Taking bets on who gets the text ‘you’re fired’ first.

[happyhoix]

we all remember the rotating door Trump has in his administration. Just look at the number of books written by disgruntled former Trump aides. At least half a book store of them. 

In his first four years he mostly fired disloyal people who dared to disagree with him. He’s surrounding himself with kneeling supplicants this time, all fighting to kiss his ring, so I think we’ll see a string of aides so incompetent the GOP members of congress have to corner Trump and demand he fire them, so the GOP doesn’t look bad. 

I had heard MTG was hoping to become head of Homeland security and I figured she’d be the first to go, given her low intelligence about pretty much anything, but especially international matters. I figured she’d gravely insult an ally, or start an international incident someplace, and she’d get the text. 

She didn’t get that position, though, so now my money is on Steven Miller, who likes to be obnoxious and insulting. He’s taking a special interest in rounding up the illegals, so I think he’s likely to get too enthusiastic about the round up and will go in and haul off migrants from some big business - like Tyson foods - whose CEO happens to be best pals (and a donor) to Trump. 

I don’t think Miller will get fired (really good, nasty toadies are hard to find) but I think he’ll get moved into the back room, away from the TV cameras, and into a position with less power. 

I haven’t seen the whole slate of aides, though. MTG may still get a job there, and if she does, I’d have to reconsider her. 

[happyhoix]

Ok no, it’s the Fox News host who got picked as secretary of defense.

Says he’s going to fire anyone in the military who ever supported a woke policy and ban women in combat because that’s dangerous.

I think his military experience is serving in the army national guard before being a talking head on Fox.

[happyhoix]

He’s going to set up a board to review generals and admirals and fire the woke ones - so removing senior military personnel for political reasons. By a Fox and friends host.

Trump picked him within 24 hours and the pick has confused even Trumps inner circle.

Wonder what would happen if a big chunk of the military leadership threatens to walk out.

[happyhoix]

Trump complained a lot about’his’ generals being disloyal (a bunch of them wrote books about him) plus he has talked about using the military to round up the illegals, some thing they may be reluctant to do. I think getting this Fox News host to weed out the military leaders who are not good Trump toadies is his first step towards making a political military who can be used to quell any number of civil unrest attempts.

[grumpyhermit]

It will be interesting, as I expect him to appoint total boot lickers this time around (even more so than the first), so they may have more staying power. 

For selfish reasons I am most interested in who he is going to tap for Education Secretary. I was chatting with a friend the other day, and was trying to imagine the most horrid, ill suited person possible, as that is likely who we will get. This article, has some...interesting choices. 

I think it would totally align with Trump to appoint someone without even a BA to head ED.

[Sharon]

Nov 13, 2024 8:58:06 GMT -5 grumpyhermit said:

It will be interesting, as I expect him to appoint total boot lickers this time around (even more so than the first), so they may have more staying power. 

For selfish reasons I am most interested in who he is going to tap for Education Secretary. I was chatting with a friend the other day, and was trying to imagine the most horrid, ill suited person possible, as that is likely who we will get. This article, has some...interesting choices. 

I think it would totally align with Trump to appoint someone without even a BA to head ED.

You mean someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene

[grumpyhermit]

Nov 13, 2024 9:11:58 GMT -5 Sharon said:

Nov 13, 2024 8:58:06 GMT -5 grumpyhermit said:

It will be interesting, as I expect him to appoint total boot lickers this time around (even more so than the first), so they may have more staying power. 

For selfish reasons I am most interested in who he is going to tap for Education Secretary. I was chatting with a friend the other day, and was trying to imagine the most horrid, ill suited person possible, as that is likely who we will get. This article, has some...interesting choices. 

I think it would totally align with Trump to appoint someone without even a BA to head ED.

You mean someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene

Worse, actually. The article floated the co-founder of Moms for Liberty, Tiffany Justice. It's just so awful I can almost see it happening. I am just preparing for an absolute cabinet of horrors.

[billisonboard]

Back to thread topic: I am betting first fired will be the Attorney General. 

I know he hasn't named one yet, but whoever doesn't stand a chance of satisfying him. 

[tbop77]

I don't know, that is a lot of alpha male going on with Musk and Ramaswamy and the new government department he is creating....to get rid of government waste.  Will they be able to handle it when he post a whim on social media and then they have to try and figure out what he wants like his first four years?

