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|u/El_refrito_bandito - 10 hours
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|Of course he does.
|u/SandyAmbler - 10 hours
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|It’s like he literally picks the exact opposite of who it should be
|u/CharcoalGreyWolf - 10 hours
|
|That’s because he sees the world through the lenses of money and
|power only. As such, he only picks people who are willing to fuck up
|anything else for those two ends.
|u/roguebananah - 9 hours
|
|Third part is extremely important you forgot about They’ll be yes
|men to whatever Trump wants
|u/Techialo - 8 hours
|
|Fourth, and crucially important part. Trump is the type of guy
|who hates being the dumbest guy in the room. Unfortunately for
|us, he's also fucking stupid.
|u/NorthernerWuwu - 7 hours
|
|On the bright side, he's also a terrible judge of character.
|u/roguebananah - 7 hours
|
|True and I think Musk will be out by March and this will
|wage a war on EVs because he’ll mask it basically saying
|he’s “giving America the gas power cars we were built on and
|not getting enslaved by chargers” But really it’s just to
|hurt Elon more. There’s no way Trump is happy with Musk
|that long into his presidency. Also thank god Musk can never
|be president since he’s from South Africa
|u/GenericFatGuy - 6 hours
|
|Musk ain't even making it to Jan 20. Everyone at Mar-a-
|Lago already hates his guts, which is honestly impressive.
|And it sounds like he's going around trying to take the
|credit for Trump's win. Trump's ego won't tolerate that
|for a second. He's already humiliated Musk at least once
|in front of a crowd since the election ended. It's
|comforting to know that even in the worst timeline, Musk
|is still taking Ls.
|u/Gypsies_Tramps_Steve - 4 hours
|
|So in an ideal scenario, Nelson Tandela gets sick of
|Musk, they have a huge falling out, and Musk (because
|he’s a petulant 14 year old in a billionaire’s body)
|exposes everything he did to help Groper Cleveland win.
|Of course, in an ideal scenario that released info would
|then actually do something.
|u/boogie_2425 - 1 hour
|
|But it won’t. How many times can a president be
|impeached? We may just find out.
|u/p____p - 5 hours
|
|> it sounds like he's going around trying to take the
|credit for Trump's win. give it a few weeks til musk
|and/or trump admits to rigging the election.
|u/Common-Ad6470 - 3 hours
|
|Probably the big ‘secret’ will come out.
|u/tarzhjay - 1 hour
|
|Correct, one of them will undoubtedly slip
|u/krazineurons - 5 hours
|
|Would love to see how Trump humiliated Musk post
|elections, any links?
|u/g0ld-f1sh - 7 hours
|
|>Also thank god Musk can never be president since he’s
|from South Africa I didn't think Trump could be president
|on account of his thirty-four fucking felony charges but
|here we are.
|u/pnellesen - 7 hours
|
|Not to mention Article 3 of the 14th Amendment, which
|the entire fucking government seemed to have
|conveniently forgot existed.
|u/bart48f - 6 hours
|
|for my fellow euro poors stumbling upon this: > If
|Your Time is short > Section 3 of the U.S.
|Constitution’s 14th Amendment prohibits anyone who
|engaged in insurrection against the U.S. from holding
|federal or state office. > The U.S. Supreme Court
|in March ruled that the rule’s enforcement must come
|through an act of Congress, at least by legal
|scholars’ interpretations of the ruling. >
|There’s no sign Congress will enforce Section 3 to
|stop President-elect Donald Trump from becoming the
|next president.
|u/OutInTheBlack - 6 hours
|
|thirty-four fucking felony *convictions* he's been
|charged with way more
|u/Onlyroad4adrifter - 7 hours
|
|It's not the 34 felony counts that's the biggest issue.
|The fact he blatantly broke the 14th amendment section 3
|and got away with it. This sets him up for ignoring
|other constitutional amendments.
|u/Nahdudeimdone - 3 hours
|
|He not only blatantly broke it, he was rewarded for
|it. Even if he does zero damage in office and leaves
|as he should in four years, the next candidates do not
|have to feel beholden to laws at all as long as they
|get elected.
|u/abigailwatson83 - 6 hours
|
|Considering every Cabinet position is technically in
|line for the Presidency, doesn't this also mean he can't
|hold a cabinet position, or am I missing something?
|u/chenga8 - 3 hours
|
|They are able to be cabinet members, but would not be
|in the presidential succession hierarchy. Madeleine
|Albright and Elaine Chao are relatively recent
|examples of this.
|u/roguebananah - 7 hours
|
|Well at least you (currently at least) HAVE to be born
|here. Nothing ever said you can’t be a felon (some how)
|u/DirtDevil1337 - 7 hours
|
|>thank god Musk can never be president since he’s from
|South Africa Watch that party fuck the constitution and
|not care about it, they won't care if they appoint a
|foreigner as president. But anyways yeah I don't see
|Trump wanting Musk in the circle for very long, Must was
|just being used for the campaign and in no way is Musk and
|Ramaswamy going to be on the same page with that DOGE
|crap.
|u/porterica427 - 5 hours
|
|Poor wittle ewon got used for his immediate cash flow to
|bankroll the campaign and promised the keys to the kingdom
|in return. Of course ole Don will let him hang around the
|mansions and talk to world leaders as long as he keeps
|forking over the money! In science we call this
|hyperparasitism - when one parasite attaches to/ feeds
|from another parasite.
|u/pnellesen - 7 hours
|
|Problem is, he's ALWAYS the dumbest guy in the room. Always.
|u/Fun-Minute4507 - 3 hours
|
|Well... When the family sits down for som fast food (I don’t
|like to call mcdonalds dinner) he has a tight race with jr
|and Eric.
|u/Paulpoleon - 7 hours
|
|Fifth point: Trump is deliberately trying to fuck America up
|for Putin.
|u/Techialo - 7 hours
|
|I've been trying to tell people for years, dictators like
|Putin and Orbán don't like Trump because they think he's a
|good leader and could work with him; they like Trump because
|he's a malignant tumor on America.
|u/TwoPrecisionDrivers - 8 hours
|
|That’s part of power, yup
|u/zxcvt - 8 hours
|
|I think you have it backwards. Trump will be the "yes" man for
|whatever they want.
|u/FontaineHoofHolder - 7 hours
|
|trump Is more of a “да man”
|u/Inevitable-Menu2998 - 9 hours
|
|The amount of money made by the russian oligarchs from dismantling
|the USSR is staggering. Just think how much money can be made from
|dismantling the USA and these appointments start making sense.
|u/GeneReddit123 - 6 hours
|
|Weimar Germany, at the time of the Great Depression, had a joke
|going something like this: * When Germany screws up, Germany
|suffers. * When America screws up, Germany suffers. The US (at
|least before Trump has his way with it) is the financial centre
|of the world, the world's leader in science and technology, the
|leader of the world's most powerful military alliance, and the
|keystone of the globalized economic system which all first-world
|(and many other) countries highly depend on for their own
|economy. The difference for the world between the collapse of
|the USSR and the collapse of the USA, is the difference between
|dropping a vase and dropping an artillery shell. One makes a
|mess, but only hurts those directly in its path. The other
|brings down the whole building and everyone in it.
|u/flatfisher - 4 hours
|
|The collapse could be slow while another power picks it up. As
|an European my biggest fear is not one day China overtaking
|the US, but the US not tolerating being relegated to a second
|place and throwing a tantrum with war and nukes to prevent it.
|First case sucks but life goes on.
|u/GeneReddit123 - 1 hour
|
|Surely it would depend on which way China "overtakes" the
|US. It's one thing if they overtake with superior science,
|technology, industry, trade, political alliances. It's
|another if they overtake by invading Taiwan, hostile actions
|towards Japan or South Korea, military blockade of the Nine-
|Dash Line, etc. I think it's unlikely the US would throw
|nukes first, but there can be definitely an escalation-and-
|counterescalation pattern which both China and the US could
|be guilty of, until it does escalate to full-blown war, with
|both sides pointing the finger on the other as the one
|responsible for it. Chinese culture is notorious for "saving
|face", while Trump's ego doesn't allow backing down ever, so
|in a crisis, the demand by both sides to avoid being
|perceived as the "loser" could easily lead to an escalation
|spiral.
|u/raphanum - 7 hours
|
|I’ve heard that Putin might be richer than Musk
|u/EBBBBBBBBBBBB - 8 hours
|
|people talk a lotta shit about the USSR but they conveniently
|forget that the instant it dissolved (which the majority of
|Russians didn't want to happen btw) homelessness went up by 50%
|and millions of people lost any and all social and economic
|safety nets. Capitalist Russia now is far worse than the USSR
|ever was - and Tsarist Russia was even worse.
|u/airfryerfuntime - 7 hours
|
|Russia is definitely *not* worse than it was under the USSR.
|What a ridiculous claim to make.
|u/EBBBBBBBBBBBB - 7 hours
|
|Listen, I'll make no excuses for the USSR's many terrible
|actions, but there was at least a minimum quality of life
|assured by its government for most of its existence - that's
|something that modern Russia doesn't have. Russia is more
|than capable of prospering, but everything was sucked out of
|it by oligarchs
|u/ShawnSmiles - 6 hours
|
|Ah yes, the ~20 million excess deaths under the Soviet
|regime were certainly a great standard which has yet to be
|beaten. Who doesn't love mass purges, starvation, and
|diseases.
|u/leftofmarx - 5 hours
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|It sure as fuck was in the 1990s and well into the 2000s
|u/KintsugiKen - 6 hours
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|> (which the majority of Russians didn't want to happen btw)
|Yeah because Russia was the capital state of a colonial empire
|across Asia that exploited the labor and resources of all the
|peoples around it to benefit Russians primarily, and
|especially western Russians in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
|There's a reason why Russian soldiers in Ukraine are
|disproportionately from the east and Russia's captured
|colonies, and there's a reason why they're stealing toilets.
|u/wintrmt3 - 9 hours
|
|They made that money from stealing all the state owned
|enterprises of the USSR, which was all big companies in the
|whole country, the US does not have have state owned industries
|to steal.
|u/Santa_Says_Who_Dis - 9 hours
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|No, just federal assets like land and intellectual property.
|u/FontaineHoofHolder - 7 hours
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|Don’t forget Social Security!
|u/matchosan - 6 hours
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|And the Post Office pention
|u/Onigokko0101 - 5 hours
|
|Also federal jobs. Im pretty sure they are planning on
|replacing federal workforces with private, charing 4x the
|amount and pocketing it all. You dont have to steal
|companies to steal from a nation.
|u/blacksideblue - 8 hours
|
|We have so much more to be stolen and a currency that
|(currently) has real value. USPS, FHWA, all kinds of service
|agencies with real properties that also act as competition to
|businesses. Monetize any one of them into a standalone
|business without government oversight and it'll be printing
|money. And with the D.O.G.E. threat, they probably will be
|printing money and crypto scamming the entire nation at the
|same time.
|u/Inevitable-Menu2998 - 9 hours
|
|That's just one of the ways, the most visible one, but even
|so: what protects the private US companies from being taken
|over by the state before being given to someone else?
