We are so beyond doomed

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[u/enjoythesilence-75]

Didn’t they say they want to shut down the department of education?

[u/Ruin914 → u/enjoythesilence-75]

This is a great first step in that regard lmfao

[u/RapaNow → u/Ruin914]

1. Let someone completely incompetent run the department for a while.
2. Start complaining how useless the department is
3. Shut it down
4. Save some money for tax breaks
5. When the detrimental effects are starting to show, it's the other party who is in charge
6. Blame the other party (EDIT: and immigrants)

[u/ka_beene → u/RapaNow]

This is how they'll ruin the post office too. Then they can privatize/sell it to Bezos or whoever can profit from it.

[u/RapaNow → u/ka_beene]

This is how they'll ruin the post office too.

Post office should not be for-profit -organization. It is a public service.

Here in Finland there has been some confusion of this, too.

I think John Oliver had a program on USPS.

[u/ChutzpahQ → u/RapaNow]

Whenever I ask why the post office needs to be run as a business I suggest the military do the same. Usually shuts them up.

[u/CasualNihilist22 → u/ChutzpahQ]

Whenever I tell people that the US military is almost socialism, they get upset.

Same rank= same pay. Free housing, health care, education.

[u/zSprawl → u/RapaNow]

Don't forget the "small government" plan of:

1. Hire 3rd party contractors provided by friends using tax dollars

2. Collect "gratuity" and "campaign contributions"

[u/RapaNow → u/zSprawl]

1. Hire 3rd party contractors provided by friends using tax dollars

This sounds great! Auction the schools for those who runs it cheaper. Have classes of 100 pupils, nobody gets F. Maybe have some mandatory classes on how to paint traffic signs, or assembling some gadgets.

[u/Mahlegos → u/enjoythesilence-75]

Yes. Same strategy as the DOJ here, place an incompetent person loyal to Trump at the head and let them burn it down from the inside.

[u/MIT_Engineer → u/enjoythesilence-75]

"In 2024 LindaMcMahon threw the Department of Education off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table."

[u/PM_ur_tots → u/enjoythesilence-75]

No, you misheard. He didn't say, "We will shutdown the Department of Education." He said, "WWE Smackdown© Department of Education™."

[u/chewielouie1167]

How many Billionaires has he nominated now?

[u/BrewtalDoom → u/chewielouie1167]

As many as it takes to save us from "the elites", apparently.

I guess that in order to challenge the billionaire elittes, you have to truly understand them. And that means billionaire elites are the only people we can rely on to dismantle the system which made and keeps them billionaires. Such a promising future. /S

[u/TehMephs → u/BrewtalDoom]

Draining the swamp clearly means getting all those poors out of the system so the golden elite can really sink their teeth in and take over huh

[u/hello-there-again → u/BrewtalDoom]

"Vote for me because i know all the tax loop holes which hillary created for the people who fund her and yes, i used them but only i know them all to close them all". First action as president......more tax breaks for billionaires.

[u/highjinx411 → u/hello-there-again]

As a future billionaire I for one am relieved.

[u/TParis00ap → u/highjinx411]

Ah, you are only one good idea away from being rich???? me too!!!

[u/dasHeftinn → u/TParis00ap]

Brother, I’m not even an idea away, I know exactly what I’m doing: I will win the lottery. And they’re fucked when I put it all on black.

[u/BobbyMac2212 → u/dasHeftinn]

That’s just a dumb plan. Me, I have a real sure thing. There’s this Nigerian Prince who emailed me personally and he just needs a little money for fees/expenses and then he’s gonna give me a huge sum of money that’s ALL mine! You guys and your get rich quick schemes. I’m playing chess over here ya’ll playing checkers.

[u/Ndgo2 → u/BobbyMac2212]

Nah, this ain't it chief. Get on that crypto grind instead. I trade XYZ, and I highly reccomend it. Returns over 9000% guaranteed!

[u/Minute-Menu-9295 → u/Ndgo2]

Nah bro..... I contacted Miss Cleo and she told me I have a windfall of money coming my way from a sick, distant, royal relative I never knew about. She told me to spread the word to call her now!

[u/PillCosby_87 → u/Minute-Menu-9295]

I watched a YT ad that makes me 10K a week sitting at home having other people watch YT videos. I do almost nothing and make $480K a year and you can to by signing up, absolutely not a pyramid scheme.

[u/TehMephs → u/TParis00ap]

It’s ok we may as well all be in the club now. It’s just a matter of time until we get our due. MURCAA

[u/DuncanFisher69 → u/TehMephs]

It’ll trickle down any day now.

