Jon Stewart Knows Why Trump Is Picking All the Worst People for His Cabinet
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Jon Stewart Knows Why Trump Is Picking All the Worst People for His Cabinet
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jon-stewart-knows-why-trump-is-picking-all-the-worst-people-for-his-cabinet/
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To decapitate the agencies and consolidate his control.
On a long enough timeline, California and New York (and a few other states) will become safe havens for moneyed liberals and Mississippi and Texas (among others) will become theocratic shitholes.
When we get that point, discussion of Civil War will get much more serious because two opposing policy perspectives can coexist in a democracy, but two entirely opposing cultures cannot.
John needs to step up and be the American Zelensky.
Trump has 4 years to destroy America, otherwise he ends up in prison for all his crimes.
Some billionaires are no longer happy with one man one vote.
This article is paywalled. Does anybody want to paraphrase what Jon Stewart said or link to the discussion?
We know. It aligns with white power christianity goals. We also know it is because he agrees with this stuff and above all else is a conman and putins patsy.
They are going to ruin the federal government and send everything back to the states. The irony of this is that it will probably be good for the blue states.. red states weigh blue states down because they take more than they pay in taxes ..
California, New York, Massachusetts, will probably do fine but Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, will probably be like third world countries ( more than they are now )
Can we not do this for the next 4 years? Be shocked at all the horrible things trump is about to do. They voted for the horrible things. Being mad is what they want. They won fair and square, promising corruption and destruction and retaliation.
Stop trying to figure trump out, there is nothing to figure out. he tells everyone the horrible things. He’s not playing chess he’s just doing what ever the eff he wants, just like he always did.
It goes beyond the obvious idea of choosing loyalists to do his bidding. It’s also a flex to show that he can do whatever he wants and his Senators will go along with it.
This is textbook geopolitics.
Trump is trying to decrease the legitimacy of the government so that he and his family / friends can be there to pick up the pieces once the system collapses.
Immigrant populations of the new emerging America are less tied to Democracy, because they’ve never had it and are used to corrupt governments
Immigrants who escaped El Salvador, Somalia, Cuba etc. come from places where the government isn’t legit or to be trusted.
But these immigrants grew up knowing they could succeed in a black market or by non-capitalist means and have less ties to “American Dream” and are more apathetic to seeing the government collapse.
So they don’t care as much if Trump is corrupt as long as they get cheaper goods and higher pay. Their exchange and agreement with government is more based on needs, not grandiose ideals.
Also Jon Stewart: “We’re going to be fine no matter who wins.”
It’s so obvious. You throw a wrench into the machine, it breaks and then you blame the machine. His voters will see the dysfunction and agree. A few years later when there’s no basic federal funds or offices for the public they’ll finally wake up when it’s all too late. Then hopefully the left will finally take over. There’s no place for these anarchists in government. It’s like electing an atheist as the Pope. They don’t even believe in the thing they’re heading.
Because he’s too stupid to be able to tell that they are the worst people?
No shit. In his first Presidency he made an anti-public school person head of public education and an oil man head of the EPA.
Kakistocracy. Plain and simple. The least qualified person will be placed at the head of each agency. The worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous candidate is chosen.
Why? Because it makes it very easy for them to tell their blind followers that the department is performing poorly, so the only option left is to get rid of it and try something new.
Dictators trap: trump surrounds himself with sycophants and yes men.
it’s the first step in privatizing public institutions. you know, “because government should be run like a business.”
He is picking them because he can control them
Break the government and finish the fascist takeover.
It’s completely obvious, has been done before elsewhere.
2nd Amendment gun nuts just voted for the tyranny that they said their guns were needed for.
Privatization = call centers in India for 2 cents on the dollar. Basically selling our nation for other nations to rat fuck us in the end all to increase shareholder value
It is so much worse than dismantling the government. It is opening the door for Trump and his billionaires to profit from it. Let’s cut NASA. Who comes in and profits from it? Space-X. Let’s destroy the department of education. Who profits? Schools with voucher system. Let’s destroy the FCC. Who profits? Elon, Ramaswamy, and a lot of other people. Everything Trump did in his first term was to make rich people richer. His second term will be an even more drastic version of that. And just like his first term, the American people will be footing the bill for the money grab.
I don’t think it’s a secret. He can literally say to his voters “I am here to destroy democracy and get rich and powerful, and I’m using your stupidity to do it,” and they would genuinely, unironically double down and worship him even harder. Humanity deserves whatever happens to it. Not all of us individually, but as a species, because jesus fuck we’re stupid.
Well, yeah, a lot of us do. It’s pretty obvious he’s trying to enrich his “friends” and sow disorder among those organizations.
In the case of McMahon, former CEO of WWE, Trump has explicitly said he [wants to kill](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-expected-to-pick-ex-wwe-head-for-department-he-wants-to-kill/) the department she would run. “One other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington D.C., and sending all education and education work and needs back to the states,” the president-elect said in a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojRde4zCYd0&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.%5B%E2%80%A6%5Dtting-down-the-department-of-education&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE) last year. “We want them to run the education of our children because they’ll do a much better job of it.”
It’s going to get really weird when all of the bible belt states start teaching the bible in public schools.
Jon Stewart says the right things but doesn’t run for office. Having good ideas and opinions won’t solve anything. Only action. He not even a political advisor for anyone.
I watched The Apprentice last weekend (solid biopic btw) and it starts the moment the feds started investigating him and his dad for the racist rental practices to minorities. He’s wanted revenge on the federal government for 50 years now.
The American political system depended on an engaged and informed population to make the best choice. The forefathers never predicted social media, media corruption, and obscenely wealthy influences leading to its downfall. I can only hope a decent European country can step up as a world leader in the US place, but let’s be honest, it’s going to be China.
