What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[The Minsky Moment]

Bessent, Rubio, Senate Republicans are all going in front of cameras and treating this Greenland insanity like an ordinary exercise of foreign policy and not the genuine 25th Amendment moment it is. 

Clear proof that God does not exist: John McCain is dead and Lindsay Graham lives.

[HVC]

Which begs the question, are all the GOP cowards, idiots, or in on it?

[Grey Fox]

American exceptionalism is a very strong force and state of mind. So, idiots.

[Oexmelin]

While I think the cowardice of American Senators and Representatives is, indeed, of an exceptional sort considering all the privileges they enjoy, I think we collectively are not in a time of bravery. So many of our bureaucratic routines, to me, seem aimed at diffusing responsibility so widely as to hedge against any form of accountability in decision-making.

[Jacob]

While I think the cowardice of American Senators and Representatives is, indeed, of an exceptional sort considering all the privileges they enjoy, I think we collectively are not in a time of bravery. So many of our bureaucratic routines, to me, seem aimed at diffusing responsibility so widely as to hedge against any form of accountability in decision-making.

Soon - with the power of AI - that diffusion of accountability will increase exponentially!

[HVC]

I mean a hallucinating AI overlord couldn't be worse then the current US government, could it?

[Oexmelin]

Soon - with the power of AI - that diffusion of accountability will increase exponentially!

Yep. And it's one of my great fears - as it will exacerbate one of the worst of our current traits. Accountability is easier when you have strong social relations, as courage can't be so extraordinary as to be extremely rare. Neither strong social relations, nor the desire to own up based on principles seem to be in abundant supply these days.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Which begs the question, are all the GOP cowards, idiots, or in on it?

Yes

[crazy canuck]

While I think the cowardice of American Senators and Representatives is, indeed, of an exceptional sort considering all the privileges they enjoy, I think we collectively are not in a time of bravery. So many of our bureaucratic routines, to me, seem aimed at diffusing responsibility so widely as to hedge against any form of accountability in decision-making.

Couldn't disagree more. You are completely discounting the bravery of large numbers of Americans who resigned from their positions.

[Oexmelin]

Obviously, there are going to be some fine examples of courage - there always is. But not nearly enough widespread, not nearly enough ordinary, for the situation and the world we live in.

[Oexmelin]

Walkout today in the USA

https://www.freeameri.ca/

[viper37]

Walkout today in the USA

https://www.freeameri.ca/

Forward this to Yi's inbox, in case he missed it!

[crazy canuck]

Obviously, there are going to be some fine examples of courage - there always is. But not nearly enough widespread, not nearly enough ordinary, for the situation and the world we live in.

The problem is not a lack of bravery of career civil servants.  The problem is those people have been replaced by sycophantic followers of Trump.

You do a great disservice by attributing a lack of bravery to a group of people who were clearly brave and as a result lost their jobs:

[The Brain]

Which begs the question, are all the GOP cowards, idiots, or in on it?

A person who is still a Republican is scum.

[grumbler]

Hard to argue with the "accessory to the crime" charge against Republicans (and some Democrats).