[billisonboard]

Nov 13, 2024 9:49:04 GMT -5 tbop77 said:

I don't know, that is a lot of alpha male going on with Musk and Ramaswamy and the new government department he is creating....to get rid of government waste.  Will they be able to handle it when he post a whim on social media and then they have to try and figure out what he wants like his first four years?

It don't see them sticking around long. But I think it will be them leaving, not fired by Trump.

[tbop77]

Nov 13, 2024 10:28:06 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Nov 13, 2024 9:49:04 GMT -5 tbop77 said:

I don't know, that is a lot of alpha male going on with Musk and Ramaswamy and the new government department he is creating....to get rid of government waste.  Will they be able to handle it when he post a whim on social media and then they have to try and figure out what he wants like his first four years?

It don't see them sticking around long. But I think it will be them leaving, not fired by Trump.

I found this article interesting.  Loyalty to Trump means staying in the background and giving him all the glory.  Trying to figure out what he wants and not taking any credit.  Just my opinion.  

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elon-musk-may-already-be-overstaying-his-welcome-in-trump-s-orbit/ar-AA1u17EC?cvid=0d6eff9fa357447ab1f1425f85e1683d&ei=15

[swamp]

Elon.  Those 2 egos can't last more than 10 minutes together. 

[billisonboard]

I think Musk will be playing with a different set of rules. He is there for his own purposes and Trump is aware enough of power balances.

[swamp]

I don't think Trump is aware of power balances, Trump thinks he's in charge and doesn't realize he's a useful idiot. 

[Tennesseer]

Andy Borowitz states this is a free article so posters can read the entire piece.

The Borowitz Report

Sorry, World

Let me start by saying something nice about Elise Stefanik: She went to Harvard. Then again, so did the Unabomber. You might think it’s unfair to compare Stefanik to the Unabomber, and it is—to the Unabomber. For all his flaws, he was way more ideologically consistent than Stefanik.

There really are two Elise Stefaniks: Original Recipe and Extra Crazy.

Original Recipe Stefanik was first elected to Congress in 2014, when she was often referred to as a moderate Republican. Nowadays, “moderate Republican” means anyone to the left of Heinrich Himmler. But back then, before the extinction-level event known as Donald Trump, there were still some House Republicans who could pass as rational beings. Stefanik belonged to her party’s centrist Tuesday Group and was ranked by Georgetown’s Lugar Center as one of the House’s most bipartisan members. (At the time, she touted both distinctions; today, each has been deleted from her congressional website like an embarrassing ex cropped out of a profile pic.)

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Stefanik continued to exhibit signs of sanity. She supported the candidacy of someone with government experience—Ohio Governor John Kasich—and criticized the foreign policy “knowledge” of the former reality show host running against him. In October 2016, she said of Trump, “His statements regarding NATO, his statements regarding Putin, regarding some of the positions in regards to Iraq that he made, regarding the oil fields—I absolutely oppose those.” But one month later, Trump won—including in her upstate New York district, which had gone for Obama twice. And so began the congresswoman’s rapid devolution into a Donald Trump tribute act.

TV viewers got their first taste of Extra Crazy Stefanik during the 2019 impeachment inquiry. She ran roughshod over committee rules, then lambasted Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, for having the nerve to enforce them. Her obnoxious performance must’ve made the people at the Lugar Center wonder if the formerly bipartisan lawmaker was now snorting meth. “A new Republican Star is born,” Trump tweeted, underscoring his enthusiasm with random capitalization. But she was just getting started.

In December of 2020, a month after Trump lost to Joe Biden by over seven million votes, Stefanik signed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the results in four battleground states. As if this weren’t enough to establish her cred as an election-denier, on January 6 she voted to decertify Biden’s win in Pennsylvania.

Embracing the Big Lie might’ve sucked for democracy, but it was amazing for Stefanik’s career. When the House GOP ousted Liz Cheney as conference chair for voting to impeach Trump, Stefanik jumped to succeed her—and earned an even more erratically capitalized shoutout from the Big Liar: “Liz Cheney is a warmongering fool who has no business in Republican Party Leadership... Elise Stefanik is a far superior choice, and she has my COMPLETE and TOTAL Endorsement for GOP Conference Chair. Elise is a tough and smart communicator!” Despite those amazing communication skills, in her victory speech she neglected to mention that, in two previous conference chair elections, she’d nominated Liz. This blend of opportunism and treachery earned her an enemy-for-life in Cheney, who came to love trolling Stefanik as much as her dad digs waterboarding.

