the mind boggles....... but the stupid masses are getting what they asked for.... let's see how long before buyer's remorse starts to kick in......
Every Press conference should start with the same question. Will yoube prosecuting yourself for conductng a minor across state lines for sex trafficking - or is that no longer an offence under Justice Dept rules. I'd ask it at every opportunity.....
where are they gonna fit Marjorie taylor green in? Secretary for Missile Shield Protection against Space Lasers?
Pete Hegseth is an awful person and has zero experience with anything like being Sec. of Defense. What a fucking disaster.
My continual question to ms. Habba at each press conference. "So, just to clarify, Ms. Habba. Can we agree that you would be okay with whatever truly happened to E. Jean Carroll in Bergdorf Goodman happening to you? You'd be completely okay with that. Since nothing happened - correct? So, you should be prayed for by everyone to be exactly just as safe?" Follow-up question: "So - we can both wish now together that you are to remain so lucky?' and over and over and on and on it would go until they throw me out of Press Badge ville.....
I shouldn’t he surprised by this, but I am. Shows you how insightful I am! I had thought that given that the last 6 months, maybe more of Lumpy 1 when his administration was a complete and utter clusterf.uck, that this time out he would appoint competent (nasty, but competent) right-wingers. People who would just get on with an uber right wing agenda on steroids and make life horrible for everyone except Lumpy. But, showing zero ability to learn from previous mistakes, just look at the cabinet he’s cobbling together. A team of rivals it ain’t. The single, sole, solitary threshold is loyalty to Lumpy. Which means he’s got some real beauties there. In ways, I suppose that should give us comfort: that he’s so f.ucking incompetent he’s going to f.uck this thing up as badly as he did the first time around. The Orcs have held the House which is a surprise for me, and while their majority has grown, it’s still thin. If he keeps plucking superstars like Stefanik and Gaetz for his cabinet, he is going to endanger that majority. I have zero doubt that he’s going to enact some horrible legislation - making tax cuts permanent, killing Obamacare, NATO, Ukraine, etc.- but equally, Lumpy and his flying monkeys are the gang that couldn’t shoot straight. I also have zero doubt their agenda and rule is going to be fraught with infighting and purity tests.
Paraphrasing an old quote from Niemoller. First they came for the immigrants. I said nothing for I’m not an immigrant. Then they came for the media……. Nobody knows what happened after that.
As AG Gaetz will do exactly what Drumpf will ask of him. Absolving both of them from… well anything first. Then the mayhem starts.
This is why I wasn’t particularly worried that he was going to be able to destroy the democratic system of government we have. He is by all accounts, a remarkably bad manager. It’s why, despite supposedly being so rich, he has a minuscule corporation with only a couple of dozen employees - he’s patently incapable of setting a course and sticking to it. So this gadfly, will appoint cabinet members based on wholly unsuitable characteristics (Gaetz for AG, RFK Jr for HHS, Musk for Government efficiency). If he actually gets these people through the Senate, which will be interesting to see… then he’s got to manage them, and provide them with coherent, long-term management. That just isn’t going to happen. He’s going to get goaded into petty fights and distractions, and every week it will be “infrastructure week” just like last time…
Turns out that Hegseth is a Christofascist who belongs to the church of Christian reconstructionist Doug Wilson who is batshit crazy. Wilson is a neo-Confederate white supremacist slavery apologist who wants to set up a theonomy based on a rigid, literalist reading of the Torah. In other words, he's extreme even among other Xn nationalists.
It has been said that war is diplomacy by other means. I’ve come to the fervent belief that religion, especially Christianity and hardline Islam, is politics by other means. Some of it is soft and subtle (bishops supporting Republicans); Doug Wilson and his ilk are just more in your face about it. But that’s religion these days: we not only want the power of the state behind us, we want to be the state.
So polio should be making a significant return to the US; we’ve kinda missed it. Of course, we’re going to be told it’s from China. Flouride always makes water taste funny anyway. Drink more Evian.
As for all the proposed federal savings/dept shut downs/mass firings. Any chance this drive for "efficiency" will just a cover for firing non-believers?
Fortunately, there is a large movement of Xns who are pushing back against Xn nationalism and the "end times" nonsense.