The Practical Expat
@practicalexpat.bsky.social
kakistocracy (noun / ˌkæk.ɪˈstɑː.krə.si/)
a government that is ruled by the least suitable, able, or experienced people in a state or country
a government that is ruled by the least suitable, able, or experienced people in a state or country
They are who they are & we all know it. But who are WE? Feeling more let down & terrified of what it says about us, that it’s tolerated & treated as legitimate. A sane population would have removed these corrupt, reprehensible & malicious criminals from the people’s house by now. What will it take?
December 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
They are who they are & we all know it. But who are WE? Feeling more let down & terrified of what it says about us, that it’s tolerated & treated as legitimate. A sane population would have removed these corrupt, reprehensible & malicious criminals from the people’s house by now. What will it take?
"We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.” We are still in it, but I am taking this energy with me all the way to wherever the road leads.
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.” We are still in it, but I am taking this energy with me all the way to wherever the road leads.
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We’re in a strange limbo where secret police are routinely beating, disappearing, and shooting everyday people in public, but they’ve not yet consolidated enough power to stop us from talking about it on social media. That imbalance prob can’t last. Either we roll them back or this gets rolled up .
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
We’re in a strange limbo where secret police are routinely beating, disappearing, and shooting everyday people in public, but they’ve not yet consolidated enough power to stop us from talking about it on social media. That imbalance prob can’t last. Either we roll them back or this gets rolled up .
Has anyone confirmed what happened to everything that was in the East Wing? Assuming it’s either in the rubble or it has been stolen and shoved in a bathroom in Mar-a-Lago…someone ask President Miller or the transnational crime syndicate posing as a government.
October 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Has anyone confirmed what happened to everything that was in the East Wing? Assuming it’s either in the rubble or it has been stolen and shoved in a bathroom in Mar-a-Lago…someone ask President Miller or the transnational crime syndicate posing as a government.
I’m sorry, but who is operating that machinery. Honestly, you go to work and are told, “today we are tearing down the White House.” And you say... Ok?! Fucking hell. We are here because of enablers. Time to stop talking about him. It’s ALL THE ENABLERS tearing the country apart.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I’m sorry, but who is operating that machinery. Honestly, you go to work and are told, “today we are tearing down the White House.” And you say... Ok?! Fucking hell. We are here because of enablers. Time to stop talking about him. It’s ALL THE ENABLERS tearing the country apart.
This looks like the end of every catastrophic natural disaster movie.
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This looks like the end of every catastrophic natural disaster movie.
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a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history
Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history
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Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons.
snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...
snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...
Hegseth puts us all at risk
Why put all the American commanders in one room?
snyder.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons.
snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...
snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...
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All America had to do was vote for the hyper-qualified Black lady. FFS.
September 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
All America had to do was vote for the hyper-qualified Black lady. FFS.
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Once again I ask, what’s it going to take?
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala.
Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
August 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Once again I ask, what’s it going to take?
WTAF.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
WTAF.
“Trump administration officials intend to remove protections and open to some development more than 58 million acres of national forests across 40 states, including 2 million acres of national forests in Oregon” apple.news/AC1r2TR7fQlG...
Trump officials plan to remove protections on 2 million acres of national forests in Oregon — Oregon Capital Chronicle
Trump administration officials intend to remove protections and open to some development more than 58 million acres of national forests across 40 states, including 2 million acres of national forests ...
apple.news
August 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“Trump administration officials intend to remove protections and open to some development more than 58 million acres of national forests across 40 states, including 2 million acres of national forests in Oregon” apple.news/AC1r2TR7fQlG...
“In an instant, this could all explode. You could have American troops firing on American civilians in an American city in a country-defining crisis. What happens then?”
Opinion | Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“In an instant, this could all explode. You could have American troops firing on American civilians in an American city in a country-defining crisis. What happens then?”
To do a complete totalitarian takeover of a country of 330+m you must incite violence. The purging of military generals and 100% dedication to a lock-step fealty of our mentally unhinged POtUS is laying ground for the military to turn against its citizens.
President Trump directed the National Guard to prepare for deeper involvement in any future civil unrest throughout the United States and called for the creation of a new military unit that is deputized to enforce federal laws, specifically in D.C.
Trump order calls for broader National Guard role in domestic unrest
President Donald Trump’s National Guard directive was issued as he touts his efforts to assert control over D.C. and muses about deploying troops to other major U.S. cities.
wapo.st
August 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
To do a complete totalitarian takeover of a country of 330+m you must incite violence. The purging of military generals and 100% dedication to a lock-step fealty of our mentally unhinged POtUS is laying ground for the military to turn against its citizens.
All of this. And Stephen Miller’s name needs to be included in this as well.
Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"
August 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
All of this. And Stephen Miller’s name needs to be included in this as well.
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Think about this for a second. It’s grotesque and dangerous.
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Think about this for a second. It’s grotesque and dangerous.
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
Surely we all remember, “If we stop testing, we’d have very few cases” 🙄
monthly jobs reports were nice when we had them
Trump’s pick to lead labor stats agency could pause monthly jobs report over accuracy concerns
Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni, tapped to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics, calls monthly jobs data unreliable after recent job downward revision.
www.foxbusiness.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Surely we all remember, “If we stop testing, we’d have very few cases” 🙄
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Hammer on nail... this man is going viral.
July 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hammer on nail... this man is going viral.
We cannot claim to have freedom in America without basic universal healthcare.
In the U.S., as nowhere else, health insurance and employment are deeply connected. And that means confusion can snare even elite athletes.
Even megastars like Venus Williams get the health insurance blues
In the U.S., as nowhere else, health insurance and employment are deeply connected. And that means confusion can snare even elite athletes.
n.pr
July 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
We cannot claim to have freedom in America without basic universal healthcare.
Ah yes, the party of free speech.
FOX: Did President Trump have anything to do with the cancelation of Colbert's show?
FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: When President Trump ran for election, he ran right at these legacy broadcast media outfits
FOX: I did not hear an answer
FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: When President Trump ran for election, he ran right at these legacy broadcast media outfits
FOX: I did not hear an answer
July 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Ah yes, the party of free speech.
When you elect people who hate government to run the government.
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
When you elect people who hate government to run the government.
I’m very much looking forward to the future documentaries in 10 or 15 years mixing footage of 2025 Leavitt holding these juvenile and ridiculous letters (which will be known in the future as “The Letters”) and 2040 Leavitt unable to make eye contact with a tear running down her cheek.
President Trump this week has been firing off letters to global leaders that threaten new, high tariff rates and also announcing them via social media. Here's what has happened so far.
Everything to know about Trump's tariff letters — and why it's a radical approach
President Trump this week has been firing off letters to global leaders that threaten new, high tariff rates and also announcing them via social media. Here's what has happened so far.
n.pr
July 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I’m very much looking forward to the future documentaries in 10 or 15 years mixing footage of 2025 Leavitt holding these juvenile and ridiculous letters (which will be known in the future as “The Letters”) and 2040 Leavitt unable to make eye contact with a tear running down her cheek.
Stephen Miller loathes himself so much he wants to attack and destroy where he comes from. His hate will eat him alive.
Stephen Miller: "California and Los Angeles are waging insurrection against the federal government ... cartels are waging war against America and their allies are the Democrat Party."
July 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Stephen Miller loathes himself so much he wants to attack and destroy where he comes from. His hate will eat him alive.