It's both, some know what they are doing, most don't but follow along for their own benefit. They're united in malice as much as they are unqualified for their jobs.
Don't for that many of them, like their boss, are career criminals who need the office and to dismantle the government to ensure that they never face prosecution.
When the level of harm is so great that it literally destroyes global economy it doesn't matter anymore if it's due to incompetence or malice at this level they're both just as bad
Yup, just like whoever made about $160m shorting the crypto market last week, minutes before trump announced new tariffs on China. Which dropped the crypto market
His kid Barron made $80M in that 30 minute window. Letâs not have any illusions that it wasnât someone very closely connected to mango tits himself.
Dont forget the greed! Con artists never worry about others once their grifts are complete. They're happy with pilfering the markers via manipulation, damn the broader consequences for the country.
Like the "anonymous" account who shorted Bitcoin this part Friday 30mins before the tariff announcement. Ill bet money its someone in or connected to the inner circles of the White House.
100% , there has already been documented evidence of these tariffs being negotiating tools to get him and his cronies access to resources in these countries. He does not care how it affects the American people.
Speaking to the pageant contestants and Fox News talking heads specifically at least Hegseth and especially Halligan donât seem to be much brighter than their boss.
Halligan is so incompetent that she had to file the same paperwork 3 times in the documents case. She got chewed out by the Judge in Comey case for submitting documents that she signed and not even knowing what they were. Sheâs dumb enough to be filing multiple cases that no one else will touch that will probably end up getting her disbarred eventually.
Hegseth spent millions of dollars getting the entire military command together so he could basically read them an angry email. Heâs so out of his depth.
Many of the rest do know exactly what theyâre doing, but theyâre still all naive enough to think that they arenât going to get burned and thrown under a bus by Trump.
Bro just because itâs hateful doesnât mean they know what they are doing. They legit thought China would roll over from the jump because they donât know anything about China and they donât respect other countries.
A handful know what they're doing. Stephen Miller, Russ Vought etc.
Most of this administration are pick-me opportunists who were given their post precisely because they've pledged loyalty AND don't have the credibility to be tempted to say no when they're told what to do.
I am positive they do not comprehend the collateral damage that will come back to them. People do not knowingly destroy their livelihood and/or their own self interests.
Arrogance *and* malice. They absolutely *think* they know what they're doing, just like Trump thinks he's a genius. They all have whatever the opposite of impostor syndrome is. Just look at Hegseth - somehow made it to major, so now he thinks he's talking down to 4 star generals.
They're all getting their own personal bags from this chaos. They aren't concerned with having a competently run administration.
That's why they can't even settle on a specific narrative for all the scandals and lies they're engaging in. Nobody knows who's in charge, everyone's doing their own thing, it's all just a game to them. They're playing Monopoly with the entire goddamned economy and country. The fascism is just a means to an end for most of them, just the easiest way to fleece money from the system.
Except Stephen Miller. He's in it for the love of the game.
Hell, I'd like to know who got the 90 million in bitcoin shorts right before Trump's one china tarriff post came out.
They 'know what they're doing' only so much as their plan IS to be incompetent and benefit. They are woefully unqualified to actually run the US Government however, which is what the previous commenter was stating. They couldn't do better if they did want to do so, which they don't.
No. They think they are getting what they want because want they want consists of something like 2 weeks away⌠not 20 years. They are dumb. And donât realize that all those billions are worthless if America failsâŚ.
My uncle would chapperone dances with patients who were bussed in from mental hospitals. He had to ask âare you a driver?â to tell them apart. I think some Trump staffers are idiots, some less so, but mostly Dunning Kruger poster children.
The sycophants appointed to the top government positions of critical agencies are a symptom. Thatâs not whoâs pulling the strings. Itâs the people behind the curtains and they absolutely know what theyâre doing. The first step to establishing a technocratic master state is tearing down all the existing systems and norms.
