President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise that he would take a hard line on China, imposing massive tariffs on all Chinese goods entering the United States.
Trump took MAGA from Hitler, the AFD party is just taking it back. Something tells me that Trump's base will say nothing of his weak stance on China as long as he keeps implementing racist and hateful policies in the US.
Susie Wiles is trying put a wrench in the trump/musk bromance. She was actually able to deny musk West Wing access. I'm sure musk, with his infinite resources and trump's awe of them, will not be denied influence. We are truly in perilous times.
My late friend visited China in 2015 on a business trip. Factories had nets around them to catch workers who were jumping, trying to either commit suicide or try to get away. He didn't do business with China because of that.
One forgets that Ivanka has patents with the Chinese.
So of course the man who uses X for propaganda will use TikTok. He is one of several Trump friendly potential buyers.
Musk's ties to Nazism run deep. Germany in general thus far has given him the stink eye. What will he buy there to turn it around.
My biggie is the fools doing "seig heil" salute on Tik Tok to emulate him. As someone whose 40 European Jewish family members perished in the Holocaust, our family knows where it goes from here.
The Lemkin Institute posted a red alert on the US and the Nazi salute Jan. 20th.
The fact that most Americans don't understand the term "fascism" means we need to use other terms that will be understood.
As Trump and Musk help to destroy the US and NATO alliance, Putin gets to recreate the Soviet Union with no one to challenge him, and China gets to economically take over the world. Will Musk fare well in the end with China, once he has helped to destroy democracy elsewhere in the world?
A German fellow I follow on Bluesky posted front pages of German newspapers in the past week. One was a photo I believe of a Tesla dealership with a lighted Swastika over it. Musk is dabblin' in the far right party ie Neo Nazi in Germany. German media has had a field day with Trump as well. I was amused that many on social media are calling Teslas "Swasticars." But really, none of this is funny. We know where we are and where it leads. Times are tough.
Musk's interference has led to two "center" right parties joining the AfD in voting for some horrid immigration bill that violates the EU standards, in the Bundestag yesterday. We are all upset, but there are many that will vote for these cretins.
There is a heavy schedule of anti-right wing demonstrations planned and the biggest union is one sector that is standing behind their immigrant members. They will be out marching with everyone else protesting this bill, the right wing, and Musk's interference in our elections here.
However, I don't see Musk as dabbling. The AfD is the New German Nazi Party, but they get to exist until a court decides otherwise because they changed their name. They have been evolving to an uglier and uglier place. The CDU/CSU union party is jealous of Musk's support going to AfD, and they are now catering to him by being open fascists. The same with the FDP. They are slavering so much for Musk money that there is no end to what they will do to appease him which is sickening.
My daughter asked if Musk would get arrested in Germany because what he did by doing the Nazi Sieg Heil Salute is illegal here. I said I don't know. I have noticed that he has not been coming here, he has been teleporting in. I hope that Germans boycott driving Teslas, and sell them to another country like Hungary, or Serbia.
On Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat's Zoom last week, she and Prof. Brook Harrington (Broligarch expert) discussed that Trump is checking off a list of favors to people he owes favors to like the Broligarchs and Putin. Putin comes first because he is known to off people who betray him. Putins goal is to reconstruct the Soviet Union, and Trump helps him by destroying the US and NATO from within. Apparently China is owed as well, at least the owner of Tiktok and apparently the rest is a favor to Musk. So, there is nothing happening in this administration for the citizens of the United States except for the immigration deportations which only serves the wishes of the White Supremacists that Trump is cultivating as his Brown Shirts. I am waiting to see where Joyce Vance tracks democracy as being. For me as long as votes can be bought and others suppressed and therefore elections are not free and fair, I don't know if the US can be considered a democracy.
We should remember that the EO pausing the “ban” on TikTok is contrary to law enacted by Congress and affirmed by the Supreme Court. This is a blatant violation of the separation of powers in our Constitution.
