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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Kash Patel?!? Seriously? Was Eichmann busy? Proposed alternate headline: "Kash-n-Carry," "In God we trust, all others PAY KASH."

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Mike Hammer's avatar

You didn’t see this coming? Seriously?

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Derek Smith's avatar

I knew Patel would be tapped for something, but the only reason for his appointment to the FBI is to allow T💩p and allies to run roughshod over the rule of law and persecute those who oppose the Gilded Turd™️.

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Mike Hammer's avatar

If confirmed he would make J. Edgar Hoover look like Mary Poppins.

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Susan Jane's avatar

Perhaps Hoover would have liked to look like Mary Poppins.

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Lisa59's avatar

He did wear his mother's clothes.

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Susan Jane's avatar

I know.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

What! Tell more… that could be the thing the thing that pops out of the swamp to eat his own.

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Susie Parker's avatar

And I bet he looked smashing in them!

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Doreen Garza's avatar

😂😂

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

ROFL

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Brilliant

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Doreen Garza's avatar

😂😂

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Lisa59's avatar

I was thinking the same thing.

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Karen Barrett's avatar

Patel probably won’t be confirmed by the Senate, but Trump will fire Chris Wray on January 20 and appoint Patel as Interim FBI Director. This allows Patel to serve for up to 200 days without confirmation. Enough time for him to do a fuckload of damage.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

There will be either a mass exodus or tremendous protest at the FBI.

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Linda Weide's avatar

I am HOPING they do something more subtle and nefarious.

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Carol JLH's avatar

Linda Weide, I like the way you think.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Really!!

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Judy Player's avatar

That's the point. Perhaps there shouldn't be a mass exodus and only a tremendous protest.

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Linda Weide's avatar

A mass exodus is a tremendous protest.

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Marycat2021's avatar

Trump had more "acting" department heads than any previous president. This way, he doesn't have to subject his appointments to vetting.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Instead of being FBI Director, it's more like Head Revenge Seeker. Pathetic piss ant Patel like the rest of these shitful imbeciles of the Cabinet nominees have more skeletons in their closets than all of the medical schools put together. If newly elected Senate leader John Thune keeps his word about wanting to keep the three branches of government independent, most of these unfit and unqualified morons will be shown the door before they can fuck everything up to dear leader's satisfaction.

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Teri's avatar

Re: Kushner Sr. Per Google, ambassadors must be confirmed by the Senate. Hope the ugly truths come out.

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Patricia Williamson's avatar

You are still under the assumption that Politics as usual is working.

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Tully's avatar

Well, France could just reject him as an undesirable.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Like

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

Sad that we’re hoping John Thune to “save the day” only to have interim appointments. Sadder that the Sr. Kushner will then target Thune and others that collectively share 1/2 pea sized ball between them, if that, to block appointments and other malfeasance and traitorism in the name of the orange-faced clown.

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

Points for trademarking “Gilded Turd”.

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Derek Smith's avatar

I also use GoldenToadstool™️ (infrequent) and AuricOrifice™️ (rare). Feel free to use these terms liberally in your online-postings and in personal conversations.

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shee-rah's avatar

I’m adding these three names to my list of nicknames for Dumbass Donny. Thanks!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Exactly Derek!!

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Absolutely. trump wants to be sure he, himself, is never investigated for anything ever again. Because once those 7000 experienced FBI employees leave, which they will, they will never go back. All we can hope for is the inefficiency that will most assuredly happen if K$H is confirmed.

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Linda Weide's avatar

I think we should invest in stiff knee braces for the Senate, ones that do not allow them to bend. Ideally they would be remote controlled from the Intelligence community "Deep State."

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HI2thDoc's avatar

How many senate repubs are vertebrates? We shall see. I’m not confident. Murkowski, probably. Beyond that, not looking good.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Artificial legs will do the job. No knee bending allowed. I think someone should get a Bot account to message Senate Republicans that if they cater to Trump and he destroys the nation, then they will be powerless as Putin takes over the US. Do we want to have our Intelligence community filled with Russian spies. They should be told secret stolen documents from the Trump camp say that they will be replacing US spies with Russian ones, who will be spying on the members of the Senate for Kompromat, and then blackmailing them. Oh, I forgot, that has probably already happened.

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Nancy Braus's avatar

she may very well be it. The repulsive Susan Collins always ends up backing trump after stating some ambiguity that she never acts on. As many have said, the chaos these completely irresponsible appointments will cause is the intent: they can say that the federal government is useless and defund all the important work it has ever done.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I am so sick of “I am concerned” Collins. How the fuck does she keep getting re-elected?

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Nancy Braus's avatar

that is a great question- her voice is totally annoying, and what she says is usually even worse.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Northern Maine has all the yahoos, and misanthropes that were born there, and never left. it is scary, except for the good people (who are vastly outnumbered.) Stephen King being a notable exception, who writes about them.

