Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #3

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visits the Uniteds. I don't think it ends well for anybody if he visits the United States. This country is too heavily armed and crazy right now. But they're doing this because Putin and Trump have evidently reached some sort of agreement about the end of the war in Ukraine. Zelenski was not really on this. He's made a couple of statements like yep, we're we're hoping that this is what pushes everything towards peace. But it's very clear that what's happening is Ukraine is going to be made to

give up a decent chunk of their territory. Now they do have Russian territory still to bargain with somewhat, so it hopefully will not be a situation where Putin gets is entirely his own way. But that is kind of the what's happening, and the sea change that will accompany this is that new Secretary of Defense and alcoholic Pete Hegseth made a statement and a meeting in Brussels that the United States will no longer be the guarante of peace in Europe. Specifically, he stated that we're not going

to tolerate of an imbalanced relationship which encourages dependency. But this was an announcement that the post war sort of status quo is no longer something that we can rely on going forward, and that is a really significant admission from the sec deaff.

In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, every Western European nation basically came to a tacit agreement referred to as the cordon sanitaire, which is when a right wing party starts to gain power, you do not coalition with them under any circumstances. Germany is actually like the last of the European countries to give up this idea. But the fact that the Cordon sanitaire has fallen in Germany is real bad news.

every single immigrant from the country. Like these people are you know, I mean, they're just Nazis And yeah, so now we're fucking handing them the fucking justification to fucking rebuild their entire arms industry. So yep, great stuff.

wouldn't necessarily have enforced that arrest warrant anyway. But this week Trump signed a little executive order titled in block capitals, as we've come to expect, imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court, and in doing so, he followed the example of Putin, who in twenty twenty three put out arrest warrants for ICC prosecutors after they put out a warrant for his arrest. Trump didn't cite the Putin example. He

called the ICC's actions against Israel illegitimate and baseless. That's a quote. He specifically called the warrants against UF Gallant and Benjamin Etting Yahoo baseless. He then went on to claim, quote, both nations are thriving democracies with militaries strictly adhered to the laws of war. This is a thing that is not true. His order then goes on to outline what it calls protected persons, people who aren't familiar at United

States person is distinguished from the United States citizen. It also includes any permanent residents. It also includes US Armed Forces government officials and contractors working on behalf of US Armed Forces contractors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the people who can do no wrong. It then goes on to include US allies, including all of NATO and sometimes contractors working on their behalf. It says that if the International Criminal Court investigates any

of these people, Trump called the Clara National Emergency. It also imposes material sanctions and travel bands on both ICC prosecutors and people acting on their warrants, as well of the families of those people. Interesting, Yeah, this is an unprecedented American politics, and sometimes it gets reported like it is. I want to like throw back to what they called the Hague Invasion Act. That wasn't its real name, but

that was George Bush's. Like it authorized the President to use any means necessary to release United States people held by the ICC or at its request. So people started calling it the Hague Invasion Act.

attempts to undermine the International Criminal Court. And just if I've been talking about something and you're like, what is the International Criminal Court? Very briefly, it's based at the Hague. So if you've heard, you know you will stand trial at the Hague. That's what they're talking about. It has its most immediate routes in the tribunals investigated perpetrations of genocides in Rwanda and Yugoslavia. The US and Israel are lot members of the court. They never signed the Roman Statute.

Russia withdrew in twenty sixteen.

prosecuted a lot of people in Africa. That doesn't mean that like African people can't do war crimes in Africa, of course they can, but it means that they're held accountable more often than when countries in the global North do war crimes, which they can do too. Okay, So Trump, that's like everything else he does, was condemned internationally for this, right, including by several NATO allies, in so much as they

really are NATO allies anymore given everything we've just talked about. However, it's also worth noting that some of the countries like France, who condemned Trump's sanctioning of ICC prosecutors, also allowed someone with an ICC warrant I Benjamin that's in Yahoo to transit their airspace. So like, therefore, commitment to the ICC perhaps can be questioned. This is a problem with the ICC, right, it doesn't have an integral enforcement mechanism.

a life changing experience. It really warmed my heart. And then, luckily, a few days ago, Georgia Representative Buddy Carter announced legislation to empower Trump to enter into negotiations to quote unquote purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland and importantly to rename it red, white and blue. Lind God, let's get some quick reactions from the panel.

be an interesting problem. Now treasuries again, our course, US treasury bonds. We will get to what those are in a second, but I need to read the rest of this quote. It could be that a lot of those things don't count. In other words, that some of the stuff that we're finding is very fraudulent. Therefore, maybe we have less debt than we thought. Now, that's a very scary thing to say here.

