The best proof so far that Trump is a budding authoritarian is the fact the numerous 'elites', from college faculty to news executives, to congresspeople (even from the other party) are bowing to him due to fear.  The quelling of dissent is an essential aspect of an authoritarian government. 

Does Elon Musk Actually Know What a ‘Ponzi Scheme’ Is?

  From CNBC:

Social Security has never missed a benefit payment since the program first began   sending individuals monthly benefits   more than eight decades ago. But the recent actions at the U.S. Social Security Administration by   Elon Musk ’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are putting monthly benefit checks for more than   72.5 million Americans   at risk, former commissioner and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley told CNBC.com. “Ultimately, you’re going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits,” O’Malley said. “I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days.” Ahead of any interruption in benefits, “people should start saving now,” O’Malley said.

Eighty years, and not a single missed payment. Now that’s what I call an efficient government service. If I were running a fake Cabinet operation that allegedly dealt with government efficiency—and, I mean, it’s right there in the fake Cabinet organization’s name—I would point to Social Security as the   beau ideal   of a government program. Not one missed payment. Ever. Praised be FDR and blessed be his name.

Elon Musk has decided the whole system is “a Ponzi scheme.” This, again, is an old conservative talking point that heretofore has been considered largely debunked by the eight decades of success of the program.  

The second chart doesn't surprise me at all, [deleted][✘]

no biotch, this is abhorent

"President Trump was saved by God to SAVE AMERICA! Let’s continue to PRAY for him"

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RICK WILSON: It’s insane what the what their standard is now. I t’s like you’ve got to be with the full program of arson and destruction of of everything that can help any American or you’re not a faithful Trump supporter. 

JIM ACOSTA: And then Alina Habba was over at the white House the other day and she said, well, maybe some of these veterans aren’t fit for work or aren’t fit for a job, and I’m thinking to myself–

RICK WILSON: And I was just like, as I probably said at the time or two of my life. Alina Habba can go fuck herself!

‘Alina Habba Can Go F**k Herself!’ Never-Trump Rick Wilson Slams Trump Lawyer Over ‘Outrageous’ Rant

Trump wants to redraw the US - Canadian border. 

...On those calls, President Trump laid out a long list of grievances he had with the trade relationship between the two countries, including Canada’s protected dairy sector, the difficulty American banks face in doing business in Canada and Canadian consumption taxes that Mr. Trump deems unfair because they make American goods more expensive.

He also brought up something much more fundamental.

He told Mr. Trudeau that he did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid and that he wants to revise the boundary. He offered no further explanation.

Trump Reportedly Told Trudeau He Wanted to ‘Revise’ U.S.-Canada Border – ‘Tear Up’ Treaty on Sharing Great Lakes

What's the point you trying to get at?

If it is that Trump and his crew are nuts and bad for the country (probably for the world), you are too late that point has already been amply demonstrated.

Pretty gross, but a nice answer to Trump's insane Trump Gaza video

Pretty gross, but a nice answer to Trump's insane Trump Gaza video

That is digusting! So crude, in such bad taste!

(Yes-- I'm going to email it to all my friends!)

Pretty gross, but a nice answer to Trump's insane Trump Gaza video

That is digusting! So crude, in such bad taste! (Yes-- I'm going to email it to all my friends!)

Trump wants to extend citizenship to "any farmer" from South Africa, but experts say he likely can't

President   Donald Trump   announced a proposal to extend citizenship to white   South African   farmers on Friday, citing what he claims is mistreatment at the hands of their government.

“Any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety, will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship. This process will begin immediately!” Trump wrote   in a post   to Truth Social.

But legal experts say Trump alone has no ability to extend citizenship to favored groups.

“This administration has become fixated on using executive orders to try to replace the function of Congress,” Rosanna Berardi, managing partner of an immigration law firm, said in an interview. “To create any type of visa classification… that falls squarely on the shoulders of Congress.”

to "any farmer" from South Africa,

"Any farmer"...or "any White farmer"?

"Any farmer"...or "any White farmer"?

Exactly. The rightwing white supremacist version of the story is that black South Africans are attacking white farmers. The problem with their story is that there is ZERO evidence that any of the farmer attacks are race based as black farmers were being targeted by these criminal gangs at the same rate as white farmers. But would Trump and these racist douchebags making this offer of welcome to the US and a rapid pathway to Citizenship to any black South African farmer? And why are the farmers being targeted and attacked by gangs in South Africa more important to us in America than the farmers in South America being targeted and attacked by gangs? Oh yeah, that's right, our government is now being run by a bigoted white supremacist and son of a man who was at the very least KKK adjacent if not a full-blown member who was actively discriminating against black Americans in his real estate businesses for decades. And the worst part is, he's being supported and empowered by a bunch of disgusting white supremacist thugs who think they're God's gift to this planet and thus can shit on everything and everyone who doesn't look like them, pray like them, love like them or kneel before their fat greasy orange God like they do. Of course, when such disgusting mentally impotent white supremacists hear about the plight of some other white racists on the other side of the planet, they can't help but feel a connection and deep empathy and want to help save those they see as fellow white racists.

rightwing white supremacist version of the story is that black South Africans are attacking white farme

they 100% are. But the objection is not only are left wing parties openly celebrating and promoting genocide but the government just passed a race based land  expropriation act to take land from white farmers.   Those sort of racist, apertheid era laws are of course, wildly popular with left wing racists  all over the world.

