Tune Out the News?

The meme here came from a reader.

There is no doubt that Trump and his Republican minions would be ecstatic if the nation looked the other way while:

Matt Gaetz is appointed to be U.S. Attorney General.

Let’s suppose that there had been no Justice Department investigation into Gaetz that stemmed from a probe into the Florida congressman’s one-time friend, former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg, who was sentenced in 2022 to 11 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to multiple charges, including sex trafficking a minor and introducing the minor to other “adult men.”  Does he have a single qualification to sit atop the country’s system of law enforcement?  Of course not.

Former congressman Lee Zeldin is made Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. 

Zeldin regularly voted against progressive climate and environment policies, earning him a lifetime score of just 14 percent from the League of Conservation Voters, an advocacy group that tracks congress members’ positions on environmental legislation.

Pete Hegseth will become Secretary of Defense.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Hegseth, despite the fact that his highest rank was major, will be appointed to head up the Pentagon.   There are now 625 full (four-star) generals, not to mention the large number of lieutenant (three-star) generals, major (two-star) generals, brigadier (one-star) generals, “full-bird” colonels, and lieutenant colonels.  As a friend wrote earlier today, “(Somehow, Hegseth) went from leading a platoon to  leading the largest military in the history of planet Earth.

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The only real commonalities among these three people is a) their glaring lack of qualifications for their soon-to-be appointed positions, and b) their fierce loyalty to Trump. Which is the only criterion that means anything whatsoever.

Sure, we could “turn off the news” and “enjoy our lives.” Frankly, I wouldn’t enjoy a single minute of having become just another Trump flunky.