Posted on 10/24/2024 12:21:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
If you watched any of Donald Trump’s recent rally in Butler, Pa., you probably noticed Elon Musk beside him — jumping, jiving, arms raised, belly bared — and wondered what in the name of Tesla the chronically overstimulated gazillionaire was doing. Impromptu aerobics? A cheerleading audition? Charades?
If only. Musk, I fear, was previewing a second Trump administration — in which Trump would embrace and embolden a crew of self-impressed eccentrics and ideological outliers who are happy, even eager, to make confounding and fawning spectacles of themselves. Consider Musk their spirit animal. Multiply him by about two dozen and you have the Trump cabinet of tomorrow — or an only slightly exaggerated cartoon of it.
Much of the fallout of a Trump victory is unknowable. But this much is certain: Returned to the White House, Trump would get input from — and award key positions to — a bestiary of nihilists, destructionists and even criminals unlike any collection of advisers that any other president assembled. They’d be unscrupulous in all fashions but one: unswerving loyalty to Trump. He fumed about what he saw as a lack of that among his previous cadre of helpmates. The coming coterie would affirm Trump’s worst impulses, nurture his nuttiest ideas and gleefully carry out his orders.
The first time around, Trump cared about impressing the Washington crowd and was fixated on what he believed to be the high I.Q.’s of his department and agency heads. He made them sound like the Incredibles.
The current team in waiting? They’re the Unconfirmables.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
What’s to stop those flatterers from plundering and degrading the richest and most powerful country on earth?
The gall of that statement after sending hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign money-laundering operations.
Why republish garbage? Don’t you have anything better to do with your life?
I’m waiting for my call from Trump.
I promise not to take graft :)
And the richest (or 2nd) guy on earth probably won’t need much graft either
So we’ve gone to “deplorables” to the “unconfirmables”.
Legacy media is a joke.
As a Completely useless aside... :)
Bill Gates was worth 90 billion in 1999 when the debt was what, 6 trillion?
The debt is 6 times that but the richest guy on the planet is worth only 3 times what the richest guy on the planet was worth in 1999.
Like I said, useless aside :)
If you add in inflation, gates probably wasn’t far behind.
Are you the center of the universe?
Lots of people are interested in what the enemy is up to.
If you aren’t, just don’t click on the articles.
Burisma, the ChiComs and a host of other dem affiliated “friends”
RFK will be the one to reprogram and confine EBT cards to fruits, veggies, beans and rice. No fast food.
Trump should put Musk in charge of the FCC, and RFKJr in charge of the FDA. While he’s at it, but Rand in charge of the Federal Reserve, Flynn his Sec of Defense, and Vivek his press secretary. LOL
The Times dances around their great fear: that Trump has learned not to depend on people who are loyal to the Deep State, regardless of their resumes.
-PJ
“Unconfirmables”: the Left is telegraphing their hope that they will be able to use the Senate to ensure that Trump never gets loyal people confirmed.
The New York Times is trying to get Trump killed with their rhetoric. Increasingly desperate, they seem to be screaming out for someone to rid us of this threat...
It is best to know what the enemy is thinking
Here is the key issue:
The Senate must confirm. Regardless of who gets control of the Senate, non Swamp nominees are not going to be confirmed.
It all comes down to that. The Swamp filth defending the Swamp.
The only chance here is a GOP controlled Senate. The Senate Majority most certainly will NOT want to go into recess, but that could be the most palatable.
Only when the Senate is in recess can an interim appointment be made. THAT is how you get non Swamp into Cabinet positions. Interim appointments. THey are only good for a year, but just request another recess.
There will be SCREAMING, but Trump need not care.
And Dr Ben Carson as Surgeon General
The NYT is getting more and more ridiculous!
They no longer fit what they publish to print. It’s all undigested propaganda and nonsense. Hopefully, they will lose their audience!
Alternative: Senate eliminates filibuster for confirmations.
The matrix sees the writing on the wall and you can taste the fear.
Unlike, say everyone in Biden's administration. Projection is all Democrats do....
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