• zabadoh
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    22 hours ago

    You do realize why Trump is doing these wild nominations is to distract from whatever else he will have cooking when he takes office.

    Less flashy, but more consequential things like even more tax cuts for billionaires, pardoning himself for anything and everything, installing corrupt MAGAts in place of career civil servants, Supreme Court nominations, gutting securities/education/food/communications regulators, gutting the State Department and other instruments of our foreign policy, anything else in Project 2025, etc.

    Trump could care less whether it ruins life for the 99% of us.

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      21 hours ago

      Honestly I think you give him too much credit.

      I think he’s just doing this because he likes to reward loyalty, he knows he can do whatever he wants with his party so he’s just going to sitting himself with people who suck him off and tell him it tastes like pineapple, and he knows the party will let him do whatever he wants.

      Agree that no matter what his motivation is, and honestly who knows with his best brain, Trump could not care less of his actions ruins the lives of 99% of is.

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        Even if you don’t want deign to give Trump himself credit, he’s got very smart lieutenants working for him, like that Susie Wiles who co-managed his by-all-accounts “disciplined” campaign and was named Chief Of Staff a couple of days ago.

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      Or it’s just him doing this shit he’s done for decades. Make everything transactional.

      He appointments are basically a) people that have given him a lot of money or favors, or b) court jesters that have entertained him.