|u/KintsugiKen - 6 hours
|
|And billions of that money was illegally laundered out of
|Russia through Trump's deeply indebted properties in the 90s,
|getting Trump out of debt and getting stolen Rubles out of
|Russia for Russian mobsters, facilitated by Jeffrey Epstein as
|the middle man.
|u/conduitfour - 7 hours
|
|"I told you once before that there were two times for making big
|money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its
|destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the
|crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you
|some day." -Gone With The Wind
|u/Langsamkoenig - 6 hours
|
|The thing is, is all that money really worth having to live in a
|failed state, where you need your private army to go anywhere,
|lest you be kidnapped and murdered? I mean they already have
|billions. Is the numbers in your accounts going up a bit more
|really worth your freedom? They don't seem to think about that
|aspect.
|u/memememe81 - 9 hours
|
|He looks at everyone as an opportunity to be exploited. If he
|can't fuck it, eat it, spend it, or manipulate it for his benefit,
|it has no value to him. We need to start betting on the turnover
|of his incoming administration. They will only be of value for a
|short time before he throws them under the bus.
|u/Aze0g - 8 hours
|
|"We killed the planet, but for a brief moment we made extra value
|for the shareholders holders."
|u/PM-me-youre-PMs - 3 hours
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|* we killed *ourselves*, but for a brief moment we made extra
|value for the shareholders
|u/Hair_I_Go - 9 hours
|
|Russia is seeing thru money goggles $$
|u/net_dev_ops - 7 hours
|
|It honestly feels like all his choices are made out of spite. He
|may enjoy hurting people as much as making money.
|u/Buckeye_Monkey - 9 hours
|
|They're trying to break the government to show it needs to be
|privatized. Been their MO for years.
|u/HopeEternalXII - 8 hours
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|Break AND loot. \*Thumbs up.
|u/KintsugiKen - 6 hours
|
|> to show it needs to be privatized. That's just a side effect
|of the main benefit of a non-functional government; inability to
|regulate private businesses and business people and make sure
|they're paying their taxes. Oil and fracking billionaires
|literally wouldn't care if the US govt collapsed into a
|dictatorship that only protected the oil and fracking
|infrastructure while everything else went to hell. That would be
|completely fine with them, worse case scenario they just sell
|their remote luxurious ranches or penthouse mansions and fly to
|Dubai or China or somewhere else where they'll be more
|comfortable.
|u/PaulVla - 6 hours
|
|They want what happened to the USSR and privatize all sorts of
|government responsibilities.
|u/IC-4-Lights - 8 hours
|
|He did that last time, too. Like making Betsy DeVos,
|who wanted to destroy public education entirely, the fucking US
|Secretary of Education.
|u/angusmcflurry - 8 hours
|
|That won't be a problem this time as he wants to abolish the
|department completely. Problem solved. Which problem? Who the F
|knows.
|u/ApprehensiveShame756 - 8 hours
|
|Vouchers to schools that have the right Bible for each and every
|student. Which means only private religious affiliated schools
|willing to buy a certain leather bound Bible. I should just work
|for them, I can help with all their evil plans.
|u/SpiritGlobal4779 - 7 hours
|
|Since only his Bibles meet the requirements, it’s a good
|grift.
|u/riptaway - 9 hours
|
|Because good governance isn't the point, loyalty and grifting and
|the erosion of regulations as a gift to big business is.
|u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA - 8 hours
|
|Trump doesn't want to govern, he wants to *rule*.
|u/boolboy63 - 9 hours
|
|Hmmm.. it’s almost as if someone behind the scenes is making these
|picks to disrupt the US as much as be possible!! I wonder who that
|could be??
|u/SandyAmbler - 9 hours
|
|I wonder too, Comrade
|u/rsmtirish - 6 hours
|
|HMMMM! It's almost like they're picking the worst possible people
|on purpose!
|u/shiggydiggypreoteins - 9 hours
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|He gonna appoint Bill Cosby as head of the FDA
|u/phard003 - 9 hours
|
|Just wait until Ghislaine Maxwell is pardoned and made the head of
|the children's bureau and child protective services.
|u/KintsugiKen - 6 hours
|
|I mean that's only marginally worse than what he actually did
|when he was president last time; appoint the guy who tried to
|give Epstein and all his associates immunity from sex crimes and
|human trafficking to be the Secretary of Labor.
|u/grizznuggets - 9 hours
|
|Well he is the exact opposite of what a president should be doing
|that tracks.
|u/d-cent - 10 hours
|
|Who would be the worst person to choose for this position, that's
|who he's going to pick.
|u/catalupus - 5 hours
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|It’s what we did for president 2 weeks ago
|u/ljgillzl - 7 hours
|
|A great way to buy unquestioned loyalty is by giving high-level jobs
|to unqualified people
|u/Safety_Drance - 9 hours
|
|He only cares about power and loyalty. Fuck everyone else.
|u/Carvj94 - 7 hours
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|Conflict of interest is a requirement for his picks
|u/Annihilator4413 - 6 hours
|
|Because he is 1,000% intent on making as much money as possible off
|his last term (assuming we have more REAL elections in four years).
|He's the biggest grifter to ever exist and his target is the whole
|of the United States. We are BEYOND fucked if his picks for various
|agencies is anything to go by so far.
|u/thoth_hierophant - 7 hours
|
|That's the whole point. Appoint a sycophant who has no clue what
|they're doing to purposefully obstruct whatever department they lead
|so that down the line the new "DOGE" can deem them extraneous and
|worth cutting. Poof! Bye bye Dept. of Energy, Dept. of Education,
|DoJ, etc.
|u/Consideredresponse - 7 hours
|
|If you look at past energy secretaries the difference is especially
|stark. Before the first Trump Administration just about everyone
|was some combination of prominent physicists, a nuclear physicists
|and a surprising number of them were Nobel laureates.
|u/naics303 - 9 hours
|
|And his supporters just ignore it.
|u/IC-4-Lights - 8 hours
|
|They usually celebrate it. He's got them on board with dismantling
|the EPA, public education, etc. So when he puts people who want to
|destroy those things in charge of those things... they cheer.
| It's the same old, "Governments are bad... elect me and
|I'll prove it." thing that Republicans always do.
|u/Snoo-72756 - 8 hours
|
|I heard he nominated all the demons from hell to guard heaven gates
|u/aaronrodgersneedle - 8 hours
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|No shit. Tens of Millions Americans got conned by a businessman,
|but they’ll never admit it.
|u/LaurenMille - 8 hours
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|Almost like he's been ordered to do as much damage as he can.
|u/droonick - 8 hours
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|It's all Capt. Planet Villains from top to bottom.
|u/OppositeArugula3527 - 8 hours
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|Who better to protect the hen house than a wolf.
|u/folawg - 8 hours
|
|It's intentional to tear it all down...look into Steve Bannon's
|ideology to get an understanding
|u/psychoacer - 7 hours
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|Always have. Did that the first term as well.
|u/LookAtThisClown_ - 7 hours
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|He’s picking everyone who will do what he wants and dismantle
|everything.
|u/CosmicLars - 7 hours
|
|Because Trump is the exact opposite of who should be in the White
|House. None of these picks are surprising. Dark times.
|u/Sweaty-Emergency-493 - 6 hours
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|Actually, it’s the best person for what he aims to do, destroy the
|country.
|u/reddubi - 6 hours
|
|The right wingers have been trying to undermine and disassemble the
|federal government for centuries. They say it’s for the purpose of
|freedom but really it’s deregulation for unlimited profit and
|unregulated capitalism.
|u/49yoCaliforniaGuy - 5 hours
|
|I mean other than the fact that fracking has saved the US energy
|sector and has made the US independent of schmucks in the Middle
|East for oil
|u/King_in_a_castle_84 - 2 hours
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|Who "should" be in charge of energy?
|u/alppu - 7 hours
|
|Do you guys have like zero laws and enforcement for conflict of
|interest matters?
|u/APRengar - 6 hours
|
|I remember when a president had to get rid of his peanut farms for
|fear of conflict of interest. Whereas Trump was allowed to keep his
|businesses which were mysteriously bought from foreign people of
|interest. [The governments of six foreign countries, including
|Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, spent more than
|$700,000 at then-President Donald Trump’s Washington, DC, hotel over
|the first two years of his
|presidency](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/politics/trump-hotel-
|spending-foreign-governments/index.html) Not to mention his family
|[Ivanka’s Trademark Requests Were Fast-Tracked In China After Trump
|Was
|Elected](https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/22/ivankas-
|trademark-requests-were-fast-tracked-in-china-after-trump-was-
|elected/) [Kushner Family Stands to Get $400 Million from a Chinese
|Firm in ‘Unusually Favorable’ Deal](https://time.com/4700612/jared-
|kushner-anbang-deal/) I hate how it's literally in people's faces,
|not some conspiracy theory that has to leap logic to achieve.
|u/Debt_Otherwise - 3 hours
|
|Trump accepted $10 mil from Egypt as a donation to his campaign
|undisclosed (illegal) then he loaned that $10 mil personally to
|the campaign so the campaign owes him back. He personally
|pocketed $10m and no one talks about it. It’s been 100%
|normalised. On what planet are these not corrupt actions?! It’s
|insane.
|u/A_Very_Brave_Kiwi - 5 hours
|
|Laws yes, enforcement no
|u/Annihilator4413 - 6 hours
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|The laws have either been dismantled, or everyone assumed we
|couldn't possibly become this corrupt. They couldn't have been more
|wrong.
|u/KaraAnneBlack - 3 hours
|
|I couldn’t believe the country would be ok with the corruption
|u/Dont-be-a-smurf - 49 minutes
|
|Yeah that’s the wild part. It’s not like this is a secret, it’s
|being done openly. The American people by a voting majority
|wants this leadership. All the rest of us have to be brought
|along for the ride. Democracy in the post-truth age.
|u/SpiderDeUZ - 4 hours
|
|Those require people to at least pretend to acknowledge them. The
|rapist just ignores them and no one holds him accountable
|u/Doomstar32 - 5 hours
|
|Yeah we have laws and everything but if no one cares to enforce them
|what does it matter. Congress is supposed to be the check on the
|President but they just let Trump do whatever since it's Republicans
|in charge of everything now.
|u/j0n66 - 2 hours
|
|Wouldn’t matter. They will have full control of the White House,
|House of Commons, the Senate, and you can argue the Supreme Court.
|u/_without-a-trace_ - 4 hours
|
|If laws mattered anymore, the dude with 34 felonies that tried to
|overthrow the previous election wouldn't have even been able to run
|for president
|u/IAmPandaRock - 4 hours
|
|In the most recently election the majority of the voters in the USA
|pretty much voted that laws don't matter, at least if they otherwise
|like the person.
|u/Rinzack - 2 hours
|
|The problem is that a lot of the laws and norms likely weren't as
|legally settled as you'd think- the President is allowed to nominate
|whoever they want, if the Senate doesn't approve they'll vote it
|down or Trump will do sketchy albeit legal things to get recess
|appointments in. If the President does something abhorrent the
|solutions are to Impeach/Convict, vote them out, or have the Supreme
|Court rule against them
|u/Chaos_Slug - 1 hour
|
|It is even legal to bribe (under a different name) politicians and
|judges, so...
