2/17/25: The fascist takeover begins, Hegseth & Vance falter badly

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David Pakman

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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-- On the Show: -- Donald Trump's fascist takeover is happening in real time, and many are completely missing it -- Elon Musk will be babysitting Donald Trump during a forthcoming prime time interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News -- Vice President JD Vance's speech to the Munich Security Conference sounded like it could have been written by Russian President Vladimir Putin -- Exploring the lack of mass rallies in opposition to the authoritarian takeover of Donald Trump -- Egg prices hit another new record under Donald Trump, who now blames Joe Biden and the bird flu -- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's global debut went horribly wrong -- Elon Musk is doing in reality what the right has accused George Soros of doing for years -- On the Bonus Show: Democrats turn on Eric Adams, army base name changed back to Fort Bragg, DOGE is targeting the penny, and much more... ⚠️ Ground News: Get 50% OFF their unlimited access Vantage plan at https://ground.news/pakman ☕ Cambio Roasters: Get 20% off with code PAKMAN at https://cambioroasters.com 😬 Remi mouth guards: Get up to 50% OFF with code PAKMAN at https://shopremi.com/pakman 📈 Manifold: Get free Sweepcash when you sign up at https://manifold.markets/pakman ✉️ StartMail: Get 50% OFF a year subscription at https://startmail.com/pakman 🛡️ Incogni lets you control your personal data! Get 60% off their annual plan: http://incogni.com/pakman -- Become a Member: https://davidpakman.com/membership -- Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/davidpakmanshow -- Get David's Books: https://davidpakman.com/echo -- TDPS Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow -- David on Bluesky: https://davidpakman.com/bluesky -- David on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody.
0:08.6	Less than one month into his second term, Trump 2.0 and even less restrained, more emboldened
0:15.6	version of his first presidency is bulldozing through the federal government, gutting agencies with reckless
0:23.5	abandon.
0:24.2	And I have to be frank and admit to you that the Democratic Party has been caught flat-footed,
0:32.3	seems woefully unprepared for what is nothing short of a self coup in which the state is being
0:39.2	turned against itself by Donald Trump.
0:42.7	Now later today, maybe tomorrow, depending on how things go, we will focus in on the democratic
0:49.4	impotence when it comes to what to do here.
0:54.0	But first, we have to lay out
0:55.4	what's going on
0:56.8	and what's going on is that donald trump and his allies armed with the full force
1:00.5	of executive power and turbocharged by digital propaganda are fast tracking
1:06.2	the transformation of american democracy into a full fledged
1:10.7	authoritarian takeover.
1:12.6	Some are using the words dictatorship.
1:15.0	I'm hesitating to because there's a very particular meaning to that.
1:19.3	And I think that Trump is at least initially going to fail to achieve that, but certainly
1:25.2	an authoritarian fascistic takeover.
1:27.4	And while Democrats are fumbling
1:29.5	Republicans are standing by complicit in the unraveling of the Republic that they say
1:35.9	we must keep it is a criminal power grab disguised as governance it is a crime spree shutting down entire agencies illegally, mass firing career civil servants, freezing congressionally approved federal funds, trying to erase constitutionally protected freedoms through executive orders.
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