Ancestors

Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-13 at 22:59

AG Gaetz

DNI Gabbard

SecDef Hegseth

Deeply unserious and unqualified sure, but also Gaetz barely escaped prosecution for sex trafficking and associates with neonazis who were too toxic for the first Trump admin. Gabbard is know for defending Assad and Putin and amplifying Russian propaganda. Hegseth lobbying for pardoning war criminals

A hearty fuck you to the "both parties are just as bad" crowd

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-13 at 23:02

Obviously these are partly a test of just how lapdog the GOP Senate will be, but even if they show a hint of a spine, he knows from the last term he can run actings indefinitely

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-15 at 00:37

[#]RFKJr for HHS

Trump and his inner circle loudly signaling that they either genuinely can't distinguish raging crackpots from competent picks who would likely be more effective advancing his (vile) agenda, or don't care (porquenolosdos.gif)

Not clear how many of these they expect to be confirmed or how hard they'll fight if the Senate balks. Does he really want RFK Jr and Gaetz, or does he have some reliable right-wingers lined up as plan B?

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-15 at 00:42

Also morbidly amusing to see whether the far right falls in line to support RFK Jr and Gabbard despite their long histories as liberal democrats

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Toot

Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-15 at 01:25

Also morbidly amusing to watch the same crowd who spent the last several years yelling about "groomers" and claiming the government was run by a vast pedo conspiracy support this guy to run the DOJ https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-testified-house-ethics-committee-gaetz-sex-17/story?id=115867555

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Descendants

Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-15 at 03:47

"picked two of the lawyers from his criminal cases, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, to top Justice Department positions" in case there was any doubt who the Trump DOJ will serve https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/14/trump-administration-transition/#link-AXQDA7Q4VRDMHMUYZ2ZNW5JRNM

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-15 at 23:52

"President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candidates for administration jobs"

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/politics/security-clearances-fbi-gabbard-gaetz/index.html

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-16 at 00:47

Leopards eating faces etc etc

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-who-voted-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-2024-11-15/

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-16 at 04:37

Chaser for that bit about transition not using FBI background checks "There’s a lot of frustration around this … He hadn’t been properly vetted" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/15/pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-investigation/

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-16 at 07:18

Press sec nominee Karoline Leavitt was apparently paid to publish op-eds supporting Guo Wengui (Bannon sugar daddy subsequently indicted for fraud*) under her name that were actually written by his supporters. In the Epoch Times no less

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/guo-influencers-karoline-leavitt-gavin-wax-matt-palumbo/

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ho-wan-kwok-aka-miles-guo-arrested-orchestrating-over-1-billion-dollar-fraud-conspiracy

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-17 at 01:30

"Great Barrington Declaration" crackpot Jay Bhattacharya for NIH

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11/16/nih-director-jay-bhattacharya-covid-great-barrington-declaration/

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-17 at 04:32

Just classic 3rd rate tinpot stuff

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-transition-team-compiling-list-current-former-us-military-office-rcna180489

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-20 at 02:34

"Trump’s transition team is considering moving on his first day in office to give those appointees blanket security clearances"

https://wapo.st/48Vcbq1

[#]GiftArticle #GiftLink #USPol #Trump

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-20 at 02:50

Dr Oz, notorious grifting TV quack and failed senate candidate for CMS

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rl8knmg8eo

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-20 at 22:48

Good news everyone, they're bringing Big Dick Toilet Salesman* back for a second season! https://apnews.com/article/trump-matthew-whitaker-nato-ambassador-foreign-policy-173c814ab755ee39d58e7023ff8242a5

• coinage by Marcy Wheeler, background: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/matthew-whitaker-world-patent-marketing-scam

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-21 at 20:55

In fairness to Gaetz, he may have recently learned that the post of Attorney General is over 230 years old https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/21/trump-gaetz-attorney-general-senate/

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-23 at 03:51

To the surprise of absolutely no one with a couple of functioning brain cells, 4 years of idiotic investigate the investigators is on the way https://wapo.st/3YUkH3W

[#]GiftArticle #GiftLink

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-25 at 23:34

"Attorneys for Donald Trump conducted an internal investigation into allegations that one of his top aides, Boris Epshteyn, has sought to gain financially from his influence with Trump and others in the president-elect’s orbit" - Uh, pretty sure that described like 99.99% of people in Trump's orbit

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/politics/trump-lawyers-investigate-allegations-boris-epshteyn-financial-gain/index.html

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-11-30 at 22:05

Donald nominates Charles Kushner, who in his guilty plea "admitted he devised a scheme to retaliate against a cooperating witness and her husband by having a prostitute seduce the husband and covertly filming them having sex" (among other crimes) to be ambassador to France. Another banner day for the party of Law and Order!

https://wapo.st/4gc06iv

[#]GiftArticle #GiftLink #Trump #Kushner

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-12-03 at 21:19

"Hegseth had to be restrained while drunk from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club, where he had brought his team"

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/pete-hegseths-secret-history

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-12-03 at 21:21

OK, but maybe he's like a super-competent manager when he's not shitfaced? LOL, no "Hegseth sent a letter to the donors [of VFF, the astroturf veterans charity he ran] admitting that, as of that day, the group had less than a thousand dollars in the bank and $434,833 in unpaid bills. The group also had run up credit-card debts of as much as seventy-five thousand dollars"

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/pete-hegseths-secret-history

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-12-03 at 23:53

OK, what came up in Chad Chronister's background check? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8gj530n4no

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-12-04 at 03:32

According to WaPo, Chronister's sin was not something small and forgivable like drinking to excess, sexual assault, or hiring a sex worker to honey-trap a witness in corruption case against you, it was… "the sheriff’s enforcement of public health orders during the covid pandemic"

https://wapo.st/3ZzGYpi

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-12-04 at 19:55

Guy who personally paid Elon Musk hundreds of millions for space joyrides nominated (no doubt on Musk's recommendation) to lead an agency that's one of Elon Musk's biggest customers

(Isaacman is probably a better nominee than 99.9% of Trump world, but that doesn't mean we should ignore the obvious)

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/jared-isaacman-entrepreneur-and-private-astronaut-is-trumps-choice-to-lead-nasa/

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-12-06 at 04:04

I present the man chosen to "head up the Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Technology"

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24314514/trump-david-sacks-white-house-ai-crypto-czar

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