Speaker 1: Also media, welcome to it could happen here. Oh god,
Speaker 1: we have survived another week, and I'm joined today by
Speaker 1: Sophie and James to discuss Trump's cabinet picks and the
Speaker 1: upcoming potential members of the Trump administration two point zero.
Speaker 1: I'm sure some of you have been following the news
Speaker 1: and there is some wacky picks in there. There keeps
Speaker 1: being even more wacky ones like RFK, which I didn't
Speaker 1: even have time to include because by the time he
Speaker 1: was announced, I basically already wrote too much. RFK will
Speaker 1: get his own future episode. But it's pretty it's pretty
Speaker 1: safe to assume that RFK in control of Health and
Speaker 1: Human Services is pretty bad.
Speaker 2: You don't say you don't say yeah.
Speaker 1: People are saying it not great to have the world's
Speaker 1: weirdest conspiracy theorist of the Kennedy family in charge of
Speaker 1: you know, like vaccines and health mandates. And it's gonna
Speaker 1: be bad enough that it's its own episode for the
Speaker 1: rest of the nominations. Mostly like last week, right, this
Speaker 1: is going to be covering all the nominations in the
Speaker 1: week of the eleventh to the fifteenth of November. We're
Speaker 1: going to kind of go through nomination by nomination and
Speaker 1: do a brief overview of each of these guys and
Speaker 1: why each one could be bad, and some of them
Speaker 1: just kind of point to like more general like neocon
Speaker 1: picks as well. Trump kind of started off with some
Speaker 1: more ordinary picks, honestly, like you know, like Mark Rubio
Speaker 1: a Secretary of State. This is this is kind of
Speaker 1: a restrained pick for him. Now, Rubio is still kind
Speaker 1: of converted into being a Trump loyalist, like every single
Speaker 1: other person we're going to be talking about, And it
Speaker 1: is interesting that kind of among all of the Trump appointees,
Speaker 1: he has been the most open about his criticisms of Trump,
Speaker 1: especially during Trump's first term. The leaked five hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty one page of VP vetting document produced by the
Speaker 1: Trump campaign outlines Rubio's anti Putin comments, support for the
Speaker 1: Miller investigation, his acceptance of the twenty twenty election results,
Speaker 1: past comments that Trump is too dangerous to be trusted
Speaker 1: with nuclear codes, and his history of supporting NATO, support
Speaker 1: of the Iraq War, and pro military intervention in Iran
Speaker 1: and Syria. So some of these positions now kind of
Speaker 1: bump up against what Trump's next term is going to
Speaker 1: be kind of defined by and like more recently, Rubio
Speaker 1: has moved on from his Tea Party free trade kind
Speaker 1: of roots and now advocates for, you know, more tariffs
Speaker 1: on China and calling the country quote the most advanced
Speaker 1: adversary America has ever faced, unquote. Basically all of the
Speaker 1: kind of foreign policy guys are really big on China.
Speaker 1: They are all China hawks. That is kind of one
Speaker 1: continuous through line throughout all these nominations. I guess, James,
Speaker 1: do you have any thoughts on Mark Rubio for Secretary
Speaker 1: of State?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Marca Ribio, I don't have a lot's thoughts to
Speaker 3: Marco Rubio. I always expect to get all to be
Speaker 3: more along the lines of heck, thest like more to
Speaker 3: be like culture war commentators. Yeah, Like at least Rubio,
Speaker 3: I will say, like, I'd probably disagree with him on
Speaker 3: almost everything, but he's he's not going to probably abandon
Speaker 3: the YPG and the YPG and SDF in Syria, which
Speaker 3: is a good things. He's pretty hawkish on that. He's
Speaker 3: not a big out of one fan, so like that's
Speaker 3: a good thing. I guess, Like I think as Secretary
Speaker 3: of States under Trump, go like it could have been
Speaker 3: fucking Tucker Carlson like that. That's not out of the
Speaker 3: realm of possibility.
