One thing dictators try to insist on is fealty. That’s not loyalty because it means followers are always puckering up to kiss the leader’s butt. Any democratic leader worth his salt does not want his collaborators to be butt-kissers all the time. Obama kept Biden as VP even though he spoke up against his boss’s sending more troops to that lost cause in Afghanistan. (It was a lost cause, but Biden, Blinken, and Nod botched the withdrawal, reminding everyone of that Vietnam debacle!) Donald Jackass Trump’s nominees are all butt-kissers so far because that fascist and psychotic sociopath headed for the White House only wants but-kissers!
Fealty to Trump? Or fealty to Putin? Those are the questions sane people are asking. To become a Trump nominee, it seems you must have both! For example, fascist Tulsi Gabbard (hopefully I spelled that wrong!), a newly minted US traitor who has zero intelligence experience (please note that I played nicely and didn’t eliminate the word “experience” there), was nominated to be the Director of National Intelligence. She’s a Putin toady just like Pete Hogsbreath, the ex-Fox News weekend anchor and now SecDef nominee who was only a mid-ranked soldier (a mere major!), so he’s out to get rid of anyone in the Pentagon with a higher rank than he attained!
Okay, maybe extreme incompetence and ability to create chaos might be as equally important to Narcissus le Grand as fealty to him and Putin? Every nominee has all four of those qualities, Matt Gaetz in spades as the nominee for Attorney General. Remember: The jackass thrives on chaos but doesn’t even bother to read his security briefs. (He prefers Elon Musk’s diatribes on X!)
None of this bodes well for the US’s future and security, which is why jaws have been dropping in Senate and House meetings of the Fascist Party of America’s members. I’m sure many Dems were and are worried as well, but I bet even they didn’t expect it to be so bad. Maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene will head the DoE? Or will that become the Department of Conspiracy Creations? And maybe the jackass will create a new Department of Religious Oppression so that Franklin Graham can force schools everywhere to display the Ten Commandments in Aramaic? Fascist Evangelicals and other far-right Catholic Pope-haters would love that, or will they be too busy forcing their religious swill down our throats as they hawk the jackass’s bibles that were published in China?
I’m sure that things will get a lot worse with Donald Jackass Trump and his fascist cronies running the country. Mark my words!