We had this conversation before the especially controversial Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration as Trump’s desired attorney general. But plenty of boundary-stretching Cabinet candidates remain. “He’s daring Senate Republicans to go against him — but he’s also daring the entire government apparatus to defy him,” McGraw said. “There’s an audacity to all of it.”

If there is a vestige of a guardrail left, in Cheney’s view, it’s that the protection afforded him by the position only lasts as long as his occupation of the office. “All the forces that were coming for him have been kind of defanged and obliterated,” he said, “but that doesn’t mean that he’s impervious to them forever.”

What so far strikes you all as most meaningfully different about this Trump transition versus the first Trump transition? Is it the picks? Is it the pace? Is it something else?

Anita Kumar: People said after he won that, “Oh, you should know what this is like because we went through this before.” But I actually think it’s very different. Last time he did the transition, he had an office space from the government [in Washington]. Press was allowed to come in there. They had press calls from the transition. Donald Trump did some press conferences. He at least saw the media, and he let the media see the people going up to Trump Tower to essentially interview for jobs. So it just felt very different than what he’s doing now, which is social media, press releases. We haven’t had a press conference from him. We haven’t had transition staff talking to us. And he’s just putting out these picks, and it’s way faster than last time.

And the picks are really different. Last time he picked people he didn’t really know, who were more establishment people. I know people will balk at that because many of them weren’t. But compared to who he’s picking now, they were more sort of Republicans that people knew that maybe he didn’t know.

People said, “Oh, you should, you should talk to this guy” or “You should interview this guy,” and he did. This time it’s people he knows, that have been with him for a while, and that he feels like are really loyal.

Meridith McGraw: I think you just have to look at what a spectacle it has been both times but in different ways. As Anita was saying, the parade of people coming through Trump Tower, the speculation about who may and who may not get a pick, who was having meetings with Donald Trump — there was the fanfare of some of them in 2016 coming to Bedminster for photo ops and meetings with Trump. There was Chris Christie, James Mattis, and some very tabloid-y, New York moments — like when Mitt Romney and Reince Priebus and Trump were caught at Jean-Georges in New York eating frog legs and it was such a moment of humiliation for Mitt Romney. Trump really just didn’t know what he was doing, I think.

This time what’s different is all of this is happening behind closed doors for the most part, with the exception of glimpses of it from social media or when Trump’s allowed the press to come into the room like when he announced Doug Burgum off the cuff, for example. And Trump has, I feel, a different kind of confidence with things this time around. He knows how government works. He knows what pressure points there are in the government to push. And I think that’s what you’re seeing with some of these picks. It’s not only loyalty. He knows that by picking certain people, he’s daring Senate Republicans to go against him — but he’s also daring the entire government apparatus to defy him. I had one adviser who put it to me this way: “Look, he survived two assassination attempts, he’s been indicted how many times — he really is at this moment feeling kind of invincible and sort of emboldened in a way that he never has before.” That’s all playing out with some of the people he’s picked. There’s an audacity to all of it.

I wish Kamala was president. Four years of that admin. would've radicalized the right far better than zion don.

I know he won't, but I fucking hope Trump becomes a dictator. He's the only one who has the balls to lead America. It's absurd when you think about it. The masses are fickle and force politicians to whore themselves out. The only way to for necessary but unpopular decisions like privatizing social security, canceling of medicaid/care, or deleting public education is to force it down the public's throat. But only a dictator would have such power, yet it takes a rare man to not abuse the power of dictatorship. Trump is such a man, which is why he should be given absolute power to fix this country once and for all. We need to redeem the term and return it to its roots. The ancient Romans saw all the above and appointed dictators; why can't we?

>>1363907
>“All the forces that were coming for him have been defanged and obliterated,”
powerful

>>1363907
What a moronic article. Yes, let's pretend the 79 year old is going to actually do his job instead of sitting behind a desk shitting himself while drinking Diet Cokes and watching 12 hours of Fox news every day, like he did last time. He signs whatever Stephen Miller or Steve Bannon puts in front of him and doesn't ask any questions, which is all that is required for the GOP to enact the Project2025 agenda.

