Obvious enough, right?
But the details are absolutely terrifying. Author Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Big Short, Liar’s Poker) went around the government to study the so-called Deep State, and this book “The Fifth Risk,” details what he found.
Two things stand out as terrifying:
1. The non-existent transition: “Lewis describes the scene inside the Commerce Department the Monday after the election, where ‘dozens of civil servants sat all day waiting to deliver briefings’ to Trump’s transition team about their agencies’ role and responsibilities, ‘that would, in the end, never be heard.'”
2. The disappearing facts: “A lot of government data is now disappearing from government websites, data on climate change at the EPA, on animal abuse at the Department of Agriculture, on violent crime at the Department of Justice. ‘Under each act of data suppression,’ Lewis writes, ‘usually lay a narrow commercial motive: a gun lobbyist, a coal company, a poultry company.'”
Has anyone noticed the stunning similarities between 1932 Germany and 2019 US politics?
You will be burning books soon..
Books are bad. They contain facts, and therefore have a liberal bias. We don’t need to burn them, but we need to get them out of our schools!
Or we could burn them for energy if they will allow us to eliminate wind farms. Unlike the noise from windmills, burning books do not cause cancer.
Unless, of course, you burn those books about how to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.
That made me snort… And your Trumpianlogic is impeccable.
Don’t forget that whiches burn too…
The US won’t ever split up into other countries.
The real ‘welfare snowflakes’ – rural conservatives will realize the gravy train of liberal cities and states like California and New York provide 95% of the tax dollars for their podunk counties.
But that’s how they work. They project on others by leeching off liberal cities tax dollars, and then saying it’s the illegal immigrants fault. Trump can go take his business ‘genius’ to all these rural areas made up of his cult with all these private capital projects if he’s so great, instead of leeching off major cities.
We hand our highest office to a egotistical con-man and criminal, this is what we get. I won’t live long enough to see it, but I do wonder what the next incarnation of a country, or countries, in what is now the United States of America, will look like.