Thursday, December 8, 2016

Donald Trump and the Cabinet of the Damned

Bill O'Reilly asks if Trump can unite the country.

Maybe O'Reilly is having a third or fourth childhood and wants to be a comedian now, a really bad one.

This one really did crack me up as it presupposes the idea anyone would ever want to associate with Bill O'Reilly or Donald Trump in the first place.

You will have to go to Fox News to get a link for O'Reilly's performance as I had no interest in seeing it since I've seen his act previously.  I'll stick to what I do best (i.e. writing) and O'Reilly can stick to what he does best (i.e. sexual harassment).


Trump plans to kill Medicare, Ryan plans to kill food stamps, and there's a raft of ways in which they're determined to make lives for the poor just as bad as it's possible to get.  For that it seems they want respect.  I couldn't even get to the end of the sentence without laughing.

It's never going to happen.  The best deal Trump will get is if we don't hate him.


The opening position with Trump was to give him a chance but he used that chance filling his Cabinet with ringers, most of whom have no particular expertise in anything and are no more than the simple destroyers we have seen for years from Republicans.

The EPA now has a Secretary who has been actively working against the organization for years.

Education now has a Secretary who wants to 'advance God's kingdom.'

The beat goes on and the key point is it does not change.


The corporate tool he manifests is clear in that such types regard the EPA as an expensive waste of money which inhibits unrestrained corporate growth.

Any education which focuses primarily on religious dogma is no education at all and the need for it shows the total failure of the parents to do their jobs, if it's their wont to instill a religious upbringing in a child.  If they actually go through with that, I would pull my kid, assuming I have one, from the school the same day since I would be absolutely mortified if my kid turned out to be an opportunistic horror like Mary Fallin who is more lacking in empathy than the average rock in your garden.  (Ithaka:  American Religion and Mary Fallin Want Big Oil)

Note:  I don't know if it's official yet but Fallin is apparently high on the list of candidates for Secretary of the Interior.  Ain't that perfect, the sub-queen of fracking will be put up to manage the country's land.  Perhaps some see a difference between that and putting a rapist in charge of a girl's school.


It's the hope from Cadillac Man that Trump has more balls than Obama in standing up to the Pentagon and he sees his Cabinet as advisors rather than givers of orders to him.  It's conceivable he can rise above the swamp he is creating around him even when it seems extremely unlikely.

I'm not going to see it but there are multiple kids whose lives I don't want to see degraded by Trump's pack of vandals so the only move just now is to hope for the best.  Conceivably, there could be unity with Trump if he Does the Right Thing even when that looks highly-improbable now.

Note:  there will never be unity with Bill O'Reilly; he's wasted too much of our precious oxygen already.

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