>>1363919
Yes, "our guy" hopefully will sign "the document" that will allow the military to Shoot antifa rioters down and then the civil war can truly begin. This is why I voted for the idiot.

>>1363927
I'm looking forward to native advertising being made illegal, when every bought and paid for bot is required to clearly identify itself as such.

Turns out, Americans didnt like it when democrats used their authority to attack their political enemies, especially when they tried to assassinate Trump twice.
Surprise, bigots. I wonder how public support will be when Trump uses his authority to remove people from power who participated in this attack against him.

>>1363938
Imagine being suckered into actually believing this.

>>1363942
newsflash: trump won

>>1363947
That has nothing to do with Trump being guilty of crimes.

>>1363948
The only "crime" he's guilty of is paying a pornstar for sex. I don't get why that angers you incels so much

>>1363949
And misusing campaign funds. And stealing classified documents after his term ended. And raping someone. And trying to have the vote he lost overthrown...

>>1363957
His biggest crime is murdering Biden live on television and then abusing Harris for 2 months

>>1363957
Also asking the Governor of Georgia to find 11000 votes for him, also Trump University, and trying to bribe Zelensky to go on CNN to announce investigations into Hunter Biden

>>1363960
And this is the president of the United States, btw. Standards have clearly fallen.

>>1363963
So nice they duly elected him twice

>>1363963
>>1363960
>>1363957
Turns out that most voters distrust democrats endless streams of propaganda and fear porn.

>>1363965
Most people want the camps and want the ethnostate. Libtards were always the minority. /pol/ is the beating heart of this country and more and more people are waking up to the fact that altruism is the root of all evil.

>>1363965
"Turns out that most voters distrust democrats endless streams of propaganda and fear porn." has been a GOP campaign slogan since Nixon.

>>1363967
If it works, then don't fix it. The only constant was that and the literacy rate of republicans.

>>1363966
Trump people want a better economy and/or to fuck over a distant government that isn't seen to do enough for them. If they don't just dismiss it as fake news, they're gambling on him not being willing or able to pass project 2025, purging and using the military to kill dissenters, or passing a general tariff on everything. It's all campaign talk to trigger the libs because politicians, especially Trump, just say shit. That's why so many Trump voters tell leftists that they're freaking out over ghosts.

>>1363969
>Trump people want a better economy and/or to fuck over a distant government that isn't seen to do enough for them
lol
Yeah, that's why they voted for the most pro-israel candidate that is implementing tariffs on imports.
Trump supporters can suck my ass.

>>1363990
They either don't care, consider it the cost of doing "business," think Trump can be brought around or already holds their isolationist position, or see Israel's existence as a necessary evil to fulfill Revelations.

>>1363993
The GOP is unironically psychotic
>REEE ISRAEL ISN'T COMMITTING GENOCIDE! IT'S TOTALLY DIFFERENT!
>oh yeah, abortion should be banned, all life is sacred
>REEE TRUMP IS NOT HITLER, STOP BEING RETARDED, THEY'RE NOT REMOTELY THE SAME
>thank god Trump is going to deport ten million criminals, we can't have these shitstains screwing up our society
Like what the fuck

>>1363995
Cool it schizo, you appear to be on the verge of another failed assassination attempt against trump.

>>1363997
This is another thing I forgot to mention
>REEE SPEECH ISN'T VIOLENCE!
>uhh, excuse me? Your violent rhetoric is creating assassination attempts.
>bonus round: protesting Israel is against the law on college campuses
Pick a lane, bastard.

>>1363995
At least the ones on here are honest about deportation being a euphemism.

>>1363999
Oh man, lefty having a major melty here

>>1364008
Tell me more about defending Israel anon.

