when you reach the milestone of adulthood and take a peek behind the veil of responsibility…
… maybe Larry Niven was right in Ringworld, humanity’s only defining trait is not our intelligence, but our luck.
Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality
EvilFonzy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This lines up with what I’ve been shouting into the void whenever I read a news article. “Where are the fucking adults?!”
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You just made me remember that book that came out in his first term reassuring everyone that there were “adults in the room” protecting us from certain doom.
What a crock of shit that turned out to be.
Tower@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Eh, I think that his 2nd term kind of helps validate that view of his 1st. Because he was a political newbie, he allowed those around him to help make staffing decisions, so you got mostly run of the mill Republicans. Terrible, certainly, but not sycophants. That’s all out the window this time. Key positions are filled based solely on either fealty to the mad king or ✨campaign contributions✨ (bribes). Anyone who dares speak out gets the axe, and at least for now it’s a metaphorical one.
Furbag@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Second term has been so much worse than the first in that regard. I was just telling my co worker the other day that it’s funny how Trump’s first term, and especially his first year, was just him firing tons of people that he appointed, and in his second term he’s hardly fired anybody. It really sends the signal just how much Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants, yes-men, and puffers this time around.
I think that’s part of the reason why the moron feels emboldened to say and do some truthfully horrifying shit.