Oh, Marc- I gotta say , it is sometimes so hard to read your pieces. Somehow, it almost seems normal. Since I live in an area where this whole shitshow IS normal now, and actually preferred, I am …concerned worried stressed terrified….
Take care of yourself- the slip into the dark side can be perilously easy.
And you thought this time it would be different! No ridiculous leaking, from the hea leaker himself, DJT, no food fights over the "chosen" ones, peace and harmony at Mar-a-Loco, followed by P&H at 1600 in January! The clown car sh** show is speeding along nicely, preparing for a cliff dive - only the BEST PEOPLE - Marco Rubio was a fever dream of normalcy, followed by the wrecking crew now out there! Susie, Wiles, where are you and your sensible methods? Howard and Elon are running the show, likely will be for 4 years - Merry F'in Christmas to all you poseurs from Donny on down!
Maybe we can also try not to think rich men are (1) geniuses, (2) ethical, and (3) at all interested in OUR best interests. The worshipping of the corporate bros is obnoxious.
They sound like junior high school boys competing for a shot at making the JV basketball team.. And these are the people who are being considered for cabinet positions with power to make decisions that will affect all of us?
Hopefully, these people eat other alive. If they can’t run anything better than we’re seeing here, there’s hope that “the purge” won’t actually happen.
Didn't know Lutnick's firm manages Tether (USDT) …what an obvious red flag! That currency has been insolvent for years now and survived by cooking its books and a community that chooses to look the other way. So of course he wants to be in charge of US Treasury 🙄
RFK Jr. praised Lutnick’s embrace of Bitcoin even as he misspelled the executive’s name: “Bitcoin is the currency of freedom". How to people fall for these cardboard slogans? Is half the country really this stupid?
Steven Cheung said. “He will nominate high-caliber individuals who will serve their country, represent the American people, and carry out President Trump’s pro-America agenda the people overwhelmingly voted for.” Doesn't he remind you of Tarik Aziz, spokesman for Saddam Hussein?
The process of choosing Cabinet members will not be done in a logical, rational process to determine who's best for the position, for the country, or even who's best for the Republican Party. Please stop trying to normalize Trump and his sycophants - they aren't normal, even if you can be fooled into believing they are in a conversation because they speak in complete sentences. This nonsense about Trump being better prepared and better organized this time isn't reality because Trump is not prepared or organized and "the boss" runs the show. Trump is a lame duck from day one and what we're seeing now, we will continue to see on an even larger scale with political sabotage, backstabbing and press leaks. Congressional Republicans may talk nice in public but do you really believe they want CEOs telling them what to do, especially Muskaswamy (I stole this from someone else but I don't remember who). In six months, Trump will be back to playing golf, having "executive time", holding rallies and grifting as we see more and more evidence of his mental and physical decline and capos will be trying to eliminate the competition and take over.
"a reputation at Mar-a-Lago of being too competitive, too aggressive, and too thirsty for the political limelight"
* Trump [sic] likes competitiveness in those around him. This way, he sets advisors against each other for his personal entertainment -- similar to if he could attend a dogfight or cockfight;
* Aggression is also a good thing. TFG uses his trained lapdogs as attack animals nipping at the ankles of his enemies -- wearing them down to the point he can deliver the coup de grâce with no personal risk;
* Wants to be in the limelight? Deal killer; no one seeks attention without his express approval.
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"he declared that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would not end up being nominated to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump announced last week that he does indeed intend to name Kennedy to the post"
The only declaration that counts is Trump's [sic], and even then it's not cast in stone.
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"news of some potential appointees leaking before the team has time to attempt to frame the story to their liking"
IMO there is no way in hell that anything framed for Gaetz, Hegseth, or Noem (too many others to mention) would be acceptable to any nonMAGA person. They could bloviate, misdirect, plan, and scheme to the dear little hearts' content, but that wouldn't make it any more palatable. There is an old Yiddish aphorism: “Menschen trakht aun Got lakht” “Man plans, G-d laughs”
I just hope that G-dess is laughing her ass off at the transition team's plans (and then those of TFG).
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“President Trump won a historic election with a clear mandate from the American people []”
Someone needs to explain to me how TFG beating Harris by ~3.2 million votes is an unambiguous mandate but Pres Biden, who's + margin was ~7 million votes, a total that still eclipses the 2024 margin of victory, wasn't.
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"a Mar-a-Lago insider privy to private conversations about the pick. “Lutnick has worked him [Bessent] over like nothing I’ve ever seen. He just savages the guy, dirties him up at every chance he gets"
As expected, an "insider" can't see what almost everyone else sees in sharp focus. Lutnick's vicious attack of Bessent is straight out of TFG's playbook. I can count on one hand, or even one finger, the number of those who stood in opposition to Trump [sic] since his ride down his beautiful golden escalator in 2015 that he *hasn't* trashed.
Only one can be the Mouth; the lord and master of Mar a Lago.
Oh, Marc- I gotta say , it is sometimes so hard to read your pieces. Somehow, it almost seems normal. Since I live in an area where this whole shitshow IS normal now, and actually preferred, I am …concerned worried stressed terrified….
Take care of yourself- the slip into the dark side can be perilously easy.
