[dotdi]

> And what's happening at CISA right now should terrify every American who depends on running water, electricity, and the ability to vote in free elections.

The answer is right at the beginning. Current administration has the explicit goal to not have free elections going forward. It has been stated plainly, on TV. The rest is collateral damage, and an attack on critical infrastructure will be a good excuse to invade the next country, declare state of emergency or outright war and get rid of elections completely.

[KingOfCoders]

"You will only have to vote once more. Then we'll fix it"

[khat]

Apparently that's where you stopped reading. If you continue reading, with a little be of logical reasoning and comprehension, you will learn that Plankey has been nominated by Trump, has bipartisan support, and even that Trump started the CISA agency. The only thing holding it up are 2 republicans and 1 democrat over some contract that probably has something to do with their buddies getting some contract deal. This isn't about "this administration", it's about your everyday political favors behind closed doors that has been happening since governments have been a thing.

[sheikhnbake]

That doesn't account for the ~1,000 employees being gutted from the agency and leaving a maliciously incompetent acting director in place. Both of which are directly caused by the current admin and won't be remedied by Plankey getting a confirmation, possibly for years.

[vlovich123]

For what it’s worth CISA built upon previous work in the DHS (basically rebranded NPPD as CISA) which evolved from NCSD which itself merged NCS and other cybersecurity teams in the wake of 9/11. America has been doing cybersecurity longer than any other country I think but presenting a rebranding as somehow something Trump is leading the charge on is a weird take.

[hackyhacky]

> You really thing the adminstration's goal is for Americans to not have running water & electricity,

Their goal is to stay in power at all costs. Again, they themselves have stated this plainly enough.

If there is collateral damage to the American people as a consequence of their ambition, well, that's a sacrifice they are willing to make.

[ekidd]

> You really thing the adminstration's goal is for Americans to not have running water & electricity, thinking that will keep them in power? That makes no sense.

The GP post literally said that the goal was not to have free elections, and that the other things you mention were collateral damage, or at worst something that could be exploited to further the main goal. You took their two examples of collateral damage, implied the GP thought those were the goal, and ignored his actual claim that the goal was to end fair elections.

It's dangerous to pattern match what you read to something in your head, rather than paying attention to the claims someone actually made.

[perfmode]

https://www.google.com/search?q=ice+outside+polling+location...

[jacquesm]

What makes no sense is to be able to observe the last 13 months and then to think that this is 'business as usual'.

[QuadmasterXLII]

Selection pressure can work like a conspiracy without anyone actively conspiring.

Lots of people are just incompentent, not malicious. This made Hanlon's razor, "assume incompentence not malice," memetically fit in many walks of life, so it spread till millions of Americans followed it when processing news.

As a result, incompetent politicians got more leeway to do malicious things. It turned out that in electoral politics, if you are already an a-hole, leeway to be evil without being called on it is more useful than compentence. Incompetence is hard to fake, so our electoral system now demands that you be both incompetent and an asshole to get elected. The only fix is to change the incentives, which means calling out malice in our politicians when it looks like malice, even if we can't prove that it's malice and not just incompetence, and ESPECIALLY even if the person is incompetent too.

[deaux]

It's a "theory". The term "conspiracy theory" is always bad faith. And don't try to "but they're theorizing that people are conspiring!".

[idiotsecant]

Not that the objective is institutional rot, nessessarily. More that this administration views institution as fundamentally unimportant.Its the curse of the maintainer. When things are going well bad management thinks that maintenance is a useless expense.

[FranklinJabar]

Obviously, this doesn't require a conspiracy. But it's easier to rules over ashes than it is to build a functional country.

[ap99]

> Current administration has the explicit goal to not have free elections going forward.

Where do you get this from?

[tempodox]

Some people have eyes and ears.

[tencentshill]

Vibes, gut feelings, a general understanding of the history of authoritarian movements. But no, let's wait and see if He goes all the way.

[dkuntz2]

from the actual words said by the president???

[vlovich123]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/25/trum...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-laura-ingraham-f...

Repeated statements by Trump and his circle claiming he’ll run in 2028. Statements by Trump that his supporters won’t ever need to vote again. That little insurrection they tried on January 6th 2021. Their current weaponization and staffing of ICE by people with questionable backgrounds and morals and deploying them against their political enemies under the pretext of illegal immigration (Texas has a bigger problem than Wisconsin For what it’s worth). Constantly praising dictatorial leaders like Putin and Xi while threatening and talking shit about Democratic allies.

So whether or not metastasizes to that point, pretending like this concern has no grounding in actual actions taken and statements uttered is wild, because this playbook isn’t new and the intended direction seems more clear than not.