• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Hey guys, I’m starting to believe that the people Trump puts in those important positions aren’t selected for their competence.

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        He makes his choices based on his desire to be the smartest person in the room.

        One of the complaints he had from his first term was that he was prevented from doing things because he was surrounded by “people who think they’re smarter than me”…

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        His lawyers, for all their failings, have managed to keep him out of prison so far. (Having a few judges in his pocket doesn’t hurt.)

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          Well…He was convicted on 34 criminal counts. He didn’t go to prison only because of a feckless judge who was too scared of his responsibility to give a meaningful sentence and didn’t punish him at all.

    • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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      These days he probably just points to furniture and says, “you’re hired!” And “you’re fired!” And his people just hire whoever looks most like the last person because he gets upset when his reality’s continuity is broken.