An unhinged psychopath has been allowed to rise to power and the whole world is under threat.

[Doodley]

I am past, "How could this happen?" Or, "They voted for this." I am at, "I hope the world survives this."

[Whip-poor-will]

1. Snuff films CDs

The FBI raided Epstein's Apt July 2019 seven years.

Some agents should have reviewed the films and CDs in 7 years.

There were cameras everywhere for blackmail material.

Trump knows who's in them and what they had "fun" doing to those innocent children ,some may have been choked out.

So where's the press stories ,the Congressional review of the Trump/ Epstein party films ????

The republican party chose him, ran him, own him and are part of this horrendous criminal enterprise.

Wonder why the madman is insane, the truth is captured on film and it ain't pretty.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Yes it is not just Trump who is insane and guilty.

The entire GOP leadership is right with him.
And one third of all Americans love all of it.
The crimes, the insanity.

[agingdem]

6. Mitch McConnell could have ended Trump..twice..

two impeachments..and yet he and his caucus chose to give Trump an out..twice.

I know we blame Merrick Garland, and yes slow-walking the multiple federal investigations and indictments is a stain Garland will carry forever, but the Republican Senate was constitutionally charged with ridding us of Trump before and after January 6 but they chose power instead...

[MadameButterfly]

7. If grovelling and afraid to object to anything he does is power.

I rather think they didn't think it through

[agingdem]

9. so now the Republicans are waiting for their creature to die in office

or for the Dems to take the House and Senate and stop Trump's most psychotic impulses...Republicans are basically cowards..power without accountability...they aren't going to stand up to Trump for fear of retribution

[Bengus81]

8. I wonder if this world on fire/Fuhrer shit looks like "I think he's learned his lesson"

to Susan. Maybe the MSM could ask her that question.

[MadameButterfly]

12. It was maddening when she said that

but at the time we thought we only had to survive until the end of his first term.

[blueknight73]

11. You are correct!

Merrick Garland was the biggest mistake the Biden administration made.

[redstatebluegirl]

13. The cruelty...

[31st Street Bridge]

14. And where was the MSM coverage of his putrid Easter "message"?

The "sane washing" has reached a new level of insanity.

[Botany]

3. He wasn't allowed to rise to power he was elevated to power by the likes of Putin, Musk, Peter Thiel, ....

… the fossil fuel industries, Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society (see court packing), Bibi,
MBS, our right wing media’s misinformation machine, Christo Fascists, racists, generationally
stupid shits many of whom believe that the confederates were patriots, a dirty voting system,
the electoral college, and the Crypto Boys.

And now we are looking @ massive build ups of unneeded A.I. infrastructure, climate change,
and what could soon become WW III which Trump started to hide his history of Child rape.

Btw the Strait of Hormuz was open until Trump attacked Iran.

[jfz9580m]

15. You forgot Andreessen!

I can’t believe how much that asshole flies under the radar. He is one of the worst. He has NO positive qualities.

I keep posting about him here and then deleting my posts. Unlike a lot of DU, I am not even close to retirement and once in a while have mixed feelings and up deleting a lot of my journal only to repost it all later .

I really feel Andreessen deserves way more hate than he gets. He was part of the anti-Lina Khan faction that really wanted President Biden gone:

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/10/tech-billionaire-marc-andreessen-bet-big-on-trump-its-paying-off-for-silicon-valley_partner/

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen bet big on Trump. It’s paying off for Silicon Valley
Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists
By JAKE PEARSON
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 10, 2025 6:00AM (EST)

For more than a decade, Silicon Valley venture capitalists have poured enormous sums of money into newfangled technology companies seeking to disrupt, and even supplant, the traditional financial system and sidestep its burdensome regulations.

At the same time, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has policed that effort, going after such businesses for deceiving, overcharging or otherwise taking advantage of their customers by enacting rules, filing lawsuits and shutting down the worst offenders.