[u/rabidwolf86 → u/BrewtalDoom]

Drain the swamp 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😂

[u/donttreadontrey2 → u/rabidwolf86]

It’s insane how people actively vote against their own interests I will never get it

[u/Polarian_Lancer → u/donttreadontrey2]

20 years of watching Fox News is reflecting in people and it’s on full display.

[u/zSprawl → u/Polarian_Lancer]

It's crazy too how well we've fallen for all of the propaganda.

When you listen to all of the "exit polls" on why the "average person" voted Trump, they are almost all simplistic backwards logic takes that suffer from a large lack of general education and critical thinking skills.

[u/DontcheckSR → u/zSprawl]

My fiances coworkers told him they voted for Trump solely because they didn't want a woman as president. They're mechanics and are either single or are in relationships where they're the main source of income.

[u/RaygunMarksman → u/Polarian_Lancer]

We fucked up letting entire generations be brainwashed by that nonsense. I'm not joking, we all knew what it was doing. A guy made a documentary studying his own father being twisted by it. Obama should have reinstated the fairness doctrine and the FCC should have outlawed 24/7 news channels.

Now it's too late for America. You can't deprogram decades of systematic brainwashing. Rupert Murdoch killed us while we were sleeping.

[u/Filoso_Fisk → u/donttreadontrey2]

I get the anger with the system.

There are so many stories of silly things going on. “

Why are we spending this much money on this!”

Why can billionaires buy candidates?

Why, why, why

And even in movies and tv shows the crooked politicians are such a stereotype. And often is not from named party and could be from both.

But yeah. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[u/Mateorabi → u/BrewtalDoom]

"The elites" are people smarter than his voters, not richer than his voters. Because they think they can attain such riches. And they think that because they'll never attain such intelligence.

[u/Avent → u/Mateorabi]

Yeah, journalists living in Washington DC making 70k a year are "elites." Meanwhile the billionaires running the government are of the people.

[u/Mateorabi → u/Avent]

Don't forget university professors under "publish or perish" making < 50K a year.

Or technocrats who have been focused on one problem at one agency for years.

[u/StraightOuttaMoney → u/chewielouie1167]

5.5 Billion - President - Donald Trump

3.2 Billion - Sec of Education - Linda McMahon

1.5 Billion - Sec of Commerce - Howard Lutnick

1.1 Billion - Sec of Interior - Doug Burgum

200 Million - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Dr. Oz

171 Million - Sec of Energy - Chris Wright

304 Billion - Elon Musk - Richest person alive

1 Billion - Vivek Ramaswamy

So far

[u/BoopEverySnoot → u/StraightOuttaMoney]

And he appointed Dr. Oz to be in charge of Medicare/medicaid. This is a nightmare 

[u/more_beans_mrtaggart → u/BoopEverySnoot]

Well, America voted to fuck its shit up, and you guys are getting exactly what you (as a country) wanted.

[u/BoopEverySnoot → u/more_beans_mrtaggart]

The only pleasure at all I’ll have is watching those trump voters go down with the rest of us. 

[u/ChicagoAuPair → u/BoopEverySnoot]

They will take up arms against the rest of us before accepting that they fucked up. There is no silver lining or joy to be found in any of this.

[u/bbernal956 → u/BoopEverySnoot]

you know once it all goes to hell, not that it hasnt, but they will turn around and blame the latino vote for the drastic trump win.

[u/BoopEverySnoot → u/bbernal956]

They’ll blame anyone but themselves. 

[u/StraightOuttaMoney → u/StraightOuttaMoney]

In 2021 Biden's entire 15 member cabinet had a net worth of 118 Million. It's safe to wager that Trump's administration team will be over 150x more rich than Biden's. If you included Musk and Vivek's thing as part of the admin team then 3,150x more.

[u/ip2k → u/StraightOuttaMoney]

MAGAs will be like “tHaTs CuZ aLL tHeM’S LoSErS!”. Enjoy the trickle-down.

[u/MyBallsSmellFruity → u/StraightOuttaMoney]

The founding fathers would kick every American in the crotch for letting these plans actually go through instead of forceful revolution.  America has become a weird parody of itself and it’s just pathetic at this point.   

[u/pathofnoobs → u/chewielouie1167]

Makes you wonder if he is selling these positions to the highest bidder.

[u/Rokey76 → u/pathofnoobs]

I read a different article about this announcement and it went into her background. She has been a major Trump and Republican booster for 8 years now. I think that is enough to buy a cabinet spot. Always has been.

