You forgot step 4 - Kill any attempt to measure the impact of their actions so they can claim everything is going great and there’s no easily accessible evidence to the contrary.

Hint this is part of step 4.

Yeah in this case I kind of meant the corollary to a bus factor. Essentially if everyone at that market disappeared, how many companies would be severely impacted?

Ultimately the problem is that that works in their favour. Remember the Republican position is “The Government doesn’t work and if you put me in charge of it I’ll prove it!”, so the only thing they need to do is destroy anything they can get their hands on. The only part of the government they care about (other than their specific seat) is the military. They will gleefully watch everything else burn and then point at the ashes as proof they were right all along.

Need some chemist to come up with a cheap chemical that can be added to oil to render it useless without an incredibly expensive cleaning process. They’ve got millions of miles of pipelines that they can’t police constantly. All it would take is picking a spot and injecting that chemical into the line.

If they can’t be attacked legally, that means the only option is to attack them illegally and to go after the thing that matters to them more than anything else in the world, their money.

Hah, that made me chuckle. I recently attended an outdoor market in my area that for some reason had an unusually high number of furries wandering around it. I was really curious what the bus factor of that market would actually be.

Man they are still caught up on that fake story somebody sent to one of these morons claiming kids were using litter boxes in school. It never happened but they’re going to try to legislate it away anyway.

The lesson here is don’t troll these idiots, they’ll fucking believe it and then start passing idiotic laws for non-problems.