Starve the beast to destroy expertise and ethics. I will never forgive the #GOP. Used CRT, DEI, immigrant and trans dehumanization rhetoric to vote out Senator Sherrod Brown in Ohio. Deplorable Americans.
The US is a failed state. It’s time for all sane nations to drop the US dollar for international trading and liquidate all US dollar reserves. A robust retaliatory measure to combat the destabilizing trump regime. Get in early! The US dollar will depreciate exponentially once the divestment starts.😎
Seems like the brilliant idea is run the government like “X” Twitter, and that is not very successful currently. We hv 2 failed business man running the government to the ground.
right? this is the part where they are sawing off the branch they are sitting on
but look at this as a private equity grab: take it over, dismantle it, drain the money, sell off the parts and then walk away. if we let them do this we’ll be absolutely nothing in ten years or so.
Trump's businesses exist in great part to leverage the power of bankruptcy laws to facilitate defrauding investors and converting that investment into personal wealth.
45/47 is doing with the country the same thing he did with his businesses, setting it up to declare bankruptcy and default on the debt. Inflation will *skyrocket* and the country will become a third-rate pariah, isolated and distrusted. They are recreating a 1970s South Africa.
Tariffs! The entire world is going to pay us trillions of dollars in tariffs and we are going to see wealth like no one has ever seen before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Privatizing government functions instead of having a federal, publicly paid work force. No IRS, but a contract to an oligarch to provide that service for a fee.
Not really, I'm coming more from a place where I don't think there's a real shot where they don't execute their plan and create a failed mafia state in the US. If the US survives this, it's going to have to permanently deal with the threat. No consequences means no more country.
If they’re going to bring back nuclear fear, energy wars, rampant inflation, swine flu, questionable foreign interference, bumbling Presidents, and comical VPs, they should be required to bring back the fun parts of the 1970s, too.
How can an immigrant come into our country and destroy it with Rumpy Trumpy's permission. And a worm brain person stop vaccines and allow diseases spread!
GET THEM OUT!
Since the market for commercial real estate is already pretty poor, the people the feds have leased the property from will be forced to sell at discount rates. These corrupt American government oligarchs will then buy it cheap for themselves and wait for conditions to improve.
Because Congress is letting him.
He's cutting 'their' appropriated funds and all they have to do is raise their hand and say you can't do that and it would stop.
But apparently they don't want to do their jobs which is legislating.
They seem content sitting on the sidelines collecting a paycheck.
I don’t think they need rhetorical cover anymore. They don’t feel like they need any kind of cover. They don’t expect there to be a real election again.
Took just under 100 years after the great depression to put into place the institutions and laws that created a large and prosperous middle class and stabilized the economy and international relations to a greater extent and had ever existed before. Took five weeks to undo it all.
Trump has convinced himself that the tariffs mean that foreigners will take up the tax shortfall. Not sure if any of his appointees believe that, but for the time being they’re allowing him to believe it.
They can’t. Putin is thrilled, and the Heritage Foundation/broligarchs are too stupid to know they have already shot themselves in the foot. We will crash and the only person that wins is Putin.
It makes sense that the regime that 2 weeks ago suggested weightlifting was more important than bureaucracy in delivering military power is now gutting the most important part of any modern military - the tax collection system.
The downstream effect of all this is recession. In addition to unemployment, all the landlords and other companies with federal contracts. Suddenly losing federal dollars is catastrophic to many businesses.
The fatal flaw in Yarvin (and myriad others like him) is that in his “IQ racism” he FAILS to offer an explanation for why most “whites” are more akin to Honey Boo Boo than Socrates at the same time MUCH of his “beloved” Silicon Valley has been elevated (developed and expanded) by brown people.
Maybe a diverse sung-and-rapped-through biographical musical about Socrates would help? Or maybe a live telecast musical with a Country music celebrity about Socrates?
Possibly listening to multifarious leaders on their perceived variations, variabilities, and uncertainties would be most effective?
Impossible! You can't cut Soc Security staff in half. Musk needs to be gone. He's ruined Twitter and now he's after our constitutional republic. Get rid of him. And impeach Trump for sedition.
They must be convinced all the concentration camps will somehow fund themselves.
