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.
Here’s a post on which I’ll simply comment: “From your lips to God’s ears.”
Question: The New York Times reports: President-elect Donald J. Trump announced on Monday that he would nominate former Representative Lee Zeldin, Republican of New York, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a position that is expected to be central to Mr. Trump’s plans to dismantle landmark climate regulations. Mr. Trump campaigned on pledges to “kill” and “cancel” E.P.A. rules and regulations to combat global warming by restricting fossil fuel pollution from vehicle tailpipes, power plant smokestacks and oil and gas wells.
This makes sense, when you think about it; in fact, everyone should have seen it coming.
A reader sent me this meme and commented: It’s always the dumbest person you know.
In 2024, 
The bottom photo here was taken 100 years after the one on the top.
Question: Primatologist Jane Goodall asserts three reasons for her optimism about the ultimate disposition of our planet’s health. One is shown at left, i.e., all we need to do is stop poisoning and otherwise harming our Earth, and it will repair itself.
There are dozens of things to be sickened about re: the outcome of the 2024 election here in the United States. But if you’re looking for the single most nauseating issue, consider this: Trump voters believe he has the backs of working class Americans.
To the author of the meme here: great job.
