A core feature of the Trump regime is its embrace of "authoritarian democracy", as a battering ram with which to demolish any obstacle to its power.
The very notion of "authoritarian democracy" can sound contradictory.
But it's an old & dangerous idea, that needs to be better understood. [THREAD]
modems screaming at us in the 90s was a warning and we didn't take it
Smiling Congressional biog photo of Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor House / Texas Reported: 2025-04-07 A long line of stock purchases which include: AMZN Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-04 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-03 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-03 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000 Buy - Undisclosed2025-04-03 Undisclosed - STOCK $1,000 - $15,000
🚨When the stock market was deep in the red yesterday, Majorie Taylor Greene bought tens of thousands in stock.
Trump then paused tariffs & she made thousands in profit.
Stories that start like this have ended in prison for others.
in this week's newsletter! an actually serious essay, in which I try to figure out why on earth so many of the mainstream political elites feel that the far right ought to be able to get away with everything: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/why-the-el... [free to read!]
Tweets from Vincent Bevins on May 23 2018: Uh-oh, Elon Musk has caught a Twitter-specific mental disease. You've seen it before. Someone or some group on here has owned him so bad that he is re-aligning his whole life and worldview to prove them wrong. Happens all the time, but only Musk may blow up a planet as a result Someone called him a nerd in a particularly funny way once, so now he has to do whatever it takes to prove he's cool. Someone mocked his entrepreneurial bona fides, so now he has to create a whole new way to attack journalism from above. He's not slowing soon, trust He's just going to double down on everything he ever said, and triple down where people caught him in a mistake, this is going to get really good (bad)
You mentioning 2018 reminded me of these prescient tweets, though I think this is a couple months before the cave thing
+1.75°C above pre-industrial! 🥵
January 2025 for Europe was 2.51°C above 1991-2020!
Free speech update over on X
Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏
They don’t care about you .
Got it on now, sounds good👌
