# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 11, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068 "2024-11-11T06:19:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 173
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3501 "2025-03-28T20:22:28Z")
Trump sez a woman is a thing that can have babies under certain circumstances and has been treated badly, and doesn’t give a man a chance of success. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3llhdkasagx2o)** > > REPORTER: What is a woman? > > TRUMP: Well it's sort of easy to answer for me because a woman is someone who can have a baby under certain circumstances ... a woman is a person that in many cases has been treated very badly ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3502 "2025-03-28T20:26:25Z")
Circumstances? Like parthogenesis? That’d be pretty sweet, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3503 "2025-03-28T20:32:09Z")
His second definition sounds like he’s channeling Gertrude Stein. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3504 "2025-03-28T21:05:21Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I think it’s meaningful to keep in mind that Trump himself barely knows what’s going on from minute to minute and his administration’s worst initiatives are being largely generated by the Nazi troglodytes in the shadows behind him.) The funny thing is, this is probably (except for the Nazi part) word-for-word what MAGA used to say about Biden. A lie then, truth now. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3505 "2025-03-28T21:12:48Z")
A couple more law firms that are in Trump’s crosshairs (for The Most Dubious of Reasons) are fighting back: [**Two more law firms targeted by Trump sue to block punishing executive orders: Jenner & Block and WilmerHale are now the second and third firms to fight Trump in court (Politico).**](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/jenner-block-eo-lawsuit-trump-00256160) > Trump targeted both firms with executive orders earlier this week. The Jenner order focused on the role that a former member of the firm — Andrew Weissmann — played in the investigation of Trump’s links to Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. Weissmann, who has not worked at Jenner & Block since 2021, has been a vocal Trump critic and a prominent legal analyst on MSNBC during Trump’s multiple criminal cases. The Russia investigation eventually was helmed by special counsel Robert Mueller, who previously worked at WilmerHale. Trump targeted that firm with an order signed Thursday evening. _“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”_ –John Stuart Mill (maybe, probably)\* Godspeed, Counselors. \*The Mill quote appears to have been: > Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3506 "2025-03-28T22:31:48Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > The funny thing is, this is probably (except for the Nazi part) word-for-word what MAGA used to say about Biden. A lie then, truth now. “Every accusation is a confession” is something people have long noted about the Right. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3507 "2025-03-28T22:58:37Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’ll be known as the fertilization president and that’s okay I can see Musk seething with jealousy ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3508 "2025-03-28T23:11:09Z")
This “clusterfuck” is pushing their fascist agenda much faster, might I say more efficient, than anyone predicted. If anyone is still wondering what they would have done in 1930’s Germany: wonder no more. Just tell us what you did today to throw a spoke im the fascist machinery. (And realize that the Germans didn’t have the benefit of hindsight) Maybe we should stop calling the existential threat to Western civilization names as if they are not super effectively speedrunning us all to WWIII? There is nothing clusterfucky about the way they are systematically stripping your rights, your entitlements. The clusterfuck is how fucking apathetic Americans are. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3509 "2025-03-28T23:14:45Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > “Every accusation is a confession” is something people have long noted about the Right. And unfortunately it has turned into a toothless accusation without consequence. it means absolutely _nothing_ to them. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3510 "2025-03-28T23:17:03Z")
To paraphrase: Those that would ignore history are doomed to repeat it, but those that would deliberately hide history are the true villains. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3511 "2025-03-28T23:23:48Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > If anyone is still wondering what they would have done in 1930’s Germany: wonder no more. Just tell us what you did today to throw a spoke im the fascist machinery. > (And realize that the Germans didn’t have the benefit of hindsight) This is silly, as it implies I’d be exactly the same person then as now. Catchy, but no. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3512 "2025-03-29T00:19:39Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > If anyone is still wondering what they would have done in 1930’s Germany: wonder no more. A friend on Facebook posted something similar a month and a half ago, and my answer was, “Sitting in Austria, wondering if they’re really serious about annexing us.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3513 "2025-03-29T00:41:02Z")
Adam Kinzinger’s security clearance (which he didn’t have) has now been revoked for the fourth time in two months. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreiadr3ni73erpiyxluivrwugxccpejd6mm3p2uub4wcbkdx4rkoy7q@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreiadr3ni73erpiyxluivrwugxccpejd6mm3p2uub4wcbkdx4rkoy7q@jpeg) I’m starting to think they just dangle this in front of Trump like a jingling key ring every time he starts getting distracted. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3514 "2025-03-29T02:17:30Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@The\_Librarian](#): > > > > If anyone is still wondering what they would have done in 1930’s Germany: wonder no more. > > A friend on Facebook posted something similar a month and a half ago, and my answer was, “Sitting in Austria, wondering if they’re really serious about annexing us.” Change Austria to Canada and you might be on to something. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3515 "2025-03-29T04:27:27Z")
> **[Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/adamkinzinger.bsky.social/post/3llicx3fams2a)** > > This means I now have negative 4 security clearances > > \[contains quote post or other embedded content\] ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3516 "2025-03-29T05:47:54Z")
Band performing at the Kennedy Center brings onstage the cast of a musical Trump cancelled and has them sing a song from the show. > **[EXCLUSIVE: After Kennedy Center cancels LGBTQ+ musical, Guster brings cast on...](https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/guster-finn-kennedy-center)** > > Finn's run at the storied DC venue was axed after Trump took over. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3517 "2025-03-29T06:45:31Z")
No, I said Americans now have the benefit of hindsight. They know where this path leads. Germans didn’t have examples of powerful industrialized nations sliding into authoritarian rule. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3518 "2025-03-29T07:23:45Z")
Also, they weren’t _re-electing_ Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3519 "2025-03-29T16:09:28Z")
> **[DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System...](https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/)** > > Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months. I believe I once started a thread here asking folk how reliable their work “tech” was, because I had it on good authority that SSA’s was pretty consistently unreliable. Maintenance and upgrades being done during working hours, routine outages of the most basic functions, seemingly interminable upgrades of operating systems… I’m not sure how many years it has been that one component has been required to “double enter” every activity in 2 different case management systems, because - reasons. Also for - reasons, some cases are still designated as “paper” files. It would be difficult to overstate the magnitude and complexity of this project, or the hubris of someone thinking it could be taken on lightly and accomplished quickly without significant disruption. All I can say is - good luck with this - both with doing it quickly and economically! 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3520 "2025-03-29T17:02:04Z")
Oh they’ll get it done quickly. That’s the easy part. Those assholes all buy into the “break it fast” school of software development. The hard part - the part they absolutely don’t care about and will inevitably screw up - is doing it in a way that doesn’t regularly screw up payments for hundreds to millions nearly every time they commit some change to the code, invariably requiring an increasingly complex set of hastily applied patches. Or the inevitable set of massive security holes, putting both payments and private information for tens of millions at risk. On the schadenfreude side of things, I would love to see somebody require printouts of all this code they’re to write. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=172) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=174)