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I mean, the idiots are in charge. There's too many stupid goddamn things piling up for them all to be some 4d chess maneuvers.
Just because they're idiots doesn't mean they're not dangerous. That's what the playbook is for - to keep the idiots on track and doing all the horrible things they're paid to do. Then, if the plan fails, the idiots take the fall and the playbook authors just try again.
I'm confused, you say the idiots are in charge, but then say that they're fall guys following a playbook. Which one is it?
I should clarify, it's the idiots currently holding the White House, and the playbook authors are the idiots at the Heritage Foundation et al. who funded and supported that acquisition in return for a well-known set of conditions.
There are also many conditions placed upon them by a bunch of other domestic and foreign influences that have been publically and privately bribing the administration and party in various ways.
I don't mean to paint them as simple fall guys, though they are the current face of a much larger problem that will continue after they're gone if not stopped. It doesn't have to be this deep state secret cabal, puppet master / strings scenario. It's blatantly just a bunch of corruption visible to the naked eye. Oligarchs funded and supported a known fascist criminal.
There are many "masterminds" with many shared and competing interests - and I'll admit that some of them are highly effective political operatives - but they're all idiots for thinking this has to work out in their favor.
Anyone with skin in the game had the wealth and power to live their lives however they wanted, in castles and penthouses forever free from want or fear... and they chose to use that power to set things up so that everyone loses. A less stable, less healthy, less prosperous future for the world. All for the sake of their own wallets or their own particular vision of what the future should be.
That fascist criminal took control of the country and put out giant signs saying his administration is up for sale to the lowest bidder. Now he sells out America three times over before breakfast, and turns on allies on a whim - or by mistake!
It is really hard to overstate how utterly stupid it was and is to get in bed with him, because now every last one of them has to hope that their chamber is empty and they survive this incredibly foolish game of Russian roulette.
A'ight, I'm with you on that.