayor of Atlanta. After all, as vice mayor, Jackson had supported their 1970 strike. Yet, in his first three years as mayor, he refused to give them a single raise. Consequently, their wages dropped below the poverty line for a family of four. Jackson accused AFSCME of attacking Black Power by challenging his authority. He fired over 900 workers by April 1 and crushed the strike by the end of April. Many believe this set the precedent for Reagan’s mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during the PATCO strike, in 1981.

#Histoire d'un jour - 23 mars 1983 : Star Wars, le bouclier spatial de Reagan https://www.election-politique.com/election.php?ref=1316

A VOIR ABSOLUMENT ! Excellente analyse de la situation aux Etats-Unis The #maga resentment toward #federalworkers is misguided. #Reagan #Trump #AmericanDream

The #maga resentment toward #f...

#EAS #WEA for Borden, #TX; #Glasscock, #TX; #Howard, #TX; #Mitchell, #TX; #Reagan, #TX; #Scurry, #TX: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 10:30 PM CDT. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX #Borden,

#FYI #us #usa #maga #federalworkers #Reagan #Trump #heritagefoundation #project2025

via @ohhthatsrich an on-point summary of the ongoings.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IX1vw0V2MY0

Republicans (used to?) idolize Reagan. But the Reagan administration would likely love the racism of the present day Republican party, and loathe most of the rest of it. Electing a Russian asset president of the US would be inconceivable to them.

If the author of the excerpt below, Andrew Michta, sounds like a Reagan Republican, it's because he pretty much is. He's written right-leaning editorials, blames Biden for the world's problems, etc.

And yet he writes that if Trump hands Russia significant territorial gains in Ukraine—and so far giving Putin everything he wants seems to be the no. 1 goal of this administration—it will essentially undo America's victory in the Cold War:

"In 1991, the Soviet Union lost the Cold War, as it could no longer compete either in the economic, political, or military spheres... Post-1991, the United States exercised its victor’s prerogative, together with its democratic allies, to structure the post-Soviet space in Central Europe and the Baltics in a way that stabilized the region and served the United States’ interests and those of its European allies.

"...it was not the West’s aggressive pursuit of an anti-Russian agenda, but rather the weakness and lack of strategic clarity it communicated at every turn post-Cold War that encouraged Moscow’s revisionism. It was not the West’s alleged geostrategic assertiveness, but its timidity each time Putin used military power to occupy territory—first in Georgia in 2008, then in Ukraine in 2014, in Syria in 2015, and finally in Ukraine for the second time in 2022—that set the stage for the unfolding tragedy in Eastern Europe.

"The West is poised to communicate weakness once again, only this time unabashedly and without pretense that it is doing so because of norms or the 'rules-based international order.' If the final peace agreement on Ukraine simply ratifies the status quo on the battlefield, the Trump administration will hand Moscow a major win, in effect undoing the consequences of the Western victory in the Cold War."
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-real-reason-russia-invaded-ukraine-hint-its-not-nato-expansion/

The Republican Party has advertised itself as racist since ~1964. That seems to be its only center of gravity.

#Europe and, especially, the #USA should not trust #Russia when discussing any #peacedeals or #ceasefire. Russia will certainly use the time in order to arm itself even further. Russia simply cannot be trusted. #DonaldTrump must acknowledge this. How can he do things he does, thinking that he is an ancestor or #Reagan? Russia has always been and is an empire of evil. Russia will not stop on #Ukraine, but will move on to the #Baltics, #Poland, #Finland, #Romania
#politics

https://youtu.be/hOzqksrPjCg?si=zGpVZxIhfl_QPB6r

"Wenn es dieser Tage jemandem gelänge
Ronald #Reagan zum Leben zu erwecken

und dem dann zu erklären, was gerade in #Washington abgeht

würde Reagan das so hart treffen,
dass der gleich wieder stürbe"

- John Oliver (so in etwa)

Did you know the #Reagan #CIA sprayed #paraquat on #marijuana fields in #Jamaica in the 1980's?

And they not only sprayed marijuana crops but also #bananas & #coconuts. There was a #starvation epidemic in Jamaica in the 1980's that resulted from this.

If you are curious about how the US got here, I found this podcast incredibly enlightening. I <3 NPR

It starts when Gerald Ford becomes president, after the Nixon saga.

https://chow.fan/@mookie/114117080285427881

"It would be difficult to imagine a worse message either in strategic terms or on its merits. Ronald Reagan was, by any sane reckoning, a poisonous figure. He illegally armed contra death squads in Nicaragua and bloodthirsty Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan. He invaded Grenada for the crime of building an airport. On the home front, he crushed labor unions and demonized “welfare queens” to further his austerity agenda. He presided over the “Greed Is Good” era of Wall Street hedonism. American politics is still deeply disfigured by his legacy.

And Trump has massively benefited from the widespread belief that he’s a different kind of Republican, one who wouldn’t cater to Wall Street or start bloody wars to assert America’s right to “lead the world.” It’s impossible to understand the Trump phenomenon without understanding the profound backlash, even among Republican voters, against George W. Bush’s seemingly endless wars in the Middle East (which were continued by Barack Obama). After years of working-class Americans coming home in flag-draped coffins, Trump benefited precisely from the impression that he didn’t believe America has some special mystical destiny to “lead the world.”

What the Democrats Should Have Said

A better response to Trump’s address would have been to point out that the political substance of what he was offering was little more than warmed-over Reaganism"

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/trump-congress-address-reagan-democrats