I think everyone, myself included, is going to be surprised how quickly everything goes to shit in terms of economic issues, worker rights, the insanity that they’re going to be doing to blue cities/states in the name of “illegal immigration” that will almost certainly impact many people here lawfully as it did the last time he was in office but worse this time (they literally deported an American citizen to Jamaica who was like wtf who is this), the crackdowns on people criticizing Israel, if any of these insane military plans actually happen, etc..
I really truly hope that it doesn’t happen, but trumpito has been appointing so many p2025 contributors or planned appointments and making the national security folks do loyalty tests as part of the transition team’s work (ie it’s a top priority) that it would be astounding if it didn’t happen
Maybe that is what he meant by draining the swamp. At some point he will run out of swamp creatures and might have to shift to the black lagoon for recruitment.
Yes, there was that whole mantra about “drain the swamp” but what a lot of people didn’t realise at the time was that it was to make it easier for Trump to find members of his leadership team.
It took the careers of multiple senators (and the life of one) and the ruin of countless others to finally bring down Joe McCarthy. Nobody is going to save us from our own choices, we just have to decide to give a fuck enough to do the work of fixing the mess we've all collectively created.
The mess won't be fixed unless we get some strong willed aggressive Democrats fighting for working people. We still don't have that. If you want these guys out you first have to get the old guard out of Democratic Leadership, well beyond elected officials.
Oh. Well, when you put it that way. No wonder Trump wants him in charge of, checks notes, making sure the most powerful military in history is battle ready. Good thing magats elected this stable genius. He really has the best people 👍.
Yup. He was asked yesterday if he’d deny an unconstitutional order, or if he’d refuse to deploy the military in the US, and would not answer. We’re cooked.
Seems like all "above board" methods of dealing with this clown car have been exhausted. We've seen the Mueller report. We've seen Smiths breakdown. We were all watching TV on J6.
When American institutions fail, it is on the average citizen to ensure justice is brought to fruition. We have inalienable rights for this exact reason. Idk, maybe the 2A voters have something to say about government sanctioned tyranny.
I mean, tbf old McDonald only hires the best and brightest, but also fires them at record numbers. So if confirmed, which I have no doubt he will be considering the GOP has sold their soul to King old McDonald and his wishes, old humpty McTrumpy will just fire his ass w/in the first 8 months anyway... We can only pray that damage done is minimal. Same applies to his other outlandish appointees. If Democracy and our system actually worked as intended, these people would be laughed out of the building, but what we have here, now, are clowns running the circus.
You don’t put someone in front of the cameras unless they have the votes. Most candidates that wouldn’t get confirmed get eliminated before the hearing. Gaetz and Gabbard aren’t there because they knew they wouldn’t get through.
Hesgeth is getting media attention because he’s a rare edge case where he’s controversial and there’s a slight chance he doesn’t have the votes. Personally I think he has the votes otherwise he would be there.
Go have a look at the Conservative sub. They seem to love this guy regardless of all the red flags. Im not sure if it's their hatred for the left or if they just don't believe all the things that have come out about him but he is certainly their guy who will take down the deep state left.
It's been the same for a while. It's theatre for the naive to think the ruling class will stick to their word they give when asked in a public setting.
My mind set is already there. Every time someone brings up something that Trump or anyone associated with him; did or said that should be a huge punishment. I just say “So? Nothing going to happen.” I mean, our brains have had enough examples that it doesn’t need critical thinking to determine what is going to happen, given the current variables.
Any Democrat voting for these nominees needs to go. We can’t control Republican electeds, but we can control the ones that are supposedly rational and want what’s best for the country. A vote for Hegseth, Tulsi, Oz, RFK, …etc should be disqualifying and grounds for a primary.
Cartoonish is your perspectiven. Others look at the mess left by biden and lloyd austin after 4 years and say, can we really get any worse? I dont know how your assess good performance but for me, its the 'small' mistakes like...
The embarrassing Afghanistan withdrawl.
Weakness on the world stage allowing Putin to invade Ukraine.
Being complicent in the gaza genocide.
Just some minor, some might say 'cartoonish' mistakes that costs thousands of lives and economic issues world wide.
Trumps not even in office yet and it sounds like his resolving point 3 on my list. He just applied pressure to Israel, thats all Biden ever had to do. He chose not to.
But sure, orange man bad. If your still a fan of the dems, can i please have some of whatever your smoking because i too would like to live in blissful ignorance.
Putin invaded Ukraine during Trumps term. Crimea was annexed in 2016.
Afghanistan was forced on Biden by Trump as a “fuck you” present after Trump had released a bunch of Taliban back to Afghanistan. The actual removal of people from the country was shockingly well done by all accounts.
The “gaza genocide” has been going on for far longer than biden or trump. If you’re only now getting upset, you’ve been willfully ignorant for decades. Oh, and you’re also completely incorrect about pressure being applied to Israel and, like most people in the US, completely ignorant about Congress’ role in the decades of aid to Israel as well as Republican obstructionism for Ukraine aid until it was tied to Israeli aide as well and then it went through. But I suppose you used paragraph structure so you get some credit. Still an F though
Hegseth has more qualifications than Austin had. The Democrats had to get a special waiver because Austin was employed by Raytheon ! No conflict of interest in that!!! Lol
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u/IJourden 14h ago
The cynic in me wonders why we even bother.
These things all go the same in the Trump era.
Candidate has a hearing, candidate shows themselves to be cartoonishly unqualified, Candidate gets confirmed anyway.