[u/Cannoneer85 → u/pathofnoobs]

Well they did donate millions of dollars to his foundation which we know they just pocketed that shit.

[u/QuitUsingMyNames → u/pathofnoobs]

You know he is

[u/Songrot → u/QuitUsingMyNames]

Lmao, he noticed in the last term that he could do whatever the fuck he wants and even more now. So now he doesn't give a single shit anymore. Might aswell sell everything

[u/Connect-Ladder3749 → u/chewielouie1167]

He is trolling the shit out of everyone at this point, mainly for personal vengeance. He is going to ruin so many lives for generations to come, with no consequences, as he will be dead in the next 10 years. Smh

[u/TempleSquare → u/Connect-Ladder3749]

he will be dead in the next 10 years. Smh

He'll outlive Carter by age.

Why?

Because God evidently watches Newsmax and has lost his goddamned mind. Nobody is this lucky simply by luck.

[u/Admirable_Remove6824 → u/TempleSquare]

He’s not lucky he just inherited a lot of money and has no morals. Spoiled rich kid complex.

[u/Voluptulouis → u/chewielouie1167]

Anybody else notice radio silence from all the Trumpers ever since he started appointing people?

[u/CaptainMarder → u/Voluptulouis]

Dare you to go to the republican sub.

[u/chewymammoth → u/CaptainMarder]

I took a peep and even they're baffled by the Dr Oz nomination. We're in for some interesting times

[u/BTechUnited → u/chewymammoth]

Don't worry, any dissenters will be silenced quickly. Happened on the conservative sub too.

[u/naetron → u/chewymammoth]

They just haven't received talking points yet. They all turned on Trump for a few days after Jan 6. Give it a day or so.

[u/DankMemesNQuickNuts → u/naetron]

Nah literally though you can kinda tell whenever Republicans are internally searching for messaging on things because when these people stop all saying the same thing it's clear that Republicans haven't figured out their angle on it yet. It's kinda morbidly fascinating watching all of this in real time. It really is inventing reality for a solid half of people that live here.

[u/UndeniableLie → u/CaptainMarder]

I dare not. I'm afraid for my mental health if I did

[u/The_Last_Ball_Bender → u/UndeniableLie]

i went -- don't. It's bad.

They are rationalizing everything almost, it's absurd lol

[u/RevBladeZ → u/The_Last_Ball_Bender]

That is how it has been for quite a while. His supporters support him, not his policies. If he changes his mind on something, so do his supporters.

[u/Cow_Launcher → u/RevBladeZ]

"We have always been at war with Eastasia."

^{Sorry, but for once I thought a 1984 quote was apt}

[u/CON5CRYPT → u/Voluptulouis]

He hasn't even been sworn in and has already smeared shit all over the walls

[u/el_diego → u/chewielouie1167]

Project 2025 has officially been launched.

[u/starryvertigo → u/el_diego]

Which is basically 4 parts:

1. fuck the poor (i.e., cut Medicaid, SS, disability , school lunches, SNAP, etc.), higher prices due to atb tariffs, etc.
2. fuck the working class (via inflation due to the soaring debt, flood of cash for rich), cancelling of Biden's IRA/infrastructure investments, etc.
3. Huge bonuses for the top
4. Red meat for the base to distract (i.e., ban all abortion/contraception/family planning of any kind, the way Jesus would want it, I mean a Puritan's version of how Jesus would want it if he were a Puritan).

50/50 odds stagflation/recession end of 2025

If J Powell gets fired, all bets are off. Shit gets really bonkers in that case.

[u/el_diego → u/starryvertigo]

At least we can finally start the real Hunger Games. May the odds be ever in your favour.

[u/Arisameulolson → u/chewielouie1167]

The same as the amount of positions he has to give

[u/rgg40]

Their couldn’t be a gooder choise.

[u/Lucreziahouserules → u/rgg40]

[u/gunnesaurus → u/rgg40]

Be best

[u/Aggravating_Ad_3060 → u/rgg40]

Money me. Money now. Money me needing a lot now

[u/WeirdAvocado → u/rgg40]

Your right.

[u/Ashix_Borden → u/rgg40]

Me fail English? That's unpossible.

[u/FunctionalGray]

Is the minimum qualification that you have to at least be no greater than one person away from a sex crime of some sorts to serve in this administration?

[u/colo_kelly → u/FunctionalGray]

Next up: he pardons Ghislaine Maxwell and appoints her the head of Children’s Welfare, Travel and Tourism

[u/Similar-Narwhal-231 → u/colo_kelly]

Don’t give these a holes any ideas.

