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The poor, poor people on r/Conservative... (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

"a hat comes with the cabinet position"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You are very brave to go over there...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Truly "me and the boys" type of picks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Pretty entertaining thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1gqn3i2/trump_taps_matt_gaetz_for_attorney_general/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 12 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago

Trump is training Gaetz up to become the next Epstein

Pass it on

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Florida Pedophile, and I'm in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

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. "

[–] [email protected] 33 points 14 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Who still appears on board for recess picks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

Looks like they're finally starting to find out.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Pretty sure Twitter still takes the cake on that one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Have they not considered the infighting

[–] [email protected] 30 points 15 hours ago

It's like how we screenshot 4 chan.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago

Just as a reminder, there are (unfortunately) a few conservative communities here as well at [email protected] and [email protected] and also [email protected]

But please don't use my links to downvote things there or tag the users posting right wing crap there as Right-wing Nutjobs or anything like that

[–] [email protected] 63 points 17 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 17 hours ago (3 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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

The US was late to WW1 and WW2. Trump wants to go 3 for 3.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Stalin and Hitler tried what you suggested...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

Their pact was more about having mutual levels of power though. Putin clearly has power over Trump and it sure looks like Xi has power over Putin.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 17 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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

Never, until he doesn’t obey Trump.

Gaetz was reportedly two days away from the House Ethics Committee releasing its report on his… activities with minors - which was going to be damning. Gaetz instead quits congress to nullify their jurisdiction, and Trump gets easy blackmail over his new AG.

Obviously having a crony run the Justice Department kills all of Trumps investigations, but it also lets him steer the department as he pleases.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 17 hours ago (2 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."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago

I think that's probably giving him too much credit. He's not really a democratic politician, he's a fascist.

My bet is that he is constructing a loyalty test to weed out opposition within the ranks. Anyone who doesn't fully give into the cult of personality gets put on a list of people he can't trust.

He doesn't really care about gaetz, but gaetz has pissed off enough people within the party to act as a good tool to test the waters of his own party.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 17 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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 17 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago

Does seem like a Roger Stone tactic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

Trump has always been a puppet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

How could they possibly know that Donnie favors sycophancy over aptitude?!?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 17 hours ago

Extremely stable geniuses.

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