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[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 188 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Can the TVA please prune this fucking timeline already.

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[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 112 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This must be how President Camacho comes to be.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 95 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Camacho at least was smart enough to know he wasn't that smart, and thus had the sense to listen to a particularly smart advisor who wasn't stupidly insane though!

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Camacho apparently fixed the time machine and came back to run for president in 2024, because they forgot how to make cheese in the future.

Sadly he didn't get enough votes ☹️

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_RgG1Ayf4kI

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Doubt it. He ranks low on the color chart.

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[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 87 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The amount of his picks that are involved with sexual abuse of minors seems pretty over-the-top even for a republican administration. At this point, do any of them not have histories of involvement with sexual abuse and/or harassment? Maybe Oz... idk.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Trump is just nominating people he can remember or saw on TV at this point, isn't he?

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’ve heard it called his TV cabinet.

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

HA! Love it!

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago

If we have to rely on stuff he can remember we're gonna end up with a camera and a TV to be in charge of stuff (he's already put in a person, man, and woman).

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[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hulk Hogan and Dog The Bounty Hunter are going to be Co-Directors of National Intelligence

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know what? Please. Don't even pretend this is not a joke anymore.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sure he'll get something. Looks like this time Trump is only looking for loyalty, his previous cabinet still had a ton of people that were only there because he felt he needed to keep McConnell happy. This time there's going to be no 'adults in the room'.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

At least the kids would learn that steroids and TBIs are bad.

She’s worse than Hogan

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

He's in Orlando this week signing autographs at the IAAPA expo.

[–] skhayfa@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could have been worse, last time it was Betsy Devos

[–] LaVacaMariposa@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I thought he was going to pick MTG or Boeboert, to be honest

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 month ago

And there's the education grenade...

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is anybody in the Republican party in the senate, congress or whichever not freaking out over his picks? Don't they have a final say?

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When you swear ultimate fealty to a cult leader, the officers of the cult are by default the best picks. If you can't see it, it's a problem with you and not a problem with the cult leader.

Until those folk are no longer needed, outlive their usefulness, or turn on Trump of course. Then the handpicked officers in question were actually agents of "The Enemy" all along and needed to be purged.

[–] Fester@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They confirmed her 81-19 for administrator of the Small Business Administration. That was dumb but they were ok with it then.

She was on the state board of education in Connecticut for a little over a year under their last GOP governor. So I guess that’s some experience at least. Totally qualified to run education for the entire fucking country.

🔥 This is fine. 🔥

The real danger is what Heritage Foundation ghouls will be running the show under her, and the other cabinet members. All these clowns are just the people Trump wants in the room with him. They don’t need to be qualified or do anything but kiss his ass on camera. It’s the Project 2025 deputy-weirdos we should worry about.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe if Trump really doesn't care about project 2025 and just keeps on going with his celebrity cabinet, then maybe they're going to fuck up so bad they're all doing to be ridiculed and Trump could be impeached over some incredible fuck up or fraud.

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Haant he been impeached twice already? I don't think he cares

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Heard plenty of GOP noise against Gaetz, but that's about it.

And yes, Congress has the say unless Trump's people convince them to approve interim appointments. Even McConnell said, "Fuck that noise."

And now witness decades, like since the 50s decades, of the Legislative branch ceding power to the Executive. And here we are.

[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wrestling fan for over 40 years.

Honestly, given the options that Trump could dredge up from the 9th circle of hell, this isn't the worst choice.

Linda McMahon sat there for 50 or so years and did nothing while her husband committed all sorts of atrocities. And she deserves everything she gets for doing that. All the criticism surrounding that is 100% valid. But I want to point out the key words there. "Did nothing." Because that's pretty much Linda McMahon's resume.

As CEO, she did nothing. Vince called the shots. She just signed the paperwork -- at best. Her position was mainly a figurehead position just to ensure McMahon's power in the company was that much more entrenched. She has all the charisma and personality of cigarette ash, and her on-air persona was literally to sit in a wheelchair and say nothing because she wasn't capable of better acting.

She had a cabinet position during Trump's first administration, and did a whole lot more nothing.

I would expect the same thing here. Linda McMahon is an unqualified hack who shouldn't be in the position, but if there's a silver lining, it's this: Left to her own devices, McMahon will likely do nothing. Education won't get any better, but it won't get any worse either. She's smart enough to know when she has no idea what she's doing, and if the past 50 or so years is any indication, she'll spend the next four years doing a lot more nothing and hoping nobody notices.

Yes, she absolutely will follow Trump's directives to the letter. But Trump's attention span is worse than Linda McMahon's acting skills. I hate to say it like this, but if Trump stays focused on removing all the brown people and forcing his cronies to buy his watches, there's at least the possibility that McMahon could just keep her head down for 4 years and at least not leave the DOE worse off than the way she found it. She's got a 50 year resume showing her skills at doing nothing. Hopefully she'll continue that trend.

[–] dfecht@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There's a huge issue with that, though, that seems all too often overlooked: by doing nothing, our systems will still fall behind. They will continue to decay, to lag increasingly behind our peers and adversaries. At absolute best, the inevitable death of 1,000 cuts marches on.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, I think did nothing and let Vince do whatever he wanted while she signed the paperwork is the more relevant and scarier bit of what you're responding to and what that person missed. There's no silver lining to a Yes Man with what these people want to do to education.

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[–] Rageagainstbelief@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

It’s like he’s casting for the 9th circle of hell wow what a cast of characters.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Disgusting.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Bah Gawd It's Over! The DOE is dead! Broken in half!

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah. Idiocracy is indeed happening.

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know what DOE employees did in a past life to deserve devos and whatever the fuck choice this is.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I dunno about their past lives either, but in this they made the eternal fuck up of wanting to impact American education at a time when the country was sliding into fascism.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Given that the US education system is wrestling with so many problems, maybe she is the right choice. /s

[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Didn't he want to abolish the education department? Or like is this how he wants to destroy it?

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

We are most definitely living in a simulation, shit is getting too weird to be real.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok so countdown to the article that finally proves he just has a dartboard with people's names on it that he likes and wherever the dart lands is the pick for the department...

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It can't be that random. He surely picks the worst suited for the job.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Why list her as a WWE executive but not list Trump as a WWE Hall of Famer?

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The McMahons are so weird.

It's kinda funny how Vince funded two failed campaigns, and the second the two seem to be estranged Linda has found political power through Trump.

I have no idea if Vince and Linda are still together, since they've been mostly separated for years now, but I wonder if this will also open doors for Vince considering he was booted out of TKO/WWE for the recent abus allegations.

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