Just like in #Russia, #US business leaders are now made to give public apologies to the #Czar in order to prevent losing their companies, freedom or life.
#Czar
"The title ' #weaponization #czar" reminds us that much of happening in the #UnitedStates under #Trump happened first in the home of the czars." snyder.substack.com/p/the-weapon...
The Weaponization Czar
For quite some time, certain people in the U.S. have been 'czars', like Homan being referred to as the U.S. border 'czar'. It's always bothered me that we have adopted this Russian word, without regard for where it came from or what it means.
From Merriam-Webster:
1
: emperor
specifically : the ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution
2
: one having great power or authority
a banking czar
Am I the only one bothered by this?
Today in Labor History March 13, 1881: Nikolai Rysakov, a member of Narodnaya Volya (“People’s Will”), a revolutionary socialist organization, tried to assassinate Czar Alexander II of Russia. His bomb failed to penetrate the czar’s bullet-proof carriage. However, another Naradnaya Volya member, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, managed to throw his bomb at the Czar’s feet, blowing off his legs and ripping open his stomach. He later died from his wounds. A third member of the organization was ready with yet another bomb, just in case the first two failed.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #russia #czar #socialism #revolution #assassination #bomb
Trump’s
" #Censorship #Czar " investigates NPR and PBS,
and urges Congress to defund them
Federal Communications Commission Chairman #Brendan #Carr has ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Trump’s FCC chair investigates...
The question isn’t if China will turn on Russia, but when
Putin’s war on #Ukraine blinds him to Russia’s real threat: a hungry #China waiting in the wings.
Like #Czar Nicholas II, #Russian President Vladimir #Putin has misidentified his primary foe. Fighting a #war of choice, he allows the real menace to his country to gather strength. China, not Ukraine, constitutes Russia’s existential threat
https://kyivindependent.com/the-question-isnt-if-china-will-turn-on-russia-but-when/
To the nativists, this may be a betrayal in policy terms.
But for the broader Trumpian approach to politics,
-- blaming Americans instead of scapegoating immigrants gives away the whole game.
Look at JD #Vance:
he catapulted himself to fame in 2016 through Hillbilly Elegy,
-- where he wrote the following about the white working class in rural Ohio:
“What goes on in the lives of real people when the industrial economy goes south is about reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible.
It’s about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it.”
Vance has dropped that line of argument in recent years
and replaced it with attacking immigrants,
-- like those in Springfield, Ohio.
💥It’s a reflection of Trump’s entire project from day one:
he sells a world in which the country’s (and your) problems are the fault of immigrants,
the “enemy within”
— whoever.
🔥The tech oligarch position on this dramatically undermines that in a rhetorical sense,
and reveals the extent to which they are out of step with the people whose votes they just harvested.
(2/2)
Who Got Duped?
-- MAGA Activists Worry That Nativism And Tech Oligarchy May Not Go Hand In Hand
Over the past few days, a fight has erupted within the MAGA right over legal immigration, specifically about ➡️whether the country should admit more high-skilled immigrants.
On the one side, you have opportunistic tech oligarchs like Elon #Musk and David #Sacks.
These are incredibly wealthy figures who are open about using their newfound influence in government to serve both their ideological and their private business interests.
On the other are figures like Laura #Loomer, Nick #Fuentes, and other nativist
(and often openly racist) online personalities who had been vocal Trump supporters long before the Silicon Valley right joined the coalition.
The two sides began to argue on Sunday, after Donald Trump appointed #Sriram #Krishan,
a partner at Andreesen Horowitz,
👉White House policy adviser on Artificial Intelligence
to work with Sacks, the Trump administration’s #crypto and #AI #czar.
This may seem like a relatively minor White House appointment.
However, Krishan has also been a proponent of 💥removing country caps on green cards and H1-B visas,
-- which allow American companies to hire foreign workers for certain specializations.
To the far-right, nativist influencers that have from the start glommed onto Trumpian scapegoating of immigrants,
Krishan’s position crossed a line.
Loomer, an anti-immigrant provocateur who traveled with Trump during his campaign, called it
“deeply disturbing.”
Sacks replied, perhaps not fully understanding his audience,
by noting that Indian immigrants face an 11-year wait for green cards.
This was catnip for Loomer,
who replied by suggesting that Sacks was in on a new version of the great replacement theory,
and spent the next several days making vile statements about immigrants,
accusing those who disagree with her on H1-B visas of hating Americans,
and demanding that senior Trump officials denounce their Silicon Valley allies.
Sacks, whose recent political positions have included strident opposition to American support for Ukraine, denounced the “crude” attacks.
Soon, other Trump-involved tech oligarchs,
like Elon #Musk and Vivek #Ramaswamy, jumped into the fray.
Musk wrote that “the number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low.
Think of this like a pro sports team:
if you want your TEAM to win the championship,
you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be.
That enables the whole TEAM to win.”
Ramaswamy swooped in on Thursday to explain his view that American companies were forced to hire foreign skilled labor due to a deficit in homegrown American culture itself.
“A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ,
or the jock over the valedictorian,
will not produce the best engineers,” Ramaswamy wrote,
adding later:
“More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers.”
