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April 30, 2025, will mark the passing of the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term. This benchmark refers to the 100 days between Napoleon Bonaparte’s return to France from Elba Island to his final defeat at Waterloo. It also refers to the flurry of legislation Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed just after he took office in 1934. (more…)
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Something unprecedented occurred on March 14th. A reporter shoved a boom microphone into the face of the President of the United States. This occurred while Donald Trump was addressing the press on the tarmac of Join Base Andrews military base in Maryland. Another weird incident occurring in our exceedingly weird times. (more…)
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What the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has uncovered thus far is a resounding indictment of the federal government and neoliberalism. But it is an even greater indictment of the establishment GOP. If they weren’t in on it, they were either too scared, stupid, clueless, or incompetent to even ask meaningful questions about how our money was being spent. (more…)
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The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
-Enoch Powell
No matter how closely he or she approximates the Majority racial and cultural norm, the newcomer, as opposed to the latecomer, almost always retains some traces of minority consciousness – a consciousness which he often manages to pass on to his children and sometimes, depending on its intensity, to his grandchildren.
-Wilmot Robertson (more…)
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Perhaps it is better that doge became its own word, with its own implications, inferences and cultural meanings to parse.
-Charlie Allison, Venetian Concepts of Power in the Office of the Doge
When Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was still in its formative stages, before the re-election of Donald Trump, I wrote the following here at Counter Currents: (more…)