Comment by mandeepj
8 months ago
The problem is that most of those 18 people are just random folks picked on the premise of just one qualification: THey'd be Yes Man/Woman!! They aren't career professionals. I believe that explains the mess they've created and their incompetent approach to their duties.
It's still not too late to impeach that entire shack of clowns.
These are the same folks who scrubbed the Navajo Code Talkers from the DoD web site for being "DEI" or some such.
we replaced them with DUI hires.
For those of us who are not used to the acronyms, DUI means Driving Under Influence. Similar term is DWI, Driving While Intoxicated.
That is brilliant, and it’s heartbreaking that it’s brilliant.
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> It's still not too late to impeach that entire shack of clowns.
The problem is that the people in control of the power to impeach are also picked for being yes men/women. It's yes-men all the way down by design.
It’s Trump’s one true talent.
He got the Supreme Court and the judiciary leaning his way in his first term. Congress is controlled by either his Republican primary candidates, or Republicans who are too afraid to cross him.
Now he’s purging from the federal branch anyone who is not completely ideologically loyal to him. That is the true purpose of Doge.
For years I've been taught that US political system is based on checks and balances. Now I see that just like in any other country it was based on morals of people: voters, elected, and appointed.
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I’m going to respectfully disagree with you there. Trump’s success as a politician is solely down to three factors.
Firstly, he has an insatiable desire for attention, admiration, and generally benefitting himself. That’s what causes his drive.
Secondly, he has no scruples or adheres to any morals or ethics whatsoever, he is completely ruthless. This allows him to do and say whatever serves him the most in any given situation.
Lastly, he has a specific type of charisma that has purchase with a certain segment of the people.
That’s is the full extent of it. He has no other skills or useful attributes. Anything else, especially if it’s at all technical or practical, comes from the people he’s surrounded himself with.
To interact with your point, he’s not even particularly adept at enlisting sycophants. Remember his first administration, when numerous aides and associates had both public and private disagreements with him (as one example out of many, I’ll refer to Rex Tillerson calling him a ”fucking moron”). The reason things are different this time is that another set of people are running the show, and they’ve realized that including old establishment Republicans, that have to at least pretend to be serious members of society, would have been a barrier to their agenda.
Turning the judiciary red across the country is especially not something you can attribute to Trump. It’s been a systematic effort by the Republicans (and adjacent organizations such as the Heritage Foundation) over the span of decades. He just happened to be in the position to make the appointments.
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Vance' offices response is very telling of his priorities and supports this view.
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How dare you!
Donald Trump "is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."
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>U.S. national-security leaders
Those aren't leaders, quite the opposite, nothing but typical Trump-like non-leaders disgracing leadership positions.
>those 18 people are just random folks
OTOH if you picked 18 random patriotic Americans, odds are none would be that far below average at defending what normal Americans have always held dear.
On the subject of a 'shack of clowns,' now do the Afganistan withdrawal.
Kind of off topic as that was the previous Trump administration, but they were also a 'shack of clowns'
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It's a pretty big false dichotomy to present "people directly opposed to their policy platforms" as the sole alternative to people "picked on the premise of just one qualification: they'd be Yes Man/Woman".
Yes, I was using a false dichotomy to highlight the absurdity of the statement.
Every President surrounds themselves with people who are aligned with their policy platforms. For some reason, Trump is the one President where suddenly it's an issue.
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They pick competent, experienced people who are aligned with their policies. Not Fox News presenters and YouTube influencers.
Are we really looking at the best group of people that the current president could find to do these roles that agree with his policy platform? There was no one else with relevant experience willing?
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No, that was not suggested. You are not arguing in good faith.
It's pretty easy to compare the backgrounds of every prior secretary of defense with Pete Hegseth. They're typically people with significant experience managing government agencies, retired 3 and 4 star generals, or senators/congressmen with serious foreign policy experience. The last person with as little defense policy experience as Hegseth was probably McNamara, and he was President of Ford, e.g. someone who knew how to manage a large organization.
most people generally agreed with them but they also tried to pick people of talent and courage who might disagree on a number of issues. Trump doesn't care about any of that
Donald Trump "is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."
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It’s wild.
Trump beings people on, they are yes men.
Trump fires people, he doesn’t like people who disagree with him?
Which is it?
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