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A wrecking ball
What he voted for was a wrecking ball. It was glaringly obvious. What he expected was that this wtecking ball would only hit others: gays, non-whites, etc.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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Back before the 2016 election, Trump ceded that his "University' had been a scam and paid back the students who had sued him. When I pointed out that Trump was scamming his own people, a MAGoo wrote back that those people deserved to be scammed because they hadn't read the fine print.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_O'Donnell
That's the acting commissioner of the IRS.
He fired the probationary employees at the IRS because he was afraid to stand up to Musk and trump.
Fascists use Tinkerbell logic, they have as much power as people think they do. If we start saying Musk has the power to fire federal employees, Musk will start acting like he has the power to fire federal employees.
Details are more important than ever right now. And if the agency heads that resigned out of cowardice had stayed at their post, they could be up there right now saying they refuse to fire anyone and making a giant media spectacle out of all of this. Which would pressure the ones willing to go along to also stand by their employees.
You can't beat fascism by going home and taking a fucking nap.
I hold the same power as Trump and musk - the only difference is the number of people who book l believe in it.
Fascism works because people want to give him the power. Acting commissioner wants to do it.
What an idiot...2 times.