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Trump increasingly looks like "Weekend at Bernies". Others are running the show.
I can see glimpses of Herr Stephen Miller in some of the ideas being floated, like confiscating immigrant funds and assets. Kegsbreath entertains himself bombing fishermen and girls' schools. Brainworm is dismantling guardrails that monitor, report, and prevent diseases. And Muskrats continue to suck up data and revise every information system.
What keeps them all from running amok as he weakens? Susie Wiles? Certainly not Republican Congress members. Even though he's barely functioning, he still instills enough fear that no one is overtly stepping up to take over.
What happens when his ability to scare is gone? Who will win the power struggles?
Curious what folks here think...
bamagal62
(4,582 posts)But you can bet your bottom dollar that they have a plan. Especially, if theres anything left to steal.
MineralMan
(151,825 posts)enough
(13,789 posts)jmbar2
(8,232 posts)Perhaps he's the "ideas guy", but prefers to operate from a secret lair. Just plant the ideas, and tell the sycophants how to implement them. Still leaves the question: How well can he manage the successor wannabees.
From an organizational perspective, I'm sort of morbidly fascinated by what might be going on in the background.
underpants
(197,470 posts)and thats the problem.
The sycophants and parasites around him bend to every whim and will that pops in his head.
struggle4progress
(126,896 posts)displacedvermoter
(5,116 posts)dalton99a
(95,791 posts)malaise
(298,612 posts)The Heritage Foundation aka the Tech KKK?
AnnaLee
(1,411 posts)Did you ever see one of those TV shows where the briefcase accidentally gets opened and money starts blowing in the wind everywhere. It always shows desperate looking people rushing around, pushing each other and dollar diving everywhere. Wealth chasing madness by me,me,me individuals.
As Steven Miller grabs control of those things he wants control of, everything else blows in the wind and otherwise incompetent political employees scrape the wealth off the top of the government where ever the wind blows it. What, me spend on what it was allocated for? Not when I can put it to my own advantage or idealogies.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,346 posts)Islam is their Bogeyman.
Luz
(941 posts)Like a rutterless ship. We still float, and still move around, but have no direction (president).
Just waiting for us to hit the rocks.
PATRICK
(12,436 posts)why WE have to speculate in this vacuum. The entire DC establishment, foreign nations, Wall Street, some newshound somewhere in our pathetic media all must want to know, need to know and have the capabilities to get the info on this sloppiest most incompetent of all administrations. Instead we barely get ironic snipes by cartoonists or clever posters too distant to do more than guess, although the guesses are so close and so worthy of investigation that we all find ourselves behind that wall of silence. During Vietnam and I guess most other administrations the PTB got at least puff pieces and bios about their roles and activities. Is it because the current gang are so unphotogenic(I guess that is what some of the female choices were supposed to be for until they were dumped)?
The real story is even the lack of a story, of curiosity, of any reaction or concern about the obvious until Trump provides his next goofy outrage or lie. I have seen profiles of some of the inner circle here, but now when the mad king is still being wound up and put on stage, what is going on in the actual running of government is critical- and not just to internet discussion groups! But from required or voluntary buffoonery when sycophants fill in the stage to the extremely embarrassing deference of the Opposition(?) and especially the media, it seems everyone above is pretty fine with skimming the surface and keeping their own counsel away from the People. A fake, disabled, president is allowed to carry on this circus(for the good of Wealth for some) more than any legitimate or well serving President.
It is impossible, impossible to believe that our social posting, end-of-his-strength guy is actually doing the job with many crises, self-created, spinning the globe, which- one would think- might inspire some kind of effective reaction other than bits and pieces reactions after the fact and sad, lengthy gaming of what remains of the justice system. The general impotence and cowardice of our times.
haele
(15,658 posts)You have a bunch of figureheads strutting around, going to conferences and hearings, and opining their asses off to the press and Social Media, while any actual work is being done by transitory appointees and senior bureaucrats in their departments who have been given free range to experiment with their varied political "rice bowl" ideologies and personal levels of lazy comfort - so long as those ideologies and actions are somewhat aligned with the general "vibe" of this administration.
People who become senior beurocrats in Institutional, Government and Public/Private sectors generally do not do so through talent or any drive to improve the system.
They do so because they are politically aligned with those in power or ownership who are looking for senior managers they can "work with" and direct the group focus and actions.
I've been to this Rodeo before. From childhood - when Reagan started dismantling the California Education sector, state oversight of financial regulatory systems, and links between Labor and Business that had been built up to protect and help average Californians since the Great Depression.
What we have are bubbles.
Lucky or Privileged grown assed mental children comfortably enthroned in the bubble their wealth or position gave them with automatic grievances against anyone who doesn't just accept and allow them to exist only in their worldview instead of being part of the greater real world.
kentuck
(115,770 posts)And worse still, they know it.
republianmushroom
(22,827 posts)WarGamer
(18,910 posts)Niagara
(12,306 posts)current key White House officials that are running the government
It's certainly not Dozing Donnie!