look, i'm but a humble shitposter, but your authoritarian regime does not survive purging both the internal (FBI) and external (CIA) security and intelligence forces, it just doesn't.
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This occurred to me when I read Project 2025. Fire everyone and replace them with loyalists? Once you've fired everyone, nobody's left to do the hiring.
Also, how many of the loyalists either know shit from Shinola or can find their ass with both hands. And can whoever is in charge manage anything effectively, or are they the sort who can screw up a one-car funeral procession, even if you spot them the hearse?
Like realistically you cannot piss off this many high level security forces while abolishing the procedural democracy in truly the stupidest & most insulting manner without facing some kind of blow back. I have been asking where is the off-ramp from violence & nobody can give me details.
this is the big question for me -- i can't imagine raytheon, northrop, boeing, lockheed, etc. are too excited with a direct competitor rooting around in their defense contracts
Aren't you supposed to coopt at least SOME of them? They can't truly expect their army of teenage incels to carry out the actual security functions once the purges are over.
Also remember that Musk et al are making a LOT of enemies, and not just in the US. Countries that have relied on the US that are seeing all of their aid and cooperation revoked are not all going to take kindly to him, and they have reach.
Yeah. This is why I'm finding it hard to be as worried as I probably should be. All I can think of is how many agencies, groups, and *other billionaires* they're actively pissing off by fucking around.
Does anyone think you purge the security services by sending letters to their work email addresses? I think everyone else in history did it with a knife to the throat or a bullet in the head in the middle of the night for a reason.
Right, you want to purge them in a way where they do not exist anymore lol, like in a flesh-and-blood way. If all you do is take away their on-paper government jobs then you have a Problem on your hands
Look, that makes total sense, in a normal world, where we didn't just put this fuck head back into office willingly. So, my radar for what's possible is in the shop for repair.
Not enough people understand or acknowledge that this is the plan. This is the great idea, the solution to gov't waste. the final solution to productivity of the human race and declining birth rates. hormones. microplastics in our blood. we don't need us anymore
Trump has stated that he wants a private army.
I think that he is going to take the remnants of the FBI and CIA coupled with malicious volunteers in order to form just that.
But we have a legion of middle aged Proud Boys, one eyed Oath Keepers, cosplay SecDef and Head of Homeland Security, 9 white supremacist nerds and a reprobate apartheid era neo Nazi who happens to be the world’s richest man (for now)! What could possibly go wrong?
Mistakenly, he likely believes the military will pick up all the slack. Also, we all know he’s never read a history book and probably isn’t one for podcasts.
Look who needs an army to occupy a relatively small Middle Eastern enclave known for decades of violence and turnoil? They just need contractors to build the seaside hotels Robert.
STOP SPREADING THIS VICIOUS LIE! I am SICK when I see this "Russian hordes" myth. Stalin didn't kill 27 million civilians; HITLER did! He starved millions of POWs to death in camps, besieged Leningrad for years, and massacred civilians because he viewed Slavs like he viewed Jews.
Of course the Nazis killed Slavs because they thought they were subhuman. I never said that wasn’t true, though it is very bad. I was saying that the Russians were motivated to defend their homeland from attack by a foreign enemy. That’s not horde behavior: it’s very human.
The Germans and Russians killed each other in central Europe & Asia with a huge amount of ferocity, as argued especially by Timothy Snyder in Bloodlands.
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(....now secretly hoping he purges both internal and external and intelligence forces...)
https://bsky.app/profile/matthewterrill.bsky.social/post/3lhajdxkpa22t
I think that he is going to take the remnants of the FBI and CIA coupled with malicious volunteers in order to form just that.
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