infuriating, total waste of time and taxpayer funds 🥵

I said that from the beginning. He’s playing the GOP like a fiddle, and they can’t (won't ) do a damn thing but fall in line.

He’s about as mature as this young fella.

The GOP will just fall in line, they truly don't care about the general public, just their own smelly asses.

I will keep screaming it from the rooftops of social media. Yes, reject these, but the true threat is Bondi and these are the smokescreen to get her snuck through confirmation

Chaos is Trump’s main entertainment, just ask Hannibal Lector.

None will last long if confirmed and all.risk.going to jail. That's precendence

I've been saying this, too. When Gaetz dropped out, Bondi came in. Bondi is a much more serious candidate and looks reasonable next to Gaetz.

I hear ya

Trump only knows threats ,threats and more threats if people don’t do what that evil lying vermin days!

Truth. This is a giant middle finger to everyone who voted for Kamala. The message, as always, is "make me".

Which is the majority, bc we KNOW he had "help" from Musk, including having starlink change and manufacture votes.

And they are so gutless they will throw us all under the bus with these failures becaue nothing I have seen from any of them in 9yrs tells me they will even hesitate come vote day.

Yep....

And every time they acquiesce, he takes it farther. He said they wouldn't leave him if he shot somebody in broad daylight. But from day one, he has been a paper tiger. All people have to do is stand up to him. He's a bully and that's how it goes with bullies. They got nothing.

He punishing the whole country for not voting him in last time; including MAGA for not fighting hard enough or to the death. And he will continue to do that throughout his presidency. He doesn’t care about the people of this country, as long as he’s comfortable; that’s all that matters.

That's what I've been saying. My (unfortunately, small) circle who voted for Harris are wondering what's going on with these crazy picks, and I just said, "He's f'ing with us." Energy Vampires!

Always a test of loyalty.

Always smoke and mirrors to distract the American people.

Apparently we do have a King now. And a bunch of weak willed spineless yes men/women.

I'm so sick of that chick and her bad skin

Trump is angry at the US because he lost on 2020. He’s taking that anger out on all of us by setting up his “government” to cause or allow millions of slow, or fast, deaths.

Donald Trump is a mushroom; He thrives in shit. It's who he is; an angry, stupid, and sociopathic man-child who will destroy his toys rather than share them with others. He rapes & ruins everything he touches. These cabinet picks are merely a personification of his pathologies & it's getting worse.

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Exactly

First, he wants to see just how much insanity he can get away with, to stroke his ego. Second, when one of his choices hits the proverbial brick wall, he can then "settle" for a slightly less abhorrent choice that will likely slide on through.

It is a loyalty test. Those that oppose will be deemed the “enemy from within”. These people will be publicly dragged through the dirt. This is how authoritarians consolidate control. Expose their tactics to help disrupt the effects.

Will the insanity ever end. How do you explain the idiocracy that is happening to us. I don’t know how to explain it to my grandchildren.

It’s not possible to make sense of trumps choices.

Well stated. It’s ridiculous.

What? No he isn't. He's rewarding the one trait he finds valuable and desirable in other people: blind unwavering sycophantic loyalty.

He just doesn’t give a shit about our country.

The GOP has not spine. I have little hope.

Exactly. Because he has the men by the 🍒 and the women by the 🐈. They are all far more worried about losing their jobs than protecting democracy.

I concur- he is testing the waters to see how crazy it really is with his followers.

Like the grifter testing the griftee.

He knows he owns them

I think some people have a pathological need to see how much they can get away with. Sociopaths with an inflated sense of self-worth and a disdain for us mere mortals.

This is his loyalty test for the senate GOP. Nothing more.

You’re right that he’s daring GOP senators to say No on record. But he’s also identifying who he needs to single out for harassing and death threats from his MAGA horde.

Happy to oblige: REJECT!

I have difficulty believing he has the intellect to understand what trolling really is. His behavior is just a natural development of his untreated mental illness.

