CAN'T REMEMBER which DC insider type it was who was reassuring us that Susie Wiles would be the adult in the room for Trump II but his pick of Pete Hegseth, a 44 year old Fox snake oil salesman with absolutely no relevant experience to head the DoD, the largest department of government and the largest bureaucracy in the world should kill that bull shit. It's like everyone telling us Jared and Vanky were going to be the adults in the room last time. Susie Wiles is a Republican-fascist lady pimp. There is no such a thing as a decent Republican in 2024, there wasn't in 2020, either.
Looking him up, Hegseth is a Princeton-Harvard product, having gone to one of the bigger right-wing establishment oligarchs and their whores training ground outside of Harvard Law, the friggin' Kennedy School. I have caught some of his FOX act, that no doubt is why Trump wants him to run the American military, HE'S AS MUCH OF A CON ARTIST, CON MAN MADE FOR TV AS TRUMP IS.
I have every confidence that this is a move that will please Trump, Xi and MBE who are all probably going to act fast to grab whatever they figure they can get as the American military is in the control of a babbling baby and a senile degenerate.
America, this is what you bought from the media that sandbagged Joe Biden - the most outrageously successful American president since Johnson, back when Johnson had a Congress and Supreme Court pretty much in the control of Democrats and Joe Biden didn't have that. You were conned out of good government for Trumpian grift, plunder and violent, repressive fascism with at least a recession if not a total collapse of the economy as well.
An effective majority of Americans who voted for Trump or an even cheaper con-man, Jill Stein, OR THE ONES WHO HANDED VICTORY TO THE, NON-VOTERS are TV and movie and hate talk media trained suckers. I heard the quaint notion floated of making civics classes in high school mandatory. I can think of few things that would be less effective than that because hardly any of the "education" of Americans happens in school, IT HAPPENS IN THE MEDIA, ENTERTAINMENT MOSTLY BUT ALSO A TINY BIT IN THE "NEWS" DIVISION BECAUSE AMERICA IS POST-LITERATE. I strongly doubt that democracy can stand in a media saturated, post-literate country because the media is a remarkably inefficient method of teaching People the truth or, more importantly morals. It is far more efficient at replacing those with hucksterism and con jobs and easy to sell lies, all with a frisson of exciting fear and hate.
It will be interesting to see the extent to which the supposed adults in government and the vestiges of that in the media are going to react to this. My guess is they are as cowardly and supine as the lawyers and judges and "justices" will be to Trumpian fascism. I can barely stand listening to the lawyers, especially the ones who reassured us that the courts would save us from Trump II. Well, from the gutless and irresponsible Department of "Justice" to the Supreme Court that was a pig in a poke.
If American democracy revives, they're going to have to fix so much in the goddamned Constitution, as it was first written and as the Supreme Court has distorted it that I have a strong feeling that will never be done. We'd have to disabuse a very large majority in the country that those are a reliable means of protecting and defending and promoting equal justice and democracy. I heard Lawrence Tribe reassure us of the difficulties embedded into the Constitutional order that will make Trump and his Heritage Foundation fascists destroying democracy very hard. Well, it was some of his students and colleagues who were all in on that effort so we'll see how reliable the best of Harvard Law is in producing one or the other.
I don't think the intellectual elite has the vaguest notion of how bad this is going to be, but, then, they're probably pretty safe from the consequences in their hallowed halls and emeritus retirements.
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