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Vignettes from The Trump Dictatorship
16 October 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
1. PENTAGON JOURNO REBELLION
Dateline: 15 October 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, [“including to a restriction that they not report on any news — even if unclassified — without official approval”]. pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power. The nation’s leadership called the new rules “common sense” to help regulate a “very disruptive” press.
News outlets were nearly unanimous in rejecting new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that would leave journalists vulnerable to expulsion if they sought to report on information — classified or otherwise — that had not been approved by Hegseth for release.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/journalists-turn-access-badges-exit-202714163.html
Jounalists leaving the Pentagon: We’ll see how long their proud gesture will last. Their employers might not be so eady to defy the Emperor.
https://archive.ph/PN4jN
“Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules”
Many of the reporters waited to leave together at a 4 p.m. deadline set by the Defense Department to get out of the building. As the hour approached, boxes of documents lined a Pentagon corridor and reporters carried chairs, a copying machine, books and old photos to the parking lot from suddenly abandoned workspaces. Shortly after 4, about 40 to 50 journalists left together after handing in badges. …
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Trump backed his defence secretary’s new rules. “I think he finds the press to be very disruptive in terms of world peace,” Trump said. “The press is very dishonest.”
| Editor’s Comment: The mainstream media has acted so disgracefully and dishonourably for so long, up to this day being little more than “stenographers to power”, with legacy journos always putting their careers and comfort ahead of principles or their duty to inform the public comprehensively and truthfully, (such betrayal enforced in any case by media barons bent on imposing the official capitalist/imperialist narrative), that Trump’s contempt for their act of defiance will find few sympathisers among the general public. All of this is inevitable in a capitalist regime where the media are big businesses owned by the dominant oligarchs, instead of publicly-supported independent centres of information. |
2. YOUNG REPUBLICANS EXPOSE THEIR NAZI TEMPERAMENT
“The Young Republicans’ Leaked Chat Is a Sign of Where We Could Be Headed”
YOUNG GOP JERKS
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/16/young-republicans-group-chat-online-culture-00611491 |||. https://archive.ph/IWnMx
“The Young Republicans’ Leaked ChatIs a Sign of Where We Could Be Headed” Dateline: 16 October 2025 [my hat-tip to Paul Billings for this]
On Tuesday, POLITICO published a series of racist and antisemitic messages from a group chat filled with Young Republicans leaders. They included references to putting their opponents in gas chambers and raping them. They called Black people monkeys and “the watermelon people.” One message stated simply, “I love Hitler.” …
As offensive as many of the messages were, the language and shock-value humour in them has become commonplace in many of the online communities that young, far-right people frequent. The so-called “edgelords” that populate these spaces are often just a vocal minority on the right. Insofar as they have a coherent political ideology, it’s often about saying whatever is the most shocking to impress their online friends. Still, they significantly shape the message boards, YouTube channels and corners of X they belong to, making them hotspots for racial slurs and offensive jokes. “That group chat was tame,” wrote Andrew Torba, the CEO of the far-right social network Gab, on X. “They have no idea what’s coming.”
As the leaked Young Republicans chat reveals, the hateful, troll-like way in which these people communicate has also found its way into the mainstream GOP. It’s a trend that could become more visible as a generation of chronically online young people on the right age into higher positions of power and are embraced by the party. Already, while a number of elected Republicans swiftly condemned the contents of the leaked group chat, some high-profile figures like Vice President JD Vance have downplayed concerns about it.
Vance posted a screenshot of a text invoking violence from Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for state attorney general in Virginia: “This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat,” Vance wrote on X.
The following day, Vance brushed off the texts during an appearance on “The Charlie Kirk Show, saying, “The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys.” Multiple members of the group chat are in their late 20s and early 30s. Others, though, found the group chats emblematic of larger trends among young people on the right. “This is kind of the next generation of conservative elites,” says Richard Hanania, a political scientist and writer who had been a part of these far-right circles in the past and now disavows the beliefs he held at the time. “If there’s an intellectual core to [these people], it’s basically white ethnonationalism: hard on immigration, just very anti-left.”
