insofar as any plan exists, it is to tear the federal government apart and leave it hollowed out and toothless in ways no one alive has ever seen - ThreadSky

golikehellmachine.com • 2 days ago

insofar as any plan exists, it is to tear the federal government apart and leave it hollowed out and toothless in ways no one alive has ever seen

Reposted from George Pearkes

*TRUMP SEEKS TO PUT 443 FEDERAL PROPERTIES UP FOR SALE
*PROPERTIES INCLUDE HHS AND HUD HEADQUARTERS IN DC

Listed properties here: www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...

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airwindows.com•2 days ago

Absolutely. I don't know how that's going to pan out, but clearly that's the only intention here, suggesting there's either a plan for dealing with the wreckage, or the plan IS to flee once wreckage is assured. There are some notable faces of this plan…

jasoncheathawks.bsky.social•2 days ago

wow, president trump loves remote work! hero of the federal bureaucrat (a sniper dot appears on my forehead)

crimsoncloak.bsky.social•2 days ago

Their goal is to dismantle democracy and representative government, and make the country operate like a Dark Ages feudal kingdom

thewilliamgeorge.bsky.social•2 days ago

This makes sense given that his backers are all evil fucks who were only ever stopped by the power of government.

insidiouslygrim.bsky.social•2 days ago

And Grover Norquist lived long enough to see the drowning.

dcactuary.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hate to be that guy but this list has to be an error. Every major federal building is on it. The main campus of CMS. The Hoover building. labor, hud, literally everything.

suddenlygarmo.bsky.social•2 days ago

what about the actions that the administration has taken in the past month makes you think that this is an error

dcactuary.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean, they are sloppy and prone to errors would be the primary reason I think that. I don’t doubt that they want to sell a lot of federal property, but this would eliminate the entire federal government, as best I can tell. That would still surprise me, yes.

lines.snail.skin•2 days ago

I think that is what they are trying to do.

kgbenefits.bsky.social•1 day ago

Look up Curtis Yarvin if you want to be scared. This is what they want.

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•2 days ago

Reconstruction going to be extremely literal this time around, huh

misterrora.bsky.social•2 days ago

OMG, he's trying to further depress the office real estate market.

His family and buddies are going to scoop these properties up at discount rates.

thestinkfoot.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is going to absolutely annihilate downtown real estate nationwide, too.

wolfgabe.bsky.social•2 days ago

The paradox is that hollowing out the federal government or as in Steve Bannon's words destroying the administrative state runs completely counter to Donalds dictorial fantasies since with authoritarian regimes, the administrative state is absolute critical to maintain control

tom4okstate.bsky.social•2 days ago

More of Yarvin's playbook.

snapgracklepop.bsky.social•2 days ago

I know this is pretty far down on the priority list but government buildings tend to be some of the more aesthetically pleasing buildings in any given city and to let them crumble or get covered in corporate logos is a shame.

snoozebuttonben.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is what "drowning it in the bathtub" looks like.

mtannenbaum.bsky.social•2 days ago

It has been my hypothesis that it will all be sold off to cronies at pennies on the dollar.

vivasisyphus.bsky.social•1 day ago

The took the list down.

roninmacbeth.bsky.social•2 days ago

Amendment 14, Section 3. We will have to repudiate most, if not all, actions he has taken as illegal and declare the sales null and void.

paringpro.bsky.social•2 days ago

I really hope we can get some kind of tacit pact on not buying these. The way in Myanmar they've been trying to sell Aung San Suu Kyi's house for years with no buyers

rockymountviews.bsky.social•2 days ago

And to the point we cannot ever go back to the way it was before Trump.

noahdeuce.bsky.social•2 days ago

SSA HQ is on that list!

melico.bsky.social•2 days ago

On the other hand,who the hell would buy them right now?

brandogarcia.bsky.social•2 days ago

So, “you must return to work, but we are getting rid of your workplace.” Heck of a catch, that Catch-22.

devotaj.com•2 days ago

Yup.

unavaleable.bsky.social•2 days ago

they're genuinely trying to repeal the 20th century

tomatolikeabus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Private Industry rolls in acting the hero, and essential functions become an endless labyrinth of micro-transactions, mysteriously owing our time and lives to them in perpetuity.

freediddy1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Man some of these buildings would be insanely great to play paintball in

captainblye.bsky.social•2 days ago

And if/when we are working to rebuild it, it’s going to cost soooooooo much more because we need to rebuy the assets back from his cronies that bought it.

lddstyx.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why would the Second American Republic pay for taking back any of its stolen property?

lifelonglearner.bsky.social•2 days ago

They’re stripping the state for parts.

