That work at Heritage dovetails w/plans on the #Trump campaign website to expand #PresidentialPower that were drafted primarily by 2 of Trump’s advisers, VincentHaley & RossWorthington, w/input from other advisers, including #StephenMiller, the architect of Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda (#TheCrueltyIsThePoint #FamilySeparation)

#Authoritarianism #Tyranny #Dictatorship #illiberal #VOTE

…Vought & McEntee are involved in Project 2025, a $22M presidential transition op that is preparing policies, personnel lists & transition plans to recommend to any Republican who may win the 2024 election. The transition project, the scale of which is unprecedented in conservative politics, is led by the #HeritageFoundation, a think tank that has shaped the personnel & policies of Republican admins since Reagan.

#Authoritarianism #Tyranny #Dictatorship #illiberal #VOTE

#Trump & his advisers are making no secret of their intentions — proclaiming them in rallies & on his campaign website, describing them in white papers & openly discussing them.

“What we’re trying to do is identify the pockets of independence & seize them,” said Russell T. Vought, who ran the Office of Management & Budget in the Trump WH & now runs a policy org, the Center for Renewing America.

#Authoritarianism #Tyranny #Dictatorship #illiberal #VOTE

“The president’s plan should be to fundamentally reorient the federal govt in a way that hasn’t been done since F.D.R.’s New Deal,” said John McEntee, a fmr WH personnel chief who began #Trump’s systematic attempt to sweep out ofcls deemed to be #disloyal in 2020 & who is now involved in mapping out the new approach.

#Authoritarianism #Tyranny #Dictatorship #illiberal #VOTE

He intends to strip #EmploymentProtections from tens of thousands of #career #CivilServants, making it easier to replace them if they are deemed obstacles to HIS agenda. & he plans to scour the #intelligence agencies, the #StateDepartment & the #defense bureaucracies to remove ofcls HE has #vilified as “the sick political class that hates our country.”

#Authoritarianism #Tyranny #Dictatorship #illiberal #VOTE

#Trump intends to bring #IndependentAgencies — like the #FCC… & the #FTC… under direct presidential control.

He wants to revive the practice of “impounding” funds, refusing to spend money #Congress has appropriated for programs a president doesn’t like — a tactic that lawmakers #banned under President Richard #Nixon.

#Authoritarianism #Tyranny #Dictatorship #illiberal #VOTE

Terrifying & un-American:

#Trump & his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of #PresidentialPower over the machinery of #government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the #ExecutiveBranch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands.

#Authoritarianism #Tyranny #Dictatorship #illiberal #VOTE
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The outcome sets up a showdown w/the #Senate, where lawmakers are expected to vote next week on its version of the #legislation which lacks the divisive components in the #House measure.

#Democrats & moderate #Republicans predict that the defense bill, in its current form, will die in the Senate, raising uncertainty for the fate of major items that ldrs from both political parties had identified as national #defense imperatives.

#NDAA #MAGA #Extremism #AbuseOfPower #illiberal #minoritarianism

#HouseRepublicans rammed through the most #conservative #NationalDefenseAuthorizationAct in decades — restricting military personnel’s access to #ReproductiveCare & #diversity protections, & imperiling lawmakers’ broader effort to set major #NationalSecurity priorities.

The House’s version of the bill, totaling $886B, passed on a vote of 219-210, carrying a razor-thin #Republican majority. 4 Democrats voted in favor of the legislation.

#NDAA #MAGA #Extremism #Defense #AbuseOfPower #illiberal

#House narrowly passes divisive #Pentagon policy bill

Nearly all Democrats voted against the $886 billion legislation, outraged by Republican-backed amendments targeting the #military’s #abortion policy & #diversity initiatives

#Defense #MAGA #Extremism #Minoritarianism #AbuseOfPower #illiberal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/13/pentagon-abortion-policy-house-republicans/

Re @MaudBregeon Madame il est grand temps que vous preniez des vacances, ne serait ce que pour avoir le temps de lire la presse démocratique étrangère qui se demande ce qui se passe dans le pays des droits de l'homme au niveau des libertés fondamentales #illiberal

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/JlBennahmias/status/1677755474194874368

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

#Fox is an #illiberal, #amoral #propaganda machine. By all means, #picket it, write #complaints, #ridicule people who do watch it.

But letting the #government decide who gets to #speak and who doesn't is NOT something you should be cheering for. #Censorship is a dangerous road; we've seen where it leads.

What if the next government decides that *your* #media is "#hate #speech" and #blocks it from airing, while letting Fox or OAN on-air?

It is a #slippery #slope.

Farewell to Pat Robertson, Enemy of Gays and Friend of Warlords
https://youtu.be/CufTaudWVeo

#Theocrat #LGBTQ #Grifter #Illiberal #Televangelist #GenocidalManiac

Quote:
"Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto spoke at an Orban party event against the backdrop of a provocative map of "Greater Hungary" - the borders before the end of World War I.

Today, some of these lands are part of modern Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, and Ukraine.

The use of the "Greater Hungary" map has repeatedly caused tension in Budapest's relations with its neighbors"

Source: Telegram, Live:Ukraine
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Orban and his little group of friends are absolutely disgusting.
They are antisemitic, antidemocratic, nationalistic and completely corrupt.

What a shame.

I am of Hungarian origin.

#VictorOrban #Hungary #illiberal

I'm sad that Florida and Tennessee disrespect the Constitution. An American "East Germany" is forming in the red states.

#democracy #uspol #florida #tennessee #illiberal #authoritarianism #constitution #tnleg

@freakazoid @lordbowlich If #MMT is about making #capitalism more palatable to leftists, it seems your left critique of it is mainly about making #electorialism less palatable to leftists. Which is OK as far as it goes, although I've developed a sort of knee-jerk aversion to the most stridently anti-liberal leftists, as so many of them seem drawn like flies these days to #illiberal formations, which I find rather creepy.

RT @docrussjackson@twitter.com

Any Government that actively makes it harder for its poorer people to vote, harder for workers to legally withdraw their labour without fear of losing their job, & harder for everyone to engage in peaceful protest, is demonstrably #illiberal, #antidemocratic, & #authoritarian. 🇬🇧 https://t.co/jrdfZDzOjN

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1615056824578805760

Many are yakking about the #GreatReset, and the #NewWorldOrder (#NWO), apparently created by some sort of "communistical" international consortium comprised of #WEF, #LGBTQI, #environment fanatics, #provax delusionals, etc.
Most of these believers just don't realize that the #illiberal #reactionary forces are to be found in #SiliconValley.
Read on:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/red-pill-prince-curtis-yarvin

Many are yakking about the #GreatReset, and the #NewWorldOrder (#NWO), apparently created by some sort of "communistical" international consortium comprised of #WEF, #LGBTQI, #environment fanatics, #provax delusionals, etc.
Most of these believers just don't realize that the #illiberal #reactionary forces are to be found in #SiliconValley.
Read on:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/red-pill-prince-curtis-yarvin

There is a fresh interview with me in 444, a Hungarian news portal, on why Orbán's #illiberal regime devalues #education and how he gets away with it. In a nutshell: Cheap and easily exploitable labor ensures the enrichment of the social coalition behind the government. Culture wars and #authoritarianism prevent the transformation of social frustration into a potent opposition. It's in Hungarian, but I'm happy to share the text if you want to access it but can't: https://444.hu/2022/12/21/orban-rendszere-megszilardult-jo-oktatast-ne-remeljunk-tole