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Jay Shackford
Don’t Fuck with Mom
One thing for sure can be said about old Bone Spurs’ cabinet and other top Administration picks, “Don’t fuck with mom.” Wow! Poor Pete Hegseth discovered that fact too late in his short life to save his nomination.
Read her email and there’s no way you can say that Pete is in any way qualified to be the city’s dog-catcher — much less the nation’s Secretary of Defense — the guy with his hands on the nuclear codes and in charge of a $900 billion-plus budget and 3 million service men and women working around the clock and globe. Pete is toast! Trump will send him a short Matt Gaetz type of email tomorrow —“You don’t have the votes — get lost.”
Next comes Tulsi — with her one-on-one meetings and love letters with Syria’s strongman Bashar al-Assad and Russia’s Putin, you can imagine the sort of scrutiny she will undergo before Senate Foreign Relations and/or Intelligence committees if her nomination gets that far.
Then we can dump RFK Jr. The late Ethel Kennedy, junior’s Mom, is long gone to comment on her son’s nomination, but all of his sisters and brothers (think he had 11) and most of his cousins and second cousins for a total of more than 30 all signed a letter when he was running for President saying RFK Jr. was grossly unqualified to hold any high office in the U.S. government.
Once that’s done, we can go after Kash Patel. Where do these guys and gals come from?
What’s next? Who knows? But we do know from Trump’s first term in office that:
- He likes campaigning (it’s competitive) a lot more than governing (it’s hard work);
- He likes to bully, berate and belittle any one— foreign or domestic — he thinks is standing in his way;
- He cheats in golf (his one true love) just like he does in business, romance and running the country;
- He govern’s and claims his power on two basic principles: instilling fear in his opponents or just wearing them down to the point where they just give up.
The next six months will be critical. We can’t give in to fear or give up. It will require the loyal opposition (Democrats and others) to quit whining about the election Instead, we need to mobilize our forces and start mapping out a plan to oppose a once-in-a-century madman from disbanding the Constitution, destroying the economy by deporting millions of immigrants, imposing across-the-board tariffs and other crazy economic policies that he has absolutely no understanding about, cancelling recent climate change policies to further pollute the planet perhaps to the point of no return, shredding rather than strengthening our health care system and replacing the “Pledge of Allegiance” with the Lord’s prayer.
On President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, I say, “Hell yes.” He did what any good and caring father would do for his son or daughter. Besides that, with Trump threatening to nominate Kash Patel as FBI Director and a “yes woman” who will do his bidding as his Attorney General, Hunter Biden would be facing years of jail time for a relatively minor charge. He’s suffered enough. Let him go. And don’t forget Trump’s pardons at the end of his first four years (Roger Stone, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon, among others)— all those crooks who remained loyal and quiet during Trump’s impeachment inquiries.
But I do have some good news for Nori, who lives near Rehoboth Beach, DE. As my GOP buddies tell me, Trump is already designing the first detention camp to house and detain thousands of illegal immigrants rounded up during his first months in office. The site of the first camp designed much like Dacha (the first Nazi concentration camp on the outskirts of Munich) will be in eastern Delaware where the land is cheap and its within “spitting distance” of Joe Biden’s beach house.
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