I would be very surprised if they ever stopped a payment of treasury bonds to a holder. It would be like shooting yourself in the foot, he said. Now, this is something where these these institutional investors, like they still have not quite wrapped their head around the fact that no, he really will do this shit because he doesn't understand at all. He thinks that American debt works the same way as like his own personal debt, and no it doesn't. I mean, it's worth saying some bits. So, I mean,

just a very very basic shit about how national debt works. Right, Like all of our money, literally every single dollar that is in circulation, every dollar that is in a bank account, that is literally government debt, right like that that's what money is, right, And these treasury bonds are as we were talking about earlier, right, this is like the investment asset for literally the entire world, and there's trillions of dollars of these. Actually, Japan is the largest holder of

treasury bonds. China's sort of been selling some of theirs, but they have a lot of them.

trying to like get money from people. And and you know, even if you listen to what that what the sort of bond analyst is saying, right, he's like, well, it's fine, they'll just stop paying like US debt to other things, which is like unbelievably unhinged. Would also in and of itself, like destroying the full faith and credit of the United

States would absolutely just fucking annihilate the world economy. And it's also another example of Trump not understanding how the empire he's inherited works, because like the one of the ways the US funds is government is by getting its client states to buy like trillions of dollars of assets. Like that's partially why feelief. Look at who's who buys US assets, like it's China and US tributary states like Japan, for example, which is just purely in American military Protectorate. Right,

it's a sort of incredible system for the US. Right, you get a bunch of people and you, you know, you just you just sort of perpetually keep borrowing money from them. And it's this thing where they don't understand who actually holds the power in the relationship, which is that the US having all this is the one with the power and is the one that's getting everyone else's

money for this sort of secure asset. So, you know, who knows what's going to happen with this If this actually starts happening, like, yeah, this is the world rending economic crisis levels of stuff. Well, we'll see if he moves on it, he may simply forget about it, or we're going to wake up one day and like the US's credit's going to be downgraded to like junk bond

status and everything's going to be chaos. So, speaking of Trump trying to sort of like take shots at pillars of the global economy, starting in March, he's trying to implement a twenty five percent tariff on all imported steel and aluminum. Most of that's actually from Canada and Mexico. I think in their minds is the thing about Chinese steel,

but it's mostly from Canada and Mexico. This is also a fucking shit show because the US manufacturing capacity that we still have and we still actually do have a decent amount of like a very high tech manufacturing right relies on this stuff, and this is going to make it more expensive, gets bad. It will do nothing to deal with the fact that US doesn't produce steel anymore, which is the product of that. One day I'll do

my structural Chinese steel over capacity episode. But you know, it's it's the product of like half a century of the global manufacturing economy, you know, becoming zero sum, and they're simply not being a large enough consumer market for all of industrial goods, which means the production becomes increasingly you know, it becomes impossible to expand production to one place without you know, getting ready production another place. In Trump things you can solve those with tariffs.

his concerns to Trump in private. On Monday, Adams convened a meeting with his own top officials to urge them not to speak badly about the president in public, saying if they were to do so, it could risk federal funding later that day. That same day, Trump's Justice Department ordered the prosecutors in Adam's criminal case to drop the charges against him, in part, arguing Adams must be free of the burden of his corruption indictment to help carry out Trump's immigration agenda in the city.