As you might imagine, MAGA nativists of various stripes regard this Silicon Valley defense of skilled immigration with a paranoid and often racist eye.
#Fuentes, the groyper leader, described Ramaswamy’s position as an attempt to get
“500 million indians to move here.”
Others reacted to Ramaswamy’s premise that there may be something wrong with America.
Jeremy #Carl, a senior fellow at the nativist Claremont Institute,
pushed back in a gentler fashion while still suggesting that Ramaswamy’s vision would “destroy the things that actually make America great.”
In a very obvious and over-the-top way,
this imbroglio illuminates a real divide among the most vocal members of Trump’s coalition:
-- tech oligarchs who want foreign labor for their businesses,
-- and nativists who take Trump’s rhetoric on immigration very seriously and who in many cases want to apply it to nonwhite immigrants.
But there’s another thing that’s taking place here on a deeper level.
Ramaswamy explicitly (and Musk implicitly) laid their supposed inability to find engineering talent at the feet of American culture.
Ramaswamy was very blunt about this,
calling for “fewer Saturday morning cartoons.”
Musk complained that the number of
“super talented” and “super motivated” engineers in the U.S. is “far too low.”
Downloaded the Cold Waves I & III sets from https://soundcloud.com/coldwavessoundcheck , trimmed off the announcements from the beginning and ends of each episode, and added them to my music library.
#music #ColdWaves #RevoltingCocks #Front242 #Cocksure #TheDamageManual #IronLungCorp #Czar #Chemlab #Cyanotic #Caustic #AuthorAndPunisher
I wonder if #Deportation #Czar #TomHoman will be Going Door 🚪to Door, January 22nd, Looking 👀 For #AnchorBabies ⚓️
😤 Even though #DonOLD Was a citizen, & it would never Happen to His #Immigrant Family
Who have been the #WORST Example for what the #MAGACultMorons would call #ChainMigration
🤔 it’s Odd, How that’s the term when it happens to be Humans who Came in the Past, from the #SouthernBorder as their #PointOfEntry
#PeepingTom should start at #TrumpTower & #CONaLago (Mar-a-lago)
Trump border chief threatens jail for Denver mayor amid deportation dispute
#Tom #Homan, Donald Trump’s hardline incoming #border #czar, has threatened to put the mayor of #Denver in jail
after the latter said he was willing to risk incarceration to resist the president-elect’s migrant mass deportation plan.
The threat was issued against #Mike #Johnston, a Democrat, who said he was not afraid of being jailed and encouraged people to protest against mass round-ups of immigrants in their cities and communities.
Johnston’s remarks came after Trump focused during the presidential election campaign on the Denver suburb of #Aurora, which he said had become “a war zone” where apartment buildings had been taken over by Venezuelan gang members.
Asked to respond by Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Homan said: “Me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing;
he’s willing to go to jail. I’m willing to put him in jail.”
Johnston had originally been asked by a local Denver television station to respond to Homan’s previous vows to arrest local leaders and politicians who stood in the way of deportation efforts.
He said he was not willing to go to jail, though he is “not afraid of that” in a Friday interview with 9 News.
“I think the goal is we want to be able to negotiate with reasonable people how to solve hard problems,” he told the outlet.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/26/trump-tom-homan-border-denver?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
There are reports going round that #Trump is considering a #crypto #czar role.
https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/donald-trump-could-create-first-crypto-czar/
RaiNews by undefined
Homan: "Come deportare senza dividere le famiglie? Deportare l'intera famiglia"
Donald Trump nomina il falco Tom Homan "Zar dei confini"
Translated:
Human: "How to deport without dividing families? Deport the whole family."
Donald Trump nominated Tom Homan "Border Czar".
#DonaldTrump #TomHoman #border #czar
https://www.rainews.it/video/2024/11/homan-come-deportare-senza-dividere-le-famiglie-deportare-lintera-famiglia-681cfcb2-929c-4b4b-98a7-5f0206eabb00.html
Today's poem:
#poetry #SandraMGilbert #StPetersburg #Russia #mosquito #czar #pests
Corriere.it - Homepage by di Federico Fubini
Quei sei militari nordcoreani uccisi in un raid contro i russi nel Donbass: Putin e la legione straniera
Il patto tra il presidente russo e Kim Jong-un. Lo zar recluta anche con la forza
Translated:
"A number of North Korean soldiers were killed in a raid against Russians in the Donbas: Putin and the foreign legion."
The pact between the Russian president and Kim Jong-un. The czar also recruits by force.
#Russia #KimJongun #NorthKorean #Ukraine #Putin #President #czar #NorthKorea #Russians
https://www.corriere.it/esteri/24_ottobre_06/guerra-ucraina-nordcoreani-putin-legione-straniera-df49d9d7-4bd3-4ea2-8a52-a68fc20aexlk.shtml
post of the month: https://x.com/KevinRothrock/status/1835886106380005600
#ElonMusk #Tesla #Tsar #Czar #Russia #Putin #VladímirPutin #Elon #Twitter #X #Birdapp
The word #czar comes from the first Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, which became #kaiser in German, which is closer to how it was pronounced in Latin.
What do words even mean, amirite
#language #etymology #government
https://press.coop/@nytimes/113129481699662397
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