Will the Trump Shock prove as momentous as the #Nixon Shock? Interview of Yanis #Varoufakis on new #Trump tariffs On BBC tv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cqqu2WSONQ
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Irre ich mich, oder steckt in dem #Wahnsinn von #USDiktator #Trump auch eine unfassbare Chance diesen ganzen neoliberalen Ideologie-Geschwätz den Todesstoß zu versetzen, den er sich seit 20 Jahren schon verdient hat?!
Man muss kein Prophet sein, um die Katastrophe vorher zu sehen, die ein Friedrich #Merz anrichten wird, wenn man ihn libertär als #MiniTrump bei uns wüten lässt.
Was wir brauchen ist der Ausstieg aus dem blinden #Konsum und #Wachstumswahn.
"Trump is therefore not the first President to seek the controlled disintegration of the world economy by means of a devastating blow. Nor is he the first to purposely damage America’s allies to renew and prolong US hegemony. Nor the first who was prepared to hurt Wall Street in the short run in the process of strengthening US capital accumulation in the long term. Nixon had done all that half a century earlier.
And the irony is that the world the Western liberal establishment is grieving over today came into being as a result of the Nixon Shock. While admonishing the idea of a US President delivering a rude shock to the world economy, they are lamenting the passing of what only came into being because of another President’s readiness to deliver an even ruder shock. That is, the Nixon Shock gave birth to the darlings of today’s liberal establishment: neoliberalism, financialisation and globalisation."
https://unherd.com/2025/04/will-liberation-day-transform-the-world/
UnHerd · Will Liberation Day transform the world?
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That ofcl, #GaryShapley, was recently appointed to dpty chief of the #IRS’s #criminal division & to an “unprecedented” senior advisory role at the #Treasury Dept, he wrote to colleagues in a recent email…— giving #political appointees a direct line to #tax investigations for the first time since #Nixon.
This bunch of #crooks can give #Nixon a run for his money. #Traitors, the whole lot. Actually, #MAGA is the synonym for #traitor. What else can one expect from a #criminal #administration led by a #felon!
#government #Congress #USPolitics #opposeGOP #OpposeFascism #hypocrite
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-intel-chair-calls-us-143011315.html
Today in Labor History March 23, 1970: President Richard Nixon declared a national emergency and sent 30,000 troops to New York City to serve as scabs to break the first nationwide postal strike.
#Trump is not the first president to try to deport someone for their political views. https://www.salon.com/2025/03/22/imagine-deportation-when-nixon-tried-to-pull-a-on-john-lennon/
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I paid attention, and complained about #Biden's #virtueSignaling in choosing #Garland ever since. You obviously didn't read reports of how Biden knee-capped Garland, despite link above 
#US made a mistake letting #Nixon go. Biden repeated by saying he preferred #unity over #investigation.
Don't even get me started on how they did a #prettyPlease in the #classifiedDocuments case, and once they had an airtight case, went to #Florida instead of #DC, where the crime was committed
Le réseau nazi aux #USA ne date pas d'hier mais cette photo de #Nixon aux côtés de l'ex Roi nazi d'angleterre Edouard VII en constitue une belle illustration
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_VIII#/media/Fichier:Nixon_and_the_Windsors.jpg
fr.wikipedia.orgÉdouard VIII — Wikipédia
Today in Labor History March 18, 1970: The first mass work stoppage in the 195-year history of the U.S. Postal Service began on this date in New York City. The walkout was illegal, giving President Richard Nixon the excuse to send in federal troops to sort the mail. But the strike succeeded in forcing Congress to raise wages and reorganize the postal system and marked a new militancy among postal employees.
KUSHAfter that #MAGA Rally Speech at the #DOJ
It is 100% clear that #DonTheCON AKA #ConvictedFelon47 Has His New Modern day #RoyCohn that He wanted since #Nixon Exploited the System.
#itsNOSECRET that #DonOLDCHUMP would Love 
to Be As #Blonde as Pam Bondi-Cohn.
Targeting Anyone the #OrangeFelon #DonOLD Commands Her to 
#PartyOfLawAndOrder
#47PardonedVIOLENTCriminals
#LawAndDisorder
#WeaponizationOfAgencies
#Project2025 #UsPolitics
#CONVICTEDFELONTRUMP
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@Tanzbaer 
Stimmt! Leider. 
(Nicht nur) ich bin neugierig, wie unsere amerikanischen 
Freunde darauf reagieren.
#Nixon wurde von zwei guten, mutigen #Journalisten "erlegt";
Der @NYTimes trauen #wir in diesem #Plegefall einiges zu, unsere Kontakte in d. #USA laufen sich gerade erst warm.
Dort ist #alles etwa größer wie bei #uns, vieles funktioniert auch ganz #anders als bei uns.
Lieben Gruß.
I don't vibe with fat jokes but leaving out the fat part, it's still funny.
#uspol #trumpmeme #nixon
#uspol #trumpmeme #nixon
coreyrobin.comThe culture war doesn’t distract us from the class war; it directs us to it.Many people of my generation have heard of Bill Safire, who worked as a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Nixon’s Vice President Spiro Agnew. When I was growing up, Safire had long departed the Nixon White House. He was now a columnist for the New York Times—perhaps the first in what is a by-now familiar sequence of the Times’ hiring voices who could speak for the “reasonable right” on its oped page. Like William F. Buckley, Safire liked to style himself a man of words, and his columns were often peppered with painful pedantry and middlebrow mewling (I can do alliteration, too!) over the rules of proper usage, the etymology of words, and such. So let’s do some here. Despite […]
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@abulling
Mal im Ernst, wenn man ins Jahr 1971 schaut, findet man viele Dinge, die scheinbar zerbrochen sind. Wenn ich #Nixon's Wiki-Eintrag lesen, fallen mir aber andere Dinge als der Gold-Standard auf:
"In seinen acht Jahren als Vizepräsident unter Eisenhower hatte Nixon eine Abneigung gegen Kabinettssitzungen entwickelt. Als er ins Weiße Haus einzog, war er von Anfang an entschlossen, mit Hilfe seiner Berater selbst zu regieren."
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@sixtus
Now that you are grieving about #JeffBezos & the #WashingtonPost:
How about taking the opportunity to start a #reader-owned #newspaper #cooperative or an #audience-owned #media cooperative!?
Plenty of examples exist; several of them in #Germany alone.
I'd very much be interested to partake.
#WaPo #Bezos #AllThePresidentsMen #JonathanCapeheart #BobWoodward #CarlBernstein #Watergate #Nixon #Trump #MAGA #HowFascismWorks #Amazon #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #Musk #Zuckerberg #Distributism #Coop
"The Republican party of #Trump is not like the Republican party of #Nixon: if there is a limit to the illegality they are willing to put up with from Trump, we have not yet seen it." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/is-it-a-coup/
Liberal Currents · Is It a Coup?It is bad, it is illegal, and it is a self-coup.
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#Nixon did some shady shit, but he was spot on with his support of #UBI.
There was a #commercial from some initiative in the #UK where they gave a, I think, £10 note to a rich person (who put it in his pocket) and to a normal person (who spent it). The commercial follows the note that is spent, and at the end, goes back to the rich guy, who still has the note in his pocket.
If anyone recognizes this, and can provide a #link, my #followers and I would be grateful.
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110331/documents/HMKP-116-JU00-20191211-SD408.pdf - "Well, when the president does it … that means that it is not illegal." - the #Nixon that #Trump wants to be.