This cat-and-mouse game has long rankled tech leaders, but it has especially irritated Marc Andreessen, one of America’s most well-known investors and an outsize figure in the so-called fintech industry.

Of particular concern to Andreessen was federal regulators’ targeting of the freewheeling crypto industry under President Joe Biden — an effort that legal experts said would have planted a costly roadblock in the path of several companies’ rapid growth. The investor’s firm, Andreessen Horowitz, told the CFPB last year it planned to put more than $7 billion in crypto funds. So in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, the longtime Democrat shifted his allegiance to Donald Trump, donating more than $5 million to groups supporting the Republican candidate, and even volunteered to help Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

This asshole in particular MUST be held responsible for this calamity. Can you imagine being crass enough to have caused the mess the world is in today only so he could shill a bunch of trashy crypto? There is no there there with guys like these.

A few years ago he wrote this widely derided screed whining about regulations, women’s rights etc. I never read it. But I didn’t need to. He should never live this down. He should be tarred and feathered.

A tech critic I rather like called Nicholas Carr ridiculed him here:

https://www.roughtype.com/?p=9020

In Andreessen’s view, society is condemned, by natural law, to radical inequality. In a world where material goods are scarce and human will and talent unequally distributed, society will always be divided into two groups: a small elite who lead rich lives and the masses who live impoverished ones. A few eat cake; the rest get, at best, crumbs. The entire history of civilization — Andreessen’s “5,000 years” — bears this out. Any attempt, political or economic, to overcome society’s natural bias toward extreme inequality is futile. It’s just magical thinking. The only way out, the only solution, is to overturn natural law, to escape the quote-unquote real world. That was never possible — until now. Computers have given us the chance to invent a new world of virtual abundance, where history’s have-nots can experience a simulation of the “glorious substance” that history’s haves have always enjoyed. With the metaverse, civilization is at last liberated from nature and its constraints.

Andreessen is not actually suggesting that the metaverse will close the economic gap between haves and have-nots, it’s important to note. At a material level, there’s every reason to believe that the gap will widen as the metaverse grows. It’s the Reality Privileged, or at least its Big Tech wing, who are, as Andreessen emphasizes, building the metaverse. They will also be the ones who own it and profit from it. Andreessen may expect the Reality Deprived to see the metaverse as a gift bestowed upon them by the Reality Privileged, a cosmic act of noblesse oblige, but it’s self-interest that motivates him, Zuckerberg, and the other world-builders.

Not only would the metaverse expand their wealth, it would also get the Reality Deprived out of their hair. With the have-nots spending more and more of their time experiencing a simulation of glorious substance through their VR headsets, the haves would have the actual glorious substance all the more to themselves. The beaches would be emptier, the streets cleaner. Best of all, the haves would be able to shed all responsibility, and guilt, for the problems of the real world. When Andreessen argues that we should no longer bother to “prioritize improvements in reality,” he’s letting himself off the hook. Let them eat virtual cake.

He really does come off as a genuinely stupid man. The state of our world is explained well by the fact that a few million relatively politically powerless scientific and medical elites like Dr.Fauci aside (who are themselves typically embattled by these creeps), we allow guys like Andreessen to be considered elite.

A cool scientist called Adam Becker has written a book mocking these idiots. I recommend it to anyone unfamiliar with these morons. He told a journalist I really like, Chris Ketcham, that Andreessen is his least favourite person of the bunch. I totally get why:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/22/the-mad-religion-of-technological-salvation/

Ketcham: I’ve noticed a phrase you like to use: That’s not how the world works. These people, it seems, are divorced from the reality of the world.