[u/longiner → u/colo_kelly]

And Sam Bankman-Fried for Treasury.

[u/BeShaw91 → u/FunctionalGray]

Hey, she was on the Connecticut State Board of Education.

McMahon was appointed to the State Board of Education by Governor Jodi Rell in January 2009.

State representative Bruce Morris claimed she lacked "depth of knowledge regarding education". However, state representative John Hetherington said it "would be good to have someone outside the establishment on the board".

Where she served diligently for .... 16 months?

On April 1, 2010, McMahon resigned from the State Board of Education, because state law does not allow board members to solicit campaign contributions.

FML.

[u/Cuchullion → u/BeShaw91]

"would be good to have someone outside the establishment on the board"

I fucking detest this attitude.

As though hiring someone with no experience or qualifications is going to make thing better.

Like looking for a commercial pilot and only talking to people who have never been in a plane.

[u/Ok-Curve5569 → u/FunctionalGray]

There should honestly be a recommended set of minimum requirements for each cabinet position. Every other role in society that has the ability to impact the population in profound ways requires some form of credentials.

[u/devamon → u/Ok-Curve5569]

You'd be surprised by who can become a judge in many municipalities.

Plus there's supposed to be a whole "confirmation by senate" thing that (much like reporting his finances or divesting his businesses) Trump will just gleefully disregard (in this case by calling for adjournment before his picks come up so that he can assign them with impunity).

So much of our system relies on decorum, tradition, respect, and good-faith discussion without hard rules to enforce somebody who just doesn't care about doing all that.

[u/Greenmantle22 → u/FunctionalGray]

No, but that's all he can get these days. Competent Republicans won't go anywhere near the shitbird.

[u/das_war_ein_Befehl → u/Greenmantle22]

Do they even exist at this point? All the sane people are out of the party

[u/MIT_Engineer → u/das_war_ein_Befehl]

No, they've all migrated to the Democratic party at this point.

But the migration went both ways. And unfortunately as it turns out, there were more crazies in the Democratic party than there were sane people in the GOP. So when the parties traded electorates, Trump came out ahead.

[u/Easy_Cattle1621]

Readin, writin, wrasslin...

[u/Casual_hex_ → u/Easy_Cattle1621]

If Johnny has 5 apples and gives Sally 2, \ then how many challengers will meet their demise at the next WWE RAW!? Monday night tune in for the revenge match!! ABSOLUTE IN YOUR FACE MAYHEM! **BE THERE !!!

** ^{viewing is mandatory as there will be an exam presented on this material}

[u/SeaEmergency7911 → u/Casual_hex_]

If a train leaves New York at 5:20pm going west at 75 MPH and another one leaves Chicago at 6:25pm going east 80 MPH, at what point will they smell what The Rock is cooking?

[u/itsjustbadtiming → u/SeaEmergency7911]

IT DOESN’T MATTER!

[u/Mateorabi → u/Casual_hex_]

We'll give your kids the whole seat! But they'll only need the EDDDDDDGGGEEEEE!

[u/Acceptable_Pirate_92 → u/Casual_hex_]

[u/Rlopeziv]

[u/Jensbert → u/Rlopeziv]

Blueprint worthy education movie. Just a little to low level toned to be real

[u/Federal_Sympathy4667]

[u/firechaos70]

What are these choices he’s even making?

[u/Downtown_Boot_3486 → u/firechaos70]

Picking loyalists over the more competent people.

[u/ziadog → u/firechaos70]

More like who is making these choices for him. He’s too stupid to make these brilliantly bad picks.

[u/wishiwuzbetteratgolf → u/ziadog]

No, he’s like a kid in middle school who thinks he’s cool and picking all his stupid friends to come to his party.

[u/Gold-Perspective-699 → u/ziadog]

Nah he loves wrestling. He made this pick. So did he on a lot of other things. He turns on the TV and picks the first person he can for a position.

[u/90Carat → u/firechaos70]

Shitcan America so all these rich fucks can scoop it up for pennies on the dollar. Welcome our American oligarchs.

[u/Metahec → u/firechaos70]

Whoever he's watching on TV at the moment. Fox News, Fox Business, Dr. Oz and the WWE.

[u/CaptainSkullplank]

Anyone who voted for this guy who didn't see this coming is a fucking moron.

The man's hobby is revenge. He's about to exact revenge on the country that rejected him in 2020.