Speaker 1: At this rate.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, it's well, he spends all his time
Speaker 3: watching Fox News, right, Like, that's what we've heard that
Speaker 3: he does. And it's not inconceivable that he thinks these
Speaker 3: people are experts because they're presented that way, and that
Speaker 3: is how he encounters and thus perceives the world. So,
Speaker 3: I guess Rubio and even amongst these picks, he's probably
Speaker 3: not the worst, which is wild to be saying.
Speaker 2: So is the review and Mark Rubio could be worse.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess so.
Speaker 3: I mean that's the review of Mark Rubio's life, isn't
Speaker 3: it that that's pretty much how he's gone through the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think his parents would agree with us.
Speaker 1: Out Rubio is no Pete haig Seth Secretary of Defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which was one of the first picks that like really sharded,
Speaker 1: raising some eyebrows.
Speaker 2: Wild pick, wild pick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, what who does an a cog tattooed on
Speaker 3: his bicep?
Speaker 4: Stop sending us that photo over him without a shirt on?
Speaker 2: Have seen it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, never send us any cabinet member shirtless. I don't
Speaker 3: care if he's RFK. I don't care if he's head set.
Speaker 3: I don't want to see a nipple.
Speaker 2: I thought I didn't like it. I don't need to
Speaker 2: see it again.
Speaker 1: Yank you so much. I feel like everyone's pretty well
Speaker 1: aware now that he has some very questionable Christian nationalist tattoos, honey,
Speaker 1: not not super uncommon. And you know in this for
Speaker 1: like this type of like military guy he.
Speaker 3: Got the more wasted we was out. He got them
Speaker 3: in his late thirties.
Speaker 1: That also makes sense. That feels like a very midlife crisis.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm a Fox and Friends weekend host now
Speaker 1: kind of move Yeah yeah, better up my molin larbae game.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to be said about Pete heik Seth.
Speaker 1: He's a Princeton and Harvard graduate who is also claimed
Speaker 1: that germs are not real and he has never washed
Speaker 1: his hands in the last ten years. Disgusting. Germs are
Speaker 1: not real. I can't see them, therefore they're not real.
Speaker 1: So that's lovely.
Speaker 2: Gross, you can't. What a fucking idiot, but absolute moron.
Speaker 1: God. He's advocated against divorce for families with kids until
Speaker 1: he was caught cheating on his second wife with his producer,
Speaker 1: fathered a child, and then divorced his wife to Mary,
Speaker 1: his coworker.
Speaker 3: Many such cases.
Speaker 1: In general, he's just very chud codd right. He has
Speaker 1: like he has like a grunt style fashion, Christian nationalist tattoos.
Speaker 1: He looks like the type of guy that I would
Speaker 1: have docked for fun as a teenager, except he just
Speaker 1: serves on Fox and Friends' weekend hosting team. He served
Speaker 1: in Guantanamo, Bay, Iraq, and Afghanistan in the Army National Guard,
Speaker 1: and has recently advocated that women should not serve in
Speaker 1: combat roles in the US military.
Speaker 5: I'm straight up just saying we should not have women
Speaker 5: in combat roles hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made
Speaker 5: us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated. We've all
Speaker 5: served with women, and they're great. It just our institutions
Speaker 5: don't have to incentivize that in places where traditionally not
Speaker 5: traditionally over human history, men in those positions are more capable.
Speaker 3: Yes, and wild take, so much should be happening in
Speaker 3: the military.
Speaker 1: He sure does. I'm going to read a quote from
Speaker 1: his book The War on Warriors, Big si Quototox say
Speaker 1: the Republican Party by default has become the only party
Speaker 1: of America. And if we don't crusade a holy war,
Speaker 1: a righteous, holy war for freedom, we're not going to
Speaker 1: save America. In general. A lot of his rhetoric kind
Speaker 1: of is this similar Christian nationalist crusade holy war type stuff.
