That's another thing about this administration is WHO THE FUCK IS THE CONSTITUENCY FOR ANY OF THEIR ACTIONS. It genuinely appears they have not thought that far and that is SO FUCKING INSANE - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

unavaleable.bsky.social • 1 day ago

That's another thing about this administration is WHO THE FUCK IS THE CONSTITUENCY FOR ANY OF THEIR ACTIONS. It genuinely appears they have not thought that far and that is SO FUCKING INSANE

Reposted from Reconstructionist

There's no constituency for this, there's no goal real, no thought, just being a galactic asshole to satiate the boss's need to be a bully?

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starshine.bsky.social•1 day ago

‘Trump has a mandate, the mandate is to carry out trumps will’

chrismardell.bsky.social•1 day ago

The constituency is himself (and the dictators, in whose pockets he resides).

tiredgenerally.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think they are their own constituency. like they have carved up various parts of the state and doled it out based on who showed the emperor the most favor. no one is thinking about elections because none of these people are elected except trump

tiredgenerally.bsky.social•1 day ago

most of them are not even political class types, there’s nobody here to poll test anything because it doesn’t even occur to them

tiredgenerally.bsky.social•1 day ago

like normally you’d have a bunch of professional campaigners form the core of the presidential appointments (key supporters, campaign managers, etc)

tiredgenerally.bsky.social•1 day ago

they’d take the White House CoS job, comms, collections of top roles in the cabinet. Instead trump just appointed guys he saw on tv. Elon is just some donor.

phasebinary.bsky.social•1 day ago

The only thing that matters to Trump is loyalty and favors. This is surprisingly uncomplicated.

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

Susie Wiles must be having such a fun time

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

She's probably gonna leave or get canned and then it's gonna go down hill

jeffmcmahon.bsky.social•1 day ago

She probably hangs out with Linda Yaccarino and they’re too afraid of each other squealing to say anything of interest

bananashirt.bsky.social•1 day ago

yep. we just let a bunch of thieving assholes in and they're gonna steal stuff and wreck stuff bc they can.

johnbelusky.bsky.social•1 day ago

Elon Musk is not just 'some donor,' he practically bought Trump the election.

capitalistfool.bsky.social•1 day ago

Polls don’t matter to them because they’ve seen how to manipulate polls (and votes) to get whatever results you want

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah basically

zachrabiroff.com•1 day ago

They also very sincerely do not expect to hold open elections again. I’m not predicting that’s a done deal, but we ought to grapple internally with the clear implication that *they* think it is.

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think they expect to (1) make presidential elections into shams, which is not *that* hard all things considered; and (2) make it so other elections, which are harder to corrupt, are meaningless, through Rule Without Parliaments

eyerollz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Honest question: why do you think other elections are harder to corrupt? I guess maybe less corruptible but aren’t they the same voting machines? If hacked for one, hacked for all?

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•1 day ago

There are more of them, basically

zachrabiroff.com•1 day ago

I think that’s exactly right. And they’re solid in thinking it can succeed: all they have to do is maintain sham elections in red states, and they’ll hold power indefinitely - or at least until Trump isn’t here anymore to hold the wobbly regime together.

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah. The scheme won't work, partly because the Rule Without Parliaments gambit is fatally flawed (you cannot in fact fund the government with tariffs) but it COULD work

It will work unless suitably opposed

various-threnodies.bsky.social•1 day ago

They think a lot of things. We will make him leave if he refuses, just like last time

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah it's cargo cult governing not just cargo cult fascism

evly.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think they did think far enough ahead to realize that you need a functioning democracy for constituencies to be relevant (hence the actions!)

erichluepke.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It's human sacrifice. The constituency is the bloodthirsty masses who came to see you tear the heart out of some poor farmers. All they asked for was blood and screaming, and that's what they got. Of course some innocent souls are selected for the sacrifice, but that just makes them special.

bartman99.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is not random, this is well thought out, and part of a planned strategy:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1GTvzkBHYK/?mibextid=WC7FNe

coldforce.bsky.social•21 hours ago

the constituency is fucking Putin

That's it
Unfortunately, so far, that's all it needs to be

christianh.bsky.social•1 day ago

The executive is acting like they don't need a constituency, and it's definitely funny how we can see GOP legislators starting to panic about it.
Not enough to actually wield the powers of their offices though lol.

sky.skymarchini.net•1 day ago

IMO in 6 weeks when the economy is in flames they might change their tune (of course, it’ll be too late to save their skins electorally)

christianh.bsky.social•1 day ago

I really don't know if they will, in part because of how strongly they believe themselves to be physically threatened if they decide to act rather than just cry about it.

coasterspaul.bsky.social•1 day ago

"well, nothing to be done about it besides putting a guy into physically threatening congress in charge of the FBI!"

snythe.bsky.social•1 day ago

That is the exact question I keep asking, and scratching my head and asking again: “Who is the constituency for this administration?” There’s no one they’re not going to have pissed off inside of 30 days.

reluctantlychad.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is pretty incredible as a historian of the modern world seeing them threaten the military and the professional classes all at once and right away.

georgiajess.bsky.social•1 day ago

I keep getting yelled at by doomers that we’re about to experience a thousand year Trump reich but I’m just like ??? guys, I don’t think they’re doing this right

reluctantlychad.bsky.social•1 day ago

I know, but even for me as someone who tries to cultivate rational optimism things have just been such shit for so long it's hard not to go full doomer.

georgiajess.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh yeah, I go back and forth from optimism to dooming. I think it’s normal 🙃 gotta love living in unprecedented times * screams into a pillow *

reluctantlychad.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I know what you mean, and thanks for sharing that because it is validating. It's just especially hard because I was one of the people who believed Kamala would at least squeak by and seriously thought we'd just get an even weaker version of Trump 1.0.

crispybanks.bsky.social•1 day ago

White conservative Christians aka Nazis and klansmen.

aaronofypsi.bsky.social•1 day ago

When you are a king (or a billionaire) you are the constituency of one. Everything and everyone else exists (or doesn't) for your pleasure.

thunder-struck.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Their constituency is clearly terminally online groypers, who spend their days on basket weaving forums, who’s posts are disproportionally pushed by the Twitter algorithm.

kerthulhu75.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Oh, I'd call him the Defender of the Faith, Holy Roman Emperor and Tsar of all the Russias except Patriarch Kyril hasn't done the coronation.