>>1363907
>Trump, bloodied after being shot at, stands up in front of the American Flag, with his fist raised defiantly, while shouting "fight"
This photo is one for the history books. If history books had a section on "famous photos with flags in them" this one would be placed right next to the one of the Marines raising the US flag over Iwo Jima, and the staged one of the soviets raising the red flag over the reichstag

>>1364031
faggot

>>1364031
Would trace the founding of the Empire of America to that pic.

>>1364032
Why does this anger you?

>>1363911
...The *necessary* decision to privatize social security? The canceling of medicaid? Deleting public education? You're a lunatic for the guillotine. What's necessary is the complete opposite, but you're a very sick man. The romans would have identified you as a sociopath and your village would have stoned you to death. I humbly petition thee to kys

>>1364046
Yeah, yeah.
>"It's not working but we need more"
You might just be wrong.

>>1363919
This. If you genuinely think Trump has somehow become wiser you're just fucking blind. The man is putting Doctor Oz in charge of health insurance. He's letting government contractors have a say in government spending. He's falling for clickbait facebook stories and reiterated them on national TV, genuinely believing they're real.

The worst part is he's exclusively populating his cabinet with sycophants. The only thing worse than a possibly demented old man being used as a puppet is a possibly demented old man having free reign with no one willing to tell him no.

>>1364049
Well, Bidens cabinet of professional lonterm politiciaxs fared well

>>1364048
Look up "starve the beast." These agencies get defunded and slashed even as their responsibilities grow. It's a recipe for failure. Most of the world doesn't seem to have issues running programs like public healthcare (while still allowing for a private market) like America does.

>>1364049
It's based. Most of these fucks think you need a college degree to be smart, but college makes you dumb and indoctrinates you. We gotta get regular joes in these places, guys who have fresh eyes and aren't burdened by liberal accredation. People like Oz or Hulk Hogan are exactly the people we need in government right now to shake things up.

>>1364053
>Most of the world doesn't seem to have issues running programs like public healthcare (while still allowing for a private market) like America does.
Because we're subsidizing their militaries. Trump is about to put a stop to that. Let's see how the Europoors manage their socialized medicine and hundred man armies when Russia has their boyz all up in their ass looting shit.

>>1364057
America has the largest GDP in the world by huge margins. Its economy is about as strong as every European country put together. California alone is the 4th or 5th strongest economy in the world. I think the US could have a public option and maintain the world's strongest military easily if it wanted. It doesn't because the idea of some undeserving asshole moocher getting handouts is a greater net negative than the positive of 10 unlucky people getting a helping hand so they can return to being successful members of society.

>>1364055
I don't think this has literally ever worked in human history. Putting unqualified people in positions of power only leads to corruption and incompetence. Regardless of what you think the american education system, they don't have the skill or experience for their positions.

Real life isn't a movie where a new guy comes in with an outside perspective and shakes things up for the better, and just because someone is a good worker doesn't mean they're a good leader. I can trust an mechanical engineer to be able to accomplish anything he's tasked to do, but I'm not going to automatically assume that translates to being a good manager by default. Doing and leading are two very different skills, and thinking someone who is good at the former will automatically excel as the latter usually leads to disaster.

>>1364059
The issue is that a lot of people associate anyone with a degree in a subject as being an "insider" in said subject. You can easily find people who are qualified who aren't part of the Washington establishment. Presidents have done so in the past, such as FDR bringing on board a bunch of Keynesians when the dominant economic thought of Washington at the time was laissez-faire, or Reagan letting the Chicago school into the White House when most of DC were Keynesians. Grabbing a bunch of people who don't know jack shit about the subject they're managing, and worse, are even uninterested in it is a recipe for disaster. Often times, you gotta know the book to throw the book out.

>>1364060
We're just sick of expert know-nothing-know-it-alls. It's time for something new. It's time to let the hog run wild.

>>1364060
If you want a prime example of this, especially since this is from Trump's first term, look no further than Ben Carson. Legitimately one of the best neurosurgeons alive. Trump decides to give him a cabinet position because he's also a lifelong republican. Said position is Head of Housing, presumably because Carson expressed interest in it despite his accomplishments all being in a completely different field.

