Humor-Satire Trump Staff Picks, Co-Conspirators and the Revolving Door of Departures [2024 Edition]

[justaguy]

Its like theyre hiring for some mafia outfit to do drug deals and money laundering and to take out people who get in their way.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Its like theyre hiring for some mafia outfit to do drug deals and money laundering and to take out people who get in their way.

That is basically what they're doing.

But I suspect they're trying to make it more like the Gestapo and SS to carry out orders and take out people who oppose der Trumpenführer.

 

[rareboy]

Trump has tapped Matt Whitaker as ambassador to NATO...with the intention to destroy it.

 

[rareboy]

Some people are finally starting to not ony get it, but to write about it.

Trump is intentionally creating a 'designed to fail' federal executive branch. It is an important part of the playbook to establishing an authoritarian presidency.

Authoritarianism Expert Delivers Chilling Assessment On Trump Cabinet Picks

It's not “just that these people are not qualified enough" or even "totally unqualified," warned Timothy Snyder, who said their selection aims to do one thing.

www.huffpost.com

 

[cityboy-stl]

Trump has tapped Matt Whitaker as ambassador to NATO...with the intention to destroy it.

Lawrence O'Donnell was talking about this on his MSNBC show not too long ago -
There is a law that requires a 2/3 Senate vote or act of congress for the US to pull out of NATO. The law was sponsored by Tim Kaine and Sec State nominee Marco Rubio.
But I'm sure der Trumpenführer will find some way around it or wreck as much havoc as he can, if he really wants to do that.

The Fascist Apocalypse is no longer just a warning.

 

[KaraBulut]

Some people are finally starting to not ony get it, but to write about it.

Trump is intentionally creating a 'designed to fail' federal executive branch. It is an important part of the playbook to establishing an authoritarian presidency.

Authoritarianism Expert Delivers Chilling Assessment On Trump Cabinet Picks

It's not “just that these people are not qualified enough" or even "totally unqualified," warned Timothy Snyder, who said their selection aims to do one thing.

www.huffpost.com

That is true.

There's also another authoritarian agenda: to defang the checks and balances on the executive.

Every autocrat goes after the courts to install their sympathizers as judges. Every autocrat weakens the legislative branch so that the citizens cannot constrain the executive.

By putting up ridiculous nominees, the Trumpists are testing the tradition that "A President is entitled to the appointees of his choosing". If the Senate rejects or refuses to hold hearings on the nominees, Trump will try recess appointments which then sets up SCOTUS to rule whether the President can bypass Congress.

Next will be the military.

 

[rareboy]

There's no doubt he intends to bypass Congress.

It is part of the overall plan.

We already hear the capitulation of Senators either afraid of Trump at the mid-terms...or actually eager to allow an authoritarian to enact the policies the oligarchs want without having to have them voted by Congress.

 

[rareboy]

QED

 

[KaraBulut]

...We already hear the capitulation of Senators either afraid of Trump at the mid-terms...or actually eager to allow an authoritarian to enact the policies the oligarchs want without having to have them voted by Congress.

Legislators often get elected by promising that they will only serve a limited number of terms. Susan Collins did this, yet she forgot her promise and ran again. Ted Cruz has introduced bills to limit Senators to two terms, yet Ted ran for a third term. The sad, pitiful Miss Lindsey lives in fear of being sent home to South Carolina, where the rentboys aren't nearly as cute or discrete as they are in DC.

That is the threat that Senators fear- a primary challenger and retirement.

The question is whether the lack of term limits and the 6 year term will give enough Republican Senators the courage to assert their Article I powers to constrain the executive. So far, the score is two prior impeachments short of that goal.

 

[cityboy-stl]

We are here now. The warnings have become reality.

 

[KaraBulut]

QED

Someone should ask him in his confirmation hearing, "Do you even know how to swim? Did you at least go on a cruise?".

 

[KaraBulut]

One of the lucky coincidences of the first Trump Administration is that there weren't a lot of international crises during his Administration... well, until COVID, that is... and we saw how well Trump handled COVID.

Israel and Palestine were oddly calm. Russia was in between invading Georgia (2008), Crimea (2014) and Ukraine (2014). Trump seemed oblivious to China's aggression in the South China Sea. Merkel was keeping Europe and the EU in line. Brexit didn't happen until 2020. Trump negotiated a terrible deal to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan and left Biden to take the blame when it turned into a shitshow that put the Taliban back into power.

