Still six weeks from taking office and Donald Trump has already brought down Bashar al-Assad. Will post hoc ergo propter hoc wonders never cease?

Of the last 5 Senate-confirmed SecDefs (Austin, Esper, Mattis, Carter, Hagel) 4 are frontline combat veterans. Three were decorated for valor and one was 2x wounded. So spare me this hero costume shit.

Funnily enough many people would agree the best of those 5 was civvie-4-life Ash Carter.

I dislike Ron DeSantis almost as much as Donald Trump, but he would be an acceptable Secretary of DOD. Military experience, Congressional experience, two term big state Governor. But I’ll be surprised if he gets the nod because he is, after all, Ron eww DeSantis.

Pete Hegseth’s Secret History A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being rep...

Not just his mother.

Pete Hegseth’s Secret History www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

Even assuming exported was intended to be exposed, this makes no sense. More Russians?

Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Mistreating Women for Years Penelope Hegseth made the accusation in an email to her son in 2018, amid his contentious divorce. She said on Friday that she regretted the email and had apologized to him.

When even your mother thinks you are pond scum.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

If everything is outrageous, then the outrageous is normalized. Bondi is minimally qualified, and she will be confirmed. Setting yourself on fire about her is counterproductive.

Too thin, I’m afraid.

Gaetz didn’t last even one Scaramucci.

The only chess Donald Trump plays is pigeon chess. The Gaetz debacle was just his usual chaos choreography, not a deeply laid plan.

Pam Bondi is not Matt Gaetz. A former prosecutor, big state AG for eight years, and a woman, she will be confirmed as sure as God made little green apples absent a gnarly skeleton in her closet. As much as it makes want to retch, Trump did win the election.

Gaetz’s karmic downfall reminds me of a piece of wisdom an old political hand offered me when I wore a younger man’s clothes: You can’t stick the bat up somebody’s ass today and expect them to play ball with you tomorrow.

Morning Joe Kneels Before Zod | National Review And the Resistance demands an explanation.

For money and for shame.

www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-...

I don't watch them, but I do think it's a really bad sign when the supposedly anti-Trump conservatives roll out this kind of quisling bullshit.

"President Trump was cheerful, he was upbeat, he seemed interested in finding common ground with Democrats on some of the most divisive issues..."

There are reports of smoke in the Reichstag.

This comment reveals utter ignorance about the American founding, or total devotion to the cult.
Or both.

The Governor will call special elections in those Rep districts as fast as they can be scheduled to get reliable Trump votes to D.C. in time to participate in sacking the government. This contrasts with him taking the longest possible time when the vacancy was in a Dem district in a Dem House.

Don’t underestimate the opposition. Matt Gaetz is quite intelligent and creative. That is what makes him more dangerous than the average Trump myrmidon.

Congrats to @bluesky for all the new users

My 2 cents. Find every news source the has an RSS feed or equivalent and create accounts that that show their public deeds on here under @johndoetimesfeed

That way we all get access to news without having to wait for them to create accounts first.

H.L. Mencken, Seer

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

Folks: we hate doing these posts, but now is the time to rebuild our pro-democracy community right here on BlueSky. No more leaving our future in the hands of Elon Musk. If you are able, please follow, repost this, and let your followers know we are here. Let's do this!

“Marxism in this country had ever been an eccentric and quixotic passion. One oppressed class after another had seemed to finally miss the point. The have-nots, it seems, aspired mainly to having.” Joan Didion