Underestimating him is a mistake, don't fall for it

Trial balloon politics, sadly. They love doing this. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_b...

Trump is building a cabal of wealthy sexual assaulters.

Is that even possible????

To Senate Republicans: Do NOT capitulate in advance! Trump is testing how far he can go. THESE are the votes that can tell him there are limits!! Your duty is to our COUNTRY, not him. Don't help Trump DESTROY our nation. Be a PATRIOT, not an ACCOMPLICE!

We're not falling for a bait and switch, are we?... These new nominations are terrible choices.. but they're not as bad as Gaetz and Hegseth.

He thrives on chaos. Don't forget to pay attention to what he is trying to break in background.

You give him way too much credit.

I tire of the attention he gets from exhorting outrage at every opportunity. Progressives give him exactly what he wants: spreading anger, upset, and revulsion...we feed him. Why? He laps it up like a thirsty dog. (No offense to dogs intended). Same sh*t different day.

Dangerous take, Mr. Takei, his picks are intentional with very express missions either for himself or for the Nationalist Christian core of his base.

The logic behind this: pick people who will totally destroy the government and country to allow for a rebuilding in MAGAs preferred image

I think Trump has been given too much credit for having strategic plans. He doesn't--like most narcissists, he's playing it by ear. There is no plan, no real discernment of the consequences of his actions. This makes him more dangerous, because he is Chaotic Evil and unpredictable.

The only part of this that is true is that he is daring the GOP to anger his followers. He loves his picks. He is standing by the worst of them. When they start going to prison he will say he never knew them.

Nope. He's testing the limits of his power, and he wants these evil mother fuckers.

Wish they would grow a spine

You can't.

He’s not trolling. He wants these morons.

Couldn’t agree more. He’s setting them up for failure just as he’s setting up the United States for failure.

Right. He's trying to see how far he can push.

Watch FBI tonight. It is what we face. The conspiracy theories that these horrible conservative influencers are brainwashing our population with. They are dangerous. Musk and Trump promote these disgusting bigoted false narratives. They are a danger to society. Our FBI will be run by unqualified.

Their Fuhrer is testing his dictatorship tactics.

Do people like Joni Ernst not know that they work for us. I don’t live in Iowa but, she still represents me. She makes decisions that affect my life. What ever happened to country over party? How many pieces of silver does it take to sell out your values? Apparently, it’s a rock bottom price. SMH.

Not all are equal but one thing the majority of them have in common is they are unqualified

The fact that there's going to be a DOGE department just shows how much these aristocraft shit upon your democracy. All of our democracies. It's a joke to them, it's just a game..

It’s like a “B” movie version of a Presidential cabinet.

Right. Keep trying until some crazy gets in.

Giving everyone the finger then, or at the very least, thumbing his nose at us.

His M.O.

They are like some divine comedy.

Trump's creep fest.

The US will be a dumpster fire with his picks, and we in the rest of the world will be watching things fall apart with vast quarries of popcorn in hand...

they might not be all equal but they are ALL equally dangerous!

EGGGGGS-ACTLY

He's not that smart and has no great strategy. He's just appointing loyalists, sycophants, and personalities who've praised him on his TeeVee!

Yup they are distractions so People wont look at the real villains he is appointing

I'm getting tired of all this winning.

Most of them do have one huge thing in common - complete incompetence.

I agree. How many will get through because senators don't want retribution from the toddler DJT?

I'm surprised he hasn't made Dana White part of his cabinet.... 🤮🤮🤮🤮

These are just distractions as he prepares to gut the government

They better be rejected. He's making his own reality show. POS.

He will not appoint anybody that is totally loyal to him Somebody with a narcissistic personality cannot have people around them.Tell them no

All these picks are sheer hubris. Trump made them while he was high on the election win, thinking he was invincible. These picks seem completely out of touch. How many of these clown-car picks will in fact be appointed? Time will show.

