Shitty: The Quest to Make Everything Terrible.
Everything is getting worse, but the country hasn’t collapsed. This is all by design. Donald Trump is a useful idiot for the people behind the scenes and Project 2025, most notably Russell Vought. The Trump administration is using the nation’s finances like a personal piggy bank for themselves and large corporations while gutting agencies that provide critical services. The misconception is that Trump is driving things into the ground. He’s not. He’s just making things so shitty that the corporate state looks good in comparison.
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- 00:01:56 | ProPublica: “Their Entire Apparatus Is Exposed to Our Strategy”
- 00:14:27 | ProPublica: “We Want the Bureaucrats to Be Traumatically Affected”
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- Yahoo: This Trump Official Promised To Traumatize Federal Workers — Watch His Words Come Back To Haunt Him
- The New York Times: Two Dead and Scores Rescued as Flooding Engulfs Central Texas
- IMF: World Economic Outlook Update, July 2026: Global Economy in Crosscurrents of War and Technology
- ProPublica: “Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
- The New York Times: Why Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed With Hobbits
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Consumer Price Index Summary - 2026 M06 Results
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Producer Price Index News Release summary - 2026 M06 Results
- U.S. News: Trump Administration’s Changes to the CFPB Cost Americans $19B, a New Report Says
- KFF: In Preliminary Rate Filings, ACA Marketplace Insurers Largely Propose Double-Digit Premium Increase For 2027, Following a Steep Climb This Year
- National Association of Realtors: NAR Pending Home Sales Report Shows 5.4% Decrease in June
- The New York Times: Cyclospora Cases Rise Rapidly, With No Source Yet Confirmed
- The New Yorker: The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
- The Washington Post: The gaps in CDC’s public health data are creating dangerous blind spots
- Axios: Measurement tweaks will make inflation data look better
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