It’s not hard to see the parallels between the rhetoric in the leaked group chat and hard-right online spaces. Replies to another Torba post from August include “Adolf Hitler was legitimately a moderate,” and “my Zoomerwaffen will not show mercy” — a reference to the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the Nazis’ paramilitary organisation and an insistence that Gen Z is much more radically right than older conservatives. Many in these far-right online spaces refer to Gen Z as “Generation Zyklon,” a reference to Zyklon B, the pesticide Nazis used to murder people in gas chambers. A fancam praising the messages posted to X, with videos of Nazi parades set to Kanye West (Ye)’s song “Heil Hitler,” has over 7,000 likes and 80,000 views on the platform.
The desire to test boundaries explains why conversations can turn so offensive in anonymous or private spaces, such as in the Young Republicans group chat, according to Jamie Cohen, an associate professor at CUNY Queens College who studies internet culture. People in these far-right spaces, Cohen says, are driven by “an odd belief [about] freedom and the existential threat of losing that freedom” because they believe their freedom of speech has been oppressed by those on the left. “It’s very similar to the way a racist will drop dog-whistles, hoping for permission to continue,” he continues. “They’re trying to see what the upper limit of edgelord is. So what they’re doing is testing each other to see where the limit or the line is. They have their own Overton window.”
Jeremiah Johnson, author of the substack Infinite Scroll, where he writes about the politics of posting and the social internet, guesses that many of the participants in the leaked group chat or similar ones online are not ultra-committed to Nazi ideology. Rather, he says, they are practicing tests of loyalty — seeing how members of their group react to increasingly offensive statements.
“What’s happening is tribalism, where the single most important thing is the group,” Johnson, who is also co-founder of the center-left think tank Center for New Liberalism, says. “And how do you enforce loyalty to the group? … It’s all about testing, and it’s a form of what I call vice-signaling. Liberals virtue-signal. But what conservatives do is they vice-signal.” With their radical language, members of the group are trying to sniff out any rats. The line between online and IRL is thin, particularly for young people, and what begins in far-right corners of the internet seeps into right-leaning spaces offline — even within Republican politics.
Several members of the Young Republicans group chat are in official positions in the party. One works for the Trump administration (some of the members of the chat have been fired from their positions since it leaked). In 2023, a similar incident played out when a staffer for the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign reposted a video of Nazi imagery superimposed over DeSantis’ face (he was fired by the campaign). Government agencies under the Trump administration have also demonstrated their fluency in this kind of radical, online humor and provocation.
The public X accounts of the White House and the Department of Homeland Security are now sharing content that would be at home on groyper message boards — though without explicit Nazi references. In one DHS video posted on X, the agency stitches videos of ICE arrests together with clips from Pokémon, as the cartoon’s theme song, “Gotta catch ‘em all,” plays in the background. The transgressive nature of these kinds of posts is likely the point; it’s supposed to make the poster’s enemies mad and push the boundaries of acceptable discourse.
READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE HERE
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Oct 17, 2025
3. Marc Andreessen Backs Call For Elon Musk To Spearhead $10 Trillion US Re-Industrialization Plan: ‘This Is The Way’
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ZLzfk
15 October 2025
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Prominent tech investor, Marc Andreessen, expressed support for a suggestion for Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO, Elon Musk to lead a $10 trillion program to reindustrialise America.
Andreessen Agrees Musk Should Lead Massive US Reindustrialization
Andreessen responded to a post on X by a user named Roman Helmet Guy, who suggested that Elon Musk should lead a massive reindustrialization effort in the United States.
“Forget DOGE, forget the debt, put Elon Musk in charge of a $10 trillion program to reindustrialize America at lightning speed…,” wrote Roman Helmet Guy.
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To this, Andreessen responded in agreement, saying, “This is the way.”
This is the way. https://t.co/GvUPmBE1Gp
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 11, 2025
Roman Helmet Guy was in turn a response to President Donald Trump‘s Truth Social post on “some very strange things” happening in China, which the Official White House Rapid Response account, Rapid Response 47, reposted.