End result? Carson spends all four years of his term doing effectively jack shit. He tries repeatedly to defund his own department and gets blocked by both sides of congress because they recognize he has no idea which parts of his budget are actually viable to cut. I genuinely couldn't find one thing he actually accomplished while in-office other than somehow spending 30-40k on a dining set for his office.

Now imagine that for a whole cabinet. That's the risk we're dealing with here because Trump has only grown more fond of yes-men since he left in 2020.

>>1364062
>That's the risk we're dealing with here because Trump has only grown more fond of yes-men since he left in 2020.
Missing the forest for the trees.

Trump is being directed by his donors to purge irrelevant departments because Trump is the populist candidate; Americans are fed up with the status quo of disengaged bureaucrats ignoring their constituency and becoming fat off of American tax money. This gives them the opportunity to reshape the government to their liking.

It's a mistake to assume that Trump doesn't know what he's doing, because he's literally being advice from the same people who controlled Biden and Obama, and previously tried to depose him for not playing ball.

>>1364064
>Trump is being directed by his donors to purge irrelevant departments because Trump is the populist candidate;
The mental disconnect required to type this sentence is really something. The biggest trick Trump ever pulled was making stupid people think him and his billionaire buddies are "populists".

>>1364065
Anon, don't be retarded. What Trump advertised himself to be and what he actually is are two very different things.

>>1364064
>Trump is being directed by his donors to purge irrelevant departments
Trump is purging "irrelevant" departments because his buddies get kickbacks for it. We end the department of education and all his friends already invested in private schools make bank. We fire dozens of federal workers and Musk and pals get to fill their roles while getting government subsidiaries. So on and so forth.

It's very fucking obvious what is about to happen, and that's corruption on a scale that would make the founding fathers hang themselves.

> That's the risk we're dealing with here because Trump has only grown more fond of yes-men since he left in 2020.

It's actually a shade worse than that.

>This gives them the opportunity to reshape the government to their liking.

On top of the other moves he's making to bury you, that's the one you need to worry about: Everyone under him tonguing his hole instead of telling him it's stupid and then not doing it. Amongst near-countles retardations coming your way, this does conceivably give rise to possibility to repeal various parts of your constitution that just get in his way generally - because no-one under him will say no - and then whilst he's at it a little more and he can decalare himself emporor and make sure it doesn't change back instantly. and at least 45% of you appear to be dumb enough to cheer him on as it's happening.

Maybe it's not going to get that bad. But I don't see it developing into much better. History isn't on your side.

>We're just sick of expert know-nothing-know-it-alls. It's time for something new. It's time to let the hog run wild.
Remember: You bought this ticket. Now enjoy your ride. You deserve it. When you're looking around for someone to blame, don't neglect the mirror.

>>1364064
>Americans are fed up with the status quo of disengaged bureaucrats ignoring their constituency and becoming fat off of American tax money. This gives them the opportunity to reshape the government to their liking.
The people have spoken

>>1364091
If by "spoken" you mean most of the people stayed home and didn't vote then sure.

>>1364067
>that's corruption on a scale that would make the founding fathers hang themselves.
Maybe you were unaware, the founding fathers were pretty much all wealthy businesses men who signed a document limiting the powers of the federal government.
They were so pro-small government, they even had a smaller government before our current one that was created with the articles of the Confederation

If anything, trump is returning America to its roots by tearing the crazed idpol fanatics and unelected bureaucrats out of their positions of power and returning it to a smaller organization of people who have demonstrated their success leading large organizations

>>1364093
Trump won the popular vote. Democrats lost control of everything.
The people have spoken, even if they said "the Democrats are crazy as fuck, Im not going to vote for them"

>>1364091
>>1364097
Anon Trump winning by less than 2% popular vote doesn't make any of these things false. Hell I think if we had a recount after his current cabinet nominations, he'd probably lose.

Brexit won by popular vote too and look how that turned out. Don't confuse voter apathy for true majority support.

>>1364094
>They were so pro-small government, they even had a smaller government before our current one that was created with the articles of the Confederation
So you're saying they actually expanded the government?