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Susie Parker's avatar

Susan Collins?

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Stephen Brady's avatar

I had a longtime friend, now dead, who worked at the FBI in the late 40s and she could primly recite all kinds of shit on Hoover.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Hoover was a conniving piece of shit. He was his own deep state

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Nancy Potter's avatar

A lot of stuff was known about Hoover and kind of an open secret, including his sexual orientation, but Hoover was even better at keeping files on everyone else's shit, so that if anyone came after him, he could promise to spill what he knew. People backed off.

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Linda Weide's avatar

I'll bet! Is she one of the people who leaked his proclivity for wearing women's clothing?

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

Watching English Football because I could not stomach listening to Spineless Self-Serving Shitweasel Cancun Cruz talk about these nnominations.

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un poco loco's avatar

I can't either -- I hear his voice and it's reflex now to immediately change the station/close the browser window/turn off the fucking TV. Oh, and as I'm diving for the remote or the keyboard, I also say something like, "FUCKING HELL, it's that shitweasel asshole again!" but usually with a lot more um, descriptive imagery.

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SPW's avatar

We’ll need to add stiff back braces for the Senate as well. If these guys don’t realize Patel and Crazy Co will cut their own throats if given a scintilla of a chance, then they are farther down the rathole than Patel. This turd burd will make J Edgar look like a beginner.

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

Jeff you’re back in top form with “that’s whys don’t get any more fuck youier than Kash”

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

If only Linda!!

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Knee braces instead of the same old knee pads.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Yes, like chastity belts for the knees.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

It can be done standing up too

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Linda Weide's avatar

Hoping that from the lofty heights of standing they can see more clearly how they will be cutting off their noses to spite their faces. Help Destroy US, no job for them.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

When blowing our whole damn governmental system up was always the plan, using the least qualified people to fill positions that make government work is the best way to start! People are clearly clueless to how things work, or how easily they’re destroyed!!

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Linda Weide's avatar

In this case I hope the employees take over, and use their Spycraft to uphold the Constitution. We shall see.

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Maui Wahine's avatar

I am hoping for the same thing. We need a real Deep State to pull some Mission Impossible level shit.

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Linda Weide's avatar

I am hoping for this from the DOD as well, understanding that if they were to pull such a move, advertising it would be in no one's interest except for the incoming administration.

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shee-rah's avatar

Like feeding Patel useless information.

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Lisa59's avatar

MAGA men can't wait to be somebody's bitch. I should get into the MAGA knee pad business.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

You'd be richer than maga madman, Elon Musk.

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Lisa59's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Name: lenora good, Guest's avatar

Yeah, Eichmann is a tad busy dodging all those fires.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

And spit roasting Scalia.

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Barbara Morgan's avatar

🥴😂😂😂✌🏻💙

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

I can see a blood bath between Mike Lindell and k$h and Leona mutt. Money grabby kackists. That is the terror from within.

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TJTarheel's avatar

Dead

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

At this point, I’m expecting to wake up in my bed, surrounded by familiar faces with worried looks. They’ll be telling me I was knocked out from a bump on the head during a tornado, and that everything I’ve experienced during the past the past 25 days was only a crazy dream with an evil cast of characters who all lacked brains, hearts and courage.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

If only your fantasy were true. Where is Aunty Em when we need her?

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

She’s been arrested for watching Maddow.

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William Burke's avatar

😂👍

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂

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Teri's avatar

😂😂😂

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Susie Parker's avatar

Too bad the house didn't land on the wicked he-witch of Mar-a-Lardo.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

👏👏👏👏

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Rusalka's avatar

Latest news: the Felon in Chief has just appointed Tiffany’s father in law as personal adviser. All the crime Family

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Jodi Richard's avatar

This is the most perfect response to the shit fuck shit we are currently dealing with. Thank you.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

🥰

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Carol Jacobson's avatar

I expect to wake up with Donnie’s henchmen ready to haul my old tired ass off to Gitmo because I hate that motherfucker and I don’t mind saying so every chance I get! I’m hanging my black flag out on Jan 20 and keeping it up for 4 years - so I won’t be hard to find.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

You’ll probably be safe on January 20th. He’ll be busy on Day 1, deporting migrants, canceling Obamacare, locking up Nancy Pelosi, imposing tariffs and eliminating the EPA. He probably won’t get around to repealing the First Amendment until the following week.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Do you recall clicking your heels together Stephanie? Dubious that any of us here have been dreaming!!

