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This is why the Media helped Trump win. So they will have endless stories like this.
I see a lot of takes like "The media learned nothing from 2016/2020."
My enby in Christ, our blessed ever perfect capitalism means they can NEVER 'learn' or even 'care' about what is best for the country. It will only ever be about the click$.
I hated it so much last time. Too stressful. When Biden won in 2020 it felt like a weight was lifted off me.
I feel like if we're to get out of this unscathed it'll be because of this kind of infighting. AntiMAGA people in gov't should find as many ways to stir the pot as they can.
EDIT: y'all - definitely agree that we're not getting out of this unscathed, you can quit pointing out my poor choice of words
AntiMAGA people in gov’t should find as many ways to stir the pot as they can.
These people are so mature and well adjusted that this could be accomplished by simply walking up to Trump and saying "did you hear what Vance said about you last night?" and then walking up to Vance and saying "did you hear what Elon said about you?" and then asking Elon "did you hear what Don Jr said about you?" No elaboration, let their "imaginations" run wild.
There is probably at least one troll doing exactly that lol
Honestly if I had the influence required id worm my way in just to do that. It emphasizes factionalism and forces them at eachothers throats.
We're not getting out of this unscathed.
The infighting and arguing is, at best, the grifters trying to secure the best grift for themselves at the expense of everyone else.
No you're right, even if it's just chaos and infighting for the next four years we're all going to suffer
We didn’t get out unscathed last time. The fucker got ~~2~~ 3 SCOTUS appointments and whole mess of lower judges.
No chance we’re fine after this one either.
In other words; a bunch of ultra wealthy nepo-babies with the IQ/EQ comparable to the average 14 year old boy are hanging out at a luxury country club deciding the future of our nation, and despite having collectively been in the game for almost a decade, they still have no idea what they're doing.
We've come full circle, back to the "founding fathers" in terms of letting the wealthy few decide our future, yet our modern cast of wealthy few are wealthy fools who likely wouldn't survive a week without their personal assistants.
because each and everyone of them think that they are the real shit
It was nice having a break from these news stories for four years with a boring Biden administration.
What break? The media couldn’t give up their orange addiction. Remember how much news there was for every trial?
I didn't bother to pay attention because he wasn't at the levers of power the whole time. It was bliss.
Following the Watergate scandal, ‘-gate’ became the suffix to label subsequent scandals.
I propose stories associated with Trump, and other stupid scandals, be encrusted with the suffix ‘-a-Lago’.
Tariff-a-Lago
Embargo-a-Lago
Cargo-a-Lago
Fiasco-a-Lago
Bravado-a-Lago
Avocado-a-Lago
If we have trouble with Nigeria somehow, we could get Lagos-a-lago
This is actually very great
What if the scandal involves Mar-a-Lago though? Do we call that Mar-a-Lago-a-Lago?
Why not, compound stupidity justifies a compound stupid label.
Alternatively, how about Mar-a-La-La-Lago?
Media companies have realized what foreign governments have known for years. If you want all the inside knowledge of what goes on in the Trump White House, send a spy to Mar-a-lago. You don't need clandestine agents when Trump and his crew discuss all this stuff openly, and all you have to do is pay to get in.
Trump’s team is slowly discovering why we have government and bureaucracy.
they must have not got the memo that their infighting is exactly what boss Putin wanted.
Hopefully they just tear themselves apart from the inside and everyone just bails and we can have another election with some decent fucking candidates.
Good. The in-fighting might be the only thing to save America from this administration.
Oh no! I hope they don't kill each other! That would be a tragedy 🙄
Yeah the sith had issues with infighting too, kind of a mark of authoritarian takeover.
Yet another headline you’d never have to worry about seeing under any other normal presidency.
This happened throughout his first term as well as within the Trump Organization before he sought public office. His management style seems to be one where the boss pits everyone against each other to keep all would-be dethroners at bay. It's not the best way to distribute the keys of power, but it is a good way to keep anyone from challenging the leader even in the slightest.
This is exactly how Hitler ran his government. People think the Nazis were hyper-efficient. In truth the German reputation of being a highly regimented and strict society well predates the Nazis, the Nazis themselves were highly disorganized and really inefficient in most everything they did.
may the goblins be as incompetent as they are ghoulish
I am sure this is exactly what Trump wants. To run his administration like The Apprentice.
Same management energy that succeeds in going bankrupt running a casino.
Traditionally, disputes like this were resolved by all members of one faction having unfortunate fatal accidents in the same night.
I think the US is going to have a health epidemic of falling-out-of-windows soon.
Trump promised the social media nutjob faction, the corrupt billionaire faction, and the low-brow entertainment faction that they'd each get to call all the shots. Kinda awkward when they all get in the same room together.
Wow. It's almost like when you hire nothing but back stabbers and grifters, you get people who only know to back stab and grift.