Speaker 1: This is like a lot of what he talks about
Speaker 1: on podcasts and TV appearances where he is not throwing
Speaker 1: a double sided acts at the pedus of a West
Speaker 1: Point drummer are live TV.
Speaker 3: It was incredible. It was indirect fire. He arcd it
Speaker 3: over the target straight to the dick and balls of
Speaker 3: the West Point drama.
Speaker 4: I just feel like, if he's gonna like somebody tell
Speaker 4: him what a microscope is, Somebody just tell him what
Speaker 4: a microscope is.
Speaker 3: He must have used binoculars at some point in his service,
Speaker 3: or some kind of magnified optic right to learn to
Speaker 3: see things. I mean, he has a magnified optic tattooed
Speaker 3: on his bicep. Actually he should does good.
Speaker 4: I mean, like, if you're going to be Secretary of Defense,
Speaker 4: at least like, oh, sir, wash your hands.
Speaker 1: Arguably, the most worrying part about Pete as Secretary of
Speaker 1: Defense is not the anti handwashing beliefs or the poor
Speaker 1: aim for ax throwing. It's that he's basically a lobbyist
Speaker 1: for war criminals. Yes, and was a big part of
Speaker 1: the campaign to push Trump to pardon several convicted war criminals,
Speaker 1: people who like tortured and murdered prisoners and ordered soul
Speaker 1: to shoot and kill random unarmed civilians. Yeah. So, especially
Speaker 1: with this Secretary of Defense role, that's not great. That
Speaker 1: he's essentially pro war criminal and justifies it by saying, like,
Speaker 1: people don't really understand what it's like to serve in combat.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to make decisions and blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: blah blah, all this random stuff not good. Sources within
Speaker 1: the government have called him the most unqualified person ever
Speaker 1: appointed to this position, which I do I do believe
Speaker 1: because this is just a guy that Trump sees on TV.
Speaker 1: This is just a TV host. Yeah, this is one
Speaker 1: of the more shocking nominations. Yeah, let's move on to
Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Ugh, this is another odd pick.
Speaker 1: Christy Nome, the non border state governor of South Dakota,
Speaker 1: who has no experience in the DHS, has never worked
Speaker 1: in law enforcement, though she does possess one trademark cop trait.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, oh, yes she does. And what would that be.
Speaker 1: Here, which is shooting they get killing dogs?
Speaker 2: Yep, awful person.
Speaker 1: So that is one thing she might bond with our
Speaker 1: law enforcement community over.
Speaker 4: Which we all know about because she wrote about it
Speaker 4: in her own fucking book girl.
Speaker 3: Yeah, incriminating herself another cop.
Speaker 1: Trait, so true, so true.
Speaker 3: She did deploy the South Dakota National Guard to the border,
Speaker 3: and I think they used they received private financing for
Speaker 3: it if I remember correctly. Yeah. See, like that's her engagement.
Speaker 3: That one again is troubling. So much power at the DHS.
Speaker 2: It's such an odd pick.
Speaker 1: All of these picks where I'm talking about, some of
Speaker 1: them do seem odd, but not from the point of
Speaker 1: view that Trump is basically picking people that one are
Speaker 1: like in his constant orbit, like a guy on TV,
Speaker 1: but also people that are not like institutionalists.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: These aren't like people who like work their way up
Speaker 1: through these government departments to prove their like effectiveness, to
Speaker 1: prove their legitimacy. They are people that have proven their
Speaker 1: personal loyalty to Trump. Right. Trump's first campaign was kind
Speaker 1: of defined by a whole bunch of people defecting him, right,
Speaker 1: everyone he's appointed eventually gotten to beefs with him. People
Speaker 1: you know left wrote books about how bad Trump is.
