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lees1975

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Tue Jun 3, 2025, 12:00 AM Jun 3

Has resistance to Trump reached some kind of stand off? [View all]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/have-we-reached-standoff-in-resistance.html

Well, Elon Musk is gone. I'm not going to pretend to have the expertise to evaluate that particular piece of what is happening in Washington, but it seems that this is a major defeat for the Trump administration fairly early on in this term. There are still incompetent, inexperienced Trump sycophants running everything else in Washington, and it is still the worst mess our government has ever been in, at any point in its history, but one of the sycophants got kicked in the teeth by a big whallop of public pressure, so he decided to grab what government contracts and business he's gained from his three months in Washington and skedaddle.

So the public pressure worked.


Let's also take note of the fact that this is an action that did not originate, nor was it facilitated and helped out, from within the beltway. This first major defeat of Trumpism was brought about by we, the people, who have built an organizational structure outside of the approved channels of partisan politics, and acted on our disapproval of the individual's job performance, and what his job stands for, by attacking his business interests in a way that tanked sales and caused profits to evaporate.

And there wasn't anything unfair about it.
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