Summary

Donald Trump Jr. has become a key adviser to his father, influencing cabinet appointments for Trump’s upcoming administration.

He is reportedly prioritizing loyalists over experienced candidates, backing controversial figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health secretary and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, both of whom face Senate challenges.

Trump Jr. also played a role in selecting JD Vance as vice president-elect and blocking Mike Pompeo’s cabinet return.

Despite this, Trump’s reliance on family has lessened, due to a more structured team led by chief of staff Susie Wiles.

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      And naturally when the king dies, the throne will go to his heirs.

      Every rhetorically cautious bone in my body doesn’t want me to say it, but I think we elected the king.

      ^I’m saying rhetorically cautious because I feel if I said “careful moderation” people would think “politically moderate” where I mean being careful not to jump to conclusions and make wild claims (extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence)^

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    This US election, considering the comparative power a US voter has, is the stupidest act I’ve seen by a population in my lifetime.

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      Well we did Brexit in the UK, currently holding the record for longest lasting self-inflicted fuck-up. Hell it’s been long enough that even some of the right wing loons are starting to realise that it might not have been the sunshine and roses they were promised.

      However I’m under no illusions that a another 4 years of trump could easily make that look rational by comparison.

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          The real self own is everyone continually trying to convince each other that trump was inevitable. I think he is stupid as shit and the fact were struggling to defeat him is just telling how dysfunctional everything has become.

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      Yeah… remember how much conservative media was making fun of coke-addled Hunter Biden?

      Now we have coke-addled Trumpy Jr. Making the goofiest fucking cabinet picks the world has ever seen.

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        It’s so interesting how they will dig through a stolen laptop and make a huge deal of it every single day for 2 years.

        Trump Jr does cocaine in public on camera and it’s perfectly normal.

        I think that’s a major difference in left vs right media. The Right understands marketing. You need to repeat a message over and over before it gets into the public consciousness. Democrats never stick to one subject. They’re always onto the new shiny criticism. For example, labeling Trump as “weird” was just gaining traction when they moved onto the new idea.

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          Trump Jr does cocaine in public on camera and it’s perfectly normal.

          When you control the media, they let you do it.

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          Right? It was wild how the weird thing was really going well and they decided to close out the last couple of months by hanging out with Liz Cheney.

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            The weird thing was all Walz and I also felt he was pretty much sidelined towards the end, despite being probably the most well-liked vice presidental candidate in recent times.

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          Dems stuck to hope and change during Obama’s campaigns and it worked. They of course learned nothing from success.

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    Just remember, everyone: The number one favorite strategy in the Republican playbook is…

    Create a loud problem to hide the ones they don’t want you to see.

    Every time something happens that is meant to cause outrage ask yourself what else is going on. It’s always reported on, just have to look.

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          Ever heard that old saying, a Republican is someone who would shit in their own mouth just so a liberal would have to smell it?

          Rs will happily do something they don’t like (vote for a woman) if it means feeling like they “owned the libs”.

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      We elected whoever has last talked to the President, since he has the mental capacity of a goldfish and will just repeat the last thing anyone says to him.