"Donald Trump is refusing to back down over his Cabinet picks in the first clash in an epic battle he will wage against Washington when he takes office next year," writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis
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We all knew he wouldn't back down, and to disobey the Supreme Orange God will force him and his supporters to attack (even physically) you. That is how dictators work.
Trump wird Projekt 2025, von dem er noch nie gehört und mit dem er nichts zu tun hat, voll umsetzen. Ob danach noch eine Demokratie existiert, die diesen Alptraum nach 4 Jahren umkehren kann, ist mehr als fraglich. Wahlen haben Konsequenzen, nicht wählen, hat Konsequenzen. So traurig.
Trump Wähler opfern die Freiheiten der USA für günstige Eierpreise. Landwirte opfern ihre Ernten dem Versprechen der Abschiebung von Illegalen und die Tarife werden ihre Betriebe begraben. Latinos haben für die Abschiebung von Landsleuten gestimmt. Muslime haben Palästina geopfert. Mitleid? NEIN!
Elections have consequences. The people voted for an anti-establishment, brash and egotistical man who for better or worse will not back down and will stop at nothing to get his way. Donald Trump wants to tear down and rebuild Deep State establishments and he needs loyal M.A.G.A picks to do so.
It's interesting how many appointments are for people with looming allegations and possible court cases. Old mafia technique to control people is to have a hold over them. While he can keep them hoping that he will make their problems disappear, he can make them do anything he wants.
#trump will declare a #NationalEmergency (and possibly #MartialLaw), suspend #congress, and tell people "if you're not with me, you're going to jail for #Treason"
#trump also confirms he'll declare a #NationalEmergency
I won't be surprised if he'll use this to suspend #Congress, declare all his picks as "recess appointments" without confirmation, and declare #MartialLaw to use military to help w deportations
Probably hiding and letting all this happen so when he's forced into Presidency he can say it wasn't his clown show. He has to protect his narrative. It's like watching a horror movie.
If he fails, he’ll blame the ‘deep state’ or claim his opponents are sabotaging him. If he succeeds, it’ll be ‘another historic win.’ Either way, the narrative is always about him.
So long as it's understood that Toddler DON the CON has ZERO interest in uplifting lives of disenfranchised who made the mistake of believing his carnival barking blather, it'll be easier to close ears to his noise & chart your own path forward, working your way around him. He's DANGEROUS.
Trump's vacancy announcement for his future cabinet:
Qualifications
- basic criminal equipment desirable and essential
- with the intention of conscientiously developing this in the future workplace.
Terrible framing. This isn't a battle "against Washington." It is an assault on all of us, on decency, on the normal of a functioning democracy, and on the institutions that make it function. Stop doing his work for him.
Maybe looking from the outside in helps, as I've seen all this for some time. He will destroy everything. He won't leave in four years. Even if he dies tomorrow the wheels in motion won't be stopped. All these roadblocks I hear about won't be stopping anything.
My guess is he’ll slink away to the safety of mar-a-lago to golf every day because he only wants the title of president, not the actual job of president.
He used his enablers in the Senate to get where he is today. He will now toss them aside like a piece of garbage and do whatever TF he chooses. #SuckersAndLosers
One theorey is this:
He picks insane choice to force the conversation among republicans. He sees who speaks loudest and disloyal within his own party. Given they rode his coat tails to a majority in Congress he can say they owe him these appointments and accuse them otlf subverting his mandate.
He gets to quickly discover who in his own party are going to get in his way in Congress which may help him significantly over next 2 years or even when in cokes to midterms and senate elections help organise candidate's to unseat those against him. If correct theory it's pretty clever and awful.
Agreed, no mandate. But he doesn't care. I am having trouble deciding if he thinks these picks are truly the best people or he is going leagues out of his way to be perverse. Truly a dark mirror he lives in.
That's the whole point. Check for certain which Senators are prepared to attach their gonads to the Trump/Musk/Thiel/Mercer/Murdoch bandwagon and whip the horses. Those that don't show unwavering loyalty to MAGA will pay, one way or another.
Welcome to TrumpWorld, where everyone loses something 🤷🏻♂️
RFK banning purchase of junk foods and soda with food stamps could benefit people. Many EBT recipients voted for DJT. They voted for it. They may. Not like it. But OH.WELL.
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Couldn't watch that network ever in the 21st century
#TrumpEconomy
MAGA vs GOP is the “both sides are bad” argument that people have pretended the DEMs vs GOP was all these years.
He should not enter the White House ever again.
#trump will declare a #NationalEmergency (and possibly #MartialLaw), suspend #congress, and tell people "if you're not with me, you're going to jail for #Treason"
NONE of this would shock me, at all.
I won't be surprised if he'll use this to suspend #Congress, declare all his picks as "recess appointments" without confirmation, and declare #MartialLaw to use military to help w deportations
He'll be the strongman he always wanted to be
Once, the National Enquirer was considered tabloid journalism...
Now I use @cnn.com's feed to judge the dregs of journalistic integrity...and are your journalists ever the 'dregs'.
(Mump = Musk + Trump (please make this a thing))
Be KIND
Qualifications
- basic criminal equipment desirable and essential
- with the intention of conscientiously developing this in the future workplace.
Sigh.
Sanewashing really is the word of the year
Trump - convicted rapist
Geatz - sex with a minor
Hegseth - sexual assault
He picks insane choice to force the conversation among republicans. He sees who speaks loudest and disloyal within his own party. Given they rode his coat tails to a majority in Congress he can say they owe him these appointments and accuse them otlf subverting his mandate.
Not even close!
Welcome to TrumpWorld, where everyone loses something 🤷🏻♂️
Again.
They will fold
America loses…again
Don't give in.