The spreadsheet reads Project 2025 and Handmaids Tale to me. A mafia system
and a far-right movement aren’t incompatible, of course.
As a step a citizen can take, perhaps I should buy some drive arrays for the
big open source LLM images. That I could get quickly before, you know, the
Library of Congress is shut down, and the new government censors prevent
questions about the U.S. government in the before times.
*From:*Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Santafe
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 29, 2025 8:57 AM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>
*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] From Merle
I can grasp from their perspective some of the columns in this chart. The
one I don’t really get is how did people get so crazy about gender ideology?
How is that a basic fissure in our society? I don’t get it.
I am not much persuaded that they really care. As before, it’s about
performances of domination, and that happened to be a target they spent a lot
of the past four years positioning. Anybody else could serve in that role, and
will in the future.
There’s a line in Shawshank Redemption where Tim whateverhisnameis says to
Morgan Freeman, about being raped by the prison gang “Do you think it would
help if I tell them I’m not gay?” To which Freeman replies “Neither are they.
To be gay they’d first have to be human.”
I assume all this is about setting up a constitutional crisis, so that trump
can bring a case to the SCOTUS. I believe that he, or the cabal, believe that
the stooges spend enough time reading which way the mob blows that, in the next
round, they will simply undersign whatever prerogative he asserts that he has.
The goal here is to openly deny the absolute opposite-of-constitutionality of
putting power of the purse and power of the military both under the executive.
I don’t know if they will — maybe — but if any of them don’t, he can tell the
congress to impeach them, or give a security detail to the others and then make
an announcement that the dissenters are enemies of the people, or whatever.
Presumably there is a range of follow-on moves.
But the actual goal, on which they have their eyes fixed around all the
flashbang grenades, is to turn federal money into a pure mafia patronage
system, micromanaged by the executive and his executors. There are people who
think they want this. They look at the Russian oligarchs who at the moment
have money and boats and prostitutes, and figure they can not think about the
others that got shot or poisoned or thrown out windows. And they think that
system looks like a pretty good life for them.
I think all the other institutional harassment is crowd entertainment (and
expenditure cutting, so that together with ballooning the debt, the remaining
money can be directed elsewhere). Real things like environmental regulations,
arts, etc., may get extinguished, and science may get Lysenkoed into service to
Musk. So NSF and NASA can take real harm very quickly. Maybe NIH too; depends
on who sends bribes and how good they are at getting noticed.
It’s an interesting question what I, some individual person, should do that is
somehow helpful, in a context where this is the collection of people we have to
deal with.
Eric
On Jan 29, 2025, at 11:32, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com
<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote:
There’s so much crazy about this, it’s hard to know where to start.
I can grasp from their perspective some of the columns in this chart. The
one I don’t really get is how did people get so crazy about gender ideology?
How is that a basic fissure in our society? I don’t get it.
We need Skynet to straighten this out.
*From:*Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com
<mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>>*On Behalf Of*Merle Lefkoff
*Sent:*Wednesday, January 29, 2025 8:21 AM
*To:*The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com
<mailto:friam@redfish.com>>
*Subject:*[FRIAM] From Merle
Thought you would like to take a look at the government programs that will
be shut down. Trump is a whole systems kinda guy.
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000194-ad9c-de9c-a5b6-efbd29400000
<https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000194-ad9c-de9c-a5b6-efbd29400000>
