The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, but because it dribbles out in news stories about this specific incident or department, the reports never adequately describe an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government and also trashing the global economy, international alliances and relationships, and the national and global environment in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries…
…Across the branches of government, the services that are supposed to protect us – nuclear stockpile monitoring, cybersecurity, counter-terrorism – are being undermined, understaffed or trashed. A different kind of protection that consists of public health, vaccination programs, food safety, clean air and water, social services, civil rights and the rule of law is also under attack. The federal government that serves us is being starved while the federal government that serves the Trump agenda and the oligarchy is glutting itself on taxpayer money…
…It’s the antidemocratic weaknesses in our system that created the vulnerabilities that let this happen…
Trump, the right wing, and billionaires are destroying America.
What’s this article doing not pointing fingers at the right people.
The business plot wasn’t treated as treason. They should have strung those rich fuckers up. Now the same sort of fuckers are going to succeed.
The son of their point man was a president. As was his son.
Should be ending their lines. Would save so many lives.
I love how the Wikipedia article says that him being particularly important in the business plot was refuted by someone saying “he was too involved with the Nazi party to have time for that” pretty much
Exterminate the fascists. Kill the babies too.
Nope, because it was rich people fucking with rich people. That’s ok.
Author can’t accept this is exactly what maga voted for. The republican base, against their own interests, have wanted to strangle every facet of the federal gov for as long as I’ve been alive. They just finally got the supermajority and a leader both dumb and lacking empathy enough to make it happen.
I agree. The Republican goal has been to dismantle the government for decades. Maga just pushed it over the line to actually happen.
There’s a lot gone already.
They’ll cry later when they realize they broke what they will want later but destroyed.
MAGA: “destroy the government!” Also MAGA: “The government isn’t paying my social security and I can’t afford my medications!”
Reminds me of that video clip where some elderly karen told Obama at a townhall she didn’t want the goverment in her medicare 😬
Expect a tidal wave of “I can’t believe the Democrats did this to me” as that unfolds.
Nah, they’ll still blame immigrants, transgender athletes and blue haired woke snowflakes until they die.
They’re toddlers
Toddlers are usually quick learners.
& innocents
Yanks certainly aren’t.
I don’t think you understand what Yanks means
In my part of the world, it means “Americans”
But they don’t have a supermajority, they’re short 14 seats in the Senate for that.
freedom has slowly beaten democracy down
going to take something special to repair the institution
You are describing Libertarians. Yes, that was a sect of the Republican cult in the past, but now they are mostly fascist. Government social spending is bad, but they want military and law enforcement granted MORE power. They want people they don’t like to suffer and or die. Both over seas and domestically. Those are the morons. The rich want protection of their wealth and free reign over basically everything.
No, they’re describing Regan republicans. Don’t you remember how he deregulated everything? Told everyone “government is the problem”? And that if we didn’t tax the rich, the wealth would “trickle down” to the average American?
To this day there are still people who believe in this bullshit.
I’ll be blunt, I’ve never actually met a libertarian by the definition of libertarian.
I found the easiest way to find out. Ask about gay marriage and abortion, they’ll want them outlawed, want the government stepping in.
Libertarians were just Republicans who wanted to smoke weed, and now that Republicans are cool with weed they don’t really have anything left.
I used to be a Libertarian. The first time I voted, I voted Libertarian down the line. I did grow up a Republican since I am a white male from a middle class background and it’s traditional for white males to be Republican in this country. However, like you said, I liked smoking weed and drinking, plus I hated cops and came to view war as a tremendous waste of money, resources and human life. My Republican upbringing had me believing that taxes were strangling the economy as well. So I figured gubmint bad. Republicans may say that too, but they love war and hate human rights when applied to people they don’t like. They want a “strong” government to hold down undesirables and conquer and control the rest of the world. Fascists. That is the difference. I’m very liberal now. I have lived through a lot of things in the real world and now realize that those veiwpoints are unrealistic and awful respectively.
Hey! I’ll give you credit that sounds like you might have been one of the rare unicorns on it when you were one. Honestly with Republicans I’ve heard the same “hate cops” unless the cops are going after people they like then they love them. Republicans treat cops like soldiers, they say they support them… riiiiiiiiiiiight up until supporting them individually. But yea, definitely on the war front is a nice change of pace.
