“We lost our representative government: it was infiltrated by organized crime long ago. The last chance to fix it was surrendered by the Biden administration. …it just took Trump’s reinstallation for many to realize it. If that’s a new way of thinking, view this realization not with fear, but with defiant pride… And now you are joined by other good people who’ve shed their delusions. We may have driven past the point of no return…”
—Sarah Kendzior
#trump

“…you can’t vote out the mafia. US officials needed to hold Trump’s criminal network accountable for their crimes and admit to the American public the full extent of institutional failure. … But US officials had no interest in doing that because their loyalty lies elsewhere… There was a narrow window in which this crisis could have been remedied. Biden chose to defenestrate democracy while letting the burglars climb inside.”
—Sarah Kendzior
#trump #usa

“Trump has never been popular and remains unpopular. Musk is even more loathed. …it took a bipartisan effort to enable this disaster, and the aims of its players are transnational.”
—Sarah Kendzior, Your Questions Answered: We're Already in the Aftermath
#trump #musk

“What citizens can do is know their values and have each other’s backs. You have been betrayed. None of you deserve it. You are all survivors of an abusive state. They will try to split this country into parts for resource extraction and they will encourage you to attack each other to make their job easier. Refuse them.”
—Sarah Kendzior, Your Questions Answered: We're Already in the Aftermath
#values #kindness

“Never sacrifice your humanity or that of others. If you find yourself willing to negotiate another’s humanity, that is when they’ve won something real. That is when you’ll have surrendered your soul.”
—Sarah Kendzior, Your Questions Answered: We're Already in the Aftermath
#values #humanity

There is no timeline on the truth. Unfortunately, there is a timeline on consequences.
—Sarah Kendzior, Your Questions Answered: We're Already in the Aftermath
(Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter Feb 26, 2025)
#quote

“It is less important that people define this government as fascist (even though it is) than that they know they are being screwed, spied on, and denied a future. I do not believe that the way people should learn this is “the hard way”. I hope the mass firings of federal employees, including hard-working people like the stewards of our national parks, end that terrible logic. Innocent people should not have to suffer so that misguided people can “learn”.”
—Sarah Kendzior
#trump #usa

“…it is important to highlight the concrete cruelties of this administration and that anyone could be next. … You are not safe even if you think you are. But you are safer when you acknowledge the existence of the goddamn mafia, and band with others to expose it.”
—Sarah Kendzior, Your Questions Answered: We're Already in the Aftermath
#trump

“…stand up for those targeted. We are living in a time of incredible threat and pain, and no one deserves to feel alone, or like they will be abandoned out of political convenience. … This is a civil rights issue: an important one, and a straightforward one.”
—Sarah Kendzior, Your Questions Answered: We're Already in the Aftermath
(Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter Feb 26, 2025)
#values

“Trump is easier for me to understand… Musk is more unpredictable, as are his tech cohort. It’s not hard to understand what they want — money, power, depopulation… — but predicting their daily activity is difficult. … That said, Musk is much more erratic than Trump. Whereas Trump is a career criminal whose behavior and beliefs have remained consistent over decades, Musk shifts alliances and behaves in wild ways. So yes, things may backfire.”
—Sarah Kendzior
#trump #musk