Strange piece. Like it's all normal.
Nikogo ne uznaet nichego ne budet. Ehto vse govno.
And you thought this time it would be different! No ridiculous leaking, from the hea leaker himself, DJT, no food fights over the "chosen" ones, peace and harmony at Mar-a-Loco, followed by P&H at 1600 in January! The clown car sh** show is speeding along nicely, preparing for a cliff dive - only the BEST PEOPLE - Marco Rubio was a fever dream of normalcy, followed by the wrecking crew now out there! Susie, Wiles, where are you and your sensible methods? Howard and Elon are running the show, likely will be for 4 years - Merry F'in Christmas to all you poseurs from Donny on down!
How interesting that even Larry Kudlow's taking a pass. That says something about this "process".
Maybe we can also try not to think rich men are (1) geniuses, (2) ethical, and (3) at all interested in OUR best interests. The worshipping of the corporate bros is obnoxious.
They sound like junior high school boys competing for a shot at making the JV basketball team.. And these are the people who are being considered for cabinet positions with power to make decisions that will affect all of us?
Hell, half the time, they feel like toddlers having tantrums to me.
Hopefully, these people eat other alive. If they can’t run anything better than we’re seeing here, there’s hope that “the purge” won’t actually happen.
Didn't know Lutnick's firm manages Tether (USDT) …what an obvious red flag! That currency has been insolvent for years now and survived by cooking its books and a community that chooses to look the other way. So of course he wants to be in charge of US Treasury 🙄
RFK Jr. praised Lutnick’s embrace of Bitcoin even as he misspelled the executive’s name: “Bitcoin is the currency of freedom". How to people fall for these cardboard slogans? Is half the country really this stupid?
so the anon criticism of him is that he leaks to the media; and you know this because someone leaked it to you?
Steven Cheung said. “He will nominate high-caliber individuals who will serve their country, represent the American people, and carry out President Trump’s pro-America agenda the people overwhelmingly voted for.” Doesn't he remind you of Tarik Aziz, spokesman for Saddam Hussein?
I’m preaching to the choir here but they are all grifters including “Nut-lick”.
MAGA; Make America Grift again
When did the grifting class ever really stop?
Based on the revelations in this piece, MAGAstan will have the operational security level of Hamas. No amount of purges will change that.
Not revelations really; just feeding someone a story and he takes it.
The process of choosing Cabinet members will not be done in a logical, rational process to determine who's best for the position, for the country, or even who's best for the Republican Party. Please stop trying to normalize Trump and his sycophants - they aren't normal, even if you can be fooled into believing they are in a conversation because they speak in complete sentences. This nonsense about Trump being better prepared and better organized this time isn't reality because Trump is not prepared or organized and "the boss" runs the show. Trump is a lame duck from day one and what we're seeing now, we will continue to see on an even larger scale with political sabotage, backstabbing and press leaks. Congressional Republicans may talk nice in public but do you really believe they want CEOs telling them what to do, especially Muskaswamy (I stole this from someone else but I don't remember who). In six months, Trump will be back to playing golf, having "executive time", holding rallies and grifting as we see more and more evidence of his mental and physical decline and capos will be trying to eliminate the competition and take over.
"a reputation at Mar-a-Lago of being too competitive, too aggressive, and too thirsty for the political limelight"
* Trump [sic] likes competitiveness in those around him. This way, he sets advisors against each other for his personal entertainment -- similar to if he could attend a dogfight or cockfight;
* Aggression is also a good thing. TFG uses his trained lapdogs as attack animals nipping at the ankles of his enemies -- wearing them down to the point he can deliver the coup de grâce with no personal risk;
* Wants to be in the limelight? Deal killer; no one seeks attention without his express approval.
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"he declared that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would not end up being nominated to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump announced last week that he does indeed intend to name Kennedy to the post"
The only declaration that counts is Trump's [sic], and even then it's not cast in stone.
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"news of some potential appointees leaking before the team has time to attempt to frame the story to their liking"
IMO there is no way in hell that anything framed for Gaetz, Hegseth, or Noem (too many others to mention) would be acceptable to any nonMAGA person. They could bloviate, misdirect, plan, and scheme to the dear little hearts' content, but that wouldn't make it any more palatable. There is an old Yiddish aphorism: “Menschen trakht aun Got lakht” “Man plans, G-d laughs”
I just hope that G-dess is laughing her ass off at the transition team's plans (and then those of TFG).
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“President Trump won a historic election with a clear mandate from the American people []”
Someone needs to explain to me how TFG beating Harris by ~3.2 million votes is an unambiguous mandate but Pres Biden, who's + margin was ~7 million votes, a total that still eclipses the 2024 margin of victory, wasn't.
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"a Mar-a-Lago insider privy to private conversations about the pick. “Lutnick has worked him [Bessent] over like nothing I’ve ever seen. He just savages the guy, dirties him up at every chance he gets"
As expected, an "insider" can't see what almost everyone else sees in sharp focus. Lutnick's vicious attack of Bessent is straight out of TFG's playbook. I can count on one hand, or even one finger, the number of those who stood in opposition to Trump [sic] since his ride down his beautiful golden escalator in 2015 that he *hasn't* trashed.
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