Aloha, Comrade!
When you woke up yesterday the idea that Pete #Hegseth
—a philandering morning TV host who has never run anything bigger than a frozen banana stand
—could serve as the secretary of defense was the most preposterous idea in the history of the federal government.
By the dinner time Trump issued two nominations that made Hegseth look like Bobby Gates.
The Matt #Gaetz appointment is getting most of the attention because of the irony.
The DoJ being controlled by a man who was recently investigated by the same department for having an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, whom he (allegedly) paid to travel with him? It’s too good.
Also, in the near term, the attorney general can a lot of damage to America. The AG has the power both to turn the state against its citizens and to shield wrongdoers from accountability.
But it’s the appointment of Tulsi #Gabbard as director of national intelligence that worries me more.
-- Because for a decade Gabbard has looked and behaved like a #Russian #asset.
In four terms as a congresswoman her most notable actions were ongoing defenses of two war criminals: Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/tulsi-gabbard-russian-asset-or-dupe
This is the world today: you are guilty by association.
Just because you were born in a country with geopolitical issues, you are guilty by association and will be cancelled even if you disagree with your own government.
By their own faulty logic, they are guilty, too.
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