that I'm forced to attention to every week. There was a transports band that that that Trump did an executive order about using a whole bunch of children as a prop very clearly trying to steal steal the charisma from whatever that governor who lost the election did with his free school lunch there anyway, Instead now it's you just you know, hurt other children in the school by not

making them be allowed to play sports. So that happened, and then a few other things have happened the past few weeks, and I'm kind of just like catching up on because I've been really focused on like reporting on like Muscus specifically, and there's been a lot of other stuff the past few weeks. So I'm going to kind

of get to that now. The State Department's travel website change the acronym LGBT to LGB on a web page like warning about like how dangerous it might be to like travel to like other countries with like worse legal protections, say LGB travelers can face special challenges abroad. Laws and attitudes in some countries may affect safety and ease of travel.

Many countries do not recognize the same sex marriage. Many countries don't recognize the ex gender marker in passports and do not have it systems at ports of entry that can accept sex markers other than female and male.

gender ideology. Previously, the CDC removed like HIV and trans related like health info pages from their website, and as of yesterday, February eleventh, the web pages for the FDA, Health and Human Services and the CDC were allegedly brought back online, restoring their January thirtieth status. They did this like right before a court mandated deadline to restore these pages, like I can I can now go back on to

the CDC's HIV page. Verge was first reported on this, and they said that, you know, they've been unable to verify that all of the pages have been restored exactly to how they were before. This is something that we're still working on because it's literally happened, like you know, yesterday. This is this is like a small, a small part

of their of their current war on wokeness. Another aspect of this is there's been a whole bunch of orders from federal agencies to ban specific woke keyword words across like their databases, their websites, training information, including from agencies like noah SO just like the Weather and the National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They released a memo of banning specific words across the agency, including words like ability, acceptance, access, affirmation, aggression, allyeship, androgyne a, sexual belonging, bias, binary, bisexual, black culture, DEI, discrimination, diversity, empathy, empowerment, equity, ethnicity, fairness, gay, gender genitus, foria, handicap, homosexual, LGBTQ, intersex, pan sexual, queer, transgender, transvestite,

as well as words like impartial inclusion, indigenous, intersectionality, justice, the word white has been banned, They space, social justice, underserved communities, race privilege, powerdynamics, Native American, multiculturalism, all of these Like again, this is like the Party of Free Speech has banned all of these words, and it's not

it's it's it's it's not just Noah. Also, the National Science Foundation has has released my most saying that they cannot have these words included in their documents because it could cause them to lose grant funding.

institutional marginalize, trauma, underappreciated, stereotypes, systemic under presentation, undervalued victim.

this kills every fucking grant. And this is this is one of these things where it's like you're literally just running straight into the federal law tells you must do this thing, and the Trow administration says these words are banned, so like, yeah, who knows.

Columnists to doctor Lucky Tran reported quote the CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal the move aims to ensure that quote unquote, no forbidden terms appear in the work band. Terms must be scrubbed. Great,

it's all really bad, yep. And we're seeing this this sort of like lists being formed increasingly, including this DEI watch list put together by a conservative oppositional research group called the American Accountability Foundation PRICE, who released a DEI watch list which publishes the names, photos, occupation, and personal information of mostly black employees who work under the Department of Health and Human Services. When the website was first discovered,

the employee profiles were labeled under targets. This has since been changed to dossier's like very very frightening, like very bad stuff, like very obvious intimidation for each target. The website lists a collection of alleged DEI offenses, which includes donations to Democrats and social media posts having pronouns in their bio or previous work on since deleted diversity, equity

and inclusion initiatives. Columnist Jamal Bowie says, quote, they are mostly targeting black employees, so this is quite literally just a repeat of Rigrow Wilson's segregationist purge of the federal government. And like yes, like all of this, all of this like push against quote unquote DEEI is like very clearly

just like white supremacists segregation in action. Like this is the whole point is that if any employee is a person of color, that means that they that they must be unqualified because they were hired only due to DEI. And to avoid doing that, you could only hire white people.

And Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent out a memo directing staff on where to direct like grant funds, and he said, quote give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average unquote, which is a very clear dog whistle to just like only hire like white Christians, hire Christians with big families, you know, parenthesis like white people. This is like very very obviously what they're doing.

look at agencies like the FBI. There's a book called The Dictator's Army that heavily focuses on how changes like this impact operational if efficiency, And the gist of it is that the goal, and clearly what Hegseth's job is, is to make the military into something that can't pose

opposition to the new regime. Right, that's the goal here, because there's a very realistic understanding that the military was one of things that stopped him from maintaining power in twenty twenty, right, both because the military was not willing to be used to crack down directly on protests and because General Milly acted as a barrier to Trump's attempt to do a coup. The last time, right, So you have an understanding which is very common when regimes like

this takeover in democratic societies. In the early days of the Third Reich, the military was the primary concern Hitler had because they were not Nazis, right, they were conservative, but they were not in the tank for the Nazi Party, and there was a lot that he wanted to do that the military establishment at the time the Third Rich

came to power wouldn't let him do. And that was one of the first things and this took several years, but that was one of the first goals of the Nazi regime and power was reforming the military as much as possible in their own image.

Christian applicants. Yeah, and like that's the entirety of this point here, like they're they're using dei as like a like as this like magical wand to frame things that are like pretty standard and like accepted parts of like how you do like hiring practices, how you don't do discrimination to just specifically only only like uplift white Christians. And that's part of this like very basic like Christian nationalist project that people like Heritage have been trying to do for a long time.

understand the world. In order to sort of like purify their like white state, right like you have to get rid of the non white people, and you have to get rid of the queers and you know, and people especially people who are fucking both and so this is this sort of transformational project of changing this this sort of like just changing the composition of what the US is into like and how its state functions, and how they can to what like what level of violence they can bring about on people.

its noble principles throughout history. The concept of that commitment to America's aspirations is beneficial and justified the concept that

celebration of America's greatness and history is proper. And then the order goes on to try to ban the concept of white guilt, saying that, like, teachers can get in trouble if any of their students and feel guilty about things that people of like that same race have done in the past, and like making sure that teachers do not teach things in a way that could possibly make us students feel quote unquote guilt.

first time. So I think people may remember, like after Ferguson in twenty fifteen, there was Baltimore where there was you know, huge riots, massive confrontations with police, like massive educations, and that's the that's like the thing that really truly tipped like a bunch of the Republican Party even further right from where they'd been with the Tea Party into

into this into sort of trump Ism. It was, you know, it was a reaction to that, and then this entire campaign right like all of the stuff that he's talking about here, you know, this is about twenty twenty, right, this is about reversing the gains that had beened, you know,

and like obviously they were incomplete gains. One of the things that did happen was that a bunch of teachers were trying to change the way the US history is taught to reflect that this country was like again a settler colonial empire built by slave labor, and you know that that expanded its territory through genocide, which is just this is just objectively true about how the US started.

But the thing is, like that's not good for you know, these people's projects, right, Like saying that out loud is

a fucking issue for them. And so you know, their their attempt to roll back everything that was gained from sort of the Black uprisings is culminating all of this shit with like the purge of black workers for the federal government, with all of these things ordering you to and like that's why they're talking about all these weird all they keep banning all these weird like terms that don't make any sense, Like we were talking about like empathy, right,

So like okay, so why the fuck are they talking about banning empathy? Yeah, because specifically these things come from the purges they've been trying to do in the education system, where they have a bunch of very specific grievances about like kinds of education stuff that teachers, the teachers were implementing, particularly in sort of like middle and high schools.

will resume funding. The first tro was like two weeks ago, on February first, So it's not like like they just learned about this. It's that they have in some ways like perhaps caved to pressure. Again, like these executive orders do not enforce themselves, These are enforced by people at agencies. These things do do not do not become automatically enforced.

So this is this is like one one step. Now you can go to a popular dot info who has been breaking the news on this specifically, and then some some breaking news that I have here on drop site quote unquote armored Tesla forecast estimated to win four hundred million dollars of State Department contract funds. What So, this could go one of two ways. This could either go a really funny way, Yeah it's gonna shay, or it could go a really sad way.

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