"Given that perilous hold on power, Trump might want to reconsider his current strategy of ruling Washington like a devastated and occupied enemy city with a Cabinet largely composed of men and women who appear to hate the departments and agencies they are supposed to oversee, plus a governing plan that may rely on testing the tolerance of the federal judiciary for totally unparalleled assertions of supreme presidential powers.

And Trump's MAGA base should also cool its jets a bit. There's certainly a degree of triumphalism in the air that really isn't justified by the election returns."

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Their jets are mostly lost in the vapor trails.

"labor abuses, environmental degradation and threats to democracy,"

See what you can do with a bookseller site if you have No Rules Corporate-Owned Government?

And now they have one of their own in the WH, surrounded by more Corporate Stooges.

Rwingers are such closeted -----.

- try reading The Art Of The Deal.

Yeah... try reading the author of The Art of the Deal:

"But, as he watched a replay of the new candidate holding forth for forty-five minutes, he noticed something strange:

over the decades, Trump appeared to have convinced himself that he had written the book. Schwartz recalls thinking, "If he could lie about that on Day One " when it was so easily refuted " he is likely to lie about anything."

Alice's Restaurant - Original 1967 Recording

Trump is America's Turkey...

... already swing voters are looking at his looney-toon Mafia-style appointments made as payoffs for the bribes they gave him... and at his Tariffs projected to increase both prices and inflation and saying:

"WTF did we DO?!".

And people wonder why career military hates him.

This is America by Mafioso Government... all the best positions of power are bought and paid for by both money and loyalty.

Trumpers must be SO proud of what they've done to destroy democracy, freedom, and the rule of law in what used to be America.

I try to remember to thank Wavy Gravy for all he did for American youth.

"Clearly Putin has a type. He likes narcissists and egomaniacs that he knows as a case officer can easily pander to manipulate, to do his dirty work," Vindman said in the late October interview circulated online by X users this week.

"Russia has been using different levers " whether that's corruption networks, in this case, its influencers like Donald Trump, like Elon Musk, to kind of sow discord."

The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Musk had been in regular contact with Putin since late 2022. Putin and Musk reportedly had various conversations on personal matters, business and geopolitical tensions, while sometimes involving other high-ranking Russian officials, including Putin's first deputy chief of staff, Sergei Kiriyenko.

Vindman said Musk's interactions with Putin are "particularly troubling" since the tech entrepreneur has access to state secrets and "Top Secret security clearance."

"It's possible that some of that is seeping through," Vindman said, adding, "He's [Putin] been using the richest man in the world to do his bidding. In some cases, that's encouraging him probably to support Donald Trump."

Musk's aerospace company, SpaceX, holds contracts with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community worth billions of dollars, while his electric vehicle company Tesla receives federal subsidies.

The tech entrepreneur has reportedly claimed he holds a U.S. security clearance as part of these federal agreements."

DJT is already claiming credit for the ceasefire.

"It isn't just Nesheiwat drawing the ire of online MAGA. Even Pam Bondi, one of Trump's former impeachment attorneys nominated to replace Matt Gaetz as attorney general, isn't satisfying the right-wing faithful.

"PLEASE change Pam Bondi your new attorney general she is super anti-gun she has a horrible history being anti-gun that's all she focuses on RINO and there's a bunch of compromised pictures of her and BAD history, there's have to be someone else this is very depressing!!!" one Truth Social user rambled.

"We cannot have an anti second amendment attorney general. Trump please do not put this communist in office," wrote another.

It seems that Trump supporters won't accept any Cabinet candidate who isn't some right-wing zealot."

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And why would they? They are the ones that elected him, and he sure as hell lead them to believe that he was neither this stupid or this duplicitous.

But see, he is. Both.

- 20% of Americans cannot read at a 5th grade level

It shows in their posts here!

Campaign had a couple of months to do what most candidates take at least a year or two to do.

Swing voters went with the devil they knew.... which many are already beginning to regret as Trump's picks for office have been shocking to anyone paying attention.

And Goldman-Sachs just warned that, you guessed it, Trump's Tariffs will increase prices AND inflation. Not to mention that his tax cuts for the rich will add trillions to the Debt.

Swing voters are like, "WTF did we DO?!".

What an -----.

But then, Trumper, so it's to be expected.

U.S. Border Agents Seize $18 Million of Fake Gibson Guitars
U.S. Customs and Border Protection called seizure one of the biggest counterfeit instrument busts in history

"Epshteyn himself was indicted on state charges in Arizona related to alleged efforts by Trump allies to subvert that election and has pleaded not guilty.

He holds the title of senior counsel and senior adviser to Trump, but even before the review he was not expected to take a role in the incoming administration."

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Trump learned How to be a Criminal at the knee of Roy Cohn.

"The Final Lesson Donald Trump Never Learned From Roy Cohn
The unrepentant political hitman who taught a younger Trump how to flout the rules didn't get away with it forever."

Normies are low political info, sometimes voters who's source of journalistic news and information has been garbage-ified into a Corporate Takeover, sponsored by their invasive and leading and fake ads.

Voters don't know what to believe because they don't really have good sources of what's going on... because they haven't got the time or maybe the inclination to do a little research and fact checking for themselves.

Of course, this was The Plan of the far-right all along, from Limbaugh, to Murdock, to Gingrich; fracture the faith of people in their news media, and divide them.

The Corporate Conqueror's Plan, ingeniously using low and middle class votes to give us things like Citizens United and the reality that Money IS Speech and Lawmakers are For Sale, no matter how much it shouldn't be.

The People are the owners and should own the Lawmakers here, not the Corporations who have been given Personhood under the Law by false pretenses.

The result, of course, is a billionaire corporate President *and criminal traitor... and Party that owe everything they have to the Corporations, not to the People.

Trump isn't the Cure, he's the Poison.

- No one has ever implied you're an asset

ROFL!!

More of an ass, really.

There are bowling balls that are sharper.

"The entire cabinet almost owns bitcoin, and are proponents of digital assets," Novogratz said of the incoming Trump administration, adding he believes it's inevitable that bitcoin eventually crosses the $100,000 per bitcoin level."

He's actually perfect for the DT admin... a criminal and an adulterer just like the Boss.

Rwingers must be SO proud!

The last 4 years have seen the best economic recovery from COVID in the world.

Also the recovery from DT's bungled response to COVID.

Not to mention some recovery from his tax cuts for billionaires, for which mindless Trumpers, and everyone else, will be paying for their entire lifetimes.

Wonder what Princess Sparkle Pony thinks of tariffs on her Chinese junk sales?

What's that you say, Exempt?

"Merit and intellect"

What's that?! - DJT