US Manufacturing Challenges, Musk’s Insights
The post by Andreessen is significant as it comes at a time when the U.S. is facing challenges in its manufacturing sector. In August, a McKinsey report highlighted the difficulties faced in the attempt to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. after decades of moving production overseas.
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Rick Woldenberg, CEO of educational toy maker Learning Resources, told CNBC that he had explored the idea for over a decade but had found labor costs prohibitively high and suppliers unwilling to produce at lower volumes.
While Trump is keen on moving production back to the U.S. by imposing massive tariffs on China, economists suggest that the plan could backfire and cause the U.S. deeper economic damage than China.
Research shows that the U.S. tariff hikes could raise inflation by 2–4% within 18 months, pushing core inflation near 6% by mid-2026 and cutting GDP growth by 1.5–2% annually—potentially causing a recession-like slowdown. China’s GDP, meanwhile, is expected to decline by a smaller 0.8–1.2%, OECD economists estimate.
Meanwhile, in 2024, Elon Musk claimed he may have built more types of manufacturing systems than anyone else and emphasised the challenges of managing global supply chains, noting that while “tactics win battles, logistics (supply chain) wins wars.”
Image via Shutterstock
MY COMMENT (ERIC ZUESSE):
Musk donated $276 million to Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Andreesen, secretly, was even more effective for Trump, because, as CNBC headlined on 26 June 2024, his “Crypto industry super PAC is 33-2 in primaries, with $100 million for House, Senate races”, and without that, Trump might not now be in control of Congress. Trump is strictly a pay-to-play guy, and so U.S. taxpayers are likely to be funding the Musk-Andreesen (plus other billionaires’) $10T gravy-train for Trump’s billionaires.
America’s media appear to be assuming that the electorate doesn’t understand that America is now the global-warfare state, whose plan for its future is to restore American manufacturing by increasing even further the nearly a trillion dollars a year that the Government and its colonies (such as in NATO) pay to its armaments companies to buy weapons and military services. On October 16th, The Hill and Yahoo News headlined “Opinion – Hegseth’s call to ‘prepare for war’ comes not a moment too soon” and helped to whip up war-fever against China by reporting that,
China’s regime is engaged in the fastest military buildup since the Second World War, it is trying to sanctions-proof itself, it is stockpiling grain and other commodities, it is calling up reservists and seizing factories making products for civilians.
Xi Jinping has been firing military officers opposed to war. Xi’s favourite phrase these days is “Dare to fight.”
He is mobilising all of society fora prolonged battle.
And Xi is doing more than just preparing. The Chinese military is initiating confrontations in skies and seas from South Korea in the north to Australia in the south. It is fighting proxy wars on two continents — Europe in Ukraine through Russia and Asia in the Middle East through Iran. Beijing in North Africa has also been fueling insurgences that look like wars. For decades, China has helped Islamabad in its campaign of terror against India.
In the meantime, the American military is generally in peace-mode, … (SIC)
China has no military base in the Western Hemisphere, but America has at least 292 military bases surrounding China. (Japan 102, S. Korea 73, Guam 52, Australia 19, Philippines 13, Marshall Islands 12, N. Marina Islands 11, Singapore 4, Taiwan 3, Thailand 3.) There is an 11-minute video “Why the U.S. Has Surrounded China With Military Bases | The U.S. Island Chain Strategy Explained”. It clearly presents America’s aggressive intent, but a typical viewer-comment is “If Biden and Harris still in office America would have a more WEAK military defense! Now, that Trump in office he will step on the Dragons toes.” Many Americans admire aggression if it’s being done by the U.S. Hitler likewise had millions of Germans admiring him and assuming — against all evidence — that Germany was acting in self-defense, NOT in aggression and imperialist expansion. Many people can’t imagine themselves in the situation that they themselves seek to perpetrate against others — they simply have no conscience whatsoever. They are dangerous to everyone. America’s recent Presidents have all been like this; and so, too, are virtually every member of Congress. The situation wasn’t much different in Germany when Hitler came into power. Now we have the Trump dictatorship.
Promptly when Hitler came into power, he also extolled the military and pressed his pedal to the metal to restore his country’s military might and to pour record sums into ‘defence’ (which turned out to be aggression).
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