In an interview Trump revealed that he doesn't see JD Vance as his successor. Well geez, Donald, nobody does.
One or the other of Trump and Musk revealed that one of their next targets will be the organization that protects consumers against financial fraud. They're both players in the crypto alternate universe, of course they don't want adult supervision. The crypto industry paid a lot of money into Trump's election coffers. I guess they are placing their trust in the free market to prevent financial fraud. Not even Adam Smith would swallow that. Since so little wealth is in the hands of the lower orders, I presume these kinds of decisions are preparing the ground for when the ruling elite begins to target all the money in the retirement funds of retired boomers. Lots of money in there, how can they keep their hands off it. First Medicaid, then eventually everything else, with tech bro funded private equity intermediating every step of the way. The script writes itself. I hope those people don't think that being affluent and white is going to protect them. We're talking about a President who publicly threatened allies with military invasion with no provocation, they won't be shy about grabbing other people's private money. Who is going to stop them.
Trump and Musk seem to be flirting with the idea of disregarding judicial decisions. Well why not, Trump is immune anyway, who is going to stop him from doing whatever he wants. This seems to be ok with a lot of people, including Congress. It will be interesting to see how this comes to a head. JD Vance is on record as saying that it's ok for the administration to ignore judges' orders. I saw him say so in a video clip. If they ignore laws then eventually others will feel that they can too and they may not be polite about it. It's not as if the US is unfamiliar with violent protest. How far away is martial law and suspension of elections? Seems farfetched, I know, but every day we see things that used to be farfetched. They only believe in democracy when they win.
We saw the first wave of undocumented alian arrests on the news. Is that show over for the moment, I can't tell from here. Maybe just inducing the fear was enough blood lust. I saw one report that some of them had to be released because there weren't enough prison cells to house them. Was that ever brought up at a press conference?
I see headlines that tariffs will hurt farmers. Some of them might have to sell, providing the monied elites at the top the opportunity to do some cheap land banking. Sweet.
My wife watched the news clip aboard the airplane during which Trump declared the new name for the Gulf of Mexico. The airbrushed Soviet era photos with missing politicians were better propaganda than this kids' show. Do people swallow this crap. They'll ruin the economy, send your sons and daughters to die in Panama, but hey, it's now called the Gulf of America so smile.
There was a kerfuffle to do with the Super Bowl, but I don't care enough about it to find out what it was about. I guess one team won. There will be another game next year.
It might turn ugly if the great unwashed decide that the country is being run by an organized crime syndicate. I hope the US can keep it all contained inside their own borders though, I don't think the rest of the world wants any involvement in that shit show.
