Why is Trump choosing B-list celebs and showboats to lead his government? 🧵
Choosing unserious, unqualified, or "wannabe" appointees to top government jobs is what authoritarian leaders do to secure loyalists in positions of authority. 1/5
Choosing unserious, unqualified, or "wannabe" appointees to top government jobs is what authoritarian leaders do to secure loyalists in positions of authority. 1/5
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Second rate people hire third rate people.
•Loyalty > competence.
•Undermine the institutions these people are appointed to.
•Strategic incompetence: creating chaos, allowing him to consolidate power.
•Attack on expertise/science/norms.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/politics/linda-mcmahon-education-secretary-trump/index.html
He's, or they are, also playing these fools. All he has to do is relent on putting up a pervert or 2, & massive sigh of relief sweeps the crowd, o, he's not so bad, sure, confirm the rest...
Mine is in addition to surrounding himself with sycophants and fweinds, they are all he knows. He did not do squat in the WH but eat fast food and watch TV. No intel briefings.
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/scrumlord_regime
https://youtu.be/iaJsmoXLaiQ?feature=shared
Policy isn’t high on his list of priorities. Just not going to jail for the grift he’s about to undertake.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-coming-changing-domestic-world-orders-under-trump-ray-dalio-v4yge?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via
“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen”
He thinks Gaetz has the media skills to sane wash seizing voting machines & other extreme things
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-4e7e68e2ff57aadd96d09c873a43a317
Is that the promise for Season Two of Reality President?
Why is Trump choosing D-list toadies to lead his government...
I've been trying to impress upon people, for a while now, about why these people are being chosen and what is coming next. It's not because I'm an expert (at anything) it's because I've read some history. The playbook is almost identical
Or! Because he’s so transactional, there’s a bit of $ involved.
- watch them humiliate themselves
- watch them be tortured
- watch them beg
- watch their jealousy
- watch them watch him taking credit
HE FIDDLES WHILE ROME BURNS
by choosing the unserious and unqualified, the felon and his lackeys bolster that notion
It also means they are totally dependent on the dictator for their power so will do what he wants.
Eventually the crisis gets so big that it can't be hidden from the public.
Then *shock* the dictator suddenly *discovers* that his minion was to blame all along!
That way the dictator asserts the idea that all power is in his hands and presents himself as caring about the welfare of the people.
But then the cycle continues as another idiot is promoted.
1) Be completely loyal to him
2) knows who you are, preferably from a TV show he watches
This is the “deep state” they railed against. But once that knowledge is lost, it’s really hard to get it back.
These second best leader picks people who are less capable of performing competently than they are.
The worst (Trump) pick people who are totally unqualified and incapable.
Ask Rex Tillerson. The shine on these jobs faded pretty fucking fast.
Post-Turtles.
He's putting them there because then they will know no better than he does what needs to be done.
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Gaetz is an unserious person who is 100% there for Trump.
Buffoons, tv/media 'personalities', incompetent, willfully ignorant cabinet members will just do Outrageous Theatre on a daily basis to get the attention they crave.
Perfect distraction.
like he legitimately thinks oz is a medical genius because he was on TV