So he finds several...then what? Gives them a hard time?
What can he do after they've been elected? Get primaried?
He just wants to see for 2026 elections??
meanwhile, Polymarket was raided by the F.B.I. this morning. They were the ones that predicted the election for Trump before it was done. Can we say "Busted"????
When I texted my son that Matt Gaetz is going to be AG, he said you might as well have Ronald McDonald come back and bring the food pyramid with him to this admin. He can add McDonalds food to every level.
How long before they run everything into ground with incompetence?
Only thing that worries me is these psychopaths having control of the world’s largest military and using it to keep power forever because they refuse therapy and have no dignity
My friends we should be pushing for a #recount and a cyber investigation of the election.
We were HACKED and Putin has all but admitted it in Russia.
Many people found their ballot was DELETED.
He’s insulating himself against the 25th amendment, which we all know Vance is dying to use. He needs cabinet members that will stay loyal to him, and the crazies he’s picking will be loyal to the end.
I think you are probably correct that this is a loyalty test, but maybe he is overplaying his hand. He's just trying to make them look like fools, and they may finally stand up.
np, - unfortunately many GOP senators who have previously accused him of being a predator (e.g. Mullins) have already indicated they'll still vote to approve.
the modern day republican party, ladies and gentleman.
The three constraint triangle:
Putin needs the greatest egos to beat them, Trump needs the wealthiest pouches to drain those, and Elon needs all those in power to get any material or support to reach Mars. Unless the world gets deeply f’d-up soon, none of them will get their stuff before they die…
Ok, but how much damage can they do to the justice department & our institutions in the process? I fear his crimes will just be swept under the rug. Please publicly release your final reports 🙏🫶🏻
- We have three co-equal branches of government for a reason. When the Executive attempts to establish itself as an unchecked power, even with a compliant Congress, they'll encounter fierce resistance from the judiciary.
- there are only so many Trumpian judges willing to turn a blind eye
In normal times I would agree with you, however recall the history of Andrew Jackson’s defiance of SCOTUS’ ruling in Worcester v Georgia and Trump is a fan of Jackson.
I have eternal hope, but the fix is in. McConnell really fucked everyone with his Supreme Court shenanigans. Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett, and a feckless Roberts is just too much!
But when all branches are seemingly controlled by the same person ...
Question from across the pond. Just wondering if, when writing the Constitution, the founding fathers ever envisaged a situation such as is now the case following the latest election ...
Even Congress won't give him that much leeway I'd wager. They may want the same goals but at the end of the day not many of them are going to willingly give up power they can use against others to please a guy notorious for turning on people 🤷🏼♂️
Credible threats of violence or DOJ-led investigations against independent-minded judges or their family members will quickly erode any judicial resistance. But that may not even be necessary; the administration simply ignoring rulings it doesn’t like will lead to the same result.
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Any of us presuming that institutions will continue to function normally in the face of a violent and criminal administration with rabid followers is a dangerous failure of imagination. We need a different strategy, suited to the new reality. If we don’t find one then we are seriously cooked.
This would be easier to believe if there had been efficient judicial progress on bringing and prosecuting charges against #45 and associates. Justice has not been given its day(s) in court.
Damn Jack E. Smith....you're always making me feel calmer, as much as the calm is less and less with every waking day since 11/5, I'll take it.
You always seem to get the biggest of the pictures...
Thank you!!
Meanwhile, God Help Us All! (except MAGA)..
I think the issue is that he’s run out of relatively sane people to nominate. He fired or alienated the majority of vaguely competent people last time he was in. He’s now scrubbing out the bottom of the barrel searching for dregs.
Only if they ACCEPT them on the docket, and the 5 MAGAts on there won't accept them on the docket unless the lawsuits get a win at the appeals level and then they will accept it only to overturn the win
I had a really terrible thought the other day (see post) and perhaps your perspective might help me see it a different way. I just don’t see how throwing legislation at him matters. I really want to be wrong. https://bsky.app/profile/thesociophi.bsky.social/post/3lake76bl2p2y
If I may ask: How much faith do you have in the checks and balances seeing to it that Trump and his circus doesn’t burn this government and country to the ground?
I worry that they are making these insane picks because they're going to walk them back and say, "Okay, how about this person who is half as crazy?" They'll seem less crazy by comparison, but be equally as bad- just better at hiding it.
Thank you for this. This was all my hope and suspicion, but boy howdy the clown car is just bursting outward these days. All any of these jackasses will do is cause chaos.
I'm feeling pretty bad about the future today. So I'm going to say: thank you for the explainer and I hope you are right about guardrails still being there.
The law only works when enough people choose to abide by it. I'm not sure there will be enough of those kinds of people in power come Jan.
Give us something real to see it, then. Because right now a lot of people have absolutely no faith in a justice system that has failed to make Trump see any real consequences.
One would hope, but he wasn’t sentenced before the election because of a judge and now he never will. Then the whole SCOTUS decision saying he can do whatever he wants. I’m concerned lol
Safeguards are only as effective as those willing to execute and honor them. Once crime skyrockets, Dems will be further vilified, justifying stronger measures, undermining said safeguards.
I know that you are a wise person. I hope you are correct about tying up SCOTUS. Hell there are criminals there, as well. Again I feel your pain. President elect is a convicted rapist, now he is trying to appoint a person accused of molesting a minor. I am so glad that I am stupid.
Every SCOTUS ruling will support Trump and the shredding of the constitution.
They are out to destroy government and don't care if the agencies can't operate or run competently.
I think some of these appointments are to fulfill campaign promises but he has enough ringers to kill the ones he doesn't want to pass. Then we'll see some more promises fulfilled and they may or may not pass.