>If anything, trump is returning America to its roots by tearing the crazed idpol fanatics and unelected bureaucrats out of their positions of power and returning it to a smaller organization of people who have demonstrated their success leading large organizations
The fact you can say this with a straight face proves you're retarded.

>>1364099
>Hell I think if we had a recount after his current cabinet nominations, he'd probably lose.
Well yeah, democrats would probably "find" extra boxes of ballots cast exclusively for Joe Biden in key districts.

>>1364100
>>1364099
The majority of voters decided they are tired of being led by fart huffing democrats who cater to the fringe left.
Deal with it.

>>1364102
>Every single post-election poll found the leading issue was the current state of the economy
>"We obviously won because the left catered too far left"
This is a very good way to set yourself up for a blue wave next election.

Also doesn't change any of the facts or the cronyism.

>>1364101
According to whom?

>>1364103
Lmao. "The left" wasn't elected again to fix the problems they caused.
Go figure.

>>1364103
What makes it cronyism in your mind? The fact he is hiring Washington outsiders? How is what trump is doing literally any different from democrats appointing democrats to positions of power, trump just isn't selecting from a pool of career politicians, he's chosing from a pool of people that are successful and share his vision

>>1364094
Maybe you were unaware, the founding fathers were pretty much all wealthy businesses men who looked at the tax revenue going to the king and thought: I could take that.

>If anything, trump is returning America to its roots by tearing the crazed idpol fanatics and unelected bureaucrats out of their positions of power
and installing unelected bureaucrats that won't dare tell him 'no' because faggot, into positions of power. Explain how this is better for you. Individally and/or as a country.

>>1364103
>implying there will be elections

>>1364124
I'm putting my money on emporor trump - but who knows, maybe y'all get lucky and he'll go through all this effort just to have it undone by the next sane person to take office.

>>1364103
>This is a very good way to set yourself up for a blue wave next election.
Remember when you faggots said this in 2022? Lmao

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>>1364129
Submissive

>>1364126
They don’t think Trump won’t outlaw the democrats. It’s delusional.

youtube[.com]/@VmousAnony

Fuck this thread

https://youtu.be/YjG3K01jvt4?si=XR-tynecQHo5IHLk

>>1364106
The fact that RFK, Gaetz, Oz, Musk, and Hegseth, among others, all have/had nowhere near the experience required for their positions but have endless loyalty/are indebted to Trump. Gaetz was an AG choice despite only having been a practicing lawyer for 3 years. RFK has literally no experience with running anything health related outside of non-profit groups that campaign against vaccines and do little else. Hegseth never got beyond Major in the army. Musk only stays afloat due to overpromising his investors despite a history of underdelivering (and the fact he actively takes government contracts and clearly has no intention of leaving his current position to avoid conflict of interest means he absolutely shouldn't have any word in government spending) Leaving aside politics, education, and any other metrics, they simply have no experience leading in the fields he selected them to take.

Even his more fitting choices, like Pam Bondi, were clearly chosen because of loyalty to Trump personally above all else. It's no coincidence that he chose his own defense lawyer for an important justice department position.

>>1364137
Remember when Biden nominated a troon AND a cross dressing sex pest who wardrobe was comprised of stolen women's suitcases from airports?

You have zero right to have your gripes about qualifications taken seriously.

>>1364138
To be fair, that's something that should be of equal concern to you. You really don't seem to be paying much attention to the details that matter. Just looking for someone to blame, as long as it isn't you. I'm sure that's a good strategy to move forwards.

>>1364138
And you have every right to prioritise incompetence over sexuality. I hope you're ready for the repercussions.

>>1364138
>Troon
Faculty at Penn State Hershey Medical Center since 1993. Created two separate divisions there. Was Pennsylvania's Physician General from 2015-2021.
>a cross dressing sex pest who wardrobe was comprised of stolen women's suitcases from airports
9 years of work with nuclear energy. Director of legislative affairs at an actual nuclear waste facility. And they weren't even a head of the department or anything, just a deputy assistant secretary.