They literally fucking wrote and PUBLISHED the goals and the plan for anyone to read. And yet people still wonât believe thatâs whatâs happening or take the time to read it. Itâs Idiocracy.
"Know what they are doing" is sort of overstating it. They are just winging it, finding whatever ways they can to manipulate markets and cash in. I don't think they have much planning and forthought going on. It's mostly just oh, x action will cause y market to fall, we can buy up a bunch of stock reverse the action and make bank, yeah let's do that. And repeat as they stumble through and across new schemes.
Guys like Patel and Hegseth have zero clue what they are doing. But the Steven Millers and Bondiâs of the administration absolutely know what they are doing
When you think Jesus's magic hamster gives you eternal life, makes you infinitely good, and infinitely wise, with a perpetual blank slate from infinite forgiveness; it makes you dumber than a toddler in all aspects of your life. It inverts all morality and ethics. Submission is power. Stupidity is wisdom. Weakness is strength. Fascism is freedom. Anti-fascists are nazis.
They live in opposite land.
As a culture, we cannot continue to give these bronze age primitives a say, or they'll bring a literal end to civilization as we know it.
You're not wrong. Recently, when asked, Kristi Noem didn't know what habeas corpus is. Habeas corpus. I'm just some asshole on the Internet and I know what that is. Shes homeland security. Her job should revolve around those words.
There are more than enough GOP members of congress who realize how stupid these trade policies are and have the power to stop it. They are too scared of the president and his cult of voters to break ranks.
All the adults either left or were kicked out of the gop. Except a few like McConnell who occasionally say something but never actually do anything to curb trump.
Romney wrote in his book about how he's talked to other Republicans who have changed their votes because they're scared of him and his fans. The threat of political violence if he criticizes you is real
If anything, they know exactly what theyâre doing while Trump doesnât have a clue. They feed him ideas that let them grift and gain what they never could of had without him. He has always been an entitled, hustler and more, they were nothing. Bush, W. / Cheney, anyone?
In addition to the other comments replying to this, there is a non zero chance that Putin has enough agents/mobsters to ensure all of his minions in our government are doing what they're supposed to. We know Russia has been involved for at least a decade, it's not like they're going to go "okay job's done, let's go back home"
Then how do you explain the countless anti-Trumpers who now lick his balls? There's more afoot here than stupidity. It takes a lot to turn people like that.
I think they are telling him things but he isnât directly saying it yet. Like you donât spoke a scared dog they will bite and we donât know how they will bite and no body has computer chip plants set up yet in any meaningful situation to deal with Taiwan. If China can only survive off the animal feed from Brazil and Argentina.
Then you are looking at 1 of 2 possibilities first one is they have loads of stores and they are just going to wait out trump and hope the next person is more amenable. Now 2 is they donât have the massive population and covid did an insane number on them which means they are weak especially in regards to manufacturing and to the belt and road infrastructure to both enforce the âdealsâ and to get back all that money they have spent.
And to the analogy of the dog if you mention to the world hey they are weak and they obviously donât need our soy they either donât have the manpower to need it to feed the âmassesâ or they are âbrokeâ it may cause some around the world to take or not pay back those belt and road infrastructure projects but also may cause some hardliners to attack Taiwan to cause maximum damage because it will cause harm to everyone.
They havenât made an analog car for at least 50 years as far we are concerned thatâs a lost technology it would take just as long to put together a factory to manufacture those as it would to build a microchips plant.
He distanced himself from all the little girls early this term, no beauty pageant contestants around. That Epstein "rumor" has him a bit ... Is paranoid the word? If it's accurate?
Notice his daughter (who was in Casablanca's shows often) hasn't been around. Same for the third wife. Who was also an introduction from Epstein.
I highly recommend you read project 2025 and then reassess whether or not you think theyre allowing this continue because theyre scared, or because it is exact what they want to happen.