|u/ActualTymell - 1 hour
|
|My impression over the last decade or so is that a lot of the US
|system is based on assumptions of reasonable good faith, i.e. there
|are things it's just expected officials should/shouldn't do, but
|there aren't explicit laws covering it. It's just assumed they will.
|And Trump's time has shown that this is very much ***not***
|sufficient.
|u/raninandout - 7 hours
|
|He told us this. Natural resources are there to be exploited and sold.
|Day one stuff.
|u/Tricky-Cod-7485 - 6 hours
|
|What part of “DRILL BABY DRILL!” did Reddit seem to misunderstand?
|He’s been saying this for months.
|u/Snoo-72756 - 8 hours
|
|Constant reminder to those working hard and expecting and roi based on
|effort . Nope ,it’s all about who you know . Just ignore the
|thousands of scientists who care
|u/WonkyDingo - 7 hours
|
|Coincidence or purchased appointment position?
|https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4961820-oil-bigwigs-
|open-wallets-for-trump-after-billion-dollar-request/
|u/A_Charmandur - 9 hours
|
|Rex Tillerson 2.0
|u/Circumin - 8 hours
|
|Tillerson had hell o conflicts but wasn’t remotely as bad as Wright
|u/A_Charmandur - 7 hours
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|Sure but it’s the same song and dance, executive who got cozy
|because of donations
|u/haarschmuck - 7 hours
|
|Tillerson was actually a great pick and the guy didn't even like
|Trump. He called Trump "a fucking moron".
|u/carnutes787 - 7 hours
|
|yes yes tell me how the man who obfuscated climate science data to
|downplay his firm's involvement in anthropogenic global warming is
|actually a great pick for public energy policies.
|u/haarschmuck - 7 hours
|
|Tillerson was the secretary of state...
|u/Great_Dismal - 8 hours
|
|How have people not figured out that he is trolling the entire country
|and the media? He’s been hanging out with the Elongated Muskrat too
|much. This shit is lame. I am convinced he knows he is going to die
|soon.
|u/El_refrito_bandito - 8 hours
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|At this point, it’s all performance art.
|u/Langsamkoenig - 6 hours
|
|Kinda seems like he's asking himself "Who is the absolute worst person
|I could pick for this job?" and then picking that person.
|u/kiblerdude - 10 hours
|
|What's next? Sarah Palin for Secretary of Education?
|u/justridingbikes099 - 9 hours
|
|Gotta nominate someone to dissolve it, right? MTG actively lowers
|the IQ of everyone within a 5-mile radius of her like she's casting
|some kind of high level debuff on the surrounding area, so a natural
|fit
|u/asyork - 6 hours
|
|If she's the one casting it, why did it hit her even harder?
|u/justridingbikes099 - 6 hours
|
|Standard balance issue. If you're going to nuke the cognition of
|1/2 of America, you get nuked twice as hard. Unfortunately, it's
|not balanced since the 1/2 that got nuked are the ones that
|would check/balance her in some way. Shitty devs.
|u/SalozTheGod - 5 hours
|
|Auras usually effect the one casting it, and in some cases they
|get double bonus
|u/stratasfear - 5 hours
|
|It hurt itself in its confusion.
|u/YukiSnowmew - 6 hours
|
|**do not will that into existence**
|u/justridingbikes099 - 6 hours
|
|I wish I could will it OUT of existence.
|u/Madpup70 - 7 hours
|
|He needs a bill passed by Congress to end the DoE. A 60 vote
|threshold (assuming they don't end the fillabuster, which is
|possible but a long shot). They have three realistic avenues to shit
|down/severally damage the DoE. I'll talk about them in order of
|least to most likely to happen and succeed. 1. Completely defund
|the department except of parts they want/have to maintain. For
|example the DoE is responsible for accepting applications and
|running Federal Student loans, federal loan forgiveness programs
|(which exist due to federal law), title 1 funding allocation, and
|special education funding allocation. They could simply defund the
|aspects of the department that have to deal whatever they don't
|agree with, such as federal guidance state on education standards
|and special education procedures, learning studies, Title IX
|enforcement. 2. Just like above, but Trump will do what we already
|expect him to do and he'll reclassify federal employees so he can
|fire whomever he wants. He'll guy parts of the department and leave
|them empty to achieve the goals stated above. 1. Select a SoE who
|will essentially enforce/refuse to enforce whatever aspects of the
|department they want. The department will only be as effective as
|the SoE will allow it to be regardless of funding and staffing. A
|good example is Betsy DeVos, Trump's last SoE. She basically stalled
|90% of loan forgiveness while leading the department. She kept
|almost 90% of PSLF applicants from receiving their loan forgiveness
|when they first qualified in 2018. That's the kind of bad shit a SoE
|can do.
|u/The_Real_63 - 6 hours
|
|> He needs a bill passed by Congress no, he doesnt. your whole
|country has shown they're happy for him to continually push the
|boundaries of the law.
|u/Brovas - 6 hours
|
|Plus don't the Republicans control the house now?
|u/iconofsin_ - 5 hours
|
|The funny part about this is my Trump voting brother's wife had
|her loans forgiven thanks to Biden.
|u/s4b3r6 - 6 hours
|
|Project 2025 has an entire chapter on how exactly they plan to
|tear the DoE apart. Partly by fully privitising college loans, and
|by forcing education providers to move to a voucher based system
|for funding. Another key component is making state institutions
|responsible if a family has a "diversity complaint", as a criminal
|act (with a Christian-only bent, of course). It's not an
|inconsiderable layout of the plan. There's no need to guess here
|what they might do, they've already told us.
|u/tingulz - 8 hours
|
|Who needs education? Oh wait….
|u/fllr - 8 hours
|
|Like, i know you’re joking, but seriously… the gop… allllll of it…
|its voters too…!
|u/Oryzae - 8 hours
|
|Education is for the elite, are you trying to be a fucking nerd?
|/s
|u/Crafty_Enthusiasm_99 - 7 hours
|
|Educated voters vote for Democrats.
|u/Redditor6142 - 7 hours
|
|The Department of Education has only existed since 1980. I'm not
|sure if you're aware, but there were schools in America before
|1980.
|u/comicjournal_2020 - 7 hours
|
|We’re not coming back from this are we?
|u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods - 5 hours
|
|lol no. Not for a long long time if ever.
|u/Maladal - 7 hours
|
|The department of education doesn't actually set curriculum,
|that's a state thing. Most of what it does is monitor the
|education programs of the US and dispenses federal funding.
|u/time2fly2124 - 6 hours
|
|And guess where all that money is going to go? Not public
|schools, it's going to private charter/Christian schools, that
|are already rolling in money.
|u/Parking-Historian360 - 6 hours
|
|When I was in school I had at least 3 teachers over the years
|to tell us the state government wants to dissolve public
|schools and force everyone to go to a private paid school. I
|thought they were crazy but dammit if they weren't right.
|This is Florida which just generally hates school age
|children, public schools and teachers.
|u/CV90_120 - 7 hours
|
|They're going to replace it with the Dept of Re-education.
|u/BakedCake8 - 9 hours
|
|Thats reserved for marg taylor green
|u/ripfritz - 9 hours
|
|No no - she’s Ministry of Truth
|u/Linked713 - 9 hours
|
|All those 1984 references makes me sad(der than I already was)
|u/PurpleSailor - 8 hours
|
|I'm thinking NASA because then she can do something about them
|space lasers
|u/N3R37H05_111 - 9 hours
|
|Hopefully it won't be like in Morrowind...
|u/IAmARobot - 6 hours
|
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g9qORegPpU
|u/Hello-Avrammm - 9 hours
|
|Lmao 😂 I could actually see that!
|u/CV90_120 - 7 hours
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|Dept of Re-education.
|u/Svyatopolk_I - 3 hours
|
|Stalin for Ministry of Love 2028!
|u/Purgii - 9 hours
|
|Wait, I thought she was earmarked to man the space laser?
|u/BakedCake8 - 8 hours
|
|Only jews have the technology and brain for that
|u/Bald_Nightmare - 9 hours
|
|I honestly wouldn't be shocked to hear it at this point
|u/askingxalice - 9 hours
|
|Casey Anthony for Head of DFCS
|u/vin_van_go - 7 hours
|
|yes great pick. Could we get Helen Kellers corpse for department of
|transportation.
|u/yenom_esol - 9 hours
|
|At this point, my money is on Ryan Walters, the state superintendent
|of Oklahoma. https://okcfox.com/news/local/ryan-walters-invites-
|students-to-pray-after-announcing-bible-purchase-for-ap-gov-classes-
|state-superintendent-oklahoma-office-religious-liberty-patriotism-
|trump-bible-administration-freedom-pray-students-schools
|u/DopeAbsurdity - 8 hours
|
|He is a good pick for that position because his state is 44th in
|education which means there are at least 6 picks that are worse than
|him.
|u/ApprehensiveShame756 - 8 hours
|
|Transforming the funding to just vouchers where you must have a
|GBA Bible for each student is a solid grift. Should be announced
|as policy soon after inauguration
|u/OneWholeSoul - 5 hours
|
|I would *rather* the kids had Gameboy Advance bibles.
|u/pants_full_of_pants - 5 hours
|
|44th in education and 50th in test scores. 49th in health care.
|44th in quality of life. Top 10 worst poverty. No official from
|Oklahoma should be appointed to build a fence let alone work at
|the federal level.
|u/CompulsiveCreative - 9 hours
|
|Who needs a secretary when there's no education?
|u/brokenwind69 - 9 hours
|
|Kanye. He's already proven to be a great school administrator with
|donda academy
|u/mk235176 - 8 hours
|
|Boebert with her GED
|u/labenset - 7 hours
|
|Boebert all the way. She is the least educated person in congress in
|almost a century, perfect fit.
|u/cookincommies - 7 hours
|
|I hope it's Alex Jones
|u/Joshman1231 - 8 hours
|
|Betsy gonna be that still
|u/HiddenPickleVillage - 8 hours
|
|The pattern of Trump’s cabinet selection is put the wolf in charge of
|the sheep. ONLY Trump supporters will be surprised when the wolf
|inevitably eats the sheep. Scratch that, they’ll be in denial and
|continue to blame democrats who aren’t in control.
|u/EliselD - 3 hours
|
|Thanks Obama
|u/meltymcface - 2 hours
|
|They’ll be glad the sheep are being eaten.
|u/Ajd1116 - 39 minutes
|
|I keep saying this every where. They are going to blame democrats for
|everything. It will make no sense. Welcome to idiocracy.
|u/flintspike - 3 hours
|
|They won't be surprised, because it will clearly be the Dems fault.
|u/srone - 9 hours
|
|Every day: This is beyond the worst thing I can imagine. Next day: WTF!
|u/awesomeness6000 - 8 hours
|
|that was pretty much 4 years of it when he was first President. and
|here we are doing it all over again.