I agree on the unrealistic and awful… I in a lot of theoretical ways like the libertarian concept, I’m very much a “leave me alone” type, I just know too many that didn’t have the support when they were growing up that if there is nothing to help them… it feels cruel to do the “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” mentality.
And I definitely understand where you’re talking about on growing up and the expectations. I’m a white middle class guy, grew up in the area surrounded by confederate flags that is the exact area where “God and guns” is aimed at so expectations of me being a Republican. I just was raised by an old school bleeding heart liberal so like my dad and I talk I comment it’s funny I’d hear “You’ll be more conservative” as you get older and I’m over here going man… I was WAY more conservative when I was in high school and college.
America stepped onto this path with Regan, this is just the inevitable swan song of a process that Democrats didn’t have the balls to stop.
I mean, pre-Regan America still had much that could have been improved, it wasn’t perfect. But it gave its citizens one of the most prosperous eras in human history for the working class.
Regan winning re-election in every state but Minnesota resulted in the two parties adopting the exact same economic policies.
There was no viable alternative, so the economic inequalities that neoliberalism creates has run rampant for 40 years
Hmmm… Now, who would want to see America fall in grace against the rest of the world? It’s a real head scratcher. Also, how could it happen from the top down? Really makes you think, eh?
The entirety of the global south, including but not limited to:
Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Every native american nation, The entirety of all modern states of Africa, Afghanistan Iraq, Iran, Syria, The Philippines, China, Indonesia…
The entirety of the global south
What have they done to Australia?
Crocodile Dundee.
Canada too 🙋♂️
If someone is a great person with minor flaws, you don’t hold those against them and you always invite them to the bbq.
If someone is a piece of shit asshole all the time, you don’t want them anywhere around you.
The conservatives and their party, the Republicans, are destroying this country, and are backed by extremist radicals like the Seven Mountains Mandate and Thiel and Curtis Yarvin and the authors of The Sovereign Individual and The Unhumans and so on.
These people need to be named. Talking about some nebulous thing like “the United States” in a headline without naming the guilty is just helping the enemies of the country. Sure, not too far into the article this current administration is named, but why not put that or the Republicans in the headline?
Something something ENEMIES something and DOMESTIC. With dementia, who can remember any of those oath things anyway?
Yeah, we’re well aware. We are trying to resist it, but the problem with Americans is that the Religious Right that operates this country, has socialized us since the Civil War to behave ourselves, and be polite at all times.
So while MAGA doesnt have any problem with abandoning their socialization and regressing to poop-flinging apes, the rest of us have an instinctual obsession with politeness, even to those who are proven to be evil.
Eventually, though, that politeness will wear out, and when that happens, and the rest of polite society is driven past the breaking point, the eruption will be… glorious.
Yes, this is all happening as planned, by the tech oligarchs, who … essentially have successfully turned the country into an outright corporatocracy.
The government still technically exists, but it is nearly totally directed by capitalists, who themselves are essentially just playing out ego fantasy power trip battles as to who can be the best John Galt.
This is the ideal ‘libertarian’ society, realized; techno-feudalism.
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Shadowrun actually had/has a lower real cost of living than we now do in real life.
According to the side-job and lifestyle rules you could work part time and afford to live solo in a small appartment (Probably on par with V or Davids home in Cyberpunk)
…sonuvabitch stole my hat…
I mean that is every cyberpunk scenario from its very inception.
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I hope we get some cool countries out of this balkanization at least. Fingers crossed for Cascadia!
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Will it be strong enough to hold off the Mormon theocracy in the Rockies though?
Good, the US needs a reckoning.
Optimistic of you to think the reckoning it gets will be the one it needs. Theres no mistake the US won’t make again once someone thinks they can make money from it. If capitalism still stands nothing will fundamentally change. Maybe it buys another two or three election cycles.
Trump and his Nazis are definitely destroying this country
No, Trump is destroying the USA.
Trump and his cabal of like-minded minions.
I mean im keeping up with what gets dribbled out. I mean I don’t have a doc but I can’t see how people cannot see it who live here. About six months in you know you could no longer trust any data coming from the fed. Heck the actual fed the body had to give data they are basing their things are on because what was coming out of the fed the government where so off.
fed up with the current fake GOP fed
Sometimes you just need to burn the forrest down… (batman)
sometimes the forest burns you down
Sometimes the forest burns down and all the trees fall, but nobody is around to hear it.
