The massive push by allies of Donald Trump to make sure that his Cabinet nominees get rubber-stamped by Republican senators is starting to rankle some lawmakers who are growing weary of being bullied.According to a report from Politico, while Republicans are showing a united front in allowing the pr...
  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    19·
    11 hours ago

    Trump has already threatened a purge and revenge against people who hurt his fee fees.

    Same old shit. People supporting radicalization and installation of a dictator find themselves shipped off to a gulag or out of a job because they all think they’re going to get to participate in the new power structure, except dictators never share. They put family and extreme loyalists first. The rest are just window dressing to be traded out at first inconvenience.

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
    6·
    9 hours ago

    It would be funny AF if someone managed to slip him some Polonium into his McDonald’s, thereby causing the US to curbstomp Russia out of Ukraine.

    • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      11 hours ago

      I agree completely, but your comment begs the question: can you supply a picture of Trump that isn’t? He always looks like mummified foreskin wearing a cotton candy toupee to me.

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
        4·
        11 hours ago

        So, funny story, I had my foreskin mummified the other day. Have you guys seen it? I smeared some pineapple cotton candy mixed with motor oil on it…accidentally.

  • credo@lemmy.world
    106·
    12 hours ago

    This is why voting in Congress should be anonymous. And this is exactly why purse holders wanted voting to be public- so they could carve out any nonconformists.

    Any way. These fuckers better learn from the Greeks and form a Phalanx.

      • credo@lemmy.world
        1·
        26 minutes ago

        No. That’s a lie you’ve been fed to support it. This change has done significantly more harm than good. It’s exactly what’s led to our situation of extremes. With anonymous voting, no one can get paid for their vote. This is so much better than you preventing them from voting their conscience by requiring proof.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      10 hours ago

      Anonymous voting by elected representatives may be the goofiest thing I’ve heard of in a while.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    59·
    22 hours ago

    The massive push by allies of Donald Trump to make sure that his Cabinet nominees get rubber-stamped by Republican senators is starting to rankle some lawmakers who are growing weary of being bullied.

    Thoughts and prayers.

    • orcrist@lemm.ee
      13·
      16 hours ago

      Of course I care. The fragmentation of the Republican party is something that many of us have been hoping to see for a long time.

      The good thing about the situation now, for those of us who think Trump is an evil piece of s***, is that he doesn’t have too much power. He can kind of pressure people who are up for re-election in 2 years, but his voice will mean nothing at all in 4 years. Also, many politicians want to wield their power so that they can either feel powerful or get richer, and if all they do is rubber stamp the word from the White House, nobody’s going to give them the time of day.

    • Zachariah@lemmy.world
      24·
      13 hours ago

      If it is a sign that the GOP will start beating eating itself, that would make my life a lot easier.

  • Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    51·
    21 hours ago

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