Yes.......they will. Realistically, Trump has total power to have anyone he wishes appointed. Every single pathetic Republican Senator will be to blame...but they care less. Frightened little people! Ladies & gentlemen: I present to you, your Republican Senators!!! Feel free to vomit!
Yeah, we saw this show already. There's no lack of skill, no dangerous incompetence or conflict of interest that won't pass with only a few stern words so the congresspeople can claim to have done something while doing nothing.
Every senator that has a R by their name is part of the New TNC party of MAGA 1/6/21 defenders.
They have normalized sexual assault & rape, hush money payments, tax fraud, drinking on the job, infidelity and felonies.
I fear for any women in the armed services. And Hegeseth will follow the Putin playbook & help Tump & the rest siphon funds & weapons from the military.
ALL really believe these are ceremonial position, and their staff will handle most of the day to day issues, while they remain figureheads. Won’t they be shocked when their job actually requires working more than congress does for about 12 days a month ?
Nope, GOP will never deny Trump his picks, they are too chickenshit, more than enough feckless Dems like Fetterman will also vote to confirm, to be "bipartisan"
Gabbard maybe. There’s no political penalty for nominating blatantly unqualified goofballs anymore. The only thing in my mind that explains it is the Idiocracy theory
There’s no way to get ready for this. The GOP will not heed warnings. They love this attention. They are followers, whatever the oligarchs tell Trump, that’s what they will do. Blind, deaf, and dumb, as in stupid. 😱🙀
So long as not one Dem gives a vote to confirm them- like I know they are going to be confirmed, but it should not be w a single Dem. None of them is viable without lowering the bar and w the way they talk- we should bot lower our bar.
Only if we aren't busy calling our reps and demanding a NO VOTE for the truly terrible ones. @petermorley.bsky.social is posting the telephone numbers. I called my Senators, have you called yours?
Have they told you that? I contacted mine via email and they responded quickly and thank me for my email and reiterated they take their job seriously and will vet all candidates thoroughly.
Yep, I have met mine several times, called and emailed them numerous times and never gotten anything but silence, they don't give a shit, you are getting lip service response. It's literally a giant waste of time and energy.
They'll all get confirmed. tRUMP will fire most of them with the first year. None of them will last four except maybe Miller as COS. tRUMP can't keep good people, but he does even worse with bad people. The White House becomes another season of the Apprentice on Jan 20.
Unfortunately, it will be like what Mitch Mcturtle would say:
“I know how to count the votes.”
And truth be told, the Democrats don’t have the votes to block these confirmations. It will happen if there are disaffected republicans. But they want trump’s tax cuts; so they’re all in, literally.
I already knew this, I was hoping against hope someone…any one of them…would have the courage to protect this country from these completely inept candidates…
I kind of hope so. And I hope that their combined malicious incompetence will cause total and utter failure that will hand the power back to Democrats in 2026 and 28.
Better don't hold your breath, but have some hope.
Bondi's Oath:
I will obey Donald J. Trump against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear allegiance only to Trump; I take this obligation freely, without any critical thought, morality, or integrity; and that I will faithfully obey Trump and will accept Kash's enemy list as my own.
Of course they will be. There aren’t any GOP members with a spine willing to stand up against evil. This is what the country voted for so this is what we will get.
I mean been thinking that for almost 50 years and still hasn’t happened for republicans. I’m convinced nothing will end them. Democrats literally let them win.
Nothing will end them , but it doesn’t hide the facts that when Democrats win all of America wins , when Republicans win they are the only ones that benefit, there’s a reason why the poorest and most uneducated states are coloured Red
Yup. @petermorley.bsky.social has posted the telephone numbers of your Senators. Save them on your cell. Call and tell your Senators to vote no one thd most obscene choices.
Still hoping Big Pharma will do us a favor and get their toadies in the Senate to reject RFK JR. After all, they do want sell vaccines. And they do want cancer research so they can sell drugs.
Starter wives, the whole lot. We all know how long he will keep them around - doubtful any will last an entire year. The main thing will be damage control against these incompetent deplorable starter wives.
Because all those republicans have been warned what will happen if they don’t play nice with Trump! They all know what is going on and don’t want to be the first in trumps camps. Just like Hitler did to his political opponents. They were sent away BEFORE the Jews. Facts matter.
LOL, sorry but no, the GOP Senators, fear MAGA backlash more than they do Dems calling them, because they know end of the day, they know when they are up for re-election no one is going to bring this up and they won't have to answer for it, they only fear MAGA outrage for defying Trump.
Yes, sadly they will. And no one who voted for Trump will see any issue with that. I have no idea how to truly reach them and help them understand that D policy and programs, while not perfect, benefit them financially and socially. But we have to figure that out to get this country back.
It is a rather terrifying menagerie of miscreants that has been assembled, perhaps more a crime syndicate and the justice league appears to be on extended leave
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The Republican Party has failed America.
They have normalized sexual assault & rape, hush money payments, tax fraud, drinking on the job, infidelity and felonies.
It's probably already too late for me
So I fear for the men, as well.
All the other picks are a disaster too
Best shots: Hegseth, Patel and Gabbard.
But Ted Cruz & Jon Cornyn will just delete my emails, phone messages & probably laugh. Or their staff will.
“I know how to count the votes.”
And truth be told, the Democrats don’t have the votes to block these confirmations. It will happen if there are disaffected republicans. But they want trump’s tax cuts; so they’re all in, literally.
We are too stupid to learn any other way.
Better don't hold your breath, but have some hope.
I read a book by Ayn Rand about a time when all the smart, competent people went on strike and let all the mouthy idiots run things into the ground.
There did not seem to be any advantage in getting emotional about it. Smart people just stood back and watched.
I will obey Donald J. Trump against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear allegiance only to Trump; I take this obligation freely, without any critical thought, morality, or integrity; and that I will faithfully obey Trump and will accept Kash's enemy list as my own.
Not sure how we can change that, but we must.
Voters screwed up. They reelected Menace & then didn't even set a Congress that could help
I switched to independent.
Democrats are cowards.
But I’m not ready to give up. There are some amazing people who are in this fight with us 🙌