Sue's Daily Stack, Friday, 7 February, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Friday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Musk's and Trump's National Security Sabotage — And Why Putin and Xi Are Laughing
Article: "Musk's and Trump's National Security Sabotage — And Why Putin and Xi Are Laughing" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Here's a look at Musk's contact with Putin and why it matters" by David Klepper And Lisa Mascaro.
Article: "US military vacates last Saudi base" by Al Jazeera .
Article: "Afghanistan: The 'Big' Media's Question Today is Wrong and Dangerous" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "USAID funding explained: What's at risk under Trump?" by Miguel Antonio Tamonan.
Article: "China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Investment Report 2023" by Christoph Nedopil.
Article: "Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel's challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant" by ICC.
Article: "doddering old fool gets pantsed by Canada and Mexico" by Jeff Tiedrich.
Article: "C.I.A. Sent an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees to Trump Administration" by David E. Sanger and Julian E. Barnes.
Article: "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days" by Timothy W. Ryback.
Article: "Letter to America" by Osama bin Laden.
Article: "DOGE Teen Owns 'Tesla.Sexy LLC' and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers" by Andy Greenberg, David Gilbert, Lily Hay Newman.
Article: ""An invitation to foreign actors": Bondi tells DOJ to quit worrying about foreign lobbying campaigns" by Nicholas Liu.
Tweet: "A 23-year-old representative from Elon Musk's DOGE was granted access to the Energy Department's IT system on Wednesday by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, sources told CNN.
This despite objections from people in the agency, which controls access to info about the US nuclear weapons." by Zachary Cohen.
Article: "Elon Musk Is Meeting Secretly With China and Russia. It's Time for Congress to Rein Him In" by Nick Lampson.
Article: "Half Of All Tesla EVs Are Made In China" by Mark Kane.
Article: "Elon Musk sabotaged Ukrainian attack on Russian fleet in Crimea by turning off Starlink, new book says" by Claudia Chiappa.
Article: "FAA Leader Quit Before D.C. Plane Crash—Thanks to Elon Musk" by Hafiz Rashid.
Article: "Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink's Contracts in Ukraine " by Lucas Ropek.
Article: "Tesla is under a federal wire fraud probe for misleading investors" by Jonathan M. Gitlin .
Songs: "Louise & Thom Hartmann".
Article: "Thomas Paine" by Wikipedia.
Book: Thomas Paine and the Promise of America: A History & Biography by Harvey Kaye.
Article: "The American Crisis" by Thomas Paine.
One of Musk's racist bros who invaded Treasury just resigned
Post: "I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a "eugenic immigration policy," and wrote, "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. [link]" by Katherine Long.
Article: "DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts" by Katherine Long.
Post: "These are Twitter posts by the guy who was hacking into the Treasury payments system. Maybe JD (whose wife is Indian-American) and Kash Patel might want to pay attention? [link,, images]" by Asha Rangappa.
Article: ""This is a bad idea" - Meet Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old SpaceX intern accessing US nuclear info" by davidkc.
Musk's kids have fed our secret Federal information into the Microsoft AI program to look for places to cut to make room for the billionaire tax cut
Article: "Elon Musk's DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts" by Hannah Natanson, Gerrit De Vynck, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel.
Video: President Musk.
Video: NFL Removes "End Racism" From The Super Bowl End Zones.
Article: "Michael Pollan" by Wikipedia.
Article: "West Point shuts down clubs for women and students of color in response to Trump's DEI policies" by AP.
Article: "Ely S. Parker" by Wikipedia.
Article: "William Tecumseh Sherman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Alan Turing" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Code talker" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Women in Bletchley Park" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Meet the Black Female Mathematicians Who Helped America Win the Space Race" by Wikipedia.
Site: Alliance for Retired Americans.
Article: "Latest bird flu situation" by Canada.
Hour Two: Why Every American Should Care About CBS Settling 'Dangerous' Trump Lawsuit — Even MAGA
Article: "CNN's Jake Tapper Explains Why Every American Should Care About CBS Settling 'Dangerous' Trump Lawsuit — Even MAGA" by David Gilmour.
Trump orders key government agency to cancel all media contracts
Article: "Scoop: Trump orders key government agency to cancel all media contracts" by Zachary Basu, Marc Caputo.
Article: "Musk's Doggie Hackerboys Update!" by Marcie Jones.
Article: "Doge (title)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How Blair's 'dodgy dossier' was changed after Independent reporter spotted flaw in case for war" by Donald Macintyre.
Article: "United States DOGE Service" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Department of Government Efficiency" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Hurricane Dorian–Alabama controversy" (sharpiegate) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio" by Bobby Kogan.
Article: "How the GOP Used a Two Santa Clauses Tactic to Con America for Nearly 40 Years" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Bondi ends FBI effort to combat foreign influence in US politics" by Ken Dilanian.