Trump created a pseudo department with an acronym “Doge” that just so happens to match-up with Doge Coin after he’s been talking about bitcoin for months. Then puts Elon & Vivek in charge of it. This sounds like another grift!🧐
Just wait until he starts purging military leadership. That's the true sign of a dictator. Mark my words, it's coming. When it does, most likely the game will be over and the US will start the long, very globally public slide into mass chaos. We'll no longer be seen as a global leader. Shame.
I can’t imagine the horrific crap Donald just did on the down-low if the Hegseth,
Gabbard & Gates nominations were shiny new balls for media outlets to chase.
There are no surprises. We've seen it last time he was potus. I'm trying to wrap my head around why the current potus is peacefully handing over power. Maybe the propaganda from both sides is so deep I can't see through it. Yet..
I’m going with an IV of Mexican smuggled fentanyl I bought from my awesome neighbor. He also offered me a recently kidnapped white child but I passed on that freebie
Hilarious design challenge: How to package SMELLING SALTS, the quintessential Arsenic and Old Lace fainting lady accessory, to appeal to ultra-virile male athletes?
Answer: Call them ‘Master Blaster’!
Yes. We will no longer have checks and balances. I can't see any way we get out of this in the next four years. I have zero confidence in whoever the former guy puts on his team. Zero. Anything positive you can disseminate to your followers?
More like popcorn at this point. T seems quite pleased with himself that he's making such ironic (laughable) choices. Loyalty test for his party; squirm test for the rest of us.
Whatever information the DOJ has on Russian communication with Gabbard, Musk, and any of these other lunatics - they need to release it NOW. Screw precedent.
My dream: A long cruise. Beautiful white sand beaches, no news & forget about Maga’s.
My Reality: threw sand on my floor,filled kiddie pool, cranked up the heat,ordered skip the dishes & drank pitchers of pina coladas in my bathing suit until my large plants started to look like palm trees 🤪🍹🌴
This thread blew those vapours right away. Feeling much better after that analysis! I can always trust you to bring perspective @jack-e-smith.bsky.social, thank you.
This is a Vomit in your mouth moment says most of the current lawmakers; Left and Right and Middle and Normal and Sane and whatever animal you are. 💙💙💙
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He is nominating the most unqualified sycophantic clowns to see which Republicans in Congress dare to oppose him.
What can he do after they've been elected? Get primaried?
He just wants to see for 2026 elections??
Wait... WHAT?
Oh?
Well, what are they doing?
Really?
Today? At the White House?
Wow!
We are FVCKED!
Only thing that worries me is these psychopaths having control of the world’s largest military and using it to keep power forever because they refuse therapy and have no dignity
We were HACKED and Putin has all but admitted it in Russia.
Many people found their ballot was DELETED.
Punishment of foreign countries for having better or cheaper products
Punishment of the Fed for being independent
Punishment of the environment for opposing big oil
Leopards eat faces.
the modern day republican party, ladies and gentleman.
- he picked much a smarter team the first time and even they couldn't hide all his crimes and corruption.
- this new batch of sycophants might be more loyal, but they're going to have a really tough time enacting his agenda
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- they can't fire enough people and replace them with loyalists to do the job. Competently or discreetly
- Every attempt to grow their power beyond what the Constitution allows will be challenged in the courts
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the aim is to cause chaos & that allows them to get away with crazy stuff.. ?
Putin needs the greatest egos to beat them, Trump needs the wealthiest pouches to drain those, and Elon needs all those in power to get any material or support to reach Mars. Unless the world gets deeply f’d-up soon, none of them will get their stuff before they die…
Gaetz will be trump's literal gestapo.
- there are only so many Trumpian judges willing to turn a blind eye
...
In lock step with Trump
https://birbgeneral.substack.com/p/the-four-branches-of-government
Question from across the pond. Just wondering if, when writing the Constitution, the founding fathers ever envisaged a situation such as is now the case following the latest election ...
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This is how they keep winning and keep control
Will they act as guardrails?
- their agenda will grind to a screeching halt.
Let them shock the world with their insane nominations right now.
When it's time to get something done, they'll realize our safeguards aren't so easy to circumvent.
Truly, viscerally afraid at this point. That feeling comes and goes since last wednesday, November 7.
I don't think ANY of what you say will happen. Sure, there will be lawsuits, but they won't make a damn difference.
He got away with all his crap the last four years, and while he was in office. Tell me, what will "magically" change now???
You always seem to get the biggest of the pictures...
Thank you!!
Meanwhile, God Help Us All! (except MAGA)..
https://bsky.app/profile/thesociophi.bsky.social/post/3lake76bl2p2y
The law only works when enough people choose to abide by it. I'm not sure there will be enough of those kinds of people in power come Jan.
There are ways to slow down their march.
They are out to destroy government and don't care if the agencies can't operate or run competently.
The goal is NO HUMANS, ONLY AI
Their AI is ran by Moscow.
You guys stay safe down there.
@ldrideas.bsky.social
Gabbard & Gates nominations were shiny new balls for media outlets to chase.
& trafficking? They hate him, right?
What will be even funnier is if the get put through!😬😬😬
All the whiskey you got
Oh wait…that’s Bill Cosby.
Answer: Call them ‘Master Blaster’!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/10/matt-gaetz-removed-kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-ethics
This was all an expected possibility
My Reality: threw sand on my floor,filled kiddie pool, cranked up the heat,ordered skip the dishes & drank pitchers of pina coladas in my bathing suit until my large plants started to look like palm trees 🤪🍹🌴
https://bsky.app/profile/jeffsharlet.bsky.social/post/3lastm4o3u22e