Speaker 1: Eventually Trump faced all these prosecutions. Trump's main concern is
Speaker 1: like loyalty right now, So he's picking people that just
Speaker 1: have proven their own loyalty, and from that point of view,
Speaker 1: all of his picks makes sense. Almost everyone picked here
Speaker 1: at least at some point appeared on screen with Trump
Speaker 1: in his like twenty twenty four campaign six part documentary
Speaker 1: Like all of these guys so like they were around
Speaker 1: Trump's orbit from pretty early on in his campaign now.
Speaker 1: According to Politico, Christinom was recommended by twenty sixteen campaign
Speaker 1: chief Corey Lewandowski, and his incoming borders are Tom Homan
Speaker 1: Lewandowski sucks.
Speaker 4: Yes, gonna give him a honorary You suck, Lewandowski.
Speaker 1: Her appointment is evidence of Trump's centralizing power and departmental
Speaker 1: influence tightly within the White House. Mark Krekorian, executive director
Speaker 1: of the far right Center for Immigration Studies, has postulated
Speaker 1: that the immigration branches of DHS will largely be puppeteered
Speaker 1: by Stephen Miller and the new borderzar, who has a
Speaker 1: lot of DHS experience, while Nome could be more focused
Speaker 1: on overseeing FEMA, TSA and Secret Service. Another aspect of
Speaker 1: Trump just appointing these wildly incompetent people is that more
Speaker 1: of these departments can just be run out of the
Speaker 1: White House, specifically by his senior advisors and Steven Miller,
Speaker 1: right like, those are the types of people that are
Speaker 1: going to be largely overseeing the direction of these departments,
Speaker 1: while basically these figureheads just to do their bidding.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I had worried that he would appoint Stephen Miller directly
Speaker 3: into the AHS.
Speaker 1: I understand that fear. I think part of the fear
Speaker 1: is that he just doesn't have to.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, No, you're right.
Speaker 1: In fact, Steven Miller can have more power by having
Speaker 1: his myths in more departments in his current role, which
Speaker 1: we will get to later. But first let's talk about
Speaker 1: Tulci Gabbard, the appointed Director of National Intelligence, which is
Speaker 1: crazy crazy Yeah. Now, like Nome, Gabert is shockingly unqualified,
Speaker 1: and she would be overseeing eighteen intelligence agencies, having never
Speaker 1: worked in the intelligence field or served on a Congressional
Speaker 1: intelligence committee. Her nomination was first announced by Roger Stone
Speaker 1: on Info Wars now owned by the Onion.
Speaker 2: Owned by the Onion.
Speaker 1: Ha ha. But that was like, that was how this
Speaker 1: news broke. That kind of also tells you, like what
Speaker 1: information channels are getting like funneled down from Trump's team.
Speaker 1: If Roger Stone was the first guy to announce it
Speaker 1: before Trump even announced it in his like truth social ing,
Speaker 1: it just.
Speaker 4: Is She's such a conspiracy theorist that it just it
Speaker 4: does kind of make sense.
Speaker 1: She is an anti vaccine conspiracy theorist with a history
Speaker 1: of spreading Russian and disinformation propaganda during the invasion of Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Y Gabert was also openly pro ASAD in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: secretly met with ASAD in twenty seventeen, and then a
Speaker 1: year later, Gabert peddled Syrian war crime denial, saying that
Speaker 1: she was quote unquote skeptical of intelligence findings that assaw
Speaker 1: to carry out chemical weapons attacks. While parenting Russian talking
Speaker 1: points in February twenty twenty two, she blamed Joe Biden
Speaker 1: for the war in Ukraine for not alleviating Russia's fear
Speaker 1: of Ukraine possibly joining NATO. I'm going to quote from
Speaker 1: NBC News quote during her twenty twenty presidential bid, Russian
Speaker 1: state propaganda often portrayed Gabbard favorably while it demigrated the
Speaker 1: other Democratic candidates, including Joe Biden. According to research from
Speaker 1: the Foreign Policy Research Institute of Philadelphia based think tank,
Speaker 1: less than a month into her presidential campaign, there were
Speaker 1: at least twenty Gabbard stories on three major Moscow based
Speaker 1: English language websites affiliated or supportive of the Russian government,
Speaker 1: all of which celebrated her candidacy. Unquote.
