Donald Trump

Somebody else from history famously adopted a similar "rats in a sack" management approach - and like Trump he also had a fondness for bunkers - and things didn't turn out so well for him.

Of course comparisons between Trump and that individual are specious at best...
There 's clearly no comparison. Except of course when Trump himself is reported to have asked why he can't get people around him who are as loyal as whatsisname's generals, and was disbelieving when told how many times those generals had plotted to kill him.
 
There 's clearly no comparison. Except of course when Trump himself is reported to have asked why he can't get people around him who are as loyal as whatsisname's generals, and was disbelieving when told how many times those generals had plotted to kill him.

The "We have ways of making you talk" podcast had an episode regarding Trump's remarks, how accurate they were (not at all given, as you mention, the assassination plots) and what a poor grasp of history in general he has as a starting point. They then went on to assess the effectiveness of whatsisname's generals through the war, especially once he started meddling directly in military decisions and started appointing generals with no qualifications aside from their blind loyalty to their leader. Their assessment was not kind.

I then made the mistake of reading the comments section. The MAGA crowd had clearly read the podcast's clickbait title but had not actually listened to it. They were furious.
 
... I then made the mistake of reading the comments section. The MAGA crowd had clearly read the podcast's clickbait title but had not actually listened to it. They were furious.
I listen to the audio podcast while driving. It never occurred to me it had a comments section. Thanks for reading it so I don't have to.
 
Trump picks 3rd rate Fox host Hegseth to be in charge of the most powerful military in the world.

In his role, he will fight the most evil enemy the US military as ever faced: too woke US soldiers.
The second enemy to be vanquished is Veteran Healthcare, which of course should be run privately for profit.

Unqualified doesn't begin to describe this.
I called Hesgeth a vicious non-entity when commenting on the pick.
 
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Trump has a history of giving the same job to two people - thinks it's a brilliant manager strategy to have them compete against each other for your approval.
In the case of these sad excuses for men, it might even work.
It's a common tactic among autocrats, pit your subordinates againat each other so that they don't get ideas and start thinking they'd look good in your seat.

The fact that it makes government impossible is an incidental so minor it never crosses their mi ds.
 
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What do we get in 2025? Pretty much the same as in 2016, but much worse. Michael Lewis went through the important cabinet postitions in this book in 2018. The guy that owns AccuWeather got to run the Weather Bureau. The department of energy is not just about drilling. It covers nuclear reactors and nuclear waste and so on. I'm re-reading it now.
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Which would be funny if they were steering but Vance is just a tool for those controlling him and Musk doesn't really have an agenda apart from pretending to be Tony Stark.

IMO Trump is absolutely steering - it's just that he changes his mind about where he's going every few minutes.
and it's increasingly looking like musk is the little dumb kid in the back that got played
 
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Trump has a history of giving the same job to two people - thinks it's a brilliant manager strategy to have them compete against each other for your approval.
In the case of these sad excuses for men, it might even work.
That was Hitler's tactic. He would have entire departments duplicated to compete with each other.
 
Not buying the whole "TRump is just a tool of the evil capitalist" line. Way too simplistic.
 
and it's increasingly looking like musk is the little dumb kid in the back that got played
Reports today that Musk and several of Trump's top adivisors are fighting like cats and dogs.
In the end, there is only room for one Alpha Dog and it ain't gonna be Musk.
 

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