|u/lost_anon - 6 hours
|
|Did people not like the peace and quiet of the last 4 years? I went
|months without hearing about Biden. Now it’s going to be every god
|damn day again what this dumb schmuck does to corrupt government and
|erode the constitution and democracy.
|u/Skeleton--Jelly - 5 hours
|
|Russia made sure that conservatives got plenty of fake news about
|teachers performing sex changes on students and stuff like that
|u/xenthum - 6 hours
|
|> I went months without hearing about Biden. You must not have
|had to endure any conseratives. They bitched about Biden nonstop.
|Even the supposedly liberal-leaning media wouldn't stop talking
|about how old and unfit he wasever day
|u/dre_bot - 4 hours
|
|something something egg prices. Nope. Sleepy Biden made all the
|sweet consumer goods go up. And you know thats worst than
|crucifying jesus to a lot of people. Therefor old man must be
|punished.
|u/conduitfour - 7 hours
|
|There is no bottom. Evil is non-Euclidean.
|u/olipoppit - 10 hours
|
|When he said drain the swamp he meant “the Everglades will be literally
|dry”
|u/ugajeremy - 7 hours
|
|I have zero doubts he's going to fuck with Okefenokee Swamp.. > A
|member of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet is urging Georgia officials to
|deny permits for a proposed mine near the edge of the famed Okefenokee
|Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge, saying the plan poses
|“unacceptable risk” to the swamp’s fragile ecology.
|https://apnews.com/article/biden-georgia-united-states-government-
|climate-and-environment-politics-87b323b4254bbb038334137e79c3da1e
|u/l3tigre - 10 hours
|
|Drain them into his cabinet
|u/ripfritz - 9 hours
|
|With the pythons
|u/Trnostep - 7 hours
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|Especially with the 20-footer
|u/allllusernamestaken - 7 hours
|
|The Everglades will be a golf course. That's literally the plan. Only
|reason it didn't happen is because some people leaked the plans,
|causing mass outrage.
|u/RelaxPrime - 6 hours
|
|The Everglades will be ocean.
|u/Andreus - 8 hours
|
|Nah, the Everglades fixing to be *much* wetter at this rate.
|u/Quarter_Twenty - 6 hours
|
|The everglades are going to be a shallow reef in a few decades.
|u/DashCat9 - 4 hours
|
|"I filled those swamps with sand and they call me every day crying
|saying 'Sir, that was the smartest thing anyone ever did with those
|swamps' nobody thought to try filling them in with sand until I said
|so it's true I'm smart. I'm so smart. My uncle John a professor at
|MIT could tell you so much about the nucular".
|u/ripfritz - 9 hours
|
|Maybe we can get rid of the pythons- sorry - I think this election
|broke something in me 😳
|u/olipoppit - 9 hours
|
|Broke all of us in a way.
|u/Whiterabbit-- - 8 hours
|
|We are probably flooding and causing saltwater intrusion more than
|draining the everglades though.
|u/olipoppit - 8 hours
|
|You’re right. Either way, earth will flush us soon
|u/jh937hfiu3hrhv9 - 10 hours
|
|Drill Baby Drill. let's fuck this place up. Good job beetlezos.
|u/Wagyu_Trucker - 9 hours
|
|DOE mostly handles nukes, something Trump's previous secretary of
|energy did not know because they're all fucking morons.
|u/snoogins355 - 8 hours
|
|Rick Perry. He also wanted to get rid of the DoE in his famous
|implosion in a debate when he couldn't name the third department he
|wanted to dismantle. Saying "oops" and destroying his presidential
|chances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN8uFJz9gTk
|u/cuporphyry - 8 hours
|
|It was a simpler time...
|u/db0813 - 8 hours
|
|For real. I heard Trump say a hurricane was going to be “one of
|the wettest in terms of water” on the White House lawn and feel
|like I’m the crazy one
|u/HyzerFlip - 4 hours
|
|Then he redirected the path with a sharpie.
|u/SAugsburger - 4 hours
|
|This. It was a time when even most Republican voters had some
|semblance of standards where the more Perry talked even most
|Republican voters realized Perry didn't know enough to be a
|serious candidate for President.
|u/Shirlenator - 7 hours
|
|Man, I remember when mistakes mattered to a candidate (of the
|Republican party).
|u/ComCypher - 7 hours
|
|The republicans competed fiercely but in the end Trump was deemed
|the dumbest and therefore most worthy of the nomination.
|u/Crafty_Enthusiasm_99 - 7 hours
|
|How times have changed..
|u/FFFrank - 7 hours
|
|The Exxon CEO has come out and said there is no more drilling that
|they need. That there is no constraints on production in the US and
|that they have no business incentive to lower prices (and lose money.)
|They don't need/want to have permission to drill more.
|https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/business/money-report/exxon-ceo-on-
|u-s-election-not-sure-how-drill-baby-drill-translates-into-
|policy/3549907/
|u/Toilet_Rim_Tim - 10 hours
|
|I WANNA DRILL IN [YOSEMITE
|](https://youtu.be/M4B0GHQWRAo?si=mIgvyCPQS2UP857z)!!!!!
|u/DinobotsGacha - 10 hours
|
|Right through Half Dome. Have at it
|u/Fishiesideways10 - 9 hours
|
|We deserve it at this point. Exacerbate this shit show.
|u/ripfritz - 9 hours
|
|Might find something else - but not oil. 😂
|u/Ms74k_ten_c - 7 hours
|
|Eh, never climbed it. Go for it. - most of his base, probably.
|u/slamdanceswithwolves - 9 hours
|
|It will be Two-Quarters Dome when they are done with it.
|u/possibly_oblivious - 8 hours
|
|Wait isnt something half if its 2 quarters tho
|u/Bald_Nightmare - 9 hours
|
|😆 🤣 😂.... Jesus fucking Christ. Now imagine Kamala had said the same
|thing and the absolute meltdown that would have been going on at Fox
|News
|u/tango_41 - 9 hours
|
|Thank fuck I don’t have kids. I’m just here for the fireworks.
|u/nailbunny2000 - 2 hours
|
|Dude not having kids is the only thing keeping me sane. No matter
|what the horrible news "huh, well this is gonna be interesting."
|u/TheFlightlessPenguin - 6 hours
|
|And free tan
|u/Hookmsnbeiishh - 6 hours
|
|Obama had the largest increase in drilling in American history. When
|Trump took office, the number of active wells went down by 30%.
|Between Trump and Biden, roughly the same number of wells have been
|drilled. Under Biden, the US has produced a lot more oil than under
|Trump. 2023 saw a record year for oil production. And so far the pace
|this year is 7% above last year’s record. Traditionally, under a
|democrat president, prices increase. When prices increase, drilling
|becomes more economical. Also, older wells produce money longer so
|those are wells are not shut down.
|u/whatproblems - 9 hours
|
|who likes earthquakes!
|u/ObeseBMI33 - 9 hours
|
|Guess we’re getting a new boat
|u/QueenOfQuok - 10 hours
|
|Typical Republican administration. The foxes run the henhouse.
|u/jimtow28 - 10 hours
|
|Phase two is always "Why would the Democrats do this to us?"
|u/Otterable - 8 hours
|
|As always, breaking things is fast, feeling the effect is slow, and
|the average American voter has a goldfish's memory. They're gonna
|cause a problem that will take 6 years to start to snowball to the
|point people notice, at which point the dem's might have control
|back. Then it'll be the dem's fault it happened, and not trump and
|his psychotic cabinet.
|u/BroxigarZ - 7 hours
|
|The average American voter doesn’t know how anything in the
|economy works, doesn’t understand how politics work, doesn’t even
|understand how bad things have gotten every time a republican
|takes office. Where it will truly sting is our future generations
|which won’t have any clue how to clean up the mess.
|u/I_Fuckin_A_Toad_A_So - 5 hours
|
|I mean to be fair the economy is very complicated and politics
|with the way they work are very complicated. It’s not just the
|average American who doesn’t understand how these things work.
|I’m willing to bet most of us don’t understand this shit
|u/VanillaRadonNukaCola - 7 hours
|
|Almost wonder if it's better to give them 2 in a row to really let
|the shit sink in. Probably not better, but maybe it would help a
|generation realize
|u/_jump_yossarian - 6 hours
|
|Also -- "Why didn't the Democrats fix our mess faster?"
|u/Septimius-Severus13 - 9 hours
|
|the foxes would at least only eat until satisfaction, then after
|ending the hunger predators don't mess with other prey (usually).
|Here it's more a black hole that wants to suck everything with
|quarter-by-quarter increases that is running the henhouse.
|u/Khal-Frodo- - 3 hours
|
|So they are more like cats, killing for sport whatever moves…
|u/Ryangonzo - 9 hours
|
|The worst thing about politics was all the corporate lobbyists. Trump
|is fixing that by eliminating the lobbyists and just letting in the
|corporations.
|u/Wolvenmoon - 5 hours
|
|More like the pigs run the pantry.
|u/worstusername_sofar - 9 hours
|
|All we can do is hope there is another election in 4 years. You voted
|for it. Take your medicine.
|u/Bladespectre - 9 hours
|
|Hopefully there will be a chance to stop the bleeding in the 2026
|midterms, too
|u/umthondoomkhlulu - 8 hours
|
|Think by then the pillars will be in place and too late
|u/comicjournal_2020 - 7 hours
|
|I really hate the people that voted for him.
|u/Poppa_Mo - 6 hours
|
|From the very beginning. I hate everyone that failed to
|prosecute and put this motherfucker in jail. He should've been
|in jail in the fucking 70s. I'm beyond fucking flabbergasted at
|this point and just resigned to the fact that shit is going to
|be like *The Road* probably tomorrow.
|u/Porn_Extra - 4 hours
|
|Even more than them, I hate the people who stayed home. They
|stared fascism in the face and said, "Eh, whatever."
|u/FortNightsAtPeelys - 1 hour
|
|I blame people who voted with no research more. "stuff is
|expensive so lets vote for the other color this time" is
|actually insane
|u/Thrashky - 7 hours
|
|This is the type of comment that reeks of apathy. It might look
|like shit through today’s lens, but until things actually happen,
|the status quo remains. I’m not going to spend my next few years
|cowering and afraid of off the rails shit that *could* happen.
|Don’t let doomer apathy win.
|u/TheCoolHusky - 7 hours
|
|I’m usually for having positive outlooks and all that, but he
|really is already dismantling the US at every facet before even
|taking office.
|u/psellers237 - 6 hours
|
|Yep. All that “stand and fight!” bullshit didn’t work. This
|clown show is what the people chose. This country is too
|stupid to save.
|u/umthondoomkhlulu - 7 hours
|
|You’re right. It’s not like he’s nominated clowns already
|u/blazze_eternal - 6 hours
|
|Pretty certain there will continue to be elections. Whether they
|mean anything is another question. Seems easier to fake elections
|than the much more obvious obstructing elections.
|u/OverlyOptimisticNerd - 5 hours
|
|I already see how that is going to go. Democrats win the House and
|Senate. Trump Vetos everything. Then in 2028, "Whelp, the Democrats
|caused our current mess, so we'll vote Republican again." Our
|country is a cesspool.