It’s his M.O.: throw so much crap out there, some of it is bound to stick

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Accelerationism

The Simpsons did it. Oh no wait, it was Roman Emperor Caligula.

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This is Elon’s plan, get the people distracted while the real nefarious shit goes down .

When you give a malignant narcissist complete power nothing ever good comes of it. Give it a few months. By then the majority of his cult followers will know they have been duped. The others will still be obedient little servants.

Nah! His dementia, getting out of hand. You’re giving chump to much credit.

It’s their DeerHorse effect… pathetic Of interest, seems the only counterbalance to him WAS #MoscowMitch - and when it counted, when he should have impeached him - he blinked

I tend to agree with you George. Trump doesn't really care who is in his cabinet as long as every person is totally loyal to him and to him alone! None of this allegiance to the US crap.

You may be right, but I think the man is sick enough to make it real.😝

Donald's picks are just part of his circus to distract you from the truly evil shit he is planning on. bsky.app/profile/nomx...

He is setting up DeSantis for 2028 is what he’s doing. Don’t lose sight of the long game.

They will do whatever the great orange man tells them to do or else.

Yup. We should all shut our yaps, sit back, and watch the shit show that plays out when they go up for confirmation.

I don't think he's bright enough to do that 😂

Oh BS, he is installing loyalists. He has complete immunity, i feel sorry for all the LGBTQ people, you will be in the concentration camps after the foreigners.

Agree 💯

He wants them all, but the craziest ones are there to make the terrible ones seem palatable. Don’t be distracted. The stinky fish looks better than the sewer nuggets.

I can look past RFK Jr’s former heroin addiction. I’m glad he got clean. Everything else though

Wouldn't you? Just imagine half the country an the world laughed at you and then your gang and fools bring you back to power and give you your revenge....

Please tell me your country is gonna fight back against this shit and not just take it ……

Not as long as streaming services work. Wish I were kidding.

But is it trump or is it putin trolling trump?

Looks like Joni Ernst backed off and kissed the Orange ring! One down…

I don't hear any Dems raising any ruckus over this . . .

Or he wants such a fuss made about these ones so that he gets the real ones he wants, because they aren't "as bad" as these ones

What a bunch of lunatics. Weirdest selection for a President. Then again, maybe the injection of bleach advice was a winner suggestion for voters.

Heard the pillow guy is his next pick.

Distraction from the Great Work - stealing our taxes for private gain.

Yeah. The kind of kid who would put his hand over the stove and dare you, threatening to tell the ER that YOU did it. That kind of kid that needs professional intervention at a VERY early age.

I strongly suspect they are Putin’s picks, many designed to weaken America rather than strengthen it.

If I had to guess I would say that some of the picks are deadly serious, and some are meant to be a distraction. Either way the point is to erode confidence in the government.

The question is while everyone focuses on how unsuitable his appointments are what is he doing that isn’t being paid attention to? Slight of hand?

Exactly.

That's what I've been wondering

I don’t even think it’s that deep. I think he has the mind of a 10year old boy who likes to torture animals and look up girls dresses.

His choices show just how little respect he has for this country. Trump is an agent of Putin, a traitor.

The pubes will cave, look at Ernst and her flip flop.💰

There is no GOP party. It’s the MAGA party.

The GOP “bystanders” who won’t speak up against these terrible “candidates” are as bad as the bro who takes the crazy girl home thinking “he can fix her”.

Thanks, George

Trump wants America to suffer because he lost 2020.

Let's hope what's left of the Republican party has the backbone to resist Trumps picks.

They call it “flooding the zone”. They muddy the waters so badly that we only concentrate on the larger turds on top (Geatz, hegseth, gabbard etc.) while the runny crap oozes into our government.

It’s true. They aren’t entirely equal. Some of them are even worse than the others.

Some are the distract from others

These three should be in prison one for treason and one is a rapist all three are fascist pigs...