Speaker 3: That's very funny because twenty Gabbard stories is probably the
Speaker 3: net totals that the entire US media wrote throughout her run.
Speaker 1: Like, it is widely speculated that Gabbard is a de
Speaker 1: facto Russian agent, or at the very least is very
Speaker 1: comfortable just spreading Russian propaganda and spreading like pro Putin
Speaker 1: and pro Russian talking points.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be one of those things where she's
Speaker 3: not actually she's like too fucking glowing to be an agent,
Speaker 3: and she's in fact just doing this shit voluntarily by accident.
Speaker 1: Like it's certainly possible. I mean, the Syrian war crime
Speaker 1: denial and meeting with the SOD stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that stuff is pretty glowing.
Speaker 1: And Russia certainly has a vested interest in promoting Gabbard right,
Speaker 1: so at the very least even assistant intentional on her part,
Speaker 1: Russia is very willing to jump on this and the
Speaker 1: fact that she's now going to be the head of
Speaker 1: all of our spy agency programs. Okay, cool, sounds great cool.
Speaker 1: She also comes from a family of anti gay activists
Speaker 1: and is tied to an anti Muslim and anti gay
Speaker 1: cult called the Science of Identity. The leader has called
Speaker 1: Muslims and f Ssler's quote unquote demons. In two thousand
Speaker 1: and four, Tulsi herself accused the newspaper The Honolulu of
Speaker 1: being the mouthpiece for quote unquote homosexual extremists. Insert joke
Speaker 1: about mouthpiece homosexual anyway now. Tulsia's family and campaign staff
Speaker 1: were all active members of the cult during her twenty
Speaker 1: twenty presidential campaign, during which she also produced a list
Speaker 1: of enemies that named prominent journalists who were against Tulsia's
Speaker 1: own history of war crime denial.
Speaker 3: Amazing, Oh boy, yeah, sorry we got snubbed there.
Speaker 1: Hey, I mean it was twenty nineteen, right, you.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, I can dream of making.
Speaker 1: We still have a chance to be put on their
Speaker 1: list of enemies.
Speaker 3: You know what, Garrison, if we are accused of crimes,
Speaker 3: how will we fund defense.
Speaker 1: Through these products and services that support this podcast. That's correct, Okay,
Speaker 1: we are back. It's time to talk about who might
Speaker 1: be prosecuting a list of political enemies, and that would
Speaker 1: be the possible new Attorney General, Matt Gates. So boy, So,
Speaker 1: Matt Gates is one of these Congress people who has
Speaker 1: built an outsized reputation through television appearances and TV news
Speaker 1: to soundbites. He's always quick to jump to the defense
Speaker 1: of Trump and advocate for extreme positions with in the party.
Speaker 1: His behavior displays a desperate need for attention and willingness
Speaker 1: to sacrifice his own effectiveness as a congressman for simply
Speaker 1: going viral. This performative nature is made a little bit
Speaker 1: more uncanny by the bizarre fact that Gates grew up
Speaker 1: in the house from the Truman Show, which his family
Speaker 1: still owns.
Speaker 3: That's in you. I did not know that.
Speaker 2: I did not know that, But that is what.
Speaker 1: It makes so much sense though. Look at all of
Speaker 1: his gambits and bits in Congress, and if you frame
Speaker 1: that within someone who was raised in the Truman Show house,
Speaker 1: it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is not necessarily a popular pick among kind
Speaker 1: of again like institutionalists in the Republican Party. Sure, the
Speaker 1: famously liberal Wall Street Journal ran the headline quote, Matt
Speaker 1: Gates is a bad choice for attorney general. He's a
Speaker 1: nominee for those who want the law to be used
Speaker 1: for political revenge, and it won't end well. Unquote. Now.