|u/Ex-Traverse - 7 hours
|
|You're shouting in the void. His voters can barely read, you expect
|them to know what fracking is, or concepts of environmental impact?
|Trumper voters don't give a shit about anything that's not within 1ft
|from where they are. If this has any impact at all, it will go right
|over there head that perhaps their benevolent lord was the cause.
|Another way you could say is that democrats voted for Trump when they
|decided they weren't gonna vote at all.
|u/HappyInNature - 6 hours
|
|More than half of the Americans who voted chose him. It was more
|than just the barely literate MAGA crowd that voted for him. We
|kinda suck and we're getting what we deserve
|u/notmyfirstrodeo2 - 5 hours
|
|Those who did not go vote are also to blame and made their choice.
|They agreed they are fine with Trump winning by not voting.
|u/likamuka - 1 hour
|
|> We kinda suck and we're getting what we deserve Thank you.
|That's basically it.
|u/blender4life - 7 hours
|
|All trumpets i met don't care about global warming because they're
|Christian. It's weird to me, like wouldn't you want to care for
|God's creation? But no, Jesus fixes the world when he comes back.
|u/sex-help74 - 6 hours
|
|The bible literally calls on humans to be the caretakers of the
|earth. And also care for your fellow man, treat everyone as equal,
|don't hoard money... but then again, most trumpets can't read.
|u/blender4life - 5 hours
|
|Got a link to a verse about taking care of the earth? I did
|some Googling a while back and everything i found is too vague
|to use to call them out.
|u/sex-help74 - 5 hours
|
|A good one is Revelation 11:18: The nations were angry,
|and your wrath has come...for destroying those who destroy the
|earth. ( it's long, so I cut out the middle bit)
|Evangelicals are all about the end of times, so this one is
|pretty straightforward. You can also quote these two
|together Psalm 24:1: "The earth is the Lord's, and everything
|in it, the world, and all who live in it" and Jeremiah
|2:7: "God laments the destruction of the land and the
|desecration of His inheritance." You can use the first to show
|that we need to take care of not only the earth but the people
|on it as well since it's all His inheritance. If you want to
|find more (there's so many), it helps if you look up bible
|quotes about being a steward of the earth rather than
|environment!
|u/wap2005 - 7 hours
|
|>"You voted for it" Just to be clear barely over 50% of voters
|actually voted for it. The other half of America is now just hoping
|Earth is around long enough for another election. Also, the Earth is
|a problem for people outside the US even, so "taking our medicine"
|doesn't really solve anything for half of America and the rest of the
|world.
|u/harrysaxon - 6 hours
|
|TBF, 70 million people who *showed up* voted against it. Another 100
|million said, “meh, who cares”, and they’re complicit as well.
|u/wap2005 - 3 hours
|
|70 mil vs 78 mil, and you're right that the people who didn't go
|and vote should take some of the blame here. To not participate in
|your own future is legitimately saddening. More than 100m people
|who don't care at all about what their next 4 years will look
|like; such as what the environment will look like regarding
|climate change, what kind of health insurance people will have, or
|women's rights what-so-ever. --- Small rant on womens rights
|(not pointed at you, just in general) Women who are eligible to
|vote but you either voted for Trump or didn't vote at all is
|beyond mind boggling. These people are either too stupid, too
|angry, too stupid, disgusting, and/or too stupid. These people
|literally voted against yourself. Men who voted for Trump, I
|automatically assume you have ***no respect*** for women and are
|sexist. Rant is over.
|u/ShiraCheshire - 4 hours
|
|My state was firmly blue. For days after the results there was a
|sense of quiet despair about absolutely everyone around me. People
|at the grocery store, people on the bus, people walking down the
|street. We didn't vote for this idiot, and it's frustrating to keep
|hearing "You deserve it."
|u/wap2005 - 4 hours
|
|I'm in California which is always blue and that day felt exactly
|the same to me, t's like a silent echo of dread and sadness.
|u/I_PING_8-8-8-8 - 6 hours
|
|This was the last free and fair one as the US has no defender. The
|constitution died, the words have lost their power.
|u/ShyLeoGing - 10 hours
|
|What are the odds that he would also be selling stock?
|https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/own-disp?CIK=0001292100&action=getowner
|Edit - Adding the following If anyone is buying into Nuclear Energy -
|now might be the time, Chris Wright is on the board of Oklo, along with
|Sam Altman... https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849056/00016282
|8024047882/oklo_shareholder-letterx.htm > We are entering an era of
|unprecedented energy demand--rivaled perhaps only by initial conversion
|to electrification over a century ago. The world is now recognizing
|nuclear's role in powering that future. I'm confident we'll look back on
|2024 as the turning point in our mission to deliver clean, reliable, and
|affordable energy for all. Momentum is building every week-regulators
|are modernizing, bipartisan support is growing, and some of the most
|influential companies are investing heavily in the space > At
|Oklo, our focus on building small-scale, modern fission powerhouses-
|designed to be easily repeatable--along with our model of selling power
|directly to customers, allows us to accelerate timelines, reduce
|complexity, and scale to meet demand. With a site permit and secured
|fuel, we believe we're poised to be a leader in deploying advanced
|nuclear by late 2027. As the world experiences an extraordinary
|transformation driven by Al, the future demands an equally bold solution
|for energy. We're proud to lead the way."
|u/woodford86 - 10 hours
|
|Pretty high considering that’s a major part of his compensation
|u/ShyLeoGing - 9 hours
|
|Yes, my sarcasm isn't easily noticable.
|u/Koboldofyou - 9 hours
|
|Any energy stocks are likely to be going up in the near term due to
|AI. AI data centers require a metric fuckload of energy and AI
|companies are racing to get access to power.
|u/ShyLeoGing - 9 hours
|
|Yes and Oklo mentions exactly this on the second page of the
|Shareholder Letter.
|u/ManTits4Sale - 10 hours
|
|Is there any chance that the people who voted for him realize how
|fucking terrible of a decision that was, or are we full blown 1984 at
|this point?
|u/rhunter99 - 10 hours
|
|the people who voted want this. only thing missing are incentives for
|converting to rolling coal
|u/HotdogsArePate - 8 hours
|
|The people who voted him in don't pay attention to shit like this at
|all. Average Americans do not know who the energy secretary is or
|what they do.
|u/LegSpinner - 5 hours
|
|The Republicans are aided and abetted by the likes of NYT and WaPo
|and NPR. They will call these appointments "controversial" or
|"troubling" but never denounce outright lunacy like RFK Jr being
|ANYWHERE near power.
|u/Traditional-Handle83 - 10 hours
|
|I have a feeling we're gonna see coal, asbestos, and lead come a
|major come back in defiance of the environment in true deplete till
|nothing's left fashion.
|u/TheVideogaming101 - 10 hours
|
|Waiting on the "UseLeadPaintForToysAgain" movement
|u/Traditional-Handle83 - 10 hours
|
|I imagine it'll be more like stop use of lead was a liberal
|communist scheme to end the economy or something. You never know
|with these anti intelligence types what they'll say.
|u/dripMacNCheeze - 9 hours
|
|Honestly it would be as simple as rolling back regulations
|lol. Somehow someway there would be corporations out there who
|would save money using lead. Trump admin slashes so many
|regulations that they can get away with it again, and probably
|not even report it. This is what they want. Removing the “red
|tape” so companies can very dangerously cut corners and claim
|prosperity.
|u/TheVideogaming101 - 9 hours
|
|Gotta use modern buzz words, include "woke' in there somewhere
|for the drones to agree
|u/Snipermonkey19D - 9 hours
|
|[There are already Lead Paint truthers.](https://www.reddit.com/
|r/Qult_Headquarters/s/JEPs0RIC6F)
|u/TheVideogaming101 - 8 hours
|
|At this point its anything against science huh...
|u/gr3yh47 - 9 hours
|
|write it down. all your fears. with high specificity. somewhere
|you can find it in four years. then assess based on that list
|how good the info you surround yourself with is
|u/ashlee837 - 8 hours
|
|why don't you take screenshots?
|u/Designated_Lurker_32 - 9 hours
|
|His electoral base practically hasn't changed since the 2020 election.
|We're talking less than 1% of change in numbers. Practically, the same
|rates of attendance. The same people who voted for him before voted
|for him again. Not even an insurrection and dozens of felony charges
|were enough to put a dent in this. What we're seeing here is
|millions of people whose minds have completely crystalized. Their
|brains are solid bricks where nothing goes in and nothing comes out.
|You could show them evidence of Trump's failings *to their face* and
|they would dismiss it as fake because everything bad everyone ever
|says about Trump is fake. I'll tell you what will happen when these
|people start feeling the heat. The first thing they will do is they'll
|deny that it's happening. They'll say that everything is fine and
|you're just being histrionic. Then, when things get so bad you can't
|even deny them anymore, they'll switch gears. They'll blame it all on
|you. Then, they'll come for you.
|u/tm3_to_ev6 - 9 hours
|
|The base actually expanded once the manosphere audience was old
|enough to vote.
|u/Free_Possession_4482 - 8 hours
|
|But offset by Covid and eight years of Boomers shuffling off the
|mortal coil.
|u/TheVideogaming101 - 8 hours
|
|I said it before, Trump could be seen on camera, hell with their own
|eyes drowning a bag of kittens in a river and his base wouldnt bat
|an eye. Trump even admitted it himself with his 5th avenue comment,
|its a cult.
|u/sarhoshamiral - 8 hours
|
|In my view anyone who didn't vote in this election, also didn't mind
|Trump so they may as well be lumped in to the same group. I will
|never understand how someone could have looked at the options and
|decided not to vote and be OK with either option.
|u/haarschmuck - 7 hours
|
|Because off of reddit and the internet for a lot of people who is
|president really doesn't matter much. It has little impact on
|their daily lives. They work their jobs do their hobbies, go to
|sleep, and do it again the next day.
|u/sarhoshamiral - 6 hours
|
|That used to be true but not with Trump unfortunately. His
|proposals, his cabinet will have significant impact on everyones
|daily lives especially if congress plays along. This time he
|will actually directly impact your grocery, electronics,
|appliances prices (and more), your health care, and for some
|even the aspects of legality of their families. One can only
|argue he wouldn't have an impact if one believes he was just
|talking b.s. on the campaign but we saw between 2016-2020 that
|it wasn't the case. He actually tried to implement some of his
|policies to be stopped by courts and congress after 2018 but
|that will likely not happen anymore. So those people are about
|to realize how much this election mattered. Unfortunately it is
|too late now, if Trump gets his way it will be years before we
|recover economically.
|u/binkobankobinkobanko - 4 hours
|
|It still really doesn't matter. You're spewing all these
|talking points and nothing has even happened yet.
|u/hawk_ky - 10 hours
|
|Nope, they want this
|u/Apprehensive-Log9467 - 9 hours
|
|They just want to own the libs, even if it means destroying the
|planet. Its hard to look forward to anything anymore.
|u/Graega - 10 hours
|
|They realized that there won't be a future if we carry on this way, so
|they decided "Fuck my kids, I'm gonna get mine." Then they went on
|Facebook to whine that their kids have cut them off.
