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[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Former President Trump said the “biggest mistake” of his presidency was picking “bad, disloyal people” to join his administration.

(source)

It boggles the mind that anybody would be expecting Trump to consider anything but loyalty for his appointments.

I imagine the conversations going a bit like "You are going to be part of my cabinet. I'm told it's not the type of cabinet you put things in, but a group of people that make decisions and handle all the boring stuff. My cabinet is going to be the best most beautiful cabinet anyone has ever seen. Here's the hat with available positions. Let's see what you get."

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You are very brave to go over there...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

To be fair, I got this from elsewhere. I am not that brave.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 25 points 6 hours ago

The infighting is the point.
The dear leader is most threatened by his closest advisors, ministers and generals.
They are in a powerful enough position to topple him.
So it's crucial that they constantly fight each other.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago

Trump is trying to legitimize pedophilia. He doesn't want to be the only one guilty of it in his circle

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Truly "me and the boys" type of picks

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

Trump is training Gaetz up to become the next Epstein

Pass it on

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 31 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I’m just really hoping Trump will piss off republicans in Congress fast enough that they stop supporting him before he can cause any real harm.

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I too hope they waste the next few years with factional infighting. The senate Republicans have already gone against his personal pick for majority leader and picked a boring neocon.

[–] phar@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Who still appears on board for recess picks

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 15 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

A standstill is probably the best you could hope for right now, but not exactly a positive outcome.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Ideally, they shit the bed badly while somehow not doing too much damage, and the Democrats take both houses in a landslide in 2026.

Delusional hopium I know, but hey, you never know.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

There's zero chance of a positive outcome. The best we can hope for is the least destructive outcome.

[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 4 hours ago

Boring neocon and status quo is the absolute best case scenario at this point.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 hour ago

Holy shit that sub is unhinged. I just read a comment suggesting that Obama setup a bunker 3 miles away from DC to run the country from.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 8 points 6 hours ago

These were the same people who swore in January that they wouldn't vote if DeSantis didn't get the nomination, and who cringed to death when Trump sold NFTs

[–] hogmomma@lemmy.world 44 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

The poor, poor people on Lemmy having to suffer more Reddit content on Lemmy.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 27 points 9 hours ago

It's like how we screenshot 4 chan.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Pretty sure Twitter still takes the cake on that one

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I can think of a lot of worse picks.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, for real. These guys lack imagination if Matt Gaetz for AG is the "worst possible" pick for AG.

How about AG Barack Obama?

How about AG George Soros?

How about AG Vermin Supreme?

Trump is real fucking stupid, but he's smart enough to pick someone who isn't going to be good at the job of prosecuting criminals considering he is one. His one criteria for this position is loyalty and Gaetz seems to have that going for him. Doesn't matter in the end of he's ineffective because Trump doesn't have an interest in actually governing.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 114 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (6 children)

Trump's last attorney general was the son of a paedophile who was Epstein's mentor and gave him his career start.

A paedo Attorney General is part of Trump's brand.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 88 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Trump himself is a pedophile. Which a lot of them know full well and just dismissed as irrelevant because it's Trump.

What are those phrases? Like follows like and birds of a feather flock together?

[–] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 6 hours ago

The whole obsession was always super transparent. They literally fling around old 4chan pedo slang.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 15 points 10 hours ago

Personally I like "Shit tends to clump together."

And "the turd doesn't fall far from the asshole"

[–] teft@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago

Birds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

Looks like they're finally starting to find out.

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 59 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, don't worry. I'm sure they'll fall in line in a couple of days and act like Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 11 hours ago (8 children)

It's funny you put it that way. People are saying Trump will start WWIII and I think you're closer to the truth. He and Putin and Xi will all stay out of each other's way and maybe occasionally fight a proxy war here and there to maintain power in perpetuity.

Why go to war with each other when you can just leave each other alone and let everyone else do the fighting?

Besides, Trump is beholden to Putin and Putin and Xi are buddies (Putin might even be beholden to Xi at this point considering Russia's money issues). Who is going to go to war with who?

[–] socsa@piefed.social 3 points 6 hours ago

They will all wag each other's dogs. Giggity.

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[–] Oxen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 12 hours ago
[–] CMLVI@lemmy.world 24 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

How long until he gets replaced and Trump releases the info to burn the bridge entirely and install an even worse person?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I think it's slightly different than what you're suggesting. I'm thinking he's picking the worst people he can pick for these jobs so they get denied and his next pick, which is almost as bad, gets approved instead.

Either way, he mostly gets what he wants... and if whatever attorney general finally does get approved ends up fucking up, which they will, Trump can say, "not my fault, I nominated Gaetz."

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

That's brilliant, which means that trump isn't thinking that. He's picking the absolute worst people, because he always chooses the absolute worst options for any given choice. We already lived through this reality for four years.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 35 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I think you’re assigning a level of intelligence that Trump simply doesn’t have here. He’s absolutely not planning for anything more than 10 seconds ahead. He’s got a list of people he knows will do anything he says and he’s installing them wherever with no rhyme or reason.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Sorry, I'm not trying to suggest this plan was come up with by Trump himself. It would be the people behind him.

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Hard disagree on this. This has Trump's stench all over it. Every person being tapped for these positions is a Trump sycophant, and none of them are even remotely qualified to do the job he's trying to assign them.

I agree that Trump is not good at planning, well, anything. But none of this feels like a plan. It's all: "I like PersonX. I will hire them." If it feels like a very stupid, short-sighted, and childish thing, it's because Trump is a stupid, short-sighted child.

There is no plan for what happens if Gaetz doesn't get confirmed, just like there was no plan informing his selection of Gaetz. If Gaetz doesn't get confirmed, Trump will make a few all-caps posts on Truth Social, and then nominate another sycophant. He's got so many to choose from these days.

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[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 20 points 12 hours ago

Extremely stable geniuses.

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Can we agree as a society that Gaetz should only ever be referred to as Florida Man?

[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

Florida Pedophile, and I'm in.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I perceive this as a loyalty test. Trump will see who opposes Gaetz and put them on his enemies list. Then he'll eliminate them to "drain the swamp. "

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in which he efficiently serves the United States. It is our duty to support him when he serves the United States well. It is our duty to oppose him when he serves it badly.

--Teddy Roosevelt

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago

That's how it should work, but anyone expecting that from the Trump administration and his subservient partisans is delusional.

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