Paul Haeder, Author

This kind of coverage is dangerous because it normalizes the absolutely abnormal.

The cuts to federal agencies will do little to curb the rapacious spending by the federal government if the military budget — Congressional Republicans are calling for at least $100 billion in additional military spending during the next decade — remains sacrosanct. And while Trump wants to end the war in Ukraine, part of his effort to build an alliance with the autocrat in Moscow he admires, he backs the genocide in Gaza. The purge is about gutting oversight and protections. It is about circumventing thousands of statutes that set the rules for government operations. It is about filling federal positions with “loyalists” from a database compiled by the Conservative Partnership Institute. It is about enriching private corporations — including several owned by Musk — that will be handed lucrative government contracts.

[Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, right, greets Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., left, before a committee meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.]

Stop Analyzing Trump’s Unhinged Ideas Like They’re Normal Policy Proposals

The New York Times just ran 1,200 words gaming out the electoral math of forcibly annexing Canada. We’re in trouble.

This is journalism malpractice.

Let’s be clear about what’s happening: The President of the United States is openly fantasizing about forcibly annexing a sovereign nation of 40 million people. He’s been repeatedly referring to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “Governor Trudeau” and threatening our closest ally with absorption into the United States. This isn’t a policy proposal to be analyzed; it’s the ravings of a dangerous authoritarian.

But instead of treating this story as what it is — evidence of Trump’s increasingly unhinged worldview and contempt for democratic norms — Baker decides to play electoral college calculator. He walks us through detailed scenarios about House seats and Senate majorities, complete with expert quotes about the Democratic Party’s theoretical gains. It’s like writing about the thermal properties of the emperor’s new clothes while ignoring his nakedness. (source)

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“A Victory for Putin”? Jeffrey Sachs & Matt Duss Debate U.S.-Russia Talks to End Ukraine War

Jew Goodman and Jew Sachs talking abougt Jew Zelensky and then there is this wacko, Duss.

Nothing coming out of Trump’s fucking mouth is worthy of seriousness.

Sachs is a fucking multi-millionaire ego fuck, and while he gets Maidan and the other stuff, right, he fails to talk about Russian folk in Donbass being bombed and murdered for more than 7 years.

In March, 2018, coming off a three-season run as the star of the popular Ukrainian television series Servant of the People, Zelensky’s handlers filed paperwork which established a new political party in Ukraine, Servant of the People, which was little more than a ploy to politicize the role played by Zelensky in the series, an everyday Ukrainian man named Vasily Goloborodko—who went on to become President of Ukraine—so that the new Ukrainian “everyman”—Zelensky—could turn theater into reality.

The gambit worked, and in April 2019 Zelensky was elected over the unpopular incumbent, Ukrainian chocolate oligarch Petro Poroshenko.

Although he campaigned heavily on a platform that promoted peace with Russia over the ongoing fighting in the breakaway Donbas region, within weeks of becoming president, Zelensky had taken a hard tack to the right, promising to wage war with Russia over the disputed territories.

And in February 2022, the actor-turned-President got his wish.

He immediately fell into his designated role, operating from a script written for him by his western handlers (it was the CIA who manufactured the now-famous line, “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride”), rejecting an alleged offer from the United States to evacuate him from Kiev, which was at the time under attack by Russia.

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Daily this should happen, and with Molotovs.

Thugs of the World: Apartheid Musk is El Capitan. And no Molotovs? You shall die in your Substack writing chair or on the street with signs.

You gotta fight from within: The official, Michelle King, had spent decades at the agency. It is unclear what sensitive information DOGE has obtained. The new acting head of the agency is a lower-level official who has publicly praised DOGE.

And the fucking Sachs and Scott Ritters and Duran and The Judge and the Fucking Jews of Aaron-Max-Katie, all just more disconnected from us, from US.

USAID USAID USAID:

These are RItter’s people! Pigs, SWAT, Sheriff Deputies, Border Patrol. Faggots.

Gotta condemn Russia, fucking Amy Soros Goodman:

AMY GOODMAN: Professor Sachs?

JEFFREY SACHS: I said Ukraine will become the Afghanistan of Europe. And so it has. Now, today, in Saudi Arabia, maybe Ukraine can be saved from what the U.S. deep state set along the path of the last 25 years.

AMY GOODMAN: Professor Sachs?

JEFFREY SACHS: And this is the biggest hope of today.

AMY GOODMAN: Professor Sachs, Matt Duss said he agreed with a lot of what you said. And I was wondering if you agree with him in condemning Russia’s invasion in 2022.

JEFFREY SACHS: Of course I condemn Russia’s invasion. And of course I condemn the reasons for the provocation. I condemn the destabilization of the nuclear framework, which was the most important element of all in this.

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This Cunt-try-tis-of-thee:

Musk responded on his social media platform by writing,

“60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world! They deserve a long prison sentence.”

resident Trump already has a pending $20 billion lawsuit against CBS over a different “60 Minutes” segment.

More Cunt-Tree-Fucking-Freaks Who Need Killin’

The Washington Post, which is owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, has refused to run a wraparound ad from Common Cause that called for Trump to fire Elon Musk. The ad showed a picture of Musk and the White House with the words, “Who’s running this country: Donald Trump or Elon Musk?”

Know your enemy:

You are not going to get Duran or The Judge or Max or Aaron or Katie with Chris Hedges:

The Trump administration has expelled or fired officials who investigate wrongdoing within the federal government, including 17 inspectors general. Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, such as the FBI and Homeland Security, are being purged of those deemed hostile to Trump. Courts, as they are stacked with complaint judges, will be mechanisms for the persecution of state “enemies” and protection rackets for the powerful and the rich. The Supreme Court, which has granted Trump legal immunity, has already reached this stage.

We are repeating the steps that led to the consolidation of power by past dictatorships, albeit with our own idiom and idiosyncrasies. Those naively lauding Trump’s hostility towards the deep state — which I concede did tremendous damage to democratic institutions, eviscerated our most cherished liberties, is an unaccountable state within a state and orchestrated a series of disastrous global interventions, including the recent military fiascos in the Middle East and Ukraine — should look closely at what is being proposed to take its place.

The ultimate target for the Trump administration is not the deep state. The target is the laws, regulations, protocols and rules, and the government civil servants who enforce them, which hinder dictatorial control. Compromise, limited power, checks and balances and accountability are slated to be abolished. Those who believe that the government is designed to serve the common good, rather than the dictates of the ruler, will be forced out. The deep state will be reconstituted to serve the leadership cult. Laws and the rights enshrined in the Constitution will be irrelevant.

“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Trump boasted on Truth Social and X.