Hang with me… the real objection that invalidates the whole is at the end… In theory there are a number of actions that are being talked about that I could quibble with how around the edges but the idea isn’t objectionable - cutting expenses, consolidating real estate, selling surplus property, reducing headcount, eliminating fraud, etc. that is what they are talking about doing, it it’s not what they are ACTUALLY doing.
they are destroying the government, running off talent, extracting revenge, hiring extreme loyalists, taking what they want, violating the constitution, and in most cases so that they can lower taxes or remove obstacles to their power and wealth grab. They promised to fight for the working class, they use the language still but the bigly actions aren’t so much anti-woke, anti-queer, even anti-immigrant - that’s all a smoke screen, cutting costs and expenses, also a smoke screen, they want lower taxes and a weaker government so that the oligarchs can take more without risk of oversight or penalties.
the big companies get this, and those that can have already turned over almost $100m to DJT in the form of law suit settlements. It’s fucking transparent. He sues, they don’t claim their fundamental first amendment right, they pay.
foreign policy is also for sale. Selling technology to India? Grift indirectly. Trying to settle the war in Ukraine to the objection of Ukraine and Europe, also a grift. Suspending FCpA enforcement, direct grift. Trump is basically saying this how the world works, oligarchs and grift, common man hating each other and smoke screen the whole thing while you power grab, rape the earth, and destroy humanity. And on the back side Trump and his cronies will get paid.
this is all an oligarch grift. And they will say anything and do anything to keep the religious and the working classes distracted. So yes, queer folk, immigrants, etc will be sacrificed so the focus is on them, not the grift.
Basically they think they have a majority of the electorate allowing the infiltration of extreme Christianity into the government, persecuting LGBTQ folk, controlling women’s bodies, and demonizing brown people. But that is not what they care about. That’s only how they acquire and retain power. They only care about the grift.
focus on what they do, not what they say. What they say is propaganda. What they do is the real motivation.
if I had a prayers chance in heaven to win state wide or federal office this is would be my stump speech. I’d pound that mother fucker into the ground with it. Because it’s true.