He never was going to do that..he just said what he thought his magas wanted to hear. Now he has pulled down the shade and going all in with china.. is anyone foolish enough to believe anything else? Where would his cheap crap get made ? We try to pay our workers a "living wage" here but that is laughable. of course when he wipes everything away to protect our workers then they, including wife & kiddies, will work for peanuts. Then he can boast it is "Made in America"...
"Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great-grandparents"
That is the essence of the LIE! The Children are NOT and could NEVER BE guilty of the sins of their parents or grandparents. They need to be taught that while recognizing the past with clear eyes.
The IMPLICATION here is that CERTAIN people, the 'Them' vs 'Us'; THOSE people are causing The Children to feel guilty about who they are because of what their ancestors did.
This is all COMPLETE BULLSHIT and Musk knows it's bullshit. He doesn't care.
He's a racist megalomaniac bent on world domination through Oligarchy.
Trump will do nothing about the trade war with China as long as Elon Musk has a big presence in China with his Tesla car and battery factories located there. Trump was for tariffs until he wasn’t. Sound familiar? No one doubts that Trump himself does not truly understand tariffs; that they are a tax on the consumers as prices increase in the receiving end. But the only reason he mentioned tariffs during the election run up, was to appease his MAGA base. His goal was to have them believe that tariffs would force US manufacturers to stay home and hire more people and not move their companies to foreign locations. Maybe those who voted for Trump will finally realize what their votes did for everyone. It raised prices for the goods they purchased.
Thank goodness we won't have a shortage of Chinese junk clogging up our landfills and waterways. Not to mention McDonalds Happy Meal trash-trinket! Don't Buy that crap! pretty please
On Muck and H1-B Visas-- These visas have long been a form of affirmative action in the sense that the Trump administration understands affirmative action and DEI work. Clearly this is one more of the many internal contradictions in the Trump/Musk regime.
We are now a Fascist nation, repugnant to the whole world of democratic governments everywhere.
This fascism here happened because it had to happen under Our Brand of Obscene Capitalism. Now, we have two choices: either stage guerrilla warfare against fascism and chance killing our own fallow citizens OR wait until this maniac president's dictatorial rule collapses under his incompetency. That may ruin all the world.
OR we create a new constitution:
Her is my solution to the problem.
WE, THE PEOPLE, IN ORDER TO CREATE NEW SYSTEM OF ECONOMICS AND A NEW EHTOS---
HEREBY DEMAND OF OUR SELVES, THAT---
1) We the People shall treat all human being as our brothers, no matter what their skin color or place of birth originally. We are all responsible for the well-being and health of one another and shall love one another as though they are our brothers and sisters, through all adversities of life. 2) We all shall accept responsibility for the fine education, free healthcare, and guaranteed job opportunity in total equality for all women and men throughout this land. No one shall ever be unemployed as long as they are good citizens and loyal to this document's premises. 3) We, the people, shall not allow a classist society to exist with billionaires and poor side by side. The rich shall be taxed until their income is no more than two times that of the highest paid blue-collar worker 4) All housing shall be equally fine for all our people. 5) There will be no Poor class, and all citizens people will share in the national wealth equitably. 6) All citizens shall study economics thoroughly so no leader can fool them and become a demagogue. All citizens shall take two years studying the economic basis of Henry George and vote every two years on whether they want to be a Georgist society or not,
I am beginning to wonder Musk with all his influence is playing the game with Deepsake to take revenge on Sam Altman. I would not trust Musk even for a second
Trump took MAGA from Hitler, the AFD party is just taking it back. Something tells me that Trump's base will say nothing of his weak stance on China as long as he keeps implementing racist and hateful policies in the US.
Trump took MAGA from Ronald Reagan who first said it in a campaign speech.
Susie Wiles is trying put a wrench in the trump/musk bromance. She was actually able to deny musk West Wing access. I'm sure musk, with his infinite resources and trump's awe of them, will not be denied influence. We are truly in perilous times.
