[biddit]

You're assessing them with the wrong criteria.

You don't hire architects to execute a demolition and you also don't hire anyone heavily invested in keeping the building standing. But you DO hire people loyal to you to perform the work, who will receive staunch opposition the latter group of people.

[throwaway_2494]

This is the bit I don't get. Why are there so many people ready to line up to defend the powerful against the weak, the rich against the poor?

What a brave and noble purpose! I'm real proud of people like that...

The richest man on earth in charge of cost cutting. Go and bathe in a jacuzzi of cash Musk, and stop acting like a sore winner...

[Hizonner]

If you hired Trump's idiots to handle a demolition, they would:

1. Bring the building down on their own heads, with bystanders inside.

2. Destabilize the neighboring buildings to the point where they also had to be demolished.

3. Flood the site and cause a giant gas leak.

[dmonitor]

4. Use the self-made catastrophe as evidence that more buildings are dangerous and need to be demolished

[anigbrowl]

It's a mistake to dismiss them all as idiots. MAGA people have very different values from you, and you need to consider the possibility that they are comeptent and malicious.

[0x3444ac53]

Seconding this. Their reasoning is unsound to the point of comedy, their arguments are nonsense, they have a fundamental misunderstanding of science, technology, society, etc.

Because they don't fucking care. They have an agenda. Sometimes it's rooted in bigotry, religion, or just antisocial beliefs, but they have an agenda and they can (and will, and are) execute it.

[cantstopmenow]

4. Pat yourself on the back while people complaining about egg prices cheer as their kids die of measles.

[cantstopmenow]

Cool. Now address the fact that all of this is an unconstitutional coup.

[gonzoflip]

How is the executive branch directing a department under their authority a coup? Please be specific.

[anigbrowl]

Because they're simply upending/ignoring Congressional mandates in the form of law. For example, Congress directed the creation of USAID as an independent agency in 1961. It cannot simply be abolished by executive fiat.

[Hizonner]

Actually in 1961 it was purely an executive thing. I think it was either 1978 or 1998 when Congress put it into statute.

[anigbrowl]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_Inter...

Sadly one of the references in that paragraph is a dead link now, because it references the USAID website which has been taken offline.

[gonzoflip]

>abolished

That doesn't seem to have happened, it looks like Rubio is now in charge of it. So again, how is this a coup?