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Debbie  Mitchell's avatar

I feel like we are in a simulation or it could be The Wizard of OZ. Either way this shit show just doesn’t seem real

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EFS's avatar

That would be lovely

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BoomerAtLarge's avatar

Perfection as always. Imagine being so bad that Chris Christie and Bill Barr are the good guys in your story. BWAH HA HA HA HA HA I haven't watched the news since the election, and haven't slept well either--hope it's not related. I'm still in denial. Just going to get through the holidays in the best spirit I can. Hope you all enjoyed Thanksgiving! Thanks again, Jeff.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

There is no one on the planet like Jeff Tiedrich. I just don't want him to work too hard and poop out on us. If Jeff ever became president and he appointed me Secretary of Something 'r Other, I'd spend the first day resigning.

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Alison Parker's avatar

"on Saturday, most Americans were goofing off, enjoying the third day of a long holiday weekend — but not Little Donny Fuckface. the litter of feral raccoons that scurry about inside his vacant pumpkin head were hard at work filling out the remaining slots in his Confederacy of Sewer Clowns."

Jeff, you fucking crack me up. Some days the only time I laugh is when I read your posts. Thank you, sir.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

Hooray for all those endorphins--a side benefit to the subscription!

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Rhoda Ozen's avatar

I second that Alison. It’s the only smile and laughter from Jeff that makes me happy!

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Denise Hall's avatar

That's what gets me through every single day!

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Tess's avatar

“…more fuckyouier” is now in my vocabulary!!!!!!!!!!

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William Burke's avatar

Under review by the vocabulary committee. Prompt acceptance expected.

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Karen Hall's avatar

Same! Laughed out loud😂

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William Burke's avatar

Academic questions: which comes first….the Idiocracy or the kakistocracy? Does Kakistocracy create the Idiocracy or is it vice versa? Or do we have to bring our genetic experts in on the question?

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Chris Rey's avatar

Answers to these questions and more fuckyouier issues that pop up, will be cast in *coming seminars* at The Tiedrich Institute.

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William Burke's avatar

Brilliant. Allow me to respectfully request that the Institute consider creating a lesson series taught by professor Tiedrich on the subject of “How Great is Your Government Working Today?” A series of 10 lectures, say, with a subscription price of $49. And if we have any rainmakers among us, we could distribute the series freely to all public school libraries whose librarians could surreptitiously make thumb drive copies for distribution to the students after the school board burns the series. We need to start thinking out of the box here.

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Denise Hall's avatar

This is a great idea 💡 let's go

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Marie Martin's avatar

OMG. We NEED a Tiedrich Institute!!!

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Karen Hall's avatar

😂

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Doc Blase''s avatar

The Idiocracy arrived 23 years ago. You're welcome. ;-)

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William Burke's avatar

That appears to settle the question. The Idiocracy came first. Thank you for that clarification. Although I think we should stick with mandatory cranial CAT scans on all Trump appointments (and members of Congress while we’re at it). I dare say that senator Tuberville‘s results would reveal some disturbing abnormalities.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

The machines will need to be recalibrated to measure vacuum.

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Carol JLH's avatar

And the Trump appointment machine has reached ludicrous speed...or just ludicrous.

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Sandy B in NorCal's avatar

I would suggest that the idiocracy was ushered in by the election of Ronnie Raygun in 1980, so 44 years ago.

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un poco loco's avatar

It's hard to beat Shrub for idiocracy, but if anyone could do it, Ronnie would be the guy!

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

I give credit to Nixon for starting this shit. His attempt to put himself above the law worked, even after SCOTUS said not so fast.

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Burke's avatar

V

Or perhaps R for resistance is more appropriate. The Underground will be in plain sight. Because the idiots are incapable of rational observation. Flood the zone with sanity.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

It makes no difference at all to Dotard’s supporters

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

I had similar thoughts on Trumps first go round William, kakistocracy is certainly fueled by the peerless in vacuous idiocy, was my conclusion!

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Might be a great question for those good folks at Crispr.

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David Jones's avatar

It's not just a kakistocracy. It's a kleptokakistocracy.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Winner.

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Marie Martin's avatar

Is that the first and only word with 3 k’s?? By Jove. Excellent.

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shee-rah's avatar

How appropriate: KKK

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bluesyfish's avatar

oops, I shouldn't make comments before reading all the way through.....my thought exactly!

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Gloria J. Maloney's avatar

I was going to ask if it could get any worse, but I already know the answer.

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Chris Rey's avatar

“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” https://youtu.be/yKHUGvde7KU

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

The universe seems to take that as a challenge.

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Karen Barrett's avatar

Let us not forget how Charles Kushner bought his mediocre son admission to Harvard.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

The only thing I can say is Kushner did legal bribery, aka a “donation.” Those idiots ensnared in the Rick Singer admission bribery scheme broke the law.

