We all know where this is headed.
In North Korea when the Dear Leader is introduced in the Assembly, everybody claps loudly and enthusiastically (even for hours) until the Dear Leader tells them to stop. Anyone who flags in enthusiasm or stops early is demoted and sent to the prison camps.
Who says this Administration doesn't know what they are doing and is merely "incompetent"?
Solzhenitsyn recounts the same scenario in their assemblies in the Gulag Achipelago. Older men would have heart attacks unable to remain standing and clapping while waiting for the first person to stop and sit down in light of the consequences for themselves and their families in the next 24 hours. It is both horrific and comical reading his description of these sick pep rallies.
Or is executed in some hideous fashion such as being chained to a spot and have a live mortar shell fired on you, so that, in accordance with the diktat of "Dear Leader" there isn't enough of you left to bury...
(This actually happened in the sorry feudal state of the DPRK, no kidding...)
the infowarrior