>>1364138
>a cross dressing sex pest who wardrobe was comprised of stolen women's suitcases from airports?
Oh yeah forgot about this dude lmao

>>1364143
The irony is that wasn't even a direct appointee by Biden nor in a head position, yet they were still more qualified and had more experience required for their position than RFK does for his or Gaetz did for AG.

>>1364142
>Faculty at Penn State Hershey Medical Center since 1993. Created two separate divisions there. Was Pennsylvania's Physician General from 2015-2021.
Lives in a made up fantasy world where he thinks he's a woman. Not mentally fit.

>9 years of work with nuclear energy. Director of legislative affairs at an actual nuclear waste facility.
Literally stole suitcases from airports to feed his cross dressing fetish. Not mentally fit.

>>1364144
> yet they were still more qualified and had more experience
And yet they were still not mentally fit for the positions they were in. It doesn't matter how much experience you have, if you are that mentally ill you are not qualified.

>>1364146
>Not mentally fit
And yet somehow they both had more success in their fields prior to taking their positions than most of Trump's nominees have in the roles they were chosen for.

>>1364147
>And yet somehow they both had more success in their fields
Clearly they were carried by their more mentally fit coworkers, because they were too busy either gooning and developing autogynophelia, or stealing suitcases from women at the airport. The real unspoken heroes are the normal people who had to put up with their bullshit only to have these dysgenic freaks get all the credit for being DEI poster children.

In the sense of distracting from Biden's rampant senility, constant fuck ups and major crimes; appointing a troon and a cross dressing klepto was 5D chess- because not even you can same a single accomplishment for either individual under this administration otherwise.

Zero accomplishments to show for their qualifications, because again doing nothing other than being a scandal magnet under the worst administration since Jimmy Carter was why they were picked in the first place. Same reason Biden chose Kamala as his VP, had to pick someone who somehow looks and sounds even dumber than Biden.

>>1364148
Ok so now you're literally writing fanfic to justify your own worldview.

The one who got fired for stealing luggage wasn't a department head and wasn't even employed by the government for very long. Levine (the trans one) meanwhile proved to be a very good leader for Pennsylvania under covid. With her as assistant Secretary we also got an expansion of medicaid eligibility and reduced the price of medicare by around 10%.

Also the sheer irony is if you're complaining about that, than Trump's appointees are even worse with their lack of experience OR accomplishments. The most we have is RFK giving Samoa advice to stop their measles program and getting a bunch of children killed the next year.

>>1364149
>Ok so now you're literally writing fanfic to justify your own worldview.
No, just correctly pointing out that working a job for a long time doesn't make someone qualified, nor does it make them not a mentally ill freak unfit for positions of importance.

>With her as
With him as*

>expansion of medicaid eligibility and reduced the price of medicare by around 10%.
So he handed out more gibbs to freeloaders and got so many people killed under Covid that the cost of the gibbs went down? Weird flex attempt.

>than Trump's appointees are even worse
They are objectively not, given they are not autogynopheliac porn addicts or kleptomaniac cross dressers.

>The most we have is RFK giving Samoa advice to stop their measles program and getting a bunch of children killed the next year.
Did you complain about Bill Gates getting involved with the Covid response, inspite of his Polio vaccines causing Polio outbreaks and resulting in a bunch of children and adults dying or suffering life long disabilities because of it?

No? Then we're right back to where we started- you have zero right to complain because everything you support and make excuses for is worse, and no one should care what you have to say. Thanks for playing!

>>1364142
Personal achievements mean nothing if core parts of your very being are irreparably damaged.
Everything runs downstream from one's mental state. We don't even know if their achievements are real, only that they came from damaged people, as aided by an administration that thinks enshrining the worst members of society is a moral imperative.

>>1364147
>yet somehow they both had more success in their fields
How do you not succeed in a job you can never get fired from and are guaranteed to be promoted?
"Success" in the world of federal employment is "mediocrity" everywhere else

>>1364150
>got so many people killed under Covid that the cost of the gibbs went down
Show your working. Lets see how you math that. This should get funny.

