154: IYKYK & IDK so WTF!

If you know you know and I don't know so what the fuck!

The author and her human friend sharing a Sunday morning smoke

It’s increasingly difficult to be an informed citizen, what with the attacks on democracy and the legitimate desire to just tune it all out. We’ll continue focusing on commons based alternatives, but we also can’t ignore the public discourse currently transforming our society.

We’re not watching a government unfold—we’re watching one unravel in real time. The Trump administration isn’t navigating a political storm, it is the storm: unpredictable, destructive, and uninterested in anything resembling order or continuity. Institutions aren’t being challenged; they’re being bulldozed. Authority isn’t being questioned; it’s being mocked, bypassed, and replaced with brute loyalty.

And yet, the political class keeps looking for patterns, keeps asking, “What’s the strategy?” As if this is a puzzle to solve instead of a collapsing building to escape.

Let’s stop pretending there’s a plan. There isn’t. There’s only the raw, naked desire for power, and the chaos that makes it possible.

The Model Is Not the Moment

The political class is addicted to modeling. Economists, political scientists, journalists—they all want to fit this into a framework. They want to believe that Trump is following some strategy, that there’s a logic to the madness. But what if the madness is the strategy?

This administration is not building a new system. It's smashing the old one, piece by piece, expecting to rule the rubble.

Consider the current economic chaos: Trump’s tariffs and trade war tactics are torching global supply chains and accelerating inflation. Major sectors are reeling. The IMF and WTO are warning of permanent fractures in global trade norms, yet the administration claims it’s all part of a "strategic realignment."

That’s nonsense. There is no plan—only wreckage, followed by spin. The goal isn’t to win a trade war. The goal is to create enough economic confusion that accountability becomes impossible. The worse things get, the easier it becomes to blame someone else: China, Canada, Democrats, immigrants, economists, the weather.

Meanwhile insiders make the markets look like a mouse trap, making millions off the volatility and arbitrary whims of the ruler. Graft and corruption as a national growth strategy.

No model can predict this because no model can internalize absurdity as a first principle.

The Abrego Garcia Case: Cruelty and Incompetence Collide

If you want to understand how this regime actually works, look at the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

A Maryland resident and father of three disabled children, Garcia had been living in the U.S. under a legal stay since 2019, protected by court order from deportation. That didn’t stop ICE from abducting him off the street, deporting him to El Salvador, and abandoning him in a mega-prison infamous for human rights abuses. When pressed, the administration called it an "administrative error," but refused to correct it—insisting without evidence that Garcia is tied to MS-13.

The Supreme Court has ordered his return. The administration shrugs. State Department officials claim to be negotiating with El Salvador. In the meantime, Garcia rots in a cell while his family falls apart in Maryland. Assuming he’s still alive.

This is not just a bureaucratic failure. It’s a policy of terror through neglect. A warning shot to anyone who dares to rely on the law for protection.

The House recently passed the "No Rogue Rulings Act," a bill that would strip federal judges of the power to issue nationwide injunctions. This wasn’t done in response to a legal principle. It was retaliation. Retaliation against judges who dared block or delay Trump’s policies, from immigration bans to health mandates.

In theory, the bill curbs "judicial activism." In practice, it kneecaps the courts and concentrates even more power in the executive branch. It’s the legal equivalent of duct-taping a judge's mouth shut and calling it reform.

What makes this worse is how normalized it has become. A major legislative attack on judicial authority gets covered like a routine partisan squabble. It’s not. It’s a rupture.

Add to this the ongoing attack on big law firms via executive orders, and it’s becoming clear that the US legal system has been effective compromised.

Science and Intelligence: Weaponizing Incompetence

Let’s also talk about the monster Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As Secretary of Health, he’s not just ignoring science—he’s weaponizing it. Promoting unproven treatments, undermining vaccines, and purging staff who question his conspiracies. The result is a department paralyzed by fear and confusion.

Notwithstanding RFK Jr’s weird obsession with “curing” autism, the major impact of this attack on science will be the exponential acceleration of highly pathogenic avian influenza. ☠👀

And over at the CIA, a battle was lost regarding the Trump administration’s nominee to lead clandestine operations. Considered a crucial post in the CIA’s command structure, the service and congressional allies have resisted the appointment of a loyalist with virtually no field experience. In spite of rare pushback, it appears the administration will be able to politicize a powerful capacity within the US Intelligence Community. The signal is loud and clear: loyalty over competence. Control over capability.

Now layer in the attack on the cybersecurity community. Investigative journalist and cybersecurity analyst Brian Krebs was publicly targeted by administration officials, accused of "inciting digital sedition" after previously arguing the 2020 election was not rigged or compromised. While Krebs’ reputation is paramount in the industry, the regime’s attack against him has been met with silence and cowardice.

This isn’t governance. It’s unbridled authoritarianism.

The Canadian Echo Chamber

Canada isn’t immune. In fact, we’re imitating.

148: The Americanization of Canadian Minds

Pierre Poilievre, sensing the collapse of his electoral prospects, is already laying the groundwork for a Canadian version of “Stop the Steal.” He’s exaggerating rally sizes, accusing pollsters of bias, and attacking journalists as enemies of the people. Sound familiar?

@rachel_gilmoreI totally buried the lede on this one so I’m begging you to watch it all lmaooooo

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It’s not just rhetoric. It’s a tactic. A way to delegitimize the outcome of an election before it happens. To lay the foundation for unrest, and to shift blame for failure onto phantom enemies.

This is how democracy falls—not with tanks in the streets, but with hashtags and disinformation.

The Dictator’s Dilemma

The more power a dictator takes, the more they fear losing it. That’s the dictator’s dilemma. The distrust and paranoia grows, the honest voices disappear, and their perceived model of the world grows increasingly delusional and distorted.

Trump's policies are increasingly incoherent. His allies are more sycophantic than strategic. Yet rather than slow down, the administration is accelerating: purging enemies, rewriting rules, and silencing critics.

It’s not strength. It’s desperation.

And still, the experts model scenarios, run forecasts, and argue policy as if this is business as usual.

It’s not.

This is an implosion with a flag on top. A raw pursuit of power that will only result in destruction.

If you know, you know. If you don’t, what the fuck.

As for what comes next? That’s up to us.

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