|u/Yousoggyyojimbo - 7 hours
|
|Policies Trump ran on stand a solid chance of ending my career and
|killing my business, yet despite knowing this my dad's support for
|Trump didn't waver at all. Not even for a single second. He just
|told me "If that happens, it's not my fault." "Fuck my kids" is
|right.
|u/big_fartz - 6 hours
|
|He voted to make sure you won't be taking care of him in old age.
|u/Yousoggyyojimbo - 5 hours
|
|Yeah, him and his siblings foisting caring for their mother on
|me already guaranteed that. I put in my years caring for the
|elderly.
|u/southpaw85 - 8 hours
|
|Had a conversation with one today. They are still fully invested and
|think this is all just talk to piss off the Libs. God emperor T would
|never do anything to hurt the people.
|u/justridingbikes099 - 9 hours
|
|A large chunk of people who voted for him do not know or care about
|any of his appointments. They simply think he's going to magically
|make eggs cost $1/dozen and gas cost $2/gallon again + hopefully hurt
|some disgusting LGBTQ people and brown people (their fucking views,
|not MINE). Another large chunk of people who voted for him will
|assume all these picks are incredibly smart and wonderful
|"BuSiNeSsMeN" because they think that about Trump. They will disregard
|any negative reality about the picks, e.g. Gaetz raping minors, as
|"liberal lies." Still another large chunk believes that they are
|"flawed men" doing "God's work" and that "God works with imperfect
|vessels." But there is an increasing minority going, "Wait, what the
|fuck? I just wanted cheap prices. What is he doing?"--This chunk is
|neither brainwashed nor cultish. They're just fucking morons who are
|finding out how MUCH they are morons currently. Kinda fun to watch in
|a shitty way.
|u/blacksideblue - 8 hours
|
|Most of them want to see the world burn and think they're special
|because they'll somehow be responsible and prepared for it. Think the
|prepper that doesn't realize his water filter isn't going to filter
|chemicals like acetates from the water but has a literal ton of
|ammunition and their weight in dehydrated rations.
|u/sylv3r - 10 hours
|
|lol they wanted this, they wont be regretting anything until they
|suffer because of the appointees or any decision that's done against
|them like tariffs
|u/ryukuodaba - 9 hours
|
|even if they suffer, there will be propaganda to smooth it over, and
|somehow let them pivot to blaming the dems
|u/PheloniousFunk - 8 hours
|
|The people who voted for him are shitty people and only care about
|their own personal perceived comfort. There is no negotiating with
|terrorists. That’s why progressives fail.
|u/Zestyclose_Ad2448 - 10 hours
|
|i was just told in another sub that we are only told his cabinet is
|unqualified, in reality they uncorrupted and represent a historic
|changing of the guard to end government corruption. lol. Oh also, we
|are now apparently respected throughout the world
|u/conduitfour - 7 hours
|
|Lmao the world thinks we're [complete
|idiots.](https://youtu.be/dZdoFxzVE14?feature=shared) The only
|ones who think we're smart are the bots under Joe Rogan videos.
|u/gaumata68 - 9 hours
|
|They think these cabinet picks are great because it’s “sticking it to
|DC elites” or whatever. And if and when all this comes back to harm
|them individually they will blame the democrats somehow. I don’t get
|the sense they give a shit about the future prosperity or wellbeing of
|the country itself or the American people in general.
|u/michael0n - 8 hours
|
|The Ds always want to work with the other side. If they have the
|trifecta, sit back. Say this is a 100% republican law. Instead the
|"lets limit harm" ideology camp always convinces them to give them
|the okey. Stop protecting them from themselves.
|u/lmac187 - 8 hours
|
|No because in their minds the real 1984 was when we had to wear masks
|for a few months…
|u/TheStupidSnake - 9 hours
|
|Not until the damage is so great that even they can't deny it. So no,
|probably not.
|u/Gamiac - 8 hours
|
|That level of damage does not exist.
|u/Frisnism - 10 hours
|
|What good what it do to believe in an apocalypse if you’re not alive
|to see it.
|u/ClassicPlankton - 9 hours
|
|No. They all these picks are great. Check out r / conservative.
|u/-Davo - 9 hours
|
|American propaganda is fucken strong man. Not even the Germans had
|this level of shit shovelled down their throats.
|u/CoBudemeRobit - 9 hours
|
|swamp the drain!
|u/tacticalcraptical - 10 hours
|
|So antagonizing the people who don't like him is a higher priority than
|anything practical then.
|u/getdemsnacks - 9 hours
|
|they all thrive, and probably, literally, get off on "owning the libs"
|u/ripfritz - 9 hours
|
|Or the biggest distraction while he sells us to RasPutin - Bigly
|u/D0inkzz - 10 hours
|
|This is what trump voters wanted. Like they are actually happy rn to
|kill the planet.
|u/llamasyi - 9 hours
|
|i dont think republicans think about death, just whats in front of
|them
|u/aykcak - 8 hours
|
|Death was what was literally in front of them in 2020. At the time
|they could have been excused not to know what choosing Trump would
|lead to. Now there is no excuse. They know who he is. They choose
|death
|u/cacklinggreek - 6 hours
|
|Your sentence could've stopped at "think"
|u/MozamFreak-Here - 8 hours
|
|I wish death was right in front of them. Society would be
|exponentially better without them.
|u/-LuciditySam- - 8 hours
|
|They don't even think about what's in front of them. If they did,
|they would be taking Trump for what he says rather than gaslighting
|themselves and everyone around them by saying he's just joking or
|exaggerating for effect.
|u/mtodd93 - 6 hours
|
|My favorite pastime is to read any news article on yahoo slightly
|related to climate or weather, it doesn’t even have to mention
|climate change and just look at the comments. It will always be
|filled with a bunch of people spouting off the same nonsense, “the
|earth is in a warming cycle, this is a natural part of the earths
|cycle” or my favorite “If God wants to cool the earth he will, all
|things work in his balance”. These people don’t live in reality or
|just don’t care what happens to those after they die.
|u/fbc546 - 8 hours
|
|Wasn’t Kamala for fracking too?
|u/Cautious-Rip-7602 - 9 hours
|
|Faster they kill the planet the faster everything goes away. Thank
|goodness.
|u/Hookmsnbeiishh - 6 hours
|
|Fun facts: Obama set multiple records for most wells drilled in a
|year. Trump took office and the average yearly drilled wells number
|dropped by 30%. During Biden’s term, US oil production hit a record
|high for 2023. Current 2024 rates put production at 7% higher than
|last year. So a new record incoming.
|u/NoReality463 - 8 hours
|
|“I’m gonna drain the swamp. And replace it with my own swamp. Thanks for
|your vote. Idiots.”
|u/Adventurous_Light_85 - 7 hours
|
|I work at a billion dollar company. I handle 100 million dollar jobs a
|lot. They are all frozen right now. Because of uncertainty in the
|economy. Trump is literally throwing bags of nails on the road to
|economic recovery. It takes a lot of money flowing to make a good
|economy and for that to happen people need trust in a lot of things,
|which is the opposite of what Trump is doing. The economy is going to
|tank MMW.
|u/Lanky_You_9191 - 5 hours
|
|As an European I was worried about Ukraine and impact of international
|trade. With every new pick I am more worried about you guys. Are you
|gonna be OK after his 4 years?
|u/CafeHanSolo - 5 hours
|
|We’ll do our best. No promises though, we might actually be fucked
|u/fbc546 - 8 hours
|
|“CEO of energy company to be energy secretary” doesn’t get people worked
|up
|u/MRISpinDoctor - 8 hours
|
|Obviously he’s going to have regressive energy policies, which will set
|back the transition to diverse and clean energy sources. However, when
|compared to the other clowns he has nominated, at least this guy has
|experience running an organization.
|u/A8Warmonger - 10 hours
|
|Here come more earthquakes and dirty drinking water.
|u/No_Literature_7329 - 8 hours
|
|By by clean water - thanks Trump voters
|u/Educational_Farmer73 - 6 hours
|
|Trump would put a child molester in charge of a kindergarten.
|u/FblthpLives - 6 hours
|
|He's putting a child molester with two years of legal experience in
|charge of the Department of Justice.
|u/Unlikely_Johnny - 3 hours
|
|Who would know better than the good people who produce cigarettes to
|tell us the actual dangers of smoking?
|u/ConkerPrime - 9 hours
|
|Hahahahahaha I love it. Once again, thank you non-voters for your apathy
|and those liberals that stayed home and pouted. The next four years is
|going to be entertaining at the very least.
|u/rhunter99 - 10 hours
|
|guess it's time to load up on oil stocks and dump anything green related
|:/
|u/mybeachlife - 8 hours
|
|I mean, new solar generation is at at all time high and growing
|rapidly because it’s cheap as shit comperatively speaking. Combine
|that with large scale battery backup, and there’s very little
|incentive to invest in a fission reactor due to the massive startup
|costs. But these people aren’t known for their well thought out plans
|so….we’ll see I guess!!
|u/JustSomeBadAdvice - 7 hours
|
|Fission reactors should be encouraged since they are one of the
|safest, most flexible, and least damaging for the environment.
|u/gnaaaa - 4 hours
|
|sorry, but safety < profit.
|u/Phalex - 8 hours
|
|America voted for this.
|u/Herbalacious - 2 hours
|
|Someone needs to organize/compile everything that's been happening in a
|way that's easy to review. Anybody can do this but can you do this
|where people will actually look at it and take it seriously? At this
|point it's basically like the Regan era. Just have to mitigate the
|damage and survive long enough for the people to see what's actually
|going on here. To most people with a brain it's so obvious - Trump is
|hiring his puppets and is going to make his supporters wealthy and
|distract everyone else with bs like he's always done. You can already
|see the ground work with the latest move on capital gains tax on crypto.
|And there's his cabinet picks. Does it have anything to do with Elon
|and Trump's latest crypto currency? Duh. Why do you think they are doing
|this. Everyone is too busy talking about everything else that already
|happened to worry about the moves being made right now. By the time
|the majority of citizens become aware of anything it'll be too late to
|act on changes being made now. News channels prolly don't read this
|shit but they better start reporting actual moves the conservatives are
|making instead of reporting how the left keeps making mistakes when the
|right is obviously rigging the system in their favor.
|u/Trenoxspa - 2 hours
|
|And people thought he would drain the Swamp.
|u/AGsellBlue - 2 hours
|
|im starting to think conservatives cant coexist with humanity its like
|watching the kid eat cookies and ice cream for breakfast now because mom
|is away just poisoning themselvelves and their siblings, getting
|sick...ignoring it....giggling....focusing on the fact they can do
|whatever they want. when its so obvious to everyone society cant exist
|like this for long....
|u/PM_ME_ASS_OR_GRASS - 7 hours
|
|Our environment is about to be even more fucked. I feel bad for those
|who aren't able to drink their tap water, and that list is about to grow
|exponentially.
|u/cacklinggreek - 6 hours
|
|Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I'm starting to think this Trump guy
|just fucking sucks
|u/farrapona - 9 hours
|
|Im gonna get killed but Energy Secretary. Not environment secretary.
