Dei Trump Quotes

[M]any DEI initiatives, as they function currently, neither serve those they are supposedly intended for, nor do they make any meaningful changes in the structure of the society at large. Instead, the way I see many DEI initiatives working in this country…is by maintaining the status quo in several ways: first, most diverse people I see in different places are tokens and are only allowed any form of power or contributions upon the condition of proving that they are not there to rock the boat or be a threat to the upper powers, who are usually selected privileged whites. Second, there are deliberate and malicious efforts to tokenize diverse people who are not only incompetent, but also complicit to almost make it look like that truly qualified diverse people don’t exist (far from true), as well as to give the majority of white people the impression that they are losing their jobs and privileges to people who are not even qualified or deserving, hence creating further bitterness and divide in the society. In sum, the way the DEI initiatives work is neither benefiting the truly qualified and competent diverse people who could change the structure and the system, nor are they helping white people truly see the value of different perspectives and different ways of thinking, sensing, and doing that enrich this world. [From “The Trump Age: Critical Questions” published on CounterPunch on June 23, 2023]

I have lost track of the number of times when I chatted with DEI professionals or even diversity hires of different races and backgrounds who painfully told me that they are put in a position that makes them incapable of making any meaningful changes in their workplace. That their job is primarily to be tokenized and make the institution look and feel good, but in reality they – and any diverse person in their workplace – feel totally paralyzed in environments that look good, but are in fact extremely controlled by the few privileged at the top. [From “The Trump Age: Critical Questions” published on CounterPunch on June 23, 2023]

In effect, as attorney general, Barr, a leading figure in the newly emergent Catholic right—with its ties to Opus Dei, a mysterious fringe sect with roots in fascist Spain—was bringing in a new strain of religious authoritarianism and theocratic nationalism to join forces with Trumpism on their way to collision after collision with the US Constitution. All this in a world of decadence and depravity tied to figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, whose pedophile operation trafficked in underage girls as young as eleven, and also had links to Russian intelligence.

E' l'oppioide sintetico tra i potenti che esistano, 100 volte più potente della morfina, uno straordinario analgesico usato, sotto strettissimo controllo medico, per la gestione del dolore nei malati oncologici terminali, inserito nella lista dei farmaci essenziali per il trattamento dei tumori in stato avanzato, mentre, in combinazione con altre sostanze, viene impiegato in micro dosi nella anestesia generale profonda. [...] E' il farmaco che una settimana fa ha stecchito in pochi minuti un italiano di oltre 90 chili, lo chef trentanovenne Andrea Zamperoni a New York [...] Negli Stati Uniti sta creando più morti che gli incidenti stradali, ed è balzata in pochi anni al primo posto fra le cause di morte tra i giovani, al punto che lo stesso Donald Trump ha parlato di emergenza nazionale. [...] Purtroppo questo potente oppiaceo è stato intercettato dalla produzione e dal commercio illegale, utilizzato come sostituto economico dell'eroina, e più recentemente ha fatto il suo ingresso nel giro della cocaina, mischiato, all'insaputa degli acquirenti, per tagliare le partite di altri stupefacenti, aumentandone la pericolosità e le complicanze letali. Il mercato illegale inoltre, offre altri prodotti di sintesi derivati dal Fentanyl [...] negli Usa le più facili prescrizioni hanno fatto sì che arrivasse nel mondo dello spaccio, e recentemente la ditta Johnson & Johnson, storica produttrice di oppioidi, è stata condannata per aver spinto i medici a prescrivere stupefacenti, sottovalutando e minimizzando i gravi rischi.

When the poll closed the next day, more than 15 million users had voted. The tally was close: 51.8 percent to 48.2 percent in favor of reinstating Trump. “The people have spoken,” Musk declared. “Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.” I asked him right afterward whether he had a sense in advance of how the poll would turn out. No, he said. And if it had gone the other way, would he have kept Trump banned? Yes. “I’m not Trump’s fan. He’s disruptive. He’s the world’s champion of bullshit.