1/2 What's truly mind-blowing about the current moment is just how much of *waves at everything* is only *because* the biggest idiot is in charge. Like, the first time around, Covid was something that happened to us, and then was made worse by Trump's idiocy. But ... - ThreadSky

joshchafetz.bsky.social • 22 hours ago

1/2 What's truly mind-blowing about the current moment is just how much of *waves at everything* is only *because* the biggest idiot is in charge. Like, the first time around, Covid was something that happened to us, and then was made worse by Trump's idiocy. But ...

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One thing that just makes (waves at everything) all of this so frustrating is that the biggest idiot is in charge.

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americaninlisbon.bsky.social•20 hours ago

What's actually truly astounding is that Trump can be fairly credited for a faster than usual vaccine with his EO to speed up the process. He could actually lean into that and take credit for saving countless American lives. But has instead gone in the complete opposite direction. 🤦

joshchafetz.bsky.social•22 hours ago

2/3 ... So much of what's going on now is *entirely* caused by Trump's idiocy! We had an economy that was the envy of the world that he's just decided to drive off a cliff. We had a more-or-less functioning government that he's just decided to vandalize.

redteacher.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Don’t forget the evil elves who designed project 2025

tferrio.bsky.social•22 hours ago

"vandalize" will prove to be the perfect descriptor

swiffy.bsky.social•22 hours ago

And it's all downside! There are basically no Americans who benefit. Even the explanations I hear about cutting costs for tax cuts are pointless. Who cares when your assets are all tanking? Only foreign enemies and select few positioned to loot the nation will gain

newmexter.bsky.social•22 hours ago

"So much of what's going on now is *entirely* caused by Trump's idiocy!" I'd almost all of what's going on now is *entirely* caused by Trump's pathology. That entails the short-sited, one-sided, zero-sum stuff in a cohesive picture. (Musk happens to also have narcissism, just less machiavellianism.)

donjrscokehabit.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Trump and Elon’s Thelma and Louise-conomics.

aksteve.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Sure seems like he’s following Putin’s instructions to destroy the US. Fits better than any other explanation I can come up with.

joshchafetz.bsky.social•22 hours ago

3/3 We had strong international alliances that just decided to burn down.

It's not just an omnicrisis; it's an omnicrisis entirely of choice. And that's just mind-blowing.

coriolusn.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Something that just keeps striking me is, the first time fascism was popular, it was in the wake of the absolute horror of the 1910s, in countries that were deeply traumatized by that decade.

This time it feels like we are just doing it out of boredom.

lisap56.bsky.social•22 hours ago

And all of it he promised and people chose to vote him in.

pqpolitics.bsky.social•19 hours ago

No if you understand that Trump has been a Russian asset for decades.

& making America isolated, weakened & destroying US & NATO is a Russian goal

Trump & Musk want to collapse the US economy so billionaire oligarch’s can buy up companies and properties cheap & get even richer with serf labour

cheryldc.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Every word of this!!!

jajajaboo.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Totally.. not like a complex series of black swan events that are cascading into each other. Just a dumbass ignorant angry racist, even with those caveats, making bewildering decisions to point the nose of the plane straight down! wtf