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As you watch the Trump regime wreck everything in sight, you should be regularly asking yourself this question:
If the stated goal was to end democracy, ruin the economy, accelerate climate change, shred human rights, aid our adversaries, and steal everything in sight -- would the regime be doing anything differently?
@dangillmor If that were his goal I suspect he'd actually be doing LESS damage. He's out to pilot the works onto the rocks as expediently as he can guide it there. I'm not sure if it's vascular dementia or the murder-suicide of a dissolving marriage we're seeing here.
@Beggarmidas @dangillmor perhaps they are planning to engineer a crisis and then impose martial law and put aside the constitution. But perhaps that can't be done until all the forces that could resist such a move have been dismantled.
@Beggarmidas @dangillmor after that, some sort of conference to write a new constitution, with MAGA holding the majority. Also, keeping the military on side during the process by having complete control of finances and being able to hand out large bonus payments.
@Beggarmidas @dangillmor funny that you can make up any crazy scenario that you like these days, and it seems just as plausible as anything else.
@ghouston @dangillmor Just like yours & everyone elses first instinct told you all along before you started mindfucking yourself into seeking depth where none was to be found....This is JUST as stupid as it seems. And that stupidity has allowed every single one of y'all to trick yourselves into vapor locking yourselves into inaction looking for wheels within wheels.
Turns out to trick this country all it takes is being dumb enough to let the smart people outsmart themselves.
@ghouston I think that's quite credible. Many examples of exactly that in the history of the world.
@ghouston @dangillmor It's nothing even that coherent. What's been fucking up people, ESPECIALLY the left wingers, DC insiders & career lifers is the fundamental incapacity to take something at its face value. Everyone is looking for 5D chess moves. But they're doing it against a blank wall, allowing them to see hints of whatever twisted game they can fucking dream up. So the only one they end up playing 5D chess against is themselves. But everyone's too busy outsmarting themselves to see it.
@ghouston @dangillmor I was being rhetorical. I know what the plan & goal is. HAVE known it since 2017. They've not even been coy about it. The goals & ambitions of political cults never varies. The path they use to get there may be, but upon achieving power primacy the next steps rarely vary. When they DO vary it's typically due to pressure from a greater or rival power. Since there is none in this case...Well, it's reverting true to form & process. As predictable as the pull of gravity.
@Beggarmidas @dangillmor I think they will go for a new constitution, based on a combination of social Christian fascism and economic libertarianism. Perhaps there will still be elections, but with vetting of candidates (proving that they will uphold the values of the constitution), I think Iran gives an example.
@ghouston @dangillmor What's likely i i've taken to calling "Fiat proceeduralism". They'll honor the existing legal code as long as it justifies what they already wanted. But by his whim any of it can be superseded, ignored, or shifted to suit. Remember, they're lazy & NOT imaginative.
But he wont live much longer. Especially not with amount of Adderall he snorts to keep up the illusion. He IS all that's holding it together...& refuses to name an heir. History's shown what always follows THAT.
@Beggarmidas @dangillmor I remember how quickly Pim Fortuyn's party fell to pieces after he was assassinated. But the pieces are basically still around, in mutated from.
@ghouston @dangillmor They always are. Always have been. inchoate elements all awaiting their messiah to bring them forth into their promised land. It practically defines the politics of the edge riders & perpetually disillusioned. The quiet grudges of those malingering shades that lay beyond them as well. It's constituency & membership change constantly. But their collective presence never does.