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 ...
NYT is on fire today - a dumpster fire. I can smell the desperation all the way down here in Florida...
No one on the NYT staff has the qualifications to be hired by any of Musk’s companies even as a janitor.
What happened, did the writer fail Studies 101 and have to choose an even less demanding major - journalism?
Sounds like Zeepers.
Or Dr. Joseph Ledapo (Florida's surgeon general)
Won’t be confirmed to Cabinet? Fine, make them czars.
My, the Times is very busy today….wonder if they’re paying OT for all the “hate Trump” drivel they’re publishing today.
Keep it up.
You are doing a great and brave service.
Helps me clear my bowels. HA
Maybe going after a few elected folks for insider trading and use of the Congressional Rape Fund would have the wavering Republicans align.
Destructionist?? They are some of the best creators in the world. Not like the dummies from the Demcrats.
Through his puke posts from The Slimes, E Pluribus offers a glimpse into the Trump Deranged mind.
These are the minds of people who daily listen to NPR on the way to and from their government sinecures and regard garbage from The Slimes and WaPo as from the secular burning bush.
Recall Sun Tzu. Yeah, it is necessary to understand the people who would happily send you, me, and every Freeper to a concentration camp.
“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”
That would be awesome.
Sorry to rebut you but... Gates was #1 in 1997 and 1998 as well... when his number was only $35bn and 51bn... using either of those as the starting figure, the richest and most powerful (govt and the individual title) have both grown at about the same astronomical rate... about 6x in just 25-27 yrs.
Simple solution: Do what Obama did and call them “Czars”. No confirmations needed.
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