Mineral Man has a new post discussing how the buffoon-in-chief and his sycophants are dismantling the social safety net:
I keep thinking about how the US would be "governed" if an actual Russian were elected president, or installed as president in a coup. And I can't help but conclude that trump is "governing" precisely how an enemy of the United States would govern.
Dismantling government agencies.
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Attacking - financially, politically, emotionally, specifically minorities. [/FONT]
Attacking and discrediting agencies that he can't dismantle.
Ensure that government agencies and their cabinet secretaries do precisely the opposite of what they are expected to do.
Install judges who will continue the attacks long after the dictator, and maybe even the republican party if they get out of line, is gone.
Attack all allies and endorse Russia and Putin.
Destroy the NATO alliance.
Enact a budget that increases the deficit and hampers future, rational, presidents for undoing the damage that is being done.
Perhaps my mythical Russian leader, or my less mythical Russian asset in the White House, would be more subtle. That is why intelligence assets are directed to behave - with subtlety.
With today's advocacy for Russia to rejoin the G-7, to return to the G-8, there is no question left at all that he is a Russian asset.
He has destroyed American alliances.
He has destroyed American businesses.
He has increased the chasm between the wealthy and the poor.
He has exacerbated, deliberately, racism, sexism, LGBTQ discrimination, religious enmity.
Call it paranoia, but I truly believe that he is nothing more or less than a Russian asset carrying out Russian directives.
~ [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Mineral Man - Democratic Underground
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I keep thinking about how the US would be "governed" if an actual Russian were elected president, or installed as president in a coup. And I can't help but conclude that trump is "governing" precisely how an enemy of the United States would govern.
Dismantling government agencies.
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Attacking - financially, politically, emotionally, specifically minorities. [/FONT]
Attacking and discrediting agencies that he can't dismantle.
Ensure that government agencies and their cabinet secretaries do precisely the opposite of what they are expected to do.
Install judges who will continue the attacks long after the dictator, and maybe even the republican party if they get out of line, is gone.
Attack all allies and endorse Russia and Putin.
Destroy the NATO alliance.
Enact a budget that increases the deficit and hampers future, rational, presidents for undoing the damage that is being done.
Perhaps my mythical Russian leader, or my less mythical Russian asset in the White House, would be more subtle. That is why intelligence assets are directed to behave - with subtlety.
With today's advocacy for Russia to rejoin the G-7, to return to the G-8, there is no question left at all that he is a Russian asset.
He has destroyed American alliances.
He has destroyed American businesses.
He has increased the chasm between the wealthy and the poor.
He has exacerbated, deliberately, racism, sexism, LGBTQ discrimination, religious enmity.
Call it paranoia, but I truly believe that he is nothing more or less than a Russian asset carrying out Russian directives.
~ [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Mineral Man - Democratic Underground
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