|Dude is a ceo in the energy industry. Investment banker types always
|get big finance roles, so why not this?
|u/SecretProbation - 9 hours
|
|The DOE is in charge of the nuclear weapons stockpile and all reactor
|production for the Navy’s aircraft carriers and submarines. A fracking
|CEO with 0 government experience would never have a need to know on
|any of those programs. He has no nuclear background at all.
|u/albert-camoose - 9 hours
|
|He’s on the board of a nuclear energy company actually
|u/SIGMA920 - 9 hours
|
|The only upside that that is he might leave what's currently in
|place because nuclear = good in his mind. Regardless of the reasons
|why.
|u/GullibleCall2883 - 4 hours
|
|That's why the National Nuclear Security Administration is part of
|the DOE. The current Under Secretary is Jill Hruby, a mechanical
|engineer with experience with nuclear weapon systems and design.
|Having a nuclear background isn't qualification factor. Fossil fuels
|is part of the department's responsibility as well. One person isn't
|expected to know it all but how to manage the big picture then the
|people under them to manage specific areas then so on. That be
|like saying a president has no military experience shouldn't be the
|in charge of the military.
|u/LukeSkywalker2O24 - 8 hours
|
|Isn’t it because he has a vested interest in one type of energy?
|u/fbc546 - 8 hours
|
|Most people don’t realize that energy companies are the ones leading
|the capital investment into renewable energy. People don’t just
|build a wind energy startup with having zero experience in energy. I
|work for an energy company and yes we drill alot of oil but we are
|also investing heavily into renewables, we have the capital and the
|know how. But the reality is oil isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
|u/haarschmuck - 7 hours
|
|The whole reason oil is so hard to get away from is that it's the
|most energy dense medium we have aside from fissile material. A
|car with a 10 gallon tank will weigh around 80lbs when full. Even
|with the poor efficiency of gasoline engines that 80lbs will get
|you hundreds of miles. That same range takes over 1,000lbs for an
|electric vehicle.
|u/Clean-Cow-9549 - 6 hours
|
|Damn that's one light car
|u/MozamFreak-Here - 8 hours
|
|The DoE does not necessarily determine the energy market. Their
|research labs do have an important role in researching new energy
|viability. Additionally they oversee the nuclear weapons stockpile.
|Wright’s experience in fossil fuels is hostile to the emerging energy
|part of DoE’s work, and also wholly unqualified to oversee the nuclear
|weapons part. Being a fossil fuels exec alone should be disqualifying.
|FERC is a division of DoE but is independent and has a hand in
|regulating the electricity grid. Trump previously nominated terrible
|people to FERC as well, mostly fossil lobbyists, who are truly the
|most soulless, evil people in America.
|u/ZX717 - 10 hours
|
|What a joke this administration is going to be! Atleast i can laugh
|about the clown shitshow thats going to start soon. FUCK MAGA.
|u/Seehow0077run - 10 hours
|
|The fox is now in charge of the hen house.
|u/kckman - 9 hours
|
|He had Rick Perry in his first failed administration
|u/NynaeveAlMeowra - 7 hours
|
|Who didn't even know what the department of energy did. It's a lot of
|managing our nuclear weapons
|u/imnotabotareyou - 8 hours
|
|What part of “drill baby drill” makes this surprising?
|u/Feindish-OD - 6 hours
|
|Does he just wake up every morning thinking "what's the dumbest thing I
|can do today"?
|u/Just_A_Nitemare - 6 hours
|
|We about to get 6.8 earthquakes in Pennsylvania.
|u/puntmasterofthefells - 6 hours
|
|The rich get richer & the poor get Richter
|u/EliselD - 3 hours
|
|At this point he could appoint Kim Jong Un as Head of Human Rights
|Department and I wouldn't be surprised
|u/Die4Gesichter - 2 hours
|
|Damn that country needs lots of help rebuilding in 5 years
|u/FunkyPineapple90 - 2 hours
|
|He's just trolling at this point no?
|u/by_the_twin_moons - 2 hours
|
|Farmer picks local wolf to guard his sheep.
|u/The_Swordfish_ - 1 hour
|
|Isn't that yet another conflict of interest?? Bro what the fuck.. we
|really need to do something or we will be fucked for DECADES..
|u/AganazzarsPocket - 1 hour
|
|Should have not voted for Dementia Don. But alas, more thought they
|would rather not vote for the other option, to settle in and live with
|it.
|u/The_Swordfish_ - 1 hour
|
|This isnt just some horrible president like reagan. At this point we
|might lose our grip on democracy. This is worth a fight.. not just a
|well we gotta learn moment, there is too much at stake.
|u/GondorfTheG - 1 hour
|
|Super interesting and surreal watching the implosion of a superpower in
|real time
|u/Mr_Nocturnal_Game - 1 hour
|
|Welp, off to the boring Cyberpunk reality we go.
|u/iBlusik - 1 hour
|
|Damn you guys f used hard. America is turning into company for the next
|4 years
|u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620 - 1 hour
|
|You 'mericans realize how fucked you, and thanks to you, the rest of the
|world is going to be, right?
|u/getdemsnacks - 9 hours
|
|at this point, i think its safe to say, that its just all a fucking joke
|to him. a troll cabinet for a troll president. i am honestly dreading
|the next 4+ years.
|u/kaimonster1966 - 6 hours
|
|Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “The government you elect is the government
|you deserve.” I didn’t vote for him and don’t feel like I deserve Trump
|and his ‘associates.’ Is this place truly the America I thought I knew?
|The country idolized and coveted by most other countries in the world?
|Many people say ‘it’s only for four years,’ but to me, this will be an
|insufferable eternity - the worse nightmarish scenario that could ever
|have been imagined.
|u/SiWeyNoWay - 6 hours
|
|The damage about to be inflicted on us will take decades to undo,
|assuming we are ever able to vote again
|u/baz8771 - 9 hours
|
|What stocks should I invest in? If it’s going to suck, I’m determined
|to make money on it.
|u/GoldSpaceDust - 8 hours
|
|Frack baby, frack!
|u/MooseBoys - 10 hours
|
|So about that swamp…
|u/Snigglebear - 9 hours
|
|What does this have to do with technology?
|u/Death-by-Fugu - 9 hours
|
|Comically evil incompetence
|u/WebMaka - 8 hours
|
|At least Trump is consistent, that's for sure - *every one* of his
|cabinet picks thus far have been purely for their ability to brown-nose
|Trump and their utility toward Trump's end goal of being Number One Guy
|In The World. Absolutely no regard for whether they can do the job, and
|certainly not for whether they're actually dangerous to put there in a
|"fox guarding the hen house" sense, just building a straight-up
|kleptocracy at its basest.
|u/DarkSociety1033 - 8 hours
|
|Do it, destroy the world. See if I care.
|u/tcoh1s - 8 hours
|
|Thank god! We’re safe from all that windmill cancer!! /s
|u/Glangho - 7 hours
|
|Lmao this is especially funny to me because I've heard multiple times
|from people that they didn't want to vote for Kamala because she was pro
|fracking
|u/big_orange_ball - 6 hours
|
|Every left wing excuse I heard not to vote for her was comically
|ridiculous in comparison to NOT voting and letting Trump win. This
|country is absolutely ridiculous.
|u/Prof_Acorn - 7 hours
|
|I must have eaten something with some very bad mojo because I can't seem
|to wake up from this fever dream nightmare.
|u/comicjournal_2020 - 7 hours
|
|So any democrats in power gonna actually have some balls and fight this
|shit? Are any of the republicans ginna be human and not fuck this
|country up? I’ll answer for you, no.
|u/incunabula001 - 7 hours
|
|Gotta DP the Earth.
|u/EvErYLeGaLvOtE - 7 hours
|
|Lots of people voted for him because "he should run the country like a
|business!" Well. There it is.
|u/CV90_120 - 7 hours
|
|sweet mother of god.
|u/subjective-meat - 7 hours
|
|It's like he's comically evil. What a ridiculous choice.
|u/No1CouldHavePredictd - 7 hours
|
|No one could have predicted...
|u/tortasdericas - 7 hours
|
|Trump picks the Joker to be Justice League Chief of moral conduct.
|u/DurtySexyMidget - 7 hours
|
|All these selections are more about "what's good for Trump, rather than
|"what's good for the country. " This guy is an ass clown.
|u/Netprincess - 6 hours
|
|Oh woot /S My father's company setup rigs in Odessa texas for 60 years
|, fracking is insanity.
|u/Miguel-odon - 6 hours
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|Only until he finds somebody worse.
|u/Yankeewithoutacause - 6 hours
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|His picks are like all the Batman villains...
|u/mantisdubstep - 6 hours
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|It just keeps getting worse and worse lmao We’re so fucking fucked
|u/Royal-Original-5977 - 6 hours
|
|Clearly he does not even want to be president; he tried saying the
|dumbest stuff, going with the dumbest policies, committed sexual
|assault, sold secrets to enemies of the nation; now he's appointing the
|exact opposite role models for each designation. One's wallet must never
|afford them above the law-this is phenomenally ridiculous
|u/snowDemon999 - 6 hours
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|Updates from this administration is like reading The Onion
|u/notPabst404 - 5 hours
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|I'm sure MAGA are just going to love all the pollution from fracking
|giving them health problems and lowering their life expetencies.
|Complete cult.
|u/PathlessBullet - 5 hours
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|This means gas prices will go down, right? Right???
|u/Effective_Device_185 - 5 hours
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|AmeriCult: You broke it 💥 You bought it.
|u/francovtheG - 5 hours
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|this is what they want. Madness.
|u/Sea-Conversation-725 - 5 hours
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|we all know it's gonna be a 4 year long train wreck.
|u/TheRealBongeler - 5 hours
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|I mean, it's pretty much just fuck it all at this point.
|u/wales-bloke - 5 hours
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|His next pick will be the reanimated corpse of Jimmy Saville for head of
|child protection services.
|u/Rare-Education9592 - 4 hours
|
|Bye bye the US of A
|u/Fandango_Jones - 4 hours
|
|The swamp is back!
|u/BichaelT - 4 hours
|
|I would say that all the morons that voted for trump will see how bad he
|is, but who am I kidding they are too stupid to comprehend reality in
|any form. Trump could blame communist transgender lizard people and
|people would believe it.
|u/birdinbynoon - 4 hours
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|Dude is bringing out the clown-car. And I'm done caring.
|u/Fresh-Ice-2635 - 4 hours
|
|Mmmm, fracking water. So tasty and full of minerals and none of that
|nasty fluoride. Obligatory r/leopardsatemyface
|u/IsDinosaur - 3 hours
|
|Remember, those who voted for this clown support this nonsense, and
|those of you who could vote but didn’t vote are complicit. Trump is to
|America what Brexit is to the UK; a fucking stupid idea, but as usual
|those with the strongest feelings actually bother to vote.
|u/JuanPunchX - 3 hours
|
|Putin is destroying America from within. You can't cconvince me
|otherwise.
