TRUMP WILL TRY TO DO EVERY FUCKING THING HE SAID HE WOULD

“When someone tells you who they are, believe them.” – Maya Angelou

Remember when John F. Kennedy promised to bring “The Best and the Brightest” into his administration? Yes, I know, Strange McNamara and Walt Rostow and McGeorge Bundy and several others turned out to be The Least and the Dimmest when they followed their boss into the Grand Adventure in Vietnam, but at least an attempt was made.

While several presidents managed to bring people along into their administration who turned out to be corrupt and venal and “less than competent,” until 2016, no president ever used “corrupt,” “venal,” and “incompetent” as the qualities he was in search of for people to carry out his wishes and policies.

But now Donnie Dumbfuck has topped himself. The search terms this time are “Evil,” “Wicked,” “Terrifying,” and “Godawful.”

The shape of an administration whose sole goal is vengeance is being assembled right out there in the open.

None of the named appointees or possible candidates for other offices yet to be named have the slightest doubt vengeance is the main goal. Vengeance against imaginary criminals committing imaginary crimes; vengeance against the people who attempted to hold the first Trump administration liable for its many crimes and lies; vengeance against “the traitors within” the administration who went public and informed the country of just how bad things were inside the White House; vengeance against four years of successful policies that actually helped the Gammas who were fuckheads enough to vote for him a second time after seeing what he did the first time, since these policies have inconvenienced his real friends, the plutocrats; vengeance against Ukraine for failing to ratfuck the 2020 election for him and having the temerity to kick Russian ass for the past three years; vengeance against NATO because its leaders laughed at him, publicly; and vengeance against any part of the world that failed to recognize him as the world-historical genius everyone knows he isn’t; vengeance against all of us who oppose him.

Tom Homan, successor to Organizer of the Holocaust Adolf Eichmann, who says there’s no need to separate a family between those who are U.S. citizens and those who aren’t when the whole bunch of them can be deported, has been named Border Czar in charge of the Massive Deportation that is the only thing that can get Donnie Dipfuck’s “widdle mushwoom” hard now.

There’s one problem here: “Border Czar” isn’t an actual governmental position, with actual legally-defined responsibilities and powers. Homan can expect to spend the 18 months these war criminals have, starting from Inauguration Day to the beginning of the 2026 mid-term, in court defending the legality of the authority he doesn’t have for every decision he makes and order he gives, while the whole trainwreck of Donnie Bumfuck’s wet dream piles up on top of them.

Professional Puppy Murderer and Presidential Musical Accompanist Kristi Noem was announced as the new Secretary of Homeland Security. If you have any doubt just how obsequious and spineless she is, how willing she is to do anything for Dear Leader, go check that video of her dancing around a semi-comatose Trump during his 39-minute “musical interlude” last month. The last time ‘round, DHS had five different leaders, only two of whom were Senate-confirmed. The agency has within it Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the US Secret Service. She’ll be in charge of the punishment of Democratic-led “sanctuary cities” that protect undocumented immigrants by not cooperating with federal agencies.

My advice is, if you live anywhere where natural disasters happen, if something happens to you and yours, expect a relief effort right down there with how George W. Bush’s jockey handled Hurricane Katrina, and what happened to Puerto Rico with Hurricaness Irma and Maria in 2017. In other words, bend over and kiss your ass good-bye. And if she comes to visit the scene of her crime, don’t let your pets outside. And expect no federal aid if you live in a Blue State.

Noem will also accompany Homan on his many trips to DC courtrooms (the irony of the possibility they end up in front of Judge Chutkan is too delicious), to defend her decisions to follow his unlawful orders.

Mike Davis, leading candidate to take the Heinrich Himmler role as head of the Gestapo in the new administration, manages to combine “Evil,” “Wicked,” “Terrifying,” and “Godawful” in the most complete way of any of these gargoyles. Politico describes him as “someone with an understanding of how to get things done on the inside who also has the grievances and background of a flyover country native. He has a fighting instinct and a commitment to finishing the job, regardless of how he might be hurting himself in the long run.” He’s promised to “rain hell” on Washington come January 2025 and to eviscerate institutions that he says treat Trump unfairly. He calls Democrats “Marxists” and “evil” and has “joked” that he would send journalists and former GOP personalities including George Conway and Tim Miller to “the gulag,” put migrant kids in “cages,” and work toward the goal of ...”having the Supreme Court to dismantle most of the federal government.” Steve Bannon calls Davis “a full fucking MAGA warrior.” If he does become Attorney General, there’s every chance that his toxicity will result in the Justice Department being quickly depopulated of the capable and competent in the ranks of government attorneys, leaving the Homans and the Noems and the rest of the gargoyles to be defended in court by “Trump lawyers.” We’ve all seen what they’re capable of.

Senator Marco Rubio, the primary opponent who back in 2016 pointed out the connection between Trump’s small hands and his even-smaller woody, co-author of the report by the Senate Intelligence Committee that confirmed Donnie Traitor’s 2016 collusion with Russia, is now the Traitor’s pick for Secretary of State. This led the Press Corpse and the adjacent Establishment Policy types to aggressively wish-cast once again that things wouldn’t be so bad after all, and it was possible that Trump would be “presidential” after all.

