"You don’t need a PhD in Economics to understand that when an economy is slowing, cutting federal spending, causing massive layoffs and increasing taxes by way of tariffs are a recipe for financial disaster. ...

Trump just updated Marie Antoinette’s infamous line 'Let them eat Cake' when told that her subjects could not afford bread to, 'Let them drive Teslas.'”

#Musk #Trump #economy #stagflation #recession #StockMarket #billionaires #tariffs #firings #workers #FederalGovernment #Tesla
/17

"With Trump we are facing even more potential economic pain because Trump is combining tariffs-which are a tax on consumers—with massive cuts to federal spending and layoffs in the area of 20% of the federal workforce."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Musk #Trump #economy #stagflation #recession #StockMarket #billionaires #tariffs #firings #workers #FederalGovernment
/16

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trumps-response-to-causing-a-recession

"Sources also tell WIRED that Musk has wanted a government shutdown—an aim that runs contrary to the White House’s stated desire to avoid one—in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers, essentially achieving a permanent shutdown."

~ Jake Lahut, Leah Feiger, Vittoria Elliott

#Musk #Trump #economy #stagflation #recession #Tesla #shutdown #firings #workers #FederalGovernment
/11

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-has-wanted-the-government-shut-down/

"The truth is that [DEI's] a smokescreen to justify efforts to undo decades of civil rights progress.

I have a PhD in US history with a specific focus on race, religion, and social movements. I’ve studied the origins of racism and white supremacy, and one clear pattern emerges: for every gesture toward racial progress there is a swift and angry backlash – or ;whitelash.'”

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #chaos #destruction #authoritarianism #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #DEI #racism
/6

"In late January, a tragic mid-air collision between an American Airlines flight and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter over Washington, D.C. killed 67 people.

Who knew it would turn into a debate on diversity? …

DEI has become a boogeyman in the federal government, often blamed for every ill."

~ Jemar Tisby

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #chaos #destruction #authoritarianism #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #DEI #racism
/5

https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/dei-an-explainer

"But under Trump, opportunistically seizing on the psychological wound of exactly one Black president, that coded language has increasingly echoed authoritarians who have moved their population in horrific atrocities against their neighbors, both within and outside our borders. This propaganda is so effective that most people don’t even realize they’re swimming it."

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #chaos #destruction #authoritarianism #FederalGovernment #workers #firings
/4

“'It' is happening and we’re letting it. If we’re going to change it, we at least need to understand why and how 'it' is happening here.

The American soul has been tenderized for decades by a right-wing propaganda machine that used coded language to turn workers against workers and undermine the progress of the New Deal and the Civil Rights Movement."

~ Jason Sattler

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #chaos #destruction #authoritarianism #FederalGovernment #workers #firings
/3

https://thecause.substack.com/p/why-america-is-on-the-verge-of-mass

Tim Campbell comments on the economic effects of Trump's tariffs

#Musk #Trump #economy #tariffs #recession #workers #firings #inflation
/16

https://www.bocaratontribune.com/bocaratonnews/2025/03/tariffs/

"The current State of the Union boils down to two words.

Donald Trump, the President of the United States who is also Predator in Chief."

~ Wendell Griffen

#Musk #Trump #economy #tariffs #recession #workers #firings #inflation #corruption #grift
/15

https://wendellgriffen.substack.com/p/the-state-of-the-union-in-two-or

"That is at the heart of Trump’s war on his own followers: They cheer for him, but they depend on the government programs liberals built and liberals sustain. If sacrificing their wellbeing (or in some cases their very lives) is what it takes to destroy the government’s ability to serve the citizenry, that’s exactly what Trump, Musk, and Republicans will do."

~ Paul Waldman

#Musk #Trump #economy #tariffs #recession #workers #firings #inflation
/14

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trump-goes-to-war-against-his-own

Noah Berlatsky comments on Trump's pump and dump crypto scheme:

"If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in an authoritarian kleptocracy, this is it."

#Musk #Trump #economy #tariffs #recession #workers #firings #inflation #crypto #corruption #grift
/13

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-crypto-reserve-grifting-corruption

"I thought that consumer confidence would stay high for a few months just because Republicans... what Republicans, what we've seen from the data, are they cheer if a Republican is president and they boo if a Democrat is president, almost independent of the economic situation."

#Musk #Trump #economy #tariffs #recession #workers #firings #inflation
/12

"So while some of this stuff has been postponed for another month, so you have the inflationary impact of tariffs and there is an inflationary impact even of anticipated tariffs as companies stockpile and start to raise prices to get ahead of things. At the same time, you have the uncertainty weighing on business, weighing on consumers. I'm actually shocked."

#Musk #Trump #economy #tariffs #recession #workers #firings #inflation
/11

"And by the way, tariffs on steel and aluminum have gone in. One thing I learned, I had a conversation, which will appear on my own Substack in a couple of days, with Mary Lovely at the Peterson Institute, and they're applying the steel and aluminum tariffs to basically anything. made of steel and aluminum or the containers. So lawn furniture is suddenly jumping in price and those tariffs have happened."

#Musk #Trump #economy #tariffs #recession #workers #firings #inflation
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