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@TimMaddog
I am absolutly with you. Don‘t get me wrong. The problem is neither the #senate nor the #house/#congress… it‘s the wonna-be #king of the #usa who thinks that he can do whatever he pleases. THAT makes the world such an unsafe place right now… #Trump litterally drives the #world into #war. Normally, #POTUS is the #executiveBranch, only in a major #crisis he can stear with #absolutePower… so he declares everything as a crisis. He thinks he is above the #law… he even bragued about it.

@Nigel_Purchase

I thought #conservatism WAS about #AbsolutePower.

As #LunchtimeReading gets closer to finishing my #DCComics catch-up, it's time for Absolute Power, by Waid, Mora and Sanchez, as Amanda Waller takes on the entire DC Universe!

#AbsolutePower #WritingCommunity #MastodonBooks

The sweet crude of absolute power flowing through Republican veins into their blackened, traitorous hearts must be intoxicating. Elon agrees.

82. On January 24, 2025, Tom Krause, a tech executive apparently working with or
behalf of DOGE, asked Trump appointee and then-acting Treasury Secretary David A. Lebryk, to
halt certain foreign aid payments through BFS systems because Mr. Musk believed they violated
certain executive orders.25 On information and belief, at the time Mr. Krause made this request, he
was not a Treasury employee but rather was affiliated with DOGE.
83. DOGE was not seeking to stop the payments because they were going to an
improper payee. Rather, DOGE sought to stop the payments for policy reasons.26
84. Mr. Lebryk stated that he did not believe “we have the legal authority to stop an
authorized payment certified by an agency” and that the less legally risky route would be for the
State Department to stop and evaluate the propriety of the payments.27 Mr. Krause responded by 21
threatening Mr. Lebryk, telling him he could face legal risk himself if he did not comply with
DOGE.
85. Shortly after Scott Bessent was confirmed as Treasury Secretary on January 27,
2025, Mr. Lebryk was placed on administrative leave and ultimately resigned after 30 years of
federal service.28 Beginning February 2, 2025, Secretary Bessent granted DOGE personnel full
access to BFS payment systems, which contain sensitive Treasury data, including Social Security
and Medicare customer payment data as well as Plaintiff States’ bank account and related financial
information.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277463/gov.uscourts.dcd.277463.2.0.pdf

#coup #Republicans #Musk #Elon #ElonMusk #DOGE #AbsolutePower #Treasury #Law #Lawsuit

A quotation from John Adams

The fundamental Article of my political Creed is, that Despotism, or unlimited Sovereignty, or absolute Power is the Same in a Majority of a popular Assembly, an Aristocratical Counsel, an Oligarchical Junto and a Single Emperor. Equally arbitrary cruel bloody and in every respect, diabolical.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1815-11-13) to Thomas Jefferson

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/1455/

#quote #quotes #quotation #absolutepower #aristocracy #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #evil #government #monarchy #oligarchy #tyranny #tyrannyofthemajority

#AbsolutePower #Fascism

photo of Evil oligarchs at inaugeration with caption "Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

Thoughts for today: Jamuary 20, 2025

While my political views are for the most part completely opposite of the late Senator Barry Goldwater, I do find many quotes attributed to him both insightful and thought provoking. The quote below seems especially thought provoking for today:

“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Fellow Republicans, it is the cause of Republicanism to resist concentrations of power, private or public, which enforce such conformity and inflict such despotism. It is the cause of Republicanism to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people. ”
― Barry Goldwater

#USPolitics #AbsolutePower #Despotism #FreePress #HumanRights

Reference: Good Reads - https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/369997.Barry_M_Goldwater

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3582 - Weekly Comics for October 2024 and Recaps, Reviews - CBS 2412.08. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-3582-weekly.html #ComicBookSunday #MarvelComics #ReadingComics #dccomics #AbsolutePower #IronMan #SpiderMan #Wolverine #JonnyQuest #Daredevil #ComicJoy

Stop! Let's Team-Up! Episode 114 -- What I Am Reading This Thanksgiving http://stopletsteamup.libsyn.com/stop-lets-team-up-episode-114-what-i-am-reading-this-thanksgiving

#comicbooks #superhero #supernatural #DCComic #MarvelComics #ImageComics #DarkhorseComics #OniPress #GhostMachine #DCAllIn #AbsolutePower #Avengers #JSA

Finished #AbsolutePower perfect ending #Nightwing leading the charge and #Airwaves has pivotal role in the victory over #AmandaWaller #DCAllIn great start to this initiative #DCComic