Rest of article here: Sorry, World

[billisonboard]

Nov 13, 2024 9:43:39 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Back to thread topic: I am betting first fired will be the Attorney General. 

I know he hasn't named one yet, but whoever doesn't stand a chance of satisfying him. 

Wow! Didn't see Gaetz coming. I have to take my pick back.

[Tennesseer]

trump's ship of fools.   

Probably none of them will be around in twelve months.

[tbop77]

Nov 13, 2024 16:00:08 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Nov 13, 2024 9:43:39 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Back to thread topic: I am betting first fired will be the Attorney General. 

I know he hasn't named one yet, but whoever doesn't stand a chance of satisfying him. 

Wow! Didn't see Gaetz coming. I have to take my pick back.

Maybe not:

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/reckless-pick-lawmakers-express-doubts-that-gaetz-can-get-confirmed-as-attorney-general/ar-AA1u24tj?cvid=00835ed6a8ba4cfbd1f09ea6e50113ee&ei=19

I know, time will tell.  MAGA is going crazy with the newly elected Senate Majority Leader.  The Senate is filled with the deep state, don't ya know?  

[pulmonarymd]

So far my bet is on Tulsi. Let the woman take the fall, and if anything bad happens, she will be the scapegoat

[busymom]

Nov 13, 2024 16:22:53 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

trump's ship of fools.   

Probably none of them will be around in twelve months.

     At least, we pray they'll all have quit or gotten fired.

[grumpyhermit]

Nov 13, 2024 18:56:41 GMT -5 busymom said:

Nov 13, 2024 16:22:53 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

trump's ship of fools.   

Probably none of them will be around in twelve months.

     At least, we pray they'll all have quit or gotten fired.

I have no confidence the second string won't somehow be worse.

Looking at the current picks (Gaetz, Gabbard) and just ugly laughing.

[happyhoix]

Nov 13, 2024 16:43:52 GMT -5 tbop77 said:

Nov 13, 2024 16:00:08 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Wow! Didn't see Gaetz coming. I have to take my pick back.

Maybe not:

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/reckless-pick-lawmakers-express-doubts-that-gaetz-can-get-confirmed-as-attorney-general/ar-AA1u24tj?cvid=00835ed6a8ba4cfbd1f09ea6e50113ee&ei=19

I know, time will tell.  MAGA is going crazy with the newly elected Senate Majority Leader.  The Senate is filled with the deep state, don't ya know?  

Wow, from transporting teens across state lines for sex parties to attorney general. 

Yeah I think even GOP members will have a hard time confirming that, although I can see why Trump doesn’t consider what he did particularly bad, given his own affection for young girls. 

[Tennesseer]

The Borowitz Report

Giuliani Warns Matt Gaetz That Trump Never Pays His Attorneys

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Urging him “not to take that freaking job,” on Wednesday Rudolph Giuliani warned Rep. Matt Gaetz that Donald J. Trump never pays his attorneys.

“I know what you’re thinking—'I’ll get paid millions and then I’ll be swimming in hooch and broads,’” the former New York mayor said. “Not gonna happen!”

“When Trump cans your ass—and he will—you’ll be in the Four Seasons Total Landscaping parking lot with me drinking Two-Buck Chuck straight from the bottle.”

For his part, Trump said that by choosing Gaetz he was keeping his campaign promise of creating jobs for unskilled white men.


Giuliani Warns Matt Gaetz That Trump Never Pays His Attorneys

[Tennesseer]

Too soon?

Gaetz resigns from Congress after AG nod

[pulmonarymd]

Got to admire his confidence in getting approval

[Tennesseer]

Herschel Walker and Kid Rock are still up for grabs for the next cabinet positions.

[dondubble]

Nov 13, 2024 20:08:39 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Herschel Walker and Kid Rock are still up for grabs for the next cabinet positions.

Where’s Kari?

[pulmonarymd]

She’s a loser x2. Bad karma

[busymom]

Nov 13, 2024 20:04:54 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Too soon?

Gaetz resigns from Congress after AG nod

     Buh-bye.      Bonus if he doesn't get the votes for AG.  

[happyhoix]

Nov 13, 2024 20:08:39 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Herschel Walker and Kid Rock are still up for grabs for the next cabinet positions.

What about MTG? She wanted homeland security.

I have a theory - Trump doesn’t want anyone else to seize the spotlight.

plus Gaetz hates her (she was a McCarthy ally).