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malaise

(281,021 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:26 PM Jan 29

Let me make this pellucidly clear

This is a corrupt, racist, misogynistic, gay hating kakistocracy.
kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century.

The shit is already hitting the fan.

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gab13by13

(26,520 posts)
6. You are correct but
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:32 PM
Jan 29

oligarchies are not permanent, they are transitional.

Down the road we are going to have to decide to either throw out the billionaires and return to democracy or to become a country like Russia or Hungary.

gab13by13

(26,520 posts)
3. That is the plan
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:30 PM
Jan 29

To destroy the government and leave one man standing, a dictator.

Thom Hartmann talked about this today. Magats are running the same platform that David Koch ran on when he ran under the Libertarian platform.

LetMyPeopleVote

(158,577 posts)
7. MaddowBlog-With chaotic freeze gambit, the Trump White House shows its incompetence (again)
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 02:03 PM
Jan 29

On the one hand, Team Trump is launching legally dubious power grabs and wreaking havoc. On the other hand, these guys have no idea what they’re doing.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3lgv4ypo7t22y

Remember eight years ago, when Trump launched an ugly and poorly thought-out Muslim ban, sparking outrage, bureaucratic chaos, family hardships, and messy legal fights?

Eight years to the day later, he did it again with an ugly and poorly thought-out spending freeze.



https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/chaotic-freeze-gambit-trump-white-house-shows-incompetence-rcna189776

Exactly eight years to the day later, Trump’s budget office ordered a freeze to federal grants, loans and related assistance — money that Congress has already appropriated — effectively trying to transfer the power of the purse away from lawmakers. A massive national freak-out soon followed, with widespread confusion and chaos, even among the administration’s allies, about how to implement the White House’s policy.

With just minutes remaining before the freeze was scheduled to take effect, U.S. District Court Judge Loren AliKhan agreed to halt the process. NBC News reported:

A federal district judge on Tuesday granted an administrative stay in a case challenging the Trump administration’s planned freeze of federal aid, pausing the plan for a week and setting a hearing for further arguments Monday morning. The order applies only to the pause of disbursements in open grants, Judge Loren AliKhan said. And it doesn’t get into the legality of the freeze; instead, it gives her time to hear more fleshed-out arguments from a coalition of nonprofit groups about why she should issue a temporary restraining order that could block the freeze for an additional two weeks.


......It began with a terribly written memo from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which The New York Times’ Jamelle Bouie accurately described as “delusional.” White House officials spent much of the day insisting that it was perfectly clear, and news organizations were to blame for any confusion, but many of those same White House officials struggled badly to answer specific questions about the details of the policy — most notably related to the impact on Medicaid beneficiaries. (“I’ll check back on that,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at her first briefing.).....

In case that weren’t quite enough, the White House also spent much of the day defending the freeze by referencing the “Green New Deal,” which is a broad progressive agenda that, in reality, never actually passed — and therefore can’t be defunded.

The resulting image was unsettling. On the one hand, the president, his political operation and his policy team are engaged in ugly and legally dubious power grabs, wreaking havoc as part of a radical scheme to transform the American system.

On the other hand, these guys still don’t know what they’re doing. As The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank summarized in his latest column, “In just eight days on the job, Trump has taken a wrecking ball to the federal government, and he and his aides apparently couldn’t be bothered to give any thought to the damage and chaos that would ensue.”

TFG is a very stupid person. His staff is just as incompetent as the idiots who tried to do a Muslim ban 8 years ago

rubbersole

(9,325 posts)
10. Never thought I'd be glad that the potus is a severely mentally ill idiot.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 03:30 PM
Jan 29

It's becoming his only "redeeming quality".

royable

(1,400 posts)
13. Seems that under a kakistocracy you only need to be deported to be deported.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 03:49 PM
Jan 29

They think they can do whatever they want. I liken it to a person with mental health issues wandering the downtown sidewalks talking to him/herself and issuing decrees into thin air. The difference here is that people who run things, who actually are in charge, listen and obey in spite of the lawlessness of what is decreed.

surfered

(5,088 posts)
14. As a kid, growing up watching Walter Cronkite's 20th Century on TV
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 03:58 PM
Jan 29

about WWII, I always wondered how the German people ended up as Nazis doing those terrible things. Now I’m watching it happen in real time.

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