• @[email protected]
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    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.”

    • Flying SquidOP
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      104 hours ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    256 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]
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    156 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]
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    308 hours ago

    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]
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      187 hours ago

      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]
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        157 hours ago

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

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          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.

      • @Big_Boss_77
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        Boring neocon and status quo is the absolute best case scenario at this point.

    • @[email protected]
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      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
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    87 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]
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      55 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.

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    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.

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

      • Miles O'Brien
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        Personally I like “Shit tends to clump together.”

        And “the turd doesn’t fall far from the asshole”

      • teft
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        Birds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.

    • JackGreenEarth
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      What does their father have anything to do with them? Regardless of your opinions about pedophiles, you should judge people on their own merits, not those of their family members.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      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
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        They will all wag each other’s dogs. Giggity.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          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.