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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: wzambon 🐝 BRONZE
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Subject: Re: Krugman on DOGE
Date: 03/05/25 6:29 PM
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Sooner or later, and probably sooner rather than later, important things are going to break.

Far from being an unforeseen result, that’s the point.

The point is to destroy a government that works for the people. Collapse the bureaucracy to the point where the whole affair can be drowned in a bathtub. By that time, democracy will be gone. The congress is already neutered, the Justice Department is staffed with Trump Loyalists and the courts can make all the rulings they want but nobody will be there to enforce those rulings.

Having destroyed democracy and the government that was established to uphold that democracy, the only thing left will be King Trump, collecting whatever tax money he wants to collect, assisted by whatever aristocracy that pledges loyalty to him personally, and a mercenary army, also loyal to him alone (he pays them)


If you want a service performed? Pledge loyalty to King Trump or his official and pay him. If you want to open a business? Well, first you need a royal commission, so pledge your loyalty to Trump and pay him for the right to make a living- and that’s before we even start talking about taxes, the amount of which you will not determine. No, you will be told how much you owe, and that amount will go up or down, depending on your “loyalty score” which will be re-calculated on a daily basis by DOGE or its successor.


Likewise, if you have a pension, it will also be adjusted on a daily basis

You need surgery or treatment for cancer? Well, you get the picture.

Feudalism: that’s where we increasingly seem to be headed, which is ironic, given that our democratic republic was specifically set up to prevent that outcome, and for over two centuries we’ve managed to more or less succeed in that.

But the barbarians have cracked the code, and we believed their lies enough to elect them. And now they own the castle.
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