The Frankish Reich

Sure looks like the kind of outsider who will have the common man first and foremost in his mind as he takes on the Global Economic Order. https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2017/06/09/ex-soros-exec-trump-donor-scott-bessent-pays-19m-for-720-park-co-op/

I did see Rand Paul on one of the Sunday morning shows. He is firmly against using the military to aid in immigration enforcement.

You fell for the ultimate con man's latest con. Joke's on you, sucker. Good thing that Project 2025 had absolutely nothing to do with Trump's plans. https://www.newsweek.com/russ-vought-trump-cabinet-project-2025-1990588 Reminder: Low information voters went overwhelmingly for Trump.

Is there anyone on the Trump side who is at least a little bit concerned about a National Emergency declaration and the use of the military to enforce civil immigration law? Posse Comitatus Act ....

I'm fine with the Treasury appointee. It will make markets happy, and happy markets are typically good. My only point here is that anyone who voted from Trump as a way to bust up that happy international world economic order (which I happen to like) was made a fool of.

I agree. If that's all that's out there, his personal behavior should not be a disqualifier. But that doesn't change the fact that he's remarkably poorly qualified to serve as the head of the largest government Department.

EDIT: I realize I can't keep my Fox commenter-nominees straight. Which one pined for the days of George Wallace while receiving an Ivy education?

Why is it always that the guy who looks and acts like the standard issue racist douchebag always has some racist comment in his past? To quote Steve Bannon on the other thread: there are no conspiracies, but there are no coincidences.

As the Marxists would say: they duped the proles by harping on silly tangential things while they consolidated their global economic order. Sometimes the Marxists have a point.

And George Soros' protege becomes Treasury Secretary, while MAGA fools are distracted by trans swimmers and Venezuelan criminals.

He dismisses the idea of using the Police, and suggests that "Highland moms" (read: the yoga and Starbucks moms in a gentrified Denver neighborhood) will rally to to it themselves. He needs to spend more time in the Highlands neighborhood to learn exactly how self-centered these moms are.

"Stop at nothing" = sell arms to an ally defending itself from an invasion by an adversary, without putting weird restrictions on the right of self defense.

I'm the Matt Gaetz of PPP

So close and yet so far. I visited a few years ago. Fantastic. True. Always sad when we lose one of the keepers to the other team.

I am quite familiar with that ….

Change England to Portugal and I'm there. I'll even take Ellen's girlfriend; just not Ellen.

Yeah, the Deep State Six Ways to Sunday Secret Police tricked Matty Orgies into banging hookers. I guess that's the Seventh Way. One might ask why these Republican manly men always seem to have to pay for it.

Poorly educated and proud of it!

My educated guess: they couldn't prove that he knew the girl was under 18. Besides, she wasn't much under 18. The witnesses are, well, hookers, and hookers have criminal records, drug problems, you name it, so if they were called as witnesses in a prosecution all of that would be fair game. So they decided not to indict. Now all of those things that made it bad for criminal charges (the hookers, etc.) make it very, very bad for a confirmation hearing for the highest legal job in the country. Two very different things. Not a criminal; not an appropriate choice for Attorney General. Why Trump thought he was is, well, a Trump thing.

Maybe he should just keep his mouth shut for, like, a day or two ... apparently too much to ask.

Oh, I'm not expecting anyone I'll like.

Yeah, well I don't do NPR language standards. And you gotta admit Gaetz has a wonderful head of hair.

Nothing personal with her. Just not an appropriate choice for the job.

What happened to Gaetz's Spine of Steel? A steel folding chair?

Could be. Awkward in that Trump has already named his personal criminal defense attorneys as Gaetz's underlings. But hey, Trump.