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‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts
(www.theguardian.com)
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Yeah, we know.
But most other people don't. This needs to be shouted loud and clear over and over again until everyone knows what's happening.
People who lived through 2000 and 2004 and 2016 can do barely more than shrug, because it's just more of the same.
Republicans were allowed to rig the democratic process in their favor, run the board on multiple branches of government, and suffer no meaningful consequences... again.
Most people aren't responding to this because it's been normalized. Republicans stepping into office and crushing minorities, gouging federal bureaucrats, and shredding constitutional principles is just the Reagan Era standard.
At least domestic media is finally coming around to directness. For the past month, I’ve been feeling like a Jew in Nazi Germany listening to the BBC. Granted, it’s far easier to get international news these days, but it would be nice if the passively informed had some no-nonsense truth shoved in their faces.
The BBC are also lying gits.
They were the most accessible international news radio station in 1930s Germany. It’s far easier to get a more whole picture from diversifying international media sources today. Relying on a single source nowadays amounts to willful ignorance.