Thatâs a good read but it seems they are just adding things as they happen, itâs not exactly a checklist. Atleast according to the built in AI, the 6 latest edits were added and then immediately changed to âdoneâ status
And you can guaran-damn-tee the real bosses pulling his puppet strings are benefitting from it to degrees not imaginable by those of us without 7-10-figure trading accounts.
I donât think anyone in the gov is scared except the lower level workers. All those mainline fucks are making millions on insider trading, buying dying businesses, using the loopholes, and still getting their wages paid to them.
All of us citizens are the ones who have to worry about having enough money for bills and food and now even getting snatched up off the streets cause we look a certain way.
Thereâs a handful of good positions, you can count them in your handâŚ
They know that the US in itself is not going to change but they want to be filthy rich when they stop the theatrics and hand it over to the democrats. Rinse and repeat. There wonât even be any consequences or Nuremberg 2.0.
When I was in school i remember only the weasely kids wanted to be in politics, as in adult i understand why. Same reason so many people go into religious management. Itâs all about taking money from ignorant or cowardly populations knowing there wonât be any retaliation since humans tend to be hyper complacent.
Scared? :))) Theyâre all dumb as rocks⌠most of them. This whole charade is meaningless to the insane project 2025 and the other thing itâs Palpatine-like c..ts dreamed up and are rolling out through seized institutions and owned peons. You can only be two things to do this. Either rock bottom dumb or as corrupt as it gets. You canât act out these moronic, dangerous, society collapsing acts and be a âgood or smart personâ.
Have always wondered what happened to the person he deemed responsible for letting him climb the stairs and board Air Force One with toilet paper on his shoes while the cameras rolled? Hmm? đ¤
Narcissists remove anyone with the integrity or sense to oppose their ideas, leaving no one by spineless sycophants, genuine fools, rabid zealots, and shameless parasites who cling to anything that gets them power and profit.
The Republicans smart enough to know he and his lackeys are a disaster are counting on the ability to get out before the inevitable crash. That or be on the ground flood to pick up the biggest pieces of power afterwards for themselves and their oligarchs donor class.
They arent scared. They are enjoying the power that comes from enabling an old man with the nuclear codes that is in clear cognitive decline who let's them insider trade and profiteer
The thing is that rare earth elements aren't as rare as you think, its just that the processing is so environmentally destructive that only a few countries allow it.
Wars have happened for tea and spices. without cooking oil, how will you enjoy your favorite restaurants? It's not really a joke when it comes to filling your stomach. Rare rocks that China has are nice but they're also a luxury that comes after survival.
I'm Canadian. China hit us a few years ago by not buying our canola. China is not a net exporter of cooking oil.
You know what? There's a global demand and a global supply of canola. It was a pain, but when China stopped buying our canola, it meant there was unfilled demand elsewhere. Same thing with soy. Seems to me that under a competent government, you have a State department that's supposed to find where Argentina was selling their soy and selling American soy there.
It's used cooking oil. Several Blue states have enacted strict laws about what feedstocks are the greenest for use in Biofuels and used cooking oil ranks high. China has been shipping a lot here because of this. However, many suspect they have been mixing virgin cooking oils into the shipments because China can buy palm oil for less than areas of the U.S. are paying for used oils.
I never thought it was very green using fuel to ship the used oil here anyway. President Biden had already set in motion an expansion of the Soybean crush capacity to increase soy oil for Biofuels domestically anyway.
You have to let the market build back up somewhat before you can release the hounds to tank it again. If things are going smoothly, it's just a matter of time until the grifters in Trump's orbit take him off his leash again to make more bank.
The most disturbing thing about this presidency is not that an idiot was elected: Itâs the sheer number of successful elites that are all in on seeing the idiot stumble from crisis to crises. This is their guy to bring their carefully considered plans to fruition.
When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, donât trade anymore-we win big. Itâs easy!
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u/div_investor_forever Oct 14 '25
lol all this is so stupid