Is Trumpland a Kingdom of Trolls or a Kakistocracy?

Trump signs Executive Order rescinding Obama-era climate policies

Last night, in a phone call to reporters, a "Senior White House Official" spoke on Trump's scheduled Executive Order that will drop Obama's Climate Change Legacy. The dialogue centered on how new EPA rules will be drawn to help the economy first. When questioned on how climate change can negatively affect the economy, the official appeared stumped:

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/141657/white-house-says-its-not-familiar-economic-impacts-climate-change

So... the Trump White House wants policies that promote the economy, but doesn't know about the abundant research that shows how unregulated climate change will negate economic growth. This is just one more example of how the Trump Administration has to be trolling us. Because, honestly, no one can be this simple-minded, right?

How else to explain President Steve Bannon strolling into the Freedom Caucus pre-Trumpcare vote meeting last Friday and telling them, "This is not a debate. You have no choice but to vote for this bill." (To which a FC member retorted: "You know, the last time someone ordered me to do something, I was 18 years old. It was my daddy. And I didn't listen to him, either.")

Or chief advisor Stephen Miller telling America that the Muslim Ban would stand because "our opponents, the media and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned."

Or any press briefing that involves Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who famously retweeted The Onion's characterization of his role in the Trump administration as providing the American public with robust and clearly articulated misinformation. "Nailed it!" he tweeted.

Or when the White House website featured a Washington Post column with the headline, "Trump's budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and I will tell you why!" It was a satirical piece that featured school children being taught by a F 35 wearing a red MAGA hat. Read it and laugh out loud:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/03/16/trumps-budget-makes-perfect-sense-and-will-fix-america-and-i-will-tell-you-why/?utm_term=.50b473d9740f

Or when House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes somehow found his way onto the White House grounds the other night to meet with "a White House official" who supposedly gave him the goods on how Obama surveilled Trump. (We're still waiting for those documents, Devin...)

Or the Texas Congressman providing his take on his party's failed Health Care vote:

GOP Rep. Joe Barton's reaction to Trumpcare defeat

Or the Trump-related TV ads that appeared on Friday night during the NCAA tournament, congratulating selected GOP representatives for voting that day for Trumpcare (except they did not):

TV ads appear congratulating GOP after Trumpcare defeat

Or anything involving Michael Flynn, onetime National Security Advisor, foreign agent and Conspiracy Theory peddler. Proposed kidnappings and abductions, oh why not?

Reaction to WSJ article about General Michael Flynn and Turkey

This could go on and on because there is no shortage of examples, and it would be great fun. Heck, I haven't even mentioned how Jared Kushner is going to use his two months of public service experience and re-invent the federal government!

These guys cannot be serious. They are all involved in an elaborate prank that will end on April 1 when they all pile out of the White House shouting, "April Fools!!" It really can be a government-wide application of Poe's Law, given how many Trump supporters are still buying in on whatever these guys do and say:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe%27s_Law

Or... maybe it's not a big laugh. Maybe they are serious! Oh... that would be bad. Very bad. That would mean they really have wanted to do the things they have done, and have promised to do! That means many things, including this mindset:

So what exactly is a Kakistocracy? Various dictionaries define it as "government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens." While there may be elements of a Kleptocracy afoot with various Trump family members and business associates, the Kakistocracy trumps it with its full range of Bad Political Actors and their Orwellian Newspeak that seek to define and control our perceptions.

Sing along as Marxism rules Fredonia in "Duck Soup"

Whether or not the Trump/Republican Agenda gets very far, it's fairly evident that we will continue to see an unrelenting series of incomplete and poorly-thought-out actions and proposed policies between now and whenever this godawful roller coaster ride ends. If our time can be concisely encapsulated into a 30 second "musical", then here it is:

Yes, it's stupid. And funny. Applied to our current day, it ridicules, an action that would get much approval from our old friend, Mark Twain. Let us keep Ridicule in the forefront of our considered Resistance. Informed Ridicule will always show how an Emperor has no clothes...