Sorry, there still aren’t any ponies hiding under the mountain of horse shit. Don’t let that stuff from eight years ago lead you to think he might “enforce guardrails” anywhere. Rubio is a staunch defender of Israel’s right to take direct action in Lebanon and to respond militarily without restraint in Iran. He endorsed Trump’s proposal to deport pro-Palestinian protestors who are in the U.S. on student visas. He has refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and blames “100 percent” of civilian deaths there on Hamas, holding the Israeli Defense Forces blameless. He does, however, believe in NATO, so there’s that. But remember, Trump picked Rubio because he squashed him like a bug in 2016. And Rubio knows he can and will do it again at the slightest provocation. How much “independence” do you see there? Rubio is what Trump wants: people who he’s already broken.

The “foreign policy” Rubio will be representing has been clearly defined. By Vladimir Putin. On November 11, Putin’s top aide Nikolai Patrushev (the man who supervised the assassination of Prigozin) stated to a Moscow newspaper: “To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them.” Tass distributed the statement globally to make sure the message was received by all parties. Yes, the incoming President of the United States has been put on notice that he has a debt to repay - to our most dangerous enemy. Is this going to be the only debt Trump doesn’t welsh out on?

Florida Representative Mike Waltz, Trump’s pick for National Security Advisor, isn’t a household name, but in his position he could sharply alter the calculus on the ground in Ukraine. He is a former Green Beret who currently serves on the House Committees dealing with the military, intelligence agencies and foreign affairs. The day before the election, Waltz gave an interview to NPR that made clear he would permit escalation of the war in Ukraine in order to bring it to an end through a diplomatic solution. That includes enforcing “actual” energy sanctions on Russia in order to strangle Russia’s economy and war machine. While that sounds good, it could also push Russia to more extreme measures, despite Trump’s recent “warning” to Putin not to “take any actions” in Ukraine. Waltz also favors “taking the handcuffs off the long-range weapons” the U.S. provides Ukraine. This puts him at odds with the MAGA wing’s desire to end U.S. financial and military assistance to Ukraine.

Nominee for UN Representative Representative Elise Stefanik Stefanik has no background in international relations or diplomacy that would prepare her for representing the United States at the international body, but then the reason he chose her is for her to pick fights with other states rather than trying to resolve them.

Nominee for Secretary of Defense, Fox News “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host Pete Hegseth has an interesting background. Among other things, he has said women shouldn’t serve in combat roles. Last month he told CNN: “I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.” Also, he not only disagrees with allowing gays to openly serve, but with “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Additionally, Hegseth proudly proclaims he hasn’t washed his hands in ten years because “Germs are not a real thing. I can’t see them.” Yes! Really! He said that!! In the 21st Century! Hegseth is also known as a serial adulterer - which must be why Trump like him. Hegseth even sired a love child with a Fox producer while cheating on his second wife, who he cheated with on his first wife. And then the producer became his third wife in 2019. (White women can be soooooo fucking stupid.)

U.S. Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer spent eight months in 2019-20 locked in a power struggle with Hegseth over the fate of Eddie Gallagher, the Navy SEAL accused of war crimes by his fellow team members, and found guilty of having committed them by a Navy court-martial. This eventually led to Spencer’s removal, while Gallagher was restored to his rank and officially pardoned by Trump, who called him “a true warrior” when he invited the pardoned war criminal to the White House. That fight would have been over in an instant if the Heritage plan had been in effect, with a compliant Navy secretary giving Trump whatever Hegseth wanted. He also intervened with the Secretary of the Army over the murder convictions of officers Mathew L. Golsteyn and Clint Lorance, who were pardoned by Trump. He has called for replacing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General C.Q. Brown (who is African American) for being “woke” and a “DEI hire.”

It is impossible to think of him ever objecting to any of the unconstitutional, illegal, immoral things Trump plans to do, from using the military to round up immigrants to intervening regarding the decision to promote politically aligned general officers to get Trump his “German generals.” Hegseth will probably personally volunteer to lead that commission.

Hegseth wants to limit recruiting from urban areas, alleging that “diverse” recruits (meaning Black and urban) are “pumped full of vaccines and even more poisonous ideologies.” The war he wants to fight is Civil War 2.0 - he actually said, “Time for round two - we won’t miss this time.”

When he was the executive director of Concerned Veterans for America, a Koch network organization advocating privatization of the VA, he claimed veterans groups advise veterans to obtain more benefits than they should be getting, insinuating that they are cheating the system out of billions of dollars rather than simply obtaining the benefits to which they are legally entitled. (Personally, I’ll be fine with every white male moron veteran I didn’t want to meet in the Navy “getting theirs” for their vote for Trump. The problem is the what happens to the rest of us.)

Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, commented: "Hegseth is undoubtedly the least qualified nominee for SecDef in American history. And the most overtly political. Brace yourself, America."

