“We’re watching the illegal seizure of government power by private interests in real time. Full stop. There’s no complex legal theory that makes this okay. No presidential waiver or executive order can override these fundamental conflict-of-interest laws…”

They are governing incompetently on purpose, because it is not actually important to them that they do any of this correctly or smoothly or well. They are announcing their new regime, in which arbitrary and stupid things happen "as a matter of doing business," so that the horrifying things blend in.

This is just incredible. I love all of it.

Ricki and I are the same.