TRUMP 2.0 From nominations to its last day

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I'm unemployed!

 

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Laurence H. Tribe (@tribelaw.bsky.social)

Trump is flooding the zone with staggeringly bad nominees for key posts, each one worse than the last. He clearly figures he can overwhelm the already weak GOP resistance to the point where most if not all will get through, given Musk’s threat to fund primary opponents to all who say no way.

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John W Dean (@johnwdean.bsky.social)

Recall what happened with the FBI when Nixon politicized it by appointing Patrick Gray director. The rank and file leaked, leaked and leaked up to the assistant director (aka Mark Felt/Deep Throat) level. They destroyed Nixon. Trump is inviting big trouble with Kash Patel.

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Shulamit Lahat (@shulamitlahat.bsky.social)

"Jared Kushner's father as ambassador to France" What a cabinet! Convicted felons, disbarred lawyers, sexual offenders, racists and total imbeciles. Makes one wonder what kind of legacy Trump is aiming for; oh, that's right: there will be censorship and no Dept of Education...

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Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social)

“In June, Boulos told the Associated Press that he is a ‘friend’ of Sleiman Frangieh, a Christian politician allied with the Shiite party and the militant group Hezbollah. The group has endorsed Frangieh’s bid to become the next Lebanese president.”...

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The New Yorker (@newyorker.com)

Pete Hegseth was forced to step down from both of the nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct, @janemayer.bsky.social reports...

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Pete Hegseth’s Secret History

A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job.

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Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social)

Good call. Just changed the use of "loyalist" in an essay publishing in the morning dealing with henchman Kash Patel. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social)

"While Silicon Valley has always wielded influence in American politics, what's emerging now is different – a world where the interests of select technology companies become indistinguishable from US government policy" https://www.techpolicy.press/on-the-coming-merger-of-tech-and-state-power/

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On the Coming Merger of Tech and State Power | TechPolicy.Press

Taylor Owen writes that the merger of state and tech power is a fundamental challenge to democratic governance in the digital age.

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Joyce Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)

Resharing this piece from my newsletter Civil Discourse earlier this week in case you missed it while you were stuffing your turkey (or whatever). I get the burnout, the anger, the disgust with everything Trump. But we cannot afford to look away right now. joycevance.substack.com/p/not-broken

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Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social)

Shameful behavior from a bunch of cowards.

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https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-transition-lobbying-company-image-ffd42d2e

That piece of shit is probably headed to prison.

Might want to quote a better source.

 

[j-mac]

When you lose elections, you don’t get to pick the winner’s cabinet…

 

[Care4all]

That piece of shit is probably headed to prison.

Might want to quote a better source.

Sheesh! Why would he be probably heading to prison, you fascist wannabe, cuz you hate your political foes? What crime did he commit?

You are off your rocker and have been, for years....sad to see!

 

[j-mac]

Sheesh! Why would he be probably heading to prison, you fascist wannabe, cuz you hate your political foes? What crime did he commit?

You are off your rocker and have been, for years....sad to see!

He’s lucky Trump won….

 

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Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social)

Last year, Trump’s FBI Director was selling magic pills which would supposedly cleanse your body of the Covid vaccine to “reverse the vaxx” if you ever had one. A complete scam.

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He’s lucky Trump won….

So you think....For now....

 

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If they can shrink the federal workforce, very well.

 

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Jim Acosta (@jimacosta.bsky.social)

Fascinating how this is coming out AFTER the election https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/us/politics/dinesh-dsouza-2000-mules-apology-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Dinesh D’Souza, ’2000 Mules’ Director, Acknowledges the Film Was Flawed

The director, Dinesh D’Souza, who is facing a lawsuit over the documentary, admitted that an analysis used to make claims about election fraud that were later debunked had been faulty.

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Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)

The North Carolina General Assembly’s GOP supermajority just approved a hugely corrupt power grab, seizing authority from the governor and the courts to prevent any meaningful check on legislative abuses. Authoritarian stuff. A very dark day for democracy in NC...

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