That's not how it is in 2024.

Protests are happening in Georgia (the country):

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/30/europe/georgia-protests-eu-talks-intl-latam/index.html

South Korea is in turmoil.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/asia/south-korea-martial-law-intl/index.html

Germany's ruling coalition has collapsed.

Five things to know about Germany's government crisis

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced he will ask for a vote of confidence in December, setting the path for an early election in February.

apnews.com

Britain's economy is a mess:

Newspaper headlines: 'Business blames budget' and 'UK economy takes hit'

A survey indicating a slowdown in private business activity, which some blame on the government, leads the front pages.

www.bbc.com

Syria is in turmoil:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/politics/us-syria-diplomatic-situation/index.html

And Gaza? And Ukraine?

This is one of those rare times that a Democratic Administration is bequeathing a mess to an incoming Republican Administration (the last time was probably 1980).

The nominees that Trump has selected are wholly unprepared to deal with a world in turmoil. Trump's election could accelerate events similar to those in the 1910s or 1930s.

Elections have consequences.

 

[rareboy]

I predict that TrumpCo. will just either ignore or go to the right wing strong man in the conflict.

Rememebr when TrumpCo. bombed the airfields in Syria in 2018?

He let the Russians know ahead of time so that they could move their planes to cover. Dropped a few bombs. Declared the job done.

He will do that again and again. Make deals with the dictators to let him get on with dismantling deomcracy in the US, NATO and any other alliance...all the while posting the most outrageous threats on social media so that he can claim that he alone could solve all these problems.

He can and will let Vlad have Ukraine, Georgia, Romania, Hungary and any other satellite they can seize and hold. No question.

He will let Netanyahu annex Gaza.

He will loudly threaten Iran, but do nothing...although if I was a betting man, and I was sure that Iran and Rzzzia didn't have a pact, it would be the country he is most itching to use a nuclear device against.

There is no coherent strategy when it comes to China. He will likely let them seize Taiwan in exchange for some kind of side business deal, but the regional political alliances may be a little too complex for a simple stand-down.

Unfortunately, Americans can't count on foreign conflicts as the salvation of their own country.

TrumpCo. will not be distracted from the main goals of 2025 which are all about domestic affairs.

 

[KaraBulut]

Finally, someone has the balls to say it out loud.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/03/mike-bloomberg-rfk-jr-hhs-trump.html

Billionaire and public health advocate Mike Bloomberg on Tuesday excoriated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. health secretary, over his anti-vaccine record and urged the Senate to reject his bid to lead the nation’s top health agencies.

“Just imagine if RFK Jr. had been in office during Trump’s first term,” Bloomberg said at the Bloomberg American Health Summit in Washington D.C.

“Would Operation Warp Speed have even happened? And if it did, how long would the vaccines have been delayed? How many fewer people would have gotten the shot? How many more people would have died?”

“All we can say for sure is this: It would have made Covid even more deadly and even more economically painful,” he said.

 

[KaraBulut]

Surprise! A Trump nominee who apparently goes MIA on drinking binges and shows up to work smelling of alcohol. Whodathunk?

Remember when the Republicans had a meltdown when Sec Lloyd Austin had prostate surgery? Compare that to a nominee who is out drinking all night and shows up late for work still drunk or hungover.

Pete Hegseth's drinking worried colleagues at Fox News, sources tell NBC News

Ten current and former Fox employees say Trump’s pick for defense secretary drank in ways that concerned his co-workers. A Trump transition team spokesperson called the claims "completely unfounded and false."

www.nbcnews.com

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, drank in ways that concerned his colleagues at Fox News, according to 10 current and former Fox employees who spoke with NBC News.

Two of those people said that on more than a dozen occasions during Hegseth’s time as a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” which began in 2017, they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air. Those same two people, plus another, said that during his time there he appeared on television after they’d heard him talk about being hungover as he was getting ready or on set.

One of the sources said they smelled alcohol on him as recently as last month and heard him complain about being hungover this fall.

And when you have THREE ex-wives and multiple extramarital affairs over 20 years, there's a lot of women out there who want to take you down.