|u/Common-Ad6470 - 3 hours
|
|You really can’t make this stuff up. The next four years are literally
|going to be the US being peeled apart from the inside out.
|u/Beginning_Day2785 - 3 hours
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|Only “the best” people…the dictatorship has begun. Thanks kool aid
|drinking fools.
|u/BenRichardson76 - 3 hours
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|I hate this timeline.
|u/babyzizek - 3 hours
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|It never stops. Never.
|u/Admirable_Donkey7113 - 3 hours
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|Well done America Hope ye are proud! Muppets
|u/prarus7 - 3 hours
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|Sigh, its over folks
|u/striderhoang - 3 hours
|
|Oh man, it's like comedy at this point. The kind of comedy that makes
|laughter that trails off and gets really quiet.
|u/Clear-Garage-4828 - 3 hours
|
|And RFK jr the environmental lawyer decided to throw his weight to this
|fucking guy?? I will never understand that one
|u/GoldFuchs - 3 hours
|
|The US is a petrostate. Under Trump it'll be run like a typical
|Petrostate too. Better get used to it.
|u/PeachRangz - 2 hours
|
|I am not sure there has been a moment in recent memory where someone so
|terrible, with so much power, just **stopped pretending** to have good
|intent. Like, he really got away with **all of it** and was like, “okay,
|fuck it. I’m going to put the worst people in each and every position,
|and it’s going to be so on the nose that you’ll feel my middle finger as
|it’s happening.”
|u/Meme-Botto9001 - 2 hours
|
|After promising to cut ties from interest groups into politics to drain
|the swamp….he does exactly the opposite.
|u/sexarseshortage - 2 hours
|
|There is no way this lot get anything done. By the time they work out
|how to do their job they will have insulted trump. How many
|scaramoochis?
|u/GeneralCommand4459 - 2 hours
|
|Trump lacks the willingness or capacity to understand the difference
|between a company and a country. Everything he does is how he would act
|if running a company and when he was in his prime (1980s) wealth was the
|only measure of success.
|u/Extinguish89 - 2 hours
|
|Trump picking Chris Wright to be energy secretary is like picking Ted
|Bundy to be in charge of human safety
|u/ArkhamCitizen298 - 2 hours
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|This pick seems fine
|u/National_Arachnid360 - 2 hours
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|Trump thinks of destroying this country from within just like his
|businesses!!
|u/derpMaster7890 - 2 hours
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|All these people look like they needed more bullying in highschool.
|u/Snake_Plizken - 1 hour
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|Wonder how big campaign donation, a minister seat costs?
|u/CaptainC0medy - 1 hour
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|Didn't he just release a video saying he would make a law removing
|government officials from working at a company???
|u/Apprehensive_Ratio80 - 1 hour
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|Next is Cookie monster in charge of all the cookies!!!
|u/Inside-Report-7855 - 1 hour
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|Great success, America!
|u/cppluv - 1 hour
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|Man earth is cooked
|u/Goodideaman1 - 1 hour
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|Oh yea it’s called “ Operation Poison Our Own Fucking Water for Greed”
|NOW I remember NOT voting for the piece of shit
|u/Important_Tell667 - 35 minutes
|
|Donald’s always picking exactly the opposite choice for any position he
|wants… It’s an upside down world with Donald at the reigns.
|u/conspiracyeinstein - 24 minutes
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|Looks like earthquakes are back on the menu!
|u/Miserable-Ad7079 - 21 minutes
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|For Secretary of the Future, Trump nominates Fred Flinstone...
|u/michelb - 3 minutes
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|I quickly need a leaderboard of which of his friend's stock to buy
|u/Poker_3070 - 3 minutes
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|It is funny that Musk didn't comment anything related to this pick on X
|:))
|u/RealPersonResponds - 9 hours
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|He was the top bidder.
|u/GadreelsSword - 9 hours
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|#Filling the swamp
|u/HVAC_instructor - 1 hour
|
|And???? Nobody that voted for him can complain at all this is exactly
|what they voted for. Those that did not vote for him are on for a very
|long 20+ years of the impact of his presidency.
|u/Paddlesons - 9 hours
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|This is what the left that didn't vote for Harris was willing to concede
|to.
|u/ApplauseButOnlyABit - 6 hours
|
|Harris trotted out Republican after Republican. She ran to the center
|and refused to give anything to her base. She was campaigning with
|Bush Era Republicans. She was doing all of this because she thought
|that she could abandon the base and court soft Republican votes and in
|the end she lost votes across the board and actually lost independents
|compared to Biden. They ran a campaign the exact opposite way the
|left had been telling them to run a campaign and they lost in
|spectacular fashion to the worst nominee of all time and yet somehow
|this is all the left's fault. Fascinating.
|u/Ok-Stop314 - 9 hours
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|We deserve this.
|u/Working-Football-282 - 8 hours
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|we are so cooked.
|u/ProfessorFate38 - 8 hours
|
|Pick your poison. The whole green economy is a long way from being
|green. We still need fossil fuels to power the grid, and I'm sorry, but
|solar and wind are not going to cut it for a long time, if ever. Every
|large-scale wind and solar power plant requires a fossil fuel plant
|(most of which are natural gas, which a huge amount comes from fracking)
|to back it up for dips in output due to no/light wind and / or lack of
|sunlight from nighttime or when clouds blow over. I'm 100% against
|slave labor, especially when children are being used to mine cobalt to
|power all the ever increasing demands of rechargeable batteries. So I'd
|much rather our economy be powered by fossil fuels than by slave labor.
|And all of you on your high horse, can you honestly say that the green
|technology is really clean? Look at what it takes to mine the raw
|materials, ship it around the world on fuel guzzling ships to be
|refined, manufacture it, and then ship it again around the world on
|massively polluting cargo ships, and not to mention the huge amounts of
|waste they produce when they reach their useful life (ex. Wind turbine
|blades and solar panels).
|u/Hiply - 9 hours
|
|Because of course he did. The only reason Goebbels wasn't named press
|secretary is that he's dead.
|u/They420 - 8 hours
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|Our entire government is for sale right now. Get in line.
|u/redent_it - 4 hours
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|So much for cleaning the swamp.
|u/Have_A_Jelly_Baby - 8 hours
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|It’s like every single pick comes down to “who is the absolute worst
|person I can put in charge of this”.
|u/wongtheallmighty - 10 hours
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|He clearing the swamp by cutting the middle man
|u/sarhoshamiral - 8 hours
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|Seems like he is trying to find the worst picks possible for every
|position.
|u/Extension-Dentist-42 - 10 hours
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|Billion dollars
|u/d3pthchar93 - 9 hours
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|Going scorched earth I see…
|u/I_Cast_Trident - 9 hours
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|It's really starting to feel like we're the band on the Titanic.
|u/PO_Boxer - 9 hours
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|Come on, God. Prove you exist. You know what to do.
|u/vapebeau - 9 hours
|
|Well Biden’s current secretary of energy is Jennifer Granholm who has
|zero experience in any energy related field. She was Michigan attorney
|general and governor. A politician. At least this guy know what fracking
|is.
|u/HungryMoon - 8 hours
|
|Is literally just picking the worst people for the job on purpose? Like
|what's next, an arson to help prevent forest fires?
|u/BenMullen2 - 8 hours
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|And the stupid train chugs along
|u/DrakeAU - 9 hours
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|Good luck America. You're going to need it.
|u/DrtyMikeandTheBoys - 8 hours
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|Chris Wright is one of the smartest energy people we have. He’s big on
|reducing energy poverty, believes in climate change, and is pro nuclear.
|Maybe try listening to him before writing him off.
|u/Maleficent_Sense_948 - 8 hours
|
|He believes in climate change but doesn’t think its important enough
|to cut profits, “—There is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the
|midst of an energy transition either,” Wright said in a video posted
|to LinkedIn last year.” He’s all about making money, regardless of
|the outcome for the population. “—Wright is an outspoken critic of
|policies aimed at curbing climate change, including the Department of
|Energy’s goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. “There is
|no such thing as clean energy or dirty energy,” Wright said last year.
|However, the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy says clean
|energy, like solar and wind, create little or no carbon emissions, the
|greenhouse gases responsible for human-amplified global warming.
|While Wright does not dispute the existence of climate change, he has
|argued that policies aimed at reducing the impact of climate change
|are misguided and alarmist, describing the terms climate crisis,
|energy transition, carbon pollution, clean energy and dirty energy as
|“destructive deceptions” and “nonsense.” Wright claims that any
|negative impacts of climate change are “clearly overwhelmed by the
|benefits of increasing energy consumption” and believes that extreme
|weather events like hurricanes, tornadoes and floods have not
|increased because of climate change.”
|u/Eat_My_Liver - 3 hours
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|Fuck off with your propaganda.
|u/EmmaJuned - 9 hours
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|Bye bye planet
|u/Flyinglighthouses - 9 hours
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|LETS DESTROY AMERICA AGAIN
|u/AnnOnnamis - 9 hours
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|No concept of: - conflict of interest - nepotism - insider trading -
|integrity - cheating, lying, fidelity - impartiality - meritocracy -
|right vs. wrong - just doing the right thing
|u/aquarain - 9 hours
|
|I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a
|nation where the content of their character no longer matters at all.
|u/DesignerPercentage76 - 10 hours
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|And the hits keep coming.
|u/Rusty_fox4 - 9 hours
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|I wonder how this would play with Musk's SolarCity.
|u/AnsibleAnswers - 9 hours
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|I’m sure he’ll have bipartisan support at the confirmation hearing.
|Fetterman will lick his boot heels.
|u/Illustrious-Site1101 - 9 hours
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|This is America
|u/Red_Wing-GrimThug - 9 hours
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|More earthquakes yay…
|u/belizeanheat - 9 hours
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|Worst possible choice. Awesome
|u/finerliving - 9 hours
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|Trump is a fracking f**k nut.
|u/sl1mman - 9 hours
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|Finally, we might go from the most oil producing country in the history
|of oil to the most oil producing country in the history of oil.
|u/amanam0ngb0ts - 9 hours
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|Good job America! Fucking idiots. Hope the horrors of climate change
|were worth trading for the price of eggs (and we’ll see about that too).
|u/Xenon2212 - 9 hours
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|If anyone is surprised by this you are an idiot.
|u/LaSage - 9 hours
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|Prepare for a marked increase in earthquakes.
|u/blind_squirrel62 - 9 hours
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|Is this guy qualified to manage our nuclear weapons weapons program? How
|is he qualified to oversee nuclear reactor production for the navy? Is
|he qualified to manage nuclear energy policy and production?
|u/Away-Coffee-9438 - 9 hours
|
|99% of people do not understand the role of the Dept of Energy in
|nuclear energy (and weapons). I did not (as an energy atty) until
|someone explained it to me, plus what I knew of the role of states and
|the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
|u/Sidewayzracer - 9 hours
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|i dont see anything specifically wrong yet. Atleast its someone i have
|never heard of
|u/aquarain - 9 hours
|
|Here comes the subsidized grey hydrogen, the SMR nuclear plants with
|Russian fuel, the resurrection of coal, regulatory suffocation of wind,
|solar and battery. Because of course.
|