I believe that if it were allowed here, leftists would take advantage of it in a minute. 

Reparations are a minor form of this. 

If They’ll support  race based criminal punishment where the minorities are punished less than whites for the same crime, they’ll support pretty much any racist system 

"Any farmer"...or "any White farmer"?

It's specifically aimed at farmers who are about to have their land seized under the new South African law... which only targets white farmers... so yes, the will be white.

For the record, and without any comment on whether it's a good idea or not, what he wants to offer is "an accelerated pathway to citizenship", not just an automatic US passport.

And why are the farmers being targeted and attacked by gangs in South Africa more important to us in America than the farmers in South America being targeted and attacked by gangs?

The South American farmers are not having their land seized through a new racist law.

left wing parties openly celebrating and promoting genocide but the government just passed a race based land  expropriation act to take land from white farmers

This is false. Please do provide actual evidence of this, not some opinion from some rightwing media bullshit artist or the white supremacists that regularly frequent their airwaves.

The government has denied Trump’s allegations that it will target land owned by farmers from South Africa’s white minority Afrikaner group, who are descended from Dutch and other European colonial settlers who first came to the country more than 300 years ago.

The South African land law that prompted a Trump executive order is being challenged in court | AP News

Spokesperson for South Africa's Department of International Affairs Chrispin Phiri said it was false that the act enabled "land seizure or confiscation".

"This misrepresentation fuels unwarranted fears ... that white South Africans ... are being targeted," he said.

The expanses of white-owned land in Free State province, dotted with tiny Black settlements like Fateng, illustrate why proponents deem the act necessary.

Fateng's local councillor, Malefetsani Mokoena, 51, spends his days mediating disputes between landowners and Black rural folk who live among them. Tall and wiry, he is usually decked out in the red uniform of his party, the   Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) , which wants to nationalise the country's gold and platinum mines and seize land from white farmers.

"Sometimes the white farmers don't trust me," he told Reuters in the township's three-room brick municipal office. "But when we sit down and negotiate, we can work things out."

One white farmer interviewed by Reuters, Danie Bruwer, confirmed that he and Mokoena were on good terms.

If a farmer has a sheep stolen, Mokoena finds the thief to get it back. A Black herder has his cows impounded for trespassing on white-owned land; Mokoena negotiates their release.

And, as with the 15 other farms in his caseload, if what Mokoena calls "farm dwellers" - squatters, legally speaking - face eviction or restrictions on their rights to graze animals, he finds them legal representation.

The mostly white-owned farms around here are among the nearly 26 million hectares - about three quarters of privately-owned land - still in  the hands of whites , who make up 8% of the population. Only 4% of privately-held land is owned by Blacks who are nearly 80% of South Africa's 60-million population.

The stark divide that South Africa's land act seeks to bridge | Reuters

ease do provide actual evidence of this,

Feel free to google Julian Halama, leader of the marxist EFF, and his promise to kill white women. Or Andile Mngxitama, a member of parliament from the third biggest party in the county who did as well

law gives the government the right to negotiate with farmers, no ra

Lol. Here we go. first "it's not happening" 

 THen dishonest framing  "They just get to negotiate"

Then the justifications for why its really necessary and a good thing it happens. 

All on one post. Congrats! usually the progressive cycle takes at  least a week to playout.

The law lets the government expropriate land without compensation.  "I'll take your land for pennies or just take it, your choice" is not negotiation. 

Just when I didn't think I could get any more ashamed of these miserable pissant progressives, they find an even more racist policy to support and defend.  There's really no limit to what left wing racists won't excuse.  

Feel free to google Julian Halama, leader of the marxist EFF,

"Your search - Julian Halama south africa eff - did not match any documents."

I'm sure you meant Julias Malema but your post makes it clear you don't really understand anything about the politics and history in South Africa and are just a reactionary that gets all bent out of shape when you hear about your fellow white people potentially being treated unfairly somewhere. I see you also don't give a fuck about any other races or ethnicities being treated unfairly or you might have mentioned the history of white on black violence that has plagued South Africa for generations. Very telling how the plight of the 8% who own 96% of the farmland but who happen to share a person's skin color are so much more important to some than the plight of the 92% with a different skin color who share 4% of the farmland. So brave of you to stand up and demand justice and fairness now when apparently you remained silent all those years that the white government abused, murdered, imprisoned any who challenged their racist rule while they stole all that farmland in the first place. Where were your demands for justice and fairness then? Or do they only apply if your skin is light enough?

These days, there are a lot of extremely alarming headlines featuring   Donald Trump . At first glance, “Trump’s Own Declaration of Independence” doesn’t seem like one of them.   The   Atlantic   headline   published on Thursday night sounds like a metaphor that could refer to anything from Trump’s attempt to   distance himself   from alleged co-president   Elon Musk   to Canada-related tensions with   King Charles III .

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As it turns out, it’s a story about Trump trying to seize the   literal   Declaration of Independence because it would look cool in his office.

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Trump “asked advisers in recent days about moving the Declaration of Independence into the Oval Office, according to people familiar with the conversations who requested anonymity to describe the planning,” Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer report.

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It seems even sycophantic Trump staffers were dismayed by his desire to remove the original copy of America’s founding document from   public view   — just so it could be displayed alongside his   Diet Coke button   and   framed mug shot   in the Oval Office:

Trump Tries to Pull a Nicolas Cage, Steal the Declaration of Independence