It will turn out that a pogrom is an insanely expensive policy to pursue, from mass abductions, to murders of anyone who resists, to transporting the surviving victims to remote prisons.
Exactly. Oligarchs don't flock to 3rd world countries. After the US becomes one where do the Uber rich go? Where does military funding come from? Trump and President Musk leave themselves vulnerable.
And yes, taxes will be payable in dogecoin or whatever scam coin he owns the most of when it’s time to jack the prices up by requiring everyone to buy it to pay tax
With banking info at hand, they simply take what they want. Tiered citizenship / residence fee. Legal immigrants “paying” significantly more. Dare I there will MAGA discounts.
How does a skeleton-crew fed enforce existing tariffs & trade laws, let alone vastly expanded ones? Whose gonna validate every passport matches their new, weird expectations? How can they project military force? Whose keeping tabs on all of this & how are paying for them after massive tax cuts?
The theory is that even if the state is powerless, people like Musk won’t be: that just as Carnegie, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Hearst were “powerful” whilst the Federal Government wasn’t, the Musks and Bezos figures will be.
“The Neoreactionaries have openly stated their aims: to destroy the nation-state and the Constitutional order and replace them with a new privately owned corporate state, to be run by a CEO-dictator.” <— actual quote from Curtis Yarvin, who thinks CEOs should rule.
Yes. They want to crash the system and build their oligarchical fiefdoms. Network states not geographically bound. Create high unemployment to make ppl desperate, wages low, terrorized. Keep women at home. Let the old and infirm die. They're insane. If US crashes we're all gonna suffer.
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Unless the oligarchs are the new Congress.
And Luigi understands this better than anyone.
@maddow.msnbc.com @chrislhayes.bsky.social @jimacosta.bsky.social
The global oligarchs want to return to feudalism. Doing so hinges on them destroying the US, stealing what they can and selling the rest off.
It's global class war.
but look at this as a private equity grab: take it over, dismantle it, drain the money, sell off the parts and then walk away. if we let them do this we’ll be absolutely nothing in ten years or so.
For a genius, Elon Musk is stunningly ignorant. Running the government is not like running Twitter into the ground.
His goal is to destroy the very country that made him the richest man on earth.
But sure.
Or at least, we all hope he does.
Cocaine?
MASH?
Steely Dan!
That car must have had at least two dozen “features” that are illegal today.
GET THEM OUT!
What will they do with all those Fed buildings, turn them into Trump Shrines? Like other dictator type countries?
I hate it here.
He's cutting 'their' appropriated funds and all they have to do is raise their hand and say you can't do that and it would stop.
But apparently they don't want to do their jobs which is legislating.
They seem content sitting on the sidelines collecting a paycheck.
Plus they're not even allowed to abdicate their own power this way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representation
Workers/employers pay taxes. This just prevents the 1% from getting audited and impedes refunds.
Genius plan. Can’t possibly fail.
it's a pure destruction play, on orders from putin and in line with the wishes of the oligarchs who hate democracy.
they will be the ones in charge, b/c they are the elite.
the sooner we stop thinking trump governs the better.
And they want people to die, here and worldwide. This is basically eugenics in plain view.
Taxes will *have* to increase. The rubes can thank their orange goblin.
. . . And be assured, that bureaucracy *will* get rebuilt (Bannon be damned.)
https://bsky.app/profile/drunemeton.bsky.social/post/3linnxtbsuc24
4 links: 1st two are the same facet, next two fill in the details.
Possibly listening to multifarious leaders on their perceived variations, variabilities, and uncertainties would be most effective?
It will turn out that a pogrom is an insanely expensive policy to pursue, from mass abductions, to murders of anyone who resists, to transporting the surviving victims to remote prisons.
Trump is a Russian agent, here to bring America to our knees. The Cold War never ended -- in fact Russia may finally be prevailing now.
**transnational** capital DGAF about USA citizens or standing.
can get through next tax season...
Watch until the end when he talks about dictatorship
https://youtu.be/ZluMysK2B1E?si=CA8kvb6LPkk0SNRX
“The Neoreactionaries have openly stated their aims: to destroy the nation-state and the Constitutional order and replace them with a new privately owned corporate state, to be run by a CEO-dictator.” <— actual quote from Curtis Yarvin, who thinks CEOs should rule.