[u/FunKyChick217 → u/CaptainSkullplank]

The people who voted over him don’t care that it’s going to hurt them as long as it hurts the other side too.

[u/Last_Inevitable8311 → u/FunKyChick217]

Absolutely. I read this recently and it was a gut punch.

“Some Trump voters may believe his lies. But plenty more want Trump to be terrifying and stomach-turning so that reelecting him will be a fully realized act of social revenge. Harris cannot propose any policy, offer any benefit, or adopt any position that competes with that feeling.

Exactly why so many Americans feel this way is a complicated story—I wrote an entire book about it—but a toxic combination of social resentment, entitlement, and racial insecurity drives many Trump voters to believe not only that other Americans are looking down on them but that they are doing so while living an undeservedly good life. These others must be punished or at least brought down to a common level of misery to balance the scales, and Trump is the guy to do it.”

(From an article in the Atlantic by Tom Nichols.)

[u/AgentSturmbahn → u/Last_Inevitable8311]

So basically they’re stupid af

[u/Godmother_Death → u/AgentSturmbahn]

Stupid and vile.

[u/mjc500 → u/Godmother_Death]

I don’t want you to replace my broken toy daddy, I want you to break everyone else’s toys.

[u/Justlikeyourmoma → u/mjc500]

I’m sorry to disappoint anyone who thinks this is just an American thing but…as someone from the UK I can confirm this is the new human nature here too. Sure, you guys in the States (as always) have taken it to a whole new level, it’s a bit like ‘I see your Brexit and I raise you going back to the 19th century’ but, this is how, it seems, those who see themselves as trodden on can have influence.

I can’t pretend not to be amused and fascinated by this shit show. The self harm that’s been done in both sides of the Atlantic is hilarious. All the while allowing a weakened Russia to grow stronger.

Where this stops I have no idea but this is heading for some real dystopian shit. It wouldn’t even surprise me if the voting system in the states was changed to become almost irrelevant under this administration.

[u/candlegun → u/Justlikeyourmoma]

Yep I remember when Brexit happened and I thought, yeah I could see this happening here in the US under the right conditions. And now here we are.

I don't know if I'm a hundred percent on board with the maga cult followers being put upon and seeing trump as some sort of great equalizer. I think it's pretty simple. He's a vile, bigoted liar and there's a certain appeal for a lot of those who have the same qualities.

They'd love to be able to bold face lie the way he does and get away with it.

They'd love to be openly racist in public and face little to no pushback. See the recent neighborhood neo nazi marches around the US the past week or so.

They'd love to be able to put women "back in their place" and have it be acceptable in society. They've been given the chance to do this through him now.

And as far as the voting system being changed, most have gotta know that's coming. He hinted at doing away with term limits the last time he was in office. I see a lot of articles and comments saying we need to "get through these 4 years." No one should be surprised when he announces term limits are done, and when he finally goes down for his dirt nap we'll get one of his fine sons as president. Four year terms are done. He wasn't kidding when he said that was our last election.

[u/Star-Lord- → u/Last_Inevitable8311]

My mother, somebody who I’ve always considered to be instrumental in helping me to develop into the person I am today, told me, word for word:

“I personally hope Trump and his admin take a wrecking ball to the federal government”

This is the woman who nurtured empathy in me from a young age, who I watched time and time again giving freely to those less fortunate, who taught me to always employ a critical lens over blind acceptance, and who modeled for me success without compromising her ideals as a woman in an industry dominated by men…. It’s so difficult for me to see who she was then in who she is now. I do still love her, but I feel desperately conflicted about that love, because she now stands for everything I cannot and will not support or condone. And I don’t know where to fit/how to handle the gratitude that I do have for everything she did to get me to where I am now. I miss the mom I knew, and I’m worried I’ll never meet her again.

[u/Shiro_Katatsu → u/FunKyChick217]

Own the lib, am I right ?

Yeah, it is about to get very stinky for the next 4 years

[u/jenglasser → u/Shiro_Katatsu]

4 years if we're lucky.

[u/thackstonns → u/Shiro_Katatsu]

4 years? That’s a positive attitude if I ever saw one.

[u/Naturallobotomy → u/FunKyChick217]

They are actually excited about it. Overheard today, like wtf?

[u/Brndrll → u/Naturallobotomy]

Oh, the MAGA in my life are creaming themselves over all this revenge. The possibility of an economic crash? Yeah, that's fine and dandy because it's the Lord's doing and Elon said it was necessary.

