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It’s more like a clown SUV at this point

It’s more like a clown SUV at this point

Trump's cabinet picks get more shocking and unqualified and they will all likely be approved; also, a Canadian mayor deems the dead leader of Hamas the new Mandela.

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Yesterday I was listening to a podcast episode recorded just before election day in which the hosts predicted that Trump might win and that - get this! - he could end up making Robert Kennedy, Jr. his Secretary for Health and Human Services, LOL.

I wish they’d predicted that Mike Tyson would lose his boxing match with the YouTuber guy. It might have saved me five bucks and I wouldn’t have stayed up until 2AM.

Yes, the man who within living memory wanted Republican climate-change skeptics jailed is being nominated for a cabinet position by a Republican climate-change skeptic President-elect. Maybe this is indeed a political realignment after all.

With that and Tulsi Gabbard proposed as Director of National Intelligence, despite (or maybe because) her being if not a Russian asset at least someone playing a Russian asset on television, Matt Gaetz as attorney general now looks like only Trump’s third worst nomination so far, and he hasn’t even offered Montgomery Burns the post of Labor Sec…

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