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Linda McMahon of World Wrestling Entertainment for Secretary of Education? Another brilliant choice! Make America Not Dum Again (MANDA)!
Was America ever not dumb?
I was told there would be no fact-checking here.
lol
See…it's all about pretending. Trump pretends to be president and he picks a pretend cabinet, based on who makes him feel good.
Simple.
He's picking a cabinet whose members will all know very well that they have no business being in their positions, aside from the fact that he appointed them. People like that will do what they are told with not fealty to any person (or country) other than him.
Trump Cabinet 2025: We will rid America of the "Deep State" and we will flourish!
(Reality): They will fire anyone who doesn't show loyalty to Trump, especially the people who know how to run large, complex organizations.
Trump Cabinet 2026: Nothing works because the "Deep State" abandoned the American people!! THEY never cared about you!
(Reality): By prioritizing loyalty over competence, Trump cabinet members basically destroy the organizations they are in charge of.
Republican Presidential Candidate 2026: The American Government doesn't work! Just look at how shitty it is! I'll make it even smaller!
(Reality): What our governments, especially our federal government, need are people who actually want to make them work.
They will look good on TV, announcing the policies that Project 2025 functionaries have chosen.
I'm not sure I get the "look good on TV" thing – RFK Jr looks as if the worm won; Gaetz likes like an evil but stupid cartoon character; little Marco needs to figure out how to drink a sip of water on TV; Tom Homan, another evil cartoon character; and Noem will look fine if you don't look too close (and if you keep puppies away from her). Can we just say it – besides obvious malevolence, Trump has lost most of his marbles.
I read recently that about half of American adults read at a 6th grade level or below. The "smarter" ones can read and comprehend something like Charlotte's Web, but that's about it. The decades-old wingnut war on education has well and truly borne fruit. The techbro Gilded Age has lots of docile dullards to serve as slave labor, and will get more and more as PAB 2.0 further neuters the DoE.
It must be very exhausting having to constantly praise and flatter Trump, but I suppose the people he surrounds himself with are very good at it.
I recall eight years ago when Trump called his Cabinet together and as he went around the table introducing them, they in turn each humiliated themselves puckering up and kissing his ass on national television.
That's coming up in reruns starting January 2025.
Musk & Ramaswamy are about to learn a giant issue with the federal government. Most of what the government does has powerful supporters.
The government does not have large projects (outside of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, & the Military). Instead it has departments that have projects that have initiatives. The money is down in all those myriad initiatives.
The example I use is too long for a comment but I wrote it up in full at https://liberalandlovingit.substack.com/p/why-musk-will-struggle-to-downsize
Yep … Musk, who has never had a position in the government and never worked on a government budget, claims he can cut $2 trillion.
Knowing some history & process would be instructive, too. Musk, Ramaswamy and the new Whiz Kids they want to hire can PROPOSE spending cuts — but before they actually occur, the House and Senate would need to agree EITHER to reduced appropriations or to a change in existing law about impoundments.
How likely is that? BBC pointed out
After taking control of the House of Representatives in 2022, Republican lawmakers have struggled to pass legislation to deliver considerably smaller cuts of $130bn in discretionary government spending after meeting opposition from other Republicans.
So-called “discretionary” US government spending – outlays that are not permanently enshrined in law but have to be voted on annually by US lawmakers – includes defence ($874bn, 13%), transportation ($137bn, 2%) and education, training, employment and social services ($305bn, 5%). Altogether, discretionary spending accounted for around 25% of the total in the 2023 financial year
Trump wants to spend more on Defense (no matter how it is spelled). He wants to spend MASSIVELY on Homeland Security (wall, plus deportation). As soon as he touches Transportation spending, states and industries will howl. If he tries to cut Education or training (with the exceptions of loan forgiveness and perhaps graduate student loans), states and industries will howl. Obviously, people who have their salaries cut will add to the clamor, and the increased unemployment will hit state budgets and lower income tax revenues.
CATO institute, no fan of government, listed a variety of 14 cuts they say would save "about $4.8 trillion over 10 years." [about 20% of what Musk claims is possible]. One of them
It may save Federal dollars — but it would impact medical spending developed to keep rural hospitals afloat.
Exactly. Those rural Republicans are in for a rude awakening.
Musk's transphobia has some very personal roots. He has a trans daughter, Vivian, whom his ex, the musician Grimes, supports. Daddy Musk has disavowed his daughter. There were also unfounded rumors that Grimes was dating trans whistle-blower Chelsea Manning. Apparently, they are just internet friends.
However, all this has been enough to get Musk's tightie whities in a twist.
This has been your celebrity gossip fix for today.