"But it gets worse. Trump backtracked on the promise of the financial bailout, saying that the aid would be granted only if Trump’s preferred candidate wins in the upcoming presidential election in Argentina."

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption#Argentina #bailout
/9

"During the federal shutdown, in which hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not being paid, Trump announced that he would give Argentina $20 billion in 'aid' that would go to political and social elites in that country."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption#Argentina #bailout
/8

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/our-job-invite-disaffected-trump

"Of the nearly $28 billion in grants the administration has frozen or canceled during the shutdown, $27.24 billion—97 percent—was for projects in Democrat-led congressional districts."

~ The Bulwark

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption
/7

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/its-getting-worse-bondi-patel-political-prosecutions-comey-james-young-republican-group-chat

"The administration continues to try to demonstrate its power. Today it announced its fifth known attack on a boat 'just off the coast of Venezuela' in international waters."

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption#Venezuela
/6

"To bring a democracy under authoritarian control, you need more than a strongman. You need politicians who will assure the public, as we slide toward one-man rule, that nothing odd is happening. That’s the role Johnson is playing in Donald Trump’s takeover of America."

~ Will Saletan

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption
/4

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mike-johnson-abetting-trump-authoritarianism

"I’ve worked through shutdowns. I’ve witnessed them in Washington, and I’ve covered them for Pod Save America. What Johnson and the Republicans are doing—and why they’re doing it—is truly unconscionable.

It should be a national scandal."

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption
/3

"It’s a statement about life in the Trump era that a government shutdown is the most normal thing happening in politics.

If people were paying attention—or if the political press had the attention span and reach to cover the shutdown—the behavior of Speaker Mike Johnson and the House Republicans would be a massive scandal."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption
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https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/mike-johnsons-shutdown-strategy-is

"The politics of the second Trump administration is a politics of fear."

~ Guillaume A. W. Attia

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military
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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politics-of-fear-in-american-history/