Becker: Yeah, they are. They have completely misunderstood how the world works, how science works, how people work. I know I keep hammering away at Andreesen, because he’s my least favorite person in the entire book. He says in that unhinged manifesto of his that he is the keeper of the true scientific method, contrasting himself with academic scientists. Well, buddy, first of all, you wouldn’t need to say it so loud if it were true. And second, the real scientific method is not to have a statement of beliefs about what the world is and how it works, or what the inevitable future of technology is. The real scientific method is to be curious and questioning about the world and be open, constantly open, to the possibility that you’re wrong – in fact, expecting that you’re wrong. And that’s not something these people are capable of.

Adam Becker is so cool. I like it when someone dissects these guys as they should be picked apart.

I used to just get inarticulate with rage before I found writers and scientists do the work of patiently countering these assholes.

My own brain would just reel and give up under the ~15 different fallacies this type can contrive to stuff into a single sentence leaving one confounded as to which one to address first.

What Adam talks about is precisely what makes anyone who is trained to have the humility science and reality inevitably result in frustrated in dealings with people who have this fully formed daft worldview they keep trying to force as some sort of absolute.

This is a profile of Andreessen that DUer UpInArms correctly described as vomitous:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/tomorrows-advance-man

I repost these same pieces over and over so I do my small part to raise the profile of guys like Andreessen where they are hoping to slip under the radar and become obscure again when repercussions finally occur for their attempted coupe against the American state that has proven to be so disastrous for all the rest of us across the globe already.

[Botany]

18. Thanx

The Crypto Boys are shits.

[yellow dahlia]

19. Hear! Hear!

[malaise]

4. I am at the

Stop this madness stage

[Pototan]

5. How could this happen

is what I think every day.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. "Psychopath" is the word Republicans need to hear again and again

They need to be tarred and feathered with it.

"Remove the Psychopath!" is a legitimate expression of voter anxiety.

[jfz9580m]

17. Lol

I just mentioned “tarring and feathering” upthread.

[Lonestarblue]

16. The world will survive, but the US will become a weakling with an economic powerhouse reduced to a paper tiger.

Here are three major areas I see that Trump and his sycophants are weakening.

1. Education, the lifeblood of the future. Trump's policies toward public and private education are aimed at undermining opportunities for women and minorities to advantage white males. Today women outnumber men in law schools and medical schools. Trump aims to reverse those numbers by forcing schools to admit more mediocre white men and fewer well qualified women and minorities, thus threatening more dropouts by men not educationally prepared for the rigors of both professions and, especially for medical practice risking a severe shortage of qualified doctors, which is already a problem. Republicans in states have created a mess of public schooling by trying to siphon taxpayer money into private Christian schools, charter schools teaching white supremacy, and voucher programs for schools teaching anything they want. We are also experiencing a significant brain drain in scientific and medical research as US scientists move to other countries and international students no linger come here.

2. Economy. Trump's tariffs and his economic threats against other countries are causing problems in the US with higher consumer prices, deliberate weakening of the dollar that also causes higher prices on imported goods while also making US treasuries less appealing for foreign investors, some of whom have started moving their money into other currencies. In addition, other countries are starting to exclude the US and form new trade agreements without us because the Trump administration is seen as dishonest and unreliable. Trump's extravagant spending on military wars and excursions, his space-based Golden Dome fantasy, huge government contracts and benefits for AI titans, his self-enrichment from government favors, and tax cuts for the wealthy will continue to push the US even further toward inequality and total control by the 1%, which sets policies to benefit their wealth and risks sending us into a serious recession. Trump us increasing the national debt, risking a collapsed economy.

3. Deliberate destruction of alternative energy sources. The rest of the world is progressing in this area and we are regressing. Trump's war on Iran has shown the world the value of relying less on fossil fuels and mire on other sources for energy. We are propping up oil companies, not developing new technologies for renewable energy, and countries like China are surpassing us. We will not be building on and exporting our technology because it will be unwanted by other countries moving past total reliance on fossil fuels.

Obviously, Trump's wrecking of the federal government, attempts to control voting, and his flouting of the law will also have consequences. I cannot see us surviving 2+ more years of this destruction without major declines that will take decades to fix.