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.”
You are very brave to go over there…
To be fair, I got this from elsewhere. I am not that brave.
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.Truly “me and the boys” type of picks
Trump is trying to legitimize pedophilia. He doesn’t want to be the only one guilty of it in his circle
Trump is training Gaetz up to become the next Epstein
Pass it on
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.
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.
Who still appears on board for recess picks
Boring neocon and status quo is the absolute best case scenario at this point.
A standstill is probably the best you could hope for right now, but not exactly a positive outcome.
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.
There’s zero chance of a positive outcome. The best we can hope for is the least destructive outcome.
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
Pretty entertaining thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1gqn3i2/trump_taps_matt_gaetz_for_attorney_general/
I can think of a lot of worse picks.
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.
The poor, poor people on Lemmy having to suffer more Reddit content on Lemmy.
It’s like how we screenshot 4 chan.
Pretty sure Twitter still takes the cake on that one
Have they not considered the infighting
Looks like they’re finally starting to find out.
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.
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?
The whole obsession was always super transparent. They literally fling around old 4chan pedo slang.
Personally I like “Shit tends to clump together.”
And “the turd doesn’t fall far from the asshole”
Birds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.
Didn’t know that about Barr’s dad. Gross.
What does their father have anything to do with them? Regardless of your opinions about pedophiles, you should judge people on their own merits, not those of their family members.
Donald Barr hired a young unqualified Jeffrey Epstein to teach at a prestigious Manhattan all girls school in the 70’s.
Barr protected Trump from Epstein because it protected his father.
That phenomenon is called Epstein Barr Virus.
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.
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?
They will all wag each other’s dogs. Giggity.
The US was late to WW1 and WW2. Trump wants to go 3 for 3.
Stalin and Hitler tried what you suggested…
Their pact was more about having mutual levels of power though. Putin clearly has power over Trump and it sure looks like Xi has power over Putin.
Trump’s official power will dwarf Putin’s by orders of magnitude on January 6th.
And yet Putin will still pull the strings.
Because trump is a moron of the third order.
official power isn’t really what Putin specializes in now.
His thing is more influencing who gets that official power in other countries.
Can we agree as a society that Gaetz should only ever be referred to as Florida Man?
Florida Pedophile, and I’m in.
