You have hit, on the head, what made Trump I a pitiful presidency, and what will make Trump II another, possibly more pitiful presidency: he is a terrible manager. No matter how many loyalists get installed, this reality will continue so long as Trump's "in charge." He doesn't value competency and expertise (he's insecure about these traits), he surrounds himself with the worst kind of self-serving people, he doesn't tolerate hearing bad news even when he needs to, he had no decision discipline, changing his mind based on the last person to speak with him then doing again when another person speaks to him, he doesn't have any clear governing values (other than grift and revenge), he doesn't back people up when they do his bidding and there's blowback to his popularity, he doesn't want people to outshine him, and he speaks in this weave gibberish, so that his staff don't know what he means half the time. Some on the right have embraced the "unitary executive" theory, but what does this mean when the executive's own mind is "legion," shifting back and forth, moment to moment: this executive is not "unitary" and never will be. Soon enough, there will be rough sledding, his popularity will ebb, there will be deficits, there will be inflation, there will be war and rumors of war. As he explodes in anger, what will his hapless team do?
Trump the terrible manager is nothing new. This can be seen in his illustrious career of serial bankruptcies, or for that matter the structure of the Trump Organization, an operationally small, family-focused entity. Having spent a lifetime with this model of business, there is no reason to think he abandons it now that he's 80.
I have followed several psychiatrists in 2024, especially "Shrinking Trump" and Mary Trump, Don Trump's niece who is intimately familiar with his upbringing and shortcomins\gs. We dare not forget he is of low IQ, spoken by his former professor as the dumbest student he ever taught, reports of others taking his tests for him, etc. He has no empathy and is diagnosed by DSM 5 authors as a malignant narcissist with sadistic tendencies. Forget the supposed governmental edicts attributed to him. He's clueless and as opinionated as your 5 year old nephew. I don't know how many personality defects he has, and then there is the dementia that has been clearly on view over the campaign but shamelessly "sane washed" by the MSM.
The interesting question is whether the Trump White House (broadly defined) is capable of learning from this mistake. I raher suspect that given their indifference, sometimes even contempt, for the nitty gritty of government that they won't. Buckle up folks. This could be the most clownishly incompetent government the US has had in a long time and may have ever have.
You want to normalize Trump? Bullshit! I take him literally AND seriously. I cling to the notion that he does not know how to govern and will in fact implode or at least shit his pants so bad the stench will undo him.
Chaos is the point. Think of Trump/MAGA as the Joker, wanting to destroy Gotham just to watch it burn. Trump 2 is about final revenge, not governing. The pain and damage from the chaos (much of it to Red State Trump supporters) will likely be their undoing.
Given that Red States receive much more in tax dollars than they pay in, won’t things like this mainly hurt the people who voted for him? Or at least the states that did? And given that rural America is the true welfare queen when it comes to federal government transfers won’t things like this hammer Trump voters directly? If so I say let it happen, enoughs enough, we’re long past time for the ‘Find Out’ stage of the Fxk around and find out saying to come home to roost on Trump voters
Notice: The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase American prosperity and well-being. Just as the Bureau of Land Management has been tasked with increasing American prosperity by making American Greenland and the American Panama Canal great again, the Bureau of Weights and Measures has been tasked with increasing prosperity through expansion of our calendar.
In Fiscal Year 2024, and in previous years under unelected Joe Biden, American prosperity was held in check by the woke DEI practice of granting February the special privilege of having only 28 days. The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal calendar engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.
Accordingly, as of this memo’s date, February shall have 30 days. The additional days will be denominated “Trumpday” and “Second Trumpday.” All calendars, work schedules, weather reports, deadlines, mortgage payments, amortization schedules, fiscal years, and so forth shall incorporate this improvement. Federal officials treating Trumpday as March 1st or Second Trumpday as March 2nd shall be furloughed and investigated.
The problem with taking Henry II seriously but not literally:
From Wikipedia: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" is a quote attributed to Henry II of England preceding the death of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170. While the quote was not expressed as an order, it prompted four knights to travel from Normandy to Canterbury, where they killed Becket due to an ongoing dispute between crown and church. The phrase is commonly used in modern-day contexts to express that a ruler's wish may be interpreted as a command by his or her subordinates. It is also commonly understood as shorthand for any rhetorical device allowing leaders to covertly order or exhort violence among their followers, while still being able to claim plausible deniability for political, legal, or other reasons.
Think of what Musk did with Twitter as the model. Trump doesn't care about governing in the traditional sense. In the long run, that might doom his presidency. But presumably he can't run again anyway. He'll destroy as much as possible and only put back what he has to.
