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Kakistocracy

Kakistocracy - Wikipedia

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Kakistocracy (/ˌkækɪˈstɒkrəsi/ KAK-ist-OK-rə-see) is government by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous people.[1]: 54 [2][3]

The word was coined as early as the 17th century[4] and derives from two Greek words, kákistos (κάκιστος, 'worst') and krátos (κράτος, 'rule'), together meaning 'government by the worst people'.[5]

 

America being ruled by the worst of the worst.


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-trump-authoritarianism-kleptocracy/685697/

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"Perhaps kakistocracy—rule by the worst—is the most apt word for our current form of government. Prosecutors don’t know how to prosecute. The health secretary believes vaccines cause autism. The FBI director uses government resources to hang out with his country-singer girlfriend, 18 years his junior. The president’s national-security brain trust accidentally texted their war plans and a bunch of emoji to my boss. “There’s always a trade-off that rulers have to make between getting somebody who’s loyal and somebody who’s competent because there’s just not an infinite number of people who have both of these qualities,” Frye, the Russia scholar, told me."

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-trump-authoritarianism-kleptocracy/685697/

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"So, a question: What do you call this form of government? Authoritarian? Kleptocratic? Totalitarian? Fascist?

Above all, Trump attempts to govern by decree, unconstrained by norms, shame, or the Constitution. (The only limits he sees on his powers come from “my own morality,” he recently told The New York Times. “My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”) But any analysis that attempts to answer the question of whether this makes him a despot must take into account that he is still not terribly successful at despotism. Sometimes he gets his way, but sometimes he does not. The White House on occasion seeks Congress’s approval and is periodically thwarted. Courts block his administration’s moves weekly, even if the small fraction of cases that make it to the Supreme Court mostly go Trump’s way. His enemies continue to walk free, despite his efforts. He is historically unpopular and his term ends in three years."

 

‘Fascist, criminal’: Cuba slams Trump bid to ‘suffocate’ island’s economy

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“My food is going bad. We haven’t had electricity since 6am,” Yenia Leon told Al Jazeera. “You can’t sleep. You have to buy food every day. There’s no solution to the power situation,” she said.

“This is a war,” Lazaro Alfonso, an 89-year-old retired graphic designer, told The Associated Press news agency, describing Trump as the “sheriff of the world” and saying he feels like he is living in the Wild West, where anything goes.

 

‘Fascist, criminal’: Cuba slams Trump bid to ‘suffocate’ island’s economy

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"In a social media post on Friday, Diaz-Canel said that under “a false and baseless pretext”, Trump plans “to suffocate” Cuba’s economy by slapping tariffs “on countries that sovereignly trade oil” with it.

“This new measure reveals the fascist, criminal and genocidal nature of a clique that has hijacked the interests of the American people for purely personal ends,” he said, in an apparent allusion to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a Cuban American and a known anti-Cuban government hawk.

Cuba, which is suffering rolling electricity blackouts blamed on fuel shortages, was cut off from critical supplies of Venezuelan oil after the US abducted Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in a bloody military night raid on the capital, Caracas, earlier this month. At least 32 members of Cuba’s armed forces and intelligence agencies were killed in the January 3 attack."

 

Democracy Five-Alarm Fire Of The Day: North Carolina Considering Removing 'Presumptive Noncitizen' Voters
Checking in on the latest in GOP attempted midterm election-stealery.
Marcie Jones
Jan 30, 2026

Democracy Five-Alarm Fire Of The Day: North Carolina Considering Removing 'Presumptive Noncitizen' Voters

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"No one knows better than Republicans that if they can’t find a way to purge voter rolls of non-MAGA-inclined voters in swing states, November’s midterm elections will be the end of their control of the House of Representatives, and maybe even the Senate too. And that means President Donald John Trump’s agenda will be dead in the water, or at least stalled and forced to get more bold about breaking every law until the Supreme Court Six get charley horses in their necks from shrugging off the fascism.

Along with all of the gerrydoodling map fuckery going on, Pam Bondi’s DOJ has thirstily been trying to get a hold of states’ voter rolls to “do maintenance” on them, including trying to extort Minnesota into handing over their voter rolls in exchange for ICE leaving. (MN is not a swing state, but Trump, Bondi et al. are hoping they can make it one!) So far Bondi’s pestered 44 states for their voter data, and 11 (Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming) have said they will cooperate and turn over information, including driver’s license and Social Security numbers. And Bondi is suing in 24 other states that have declined her generous offer."

 

A top priority of the GOP House in the Epstein saga should be to subpoena Trump to testify before the committee.

 

Who is US border chief Gregory Bovino, the ‘little Napoleon’ with a viral coat?