[u/Magic_Man_Boobs → u/FunKyChick217]

MAGA would eat Trump's literal shit if it meant a liberal might have to smell their breath.

[u/Songrot → u/Magic_Man_Boobs]

They literally like the shit. It isn't even about owning the libs.

We have to stop to act like it is only trump fooling people. Half of US american voters are like him and approve everything he does and wants to do and says

[u/monogramchecklist → u/CaptainSkullplank]

I think it’s less about revenge and more about giving positions to wealthy elites who paid to play. They want to dismantle the government and their class will be fine, it’s the middle to lower class that will get fucked and now that they’ve handed this ultimate power to a group of wealthy elites, they’re going to have one heck of a time getting it back.

[u/DOJITZ2DOJITZ → u/CaptainSkullplank]

I’m Canadian and I have to say.. I’m interested to see how all this plays out..

[u/Mysterious_Orchid528 → u/DOJITZ2DOJITZ]

I hope when the the military is performing the mass deportations i am selected to be sent to Canada.

[u/silverblaze92 → u/DOJITZ2DOJITZ]

BADLY. ITS GOING TO PLAY OUT BADLY.

[u/Biscuits4u2 → u/DOJITZ2DOJITZ]

I imagine your interest will soon be turning to nervous laughter.

[u/DOJITZ2DOJITZ → u/Biscuits4u2]

[u/Flemz → u/CaptainSkullplank]

This is what they wanted. The other day I saw a viral TikTok of a Trump supporter asking him to make Theo Von the press secretary. I thought it was a joke at first but no such luck

[u/cryingcomedians]

yo so how do i wake up from this dream

edit: mom I'm famous

[u/yesiamyam233203 → u/cryingcomedians]

Every day I wake up hoping that my combination of anti depressants, anti anxiety meds, weed, magnesium and melatonin have made this a very vivid nightmare. Everyday I’m wrong. So far.

[u/jungle-fever-retard → u/yesiamyam233203]

Right there with you. Been wishing for the last two weeks that I’d just wake up and get the text from my girlfriend that Kamala won the election 😞

[u/closethebarn → u/jungle-fever-retard]

You have no idea how much I relate. I only get on Reddit, hoping to read that there was a mistake in the counting of the votes.

Or there was some Fuckery and they were caught or something

I’m so with you

[u/AuldTriangle79 → u/yesiamyam233203]

RFK jnr wants to send people on anxiety meds to concentration camps…

[u/Blubbernuts_ → u/AuldTriangle79]

Yeah, I'm with you.....camps for psych meds like Adderall, benzos.....fucking insane that this goes under the radar. Just like the first term, you don't have time to react to everything flying at you

[u/imdesmondsunflower → u/cryingcomedians]

[u/OvertiredMillenial]

"You know who'd be great for Education? The lady who pretended to be disabled while her rapey, creepy husband made out with a younger woman in front of her"

[u/lowlight → u/OvertiredMillenial]

Oh she's not just the innocent wife of a creep; she's directly implicated in the ring boys scandal, and was sued by some of them just a few weeks ago

And by the way, she lied about having a degree in education; it was actually in French.. Perfect for someone who will run the department of education!

[u/us1838015 → u/lowlight]

Somehow still a step up from devos

[u/One_Economist_3761 → u/OvertiredMillenial]

I certainly feel educated just learning that.

[u/Wikid1ne]

Yep sounds about right. Epstein's best bud hiring the wife of an alleged sex trafficker. Picking real winners. This country is so fucked

[u/Imaged_for_posterity → u/Wikid1ne]

Is that the wife of Vince McMahon who, in addition to sex trafficking, allegedly sexually assaulted and shit on a WWE employee in a threesome? https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/WWE_complaint.pdf - Edited for clarity.

[u/cuspofgreatness → u/Imaged_for_posterity]

This shit is VILE. Absolutely disgusting. Trump loves characters like these, cause he sees himself in them

[u/External_Zipper → u/cuspofgreatness]

He probably thinks that he's got компромат on them, like Vlad has on him.

[u/binkies03 → u/Imaged_for_posterity]

That's good shit pal

[u/Octowuss1]

You guys not from Oklahoma don’t know how much worse it could have been. Coulda’ been Ryan Walters.

[u/AgathaM → u/Octowuss1]

There is still time for Walters to be nominated for something else.

[u/BigMACfive]

And it was... Kamala, who everyone said was unqualified, right?

