I with full heart believe this group want mass deportations, prison labor, and eventually death at a large scale. Right now im taking some hope from their incompetence. I saw somebody suggest this is the zenith of their power, and if resisted it can only shrink. 🤞 That is true.
Yeah, the one saving grace is that intelligent people don't want to work for someone like Trump who never actually pays his debts or anyone he doesn't actually have to. There are some true believers with this shit that are smart, but that isn't the majority.
Idiots who will still countless people because other idiots are complying with the orders like rounding up children and families to send off to Guantanamo bay like a modern day Auschwitz or suppressing information about the TB spread in Kansas and Bird Flu outbreaks... actual horror movie shit i stg
This isn’t to deny they have and will hurt people. But we need to fight the enemy we have, not an inflated one of unimpeachable ‘5D’ chess skills, a notion that only serves to discourage people into apathetic acceptance of doom. Their incompetence is a useful tool for fighting them on many fronts.
My intention wasn't to discourage anyone - more to show that even idiots with power can be dangerous and shouldn't be taken lightly. Standing up to them is important but underestimating them is not wise, either.
Everyone talks about how dumb and idiotic him and his team are. If they are this dumb and yet completely destroying the Dems. What does that make us? We are being out played, out spent and out maneuvered by idiots?
They've got the SCOTUS they want. I'm sure they're convinced they will win court battles no matter how blatantly unconstitutional their positions. This SCOTUS has no problems making decisions that fly in the face of clear language in that document.
That's my thought about every "Trump is an evil genius" conspiracy. Trump isn't doing this so he has an excuse to invoke the insurrection act, or to get a favorable case to SCOTUS, or any of that. He's doing this because he's an ignorant asshole who thinks he's king.
The people in the forefront are idiots, for sure. But there’s a coalition of people in the shadows that have been orchestrating this for decades. Citizens United, Roe, and so many other things were all part of one big plan to dismantle the status quo in this country.
Used to have a boss who would say "Never assume malice when incompetence could explain the situation just as well." In their case I think it's a real toss up.
The original nutzis where seen as klowns and rejects of society. Laughed at by most people as idiots. Dismissed as fools. They don't need to be smart, they just need to more persistent than us. Just saying, Not " attacking " you.
Also the idea they’ll throw so much out there democrats and liberals won’t be able to keep up without considering the opposite should also be true. Where’s the drive for media attention? Where’s the court cases? Bombard them.
Some genius posted “For those following along, we are now at the Mojo Dojo Casa House part of the Barbie Movie” and honestly it’s helped me process what happening a bit more.
Every single one of these EOs is, at heart, a big poster of a horse to be displayed to other men.
Don’t underestimate them. They got this far. They may not be qualified for the designated jobs, but complacency and underestimating them could be all they need to buy them time achieve their goals.
They have, like, 87 different goals and half of them are contradictory.
Why do you think the whole admin is crawling with billionaires? It's their kind of system. None of them are actually good at making decisions, but they've got enough money that it doesn't matter how badly they're failing.
what on earth makes you think they're _navigating_ bureaucracy? a court order means nothing if the people in charge ignore it, and they can do substantial damage before other means could be implemented
I was just on an SEC town hall with the acting chairman (Republican) and they profess not to know an iota of what the fuck is going on. It was a stammering embarrassment in front of the entire staff.
Honestly I’m not sure which is worse: competent evil or incompetent evil.
Isn't this how the travel ban evolved, though? Didn't they release a batshit version, it was struck down. So they released a dogshit version and it was also struck down. With some red crayon instructions from SCOTUS they finally got it right. Kind of a goldilocks approach to policy making
What if Trump's cronies are just incompetents who, due to their privilege, never had to deal with consequences and thus don't really know how to not screw up?
It's only "incompetent" until they find the right combination that makes the system collapse. It's not actual incompetence, it's calculated malicious acts and they've employed a strategy of impossible speed with him signing laws and doing things.
It’s the kind of administration that will accomplish some things purposefully and other things by accident when it isn’t too busy shooting itself in the foot.
Yes. The fact that he backed off made me see through the facade. This isn't fascism, and fascist would have ignored Dem Senators and bowled through. This is more like cos-playing as fascists while being beta males. Maybe we should call it Hucksterism, or Beta-Philosophy? Definitely low T crap.
