Your framing makes more sense than most. Your cold-hearted analytical "comfort" level with what is going on just exceeds my normie psyche such that the whole situation makes me want to puke.
How is it unconstitutional for the Executive to manage executive functions?
The experts being eliminated are expert at building bloated agencies for their own glory, and self interest; political or financial. We have had our fill of experts lately.
The predicate to a political upheaval is important. Trump is possible because the Regime had abandoned all reason and embraced irrationality. The people were finally jarred out of their stupor. The opportunity for change is very short lived, and not suited to politics as usual, particularly when the grifters still hold a legislative majority.
Buckle up for a bumpy ride to an uncertain future; well, uncertain in the short term.
Maybe it was because I was reading ‘Court of the Red Tsar’ at the time, but since 2016 I’ve been saying that for all the talk about fascism, the historical movement that the modern Trumpist and Brexity right most reminds me of is the Bolsheviks
I used to get mocked on Twitter for saying that but the last 2 years more and more people are coming around to my point of view
I do not think the comparison to Stalin's purges is fair. Stalin countenanced and probably encouraged the cruelties of the purges of the 1930's for the same reason that he took the lead of his country's military to defeat Hitler's army and orchestrated the assassination of Trotsky in Mexico - all of these things were threats to his life which was his only priority. The fact that he was not animated at all by any over arching principals is perfectly revealed by the fact that he died without any plans for a successor or even a process for succession. The people who most resemble Stalin in this world today are Kim in Korea, Xi in China and ironically Putin in Russia. Not Trump, as much as his opponents would like us to believe.
But I think the biggest weakness in your argument here is the presumption that our economy is on solid ground. Our country was pretty sanguine about our economy in 2007. There were plenty of people, including Democrats, that were openly worried about practices that had emerged out of the 1990's but we seemed to being doing just fine having suffered a major blow on 9/11, taken on Afghanistan and waged a war in Iraq. The stock market was just fine. And then, of course, came 2008.
I am just saying that I think Trump's goals are to right our economic ship as one of his top priorities. It will take leadership but I think he welcomes the opposition because he knows he is making big moves and there are hazards. He knows his opponents will make those issues front and center but if it is coming from politicians whose campaigns are funded by defense industries and pharmaceutical companies that information will come out too. I truly believe we can salvage any damage and come out stronger from the steps he is taking now. And I believe that these are truly Trump's goals and priorities - not his life. He has demonstrated that he is ready to risk his life to do what he is doing.
I'm in violent agreement with the need for a government tech/process makeover. And, yes, every President since Clinton has fumbled that ball. That said, all Musk is doing now is wiping out the overseers and setting up the next six moves on his Monopoly board.
He will carve out a few opportunities for himself and leave the rest in chaos with an unrecoverable data debris field the size of Iowa. Whoever comes after him will not only have to fight him for a place at the table but waste enormous amounts of time and money coalescing a reasonable starting point for anything resembling game-changing technology.
What you say can most definitely unfold.
Your framing makes more sense than most. Your cold-hearted analytical "comfort" level with what is going on just exceeds my normie psyche such that the whole situation makes me want to puke.
Rationalizing is a coping mechanism.
You’ll let us know when it’s time to stock up on canned goods and buys shares in Vault-Tec, right?
Too funny
How is it unconstitutional for the Executive to manage executive functions?
The experts being eliminated are expert at building bloated agencies for their own glory, and self interest; political or financial. We have had our fill of experts lately.
The predicate to a political upheaval is important. Trump is possible because the Regime had abandoned all reason and embraced irrationality. The people were finally jarred out of their stupor. The opportunity for change is very short lived, and not suited to politics as usual, particularly when the grifters still hold a legislative majority.
Buckle up for a bumpy ride to an uncertain future; well, uncertain in the short term.
Maybe it was because I was reading ‘Court of the Red Tsar’ at the time, but since 2016 I’ve been saying that for all the talk about fascism, the historical movement that the modern Trumpist and Brexity right most reminds me of is the Bolsheviks
I used to get mocked on Twitter for saying that but the last 2 years more and more people are coming around to my point of view
Absolutely agree. Musk if very Leninist in his hurry-up revolution.
I do not think the comparison to Stalin's purges is fair. Stalin countenanced and probably encouraged the cruelties of the purges of the 1930's for the same reason that he took the lead of his country's military to defeat Hitler's army and orchestrated the assassination of Trotsky in Mexico - all of these things were threats to his life which was his only priority. The fact that he was not animated at all by any over arching principals is perfectly revealed by the fact that he died without any plans for a successor or even a process for succession. The people who most resemble Stalin in this world today are Kim in Korea, Xi in China and ironically Putin in Russia. Not Trump, as much as his opponents would like us to believe.
But I think the biggest weakness in your argument here is the presumption that our economy is on solid ground. Our country was pretty sanguine about our economy in 2007. There were plenty of people, including Democrats, that were openly worried about practices that had emerged out of the 1990's but we seemed to being doing just fine having suffered a major blow on 9/11, taken on Afghanistan and waged a war in Iraq. The stock market was just fine. And then, of course, came 2008.
I am just saying that I think Trump's goals are to right our economic ship as one of his top priorities. It will take leadership but I think he welcomes the opposition because he knows he is making big moves and there are hazards. He knows his opponents will make those issues front and center but if it is coming from politicians whose campaigns are funded by defense industries and pharmaceutical companies that information will come out too. I truly believe we can salvage any damage and come out stronger from the steps he is taking now. And I believe that these are truly Trump's goals and priorities - not his life. He has demonstrated that he is ready to risk his life to do what he is doing.
Thanks for that thoughtful reply.
Your welcome - I am now a paid subscriber look forward to reading more from you as we travel through these interesting times.
I actually feel a little better after reading this. Emphasis on little.
I'm in violent agreement with the need for a government tech/process makeover. And, yes, every President since Clinton has fumbled that ball. That said, all Musk is doing now is wiping out the overseers and setting up the next six moves on his Monopoly board.
He will carve out a few opportunities for himself and leave the rest in chaos with an unrecoverable data debris field the size of Iowa. Whoever comes after him will not only have to fight him for a place at the table but waste enormous amounts of time and money coalescing a reasonable starting point for anything resembling game-changing technology.
Do we have that time?