Why do we need an education secretary if the plan is to just do away with education all together.
We’re actually going full Idiocracy, holy shit. That’s crazy.
Except President Camacho found the smartest person he could and immediately put him in charge. We’re not even smart enough to be idiocracy.
In case people forgot, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was a porn superstar and, relevantly, five-time Ultimate Smackdown wrestling champion.
I always see this ‘counter argument’ but referring to Idiocracy is more about comparing the stupidness than the President.
I’m not making any arguments, I’m pointing out that wrestling specifically was involved in the plot of Idiocracy.
It doesn’t seem counter at all. Trump is in several Russian porno tapes just ask him, and he was part of WWE multiple times.
So it works in stupidity and his character traits.
I JUST posted this in the McMahon seperation thread, fucking hell
Surely she’ll be less bad than DeVos, though
Meh, I liked Devos’ Title IX policy changes. Even if over half of it was “some guy sued a college over due process and the college lost, let’s bake the decision into formal policy” and most of the rest was just firmly establishing who does what and obvious basic fairness things.
That’s basically the only thing Devos did that I liked, but it’s slightly better than nothing!
Oh hey, surprised devoss didn’t buy it again. I assume McMahon’s platform is more concussions for children
I just read the Oz thing. I fucking can’t anymore.
I think this is the least egregious of all the cabinet picks.
What even is reality
She donated a lot of money to his campaign. As did a few others that he’s appointing to offices. Pay to play.
Of course she did
Sure, whatever.
At this point, I frankly don’t even really care anymore.
between this and dr oz, is he just hiring people he knows from tv?
He appears to be picking people from one of three lists:
- Republicans with media experience (aka people he knows from TV or social media).
- Whoever wrote the relevant section of Project 2025.
- People accused of being Russian assets (mostly just Tulsi Gabbard at this point, but there’s a reason she’s going to be in charge of foreign intelligence and it’s not for our benefit).
Don’t forget the rapists.
You’re also missing a major part, donorship. These picks aren’t incompetence as it looks at first glance. They’re deliberately picked for regulatory capture. They’re going to burn it down from three inside.
Look at Dr. Oz. He got picked because of his wife’s family, the Asplundhs. They’re going to fuck up healthcare far worse than you expect.
Tulsi is also category 1
Since literally everything in the government seems to be getting dismantled, what companies are going to pick up the pieces for these sectors? If we are drowning in a sinking ship we can at least invest in a life boat to buy eggs with and fight the impending inflation. The goal seems to shift trillions from government funding to private sectors and deregulate to let the friends of Trump get even wealthier.
I’m buying reits. Real assets may hold their value while trump is purposely fucking shit up.
Hit us with some ticker symbols.
VNQ. But I am holding a large cash position and don’t know what the fuck is going to happen. Either way, I am going to be buying substantial equities sometime in 2025. I’ll probably DCA into total US market and then when trump shits the bed I’ll dump a lot of money into the market. I might favor tech.
Alternatively, if there is decent real estate in my town, I’ll dump my house and buy something bigger and better. Probably the safest investment I can make, long-term.
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Solar is and isn’t going to be a future successful asset, because Trump will do everything to devalue it while the rest of the world moves right on to adopting it.
Gold is at an ATH, Bitcoin is at an ATH, oil is a gamble because while Conservatives may push it, the move for renewables is against it.
Metals and materials for computer chips are still worthwhile investments and Ai is shaky unless it pulls a few more parlor tricks.
The only real things I can find that are corrupt and exempt enough from litigation or a recession…
are prisons and weapons contractors.