Yet.

zas.bsky.social•1 day ago

it's literally just fascist technocapital. wild stuff.

zas.bsky.social•1 day ago

to put it this way: Thile, Musk, and Trump are Actually Existing Leninism.

zas.bsky.social•1 day ago

we got got by a fascist vangaurd

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, if anything it's an even narrow vanguardism because like the technocapitalists don't have *any* mass behind them and their program runs contra to most of the GOP base

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

The overlap between the technofeudalism and the "family capitalism" that define the majority of the GOP base is kinda interesting but they're also at cross purposes

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

Cus you have the big fish from the big ponds who want to run everything vs the big fish from the small ponds who just want to rule their neighbors

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

And like you can integrate those but you can also definitely make them at cross purposes very easily

mutual-a.bsky.social•1 day ago

*tapping the sign*
https://wedontagree.net/maybe-trump-really-is-that-fucking-stupid-and-why-that-matters

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh yeah he's a total fucking moron

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

Honestly they're all morons, even the "smart" ones

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

They're morons and they're juggling knives

tomscud.bsky.social•1 day ago

and we’re standing like two feet away from them

chathamharrison.bsky.social•1 day ago

Have you ever started a fresh Paradox game with a new country & hit whatever buttons you have the mana for because you don't know what else to do?

stealthisbook.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think "for the lolz" showing off for their niche weirdos is enough of a constituency. What I wonder about is how do they think it'll work to piss everyone off? Or, more to the point, is there anything that's off-limits?

maxp94.bsky.social•1 day ago

Their base thinks about diplomacy and relationships exactly the same way they do

maxp94.bsky.social•1 day ago

So unfortunately the constituency for this kind of thing is actually quite large

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nah even the GOP base is pretty hostile to Putin, and their program is basically cooked up in a lab to fuck up their base economically!

maxp94.bsky.social•1 day ago

Their base demographics or their actual voter base?

absolutereality.blog•1 day ago

Silicon Valley technofeudalists seem to be the constituency, and also probably the drivers of the project. Here’s a Thiel-backed person laying groundwork for Canada annexation in December. Whether they can succeed is doubtful, but I don’t doubt they’ll try and won’t care if people die.

absolutereality.blog•1 day ago

Also, just thinking about protest signs and protest art and messaging, it would be good to preemptively have “Say No To Serf Cities” or something. We can’t let them define Freedom Cities first.

madman1234855.bsky.social•1 day ago

The constituency is manchildren on twitter who are mad they made Lara Croft's boobs smaller a decade ago and decided to become nazis in response.

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like the Biden Administration had a very clear, but obviously flawed, theory of WHO they were doing stuff for but this administration is just doing shit without any thought

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

Even the Project 2025 stuff really lacks a constituency outside of the creatures that dwell in the basement of Heritage that live off sucking the marrow out of bones of children with cancer

feralhattie.bsky.social•1 day ago

How could something so ghoulish also be hilarious?, and yet nonetheless

missingthejim.bsky.social•1 day ago

That has far too often been my sentiment. Somehow this manages to be pathetic and yet disturbing or terrifying. There's probably a word for it somewhere.

bdonnelly.bsky.social•1 day ago

“Nazis”. They were weird pathetic losers until they weren’t for a decade or so and unmade a world in the process

stayangry.bsky.social•1 day ago

Walz was close by calling them “weird”, but they’re worse, they’re creepy. Watch any of them these days: Trump, Elon, Miller, Bannon. They’re all just freaky creeps. Go one level down: RFK, Kash, Hegseth. And then the women with the makeup: Melania, Noem, the press secretary.
They’re all just ICK.

thepines.bsky.social•1 day ago

I worry that the voters are so deep in the cult they'll take any amount of self harm to see the libs mad.

unavaleable.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean we're getting a constant trickle of supporters regretting it. More importantly, the GOP base is irrelevant, they can't win jackshit with it alone

thepines.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm certainly getting a vibe that Trump has crossed some sort of Rubicon I mean fuck it's taken long enough and it was obvious to anyone with a brain that he'd behave this way except I think even the most well informed among us didn't imagine him to be *this* unhinged.

thepines.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean at least I didn't. And I absolutely expected the worst

rainsurname.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is about where I thought we'd end up, but we got here via an unexpected shortcut.

I thought they'd let Trump play at being president while the Curtis Yarvin fans got the White House & the world ready for President Vance, with Thiel & Musk as his viziers.

jsstevenson.bsky.social•1 day ago

AM radio listeners (many, many such cases)

akashkaura.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s just trump take thing all the way from eggs to geopolitics

g1itter.bsky.social•1 day ago

i think they've definitely thought that far and beyond. they've been saying for ages that once djt gets in again, all bets are off. they've said it, AND DONE IT, again and again so idk why anyone is adding ironic interpretation. just take what they say at face value and act accordingly (bc they are)

cautiousabandon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Online conservatives are cheering them on left and right.

speedrunwat.bsky.social•1 day ago

Vlad, Elon, Thiel, Andreessen...

johnbelusky.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like all fascist governments, it's a kleptocracy. Their "constituency" is themselves.