When I saw Tulsi’s name I immediately wondered if that was one of the gifts Vlad asked for - it is like Josh says, one of these things (Hegseth, Gaetz, Gabbard) is not like the others.
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So, the perfect GOP pick for DNI.
CONFIRMED!!
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These are loyalty tests.
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Is he bringing back Zinke?
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I think Trump is picking so many horrible people because he knows the Senate can’t fail to confirm all of them. Somewhere tucked into this mess is the one he wants and the other crazies are cover, meaning the Senate will fail to confirm one as a performative pushback against Trump but confirm all the others, presumably including the one he really wants. It’s gonna be a long four years, if we make it
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But but but we were all told that the AG is merely a policy position, sitting in their ivory tower, with no control over anything, ever! How can Gaetz break with the norms!
Gaetz is only the second worst ever AG, after fucking Merrick Garland.
The invertebrates in the Senate will confirm all three picks, of course.
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I think the Gabbard, Hegseth, and Gaetz nominations are 99% performative transgression. trump is testing the fences.
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If he’s a pedophile, a drug abuser and a Putin stooge, sure, the job is his.
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“supremely unqualified, deeply compromised, and unfit“
Is there anyone in the incoming administration not consistent with this description?
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Speaking of humiliating, The Onion just won the auction to buy the steaming pile of shit that was Alex Jones’ Info Wars. God Almighty, we are living in a simulation and the designer has an awesome sense of humor.
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You’ve got at least a 50% chance of being right. But I am going to go with some billionaire - maybe Miriam Adelson or some other nut job too rich to exist in a sane world.
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Probably Gavin Newsom. Ah well Sacramento is no great loss
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Like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
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*"Who knows what tomorrow will bring.”
White House spokesMAN: Greg Gutfeld!!
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I’m old enough to remember finding TPM in those harrowing days in 2000 and finding common spirit in what Josh was then launching. I was naive enough at the time to think that debacle would be the worst miscarriage of the democratic process I would witness in my life. Twenty-four years later, I’m still a daily reader and thankful for Josh, David K., Kate, Hunter, Josh K., John, and all the other staffers and reporters who make this a singular place in the media world. Thank you all, we need you now more than ever.
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EVERY. SINGLE. APPOINTEE. WILL. BE. THE. ABSOLUTELY. WORST. PERSON. FOR. THE. JOB. trump’s goal is to destroy everything that is good or functional about the federal government and to make what is left serve him and him alone. Gaetz and Gabbard and Hegseth and etc. are not an aberration; their unfitness for the job is the point.
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Easy peasy. Just like Garland directed that it was the policy of the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute fat donnie for his crimes, Matt Gaetz (not that he’s ever going to get confirmed) could direct that it is the policy of the Department of Justice to persecute whoever fat donnie says for whatever he says, the law and the evidence notwithstanding.
It won’t work, but there’s your policy.
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Elizabeth Holmes? (she had a lot of pull with older white men who had been in the White House).
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Let’s say Congress has some backbone and shoots down a bunch of nominees. This fit of testing the fences means a lot of people will have to fill slots wherein it’s very public knowledge they’re Trump’s second choice. Not the person he most wanted, but the person he was forced to take. Every one of them will be a flashing symbol he had to compromise. He was refused. He lost.
If it is testing the fences he must be very confident it’ll work. Because he hates being told no. He hates losing. He hates compromise. He hates not being considered the smartest person in the room.
I have to think he’ll hate losing nomination battles. So he has to be convinced he’s getting what he wants.
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Disagree. I got my PhD at UC Davis and spent time in Sacramento. Also went there every so often because I was on the board of a state-wide organization and the meetings were held in Sacramento.
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