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Right. He has the experience and credibility to merit the job. Even if I think the direction is insane. The contrast between these sorts of nominees and Hegseth, Gaetz or McMahon is extreme. Even MAGA faithful should be able to see. It should be alarming.

This is interesting. He is, at least, one of the few announced nominations who has a resume in the ballpark for the job. The other stuff you list is exactly what Trump values in his appointees though. Not sure why this one's commitment to an executive rather than to core values bothers you. It's not an outlier.

When you go on TV boasting about vindictive retribution as a policy direction, people aren't going to trust your administration to deliver justice. 💡

I think the answer is simple expediency. The criminal, criminal-adjacent and otherwise deplorable don't have any other options. No one else would elevate them to any such position. They will be entirely obedient to Trump because they have nowhere else to go in government. For most of these nominees there is simply NO argument to be made based on qualification, experience or competence.

No evidence of Russian collusion... except for hundreds of pages of well documented evidence of Russian collusion.

This is a prolific list of lies. Congrats, I guess, on moving on to multiples.

Ballot harvesting was not legal in Georgia in 2020 and I assume that's still the case. But it was legal to drop off for a rather extensive list of extended family. The larger issue is that location data doesn't identify people using drop boxes, but rather people going to an area near drop boxes. Then the obvious sham film made clams about actions and showed videos of people at drop boxes. And people without critical thinking skills assumed the data was accurate, the claims were attached to the data, and the video was supporting evidence for both. None of which is true--and obviously untrue.

This is the prequel to the D'Souza "Water is Wet" press conference. The people stupid enough to still believe Trump's election fraud lies are the exact same people too shameless to acknowledge that they swallowed and propagated obvious disinformation. They cite this film over and over and over again, no matter how many times it's been debunked. You have to have a mind to change your mind and a confession from the creator is not going to solve that problem. No brains + no decency = perfect MAGA soldier

The US is already "energy independent" according to the standard definition of the term. We're net energy exporters. Domestic oil production levels have been at record highs No one is truly independent in a global market, but we make more energy than we consume. If push came to shove we could eliminate exports and imports and go it alone. We'd need to focus refining capacity on domestic-grade products in such a scenario, but the energy is there. Honestly, though, the answer to the question in the OP is as simple as spite.

There's that legendary third-grade wit. And I have never in my life seen a group of self-identified "men" so utterly submissive and subservient to another man--to the point of abandoning all integrity, dignity and self respect. You'd let him do anything he wanted, and smile about it. The entire GOP is living out a Fifty Shades of Grey fantasy right now.

He was talking about Trump, and you know you would.

More crony crooks to come. Trump correctly diagnosed the condition of his deplorable followers: he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and not lose any support. He's just reminding us all of that sad fact. Kushner is a lowlife dirtbag criminal, and the boot-licking bltch boys are here in force to once again defend the indefensible. No decency, no integrity, just blind, total devotion.

Whoa, check your spelling on that name. For a second I was baffled that you'd tell such hurtful lies about the current Speaker of the House. You could get him kicked out of the MAGA mudhole with talk like that.

No, I'm not you. Jeebus be praised.

At which point those boxes were still at the WH.

Don't we know the impact? Higher prices and less choice. It's an automatic 25% "inflation" on many of the goods on which we all rely. Trump taking money directly out of people's pockets and sequestering it in the government, to be used or redistributed in other ways.

Sure. The only way to "follow the constitution" is to occasionally suspend the constitution or otherwise go around it. 🙄

Sure, clown, all the thoroughly documented incidents of wrongdoing are just imaginary. 🤪

Yeah, everything's a cakewalk when you just make shit up. A. The law is clear regarding presidential documents and records: they are the property of the government, not the President. He can't simply claim them forever. That's the whole reason there is a case. B. He ordered things moved to Mar-a-lago on Jan 20 as he was leaving, hence they were moved after he was no longer in office. Again, it wouldn't have mattered, but you're factually incorrect. C. Yes, he tried to hide them. This is all well established. And as has been discussed literally dozens of times, nobody gets prosecuted for having documents. When Biden's lawyers found documents they called authorities and arranged for the return of the documents. Accidents happen. Non issue. Which is exactly what it would have been for Trump. Except that Trump's actions and written record prove that it was no accident, he took them. he showed them off, he refused to return them when legally obligated to do so and he literally tried to hide them from authorities. He even discussed the illegality of the acts with his attorneys. It was willfully illegal. You will simply excuse anything for your master.

You know the cases? (Sure you do.) Great. -- Explain how Trump didn't steal, hide, share indiscriminately and refuse to return classified documents in blatant violation of the law. ^^He did exactly that. He was a guilty man awaiting conviction, saved only by the ass-backward voters of the United States.

Yes, Trump has now announced that his wildly stupid intention to fark up all 3 national economies of North America. “On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,” he wrote, complaining that “thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before,” even though violent crime is down from pandemic highs."

That's nonsense. The egregious SCOTUS decision resulted in a rephrasing of charges i Obviously, if you were being honest, you'd acknowledge that the charges WERE, in fact, still being brought. That's why it's news now that they will no longer be pursued. You can't prosecute a sitting president. The only reason Trump won't be spending years in a prison cell is because he'll spend the next 4 in the oval office. Sometimes there is no justice.

There was nothing wrong with the case. Some of the charges were airtight, in fact. Trump did commit crimes. You simply can't prosecute a sitting president. That's the only reason this case isn't proceeding. Once again, it's a case of a guilty Trump not being held accountable.

FTFY. NATO is a purely defensive alliance.

I don't think it's particularly related to what Trump will do--although you can see from his transition plan and appointments that he serious about just burning shit down. It's more like if this is what America has become, what the American people have become, and this is what they want to happen, then why would any decent person with the means to leave want to be a part of it? What he has done is not normal and should not be normalized. What he intends to do is not normal. This isn't just another lost election in which policy will diverge a bit for 4 years. It's meant to do irreparable harm. And the fools who asked for it won't even understand that they too are in the line of fire until it's too late. Not until schools start closing, until kids are dying of once-eradicated diseases, until polluters poison our air and water with impunity and on and on.