General Politics XII World • Page 347

this would crash the economy immediately. firing 2m fed employees? jfc. idiots. idiots all over.

 

This is where I’m at. These are all going to be shit shows with no credibility.

 

these are stunningly stupid and troublesome picks

the tulsi gabbard one is maybe the worst one

I’ll actually be surprised if congress approves them. I mean these picks aren’t even in the same solar system as the ones from his first term.

 

I hate that dumb people think that firing employees means that you have "power". That's been a hallmark of Musk - coming into a company and starts firing left and right and claiming things are "fixed".

 

Feeling for Gaetz sister in law (who is Lucky Palmer's sister) who accused Gaetz of trying to pass her around to his 50 something year old colleagues when she was a young congressional intern.

 

lmfao

 

I actually think the loyalty test idea makes a lot of sense. It’d be like if i was a controversial president who didn’t trust his own party, id be like “for one of the first votes of my term, Im going to need you guys to put @imthegrimace in control of the Treasury” and whoever didn’t vote for him, I’d know i would need to end their careers.

 

Firing 2M federal employees without cause is a shortcut to this:

 

history will say they were roommates

 

hasn't he literally said he would do this already?

 

I used to genuinely think that Joe Biden was as semi-decent of a person as you could be while still rising to the level of the political offices that he's held, but seeing stuff like this that trump is going to do and then watching Joe Biden not do anything at all while just sorta making vague and ultimately empty gestures towards some stuff that he says he'd wanna see get done if only he had some type of power or authority, leads me to the only logical conclusion being that he's an evil motherfucker who is fine with almost all of this stuff but he wanted his side & him to stay in power a bit more than he wanted the other side to take over

 

I need a new hobby instead of doom scrolling

 

well there’s your problem! ;)

 

I think the simple answer is democrats, by and large, think they should be playing by the same rules as they have for however many years and the media will hold them to those standards. The same is so clearly not true for the other side. And democrats care what the press writes about them. And to some degree I think their voters do too. That is so very not true about this Trump era.

Hiding behind "norms" is cowardly in the face "democracy is on the ballot."

 

I don't see any behavior from most of them that reflects democracy having been on the ballot a week ago

 

This. Nothing surprises me anymore..