Trump is clearly not happy with many of his key hires during his first term in office, regularly slamming former lackeys like Attorney General Bill Barr, Chief of Staff John Kelly, and National Security Adivser John Bolton. Axios reported in 2022 that Trump planned to ensure the loyalty not just of his high-profile appointments, should he win in 2024, but of thousands of mid-level staffers working throughout the government. Political views, rather than credentials or experience, are driving the process.
The outlet reported on Monday that the effort is well underway — and it’s sophisticated. The campaign is contracting “smart, experienced people, many with very unconventional and elastic views of presidential power and traditional rule of law,” according to Axios, to ensure new hires are fully onboard with the brutal policy proposals Trump has floated. It’s also using AI to vet potentail staffers, including by srubbing their social media.
Ah yes, the party that keeps people with dementia in office until they die so they can tell them how to vote. That’s a “good” party. I get it when it’s someone who uses whataboutism to try and justify voting for fascists. But that’s not what’s going on here. The supposed “opposition” party is doing jack fucking shit about our country going off the rails.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but it’s unclear which party you’re talking about.
They’re talking about the California democrat senator Dianne Feinstein who remained a senator until her death at 90yo. She was by no means fit for office for several years leading up to her death.
Not American, so I was confused because there’ve also been stories about McConnell, Biden and Trump having lapses in international media.
To be honest, Biden has never been a good public speaker. He’s had “gaffes” his entire career. But nothing as bad as Trump’s off-topic rants or McConnell’s blank mini-stroke moments.
Yeah, the whole ‘no term limits’ thing is starting to become a huge problem across the board since we have people making decisions that they’ll never live to see the consequences of.
Maybe they mean the presidential candidate that keeps forgetting he is (still) not up against Obama
I think they meant the Senator who keeps having mini-strokes during press briefings
Either you live under a rock, or you know exactly which party I’m talking about and you’re being disingenuous right now. It’s definitely the latter if you’re here commenting on Lemmy.
Being upset at someone for calling out a lesser evil for still being evil is exactly how nations get into situations like this. At best, the Democratic party is a brief relief from fascism. If we want to root it out, then we need to get actually strong leadership that is willing to crack down hard on fascism. It’s good to have at least something being done now. But there’s no debate that Trump is still getting it easier than he should be.
I’m not American. Here’s a list of US politicians who have had ‘senior moment’ gaffes or incidents based on international(!!!) coverage of US politics:
Biden, Trump, Feinstein, and McConnell.
I know US politics is hyper-partisan, but please don’t disingeniously deny they’re too old to govern, based on party preference. A turd is still a turd, even if it’s better than a bag of vomit.