Trump 2: Electric Fuckyougaloo

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Declaring Martial Law would also crash the economy, as it would declare that Democracy is dead in the US along with a so called capitalist economy.

Let them eat cake!

The case for Trump intentionally crashing the economy.

A diverse dynamic economy is a lot harder to control than that of, let's say, Russia. Total random country that popped into my head. Make it more manageable for a handful of oligarchs to rule over. Dismantle anything that can't be a source of fraud, grift, and corruption for Trump and his cronies.

While the wealthy also took hits from the recessions they manufactured, they were also able to get more assets at fire sale prices and ultimately emerged vastly more wealthy and powerful then before each recession.

Use the widespread outrage and protests to declare even more presidential powers and martial law under the guise of creating order. Expect a Reichstag fire type event to be the trigger.

Trump clearly hates the US and now sees at as nothing but a source or legal issues and ridicule for him. There's no carrots. Only sticks. The only people who matter are the wealthy who offer unquestioned loyalty and anybody below he can successfully grift. Everybody else inside and outside the country can fuck off.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/

Not a Russian asset. I swear.

 

[Agent47]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/

Not a Russian asset. I swear.

It looks like he's nit even trying to hide it. Theoretically: if confirmed, would he face a trial for high treason or could he argue that since elected, he's immune?

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

‘An Economic Stunner!’ CNN Anchor Shocked by ‘Recession-Level’ Jobs Data Ahead of Trump’s First Full Employment Report

CNN anchor John Berman was shocked by a new report showing the worst February jobs data since 2009.

www.mediaite.com

But don’t worry. When Trump heard the use of “the economy” is often used to mask reality he said hold my beer and updated it to excluding any data that could point to his polices as the cause.

Take comfort in that, recently unemployed MAGA! Also, sorry for dismantling the services you will now need. But he has a plan! Try not to die before you can benefit from it.

 

[Edd]

The case for Trump intentionally crashing the economy.

A diverse dynamic economy is a lot harder to control than that of, let's say, Russia. Total random country that popped into my head. Make it more manageable for a handful of oligarchs to rule over. Dismantle anything that can't be a source of fraud, grift, and corruption for Trump and his cronies.

While the wealthy also took hits from the recessions they manufactured, they were also able to get more assets at fire sale prices and ultimately emerged vastly more wealthy and powerful then before each recession.

Use the widespread outrage and protests to declare even more presidential powers and martial law under the guise of creating order. Expect a Reichstag fire type event to be the trigger.

Trump clearly hates the US and now sees at as nothing but a source or legal issues and ridicule for him. There's no carrots. Only sticks. The only people who matter are the wealthy who offer unquestioned loyalty and anybody below he can successfully grift. Everybody else inside and outside the country can fuck off.

You’re starting to paint him as an invincible mad genius, and he’s only one of those things. It will surely get worse before it gets better but there’s a fuckton of rich people who would not want the scenario you’re describing. I’d guess he can only go so far before catching a bullet.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sad and scared but, along with death and taxes, we can count on Trump’s gross incompetence.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

You’re starting to paint him as an invincible mad genius, and he’s only one of those things. It will surely get worse before it gets better but there’s a fuckton of rich people who would not want the scenario you’re describing. I’d guess he can only go so far before catching a bullet.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sad and scared but, along with death and taxes, we can count on Trump’s gross incompetence.

Trump has no clue about what he's actually doing. He's just a tool of the Project 2025 people. I expect his incompetence to get in the way, but it's also his incompetence and lack of giving a fuck that has allowed him to take things as far as he has. Project 2025 probably couldn't have picked a better blunt force assassin for their project and a large part of that is due to his cult members who can't comprehend or accept reality. If a Democrat president took the exact same actions as Trump thus far there would probably already be blood in the streets by now.

But I do agree there are wealthy people who don't want to be associated with this or want Trump to do them more economic favors that will throw the spotlight on them even further.

