Susie Willies is the Chief of Staff of the President.
She controls his agenda. She sometimes takes decisions on his behalf.
She is one of the very few people that Donald Trump actually trusts.
In 2010, she helped healthcare businessman Rick Scott become Governor of Florida.
She went to create a corporate lobbying firm named Ballard Partners. She recruited Pam Bondi as a lobbyist for Ballard Partners.
In 2018, she helped Ron De Santis become Governor Governor of Florida.
In 2024, Susie Willies was the top campaign manager of Donald Trump.
I haven’t seen the show, but the premise of “The Thick of It” is that the real powerful figures are staffers, not the politicians themselves.
You must! It’s easily my favourite comedy show of the 00s, but if you’re not a Brit you’ll probably need subs, lol.
But I like Googling British phrases, I want to talk like that! Watching My Oxford Year rn and have paused it like 5 times and I’m not even halfway through 😂
Looking at this crowd of people it’s hilarious to see people actually wearing that ridiculous hat. Do people actually do this in the US? 😂
Yes. Not even at rallies. People wear trump hats really in public. It’s embarrassing
I wish I lived your life
The hats are just the tip of the iceberg. Political apparel isn’t anything new, but it’s usually just reserved for election years. For a lot in MAGA, it’s everyday. And it’s not just clothing.
Driving through rural areas or small towns, the amount of Trump flags flying in front of homes today, well after the election, is staggering. Flags are what get me because I can’t think of any other candidate who had their name on a flag that people actually flew alongside of or in place of the American flag. I do not remember ever seeing Bush flags, or Obama flags, or Biden flags. This is different. This idolatry is not normal.
They’re Nazis. Enough said.
They’re so weak they want to bootlick a fascist rather than to stand up for themselves.
Am I the only one that thinks 90% of the people in the clowns orbit should be put in homes for the elderly and insane?
We’ve got bro getting ready to fingerpaint with pudding and queen karen-de-ville realizing the voices are in the room with her.
karen-de-ville
Omg, I’m stealing that one.
You’re going to let them off easy like that?
It’s only right that they experience homes for the insane as they were during their generation ;) I certainly wouldn’t want them to feel out of place.
First woman to hold the position of white house chief of staff. Well done ladies. Way to hit the ground running.
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so she’s the eva braun to donald trump.
But he fucks her through a handmaid proxy.
NSFL!
Look at that happy healthy calm facial expression.
Is appearance really the first thing it occurs to you to comment on?
EDIT: “Yes, body-shaming is indeed my chief concern, hence my comments based on candid photos” was the response. Cringe.
Ah shit, you’re right, I almost forgot that people have no control over their facial expression!
TBF you film anyone long enough you’re going to capture some strange expressions.
Disclaimer: this is in no way a defense of her. Just a general statement.
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Hey, mod… GFY, bitch.
aka, Leo
Yeah, but… not good.
Friendly reminder the guy who organised lenins calendar was bloody stalin. That’s a level of discretionary control over a highly powerful individual that could basically let you choose the next president.
She’s the Umbridge to his Voldemort
Part of the reason we have a fascist infestation right now is you people’s only response to the threat of our democracy collapsing is to fucking make harry potter memes
What an absolutely odd response.
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I’ve read plenty of books, and I’m not really a huge Potter fan but it happens that my kids were re watching the old movies.
Still, Umbridge stands in my mind as one a great example of somebody who assists evil by hamstringing good and chipping away at hope, all while stating “this is for your own good” mentality.
It’s one of the few TV characters that actually made me angry because she’s so believable
“Lemmoids”, shit dude, is there even any place you feel at home at this point?
There is no public forum not infested with the alt-right, so no, there is no digital home for sane people on the internet anymore
These people don’t realize by making fun of the awful things He’s doing it normalizes it.
A lot of people I’m convinced look at the administrations hijinks as entertainment. Gallows humor maybe but humor nonetheless. I am so sick of seeing Trump et al treating leadership as a joke.
This person also believes this and has also several several instances on Reddit as well https://lemmy.world/c/CounterSurkov@lemm.ee
Here’s an excerpt from one of the posts on it
Counter Vlad Surkov techniques and methods
Introduction to the Kremlin media techniques of year 2014
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Peter Pomerantsev September 9, 2014: Russia and the Menace of Unreality. How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
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Adam Curtis, BBC, December 31, 2014: On The “Contradictory Vaudeville” Of Post-Modern Politics - “What this film is going to suggest is that that defeatist response has become a central part of a new system of political control. And to understand how this is happening, you have to look to Russia, to a man called Vladislav Surkov, who is a hero of our time. Surkov is one of President Putin’s advisers, and has helped him maintain his power for 15 years, but he has done it in a very new way.”
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Book reading from December 5, 2014 on the subject by Peter Pomerantsev
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Humor is how people cope with the bullshit happening all around us. If anything, humor is what keeps people going. No part of that joke minimizes the threat to democracy in my mind. Quite the contrary, it makes the threat manageable without succumbing to misery and giving up. We can do two things at once.
We’re having nationwide protests today called Rage Against the Regime, if that helps any. Some tiny amount anyways. They’re not talked about like the No Kings protests were tho. I’m assuming we’ll start protests every weekend at some point
Wiki says her last name is Wiles (née Summerall), btw.
Nah she’ll always be willies to me because that’s what she gives me.
wrf mr general dude… love the horns while your branch of the military is engaging…
but sir, have some sense of decency
🤔 why should I know this?
Why not?
Well I don’t see any reason why I should, despite the “YSK” part
I mean, praising ignorance is never that cool of a look
Like… In general, or are you referring to a particular situation in which that happened?
I’d disagree with the “never” part, in general. For example, it’s probably good not to know how it feels to murder.
Fucking hell, you’d think being the most powerful woman in the US would afford you the ability to change your name from Willies
It gives me the Trumpies.
