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Back in 2016 the Obama team tried to do everything they could to help Trump's people take over.
They left a playbook outlining the best way to deal with a pandemic.
Trump's people ignored it.
IIRC from Michael Lewis' book Obama did this because W Bush did it for him and he appreciated it greatly.
Just pointing this out to show how really fucked it is to ignore that playbook
It was the norm to help transition things smoothly
That pandemic preparedness was nonpartisan, Bush did the same. Donald got rid of it out of spite. Yet another example of how he is too fragile for the job.
Donald was gifted a nonpartisan crisis in an election year, and he is so fucking stupid and fragile that he turned it into a wedge issue. Hundred of thousands of Americans died over his fragility.
This is how brainwashed his MAGoos are.
During the pandemic I posted about how he was doing a terrible job reassuring people. Someone posted that it wasn't his job to mollycoddle the population.
He can do no wrong in their eyes.
Paralleling how GWB's admin treated previous work on bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
Further proof that this man has no real interest in governing this nation.
Not democratically, anyway
Fuck this shit, appearing on the ballot needs to require such basic shit
Should straight up be illegal
That's really strange. A true authoritarian power would want all knowledge of the previous administration, as it gives them complete power in specifically what they can subvert without risking their grasp on power.
This, honestly, sounds like Trump's team truly believes that the corporate hostile takeover can be used in the government to some effect. That's going to have consequences they can't even begin to predict.
That means they really think that people will only respond to fear, and never rebel against a superior power. But more importantly, before violence becomes the outcome, it means an economic disaster the size the world has never seen.
The billionaires supporting this are ultimately shooting themselves in the foot, because they can't see what happens when people don't value what they own.
billionaires supporting this are ultimately shooting themselves in the foot, because they can't see what happens when people don't value what they own.
If they want to go back to dealing with rich people like the old days, we can, but I don't think they really want to go down that path.
I am actually surprised there aren't more assasination attempts on billionaires. It would likely have much more of an impact than killing a politician, and should theoretically be easier. At least until it becomes a trend.
So I was thinking about this. When is the last time you were in a room with a billionaire in any sort of non-secure facility?
At least in the US, it's not like they go just anywhere. They also almost always have bodyguards.
I've been to a few conferences with a billionaire in attendance, and the event itself was very secure just because it had IP in the event center.
I later learned that the building itself had an entirely separate entrance and exit for VIPs. Not like run of the mill VIPs, VIPs that owned helicopters that took them too and from the airport.
Apparently it's very common. Most notably are hospitals with private entrances and exits needed protect patient privacy. I think it's a lot harder than we think.
He hates homework and learning about... anything. To his mind, he's always already known all that he needs to know about anything, ever, now and forever.
OK DAMMIT. WHO FORGOT ABOUT THIS GLARING LOOPHOLE AND WHY IS IT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The report notes, "A person involved in the Trump transition said that they are exploring a 'spectrum' of legal options for working with the current administration, including signing and not signing the GSA agreements, and the potential implications," before ominously adding, "By not signing the agreement with the White House, which provides access to the agencies, the Trump transition can also avoid submitting an ethics pledge, whose requirements are outlined by the Presidential Transition Act."
There should be such a thing as "preemptive discovery process", because you know any evidence of this will be destroyed by the time the legal system reacts.
I didn't know she was transitioning. Good for her.
Oh, no!
LOL.
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