This nomination is the explanation of why Trump has demanded whoever becomes Senate Majority Leader must pre-emptively accept recess appointments. When even Tommy Tuberville says ”Really? I’d have to think about it” regarding this guy, you see all the “why” you need.

Mike Huckabee, nominee for Ambassador to Israel, believes the West Bank is part of Israel and is not “occupied” because Palestinians “don’t exist.”He’s a “Christian Zionist” the wing of Fundamenalist Insanity that supports Israel because they believe the state of Israel must exist when Jesus returns and Armageddon - the final battle between Good and Evil - is fought on the Plain of Armageddon in northern Israel. The future after that for the Israelis doesn’t look so good, because these people also believe that Jesus will then cast the Jews “into the fiery pit” except for the 144,000 KAPOs who drop to their knees and proclaim him. Throughout his political career, Netanyahu has gone out of his way to cozy up to these people as “Allies of Israel.” He and Huckabee should get along like the proverbial peas in the pod. (Hope you’re still happy with all your protest votes, residents of Dearborn - we did try to warn you this shit would happen thanks to.) Essentially, think of him as the End Times Ambassador.

John Ratcliffe, Trump’s nominee for CIA Director, was previously his Director of National Intelligence in Trump 1.0 - in that position, he sat on the whistleblower report of Trump’s attempted extortion of Vladimir Zelensky that led to Impeachment No. 1. I can’t think of anything more that needs to be said.

Yesterday, Trump named Elmo Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as co-chairs of the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE (get the joke?) is not actually a government agency at all, but merely an advisory commission. They will have no budget for their non-existent “department,” and their “advice” will only become fact if Congress acts favorably on what they advise.

Mike Murphy put up a savvy prediction of how this will work at his Substack :

1.) Great fanfare; 2.) Nice offices; 3.) Painful discovery I: Fed Gov’t doesn’t work like hedge fund or start up; 4.) Painful discovery II: 75% of Fed spending is basically on auto-pilot; 5.) Epic squabbling with Agencies, Congress, WH; 6.) Elon gets bored. Wiles kills it off

Yes, this all looks as bad as it really is, but let’s remember that Trump’s “eccentric mix of interests and priorities” is NOT well aligned with the public’s hopes and fears. Remember George Bush taking his 2004 “political capital” to “reform” Social Security? We should particularly remember Nancy Pelosi’s response to the Vichy Democrats who asked her what the Democrats’ Social Security reform counter-offer would be. “None. Is that clear?”

Carrying out all these fascist fantasies will be challenging for the “birds of a feather” surrounding Trump. Their “politics” range from being at once dovish and hawkish, libertarian and activist, traditionalist and revolutionary, authoritarian and anti-establishment. The chances they will end up at cross-purposes before next June are One Hundred Percent.

There is no constituency for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taking fluoride out of our drinking water, and in fact there is no authority for the Federal government to base any such decision on. And the majority of Americans do believe in vaccines. Even the dumbasses in the 310 Area Code and the (Rich) People’s Republic of Santa Monica are coming around on this.

All the whackadoodles who think they’ve won a mandate for their pet cause, even though voters have no idea who they are or what they want, are about to discover that the majority of Americans aren’t likely to be on board with this bullshit when they find out. Ovr 70 percent of Americans are opposed to Project 2025 now, and that’s unlikely to change in the 724 days before the 2026 mid-term election, when these MAGAmorons discover the truth of their “overwhelming victory.”

Trump’s favorite fantasies, from mass deportations to steep tariffs, will very likely prove fairly unpopular when he actually tries to put them into practice.

This is going to be the story of the next 724 days: over-reach and extremism, with large dollop of incompetence and crazy.

And just in case you wondered how long it would be before te jackals decided to celebrate their victory by going after their own, if you bet “one week and a day” - come on down! You win.

Hard-line conservatives are plotting to challenge Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for the gavel during Wednesday’s internal House GOP elections, four sources familiar with the matter told The Hill.

The sources — who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal deliberations — said the conservatives are planning to nominate an alternative candidate to Johnson for Speaker during Wednesday’s internal GOP elections. The sources said they are still discussing whom to nominate, and one source cautioned that the opposition could fall apart.

“There will be a nomination,” one of the sources said. The intent is to show opposition within the House GOP to Johnson’s bid to continue as Speaker, one of the sources said. The House GOP is set to consider Johnson for Speaker during internal GOP elections on Wednesday.

See? They are still Dumber Than Shit.

The 12 worst people surrounding Trump according to Rolling Stone:

1. Elon Musk; 2. Stephen Miller; 3. Robert F. Kennedy Jr ; 4. Tom Homan; 5. Mike Davis; 6. JD Vance'; 7. Ric Grenell; 8. Jeff Clark; 9. Laura Loomer; 10. Kash Patel; 11. Russel Vought; 12. Tucker Carlson

Don’t worry, the list of recess appointees is only going to get worse. Trump just nominated Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence. What a fucking oxymoron.

Alina Habba no brain is said to be Trump’s likely nominee for White House Press Secretary.

And yes, “clowns with flamethrowers, still have flamethrowers.”

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