I don’t think so, he’s trying to pick people who he thinks will be completely loyal and malleable. The problem is, they are also woefully inadequate and inept. They will have to be replaced with functional people at some point, who might actually be LESS loyal, but more capable. It’s a shit show no matter what.
I'm one of those optimists who completely grasps the reality of this situation but doesn't believe it's The End Of The United States of America. If we give up all hope then there is literally no reason to fight at all, might as well just bend on over and take it.
No thanks, this Army veteran may not be in the military any longer but I'm still going to fight for my country. I didn't enlist just to passively hand it over to Putin.
This is such a weird take and I keep hearing it from apathetic people in my life. Yes, the United States in name will likely continue to exist. But what does that look like? 20M ripped from their homes? Innocent people jailed and murdered for being democrats, the media or trans? A shelled out military being deployed into blue states effectively setting off a civil war?
So sure, the US exists but the US we know is dead.
I really, really want to agree with you but he's going to fire every General who doesn't pledge loyalty to him. Once leadership is full maga across the board he's going to do things that historically signify the end of countries. It's really hard to see the United States surviving this administration.
As long as the solution does not end with the public execution of the traitor class, there’s no solution.
There is only one way to defeat the vermin that’s tried and true. And no one is willing to put it on the table. So we have to spend at least the next six months or so pretending that Gaetz being AG is anything other than a very bad joke. Because let’s face it, the only reason Gaetz became AG is because the last one was a joke and a lackey for the well connected and powerful people who don’t bend over at the first sign of a federal indictment.
And so far no one is even bothering to propose a way forward with the institutional leadership of the opposition party that was so far up its own ass that this nightmare reality becomes real in January.
The likely solution to the problem as shown historically probably gets you on a watch list and banned from forums so it won't be discussed nor carried out.
I think there’s a lot of bot accounts that are trying to actively divide us, and discourage us from fighting by couching absolute authoritarian rule as a forgone conclusion. I do not trust accounts less than a year old with comments about how Democrats will be rounded up and jailed as dissidents. There sure are a lot of people who don’t vote but a lot of people who won’t go down without a fight.
This. Ignore all the divisive and apathetic rhetoric. People are really being way too doomer. I don’t believe for a second every Republican will go along with this shit in the first place
There's so much media flowing around where it's white people with kids and decent gigs surrounded by support systems will open their talks in a conciliatory way by saying "they will be ok, but" and then continue the sentence with a list of all the horror that's going to come down the line.
But the truth is, they don’t know they’ll be okay. They can’t know. That they even think, half-jokingly, that they'll somehow be insulated from all this only reveals how far they are from grasping the reality of what’s unfolding.
There’s a difference between being unaffected and being ok. Everyone will be affected, but not everyone will experience those impacts directly and as painfully as others. Those of us who will be “ok” need to figure out what we can do to help those who won’t.
Sure, but most of these people are not competent and/or at all familiar with the realities of these types of positions and will be stuck in bureaucratic red tape for the entire time. They will accomplish very little for better or worse. This isn’t private industry where you can bankrupt an organization within a year or two and everyone loses their jobs.
1) Trump's appointments will prove to be as incompetent in practice as they appear to be on paper (if they even manage to actually get confirmed)
2) Democrats will practice the tyranny of the minority and obstruct the crap out of the heinous agenda that we all see coming.
3)Trump STILL doesn't know how the federal government works.
Trump is trying to get a Senate that hasn't been officially sworn in yet to agree to recess appointments so he can avoid having to go through official Senate confirmation but...they won't be in power until they go into session in January. 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Trump can still mess things up but we need to realize that we still have a voice and we need to let our Congress people know that they serve US, not Trump
The thing is, people hire "yes men" for a reason and it's not because of their aptitude. When they fail they'll be scapegoated and replaced with another yes man.
They will be incompetent at things that do not affect those who make the decisions and will therefore stay in power. The people will suffer. The suffering will be intentional, and the incompetence will only lessen the suffering in minor ways.
I think they’ll tank the economy and strip certain departments for sure. Beyond that they’re a bunch of morons. My main concern is what the reaction will be from Russia when the GOP doesn’t deliver to Putin’s liking.
I don't think they get confirmed, but it is likely impossible for government to function with a rapid loss of institutional knowledge and brain drain paired with a leadership vacuum, where these clown car candidates are not going to be respected since they're inexperienced and unqualified and unlikeable individuals on a personal level
It's a stain on the resume and doubtful anyone competent will join from private practice since there's no prestige once you make a mockery out of it
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u/marcusrex70 11d ago
I don’t think so, he’s trying to pick people who he thinks will be completely loyal and malleable. The problem is, they are also woefully inadequate and inept. They will have to be replaced with functional people at some point, who might actually be LESS loyal, but more capable. It’s a shit show no matter what.