AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Okay, so given Trump's move to undo pardons granted by outgoing US President Joe Biden so he can target DoJ officials who prosecuted him for real crimes he actually committed, and the above-mentioned pattern of Trump's aggrieved fascist ranting transmuting into official, state-recognized reality, while serving to justify oppressive action by the regime, what are we to make of Trump declaring that media outlets that report on him critically, including named organizations MSNBC and CNN, are "illegal" during that same speech at the US Department of Justice? Well, I think for starters it's safe to assume that none of this means *anything* good.</p><p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-claims-msnbc-and-cnn-are-illegal-in-doj-speech_n_67d4a0a4e4b0a37116aefc88" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">huffpost.com/entry/donald-trum</span><span class="invisible">p-claims-msnbc-and-cnn-are-illegal-in-doj-speech_n_67d4a0a4e4b0a37116aefc88</span></a></p><p>Donald Trump Claims MSNBC And CNN Are ‘Illegal’ In DOJ Speech</p><p>"The president gave a speech Friday at the Justice Department railing against news outlets he says have unfairly targeted him.</p><p>Trump singled out CNN and MSNBC, which he called “MSNDC,” claiming those outlets “literally write 97.6% bad about me” and are “political arms of the Democrat Party.”</p><p>He added, “In my opinion, they’re really corrupt and they’re illegal, what they do is illegal.”</p><p>Trump then argued that media organizations that report negative things about him “are really no different than a highly paid political operative,” insisting, “it has to stop, it has to be illegal” because “it’s influencing judges and it’s really, eh, changing law, and it just cannot be legal.”</p><p>He additionally claimed that news outlets cover him negatively “in total coordination with each other.”</p><p>Whether they're playing it cool on purpose, or not, this story is once again mostly being reported in corporate media as an extension of Trump's longstanding grievances with anything he perceives as critical media coverage and the outlets that produce it; although boutique "progressive" websites and nonprofit media have been a little quicker to realize why this isn't just "Trump being Trump" anymore and how dangerous it is to assume our new American Mussolini lacks purpose in his actions here. </p><p>Frankly, I don't think it's an accident that in the very same speech Trump previewed loyalty investigations into Justice Department officials, and attempted to usurp the power of his Attorney General by declaring himself the country's "chief law enforcement officer," he declared liberal establishment media an active political arm of the opposition party, and accused them of both actively conspiring against him, and engaging in criminal activity. What does it mean when the "chief law enforcement officer" declares media critical of him "corrupt" and "illegal?" And how much more ominous is that meaning when its set against the backdrop of a US president celebrating his election as a victory against (what is now) his own Justice Department, while promising what sure sounds like legal investigations into DoJ lawyers and officials that dared to bring charges against him? </p><p>The obviously implication here is that Trump thinks the DoJ should target and prosecute media outlets that are critical of him, he has the right to order the department to do so because he's running the DoJ, and anyone who opposes that activity is likely to find themselves purged from the department at a minimum, and quite possibly prosecuted themselves. What many of the corporate media outlets likely to be targeted by Trump's assault on free speech rights and critical media coverage have passed off as a vengeful old man "playing the hits" is actually a fully formed operation to seize control of the American legal apparatus or at least the prosecution portion of it, redefine what is a crime, manufacture consent to target his enemies with the US Department of Justice, and threaten to punish or dispose of anyone who dares to get in his way over a silly little thing like "the law." Trump may have delivered it like a drunk racist grandpa, but his speech is clearly a calculated attempt by the president to drastically expand his own powers, and prosecute his fascist agenda - whether he's doing it for revenge or not (he is), is ultimately the *least* important factor here.</p><p>This then dovetails into the methods by which Trump is actually attempting to accomplish this fascist, anti-free speech bullshit; specifically the larger narrative of unreality the Trump regime is constructing day by day. Trump is working to equate critical media with his political opposition, his political opposition with protestors, and protestors with terrorists, while his larger regime takes actions against that opposition as if what Trump is suggesting here were already indisputable truth. I hate to keep bringing up literally Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the German Enabling Act of 1933, but students of history will gladly tell you that Hitler's playbook for transforming Germany into a autocratic one-party dictatorship looks an awful lot like exactly what Trump is doing here.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DoJSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoJSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/NaziParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaziParty</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/EnablingAct1933" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnablingAct1933</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MSNBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSNBC</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CNN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CNN</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
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Reposting this from last night: (may make your eyes tear up)
60 Minutes - Newsmakers
What musicians did after an executive order on DEI led to the cancellation of U.S. Marine Band collaboration
"...I just felt like, well, there's usually two responses to something. You can complain about it, or you could do something about it. I chose the latter within seconds. And it was the easiest decision ever.....
