I’m sure it’s not just a single fantastically evil person who is convincing Trump to repeatedly humiliate himself, damage the U.S. economy, destroy its soft power, alienate its allies, and take steps that empower and embolden all its enemies, but I’m just imagining some insane genius giving a solid hand clap before a team of researchers and saying “okay, folks, what damage are we going to do today?”

At this rate we may be looking at Trump swapping Biden’s lead pipe replacement campaign with a campaign to install lead pipes by the end of the summer. Who knows, maybe Freon will come back because someone tells Trump a thin ozone layer means better tans. Maybe he’ll hear about manifest destiny and start marching the army into the sea, believing it will yield.

These actions are so cartoonishly stupid and ham-fisted, that even if there’s an ounce of sound reasoning in any of them, he’s picking the worst way to approach something that needs nuance.
But that’s the goal, right? Wonder what moves they’re making that aren’t generating much press.

Right. I know someone who works for a unit of government. They hated that their contact info was publicly available because I guess LinkedIn headhunters kept finding their work email and mailing them there. I think they wound up deleting LinkedIn.
But anyway. It’s public information, because it’s a public job. That’s what it is. Same reason that government websites can’t/shouldn’t say “copyright 2025 the government” because all their materials are property of the public.

From my recent garage sale:

Petition to meet stupid with stupid: start a national movement to relocate the federal administration buildings to the geographic center of the U.S.
Land is cheap, will soon be rendered unusable by climate change. Why not prop up those dying communities with good paying federal jobs?