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Designer of Toilet Big Enough for MAGA Assholes Tapped as NATO Ambassador
Matt Whittaker, designer of the Masculine Toilet, has been nominated to serve as the United States Ambassador to NATO. I kid you not.“The other remarkable thing is how stunningly unqualified everyone is. I don’t see anyone there who I think, ‘Now there’s a highly qualified person.’” -- Dennis Jett, an international relations professor at Pennsylvania State University and author of a book on the history of US ambassadors
Trump’s ‘stunningly unqualified’ diplomatic team shapes up at breakneck speed
Trump is hardly the first US president to introduce miscast nominees, but he has nominated ambassadors at a rate not recalled in recent memory
by Robert Tait
The Guardian, December 21, 2024
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Their lack of credentials has prompted one experienced foreign policy analyst to label them a “diplomatic clown car” – and a deliberate affront to the countries hosting them.
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Thomas Countryman, a former assistant secretary of state during Barack Obama’s presidency, said the nominations raised fears about the quality of US foreign policy in vital areas, as well as conflicts of interest.
“An unqualified person like Herschel Walker can only do so much damage in the Bahamas,” he said.
“But at a place like the permanent mission to Nato, having a person with zero diplomatic experience and almost no managerial experience negotiating some of the most difficult issues that Europe and the United States must face together is a recipe not just for misunderstanding, but for failure to reach the kind of consensus and compromise that obviously requires.”
On Barrack (Tom Barrack, named to serve as US Ambassador to Turkey), he added: “I think that disentangling the private profit interests of Mr Trump and Mr Barrack from the professional work that Barrack would need to do in Ankara will be difficult, not least because of its non-transparency.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/trump-team-cabinet
If not the biggest shits themselves, MAGA are among the biggest assholes in the world.
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The Juggernut of Just-us.
Kakistocracy Watch: Kash Patel Edition
People for the American Way
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When Trump announced that MAGA insider Kash Patel is his choice to lead the FBI, The Nation called Patel the scariest nomination yet. The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus called Patel a “dangerous and unqualified choice” and wrote that his nomination is a “hair on fire moment”—both for Patel’s personal devotion to Trump and his deep hostility toward the agency he is being tasked to lead. Trump and Patel both seem eager to turn the FBI into a weapon against Trump’s personal and political enemies.
Patel evidently shares Trump’s hatred for the “deep state” and the mainstream media. He published a book called “Government Gangsters,” which includes a long list of people he would like to see punished, including Republicans who refused to go along with Trump’s scheme to stay in power after the 2020 election. He has called on the Republican majority in Congress to arrest Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Former Trump aide Steve Bannon helped Patel turn his book into a movie in which Patel says, “You cannot destroy the Deep State simply by clipping one or two of the snakes off of Medusa’s head. You have to cut the entire head off the body.”
“Patel, in short, is the kind of man who could become Trump’s Hoover: a man willing to push federal law enforcement into dangerously anti-democratic territory in pursuit of alleged domestic enemies,” Zack Beauchamp wrote for Vox after listening to hours of Patel’s appearances on Bannon’s podcast.
Patel represents a clear threat to freedom of the press. He has called “government gangsters” and the media “pure evil.” He has pledged to “come after” the mainstream media, which he called in his 2024 speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference “the most powerful enemy that the United States has ever seen.”
Patel is a true Trump loyalist. He told the CPAC crowd earlier this year, “We are blessed by God to have Donald Trump be our juggernaut of justice.”
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https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/kakistocracy-watch-kash-patel-edition
C-suite suits are the new landed gentry. They exist to make sure the serfs not only know, but stay in their place. Thankfully, enough of We the People remember Democracy.