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Nancy Potter's avatar

There's always affirmative action for the very wealthy. It's just the middling wealthy, whose bribes go to mid-level people like coaches (of non-revenue sports) and admission officers who get in trouble. Of course, one of the best things that could come out of this era is an understanding that the Ivies aren't all that.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Even with their enormous endowment, Harvard couldn’t pass up a sizable donation (I heard it was $2.5 million) to admit a marginal applicant

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HI2thDoc's avatar

To me, an idiocracy connotes an accidental dysfunction due to stupidity and ineptitude. A kakistocracy is much worse because it is willfully and intentionally an evil regime. We are undoubtedly experiencing a trump kakistocracy.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Nothing of significance from “draining the swamp “ to the current iteration HI2, trumps mobbed up fuckery has always been a kakistocracy!

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bluesyfish's avatar

a kleptokakistocracy IMHO

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Judy Luchsinger's avatar

The Senate needs to have secret ballots for confirmation to provide cover for Republicans who want to do the right and legal thing, i.e., not confirm clowns, grifters and liars. Or do all 3 of those descriptors describe every cabinet pick?

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Purobi Phillips's avatar

Or sex offenders, convicted felons.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Another member of the Florida mafia-Confederacy has been appointed director of DEA. Some local Florida sheriff.. yeah, let’s fuck with the libs even more.. I can hear the banjos. OYOYOY

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Lisa59's avatar

I think the entire administration can be called the Mafia-Confederacy. That's perfect. Putin rans the family, King Shitpants is the underboss, Bondi is their new consigliere, we know who are the soldiers and associates. Criminals, grifters and rapists. Yay!! The American dream.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

You have so much tolerance. I woulda taken my driver or 2 iron to the noggins of those MAGA golfers a long time ago

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Hey Doc.. Someone has to be the canary in the mine.. I merely point out the illogical, the mundane, the corruption, the criminality and the constant lying.. These folks are just so simple and yes, they are educated with college degrees. I’m that guy who authored the book in the old Twlight Zone episode.. “To Serve Man”.😉

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Still don't get why you subject yourself to such nonsense. Surely you can find better people to golf with.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

But if I did that who would author Golf with MAGAS?

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

No one. Kinda my point. We already know who and what they are. I just don't think they deserve more space in our lives.

Not my life anyway, but you do you.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

I have only one quibble with this post. If there actually WERE feral raccoons running around in the Donvict's head, they'd make much better choices than he's making, 'cause they're 1000% smarter than he is.

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SeekingReason's avatar

Very good point Denise! 😄

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Ann Anderson's avatar

We've seen this Kabuki theater. Trump is paying back his cronies with appointments. Hey, not his fault if they don't get confirmed. Promise made, promise kept. Now on to other confirmable, equally-if-not-more-awful cronies. The federal government is going to be a massive grift full of incompetence, rage and revenge. My back is turned on the shit show. I'm concentrating on fortifying the rights that my state confers. If I go for four years without knowing who, say, the Commerce Secretary is, that'll be okay.

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Darrell Smith's avatar

All of these jokers have the "typical background" of the residents of Alkatraz. If you think criminals had control of our Government from 2016 to 2020, it is being turned up to 11,000 for 2025 forward.

Patel is from India. People in India had to burn or bury their loved ones in their back yards because of Covid. Because they didn't have the vaccine. This stopped when they got the vaccine. How did he get to reversing the vaccine would make people healthy?

Kushner is the same kind of sleasebag as his son. Trump only pardoned criminals like himself. He pissed on the suckers that attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

I didn't vote for Putin. I didn't vote for President Musk. I never voted for Trump.

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bluesyfish's avatar

Was it Timothy Snyder who said Trump=Musk=Putin ?

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Darrell Smith's avatar

It was Nancy Pelosi who said to Trump "with you all roads lead to Putin".

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bluesyfish's avatar

And Hillary who said he is Putin's puppet.

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PTW's avatar

Everything I'm seeing is that Patel was born in New Jersey to Indian immigrant parents.

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Darrell Smith's avatar

There are Patels in this area in the medical field. Some are excellent in my their field. Many people here were not as affected by Covid as those on the coasts. There are ones who have not been vaccinated at all.

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PTW's avatar

My post is in response to your statement "Patel is from India." Maybe you meant to say that the surname PATEL is Indian.

Kash Patel is from New Jersey.

I was not commenting on the rest of your statement regarding COVID19.

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shee-rah's avatar

So, here’s what I’d like to ask Patel: If you take the vaccine reversal medication, do you know that it’s working when you get COVID?

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skangirl's avatar

When the protocol people give instructions about how to address Daddy Kushner, will it be Convicted Criminal Kushner or just Ambassador Kushner?

Will someone please remind those "Jews will not replace us" assholes that trump's daughter, Ivanka, Jared, and 3 of trump's grandchildren are Jewish?

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Kay-El's avatar

Like my mom’s family said about my dad, they’re one of the “good ones”. Unlike us space laser carrying ones. 🙄

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DrBDH's avatar

“Pardon moi, Ambassador Kushner,” would be reminder enough.

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