The Storybook Start—and Bitter End—of Pete Hegseth’s First Marriage

The defense secretary nominee’s first marriage, which sources say met a contentious end after he admitted to multiple infidelities, holds a key place in his ambition-fueled rise.

www.vanityfair.com

Pete Hegseth admitted to having five affairs during first marriage

Trump’s nominee for defense secretary has been married three times and has been accused of sexual assault

ca.news.yahoo.com

Pete Hegseth’s mom accused her son of belittling, abusing, and lying to women

"Is there any sense of decency left in you?"

www.motherjones.com

The erosion begins...

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5020569-lindsey-graham-pete-hegseth-allegations/

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said allegations against Pete Hegseth of sexual assault and other misconduct, some stemming from his time atop two veterans groups, are “very disturbing” and are making his path to becoming the next Defense secretary more arduous.

The South Carolina Republican said Tuesday that it remains to be seen if Hegseth will be able to get across the finish line after President-elect Trump tapped him to run the Pentagon.

“I think some of these articles are very disturbing,” Graham told CBS News. “He obviously has a chance to defend himself here, but some of this stuff is going to be difficult.”

 

[KaraBulut]

And stories about the cross-eyed swamp monster's incompetency are leaking. Note that these stories are coming from conservative media.

How Kash Patel Bungled a SEAL Team Six Hostage Rescue

“You could’ve gotten these guys killed!” a Pentagon official screamed at Patel.

www.spytalk.co

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper had signed off on the plan with one or two questions: Did we have permission to fly over Nigeria?

Patel, then the senior director for counterterrorism on the National Security Council, assured the Pentagon that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “got the airspace cleared.”

A few hours later, the Pentagon learned that Patel was wrong: Nigeria had not given permission.

This was a huge mistake. By that point, the aircraft carrying the SEALs were only fifteen miles away from the Nigerian border.

How Kash Patel was suspected of nearly botching SEAL Team 6 rescue mission - Washington Examiner

President-elect Trump's selection to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, was blamed for an incident that jeopardized a U.S. special operations rescue mission in Nigeria.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

The incident in question occurred in late October 2020 when an American named Philipe Nathan Walton was kidnapped from his farm in southern Niger and brought to Nigeria. The armed kidnappers demanded a ransom, and U.S. officials were concerned that they could kill Walton or hand him over to an Islamic terrorist group.

Then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper detailed the incident in his memoir about his time in the first Trump administration. He describes a tangled web of incomplete information being relayed to various agencies that should have been involved, directly or indirectly, in the planning and execution of the rescue mission.

FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom Trump nominated Patel to replace, and then-Attorney General William Barr were not informed of the impending mission, despite Trump’s approval of it, until Esper informed them of the plans himself. Then-CIA Director Gina Haspel “knew the most of what we were planning … however, she was not aware the president decided to launch the rescue operation,” he wrote.

The United States was awaiting approval from the Nigerian government to enter its airspace and carry out the raid. Patel, who was at the NSC, reportedly informed Tony Tata, acting principal deputy undersecretary for policy, that they had gotten the requisite approval for the mission. However, hours later, with the U.S. forces only 15 miles from the border, Esper found out they did not, in fact, have the Nigerians’ approval.

 

[KaraBulut]

Another one bites the dust, this time torpedoed by friendly fire.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/03/congress/dea-nominee-withdraws-00192467

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration abruptly withdrew his name from consideration on Tuesday just days after being chosen.

Chronister drew criticism from some conservatives, including Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), over his actions during the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020, his office arrested a Tampa pastor for violating quarantine orders to hold services. Charges against the pastor were ultimately dropped.

 

[rareboy]

Gee. Black Republicans apparently feel left out of the Administration.

Well at least they had Omarosa and Ben Carson.

Maybe Trump will look to Herschel Walker to replace Hegseth....

Black Republicans feel left out of Trump’s 2nd-term picks

As President-elect Donald Trump fills out his Cabinet and closest advisers, African American Republicans ask why more Black people haven’t been selected.

abcnews.go.com

 

[KaraBulut]

Today's rumor:

Hegseth's nomination will be pulled.

The next nominee for Secretary of Defense will be Florida governor Ron DeSantis.

Why would Trump nominate "Meatball" DeSantimonius?

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4993700-florida-governor-desantis-senate-appointment/

Post in thread 'Trump this.'

Nov 14, 2024

More trolling.

Nepo-wife offers to replace Rubio in Senate.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4990557-lara-trump-would-seriously-consider-replacing-rubio-in-senate-if-asked/

Lara Trump: ‘I would seriously consider’ replacing Rubio in Senate if asked

Nobody asked.

• KaraBulut

 

[rareboy]

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