My late friend visited China in 2015 on a business trip. Factories had nets around them to catch workers who were jumping, trying to either commit suicide or try to get away. He didn't do business with China because of that.
One forgets that Ivanka has patents with the Chinese.
So of course the man who uses X for propaganda will use TikTok. He is one of several Trump friendly potential buyers.
Musk's ties to Nazism run deep. Germany in general thus far has given him the stink eye. What will he buy there to turn it around.
My biggie is the fools doing "seig heil" salute on Tik Tok to emulate him. As someone whose 40 European Jewish family members perished in the Holocaust, our family knows where it goes from here.
The Lemkin Institute posted a red alert on the US and the Nazi salute Jan. 20th.
I am sorry to hear about your family. This meme posted by Jeff Tiedrich and extracted from his column by someone else says it all.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82b253bd-280b-4f75-8665-01d7be095d79_465x225.gif
Here is a discussion of the Musk Sieg Heil salute in The Guardian that is saying something important about this moment in our history. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-far-right-antisemitism?utm_term=679631f97a9063a144823d6fd46e3eb7&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email
It ties together with this article about the rise of the Neo-Nazi's and immigration. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/neo-nazis-trump-extremism?utm_term=679631f97a9063a144823d6fd46e3eb7&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email
The fact that most Americans don't understand the term "fascism" means we need to use other terms that will be understood.
As Trump and Musk help to destroy the US and NATO alliance, Putin gets to recreate the Soviet Union with no one to challenge him, and China gets to economically take over the world. Will Musk fare well in the end with China, once he has helped to destroy democracy elsewhere in the world?
A German fellow I follow on Bluesky posted front pages of German newspapers in the past week. One was a photo I believe of a Tesla dealership with a lighted Swastika over it. Musk is dabblin' in the far right party ie Neo Nazi in Germany. German media has had a field day with Trump as well. I was amused that many on social media are calling Teslas "Swasticars." But really, none of this is funny. We know where we are and where it leads. Times are tough.
Musk's interference has led to two "center" right parties joining the AfD in voting for some horrid immigration bill that violates the EU standards, in the Bundestag yesterday. We are all upset, but there are many that will vote for these cretins.
There is a heavy schedule of anti-right wing demonstrations planned and the biggest union is one sector that is standing behind their immigrant members. They will be out marching with everyone else protesting this bill, the right wing, and Musk's interference in our elections here.
However, I don't see Musk as dabbling. The AfD is the New German Nazi Party, but they get to exist until a court decides otherwise because they changed their name. They have been evolving to an uglier and uglier place. The CDU/CSU union party is jealous of Musk's support going to AfD, and they are now catering to him by being open fascists. The same with the FDP. They are slavering so much for Musk money that there is no end to what they will do to appease him which is sickening.
My daughter asked if Musk would get arrested in Germany because what he did by doing the Nazi Sieg Heil Salute is illegal here. I said I don't know. I have noticed that he has not been coming here, he has been teleporting in. I hope that Germans boycott driving Teslas, and sell them to another country like Hungary, or Serbia.
On Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat's Zoom last week, she and Prof. Brook Harrington (Broligarch expert) discussed that Trump is checking off a list of favors to people he owes favors to like the Broligarchs and Putin. Putin comes first because he is known to off people who betray him. Putins goal is to reconstruct the Soviet Union, and Trump helps him by destroying the US and NATO from within. Apparently China is owed as well, at least the owner of Tiktok and apparently the rest is a favor to Musk. So, there is nothing happening in this administration for the citizens of the United States except for the immigration deportations which only serves the wishes of the White Supremacists that Trump is cultivating as his Brown Shirts. I am waiting to see where Joyce Vance tracks democracy as being. For me as long as votes can be bought and others suppressed and therefore elections are not free and fair, I don't know if the US can be considered a democracy.
We should remember that the EO pausing the “ban” on TikTok is contrary to law enacted by Congress and affirmed by the Supreme Court. This is a blatant violation of the separation of powers in our Constitution.
