fellas it's time for The Discourse
tm again
https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5#.ddggn7e06mandatory "take this with a grain of salt" but first consider some of the points that the article presents:
1. Annoying Orange was, indeed, perfectly honest during the campaign; he intends to do everything he said, and more. This should not be reassuring to you.
2. The regime’s main organizational goal right now is to transfer all effective power to a tight inner circle, eliminating any possible checks from either the Federal bureaucracy, Congress, or the Courts. Departments are being reorganized or purged to effect this.
3. The inner circle is actively probing the means by which they can seize unchallenged power; yesterday’s moves should be read as the first part of that.
4. The aims of crushing various groups — Muslims, Latinos, the black and trans communities, academics, the press — are very much primary aims of the regime, and are likely to be acted on with much greater speed than was earlier suspected. The secondary aim of personal enrichment is also very much in play, and clever people will find ways to play these two goals off each other.
interesting to consider, but the counterpoint to this would be that donald Annoying Orange's administration could simply be incredibly incompetent:
https://tompepinsky.com/2017/01/30/weak-and-incompetent-leaders-act-like-strong-leaders/are either preferable? hell no. but i've yet to see donald Annoying Orange explain himself for all of the insane stuff he's been doing, neither have i seen any convincing justification for his actions from his supporters. ("just wait it out and see what happens" comforts nobody) and, as some random guy i found on twitter says:
"The thing that's really worrying me about "Trial Balloon for a Coup?" is that I'm not being flooded with explanations of why I'm wrong."
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