As bad as Trump will be...
Some of the clowns he's picked for his cabinet will make his administration even more of a shit show.
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Americans Love to Hate the State. But Do They Really Want This?
Compliments of the NYTimes
President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for many of the top cabinet positions in his upcoming administration are unorthodox, to say the least. In some cases, it would be hard to think of of people less qualified for their proposed jobs.share
Pete Hegseth as secretary of Defense, Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, Kash Patel as F.B.I. director and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as overseer of the nation’s health care policies — each lacks the relevant experience and has an array of troubling biases that should be disqualifying.
Mr. Trump’s choices for ambassadors and senior advisers — sycophants, cronies and even his children’s in-laws and romantic partners — seem to break with a century of precedent in American politics.
Yeah, I am sure that unhealthy looking fag leading the health ministry was no break with a century of precedent... 🙄
share2017-2021 was far better than 2021-2025, so there's no reason not to expect 2025-2029 also to be better. Your life will probably be less expensive and safer, whether you realize it or not.
shareI guess you didn't get the memo about Covid and the worldwide supply train issues it caused.
shareYeah COVID was great! Moron.
shareWhat difference does it make?
Neil deGrasse Tyson recently made a comment in an interview that gets it to the point.
Presidents come and go, politicians come and go, heads of governmental institutions get appointed for a limited time, they come and go, but aside of small details nothing ever changes, which raises the question why not.
The answer is simple, what's done or not done isn't decided by the people who come and go, it's decided by the people who remain in their jobs and do the actual work.
The managers in the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, the NASA, the generals in the army, the scientists in the labs, etc., those where hardly anyone knows their names make the decisions and they don't care who the ones in front of the cameras are, who take credit for the good things and blame others for the bad things happening, they only care that the things they want done get done.
Thank you for the word salad, which said nothing. The fact remains that the supply chain (not train as I said) issues were responsible for inflation and prices rising sharply, not Biden. In fact, he was responsible for the issues caused were much less than most other countries.
shareYou see, I don't care for whatever you claim was better or worse under which president, fact remains half of all Americans cannot pay their rent on time, this has been the case for over a decade under Republican as well as Democratic presidents and nothing has changed, just the opposite, homelessness is increasing and that's because none of any of the presidents was ever able to change decisions made by the unelected managers that remain in their jobs no matter which party wins an election.
shareIgnoring, of course, that Trump's radical and unprecedented agenda is PRECISELY to utterly politicize the institutions, rendering all execute departments (basically, the people who get things done) vassals to the guy who is currently coming, and won't go for (at least) another four years, leaving behind a hollowed-out radicalized gang of nay-saying Trumpified nabobs.
shareIt may be his agenda, but he isn't the one hiring staff at NASA or anywhere else, he's appointing temporary heads of the organisations who have no clue what the organisation is doing and how it operates, they aren't hiring staff there and they won't have much influence on the actual work being done.
They may be able to cut or increase funding for one or another institution, but that's temporary as well and at best slows down or speeds up the work being done, until the next president appoints new heads of institutions who change the budgets again, while the work being done remains unchanged the whole time.
Part of the deal is to convert non-political to political appointees, and subject all to Presidential loyalty oaths.
I think you are, for whatever reason, nay-saying or minimizing the objective, overtly-stated and staff-empowered threat.
How much damage they do is tbd, but subversion/deconstruction/politicization is their goal, and given the intent and statutory potential, I at least am not inclined to fob it off as inconsequential.
Of course I do not know what they will be doing and what consequences that may have.
All I know from history is that every single time an election was over and the result was clear, the losing party declared the end of the world to be near, they predicted whatever they could think of up to complete collapse of everything, yet none of that ever came true.
Every time there were those who said "this time it will all be different" on both sides, winners as well as losers, yet it never was.
The only thing I take for granted to come in the near future is the total collapse of all world economy, because we're at a point where the gap between rich and poor is larger than it was between the pharaohs in old Egypt and their slaves, but that's something nobody in politics ever talks about, it's something that just happens, no matter who is in government at the time, like in 1929 and afterwards they all point fingers at each other.
In a land of first-class wealth inequality, the American people just elected a massively and objectively corrupt billlionare, promising a gaggle of strong-arm tactics and oligarch sucking. I'm looking out for the nearest ice-berg (the one right in the middle of the windshield). :)
sharethe gap between rich and poor is larger than it was between the pharaohs in old Egypt and their slaves
That's quite a bold and ridiculous statement to make. share
Probably not.
Four years is nothing and with presidents it's two years of doing something and then the following two years are about having the new election.
The only way Trump can have success with policies is to immediately have a popular successor and I doubt that's going to happen. Meanwhile, the Democrats have to have a NEW person with charisma ready to start running.
In addition, as soon as Trump gets in it's going to be a shitshow with him trying to deal with the criminal charges the Democrats set him up with.
So, we are going to have another four years of nothing happening with a focus on massive propaganda.
You’re being negative and divisive. You need to calm down, get a grip and just admit that we won you lost. Trump will do an amazing job, he knows what’s best for you more than you do and he cares about you. All you have to do is sit down, get out of the way and shut up.
shareNone of these 'business as usual' folks are aware of, or pretend to be unaware of, Project 2025, its intent to convert the entire executive department into a vassalage of the President.
shareHis picks are not perfect or flawless but they are better than most of the alternatives and certainly better than the current Biden Administration.
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