The issue they are faced with, and it is a damnation of their own making, is that his cult of personality does not transfer to others. He can do things that hurt his base and they love him for it. Others will get crucified for the exact same thing. I suspect that they will get crucified for doing the things he tells them to do, and also if they don’t obey him. They put themselves in this place, and I have no sympathy at all. Especially when the only remaining question is how many of my friends and loved ones are going to be hurt by their fuckery. If they get blasted, I will be cheering.
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The fact that Republican Senators didn’t make Rick Scott their Majority leader gives me a tiny glimmer of hope, but there are a few very important differences between that and the Gaetz nomination:
- It was a secret ballot, which won’t be the case for confirmation votes.
- Several Trump allies pushed for Scott but Trump himself was uncharacteristically silent on the matter, so Republican Senators weren’t going against him directly.
- Picking a majority leader is something done entirely within the Senate, with no formal role for the President (or President-elect) to play at all. But many Senators have historically treated the “advise and consent” role for nominations as little more than a rubber-stamp formality, at least when their own party is in power.
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Could be, or they could be fully in favor of Trump’s agenda, but knowing that it’s not popular, they need to pretend like they’re not.
Yeah, whatever the reality is, that part.
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“So what do you call your act?”
“The Kakistocrats!”
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Yeah could be. It’s true that there’s ultimately no way of knowing what’s going on inside their heads. 
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Indeed… but their ACTIONS tell me that they don’t care about democracy, even if they performatively act as if they do. Any Republicans that did not fully break with Trump after Jan. 6th is part of the problem, whatever they really believe.
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can the far-right echo chamber be positively eroded by a proper application of “Poe’s Law” on steroids? …here’s hoping. (“You know how we pranked 'em with a church with Lara Trump cradling an AK-47 as the new Pietà? …well, there’s a queue that goes round the block.” -sigh-)
The Onion Wins Auction to Take Over InfoWars
The satirical website will relaunch InfoWars with a “relentless barrage of humor for good.”
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Infowars has been acquired by satirical news site The Onion. Joe Buglewicz / Getty
For once, the “funniest possible outcome” is not an exaggeration. The Onion, the satirical news website that started as a newspaper in the 1980s, says it won a bankruptcy auction to acquire InfoWars, the fringe right-wing website founded in 1999 and run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. …
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Unofficial Vote Count Audit Thread:
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Merrick Garland - you schmuck!
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I’m inclined to agree. Slow-playing the criminal investigations and prosecutions of T**** turns out to have been a bad move, not to mention the lack of pushing the enforcement of 14A sec3.
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He was always gonna be a schmuck. His SC nomination was because the Dems didn’t have a Senate majority, and so Obama had to pick someone that both he and McConnell could swallow. Just because he wasn’t enough of a schmuck to suit McConnell doesn’t mean he wasn’t still too much of a schmuck to be trusted to do the right thing later on. There is a sizable Schmuck Gap there these days.
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If only someone would push them down into that gap.
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He could have at least been a vindictive schmuck for once.
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Holy malice and incompetency, Batman!
Every damn Trump appointee is the exact opposite of what the office needs. It’s like a DC gallery of Batman villains.
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Poison Ivy to lead the USDA?!
Two Face for State Department - Ambassador to (?)…
Joker? Press Secretary (for about 6 months, before tRump fires him and replaces him with Riddler).
y’all fill in some of the rest.
frankly, they are all better than anyone tRump nominates IRL.
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Mr. Freeze as secretary of energy?
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If anything Batman’s Rogues Gallery is too reasonable and overqualified to serve in this administration.
Ra’s al Ghul has centuries of relevant administrative experience. Catwoman has a track record of redistributing the wealth of billionaires. Mr. Freeze not only believes in global warming, he invented the tech to reverse it. Even Joker understands the importance of paying his damn taxes.
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Also, Joker punches Nazis. At least, the comic book one did.
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The USA will need a strong slap across the face to bring it back to reality.
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