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#loyalty

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Ecologia Digital

"You have to understand that everything #Trump is doing is in service of #stayinginpowerforever. He is trying to destroy our #democracy.
That's why he is going #lawfirm by lawfirm, #university by university, to try to bully them into pledging #loyalty to him.
The #tariffs are going to be used to do the same thing to #privateindustry."
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy
#handsoff

youtube.com/shorts/Vib5FVWBW2U

YouTubeConnecticut Senator Chris Murphy didn’t hold back on Trump’s tariffsBy The Southern African Times
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RememberUsAlways

#Biden got Jimmy Cartered.
The lesson? #loyalty
Low voter turnout in a depressed electorate proves to be beneficial to the wealthy and chaotic minority of Americans.
#election2026
#2026election
Don't jump ship when it's sailing into the harbor. #Democratic party depressed it's crew and lost the race.
Lessons learned? Not likely.
"#Biden aides argued dropping out would bring ‘mistake’ of #Harris, book claims."
theguardian.com/books/2025/mar

The Guardian · Biden aides argued dropping out would bring ‘mistake’ of Harris, book claimsBy Martin Pengelly
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Ms. Que Banh

Please take some time to send a strong message about how invading our home was WRONG.
After I repeatedly told them everyone coming in MUST mask up because Dad had zero immunity & me & Mom are immunological compromised. My Dad was dying & that fucker chose to use ego/power of authority to abuse & traumatize my entire family. My Dad died with cops as one of his last living memories. I won't EVER forgive anyone who let that happen. My Dad had police traumas stemming back to his young adult years as a political university student activist in Saigon. He faced many brutal & violent police inflicted tortures. He still refused to stop fighting for what is right.

Reference date: June 8, 2023.

I take after my Dad. I will continue to fight for him & our family, even if people stop supporting us.

#Family#Loyalty#Justice
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Nonilex

“…It pains me to see these fine people being treated so unfairly &, for the first time in my career, to see dedicated, #apolitical #military professionals being removed w/o cause. I am worried about political #loyalty becoming a criterion…. For now, I have confidence that our professional military has nurtured dozens of highly qualified senior officers capable of holding positions of trust & responsibility,…who can provide leadership…& offer sound military advice to our civilian leaders.”

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Nonilex

An eerily reminiscent scene played out late last year at Mar-a-Lago, #Trump’s Winter Palace, where #StephenMiller, one of Trump’s #loyalty enforcers, met w/ #Meta’s CEO, #MarkZuckerberg. The weather was more pleasant, & presumably neither party contemplated defenestration as a settlement alternative, but many other details seemed to echo. “Mr. Miller told Mr. Zuckerberg that he had an opportunity to help reform America, but it would be on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s terms,” NYT reported.

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Chuck Darwin

Trump’s expectation of #total #loyalty has crept from the White House and seeped into another branch of government.

That common denominator carried more weight than practically any other quality as the forty-seventh president selected dozens of nominees to lead different agencies
-- nearly all of whom had previously lent a hand to Trump in his criminal trials, donated money to his political campaign, or helped build out one of his presidential transition playbooks, such as Project 2025.

They have, in turn, consistently yielded to the president’s demands and expectations throughout their confirmation hearings over the last two weeks.

When asked if he would obey the Impoundment Control Act, Trump’s nominee to run the Office of Management and Budget (and Project 2025 architect) #Russell #Vought claimed that the law was unconstitutional and that he would defer to the Trump administration as to whether his office would act in accordance with the law.

U.S. attorney general nominee (and former Trump attorney) #Pam #Bondi weaseled her way out of answering whether Trump lost the 2020 election.

Trump’s confirmed Treasury Secretary #Scott #Bessent wouldn’t commit to not cutting Medicaid.
(Project 2025, the fiscal year 2025 Republican Study Committee budget plan, and the fiscal year 2025 House budget all propose sweeping cuts to the wildly popular program that provides comprehensive health insurance to some 72 million Americans.)

In October, transition team co-chair #Howard #Lutnick promised that a government equipped with total allegiance to the chief Republican was on its way.

While explaining how Trump’s last administration buckled under the weight of staff turnover due to disagreements in “vision,”
Lutnick said that the new agenda was to
❌eradicate any internal hostility to the Republican’s plans.

“They’re all going to be on the same side, and they’re all going to understand the policies, and we’re going to give people the role based on their capacity
—💥and their fidelity and loyalty to the policy, as well as to the man,” the Wall Street billionaire said at the time.
newrepublic.com/post/190916/do

The New Republic · Senior Republican Warns House Trump Expects Total Loyalty—or ElseHouse Majority Whip Tom Emmer had a grim warning for his colleagues.
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from James Baldwin

It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, or 6, or 7, to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you.

James Baldwin (1924-1987) American novelist, playwright, activist
Speech (1965-02-17), Opening Comments, “The American Dream is at the Expense of the American Negro,” debate with William F. Buckley, Jr., Cambridge University, England

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/baldwin-james/43922/

#quote #quotes #quotation #allegiance #America #AmericanDream #exclusion #flag, #loyalty #meme #racism

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Klaus-Gerd Giesen

3/4 ... with the #RuleOfLaw) in favor of neo- #feudalism in which #loyalty (ideological and material) to the high-tech stato-oligarchic #elite and their political #representatives takes precedence over all other considerations, with the support of #farright political forces which guarantee rents and #protectionism . #Europe, organized around the #idea of political #pluralism and a #market that is both #competitive and #regulated by the state and the #EU , as well as #Japan , risk being... (4/4)

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tuxwise

(20/N) Our second asset classification option:

Intimate

Assets that unfortunately can’t stay FYEO, because under certain circumstances, they need to be accessible to, or controlled by, fully trusted persons or entities. Preferably, these assets are kept publicly undetectable and unknown.

Handling of such assets by others requires a considerable amount of #carefulness, #diligence, and #loyalty that exceeds anything that could be pinned down with enough precision in formal documents. Typically, only significant others, some family members, trustees or close friends are entrusted with handling this class of assets.

For most individuals, this class is most likely the best default. Once you have sorted out which assets are actually not Intimate, but FYEO, consider moving them to a separate spreadsheet that is, in itself, classified as FYEO.

Start of this thread:
mastodon.de/@tuxwise/113503228

MastodonDEtuxwise (@tuxwise@mastodon.de)(1/N) With more challenging times ahead, the #4D​s will become more important, too: ✋ **Defend** your boundaries: know what matters to you, and properly safeguard it – instead of being an alert-driven option tinkerer. 🪪 **Define** yourself: use multiple identities that focus on a single purpose each – instead of having everything you do, have and think linked back directly to you. 👑 **Decide** like a sovereign: get to know your needs, and what meets them best – instead of sacrificing them to the interests of others. 🌐 **Dwell** the space: seek community, practice solidarity and citizenship – instead of being beaten a little later than others, in a glorious bunker. In the future, I'll post a few ideas and suggestions based on the 4Ds. BTW, I have dropped the adjective "#digital" from my vocabulary. There is no more separate "digital sphere" or "cyberspace" that wasn't part of our everyday lives. #privacy #security #anonymity
#ThreatModeling#4D
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beSpacific

#Trump officials to receive immediate clearances, easier [or No] #FBI vetting president-elect’s team planning 4 #background checks 2 occur only after administration takes over bureau - cart before horse - cart blanche - no #skills #SKA required only #loyalty. He will issue edicts giving clearance w/out vetting as he believes he has the power. But he will still order the firing of cleared, subject matter expert civil servants whose skills will not be replicable. Bad times are coming. #government

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