Speaker 1: Hours after this announcement, Yates suddenly resigned from the House,
Speaker 1: and Speaker Johnson said that he hopes to work with
Speaker 1: Governor DeSantis to fast track a special election to get
Speaker 1: the seat filled as early as January.
Speaker 7: I think, out of deference to us, he issued his
Speaker 7: resignation letter effective immediately of Congress. That caught us by
Speaker 7: surprise a little bit, But I asked him what the
Speaker 7: reasoning was, and he said, well, you can't have too
Speaker 7: many absences. So under Florida state law, there's about an
Speaker 7: eight week period to select and fill in a vacancy.
Speaker 7: People have asked me all day long, President Trump is
Speaker 7: poaching all of your talent. Yes, well, we have an
Speaker 7: embarrassment of riches here. The Republican conference is full of
Speaker 7: talented people who are extraordinary leaders and have great expertise,
Speaker 7: and everyone in this Congress, in this conference, could serve
Speaker 7: in a leadership position in the administration.
Speaker 1: It's so bizarre a little bit. But there's one little
Speaker 1: curious fact about Gates a quick resignation well yes, is
Speaker 1: that this happened just days before a House Ethics investigation
Speaker 1: was set to vote on the release of a report
Speaker 1: looking into the sex trafficking allegations against Matt Gates. According
Speaker 1: to ABC News, the woman at the center of the
Speaker 1: DOJ's probe of Representative Matt Gates testified to the House
Speaker 1: Ethics Committee that the now former Florida congressman had sex
Speaker 1: with her when she was seventeen years old, to quote
Speaker 1: ABC quote. The woman's allegation regarding Gates became part of
Speaker 1: the investigation following claims by former Seminole County tax collector
Speaker 1: Joel Greenberg, a former friend of Gates who is currently
Speaker 1: serving an eleven year prison sentence after reaching a deal
Speaker 1: with investigators in May of twenty twenty one in which
Speaker 1: he pleaded guilty to multiple federal crimes, including sex trafficking
Speaker 1: of the woman when she was a minor and introducing
Speaker 1: her to other quote unquote adult men who also had
Speaker 1: sex with her when she was under age. The committee
Speaker 1: also obtained a sworn written statement by Gates's ex girlfriend
Speaker 1: where she lists the Florida congressman as one of the
Speaker 1: attendees at a party in July twenty seventeen where drugs
Speaker 1: were present and which was attended by the woman who
Speaker 1: Gates allegedly has sex with when she was a minor.
Speaker 1: Some witnesses show venmo payments that they allegedly received from gatesuote, So,
Speaker 1: I guess the end goal of the QAnon movement is
Speaker 1: just putting a pedophile in charge of the do Oja
Speaker 1: serving as attorney general over the entire country. Also, Gates
Speaker 1: made a really bad joke a few years ago, responding
Speaker 1: to a Twitter post about how people can be like
Speaker 1: beautiful at any age. Oh yeah, and Gates responded by
Speaker 1: saying this should be Florida's state motto and that tweet
Speaker 1: is still ugh.
Speaker 3: Wasn't it sexy at any age?
Speaker 2: It is sexy?
Speaker 1: It was sex.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's us.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so bad. But no, Gates isn't super popular
Speaker 1: even within like large parts of the party. It's reported
Speaker 1: from other congressmen that he would like walk up to
Speaker 1: them and like show them sex tapes he made with
Speaker 1: people he's like having sex with.
Speaker 2: Is it fucking creep?
Speaker 1: He's really icky?
Speaker 2: Youw Oh.
Speaker 1: There's arguments that like maybe he won't get past like confirmation, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And here's here's the thing he might not have to.
Speaker 1: Trump is currently working with the Speaker of the House
Speaker 1: as well as the new Senate majority leader to possibly
Speaker 1: just close Congress and push all these guys through in
Speaker 1: recess appointments, so they might not even have to get
Speaker 1: past the confirmation process. Now, this still remains to be seen,
Speaker 1: and as Matt Johnson said in the clip before, he's
Speaker 1: a little worried that Trump just keeps picking congressman, which
Speaker 1: is slowly eating away at the House's slim Republican majority.
