‘Government by the worst’: why people are calling Trump’s new sidekicks a ‘kakistocracy’
‘Government by the worst’: why people are calling Trump’s new sidekicks a ‘kakistocracy’
The word is trending as Trump makes cabinet picks – but it’s not the first time it’s been used to describe lousy leadership
Matt Gaetz running the justice department. Fox hosts in charge of the Pentagon and transportation. Elon Musk as head of layoffs. And Robert F Kennedy Jr and Dr Oz overseeing the nation’s health.
Some have likened Donald Trump’s administrative picks to a clown car; others are calling our incoming leadership a kakistocracy, or “government by the worst people”, as Merriam-Webster puts it.
The word has been trending online, with a burst in search traffic in recent weeks and a new dedicated subreddit. It’s not the first time Trump has (accidentally) made the term famous; many discovered it in his first term. But the kakistocracy of 2016 looks like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood compared with the president-elect’s new batch of sidekicks.
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He's left behind even the pretense of having people who know things in office. Now it's just bootlickers who have been on TV, and the occasional particularly toadycore politician.
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Yup. He knows how to sell shit to gullible rubes. He's a dumb fuck otherwise, but the man has an uncanny genius when it comes to self promotion.
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KKKakistocracy
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I saw an article that called it a "Broligarchy" and that seemed to fit more than anything else.
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He had to pick these guys. He tried to put the others in jail or in the ground, so they don't want to play with him. He's assembled the best team he has available to him, and I'm just curious who is really making the selections here. I'd lay even money it's the friendovich but we'll never know.
But trust him: he could not do any better than these guys.
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They’re both a kakistocracy and a kekistocracy
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...and a kleptocracy.
Oh look - 3 "K"'s
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according to computer security experts, the US presidential election was likely hacked via voting software.
The numbers Trump achieved are non-credible.
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked
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The sad thing - even if this were to be true, I bet nothing happens. Just look at Bush v. Gore. Even many so-called Democrats and so-called liberals pretend as if Bush won, that anyone bringing it up is just a sore loser and so on. More recently, we have the Russia and Comey thing when it comes to Hillary.
Even if we later have the smoking gun about this, I bet we still sustain damage from donvict and his buddies in the meantime, and people still act like it's NBD, even if true...
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I mean the voting software stolen is undeniably true, since they admitted doing it themselves and there's evidence of Trump's lawyers hiring people to steal the voting software.
nothing might come of it, but I still talk about how W stole his election because his brother was the governor of florida and stopped ballot counting in that state, so if this election was stolen, we might as well have indisputable proof like we have of Florida in 2004.
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Start by contacting the relevant people and demanding a manual recount.
If you can say that you actually tried, and still nothing happened, then you're allowed to wallow in despair.
But you don't get to just skip straight to the despair part without the doing everything you can part. Then the only source of your despair will be you.
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Spoonamore is not a security expert. He’s an attention-seeker who is known for making news with unfounded claims and little else.
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So there is evidence to justify a recount, but will that actually happen? What are the chances?
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Democrats will roll over.
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very little action needs to be taken by the people in those States to convince their secretary of State to do a manual recount, or people in other states to ask their secretary of State to pressure the soss in other states to do a recount.
legislation is often supported or not based on less than 100 people calling into their legislator's office, so the more people calling up their secretaries of state and election officials and demanding a recount, the better.
this is not a baseless accusation, there is hard evidence that Trump's lawyers had voting software, and a historical and statistical and probability that The voters that literally want Trump. the election are real or actually voted.
The likelihood is that those ballots are not there.
with this much actual evidence, there must be a recount.
you should demand it.
call or email your election officials. tell me your state and I'll tell you who to call or email.
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Trump should google Caesar. I don't mean the normal "How far Lil Caesar from Trump?" or "Trump own Ceasar Hotel?" or "Why smart man say me eat no Caesar?"
Surrounding yourself around the corrupt lead to dangrous games. Caesar found to late.
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He was definitely a corrupt war criminal, like any president, but Caesar was murdered because of his radical approach to helping the populare at the detriment of the oligarchy. I don't think Trump has that to worry about
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No, but heavy is the head. He will try to break his leash and the people around will look for more power. "For the love of money is the root of all evil."
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I wasn't aware of any of this, I swear:
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"1880 was also a general election year in the UK, another country known for its contributions to the English language."
Hilarious