Yeah. Idiocracy is indeed happening.
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2024
283 points (98.3% liked)
politics
19115 readers
3426 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Why list her as a WWE executive but not list Trump as a WWE Hall of Famer?
Wrestling fan for over 40 years.
Honestly, given the options that Trump could dredge up from the 9th circle of hell, this isn't the worst choice.
Linda McMahon sat there for 50 or so years and did nothing while her husband committed all sorts of atrocities. And she deserves everything she gets for doing that. All the criticism surrounding that is 100% valid. But I want to point out the key words there. "Did nothing." Because that's pretty much Linda McMahon's resume.
As CEO, she did nothing. Vince called the shots. She just signed the paperwork -- at best. Her position was mainly a figurehead position just to ensure McMahon's power in the company was that much more entrenched. She has all the charisma and personality of cigarette ash, and her on-air persona was literally to sit in a wheelchair and say nothing because she wasn't capable of better acting.
She had a cabinet position during Trump's first administration, and did a whole lot more nothing.
I would expect the same thing here. Linda McMahon is an unqualified hack who shouldn't be in the position, but if there's a silver lining, it's this: Left to her own devices, McMahon will likely do nothing. Education won't get any better, but it won't get any worse either. She's smart enough to know when she has no idea what she's doing, and if the past 50 or so years is any indication, she'll spend the next four years doing a lot more nothing and hoping nobody notices.
Yes, she absolutely will follow Trump's directives to the letter. But Trump's attention span is worse than Linda McMahon's acting skills. I hate to say it like this, but if Trump stays focused on removing all the brown people and forcing his cronies to buy his watches, there's at least the possibility that McMahon could just keep her head down for 4 years and at least not leave the DOE worse off than the way she found it. She's got a 50 year resume showing her skills at doing nothing. Hopefully she'll continue that trend.
There's a huge issue with that, though, that seems all too often overlooked: by doing nothing, our systems will still fall behind. They will continue to decay, to lag increasingly behind our peers and adversaries. At absolute best, the inevitable death of 1,000 cuts marches on.
Well, I think did nothing and let Vince do whatever he wanted while she signed the paperwork is the more relevant and scarier bit of what you're responding to and what that person missed. There's no silver lining to a Yes Man with what these people want to do to education.
You're missing my point slightly.
Yes, if Trump is dead-set on killing the DOE, we're fucked. You're right there. But unlike many of Trump's other yes-men, Linda McMahon is not known to have the drive to do anything by herself. Go watch any of her WWE footage or any time she's made a public statement. That woman hasn't lifted a finger in her life without calling on her assistants to check on her nails. And we all know that Trump has the attention span of a methhead with ADHD. The silver lining is that if Trump decides to set his sights elsewhere, she'll do little damage on her own, unlike a more ambitious yes-man who will take the initiative.
Think of it this way. It could have been Boebert. Or MTG. Or Jim Jordan. Plenty of cronies exponentially worse than McMahon if they were chosen, and all of which would have the initiative to do it themselves if Trump's attention was focused elsewhere.
Sure, but I'll take the thousand cuts over being shot right directly in the face, pretty much every time.
At least that would illicit a reaction out of the masses; that's exactly why these authoritarians aim to slowly strangle our safety nets. We will apparently happily let them do it, as long as it doesn't cause us immediate and perceivable harm.
Given the results of the election, that reaction may not be the one you think it is.
Trump is just nominating people he can remember or saw on TV at this point, isn't he?
He picked people that would work with him. Most people think he's a moron and difficult to work with so why waste their time. They are all washed up and trying to catch some sunlight to cash in on.
"Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV."
I’ve heard it called his TV cabinet.
HA! Love it!
If we have to rely on stuff he can remember we're gonna end up with a camera and a TV to be in charge of stuff (he's already put in a person, man, and woman).
Only the best and brightest.
I don't know what DOE employees did in a past life to deserve devos and whatever the fuck choice this is.
I dunno about their past lives either, but in this they made the eternal fuck up of wanting to impact American education at a time when the country was sliding into fascism.
This must be how President Camacho comes to be.
Camacho at least was smart enough to know he wasn't that smart, and thus had the sense to listen to a particularly smart advisor who wasn't stupidly insane though!
Camacho apparently fixed the time machine and came back to run for president in 2024, because they forgot how to make cheese in the future.
Sadly he didn't get enough votes ☹️
load more comments
(2 replies)
Given that the US education system is wrestling with so many problems, maybe she is the right choice. /s
Bah Gawd It's Over! The DOE is dead! Broken in half!
The amount of his picks that are involved with sexual abuse of minors seems pretty over-the-top even for a republican administration. At this point, do any of them not have histories of involvement with sexual abuse and/or harassment? Maybe Oz... idk.
Could have been worse, last time it was Betsy Devos
I thought he was going to pick MTG or Boeboert, to be honest
Hulk Hogan was too busy?
Hulk Hogan and Dog The Bounty Hunter are going to be Co-Directors of National Intelligence
You know what? Please. Don't even pretend this is not a joke anymore.
Fuckin’ put me in the screenshot.
I'm sure he'll get something. Looks like this time Trump is only looking for loyalty, his previous cabinet still had a ton of people that were only there because he felt he needed to keep McConnell happy. This time there's going to be no 'adults in the room'.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
I think this is the first person who's coming back from the previous Trump term, although in the first term she was on the small business administration, which makes somewhat more sense (though still not a lot considering) for someone who ran a pro wrestling business.
Didn't he want to abolish the education department? Or like is this how he wants to destroy it?
And there's the education grenade...
Is anybody in the Republican party in the senate, congress or whichever not freaking out over his picks? Don't they have a final say?
When you swear ultimate fealty to a cult leader, the officers of the cult are by default the best picks. If you can't see it, it's a problem with you and not a problem with the cult leader.
Until those folk are no longer needed, outlive their usefulness, or turn on Trump of course. Then the handpicked officers in question were actually agents of "The Enemy" all along and needed to be purged.
They confirmed her 81-19 for administrator of the Small Business Administration. That was dumb but they were ok with it then.
She was on the state board of education in Connecticut for a little over a year under their last GOP governor. So I guess that’s some experience at least. Totally qualified to run education for the entire fucking country.
🔥 This is fine. 🔥
The real danger is what Heritage Foundation ghouls will be running the show under her, and the other cabinet members. All these clowns are just the people Trump wants in the room with him. They don’t need to be qualified or do anything but kiss his ass on camera. It’s the Project 2025 deputy-weirdos we should worry about.
load more comments
(4 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
The McMahons are so weird.
It's kinda funny how Vince funded two failed campaigns, and the second the two seem to be estranged Linda has found political power through Trump.
I have no idea if Vince and Linda are still together, since they've been mostly separated for years now, but I wonder if this will also open doors for Vince considering he was booted out of TKO/WWE for the recent abus allegations.
Disgusting.
It’s like he’s casting for the 9th circle of hell wow what a cast of characters.
We are most definitely living in a simulation, shit is getting too weird to be real.
view more: next ›