I’m glad I’m 50, I’ve lived a long life and for it to all end now won’t be as horrible as the younger generation.
Weird it’s almost like there was a published and well known plan for doing this next year. Like a Project for 2025.
Jon stewart has a crease in his ass from sitting on the fence. Saying that trump is doing this because democrats didnt? And democrat voters wanted the democrats to do the same thing. I’m a life long democrat who knows lots of democrats and we have never sat around and talked about destroying agencies because they’re bloated. As a matter of fact we complained about the failure of cutting government programs by privatizing. Which always cost more and reduces services.
It’s a potent combination of a unitary executive, broad immunities for the president, schedule F, and a MAGA coalition of loyalists that will consolidate power by flattering Trump, taking control of the administrative state and thus paving the way for a future one party system of government with king Trump at its helm.
Every Trump appointee is a transaction. “What have you done for me, and what will you do for me in exchange for this position?”
And it’s the worst people that are willing to trade their loyalty for a spot in Trump’s administration. What Trump might not know, is that these people also intend to use him.
This is what we’ve been warned about, at least those of us who didn’t just vote a demagogue back into office because… *feelings*. This is the future that political junkies and analysts have been calling a “crisis of incompetence.”
Schedule F is an executive action that the Trump administration tried implementing towards the end of his previous term, It’s also a major policy proposal included in Project 2025. It attempts to strip protections from civil servants whose government positions will depend largely on their allegiance to the president and his agenda.
Schedule F, combined with a unitary executive and broad immunities granted to the president, will afford Republicans the power to cripple the system of checks and balances holding our democracy together, helping them to consolidate power for the foreseeable future.
Project 2025 laid it all out in their manifesto, while heritage foundation members and “America first” Trump allies have been preparing to implement this agenda in some variation or another.
The Unitary executive Theory is another major goal of project 2025, and a proposal that’s been floated before by Republicans. Bill Barr was a major proponent, and it’s part of the reason why he shot down the Mueller investigations efforts to hold Trump accountable for obstruction. The UET proposes that the president has unchecked powers and complete control over the executive branch.
The goal is to eliminate the independence of most government agencies and put them under the direct control of the executive, crippling the separation of powers in the process and giving Trump unilateral authority over the administrative state. These actions will allow The Trump administration to then install loyalists into positions of power within these agencies, and positions that were formerly reserved for non-partisan civil servants, knowledgeable staff and experts in their field, whose job security didn’t depend solely on their loyalty to the president.
Schedule F and a unitary executive, along with a coalition of MAGA loyalists, a Republican majority in both houses, and a conservative SCOTUS makes this very likely to succeed.
Yes, part of the goal is to “gut the administrative state,” which is also sometimes called the fourth branch of government, but the other part involves taking what’s left, dismantling our democratic system of checks and balances, and creating a government that serves the Republican party, consolidates power for itself and installs Trump as king.
Hence, a “crisis of incompetence.”
Trump’s coalition will certainly use this opportunity to exploit him, the useful idiot he is, in order to build what can only be conceived of as a one-party state. “Limited government” my ass. More like government limited to the authority of Republicans.
The next Trump administration is also preparing to create new agencies out of thin air, offering people like Elon Musk a top role in these agencies.
From there, they will have the best opportunity they’ve had in decades to implement an extreme, far right agenda backed by special/rich interests, right wing think tanks, dark money groups, Christian nationalists, far right jingoists, corporate powers with the same rights as American citizens, foreign autocrats, right wing power brokers, billionaires, xenophobes, conspiracy theorists, and in some cases, white supremacists…
This is an agenda that will also pave the way for future Republican administrations to continue building a one party system of government, while setting up roadblocks for any progressive, or even populist efforts or movements that may take hold in the future. Because make no mistake, this ain’t populism, it more closely resembles an age of modern day robber barons working closely with politicians, or vice versa. Hell, in some cases, they’re basically synonymous.
Democrats are not going to be able to effectively do anything because the other side has delved into 100% bad actor mode when they aren’t in power, and they’ve been nothing but rewarded for it so it isn’t going to get better any time soon.
Jan 20,2025 @12 noon America will no longer be a democracy. It will become a Autocracy. The three branches of government will be run by the executive branch. Billionaires (Musk) will have a hot line to Leader Trump’s office as will the leader of the Senate and House and the DOJ the FBI and the IRS It will look like a democracy but it’s not going to run like a democracy
Come January 20, the three branches of government will be one: the tRump branch.
>“One other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington D.C., and sending all education and education work and needs back to the states,” the president-elect said in a video last year. “We want them to run the education of our children because they’ll do a much better job of it.”
Except, that’s *exactly* how it is, right now. What he fails to understand is that the reason education is so great in some states (mostly blue), and absolute shit-shows in others (mostly red, like mine), is that the state is responsible for education. Funding, guidelines, curriculum; it’s up to the states how to run it all. The fed might give a few guidelines, and gives federal funding to each state based on needs/requests, but it’s up to the state how to use it all.
For someone who went to private schools, he sure is a dumbass.
He did this in his first term. It’s driving me crazy with everyone acting like this is new. It’s accelerated and it’s more blatant, but when he replaced people in his first term that the adults in the room picked for him while he picked his jaw up off the floor from winning, he put the worst people he could into each position then as well.
Republicans have picked less than qualified people for these positions for years. Malicious incompetence or intentional sabotage with the goal of saying “See this is doing more harm than good, let’s get rid of it”.
Yeah when the carpenter hits more wall than nails that makes the hammer more harmful than helpful.
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