Collapse the economy and then declare a national emergency requiring martial law. Classic move.
Christian nationalists behind the spending shutdown aim to punish everyone, not just imaginary Marxists
Despite claiming to stand for “hardworking American families” — who are typically considered to be a different category of human beings than woke Marxist transgender green-dealers, at least within the Fox Cinematic Universe — this new executive order from Donald Trump’s White House is a loaded shotgun aimed at every American who is not a billionaire hiding out in his apocalypse bunker. Elon Musk and his DOGE buddies may believe that federal grants and loans all go to frog-gender research and DEI knitting circles, but the vast majority of that money goes for banal but necessary investments into people’s everyday lives: infrastructure maintenance and building, federal loan programs for mortgages and small businesses, food assistance, student loans, disaster relief and school programs like Head Start, to name a few. Oh yeah, and federal health care programs like Medicaid and CHIP, which cover nearly a quarter of all Americans.
By way of Salon