He never was going to do that..he just said what he thought his magas wanted to hear. Now he has pulled down the shade and going all in with china.. is anyone foolish enough to believe anything else? Where would his cheap crap get made ? We try to pay our workers a "living wage" here but that is laughable. of course when he wipes everything away to protect our workers then they, including wife & kiddies, will work for peanuts. Then he can boast it is "Made in America"...
"Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great-grandparents"
That is the essence of the LIE! The Children are NOT and could NEVER BE guilty of the sins of their parents or grandparents. They need to be taught that while recognizing the past with clear eyes.
The IMPLICATION here is that CERTAIN people, the 'Them' vs 'Us'; THOSE people are causing The Children to feel guilty about who they are because of what their ancestors did.
This is all COMPLETE BULLSHIT and Musk knows it's bullshit. He doesn't care.
He's a racist megalomaniac bent on world domination through Oligarchy.
He and Trump make a great pair.
Trump will do nothing about the trade war with China as long as Elon Musk has a big presence in China with his Tesla car and battery factories located there. Trump was for tariffs until he wasn’t. Sound familiar? No one doubts that Trump himself does not truly understand tariffs; that they are a tax on the consumers as prices increase in the receiving end. But the only reason he mentioned tariffs during the election run up, was to appease his MAGA base. His goal was to have them believe that tariffs would force US manufacturers to stay home and hire more people and not move their companies to foreign locations. Maybe those who voted for Trump will finally realize what their votes did for everyone. It raised prices for the goods they purchased.
Thank goodness we won't have a shortage of Chinese junk clogging up our landfills and waterways. Not to mention McDonalds Happy Meal trash-trinket! Don't Buy that crap! pretty please
On Muck and H1-B Visas-- These visas have long been a form of affirmative action in the sense that the Trump administration understands affirmative action and DEI work. Clearly this is one more of the many internal contradictions in the Trump/Musk regime.
We are now a Fascist nation, repugnant to the whole world of democratic governments everywhere.
This fascism here happened because it had to happen under Our Brand of Obscene Capitalism. Now, we have two choices: either stage guerrilla warfare against fascism and chance killing our own fallow citizens OR wait until this maniac president's dictatorial rule collapses under his incompetency. That may ruin all the world.
OR we create a new constitution:
Her is my solution to the problem.
WE, THE PEOPLE, IN ORDER TO CREATE NEW SYSTEM OF ECONOMICS AND A NEW EHTOS---
HEREBY DEMAND OF OUR SELVES, THAT---
1) We the People shall treat all human being as our brothers, no matter what their skin color or place of birth originally. We are all responsible for the well-being and health of one another and shall love one another as though they are our brothers and sisters, through all adversities of life. 2) We all shall accept responsibility for the fine education, free healthcare, and guaranteed job opportunity in total equality for all women and men throughout this land. No one shall ever be unemployed as long as they are good citizens and loyal to this document's premises. 3) We, the people, shall not allow a classist society to exist with billionaires and poor side by side. The rich shall be taxed until their income is no more than two times that of the highest paid blue-collar worker 4) All housing shall be equally fine for all our people. 5) There will be no Poor class, and all citizens people will share in the national wealth equitably. 6) All citizens shall study economics thoroughly so no leader can fool them and become a demagogue. All citizens shall take two years studying the economic basis of Henry George and vote every two years on whether they want to be a Georgist society or not,
Trump is a compulsive liar. Period.
I'd like to know why Musk throws out Nazi salutes in public at his Berlin Tesla factory? How does this sell his cars?
Musk is gaslighting Americans with his denial of the Hitler salute.
I am beginning to wonder Musk with all his influence is playing the game with Deepsake to take revenge on Sam Altman. I would not trust Musk even for a second
(☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞ I think you’re onto something.
Super interesting and super important. Thank you for doing this.
Wasn't it Daffy Duck who bounced down the road on his head; yelling GREED GREED GREED?
Felon 47 is our Daffy but not funny or cute. But he's one greedy so and so. So are his new best friends--I mean enablers.