 

[Edd]

Trump has no clue about what he's actually doing. He's just a tool of the Project 2025 people. I expect his incompetence to get in the way, but it's also his incompetence and lack of giving a fuck that has allowed him to take things as far as he has. Project 2025 probably couldn't have picked a better blunt force assassin for their project and a large part of that is due to his cult members who can't comprehend or accept reality. If a Democrat president took the exact same actions as Trump thus far there would probably already be blood in the streets by now.

But I do agree there are wealthy people who don't want to be associated with this or want Trump to do them more economic favors that will throw the spotlight on them even further.

Completely agree he’s a dumb tool of far smarter people. I put the odds at 50% of not finishing his term due to death (various possible causes) or given the boot via 25th if the correct powerful people want it. He’s either being blackmailed or bribed by Putin and Vance may be trickier to manipulate in the same manner. To be clear, Vance has no scruples but Trump is unique as an empty amoral vessel, perhaps once in a generation.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Completely agree he’s a dumb tool of far smarter people. I put the odds at 50% of not finishing his term due to death (various possible causes) or given the boot via 25th if the correct powerful people want it. He’s either being blackmailed or bribed by Putin and Vance may be trickier to manipulate in the same manner. To be clear, Vance has no scruples but Trump is unique as an empty amoral vessel, perhaps once in a generation.

Some are saying that Trump believes he won't finish his term either for health reasons or a successful assassination. And maybe it's due to the barrage of actions, but it seems for now mental health has been taken off the table...as if mental health for the elderly comes in the form of incoherent mumbling. As long as Trump is still capable of yelling I guess he must 100% be there.

I keep looking at these wealthy people and wondering WTF are they so mad about? Give me 1,000th of your wealth and I'll go enjoy my life in peace. Although, I'm not sure this is their reasoning, I'm sure we're experiencing a result of what the anti-capitalists have been raging about for the past century. This is where things inevitably end up. And in the US we've been brainwashed to believe that the only other option to capitalism is extreme communism where nobody owns or enjoys a damn thing.

 

[Yoused]

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I keep looking at these wealthy people and wondering WTF are they so mad about? Give me 1,000th of your wealth and I'll go enjoy my life in peace.

Because, at their level, money is no longer about having what you or I would call a good or comfortable life. You get over about ten million and the money becomes entirely about exerting one's power over others. Nothing more, just being powerful.

Also, in my math, there may or may not be a good and an evil – they are hard to assess because they are so subjective (Nazis perceive genocide as a good thing, Fundamentalists see suppressing women as a good thing, etc), but the one thing that seems to be consistent in anyone's definition of "evil" is that it involves exerting power over others. The love of money may not actually be the root of all evil, but money is the fuel for what many of us consider evil.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

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Because, at their level, money is no longer about having what you or I would call a good or comfortable life. You get over about ten million and the money becomes entirely about exerting one's power over others. Nothing more, just being powerful.

Also, in my math, there may or may not be a good and an evil – they are hard to assess because they are so subjective (Nazis perceive genocide as a good thing, Fundamentalists see suppressing women as a good thing, etc), but the one thing that seems to be consistent in anyone's definition of "evil" is that it involves exerting power over others. The love of money may not actually be the root of all evil, but money is the fuel for what many of us consider evil.

People who know Musk have said he truly believes he is the savior of humanity. Unfortunately he has a toddler's grasp of what that may entail. Setting aside the fact that his mythology is completely fabricated, it is pretty remarkable how he has completely swung from one side to the other on that. It's like finding a cure for cancer but only as a means to create enough wealth and power to promote asbestos as the ultimate construction material.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Although I highly doubt this, I will give Trump full 5D chess points if this was his move. Instead of using Musk to increase his wealth, Trump is using his power and loyal masses to make Musk less wealthy, powerful, and relevant. This would be a Putin-esque move.

