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[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 20 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Former President Trump said the “biggest mistake” of his presidency was picking “bad, disloyal people” to join his administration.

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It boggles the mind that anybody would be expecting Trump to consider anything but loyalty for his appointments.

I imagine the conversations going a bit like "You are going to be part of my cabinet. I'm told it's not the type of cabinet you put things in, but a group of people that make decisions and handle all the boring stuff. My cabinet is going to be the best most beautiful cabinet anyone has ever seen. Here's the hat with available positions. Let's see what you get."

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

"a hat comes with the cabinet position"

[–] superkret 32 points 1 day ago

The infighting is the point.
The dear leader is most threatened by his closest advisors, ministers and generals.
They are in a powerful enough position to topple him.
So it's crucial that they constantly fight each other.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 125 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Trump's last attorney general was the son of a paedophile who was Epstein's mentor and gave him his career start.

A paedo Attorney General is part of Trump's brand.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 99 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Trump himself is a pedophile. Which a lot of them know full well and just dismissed as irrelevant because it's Trump.

What are those phrases? Like follows like and birds of a feather flock together?

[–] teft@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

Birds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 19 points 1 day ago

Personally I like "Shit tends to clump together."

And "the turd doesn't fall far from the asshole"

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Didn’t know that about Barr’s dad. Gross.

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[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m just really hoping Trump will piss off republicans in Congress fast enough that they stop supporting him before he can cause any real harm.

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I too hope they waste the next few years with factional infighting. The senate Republicans have already gone against his personal pick for majority leader and picked a boring neocon.

[–] leisesprecher 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A standstill is probably the best you could hope for right now, but not exactly a positive outcome.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

There's zero chance of a positive outcome. The best we can hope for is the least destructive outcome.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Ideally, they shit the bed badly while somehow not doing too much damage, and the Democrats take both houses in a landslide in 2026.

Delusional hopium I know, but hey, you never know.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Trump is trying to legitimize pedophilia. He doesn't want to be the only one guilty of it in his circle

[–] hogmomma@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The poor, poor people on Lemmy having to suffer more Reddit content on Lemmy.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

It's like how we screenshot 4 chan.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure Twitter still takes the cake on that one

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[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, don't worry. I'm sure they'll fall in line in a couple of days and act like Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (8 children)

It's funny you put it that way. People are saying Trump will start WWIII and I think you're closer to the truth. He and Putin and Xi will all stay out of each other's way and maybe occasionally fight a proxy war here and there to maintain power in perpetuity.

Why go to war with each other when you can just leave each other alone and let everyone else do the fighting?

Besides, Trump is beholden to Putin and Putin and Xi are buddies (Putin might even be beholden to Xi at this point considering Russia's money issues). Who is going to go to war with who?

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You are very brave to go over there...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago

To be fair, I got this from elsewhere. I am not that brave.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Trump is training Gaetz up to become the next Epstein

Pass it on

[–] socsa@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago

These were the same people who swore in January that they wouldn't vote if DeSantis didn't get the nomination, and who cringed to death when Trump sold NFTs

[–] Oxen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 day ago
[–] x00z@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

Truly "me and the boys" type of picks

[–] CMLVI@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How long until he gets replaced and Trump releases the info to burn the bridge entirely and install an even worse person?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think it's slightly different than what you're suggesting. I'm thinking he's picking the worst people he can pick for these jobs so they get denied and his next pick, which is almost as bad, gets approved instead.

Either way, he mostly gets what he wants... and if whatever attorney general finally does get approved ends up fucking up, which they will, Trump can say, "not my fault, I nominated Gaetz."

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you’re assigning a level of intelligence that Trump simply doesn’t have here. He’s absolutely not planning for anything more than 10 seconds ahead. He’s got a list of people he knows will do anything he says and he’s installing them wherever with no rhyme or reason.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sorry, I'm not trying to suggest this plan was come up with by Trump himself. It would be the people behind him.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Does seem like a Roger Stone tactic.

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hard disagree on this. This has Trump's stench all over it. Every person being tapped for these positions is a Trump sycophant, and none of them are even remotely qualified to do the job he's trying to assign them.

I agree that Trump is not good at planning, well, anything. But none of this feels like a plan. It's all: "I like PersonX. I will hire them." If it feels like a very stupid, short-sighted, and childish thing, it's because Trump is a stupid, short-sighted child.

There is no plan for what happens if Gaetz doesn't get confirmed, just like there was no plan informing his selection of Gaetz. If Gaetz doesn't get confirmed, Trump will make a few all-caps posts on Truth Social, and then nominate another sycophant. He's got so many to choose from these days.

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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

I think that's probably giving him too much credit. He's not really a democratic politician, he's a fascist.

My bet is that he is constructing a loyalty test to weed out opposition within the ranks. Anyone who doesn't fully give into the cult of personality gets put on a list of people he can't trust.

He doesn't really care about gaetz, but gaetz has pissed off enough people within the party to act as a good tool to test the waters of his own party.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

That's brilliant, which means that trump isn't thinking that. He's picking the absolute worst people, because he always chooses the absolute worst options for any given choice. We already lived through this reality for four years.

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

Never, until he doesn’t obey Trump.

Gaetz was reportedly two days away from the House Ethics Committee releasing its report on his… activities with minors - which was going to be damning. Gaetz instead quits congress to nullify their jurisdiction, and Trump gets easy blackmail over his new AG.

Obviously having a crony run the Justice Department kills all of Trumps investigations, but it also lets him steer the department as he pleases.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Looks like they're finally starting to find out.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 19 hours ago

Holy shit that sub is unhinged. I just read a comment suggesting that Obama setup a bunker 3 miles away from DC to run the country from.

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Extremely stable geniuses.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Just as a reminder, there are (unfortunately) a few conservative communities here as well at !conservative@lemmy.world and !conservative@lemm.ee and also !conservative@lemmy.ml

But please don't use my links to downvote things there or tag the users posting right wing crap there as Right-wing Nutjobs or anything like that

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can think of a lot of worse picks.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, for real. These guys lack imagination if Matt Gaetz for AG is the "worst possible" pick for AG.

How about AG Barack Obama?

How about AG George Soros?

How about AG Vermin Supreme?

Trump is real fucking stupid, but he's smart enough to pick someone who isn't going to be good at the job of prosecuting criminals considering he is one. His one criteria for this position is loyalty and Gaetz seems to have that going for him. Doesn't matter in the end of he's ineffective because Trump doesn't have an interest in actually governing.

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