Their fascism is fake & American, a fanfic-cosplay version of the real thing & about as realistic, tho' may well result in similar outcomes. He likes to open with outrageous overtures; capitulating forfeits all respect from him, but he'll settle for less, which is still more than he had.
It’s obvious they are like a bunch of D grade students who found AI and used it to write their “essay”. Teachers who don’t know better give them an A but when they’re ask to explain the “essay”, they barely know what’s in it.
Yes, because a competent and experienced person with a flamethrower is predictable. You can't rely on shit if the person holding the flamethrower is a methed up toddler
Devil's Advocate here, but maybe it isn't. Maybe the fact that they don't know what they are doing can trigger panics. Trump relented on his move to completely defund the federal government, preventing The Purge from becoming a reality. Why? Methinks he is scared of something.
Don't try to find deep meanings to anything they do. Marisa is 100% right that these people are fucking stupid. They NEVER play 4D chess.
But the problem is breaking stuff doesn't require any brain. Give a sledgehammer to the dumbest guy you know and he'll break stuff. And breaking is what they do.
True. But let's say two people are given sledgehammers and told to use them to destroy an office building. One is in construction. The other one was raised by wolves. Who will destroy their building first?
If they move slowly, there's more time to fight back and less time needed to rebuild.
People who can see a strategy in anything they do deeper than performative cruelty, aka owning the libs, cite one prior example of these cretins executing any multilayer strategy ever before
I mean, true, but that incompetence is trained on people’s houses and families and healthcare.
incompetent decisions can of course be ultimately rectified by courts or a new administration, but we have very short times on earth, and every minute suffering is a bad minute.
Yes, they are. And most of what Trump and his cronies have done this week it unworkable or illegal, however, I am most concerned about his threats to use the military to enforce his ee-dick-ts.
Yeah, I think the whole "it's a distraction" rhetoric is just people not being able to grapple with the fact that the people who won and are in power are also total morons.
Fritz Sauckel was an abject fucking moron but he caused an unholy amount of suffering and death with his forced labor policies in Nazi Germany from 1942 to 1945.
Just because they're fucking idiots does not make them less dangerous.
I think the rescinded order illustrates how dumb and complacent they thought we were. But we had a term to practice and watch as well. The converse is true to the claim that they're coming back smarter and better prepared.
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What we need to do play them off against each other.
Tell each one that others are getting the prime spot.
You only need one to start throwing their toys & the infighting will bring the whole edifice down. 🤷
"Why would I vote for GOP-lite if I can just vote for the real thing?" is something voters actually say, in large numbers.
So to answer your question, yes. Yes you did
It often isn't a fair fight between democrats and republicans.
I other places, I think Ds tend to not want to stoop to such absurd practices which is then tough when Rs lack morals.
See: the ludicrous immunity decision.
https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lgvrlnf6ac23
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-office-personnel-management-opm-neuralink-x-boring-stalin/
Every single one of these EOs is, at heart, a big poster of a horse to be displayed to other men.
Why do you think the whole admin is crawling with billionaires? It's their kind of system. None of them are actually good at making decisions, but they've got enough money that it doesn't matter how badly they're failing.
Honestly I’m not sure which is worse: competent evil or incompetent evil.
The fight is not over yet.
The Heritage foundation along with the Federalist Society need to be firebombed by Strategic Air Command
It’s like if the Road Runner just gave up let Wile E. Coyote catch him
https://bsky.app/profile/chrononaut.bsky.social/post/3lgvrfxvrd22d
On the one hand, way less predictable; on the other, way less likely to blow themselves up.
But the problem is breaking stuff doesn't require any brain. Give a sledgehammer to the dumbest guy you know and he'll break stuff. And breaking is what they do.
Which is they want to get rid of people.
If they move slowly, there's more time to fight back and less time needed to rebuild.
incompetent decisions can of course be ultimately rectified by courts or a new administration, but we have very short times on earth, and every minute suffering is a bad minute.
I’m a project manager, so it fits.
You don't have to have smart people as the staff, just ones that can be manipulated to sign everything.
Just because they're fucking idiots does not make them less dangerous.