Words to Know

This is a short vocabulary list to help me understand and follow along during the next four years.

Kakistocracy
     noun
government by its least suitable or competent citizens.

Just look at the sleeping toddler’s nominees—alcoholic, rapist Pete Hegseth, long time heroin addict and roadkill connoisseur RFK Jr., Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard, snake oil salesweasel Mehmet Oz, fossil fuels hero Doug Burgum, etc.

Plutocracy
     noun
government by the wealthy

That’s be Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and more.

Totalitarianism
     noun
government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

Project 2025

Despotism
     noun
oppressive absolute power and authority exerted by government : rule by a despot

Did I mention Project 2025 already?

Theocracy
     noun
a system of government in which “religious” assholes rule in the name of their god.

Project 2025 would serve to further crystalize and federalize the Christian nationalist agenda. The 900-plus page “Mandate for Leadership” book of policy proposals includes multiple concerning elements from a religious freedom perspective. Project 2025 would expand upon the Trump administration’s efforts to expand religious exemptions and gut civil rights protections for people of minority faiths, women, and people who are LGBTQ, which CAP documented with the ACLU and Movement Advancement Project in 2020. (source)

Charlatanism
     noun
The act of making usually showy pretenses to knowledge or ability : fraud 

The lying sack of warthog feces continues to lie and lie and lie.

Faustian bargain
a pact whereby a person trades something of supreme moral or spiritual importance, such as personal values or the soul, for some worldly or material benefit, such as knowledge, power, or riches. Also called a deal with the Devil.

Has Fetterman made a Faustian bargain? Is he the new Manchin/Sinema? Pretty much looks like it. Who else will sell their soul, bend the knee, and turn against their constituents for Captain Crazypants and his illegal immigrant co-prez, the Space Nazi.

America is the only instance in history of a nation which has passed from barbarism to decay without passing through the stage of civilization.
~ attributed to Ogden Nash, Oscar Wilde, a French newspaper columnist, and others