BrianKrebsMar 20, 2025

Another thing nobody is really talking about but which would have been a scandal in the last administration is the degree to which almost all of the people in Trump cabinet or DOGE are still working at their private sector jobs. There is zero expectation by this White House that people should not compromise the integrity of the office by creating a conflict of interest. Somehow this has already become normalized.

Even if we ignore all the illegal and unconstitutional actions by the president so far, this cabinet and administration is by far and away the most corrupt and compromised because of it.

Show threadSeán FenianMar 20, 2025
@briankrebs The one bright side of this is that if we somehow make it through this crisis with an intact and recognizable nation remaining, it just might be the size 14 boot up the ass that the US needs to say "This can't go on, we have got to get the corruption and dark money out of our government."
Show threadSzymon Sokół 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦
@zakalwe @briankrebs do you see any scenario (not involving aliens or Divine intervention) in which America (and, for that matter, the rest of the world) survives this? It is not a "crisis", it is an actual Armageddon.
Mar 20, 2025 at 9:17pmWeb
Show threadSeán FenianMar 20, 2025
@blotosmetek @briankrebs The world, yes. Europe is stepping up HARD to the plate.

The United States? I don't know. But it feels as though it is running out of time, and I'm not sure we'll recognize what is left when the dust settles.

Armageddon is, of course, exactly what the evangelical right wants, because they implicitly believe as a matter of faith that Armageddon means their Rapture (which they made up out of whole cloth), in which they all get to ascend en masse in corporeal form directly to Heaven without the inconvenience of dying first.