The Daily Populous Saturday January 11st, 2025 evening edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Murky-Site7468

It’s roughly the same with all the other absurd appointees. What Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick to run the Department of Defense, is alleged to have to done to that woman in 2017 is repulsive (he denies the charges and says it was consensual). His views are beyond extreme. But if he becomes so toxic that he, like Gaetz, has to withdraw, it won’t be because he believes liberalism must face “utter annihilation,” but because of the sex scandal. On the one hand, that’s good—it would tell us that even Republican senators draw a line on sexual assault. On the other, it means that all Trump has to do is nominate someone else who isn’t charged with sexual misconduct but is cool with the annihilation of liberals, and that nominee will sail through.

We could run through several more of Trump’s nominees in a similar vein. Tulsi Gabbard, his pick for director of national intelligence, may be the most outrageous choice of all. I mean, if you were Germany or France, would you share intel about Russia with her? She may get bounced, but again, she’d likely be replaced by someone just as ferociously loyal to Trump and roughly as reactionary and objectionable, just less histrionically so. Ditto Linda McMahon, a truly nutty choice for education secretary, although she seems likely to get through. Matt Whitaker to NATO? His main qualification is trying to interfere with the Mueller report. Federal Communications Commission chair nominee Brendan Carr wrote the relevant section of Project 2025 and has recently suggested that his FCC will look closely at the broadcast licenses of the major networks, which no administration has done in decades.

And don’t ever forget the most alarming of them all, the man who has faded from the headlines somewhat because his elevation does not require Senate confirmation. Border-czar-to-be Tom Homan has nevertheless been out there talking to right-wing news outlets about doubling the number of ICE agents in sanctuary cities and states: “Sanctuary states said they’re not allowing any detention facilities in their state—fine. Then we’ll arrest them. We’ll fly them out of the state and detain them outside the state, again, away—away from their families, their attorneys. That’s what you want, that’s what you get.”

yeahimadeviant83 on January 11st, 2025 at 13:23 UTC »

So the people need to take power back is what I’m hearing…

PayTheTeller on January 11st, 2025 at 13:18 UTC »

The most astounding thing has been that so many turned so evil and enabling that it's been impossible to overcome.

When things go dark and we lose everything, there are actually only a small handful of people who were at the root of it all if we're looking for blame. Laura, Sean, Jesse, Tucker,and Rupert.

The propagandists, particularly the most influential ones, are the DIRECT CAUSE of spreading the evil that so many of those who attack all of our values from so many angles, watch day after day in order to get their motivation to act.

One would think that after their evil actions that directly caused tens of thousands of unnecessary Covid deaths when they encouraged tens of millions to ignore health safety in order to prop up their favored political candidate who found himself mired in a crisis in an election year, that they would let up on the gas. But they only intensified their efforts to spread evil and now we are on the verge of full blown fascism. A fascism perpetrated by legions of people infected with their disgusting and perverted worldview caused by the viscious brainwashing caused by watching Fox News.

I never thought the severity of the effects of right wing propaganda would be so profound but if you look at every single person who acts in these evil ways, or decides to blow up the social contract or ethical and civic norms, it ALL traces back to Fox News Propaganda.

Because it's all caused by people who choose to infect themselves with their poison

HaileySurfer on January 11st, 2025 at 12:56 UTC »

It is a joke alright and I just read he is officially now classed a convicted felon so an actual criminal is the President of America and he has a whole cabinet of some of the worst people imaginable including some that have criminal records themselves, rape and domestic abuse allegations and a long history of making sexist, homophobic and racist comments. My thoughts and sympathies are with you and your country now who will have to put up with four years of this wackjob and his unhinged followers.