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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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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[#]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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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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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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"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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"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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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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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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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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"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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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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"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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Dr Oz, notorious grifting TV quack and failed senate candidate for CMS
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rl8knmg8eo
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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
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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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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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"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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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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"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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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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OK, what came up in Chad Chronister's background check? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8gj530n4no
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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
[#]GiftArticle #GiftLink
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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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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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One of the most clownish fucking election deniers joins the fucking clown show https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-picks-hardline-republican-kari-lake-lead-voice-america-2024-12-12/
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So far he's "joked" about annexing Canada¹, the Panama Canal and Greenland², plus invading Mexico³
Unclear how much is trolling but it sure puts a light on saying Putin was "smart" for attempting to grab Ukraine by force, and how neither he nor his sycophants give a shit about diplomatic norms
¹ https://www.politico.eu/article/us-donald-trump-says-great-idea-to-make-canada-the-51st-state-justin-trudeau/
² https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-says-he-might-demand-panama-hand-over-canal-2024-12-22/
³ https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-team-said-debating-much-232551873.html
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Ladies and gentlemen, the man nominated to be chief law enforcement officer by the leader of the party of Traditional Family Values and Law and Order: "The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-gaetz-ethics-report-released/
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The broad strokes of this were all known and not meaningfully disputed when Trump nominated Gaetz. Yet, while some GOP signaled they weren't willing to vote for Gaetz, they've been pretty much completely silent as to what the selection says about Trump's judgement, character, and support for the purported deeply held values of the GOP
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Hard to think of a more damning indictment of the media and American education: “He is more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich”
He was president for four fucking years, we know what his policies were like and it sure as fuck wasn't addressing the "needs of everyone"
https://wapo.st/4grQrVy
[#]GiftArticle #GiftLink
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The writers are hacks
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IMO, what I said about the overturning the election (pre-Jan 6) applies to the Greenland, Canada, Panama stuff: It's a joke until people in his orbit show they're willing to act on it. The scary part is that even the actors who find it totally over the line have strong individual incentives to humor him and hope goes away rather than getting into a direct confrontation, which only encourages it to fester in his inner circle
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No European leader wants to start a trade war over some ostensibly joking dumbfuck remarks about Greenland. Even the ones who think Trump is an absolute piece of shit know they have to deal with the US for the next four years
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Anyway what I'm saying is there's never been a better time to found an FPV startup in Canada, Denmark or Panama
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This is the most 2nd Trump term photo that could ever have existed.
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