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The Kekistocracy (E312)

2025/2/21
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@Jake Rogatansky : 我认为特朗普政府上任一个月就开始了大规模的政府机构削减和放松管制,导致一系列荒谬的错误。例如,他们解雇能源部大量员工后,又试图重新雇佣核安全工作人员,却发现没有他们的联系方式,因为他们已经无法访问政府邮箱。这表明目前政府无人掌舵,由一群最糟糕的人统治。 此外,特朗普政府的预算削减并没有真正影响赤字,他们的真正目标是削弱对他们政治目标不忠诚的政府机构。他们希望清除任何不符合其将美国转变为由寡头统治的基督教民族主义国家的政治目标的机构。 @Liv Akar : 我认为马斯克及其盟友的行为是典型的监管俘获,他们并非为了提高政府效率,而是为了削弱对其个人利益构成威胁的政府职能。马斯克和特朗普的行动代表着历史上最大规模、破坏性最强的监管俘获案例。特朗普政府的行动总是能够削弱对马斯克公司构成威胁的法律和机构,例如暂停执行《反海外腐败法》是为了保护马斯克公司的供应商免受调查;解雇国家劳资关系委员会成员是为了削弱该机构对马斯克公司的监管;接管消费者金融保护局并将其关闭,是为了为其X货币账户的推出扫清障碍。马斯克的主要目标是摧毁任何可能限制其权力扩张的事物,关于效率和节约的说法只是掩盖其真实目的的幌子。 @Travis View : 我认为特朗普政府的意识形态是将自己与任何对特朗普或马斯克有利的保守派观点联系起来。马斯克关于减少浪费的说法是谎言,他实际上是在削弱限制其权力的政府职能。他们根本不在乎后果,只想在有限的时间内尽可能地拆除障碍。他们不关心普通民众的利益,只关心自己的权力和利益。 此外,Doge是一个巨大的腐败工具,它对其自身行为的描述是谎言。白宫关于马斯克与Doge关系的说法前后矛盾,掩盖了马斯克及其团队在政府支出和人事方面的决策权力。保守派很容易识别政府机构的欺骗行为,但他们却无法将这一认知应用于Doge。特朗普政府削减政府开支的举动并非为了缩小政府规模,而是为了清除对其权力构成威胁的机构。

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The podcast opens by discussing the chaotic first month of Donald Trump's presidency, marked by significant budget cuts and personnel changes. The hosts question the competence of the administration, likening it to a 'kekistocracy', and discuss their individual experiences processing the political climate.
  • Chaotic first month of Trump's presidency
  • Budget cuts and personnel changes
  • Comparison to a 'kekistocracy'
  • Hosts' personal reflections on political climate

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It's been about a month since Donald Trump was sworn into office and they've already begun stripping the country of copper wiring, slashing a multitude of government agencies and attempting to facilitate large scale deregulation. This has led to some pretty absurd mistakes by the administration. Like when they fired a sizable chunk of the department of energy, only to attempt to scramble to rehire a group of nuclear safety workers only to realize that they didn’t actually have these worker’s contact information, as they no longer had access to their government email accounts. It appears that no one is at the wheel right now. You are being run by a kakistocracy, or rule by the worst, although given that the vice president and reddit billionaire shadow president both clearly have browsed 4chan too much, it seems more like a “kekistocracy” at the moment. Liv, Travis, and Jake discuss the lies that are flying out of DOGE and Elon Musk, the consequences of massive regulatory capture, the Trump admin’s plans to declassify old documents, and what r/conspiracy thinks about the new, "uncensored" version of ChatGPT. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://patreon.com/qaa SOURCES: Trump froze a bribery law that previously hit suppliers for Elon Musk’s Tesla https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/trump-foreign-bribery-law-elon-musk-tesla-minerals.html SSA OIG: Preventing, Detecting, and Recovering Improper Payments https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/072401.pdf No, 150 Year Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/ How Trump’s Firings “Paralyze” the NLRB https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/trump-nlrb-firing-musk-doge-workers-rights-labor-unions-paralyze/ Elon Musk's DOGE takes aim at agency that had plans of regulating X https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/nx-s1-5293382/x-elon-musk-doge-cfpb DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. https://archive.is/tmWZl#selection-4583.0-4586.0 Open AI Tries To “Uncesor” ChatGPT https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/openai-tries-to-uncensor-chatgpt/ FBI says it has discovered new files on JFK assassination https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/politics/jfk-assassination-files/index.html Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order https://www.axios.com/2025/02/10/trump-jfk-assassination-records