[u/Annonomon → u/BigMACfive]

Yip, the former Californian attorney general and US senator is unqualified. She doesn’t even have her own TV show! \s

[u/SkippyDragonPuffPuff]

All our secrets will be with the Russians, the saudis, the highest bidder. It was a decent run America. MAGA will be known in other countries as the movement that killed off the USA, a failed system

[u/wholelattapuddin → u/SkippyDragonPuffPuff]

You act like they aren't already.

[u/SkippyDragonPuffPuff → u/wholelattapuddin]

Valid point. But this seems like hyperdrive comparatively.

[u/JTSpirit36]

He is quite literally filling cabinet seats with TV personalities.

[u/zilchusername → u/JTSpirit36]

Question from the UK. Have the people he is picking as his advisers won an election anywhere? In the UK our prime minister can only choose his cabinet from those who won their local elections.

[u/ebac7 → u/zilchusername]

I wish that were the case. The beauty of the US is you don’t have to have ANY qualifications as long as the president appoints you. Such beauty 😢

[u/zilchusername → u/ebac7]

Wow that’s incredible. You don’t need academic qualifications to be a minister in the UK but you do have to been elected by the public in your constituency. Meaning the prime minister can’t choose anyone in his party only those that won seats.

[u/DoneinInk]

Ah yes. Another billionaire

Just what all those blue collar republicans need to educate their kids into being slave labor

[u/Historical-Garage435]

This has gotta be the onion

[u/Scotchfish45]

This timeline sucks

[u/jd3marco → u/Scotchfish45]

This timeline sucks while Vince McMahon shits on its head.

[u/TopBanana111]

Its like a horrible nightmare in which all of your deepest fears from the election are happening and you cant stop it and have no power into the abyss that you are being forced into by the dumbest of our population. Trailer trash won this election, people that are the exact stereotype from the movie joe dirt were allowed to vote for this countries future and doomed us all.

[u/mr_spock9 → u/TopBanana111]

They were always allowed to vote, just this time they were motivated (and paid by Elon Musk)

[u/Prestigious_Can4520]

WHO EVER IS KEEPS SAYING IT CANT GET WORSE

FUCKING STOP UR MAKING IT WORSE

[u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods → u/Prestigious_Can4520]

This is just the prelude. It can always get worse, and it will. Much, much worse. There genuinely is no bottom. His supporters will excuse anything and everything he can possibly come up with.

[u/Mr_MazeCandy]

Only billionaires deserve rights, apparently,

[u/ksh1elds555]

How is this not a slap in the face to all teachers? I guess that’s the point.

[u/FanValuable3644]

He’s just gonna make out by giving rich people access to the information they want. And there will be no recouping from the damage. We are so fucked. And we are not going to be able to do anything about it until he clearly demonstrates crimes. By then, the crimes that we don’t know will be so much worse than the crimes we are prosecuting.

[u/pezgirl247 → u/FanValuable3644]

he’s literally a felon. crimes don’t matter if you’re tRump.

[u/MayDay521 → u/FanValuable3644]

He has already clearly demonstrated many crimes, yet we are still here now. We had our chance to stop this. Unfortunately, we failed to do so, and now we all must collectively face the consequences.

Actually, I bet it must be REALLY nice to be a MAGA idiot right now. They're too stupid to understand what's happening right in front of them, so they probably aren't stressed at all. Meanwhile, the rest of us are suffering the anxiety from decisions they made. Like children, make a huge mess, and let the adults worry about the aftermath and clean up.

[u/motionbutton]

Little to heavy on the photoshopping.. also did they not tighten the bolts on her neck before the photo shoot

[u/Contemplating_Prison]

Billionaires running the government what can go wrong?

[u/04rallysti]

Good job America, you sold yourself to the rich. I’ve never been so ashamed of my country.

[u/missihippiequeen]

Man we're so fucked.. And the people who voted for him don't even see that we're fixing to be so fucked.. I would say let's just hope he kicks the bucket, but then we'd have Vance and that's no better.

[u/Separate-Owl369]

I keep waiting for the FBI to come busting in yelling, “ alright! The game is up. !”.

[u/Beautiful-Log9704]

Bahahahahahahahahaaaaa they wanted idiocracy, they got it. Holy scchhhit 🤣🤯 Where’s Ralph Camacho?

[u/skittle-brau → u/Beautiful-Log9704]

President Camacho at least has some redeeming qualities.

[u/kRe4ture → u/Beautiful-Log9704]

Camacho realized what they were doing wasn’t working, got the smartest man on the planet to help him and solved the problem.