You have hit, on the head, what made Trump I a pitiful presidency, and what will make Trump II another, possibly more pitiful presidency: he is a terrible manager. No matter how many loyalists get installed, this reality will continue so long as Trump's "in charge." He doesn't value competency and expertise (he's insecure about these traits), he surrounds himself with the worst kind of self-serving people, he doesn't tolerate hearing bad news even when he needs to, he had no decision discipline, changing his mind based on the last person to speak with him then doing again when another person speaks to him, he doesn't have any clear governing values (other than grift and revenge), he doesn't back people up when they do his bidding and there's blowback to his popularity, he doesn't want people to outshine him, and he speaks in this weave gibberish, so that his staff don't know what he means half the time. Some on the right have embraced the "unitary executive" theory, but what does this mean when the executive's own mind is "legion," shifting back and forth, moment to moment: this executive is not "unitary" and never will be. Soon enough, there will be rough sledding, his popularity will ebb, there will be deficits, there will be inflation, there will be war and rumors of war. As he explodes in anger, what will his hapless team do?
Trump the terrible manager is nothing new. This can be seen in his illustrious career of serial bankruptcies, or for that matter the structure of the Trump Organization, an operationally small, family-focused entity. Having spent a lifetime with this model of business, there is no reason to think he abandons it now that he's 80.
I have followed several psychiatrists in 2024, especially "Shrinking Trump" and Mary Trump, Don Trump's niece who is intimately familiar with his upbringing and shortcomins\gs. We dare not forget he is of low IQ, spoken by his former professor as the dumbest student he ever taught, reports of others taking his tests for him, etc. He has no empathy and is diagnosed by DSM 5 authors as a malignant narcissist with sadistic tendencies. Forget the supposed governmental edicts attributed to him. He's clueless and as opinionated as your 5 year old nephew. I don't know how many personality defects he has, and then there is the dementia that has been clearly on view over the campaign but shamelessly "sane washed" by the MSM.
One benefit of the freeze has been a Civics lesson for the millions of voters who have no idea what the federal government does.
The interesting question is whether the Trump White House (broadly defined) is capable of learning from this mistake. I raher suspect that given their indifference, sometimes even contempt, for the nitty gritty of government that they won't. Buckle up folks. This could be the most clownishly incompetent government the US has had in a long time and may have ever have.
You want to normalize Trump? Bullshit! I take him literally AND seriously. I cling to the notion that he does not know how to govern and will in fact implode or at least shit his pants so bad the stench will undo him.
Chaos is the point. Think of Trump/MAGA as the Joker, wanting to destroy Gotham just to watch it burn. Trump 2 is about final revenge, not governing. The pain and damage from the chaos (much of it to Red State Trump supporters) will likely be their undoing.
Given that Red States receive much more in tax dollars than they pay in, won’t things like this mainly hurt the people who voted for him? Or at least the states that did? And given that rural America is the true welfare queen when it comes to federal government transfers won’t things like this hammer Trump voters directly? If so I say let it happen, enoughs enough, we’re long past time for the ‘Find Out’ stage of the Fxk around and find out saying to come home to roost on Trump voters
Memo on February
Federal Bureau of Weights and Measures
Notice: The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase American prosperity and well-being. Just as the Bureau of Land Management has been tasked with increasing American prosperity by making American Greenland and the American Panama Canal great again, the Bureau of Weights and Measures has been tasked with increasing prosperity through expansion of our calendar.
In Fiscal Year 2024, and in previous years under unelected Joe Biden, American prosperity was held in check by the woke DEI practice of granting February the special privilege of having only 28 days. The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal calendar engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.
Accordingly, as of this memo’s date, February shall have 30 days. The additional days will be denominated “Trumpday” and “Second Trumpday.” All calendars, work schedules, weather reports, deadlines, mortgage payments, amortization schedules, fiscal years, and so forth shall incorporate this improvement. Federal officials treating Trumpday as March 1st or Second Trumpday as March 2nd shall be furloughed and investigated.
Bluff and bluster. Then when he proposes something less nuts, people will say, oh, that's not so bad.
Think the ugly is already here.
The problem with taking Henry II seriously but not literally:
From Wikipedia: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" is a quote attributed to Henry II of England preceding the death of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170. While the quote was not expressed as an order, it prompted four knights to travel from Normandy to Canterbury, where they killed Becket due to an ongoing dispute between crown and church. The phrase is commonly used in modern-day contexts to express that a ruler's wish may be interpreted as a command by his or her subordinates. It is also commonly understood as shorthand for any rhetorical device allowing leaders to covertly order or exhort violence among their followers, while still being able to claim plausible deniability for political, legal, or other reasons.
Think of what Musk did with Twitter as the model. Trump doesn't care about governing in the traditional sense. In the long run, that might doom his presidency. But presumably he can't run again anyway. He'll destroy as much as possible and only put back what he has to.
He's guilty of Federal bribery with the offer to encourage federal employees to leave for money. Bribes are serious offenses