>given they are not autogynopheliac porn addicts or kleptomaniac cross dressers.
That you've read about on docile media. Yet. I'm sure there's plenty of time. If you can afford the energy costs and get online once trump's plans manifest is another matter entirely.
What they are, by trump's telling of it, is a circlejerk of yesmen. This set will be either apheared to tell him no or too stupid to realise why what he's telling them to do is a bad idea. I'm sure that's a great recipie you've got yourselves over there. I look forwards to you eating that cake.

N you should be more concerned about billyboi's genetically engineered mosquito released into the wild. Or medicine generally. Cunt's claim to fame is he ripped off an OS then through underhanded techniques cornered a market with it.

>you have zero right to complain
You feel the same if the shoe is on the other foot, there? I complain about having to deal with the downstream effects of other people's suptidty all the time - luckily this is one that doesn't directly impact me, and the indirect is minor and managable - and I feel very entitled to do so, as I'm effected by it. I didn't make the stupid descisions - for example, tollerating adverts on and trying to monetise my internet - but now I'm expected to deal with it, because you was dumb enough to.

>>1364155
To be fair, that describes a lot of corpo work places, especially management, as well. Any large organization is going to have a degree of inefficiency to it. Corpos can fire low level fuckups more easily, but they still have issues with nepotism, brutal office politics (if you’ve ever had to play the blame game, you’d know what I mean), and charismatic bullshitters getting kicked up while the honest and competent struggle and get passed over.

The Joker got raped by prison guards

>>1364158
Corporations are the most efficient entities in our society. It’s survival of the fittest and any organization that isn’t efficiency maxing dies. This is why privatizing government institutions always leads to increased efficiency. This is why many intelligent people like Trump and Musk want to run government like a business.

>>1364160
>intelligent people like Trump and Musk
You realise how stupid that makes you look, thinking an imbecile and a thickett are intelligent?
Look at how trump runs his businesses. Ie: into the ground. That's how he's gonna be running your country. You've still not recovered from the damage caused by his last stint.

>Corporations are the most efficient entities in our society
Nothing reeks of efficency more than several layers of middle management.

>This is why privatizing government institutions always leads to increased efficiency.
Examples?

>>1364162
And for purpose, 'efficency' isn't about how much you can overcharge for something. It's doing something with minimal waste.

>>1364162
>You realise how stupid that makes you look, thinking an imbecile and a thickett are intelligent
Man, if people that dumb can be so good at life, how stupid must you be to be so bad at life?

>>1364158
Sure, now imagine this but you can't fire the low level fuckups. That's the federal government

>>1364166
Government employees are on probation for the first few years where they can be fired pretty easily. Government jobs are extremely competitive as well, meaning that they typically skim the best, and it’s also why private organizations love snapping up government researchers. Not every government employee is an overworked postman or DMV attendant (which isn’t even federally run, but state run). I admit I am a bit biased though as I’ve worked under the fed (Air Force) and presently work with NASA scientists at my university.

>>1364165
What makes you think I'm 'bad at life'?

And for that matter, what makes you think them chumps is 'good at life' - as opposed to being lucky enough to be born into wealth. Okay, musk at least part-built his empire I'll grant.
Would he of gotten to paypal without daddies emerald mine?

Count trump's (alarmingly serious) business fails. That's all 'cause he's "good at life", yeah?

>>1364167
Ok cool, so the only people who are fired are low level new employees who are on probation

>>1364168
>Count trump's (alarmingly serious) business fails. That's all 'cause he's "good at life", yeah?
Over 50% of businesses fail within the first couple years.
Trumps managed to grow his wealth massively with the ones that are still going.
That's successful.
If he weren't, he would be bankrupt by now, but yet he keeps getting wealthier.

>>1364170
He's not grown shit. trump's flushed it down the toilet, repeatedly.

