It's confirmed: Trump wants to roll-back the 20th Century

Two weeks ago I wrote about a "curious" trend in Trump's cabinet.

the Secretary of the Treasury, who specialized in illegal foreclosures
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is a climate change science denier
the Attorney General doesn't believe in supporting civil rights
the Secretary of the Interior opposes environmental regulations
the Secretary of Education opposes publicly-funded education
the Secretary of Labor, who specialized in exploiting workers
the Secretary of Commerce, known as the "King of Bankruptcy”, specialized in leveraged buyouts and then gutting the companies
the Secretary of Agriculture, who famously prayed to God for rain
the Secretary of Energy, who believes the department shouldn't exist
and the new CIA guy who ran his own Black Site torture operation.
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Are you seeing a trend here?
His agenda, his ONLY agenda, is unfettered capitalism.
He intentionally appointed people to undermine their own government agencies, to make them ineffective.

So today, the bridge troll known as Stephen K. Bannon, confirmed the obvious.

Atop Trump’s agenda, Bannon said, was the “deconstruction of the administrative state” — meaning a system of taxes, regulations and trade pacts that the president and his advisers believe stymie economic growth and infringe upon one’s sovereignty.
“If you look at these Cabinet nominees, they were selected for a reason, and that is deconstruction,” Bannon said.

In other words, destruction of all parts of the federal government that might inhibit corporate profits (such as worker safety laws, environmental regulations, etc.), and anything that benefits people who aren't wealthy (such as a modern social safety net).

This is horrific! This is nearly the worst possible scenario.
This will be an absolute disaster that will lead to untold misery for millions, and the unnecessary deaths of thousands.
Not to mention more inequality, more environmental destruction, more prisons, less democracy, and less financial security.

Which makes all the uproar and teeth gnashing about immigration and Russian konspiracy theories appear as useless distractions in perspective.

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SparkyGump's picture

Norquist has been calling for this for the last 25 years. We, like our faux enemy, Russia, are being turned into an oligarchy little by little. Our population is being duped and has been since the day Fox "News" signed on. We're turning into a society more resembling China than the 1950's America the trumpsters pine for. The uber rich and their corpeople corporations will own and run everything while the modern day serfs scramble for what's left. Fear, hate and tribalism always seem to do the trick for fascists.

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The real SparkyGump has passed. It was an honor being your human.

Pricknick's picture

There's little chance left to stop what will be the demise of the human race in the next few decades.
Massive die-offs from famine and lack of water have already started and will accelerate.
Mother Nature will reap what mankind has sowed.
Teach your children well.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

@Pricknick It's too bad that all these deer hunters don't understand that what they see with deer populations/over-populations as it is with us big-brained apes. And rabbits! Where is this complicated?

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@Pricknick

Please don't blame Mother Nature if her poisoned, rotting, murdered corpse can no longer sustain her offspring.

Credit for the extinction of life where credit for the extinction of life is due, please.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Real patriots do not need to have the guvmint inspect their food. DDT was a winner, dammit. A real patriot can look at water, tell it is fit to drink. Long hours in hazardous jobs? Patriots do not complain! I know I look forward with eager anticipation to crossing bridges that haven't been inspected. Think of the adrenaline rushes we will have!
This is the will of every single citizen/patriot who would rather die than pay taxes, and, folks, they win!

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

@on the cusp You know, these same people sure like their "List of Ingredients" labels on everything (as do we all). But they don't give credit to the gvmt for this.

[Bangs head on wall]

Peace.

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Alligator Ed's picture

it is no secret that the should say "destructing" the slim protections we have from the rapacious oligopolists remaining. The Cabinet members listed above aptly indicates this destruction plan. We might have preserved the domestic front to the status quo if Killary had been elected, but we most certainly be much closer to WW3.

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@Alligator Ed And in times of war, ordinary protections are suspended.
I suppose we were fucked either way, Alligator Ed.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

@Alligator Ed Bannon wants a new Holy War.

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travelerxxx's picture

@katie

I think you're right about Bannon desiring a new Holy War. Read the transcript of a Vatican conference call with him published by Buzzfeed. Note that this conference was over three years ago.

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For example, his war on recreational pot - the story is that Trump's brother died of alcohol and drug abuse. His intentions may (I repeat may) be legitimate. Now, W was a recovering alcoholic and Feinstein cites Dan White as her emotional reason for supporting gun control. (of course, that didn't stop her from grandstanding on the issue for personal gain and sabotaging the effort) His mileage may vary.
I suggest studying the robber barons to understand Trump.

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On to Biden since 1973

With our evolving attitude regarding/towards mary jane [and hopefully other drugs] I am hoping that prison pops will fall. PLEASE! I think a very important issue. An incredible boot over neck issue - gone! Allah be praised/Praise the Lord!

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Song of the lark's picture

A lucifer moment. Tick tock. Mofos

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Cassiodorus's picture

during the Obama administration will now pay off for them.

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"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama

who is standing behind him

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to place "regulatory reform" task forces and officers within federal agencies in what may be the most far reaching effort to pare back U.S. red tape in recent decades.

Trump signed the directive in the Oval Office with chief executives of major U.S. corporations standing behind him including Dow Chemical Co (DOW.N), Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) and U.S. Steel Corp (X.N).

The sweeping order directs every federal agency to establish a task force to ensure each has a team to research all regulations and take aim at those deemed burdensome to the U.S. economy and designate regulatory reform officers within 60 days and must report on the progress within 90 days.

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divineorder's picture

@gjohnsit

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

@gjohnsit

Make him add in the human and environmental health costs, as well as those of remediation.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

that they want to return to seem to be sometime prior to 1960. The robber barons might not be far enough. Many seem to desire the pre-enlightment period, with feudal empires, no regulation or rights, no education other than subservience to the church and oligarchy, but with modern technology available for the whims of the rich.

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Ken in MN's picture

@greenandblue Yeah, but in this scenario the serfs are armed to the teeth and itching to use those arms. How long until their electoral Frankenstein monster of racists, sovereign citizens and evangelical, Rature-seeking crazies turns on them?

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MarilynW's picture

and Bannon's deconstruction is the jihad to make it come about.

This is horrific! This is nearly the worst possible scenario.
This will be an absolute disaster that will lead to untold misery for millions, and the unnecessary deaths of thousands

Now who is the terrorist? This American terrorist, Bannon, has more power than any jihadi or caliph ever had. And he doesn't need bombs, he can destroy people with the stroke of a pen.

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To thine own self be true.

Ken in MN's picture

...way back in the Year 2-Aught-Sixteen, in simpler times, when the kids would say things like, "Yer crazy, you Shillery-bot! Trump won't be so bad!" Ahhhhhh! The good ol' days...

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