Matisyahu's Blog

Apart from heading out around 2pm this afternoon to pick up a few odd bits and pieces from the supermarket along with some buffalo spicy wings and salad for lunch/dinner. The salad was a Mexican mix with the star of the show being the dressing which has a spicy taste to it. In the previous weeks I would head down to the local supermarket but couldn’t find any in the salad fridge section but they’ve restocked so I grabbed an extra bag to have for my day at work.

I generally stick to the old saying of ‘never attribute to malice that can be explained as incompetence’ or the more commonly known and often quoted Ockham’s razor more commonly known as ‘the simplest answer is usually the correct one’ but I can’t help but wonder whether there is more going on behind the scenes in regards to the FCC pressuring ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel by leaning on local affiliates. Was this pressure about protecting Trump’s ego or is it about undermining the legitimacy of the FCC by setting up a pretence of being accused of regulatory overreach which then provides an opening for legislation to be written up to either curb the powers of the FCC to either be disbanded entirely. The reason I speculate is because it would fit very much in the ‘Project 2025’/MAGA idea of dismantling the ‘administrative state’ (to use Steve Bannon’s terminology).

If one were to explore that idea further, does that explain the reason why RFK is in charge of the FDA and CDC (and other departments overseen by the ‘Health and Human Services’ secretary), to undermine its credibility so then it is easier to disband when the public loses faith in it? is this how the dismantling of the ‘administrative state’ will proceed – claim that the government is incompetent and cannot do anything right, put someone grossly incompetent in there then see it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy? I mean, it makes sense given the number of Republicans who talked about defunding the FBI and then nominate two podcast bros who couldn’t find their backside with their own two hands.