Article: "United States Agency for International Development" (USAID) by Wikipedia.
Article: "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Reagan's Recession" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Musk's team accesses Medicare, Medicaid records" by Maya Goldman.
Article: "DOGE follows longtime Musk pattern — and turns attention to Social Security Administration" by Shelby Talcott.
Article: "October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: Just causing havoc
Article: "'Just causing havoc': Transportation Department suspends EV charger program" by Shannon Osaka and Jake Spring.
Article: "Elon Musk Demands Firing of 'Disgusting and Cruel' WSJ Reporter Who Uncovered DOGE Employee's Racist Tweets" by Isaac Schorr.
Article: "'He Should Be Fired Immediately!!!' Trump Rips Washington Post Columnist Following Morning Joe Segment on USAID" by Alex Griffing.
Article: "Trump says dismantling USAID will save money. Experts say it's a 'great gift' for China" by Laura Paddison.
Sotomayor goes off on presidential immunity
Article: "Sotomayor hits presidential immunity decision in first public comments since new Trump admin" by Sarah Fortinsky.
GOP bill bans prosecutors from going after officials who refuse to certify elections..say what?!
Article: "GOP bill bans prosecutors from charging county officials who refuse to certify elections" by Matthew Chapman.
Article: "Tesla's sales plummet across Europe" by Patricia Nilsson, Laura Pitel, Kana Inagaki.
Article: "January Jobs Report Reveals Weaker Growth Than Predicted—Weakest Start To Year Since 2016" by Derek Saul.
Article: "Quantitative Easing (QE)" by Investopedia.
Law: "Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution" (Article V Convention).
Site: Convention of States.
Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Tennessee Bill Would Prohibit Voting Against Trump Immigration Policies" by Dan Gooding.
Video: Rep. Brad Schneider on Government Efficiency nad President Trump's Plans for Gaza.
Article: "TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won" by Greg Palast.
Video: Why Trump Wants To Buy Greenland: Explained.
The courts can decide whatever they wish. But who will enforce those decisions? There’s no requirement to comply with or consequences to not comply with the decisions. Unless physical force is a true threat to the tyranny there will be nothing to stop the steal of the country our bank accounts are in their hands. We actually need all allied governments to stop all trade and cooperation, our internal opposition leaders and our military to ultimately establish a coup.
My fears for the future:
Internationally, Trump will alienate our allies and embrace with our enemies. He will have us align with Russia, China and North Korea and leave NATO to defend themselves against Russian aggression. It won’t matter if it’s illegal. He’s above the law.
Russia will take over Ukraine. Will China take over Taiwan? Will North Korea take over South Korea? Why not? Who will stand in their way? This will be the “New World Order” as Elon Musk “tweeted” – in Latin - the day after the election.
Here the FBI and CIA will be refocused on the “enemies within.” Enemies like Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Joe Biden and, of course, Hunter Biden. CBS, CNN, NBC and MSNBC will need to “kiss the ring” or lose their license to broadcast. ABC already has.
Any negative reports, or any reports that “King Donald” doesn’t like will be reason to sue. And now he can simply direct the Department of Justice to file the suits. No reason for him to hire outside attorneys. Not legal? Who cares? He’s above the law.
No need for National Public TV or Radio to “kiss his ring” though – they will be gone. Period.
DHSS will declare all vaccinations voluntary and quit providing funding for the manufacture, distribution and administration of life-saving vaccines. Polio will become common within a few years and American’s will be banned from entering any other country except Russia. China won’t even let us in – they know we will be both contagious and idiots.
We will start WWIII by invading Gaza, Panama and Greenland for starters and maybe even Ukraine to help Putin take over the entire country. Perhaps a quick end to the World’s population is better than the long-drawn-out death due to climate change which will accelerate exponentially. Why prolong the agony of defeat?
No one should be surprised by this change in our government. It started under Reagan with the shelving of the Fairness Doctrine that allowed Rush Limbaugh to spread his unique racist spittle across the entire country. Then an immigrant – Rupert Murdock - whose citizenship was accelerated so he could start up FOX “Not-Really-News” and take over the NY “Joke” and the Wall Street “Urinal.” Murdock and his minions have spread racist right-wing propaganda ever since capturing the buffoons who are the Republican Party and leading us to the end of our democracy.
The final blow was delivered by two more racist immigrants – Peter Thiel and Elon Musk – both of whom fled South Africa. Thiel saddling us with Vance and Musk taking over the biggest “bull-horn” on the planet to drive the final “dagger” into our heart and soul.
Our democracy died on November 5, 2024, and was buried on January 20, 2025. We have willingly given up our freedom and embraced a monarchy 249 years after we escaped the clutches of King George III. We had a democracy, but we couldn’t keep it just as Ben Franklin feared.
“God” will not save America.