The Trump foundation (that can deserve a capital letter) has grown wealth. Because he's not allowed to play with it. Incidently, that's the source of (his)money that gets lost.

>>1364171
>He's not grown shit
He started out with a few million and had a few billion
He objectively has grown his wealth no matter how much you dislike him

>>1364184
Did he grow that?
Or was that something other people did for him whilst he played golf?

>>1364058
High there! Gross is not Net. Hope this helps!

>>1364187
This seething is embarrassing anon.

>>1364192
Have you tried not seething?
Or behaving in a less embaressing manner?
Try putting down the docile media and thinking for yourself. Can't hurt.

>>1363957
Wow. That's a lot of crime that surfaced in the last four years.. it's almost like someone is searching for any possible reason to arrest this guy. I wonder if it's politically motivated like the assassination attempts were? That would be sort of third worldy and terrifying.

>>1363907
Trump is an old man in the beginning stages of senility.

>>1364205
It's almost like he committed a bunch of crimes and then used the presidency to hide from consequences.

>>1364207
Nah.

>>1364207
Then they waited 40 years until he ran for re-election to do anything about it.
Interesting.

>>1364216
Gee anon I didn't know he used campaign funds for hush money and stole classified documents in the 80s.

>>1364217
>Gee anon I didn't know he used campaign funds for hush money and stole classified documents in the 80s.
But he didn't do one of those things.
And the other seems to be a habit of all presidents including 'Bama and Bidet.
Why weren't you calling for Biden to resign if you felt so strongly about classified documents?
That's because you don't really care, you exist solely to tear down the other side in a sick competition to beat Democrat unpopularity by saying "the other guy's worse!!!".
And to be fair it worked, albeit temporarily, in 2020 then you and team blue were hit with a huge backlash when you and your team failed to produce one positive thing.

>>1364237
>Found guilty for one in New York
>Lied to the FBI about the other, refused to give them back willingly, and actively destroyed proof of it by flushing documents down the toilet

>>1364265
He had access to any and all confidential documents he wanted while at the white House.
Not only that, but the documents were never flushed, they were placed there by Maggie Haberman so that she could take their picture and sell more books https://x.com/maggieNYT/status/1556581489059536896

>>1364302
Nice mental gymnastics. Here's what really happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_classified_documents_prosecution

>>1364237
Let's be honest anon, the only reason it "worked" in 2020 is because the Dems cheated. Reminder that all of those ballots that magically appeared for Biden at 3 in the morning were non-existent this election.

>>1364265
You forgot
>No one even cared and Kamala lost.
In fact, maybe part of the reason Kamala lost is because Democrats seemed to focus solely on attacking dRumpf instead of trying to improve the country, the standard of living of which decreased provably under Biden and Democrats.

>>1363907
if he doesn't dismantle majority of the networks and kick these far-left bigots off the air he'll of failed america.

>>1363999
checked

>>1364321
Yeah, if I'm hurting, it better be for a goddamn good reason. I know that Trump's going to be fixing things in a few months, and that may involve a lot of pain for a few years, but it's good pain. It's medicine, unlike the poison Biden was shoveling into our economy. With Biden, there was no benefit to the pain. I have no illusions that the tariffs will crash everything and some will probably starve to death, but this is a war and that's what it'll take to end globalism. Like Musk said, things will suck for a year or two, but we have to reduce all spending to live within our means. We'll bounce back better than ever when the economy is restructured so that the undeserving perish and the hardworking prosper. That's a society we should all be working towards and sacrificing for. We have to be prepared for it because the left will try to use this crash against us. I think Trump understands the fickleness of the masses, and will have the midterms fortified so the left cannot lie the dumb voters back at the first sign of discomfort.

>>1364373
He has the power to end the left once and for all. Tolerance has destroyed this country. We are constantly pulled in two directions. Left-Right, it's bullshit because there is only one right opinion, one right way. Anything else is poison. One will, one party, one leader, one people, that's what our nation needs. Any dissent or treason against Trump should be banned and ostracized.

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>>1364659
Where do these Trumpbots keep coming from?