The Refried Presidency: Trump V 2.0 Pretty Hateful Machine/Fossil Fuel Boogaloo

Trump doesn’t need help grabbing them.

 

and he knows people who will eat them as well

 

I just heard on Bloomberg that Trump has selected Pete Hegseth for SECDEF. What a piece of garbage.

 

Already listed on his Wikipedia page. It seems, based on that page, that he and the orange idiot have a lot in common:

 

He's also the douchebag who convinced Trump to pardon war criminals -- that, of all the shit Trump did, is the thing I find most reprehensible.

 

Yeah, the orange Hitler-loving felon doesn't want war, all he wants is peace ...

 

It might well be. But he’ll do even more reprehensible things this time around.

 

The seasons finale is going to be otherworldly.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/kristi-noem-homeland-security-secretary/index.html


Kristi Noem is going lead Homeland Security.

At least we'll be safe from all the dogs.

 

Headed by Musk and Ramaswamy.
Two people heading a department on efficiency seems a bit inefficient.

 

Hegseth called for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to be fired a couple of weeks ago on some podcast. Gen Brown is highly respected in the Pentagon and was nominated by Trump.

I never thought I'd see the day when someone less qualified than Chris Miller would be SECDEF, but here we are.

 

Nothing that we didn’t already suspect.

Russia made an audacious public attempt to blackmail the incoming U.S. president, according to a military expert.

Vladimir Putin and his ministers are already trying to mess with Donald Trump's head when Kremlin intelligence chief Nikolai Patrushev claimed in an interview that Trump had "relied on certain forces" to win a second term in the White House and warned that he had "corresponding obligations" that he was "obliged to fulfill," wrote Slate columnist Fred Kaplan.

"This is a mind-blowing bit of psychological warfare!" Kaplan wrote. "The Russians are basically telling Trump: We put you in office. Now it’s time for you to pay us back. Did this make Trump wonder: WTF?"

 

As usual, the commentators are dumb.

Trump doesn't think or wonder.

The Russians are dumb, as usual, because they picked the one guy who famously never pays his debts.

 

He's a ********ing pathological narcissist. He would never believe for a moment that he only won because of outside help.

Already did. When new people show up trolling like he did, I sometimes check their posting history. Sure enough in an October 31 post he was calling MAGA Trump supporters idiots, or something along those lines. Confirmed that he is no doubt just some teenage male here to troll - nothing more, nothing less.

 

That's over in the Trump Supporter thread.

Because while the candidate you support "won" -- you are all still gullible losers. Which is what Trump was counting on.

You're going to love how much winning you're in for.

 

I buy into the analysis that Hispanics are starting to look at what the political parties can offer them in a purely transactional manner. Which is a good thing. People shouldn't have any loyalty to a party, but should always be asking what party can deliver more for them. That's how democracy is supposed to work.

 

Of course that makes them much more susceptible to misinformation, which we are starting to see with people that voted Trump to protect Palestinians and will see with immigrants getting their citizenship revoked and then deported.

 

Yup. I see this as the flip-side of being a group that requires active appeal, rather than the presumption of being a safe vote. If they are in play they need to be treated as such. The Trumpies made some successful (if dis-/misinformative) inroads, so going forward the Dems need to do some zero-based budgeting and explain why Latinos (in this instance) should see Dems as their best home and hope.

The appeal needs to be affirmative, making a case, countering bullshit, not just ticking an identity box (which is actually not even one box, it's almost like Latinos come from totally different countries and traditions).