With the active-duty Marines ordered to stand down, Equity Arc reached out to retirees who answered the call from everywhere, former band members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Westpoint, the Naval Academy and the Marines....The original Marine Band concert would have been seen by hundreds. Here, tonight, these musicians are being heard by millions...."
Musk’s Tesla has been forced to halt sales of its electric Cybertruck pickup amid mounting concern about metal panels falling off the supposedly indestructible vehicles. Customers posting on the Cybertruck Owners Club website & X, said they'd been told by agents that deliveries were on hold.
EV-enthusiast website Electrek said the decision was taken amid increasing instances of trim and panels “flying off the supposedly ‘bulletproof’ electric truck.”
#Tesla #Musk #USPol https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/03/16/musk-forced-halt-cybertuck-deliveries-as-parts-fall-off/
The Telegraph · Musk forced to halt Cybertruck deliveries as parts fall off
"Understand that this El Salvador gulag deportation was done partly in order to make the FASCIST VIDEO that the pres. now transmits, with his fascist message. The cameras are all set up in advance."
-T Snyder
“Oopsie…Too late" SLV Pres Bukele, who agreed to house ~300 #immigrants *$6M/yr in SLV's prisons *known for HR abuses. The video released by SLV's govt -showed men exiting planes onto an A/P tarmac lined by officers in riot gear (#Trump-Bukele: QPQ).
#USPol #Fascism https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-el-salvador-immigration-dd4f61999f85c4dd8bcaba7d4fc7c9af
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The dystopian "freedom cities" dream fueling Elon Musk's destruction
Tech's plans for billionaire-rule expose why #Musk wants to end #government by the people
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/17/the-dystopian-freedom-cities-dream-fueling-elon-musks-destruction/
"what the #SiliconValley billionaire class considers "freedom cities" is simply neo-feudalism, a plan to end the concept of #citizenship & make every working person a serf whose entire life is controlled by the whims of their boss. "
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These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration
The team working at the Social Security Admn appears to be among the largest DOGE units deployed to any #government agency.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-operatives-access-social-security-administration/
"While it’s been unclear even to well-placed insiders what specifically #DOGE is doing inside the #SocialSecurity Admn, #Musk has repeatedly voiced his desire to “eliminate” large parts of the system"
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Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From #DOGE
Current & former employees, both #Republican & #Democratic, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts could do to the agency’s ability to serve the public.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/business/social-security-doge-ssa.html
"Many current & former Social Security officials fear the cuts could create gaping holes in the agency’s #infrastructure, destabilizing the program, which keeps millions of people out of #poverty"
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DOGE’s Cuts at the #USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise & Invasive Species to Spread
Thousands of #US Dept of #Agriculture employees, including food inspectors & disease-sniffing #dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports & pests to proliferate.
https://www.wired.com/story/usda-food-supply-chains/
"the losses could cause #food to go rotten... even higher grocery #prices... potentially devastating invasive species getting into the country."
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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 16, 2025
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/03/16
#ElonMusk, #Doge & the #Trump administration are skewered in #Doonesbury #Comic strip.
"In just seven years, we shrunk the federal workforce by 426,000, consolidated 800 agencies and eliminated 640,000 pages of rules...
And you didn't notice because the process was carefully planned and responsibly executed.
It never disrupted essential public services. Compare that to now."
Trump takes to Trump platform to congratulate Trump for winning championship at Trump golf club. Such fun!
