Trump's Cabinet Freak Show Of Traitors And Assholes
What is Trump trying to accomplish here and will Senate Republicans allow him to do it?
Democracy did not die in November of 2024 but the assholes have their knives out and it's up to us to keep them from their bloody work. Despair and surrender are what they want. Resistance is what they’ll get. Stay strong. We beat the fascists once and we’ll fucking do it again.
Taking a glance at Trump’s list of freaks and weirdos he’s assembled for his Cabinet nominees tells me that he’s not trying to govern. He’s trying to build a reality TV show where everyone will smash things for his amusement.
Marco Rubio is not a serious pick for Secretary of State. Marco Rubio is, how do I put this delicately? Marco Rubio is a fucking idiot. I don’t mean that in the general sense of “Boy, Republicans are dumb!” I mean it in the literal sense that Rubio has a reputation for not being particularly bright.
Secretary of State is a very serious job requiring a command of foreign policy and a deep understanding of global affairs. Rubio is, at best, a mouthpiece. So that’s going to be humiliating as he makes an ass of himself over and over again.
Kristi Noem as the head of Homeland Security? Does she have any qualifications other than being cruel enough to shoot a puppy? That’s what Trump wants when it comes to mass deportation but Homeland Security also deals with terrorism, cybersecurity, and more.
What the fuck does Noem know about any of that? Whatever she’s seen on Fox? When she purges the agency, which she will, we’re going to lose decades of experience in keeping cyber threats out of our systems, giving adversaries like Russia and China free rein to attack us at will.
Maybe that’s the point…
Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel. Ah, yes. The Christian Nationalist whose only interest in Jews is getting Israel to kick off WWIII in order to bring about the Rapture and the End Times.
I cannot tell you how many alt-left imbeciles held, and continue to hold, this opinion about Trump and the war in Gaza:
These would be the same people who saw the headline “Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk” and thought it was real. These people are fucking imbeciles.
Trump spent months talking to Netanyahu, making sure he didn’t end the war before the election. Now? He’s going to greenlight atrocities beyond our imagining because Israel’s far-right has wanted to ethnically cleanse Gaza and the West Bank for decades. Now’s their chance because the US will protect them from any repercussions.
Boy, that American “Free Gaza” movement sure did work out well for the Palestinians!1
Pete Hegseth the white nationalist Crusader as Secretary of Defense: Pete Hegseth is fun at parties! If you ask him, he’ll flex his White Christian Nationalist tattoos for you! One of them is literally a tattoo tribute to the Crusades. He was kicked off of Biden’s inauguration detail because he’s a white nationalist. He got Trump to pardon three American war criminals. What did they do? Kill unarmed civilians in the Middle East. Not by accident. On purpose because they hated Muslims.
This is the kind of guy George W. Bush had wet dreams about having in charge of the military when he was trying to claim the Middle East in the name of Jesus. Now Trump wants Hegseth to fill the United States military with Nazi Stormtroopers who will happily march into American cities, seize control of polling stations, and open fire on protesters.
I'm sure this will go over well with those currently serving.
Tom Homan as “The Border Czar”: Remember when Republicans cried bloody tears over “czars” in the government? Guess that’s OK now. Anyway, Homan is another white nationalist who is eager to torture children again like he did during the first Trump regime. He’s promised to round up millions of Latinos and put them in concentration camps. It probably doesn’t mean anything that Homan likes to hang out with literal Nazi apologists.
I’m sure it’ll be fine.
Tied with Pete Hegseth for the most WTF pick is pedophile Matt Gaetz for Attorney General: This fucking freak had cocaine parties with underage girls and paid them for sex. He’s so corrupt and creepy, everyone in the House, including his fellow Republicans, hates his guts.
But since Gaetz has made a full-time job of licking Trump’s taint and promising to violate every moral, ethical, and legal code to attack his enemies, Trump wants him in charge of the Department of Justice.
Remember how the right just spent four years crying big sobby tears about the weaponization of the DoJ, fake investigations, and kangaroo courts? We’re about to see that happen for real and I’m pretty sure no one is going to enjoy it, including MAGAts who think they really want show trials.
It’s one thing to say “They’re all guilty, I don’t need evidence!” It’s quite another to actually watch your government make political arrests without evidence. What’s protecting you once the rule of law disappears? Thoughts and prayers?
RFK Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary: Mr. Brain Worm in charge of eliminating vaccines? Ending food safety? Mmmmmmm…raw milk teeming with bacteria! Pumping the public full of untested quack “medicine?” When the bodies start to pile up, especially the dead kids, one wonders who Kennedy will blame. My guess? The Jews.
And we’ll already have concentration camps ready for them. Won’t that be nice?
Who needs Congress, anyway?
The press is treating all of these fucking freaks as a done deal but they have to get through Congress first and Trump is not happy about that.
His Royal Dementia ordered Senate Republicans to make Rick Scott (R-Fl) the leader of their caucus. They promptly held a vote by secret ballot and Scott lost to John Thune (R-SD). Whoops. Guess Trump doesn’t have as much control of Senate Republicans as he wants.
Or does he?
Trump has also ordered the Senate to give him recess appointments so he doesn’t have to worry about his batshit insane picks being rejected. No Democrat will vote for them and if more than three Republicans say, “Fuck you,” that’s it. There are several Senate Republicans whose seats are not secure enough to be seen as far-right extremists. Also a few who simply don’t really care what Trump says although that number is growing smaller by the day.
Regardless, that’s enough to keep Trump from getting his picks through. Also, the spectacle of, say, RFK Jr. being dragged over the coals in public hearings is more than enough reason for Trump to want to avoid confirmations. Also also, as a wannabe autocrat, Trump cannot tolerate the idea of having Congress get in his way. He is God Emperor Trump, Lord Ruler of the United States of Trumplandia! Who the fuck are they to advise and consent on anything?!
And so, we have this bullshit in the possible making:
In other words, House and Senate Republicans would voluntarily disband Congress and give Trump sole authority to appoint his Cabinet of crazy fucks and perverts AND run the country. Because Trump demanded it.
Kind of sounds like a coup to me. But what the fuck do I know?
The question now becomes whether or not Republicans of either chamber are, in fact, craven traitors willing to give up their own power in service to a fascist dictator. Considering how selfishness and power-hungry they all are, I’m betting no but we’re going to find out very soon.
And that’s when the mass protests begin.
There are 354 days until the first Blue Wave and it starts in Virginia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
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It should be noted that actual Palestinians in the Middle East begged us not to elect Trump but the Free Gaza purists ignored them in typical American arrogance. That includes American Muslims. Nice to see they picked up the worst habits of White America, specifically, telling people in other countries that we know what’s best for them. And being astonishingly wrong. Go American Exceptionalism!
It just keeps getting worse. Every day I die a little more inside.
RFK getting raked over the coals at a Senate confirmation hearing would be highly entertaining. Doubly so for Mike Huckabee, who’s just as despicable as his daughter, Sarah.