"To them, Trump embodies the characteristics of an Old Testament God: angry, vengeful, and demanding unquestioning loyalty. Follow the rules without exception or face some serious smiting. These are the characteristics that many men have chosen to shape their parenting, some to the point of emotional abuse."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says he ponders why people are so obsessed with Trump that their loyalty is more a compulsive fetish than a healthy choice. His answer"
"There are many answers to that question, and I’ve explored them all. But one of the main ones is the pathological need for a judgmental father figure."
#Trump #tariffs #ToxicMasculinity #destruction
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https://kareem.substack.com/p/trump-tariffs-tank-economy-and-4
"White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt mused that 'boys will be boys!' when asked about the increasingly ugly feud between Elon Musk and Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro at Tuesday’s briefing. …
'These are obviously two individuals who have very different views on trade, and on tariffs. Boys will be boys!'"
~ Isaac Schorr
"'and imported millions and millions of illegals to work in construction, manufacturing, landscaping, janitorial services – jobs that used to give men access to the American dream.'”
"Batya Ungar-Sargon reckons Trump’s economic policy is going to fix the 'crisis of masculinity'. On Sunday, Ungar-Sargon told Fox News that the US had 'shipped jobs that gave men who work with their hands for a living, and rely on brawn and physicality, off to other countries'" …
~ Arwa Mahdawi
#Trump #tariffs #ToxicMasculinity #destruction
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/08/trump-tariffs-masculinity-family-fox-news
A number of commentators today are noting the attempt of the Trump regime and its epigones to spin the tariff madness (and destruction) as boys being boys, a favorite theme of Republicans, since one can hardly blame boys for behaving like boys. Bless their hearts, behaving badly is just what men do after all, Republicans love to inform us.
On this topic, see Media Matters on Fox News' spin of the tariffs as "manly."
#Trump #tariffs #ToxicMasculinity #destruction
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https://www.mediamatters.org/five/fox-news-chyron-trumps-manly-tariffs
Rep Moulton grills top #Pentagon official over Trump’s comments on #Zelenskyy and #putin
“Does it show strength to blame Zelenskyy for starting this war … to call #WarCriminal putin genius?”
#Trump employees trying to cover for the ongoing #destruction of the #US have two rules..
1. DEFLECT
2. PRAISE TRUMP
"Trump was asked if he spoke to industry leaders and CEOs about his tariffs: 'I've talked to the biggest in the world. I talked to the biggest of them all, many of them. You know what they said? We don't blame you.' Reporter: 'Who did you talk to?' Trump: 'I don't want to say.'”
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #tariffs #economy #StockMarket #crash #destruction #recession
/5
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-107-4725
"Donald Trump's nostalgic worldview is rooted even further back than the 1960s. He looks fondly on the late 19th century when, as he described this week, the U.S. had only tariffs and no income tax….
This history is nonsense."
~ Fareed Zakaria
#Trump #tariffs #economy #StockMarket #crash #destruction #recession
/4
"There is a bailout coming. It could take a variety of forms and have multiple beneficiaries, but the government will be using taxpayer money to pay off the victims of Donald Trump’s disastrous economic policies. Some of them, anyway.
Farmers will almost certainly be first in line to be bailed out."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #tariffs #economy #StockMarket #crash #destruction #recession #farmers #bailout
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/who-gets-the-trump-bailout-this-time
"The wild swings made the day one of the most volatile in stock market history. It ended with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down by 349 points and the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite staying relatively flat. Futures for tomorrow are up slightly.
Foreign markets fared badly today, suggesting that the reality of Trump’s tariffs is beginning to sink in."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #tariffs #economy #StockMarket #crash #destruction #recession
/2
Wikipedia editors call it: it’s the '2025 Stock Market Crash.'"
~ Emanuel Maiberg
#Trump #tariffs #economy #StockMarket #crash #destruction #recession
/1
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-editors-call-it-its-the-2025-stock-market-crash/
"Donald Trump 40 years ago thought that he was smarter than everybody else and tariffs were the answer. And he never admitted he was wrong. And now he's going to prove that he was right all along, no matter how deep a depression he generates along the way."
#Trump #destruction #tariffs #economy #crash #StockMarket #depression
/5
"This is really the first time in history that a president has caused you know, a terrible economy. We've had presidents who failed to respond. And Herbert Hoover screwed up or was hapless in response to the Great Depression, but he didn't cause it."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #destruction #tariffs #economy #crash #StockMarket #depression
/4
"Trump apologists, Republican officials, and MAGA acolytes are gaslighting the world right now, trying to make you think Donald Trump is an unorthodox genius who is playing 4-D chess as the global economy collapses around us."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #Musk #destruction #tariffs #economy #crash #StockMarket
/3
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/trump-isnt-playing-4d-chess-hes-an
"Project 2025 goals are being met, rapacious religious rascals are in the white house, and pseudo son Musk is DOGE’ing the American public’s safety net and government. If this had been any other country, we would say it was a coup. …
The country we knew is being trashed. Whether we can get it back remains to be seen."
"America’s house is burning down. By this summer, everything will be scorched earth.
Let me be clear. Trump has destroyed America in less than 100 days. Coming back from this DOGE takeover, mob shakedown and chaos is going to take much more than over 1200 marches across America on an April Saturday."
~ Anthea Butler
#Trump #Musk #destruction #tariffs #Project2025 #coup
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https://profantheabutler.substack.com/p/burning-down-the-house
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #idf / #destruction / #ngo / #breakingthesilence
„Rights group Breaking the Silence published testimonies from Israeli troops who said there was a methodical effort to destroy buildings for a buffer zone.“
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/07/israel-military-gaza-buffer-zone/
After it was all over and everything was in ruins, many Germans found it hard to admit how deceived, duped, stupid, morally untethered they'd been.
They had believed God sent him to make their nation great again.
He was going to make Christianity and Germany manly again.
He had a secret plan, higher knowledge; even when what he did seemed crazy, there was a reason for it.
It would all work out in the end. He had it under control.
Clay Bennet's commentary on what "Liberation Day" actually turns out to mean for many Americans as we watch our retirement funds vanish
#Trump #tariffs #economy #crash #StockMarket #recession #inflation #destruction #LiberationDay
/10
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/5/2314404/-Cartoon-He-did-say-liberation
