a confederacy of dipshits: Donny picks his cabinet
goniffs and psychopaths and lunatics, oh my
here’s a thing I tweeted during Donny’s Convict’s first term:
“Donald Trump’s America: traitors writing foreign policy, racists writing immigration policy, thieves writing economic policy, polluters writing environmental policy, ignoramuses writing science policy, a hired goon heading the department of justice and One Fucking Moron to Rule Them All”
Donny’s gang of pickpockets and bunglers is baaaaack, baby. Donny’s getting the band back together. wait, actually he’s not. almost no one from Donny’s first administration wants anything to do with him. so this time around, he’s picking people who are even more clownfucklingly terrible.
let’s have a look at the goniffs and psychopaths who Dear Leader has chosen so far.
oh gee, Tom Homan is going to be Donny’s border czar.
there are two things you need to know about Tom. one, he’s an architect of Project 2025. and two, he fucking sucks.
but wait — there’s a soft side to Tom Homan. when asked if he would go so far as to break up immigrant families, he compassionately answered us? we’re not family-wrecking monsters. we’ll deport everybody.
60 Minutes: “is there a way to carry out mass deportations without separating families?”
Homan: “of course there is. families can be deported together.”
any similarity between the name Homan and the word human is purely coincidental.
Liddle Marco Rubio is going to be the Secretary of State.
here’s Donny, explaining his decision to tap Rubio.
“Marco Rubio is a total lightweight who I wouldn’t hire to run one of my smaller companies - a highly overrated politician!”
wait a minute. [checks notes] oh, that wasn’t from yesterday. that was Donny in 2015, when he was running against Liddle Marco.
ok, do we have the proper video slotted in now? no more fuckups, ok?
here’s Rubio, accepting his appointment.
“for years to come, there are many people on the right... that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump.”
goddammit.
sorry folks, that was Liddle Marco when he was running against Donny in 2016.
anyway, I’m sure these guys are going to be a great pair.
Kristi Noem has been selected to keep the homeland safe from puppies.
Kristi’s first act will be to change the Department of Homeland Security’s motto from ‘with honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values’ to ‘where’s Cricket?’
there’s an upside to Kristi’s appointment: when Donny stands up in the middle of a cabinet meeting and says fuck it, let’s make it a music, she’ll be right there to clap along.
oh hey, Stephen Miller is going to be Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.
which policy is Nosferatu going to be deputy of? do you even have to ask?
“Yes. We started a new denaturalization project under Trump. In 2025, expect it to be turbocharged.”
denaturalization, how lovely. Nosferatu & Company isn’t going to just be deporting immigrants — both documented and undocumented — he’s going to strip the citizenship from whoever he considers ‘undesirable’ and ship them off to who the fuck cares, just get them out of my country.
so much for the legal immigrants are ok fiction that Team Donny has been peddling to his gullible cultists.
sorry, bro, but your skin is the wrong color. we’ve taken your citizenship and made it go fuckity-bye. now please step this way, the bus to the detention camp is waiting.
Elise Stefanik is going to be Donny’s Ambassador to the United Nations.
tell me, is it important for the leader of a country to know his UN ambassador’s name?
“how good did Elise Steppannack do?”
America has a reality problem. seriously. what do you do when half the country believes in magical thinking?
here’s a dude who is counting on Donny to not deport half his family, because doing so wouldn’t be fair.
Latino voter: “if they let in hundreds of thousands of people who already have criminal records, if deporting them creates a mass deportation, I’m all for it.”
CNN: “what if rounded up in all of that are people who work on a farm, doing the jobs that American’s don’t want to do? does that worry you?”
voter: “it wouldn’t be fair, of course to make sure that they don’t throw away, that they don’t kick out, they don’t deport people that are family-oriented.”
yeah, I’m sure that Tom Homan and Nosferatu McGoebbels are going to be taking great care to ensure that families aren’t split up — because they’re going to be fucking deporting everyone.
honestly, my heart breaks for this guy — because he’s in for a very rude awakening.
what do you do with voters who literally say sure, Donny may be Hitler, but is that really so bad?
“He’s good and bad. People say he’s a dictator. I believe that. I consider him like Hitler, but I voted for the man.”
that’s 45-year-old Matt Wolfson of Scranton, speaking to the Philadelphia Inquirer — and … and … I can’t even.
has this guy been in a coma his entire life? has he never picked up a history book? has he never watched a single World War Two movie?
how deeply in denial do you have to be to think yeah sure, Hitler may have been personally responsible for the deaths of millions of people, but at least he kept the price of eggs down.
spoiler alert: no he fucking didn’t keep the price of eggs down.
let’s give today’s final word to AOC.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are you ready for Trump again?
“no, I’m not. I don’t think most people are. I think a lot of people were finding out this week what a tariff meant. that a tariff is not what China or some other country pays. it’s what you pay. what we pay. I think a lot of people aren’t ready for mass deportations, and what that means. one in every fifteen people in this country lives in a mixed-status family. so that means we’re talking about one in every fifteen people potentially having their families broken apart. I don’t think we’re ready for that — including what that means for the economy. I don’t think we’re ready for the censorship that is coming — and for a whole lot more. but our job right now is to get ready, and to prepare.”
this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
The only thought that keeps me from despair is that, in the chaos to come, not much gets done.
On July 3, I wrote a long post on FB about how this election was not just about electing a president, it was also about electing their administration, and reminding everyone of the parade of deplorables that made up Trump's first term -- and pointing out that in a second term, they would be exponentially worse. TO QUOTH MYSELF:
"People who not only lack any meaningful qualifications for whatever job Trump shoved them into, but who lack any meaningful qualifications beyond the biological for being a human being. People whose only interest in taking the job would be the abuse they could inflict on the citizenry and the country and the world through the power they would now hold. People who in every sense of the phrase do not think the law applies to them, and who would be supported in that belief by the Supreme Court. People who do not think your life and freedom matter. And people who would have no compunction whatsoever about taking either or both from you, by whatever means necessary."
Usually I like being right but this time it fuckin sucks.