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The US District Judge Sara Ellis found last month that Bovino was not hit in the head with a rock before he deployed tear gas, which he claimed justified his use of force. The judge said Bovino had admitted he lied.

Local officials described the dramatic scene as a little more than a photo op for Bovino, who later shared footage of it on social media.

“He laughs when they call him out on the stuff, and it’s just a bro thing,” Budd said. “He’s just going around with his bros, just capturing migrants and people of colour and harassing people. They will lie constantly, like you saw in the Chicago courts. They will not think twice about doing it, and nobody will hold them accountable.”

 

Who is US border chief Gregory Bovino, the ‘little Napoleon’ with a viral coat?

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"In the 1982 action movie The Border, Jack Nicholson and Harvey Keitel play border guards posted along the Texas frontier. The film sets up their federal force as a bunch of gunslingers operating with little to no moral code.

But the way an 11-year-old Gregory Bovino saw it, watching at the cinema in his hometown of North Carolina, Keitel and his posse were the heroes, foot soldiers fuelled by a sense of duty and patriotism.

The Border would set the course for Bovino’s life, inspiring him to join his local police department straight out of college.

Fast-forward 30 years and he finds himself the star of President Trump’s immigration show as commander-at-large of Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)."

 

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/trumps-war-with-palm-beach-213122/

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So Trump sued the county for $75 million over the airport noise, then negotiated to drop that lawsuit in exchange for the county giving him a 75-year lease on the nearby property for $438,000 a year.

 

The article from 2015 is by journalist Frank Cerabino. He has lived in the Palm Beach area for decades and knows many details about Trump's brinksmanship and extortion tactics.

The article ends with Cerabino saying that Trump is always on another quest to obtain something he wants, and woe to those who get in his way.

 

Trump says he wanted to call it 'Gulf of Trump'.


'I was going to call it the Gulf of Trump': U.S. president jokes on renaming of Gulf of Mexico

 

He used the 'Sir' word again during his narrative, indicting he didn't really bring up the issue to his officials.

Trump often sounds like he's daydreaming out loud.

 

ICE racially profiling people including off-duty police officers.


Minnesota police chiefs allege some ICE agents racially profiled US citizens, including off-duty officers

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Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said immigration enforcement was necessary but said he's received complaints within the past two weeks that a small group of federal officers have stopped U.S. citizens and demanded they provide paperwork proving their citizenship.

"As this went on over the past two weeks, we started hearing from our police officers the same complaints as they fell victim to this while off duty," he said. "Every one of these individuals is a person of color who has had this happen to them in Brooklyn Park."

 

Trump could place his border patrol near voting centers and cause problems.

He can say he's doing it to insure that there isn't any interference with midterm elections.

If any journalists record unrest, he can arrest them, like he did Don Lemon and others this week, and say that the journalists are interfering with people's right to vote.

Statements of such scenarios will be met with accusations by Trump and his cohorts that it's an exagerration and that it's just Trump Derangement Syndrome. But Trump planned and instigated the Capitol riot, an event that some people beforehand said could happen considering his desperation, statements that were ridiculed at the time as being Trump Derangement Syndrome.

 

Trump and the GOP are currently trying to gain control of the voting system in Georgia. The FBI collected evidence this week at election facilities in Atlanta. Trump is still claiming the 2020 election was stolen from him.

Trump can use it as a backdrop for saying the system in GA is unfair and that he and the GOP are forced to take control of the voting system to insure that it is fair.

 

Judge orders release of 5-year-old and father from detention.


https://www.npr.org/2026/01/31/g-s1-108168/5-year-old-liam-ramos-ice-order

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"SAN ANTONIO — A judge on Saturday ordered the U.S. government to release by Tuesday a 5-year-old boy and his father from a Texas detention center where they were taken after being detained by immigration officers in a Minneapolis suburb last month.

Images of Liam Conejo Ramos, with a bunny hat and Spiderman backpack being surrounded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers, sparked even more outcry about President Trump's administration's immigration crackdown in Minnesota. It also led to a protest at the family detention center and a visit by two Texas Democratic members of Congress."

 

Trump made an announcement Saturday that he won't be sending federal agents to help Minnesota defend itself against the chaos and violence he is causing with his federal agents.


https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/politics/trump-democrat-cities-protests-intervention

 

Article from March 2023.


‘I am your retribution’: Trump rules supreme at CPAC as he relaunches bid for White House

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“Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution,” he said.

 

Trump says Democratic cities must say “please” to get federal help during protests

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“Remember that I stated, in the strongest of language, to BEWARE — ICE, Border Patrol or, if necessary, our Military, will be extremely powerful and tough in the protection of our Federal Property,” Trump added. “We will not allow our Courthouses, Federal Buildings, or anything else under our protection, to be damaged in any way, shape, or form.”