S.E. Cupp: President Trump’s Insane Clown Posse Cabinet

It’s been lone 2 weeks, but with each passing time of President Trump’s 2nd term, Mike Judge’s 2006 masterpiece, “Idiocracy,” becomes a much and much prescient and embarrassingly close prediction of what the American authorities mightiness 1 time look like.

In Judge’s scathing prophecy, the near-collapse of Western civilization and American greatness happens implicit the adjacent 500 years arsenic Americans dilatory wantonness intellectualism, expertise, democracy, the judicial system, and morality, and commercialized them successful for a dystopian beingness of mind-numbing ignorance, personage worship, hyper-commercialization, and seemingly endless masturbation.

To wit, successful 2505, the president is simply a five-time Ultimate Smackdown champion and “porn superstar.” The White House is present adorned with Mudflap Girl gates.

The caput of vigor is simply a pimply-faced teen who “won a contest, got to beryllium a furniture secretary.” The caput of authorities is “brought to you by Carl’s Jr.,” and the lawyer wide is referred to arsenic “Fun bags” by the caput of state. Meanwhile, the caput of acquisition is President Camacho’s “kinda stupid” step-brother, who doesn’t look to cognize not to look down the tube of a gun.

It’s comic until you retrieve it’s not 2505, but 2025, and Judge’s satirical mentation feels frighteningly each excessively real.

Trump’s Insane Clown Posse Cabinet is precise adjacent to being filled with a cadre of fools and quacks, goons and thugs.

The Senate hearings, meant “in theory” to vet the radical who volition tally our country, were conscionable for amusement apparently, arsenic Republicans look poised to usher successful a fig of radical who apt couldn’t walk an FBI inheritance cheque (or successful immoderate cases, a precocious schoolhouse subject class).

On Tuesday, your adjacent apt caput of wellness and quality services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., precocious his information retired of committee and is connected to the afloat Senate, where, according to insiders, “The wide feeling is that [he’ll] beryllium confirmed.”

If it seems similar a atrocious thought to enactment a quack conspiracy theorist who promotes fake “autism cures,” who likened the Centers for Disease Control to “Nazi decease camps,” who believes that COVID was engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews, whose ill-informed opinions helped encourage Samoa to halt vaccinating their kids — aft which 83 died — successful complaint of the nation’s health, remainder assured, it decidedly is.

Kennedy joins the probable caput of the FBI, Kash Patel, a idiosyncratic with constricted instrumentality enforcement experience, a history of promoting conspiracy theorists and achromatic nationalists, and an enemies list of “conspirators” successful authorities and the media. “We’re gonna travel aft you,” helium promised successful 2023.

If it seems similar a atrocious thought to enactment a vindictive novice with a past of defending law-breakers, who himself has reportedly dodged the law, successful complaint of our instrumentality enforcement, remainder assured, it decidedly is.

They’ll articulation your adjacent apt manager of nationalist intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, a erstwhile congresswoman with practically nary inheritance successful quality work.

If it seems similar a atrocious thought to enactment idiosyncratic who can’t look to separate our enemies from our allies, who’s repeatedly promoted Russian propaganda and defended the Syrian butcher Bashar Assad, who’s been criticized by astir 100 erstwhile nationalist information officials, who refuses to accidental that idiosyncratic who stole much than a cardinal classified documents is simply a traitor, successful complaint of our intelligence-gathering community, remainder assured, it decidedly is.

It’s similar idiosyncratic challenged Trump to lucifer the implicit slightest qualified idiosyncratic to the astir inappropriate position. It’s astir comical successful its absurdity.

But the joke’s connected america — Republican senators, who are the lone players with immoderate existent powerfulness to halt them, person simply decided not to, each truthful that President Camacho tin play astatine authorities with his favourite suck-ups.

And present Republicans ain it all: the policies, the problems, the people.

So what does the aboriginal hold? Is it an America wherever subject is banned and experts are mocked arsenic woke and elitist? Where conspiracies dumb america down to yet judge that thing is really true? Where the levers of ideology are utilized and abused to reward friends and punish opponents? Where American powerfulness is for merchantability to the biggest sycophants? Where our nationalist information is handed implicit to TV stars, propagandists, and utile idiots?

It seems similar that’s wherever we’re headed. And with Democrats incapable to fig retired their adjacent moves and a quality media terrified of retribution, determination whitethorn beryllium nary 1 near to halt the self-destruction.

It’s a bittersweet commentary connected the authorities of American politics, risking it each truthful that Republican lawmakers tin support their seats — and their beloved person entertained.

But arsenic the saying goes — “Play anserine games, triumph anserine prizes.” 

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