They came from Florida, from Fox News and Fox Business, square-jawed men and women with big hair and collagen lips.
They came from professional football and World Wrestling Entertainment.
They came from daytime talk shows and reality television.
They were ‘straight out of central casting’, as the future president said.
Some of the women resembled his daughter and some of the women resembled his wife. None of the men resembled him.
A squad of them came with the future president to Madison Square Garden to watch Ultimate Fighting matches.
The future secretary of defence is adorned with the white supremacist tattoos of a Jerusalem cross, the Crusader rallying cry ‘Deus vult’ and an AR-15 assault rifle flanking an American flag.
The future secretary of homeland security once shot her hunting dog, Cricket, in a gravel pit because it couldn’t hunt, then shot her pet goat because it was getting old and ‘nasty’.
The future secretary of health and human services once cut off the head of a beached whale with a chainsaw, put it on the roof of his car and drove home. He brags that he has a freezer full of roadkill.
Less than half of all voters voted for the future president, but his team declared it a ‘landslide’, a ‘mandate’ to ‘drain the swamp’ and shake up the capital.
The future White House communications director calls the opposition ‘snowflakes’ whose ‘sad, miserable existence will be crushed’ when the future president returns to power.
The future director of the FBI promises a ‘government gangsters manhunt’ and revenge against disloyal journalists.
The future director of the Federal Communications Commission threatens to penalise television networks that criticise the future president.
They vow mass firings and the deportation of millions.
They vow to cut two trillion dollars from the federal budget – five times the combined annual salaries of all federal employees.
They vow an end to ‘wokeness’ in all its imagined forms and the return of American greatness.
But they have no connection to the work they will manage, or no experience in the work they will manage, or no experience managing large bureaucracies like the bureaucracies they will manage.
The future secretary of commerce is a billionaire.
The future secretary of the treasury is a billionaire.
The future secretary of the interior is a billionaire.
The future secretary of education is a billionaire.
The future special envoy to the Middle East is a billionaire.
The future director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) is a billionaire. (...)
The future deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism is a former Fox News regular and is banned from YouTube. He believes that violence is intrinsic to Islam. He wears the medal of the neo-Nazi Hungarian Order of Vitéz and was a supporter of the Magyar Gárda, a paramilitary group.
The future secretary of the navy has never been in the military, but he raised $12 million for the future president’s campaign at an event at his home in Aspen, where the future president warned that this ‘could be the last election we ever have’ if the ‘radical left-wing lunatics’ win.
The future ambassador to Israel is a Baptist minister and former Fox News host. He has said ‘there’s really no such thing as a Palestinian.’
The future senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs is the father-in-law of the future president’s daughter.
The future special envoy to the Middle East is a frequent golf partner of the future president and has donated almost $2 million to his campaigns. He has close ties to Qatar.
The future ambassador to France, the father-in-law of another daughter of the future president, also donated $2 million to the campaign. He spent two years in prison for a number of offences, including hiring a prostitute to seduce and videotape his brother-in-law, who was going to testify against him. He will live in the luxurious Hôtel de Pontalba in Paris. (...)
The future White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser is allied with various white supremacist groups and is the most rabidly anti-immigrant member of the team. He believes ‘America is for Americans and Americans only,’ which means banning, among others, Muslims, refugees and university students from China, as well as deporting eleven million undocumented migrants. He was the architect of the policy of separating migrant children from their parents, and was seen gloating over photographs of children in cages. He has said that the Emma Lazarus poem (‘Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’) at the base of the Statue of Liberty was a later ‘woke’ addition that has nothing to do with American liberty. He considers the future president ‘a political genius’.
The future border tsar, a Fox News regular, implemented the family separation policy during the future president’s previous administration. He has initiated a project called ‘Defend the Border and Save Lives’ in collaboration with an anti-Muslim group, the United West. He has said: ‘I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.’
The future secretary of defence, a Fox News host, has called for an ‘American crusade’, ‘a holy war for the righteous cause of human freedom’, because the ‘irreconcilable differences between the left and the right in America ... cannot be resolved through the political process’. He claims there is a ‘cultural Marxist revolution ripping through the Pentagon’, epitomised by the US military slogan ‘Our diversity is our strength,’ which he says is the ‘dumbest phrase on planet Earth’. He warns that the invasion of Ukraine ‘pales in comparison’ to the threat of ‘wokeness’, for ‘this unholy alliance of political ideologues and Pentagon pussies has left our warriors without real defenders in Washington.’ ‘The next president of the United States needs to fire them all.’ He is opposed to Nato and the United Nations. He is known for drunken displays in which he rants against Muslims. Accused of rape, he paid the victim to remain silent. His mother once sent him an email saying that he is ‘despicable and abusive’ and asked: ‘Is there any sense of decency left in you?’ (...)
Also available are a $100,000 gold watch, a $11,000 autographed guitar, digital trading card NFTs featuring the future president in heroic historic tableaux, God Bless the USA Bibles, Never Surrender High-Top Sneakers, Fight Fight Fight Cologne for Men (‘For patriots who never back down’) and a celebratory Victory Cologne, which comes in a bottle in the shape of the future president’s head.
The future secretary of state had previously called the future president a ‘con artist’, a ‘Third World strongman’, ‘the most vulgar person to ever aspire to the presidency’, ‘a person that has no ideas of any substance’ and a ‘guy with the worst spray tan in America’ who wets his pants. He now says: ‘I didn’t know him as a person.’
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[ed. Can't wait for all the greatness. But then I thought... really? They can't all be billionaires. Sure enough, they aren't. Just almost billionaires. See also: The rich are controlling our government (Elysian):]
This is why many believe that America is no longer a democracy, but an oligarchy puppeted by wealthy individuals and organizations who will always fix the economy and our tax policies in their favor. Elite donors function like kingmakers, funding candidates during primary campaigns and making introductions that ensure that only those aligned with their interests make it to general elections. By the time a candidate makes it onto a ballot, they are already sufficiently donor-captured. And by the time American citizens vote on them, we are choosing between two candidates who both represent elite interests more than American interests. When those candidates finally make it into office, their wealthy donors have a lot of power over the policies that get put into place and are even appointed to positions of power.
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"Importantly: Both sides feature a lot of very wealthy people and organizations, making it highly likely that our government will always favor their interests rather than the interests of the American people at large. The parties themselves are effectively just a pool of wealthy donors. In 2024, the Republican National Committee was funded by JPMorgan and American Financial Group. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) was funded by Microsoft and Alphabet (Google). Sequoia Capital contributed to both the RNC ($1.3 million) and Kamala Harris’ campaign ($8.8 million), making sure their interests were represented no matter which candidate reaches office.This is why many believe that America is no longer a democracy, but an oligarchy puppeted by wealthy individuals and organizations who will always fix the economy and our tax policies in their favor. Elite donors function like kingmakers, funding candidates during primary campaigns and making introductions that ensure that only those aligned with their interests make it to general elections. By the time a candidate makes it onto a ballot, they are already sufficiently donor-captured. And by the time American citizens vote on them, we are choosing between two candidates who both represent elite interests more than American interests. When those candidates finally make it into office, their wealthy donors have a lot of power over the policies that get put into place and are even appointed to positions of power.