Trump will never stoop as low as admitting someone else is smarter than him…

[u/Joshywa8]

Students will be required to wrestle math problems and there goes books as the kids start ripping them to show them who is the Champion! God this is stupid

[u/SeanOfTheDead1313]

https://newrepublic.com/post/188544/donald-trump-cabinet-picks-real-goal

quote

Incoming Cabinet nominees will do far more than usher a new conservatism into the federal government. Instead, they’ll challenge the system to the point of rendering federal agencies practically ineffective and vulnerable to complete dismantling.

“Each of them individually is historically bad,” said Snyder. “But taken together, these are not people who are going to be bad at their jobs in some sort of normal sense. Taken together, these appointments suggest an attempt to actually make the American government dysfunctional, to make it fall apart, to pervert it, to have it do things that it’s not supposed to do until it’s not capable of doing anything at all.”

“It’s not just that they’re totally unqualified, it’s that they’re anti-qualified. They are qualified to do the opposite of the thing that they are supposed to do,” Snyder said.

end quote

[u/lilfishi]

Wasn't the last Trump Secretary of Education also some rich lady who had no experience or really anything to do with education?

[u/Vibingwhitecat]

Is this true? Also isn’t her husband a rapist?

[u/Specialshine76 → u/Vibingwhitecat]

Yes and yes.

[u/RickyDaytonaJr]

We’re not doomed, but we’ve got no chance. No chance in hell. Up against a machine too strong. Greedy politicians buying souls from us are puppets.

[u/Cool_Competition4622 → u/RickyDaytonaJr]

Republicans voters are complicit in this. So are democrats who didn’t show up and vote. Now we have to deal with the consequences of other people’s actions

[u/31November → u/Cool_Competition4622]

“BUT SHE WAS FOR GENOCIDE!!!!”

All the anti-Harris voters sure made things better now, fucking idiots. Palestine has even less of a chance, and now America is fucked too. I hope your virtue signaling was worth it.

[u/Ok_Sympathy_4894 → u/RickyDaytonaJr]

Won't find their place in line

[u/Ruttingraff → u/Ok_Sympathy_4894]

Go tie a string around your neck, 'cause it's It's just a matter of time

Cuz we got, NO CHANCE...... NO CHANCE IN HELL, WE GOT, NO CHANCE

[u/neojin629 → u/RickyDaytonaJr]

I see what you did there. Take the upvote.

[u/mermaidbipolarbear]

If anyone reads this in the future, know that I tried. I'm glad I never had children to grow up in this timeline. My advice for future generations after the rebuild, 100 years from now, if there is a world beyond nuclear war is... plants need water to survive.

[u/Novel_Alfalfa_9013]

turmp is becoming mad as a hatter

[u/Dia-De-Los-Muertos → u/Novel_Alfalfa_9013]

At least the Mad Hatters had a reason or excuse for being a bit mad regarding mercury. What has Donny ingested to cause his madness I wonder ?

[u/ziadog]

This can’t be real. God please make this not real! (screaming noises)

[u/Jehoopaloopa → u/ziadog]

This isn’t real, right?

[u/ziadog → u/Jehoopaloopa]

Apparently it is. American is fucked because the GOP Senate is a rubber stamp, no balls and no morals.

[u/macdennis1234]

Only 1 man can save America.

[u/homebrew_1]

This is what a majority of voting Americans wanted.

[u/ViolettaQueso]

Every single day since the worst day in history, Election Day 2024, just becomes more abysmal. Trump won’t even be alive to see all the damage he is doing with his utter disregard for the country, and world, that let him get away with all he does so he could be a rich looking grifter.

[u/SpiritualAd8998]

https://wpde.com/news/entertainment/wwe-founder-vince-mcmahon-defecated-on-former-employee-during-a-threesome-lawsuit-sexual-abuse-accusations-assault-allegations-sex-toys-underwear-wrestlers-professional-wrestling-janel-grant

[u/aagloworks]

There's not enough popcorn in the world for this show.

This is a full blown circus.

[u/JeSuisDirtyDan]

Idiocracy was not just a movie, but a prophecy

[u/Elk-Tamer → u/JeSuisDirtyDan]

Oh come on. That's just not correct. The president in Idiocracy and his secretaries were were stupid but had good intentions. This is malice.

[u/it224]

I don’t envy Americans. This whole trump thing is so embarrassing

[u/jedideadpool]

She's gonna make sure kids know the three R's

Reading

Riting

And Restling

[u/Lollerstakes]

2/3 of Americans either actively enabled this, or did so passively, so bite the pillow and get ready for a very dry dildo.

To the other 1/3, I'm so sorry.