Queue Trump's nothing to see here voice. "I was told these Silicon Valley guys are very smart, very smart people, but you know, at the same time you can't trust these Silicon Valley people. Very sad, really. Going forward......" as there's no way Musk is going to recover from the hole he's dug for himself globally.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

A RFK research team has proven something we've suspected all along. No new ghosts have been produced since 1895. In that year it was determined they reached peak spookiness and any future ghost needs could be achieved through wearing different outfits which is a 98.7% savings on the cost of producing a new ghost. Also ghosts require vitamins B12 and D to materialize.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Good luck to parents (and our future) if the department of education gets dismantled which has been a racist wet dream ever since desegregation. I have faith that my state of CA will maintain some kind of standards, but the south will become the top source for near (or actual) ideologue slave labor because that's all they will be qualified for. Ironic that would happen in the south. They'll just be working for the betterment of the state, or what some might call communism. More irony.

Remember, your president loves you.

 

[rdrr]

Good luck to parents (and our future) if the department of education gets dismantled which has been a racist wet dream ever since desegregation. I have faith that my state of CA will maintain some kind of standards, but the south will become the top source for near (or actual) ideologue slave labor because that's all they will be qualified for. Ironic that would happen in the south. They'll just be working for the betterment of the state, or what some might call communism. More irony.

Remember, your president loves you.

The downfall of our education system is already happening.

Grad School Is in Trouble

The latest signal that the future of the university is under threat

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

The downfall of our education system is already happening.

Grad School Is in Trouble

The latest signal that the future of the university is under threat

www.theatlantic.com

Our education system is a mess for sure but completely dismantling the department of education isn't a solution. It's a way to make things worse. It will move things from some standards to no standards. Charter schools are already a source of massive fraud from funding to education results. There was an article the other day about the head of a charter school having a salary of $875,000 where there's only 1,000 students. There's single schools out there that have 4 times that many students and not even the superintendent of the entire district makes anywhere near that salary. The test score results of charter school students is often the same or below that of our shit public education system. This is the grift that will probably cost us the most as a society in the long term.

 

[Herdfan]

Yet most of us here learned to read, write, do math and learn about history all prior to the DoE even being created.

How did this happen without the federal government being involved?

 

[Eric]

Yet most of us here learned to read, write, do math and learn about history all prior to the DoE even being created.

How did this happen without the federal government being involved?

We no longer live in a society where Laura Ingalls goes school in a one room class on the prairie.

Just like the founding fathers and the right to bear arms never intended for assault weapons being used to slaughter a bunch of little kids in kindergarten. Things evolve and necessary Government steps in, we can talk about the efficiency of these various departments but letting an immigrant bipolar billionaire dictate policy based on a whim is not the way to go about it. Even though we all know that's exactly what will happen.

 

[Yoused]

The musical Hamilton was scheduled to run at Kennedy Center next year as part of the 250th anniversary of the US celebration. The production has canceled its participation because the venue has been purified by the current administration, making Individual-ONE the Center's chairman and the staff sanitized of Democrats. Hamilton's producers are not happy about the politicization of Kennedy Center. Naturally, MAGAts are not happy about this turn either.

"Let's be clear on the facts," Richard Grenell, a (Individual-ONE) administration diplomat, said in a post via X. "Seller and Lin Manuel first went to the New York Times before they came to the Kennedy Center with their announcement that they can’t be in the same room with Republicans. This is a publicity stunt that will backfire."

Grenell—who recently campaigned on behalf of accused sex traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate—then argued that arts are for both sides of the aisle and "not just for the people who Lin likes and agrees with."
"The American people need to know that Lin-Manuel is intolerant of people who don’t agree with him politically. It’s clear he and Sellers don’t want Republicans going to their shows," he added.​

Funny. Purge the D half of the board and then complain about intolerance.

 

[rdrr]

Yet most of us here learned to read, write, do math and learn about history all prior to the DoE even being created.

How did this happen without the federal government being involved?

There are a myriad of reasons you are missing. Most importantly special Education before the DoE was almost non-existent. Certainly the school systems didn't care about ADHD, Autism, and Aspergers.

Don't tell me your hypothetical outlook, because I have a nephew who is Autistic and without DoE grants would have been written off. Now he is graduating high school and probably will go on to Community College. Something that was all facilitated by a lot of help from the DoE.

 

[Yoused]

The Defense Department is cleansing anything that has a scent of DEI to it. Therefore, all references to the Enola Gay shall be deleted.