It’s what happened at the end of the Soviet Union, sometimes called katastroika:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization_in_Russia

jordansmed.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was just assuming this was the private equity play where the agencies themselves stay there but now have to pay rent to their new (Trump’s buddies, obviously) landlords

cogbarn.bsky.social•2 days ago

I wouldn’t put it past Erik Prince to buy a few to serve as “processing centers” for “illegals”

boysek.bsky.social•2 days ago

yup, I think that's the play. a way to extract federal dollars and transfer the wealth to billionnaires.

oddevens.bsky.social•2 days ago

This but with the added point of the oligarchs raising rents if those agencies try to implement any policies or regulations that affect their bottom lines. Or just selling the building back to the next dem admin for 5x the cost

roninmacbeth.bsky.social•2 days ago

If they try that, then let's reacquaint them with the concept of "eminent domain." And perhaps with "jail time," too, for accepting a sale from an illegal administration.

notthatproud.bsky.social•2 days ago

I admit it's difficult for me to understand. They apparently want to destroy everything just so they can be kings of the rubble. Why?

insidejoke.bsky.social•2 days ago

They are unhinged conspiracy theorists. They believe the US Government as it exists under both Dems and Republicans exists to destroy the country

notthatproud.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah, I mean, dealing with the conspiracy theories is a real problem.

mavwreck.bsky.social•2 days ago

A lot of them are “movement conservatives”. They believe that wealthy people ought to run the country because their wealth demonstrates they know how to run things. As such they don’t like a powerful federal government (or a powerful state government but those are always weaker).

mcirwin47.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes. They want to exert power over individuals while being insulated from risk (at least in their minds), not engage in a competitive society. If that means making everyone poorer, it doesn’t matter because they have everything they will need, land, multiple asset classes, and loyal followers.

sarahquaint.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because they are creating the evidence they need to show the government is non-functional. Then they’ll have reason to outsource these tasks to their own private, for-profit corporations.

jimminyyyreal.bsky.social•2 days ago

Idk if that works when behind your statement is a very big arrow pointing directly at you labeled 'did all this'

sarahquaint.bsky.social•2 days ago

eh, they haven’t faced a single consequence for any of the horrible shit they’ve done thus far, so naturally they’re going to carry on as they have been

jimminyyyreal.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yea but it's gonna have 0 public support and we'll hit the cool zone eventually

packingsmacky.bsky.social•2 days ago

But they'll be presiding over a hollowed-out and impoverished country.

kgbenefits.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's what they want. They are accelerationists (they think the collapse of the US is inevitable so they want to speed it up & control the process) so that they can be technocratic lords ruling over petty fiefdoms

The best analog is Russia in the early 90s. They're going to tear everything down.

ecarney.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes. These people would rather have absolute control over a wreck of a nation than partial control over one in which wealth and power are shared with anyone other than a class of feudal lords.

packingsmacky.bsky.social•2 days ago

Unless they liquidate a lot of stock, I don't see how they're going to fare so well. If their wealth is determined by the size of their portfolios, I think things are about to get really grim. We're sure screwed. It's only fair they come with us.

boombutton.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's about the size of the gap, not the size of the pile. As long as everyone else gets screwed worse than they do, they're ahead.

ecarney.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't think they're trying to become wealthier in absolute terms. But if you own 100% of a society's assets, you are still fabulously wealthy in comparison to everyone else, no matter how devalued those assets are. Accelerationists believe social collapse is inevitable, but also winnable.

psionicerudite.bsky.social•2 days ago

It has been said that conservatives would be happy living under a bridge eating pigeon cooked over burning trash if some other guy didn't get any pigeon.

notthatproud.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't disagree entirely, but Rs have been doing this for decades and don't need to wreck everything to do it. It's notable that Elon seems to think he is really targeting waste, fraud and abuse, but has basically come up with nothing. We're all going to find out that the government does a lot.

evebrowning.bsky.social•2 days ago

Probably because (1) Elon saw "Mad Max" movies when he was still impressionable and comparatively sober, and the devastation caused his privates to twitch, and (2) Trump is 100% checked out and letting Elon whatever.

vegasgello.bsky.social•2 days ago

gkbishop.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's going to move everything to Mar-A-Lago and list the White House on AirBNB.

(I'm joking, but you never know with this bastard)

lisapierce.bsky.social•1 day ago

“…in ways no one alive has ever seen” cannot be overstated

decarboxy.chat•2 days ago

i like how things like the entire GSA building are now "non-core" properties

joshsternberg.com•2 days ago

and then let his friends and cronies come in, buy the land and offices at pennies on the dollar, and build (he's a real estate guy lol) on that land to then charge the rest of us an arm and a leg to live there. ofc, we won't have any arms/legs left bc we spent it all on things like eggs.

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