That alarm has been going off for about 11 1/2 months now. It’s just that the media, the politicians and the angry, stupid Trump supporters have been ignoring it.

The only thing “POWERFUL” about that is the pathetic, delusional, childish insanity of it.

Trump doesn’t just need to be removed from office - he needs to be institutionalized. He’s deranged.

Corporate hierarchies reward and thus effectively select for sociopathy.

A person with morals, principles, integrity and/or empathy will have particular choices they won’t be willing to make - courses of action they won’t be willing to follow.

A person with none of those things, which is to say, a sociopath, will be entirely free to follow any beneficial course of action, regardless of the harm it might do. Therefore a sociopath will have an advantage when fighting their way up the corporate ladder, and the system will tend to select for sociopaths.

That explains a lot of things, including but by no means limited to the linked article.

Oh right - of course it was plain as day that in a few years, the US would elect a deranged, delusional sociopath with the emotional development of a toddler who would, among other things, appoint the world’s richest middle-aged teenage edgelord to a make-believe cabinet position as head of a department named for a 4chan meme from which he would methodically destroy every agency that might stand in the way of the wholesale economic rape of the American people, throw a public tantrum over not receiving a Nobel Peace Prize for his complete and utter failure to negotiate peace anywhere, kidnap the President of Venezuela and appoint himself President in his place, and threaten to invade and forcibly annex Greenland, mostly in order to divert attention from the ongoing failure to complete the court-ordeted release of documents that would certainly prove that he’s a child rapist.

It’s so obvious. How could I have missed it?

It’s especially weird that Trump isn’t the only one in the US government who’s batshit insane.

I still can’t quite believe it’s real. I’ve always been a cynic and always expected the worst of the government, but this is so far, and in such an unexpected direction, beyond anything I expected.

We really are governed by demented morons.

They want poor people to die.

Which is a violation of his oath of office, which is ample grounds for impeachment.

Shame that Congress is full of feckless cowards

US Constitution 25th Amendment

Section 4

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

The President of the United States is a deranged lunatic who needs to be removed from office immediately.

By design.

Trump’s fantasy world can’t withstand assaults by reality, so he methodically eliminates whatever bits of reality might pose a threat, and rages at and seeks vengeance on any that might still slip through.

If the Trump regime had a list of necessary qualifications for cabinet positions, “willing and able to lie brazenly and shamelessly” would be second only to “loyal entirely and only to Trump.”

(And as a pointed aside, I doubt that knowledge or experience would even be mentioned.)

Donald Trump is a deranged lunatic and an existential threat to the US and its citizens, and to people around the world, and that renders him unfit for office. He needs to be removed as soon as possible, while there’s still some possibility that the extensive harm that he has done and is doing might be reversed.

Like a big neon sign that says “I am a psychopath.”

It’s withholding funds for refusing to grovel at the feet of the Toddler-in-chief.

Proving that the Netflix execs don’t have the foggiest fucking idea what they’re doing.

You gain viewers by engaging them - by giving them something so interesting that they can’t be distracted.

If you dumb everything down, the most likely outcome is that rather than looking at their phones in addition to your show, they look at their phones instead of your show.

To further punish Tim Walz for saying mean things about the Toddler-in-chief.

I see a good amount of idiocracy, but more what I see is… let’s call it “lunaticracy.” It’s not just that a significant number of powerful and influential people (and their sycophants) aren’t smart - they aren’t even sane.

On the first internet forum on which I spent time, in the mid- to late-90s, there was one poster who was egregiously intellectually dishonest - who regularly resorted to strawmen and ad hominems and non sequiturs and red herrings and so on, and essentially never engaged honestly. And it was so notable that his username became the forum slang term for those sorts of tactics.

Between then and now, those tactics have gone from the exception to the rule.

claims he never saw oppression

Of course he didn’t - the oppressors never do.

claims it will be a “very bad thing” if the US becomes a minority white country

Worst case scenario, it’ll only be a bad thing for the white minority, while the privileged majority will smugly proclaim that they see no oppression.

Grok - the AI for incels.