Speaker 1: Johnson said that he has quote unquote begged and pleaded
Speaker 1: with Trump to stop coaching House representatives to protect their majority.
Speaker 1: At this point, at least five congressmen have been tapped
Speaker 1: to serve in the Trump administration, with more expected. Now
Speaker 1: Gates might have someone assisting him as Deputy Attorney General
Speaker 1: with a little bit more prosecution experience. That is Todd
Speaker 1: blanche who is Trump's personal defense lawyer, who earlier this
Speaker 1: year oversaw multiple indictments against Trump, so Trump just picked
Speaker 1: his own lawyer to be like, yeah, you're like the
Speaker 1: second guy in charge. Go help out Gates. I know
Speaker 1: this will be fine. The White House Chief of Staff
Speaker 1: is Susie Wills, who's a very successful Republican campaign operator.
Speaker 1: She worked on Rick Scott's and Rohn Decanis' governatorial campaigns
Speaker 1: as well as Trump's twenty twenty four presidential campaign. She's
Speaker 1: kind of one of the few like legacy establishment figures
Speaker 1: that Trump has tapped. Now. Deputy chief of Staff is
Speaker 1: Stephen Miller, the great replacement white nationalist and anti immigrant extremist,
Speaker 1: will be returning to the White House as Assistant to
Speaker 1: the President and a Deputy chief of Staff for policy
Speaker 1: and Homeland Security advisor. So he's not just the head
Speaker 1: of whole ind security. He has his pause in multiple
Speaker 1: little departments and also is like directly next to the
Speaker 1: President's ear Now. In Trump's first term, Miller was the
Speaker 1: architect of the family separation policy, the Muslim ban, and
Speaker 1: the end of DACA. Miller has advocated for denaturalization of
Speaker 1: American citizens and has called for the use of National
Speaker 1: Guard troops from Republican government states to be deployed in
Speaker 1: blue states to carry out in tournament of migrants in
Speaker 1: military camps, and deportations in states that are uncooperative with
Speaker 1: Trump's mass deportation plans. James, do you have any things
Speaker 1: to add here on Stephen Miller. This is kind of
Speaker 1: your department.
Speaker 3: Miller is scary because he's actually very effective. Like so
Speaker 3: often these right wing kind of plucked hinge on these
Speaker 3: bizarre legal theories, right, which I'd say far from accepted
Speaker 3: by mainstream god of jurisprudents. Miller did very well at
Speaker 3: finding antiquated laws that could stick the landing in the
Speaker 3: courts to do the evil shit he wanted to do.
Speaker 1: Like the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen ninetything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean he did that with Title forty two,
Speaker 3: which is a law that's designed to stop people with
Speaker 3: tuberculosis just walking across the border. Right, And he's successfully
Speaker 3: and he planned this before the pandemic. He successfully used
Speaker 3: that to effectively allow border patrol to immediately deport people
Speaker 3: without giving them their right to claim asylum. That was
Speaker 3: a policy that Trump did and that Biden continued till
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three. Right, Like Miller, is good if we
Speaker 3: look at the last term at finding ways to he's Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's effective. He's scarily effective.
Speaker 1: To me. He's always been the scariest guy in Trump's orbit.
Speaker 3: Yes, but yeah, because he's competent and like by far,
Speaker 3: and he stays out of the limelight for the large
Speaker 3: part and that allows him to not have to defend
Speaker 3: his evil shit and just get on with doing it.
Speaker 3: When I watched that six part documentary but the behind
Speaker 3: the scenes of Trump's campaign, Cela Miller was in almost
Speaker 3: every scene.
Speaker 1: Yes, he was always like in the background, always in
Speaker 1: the background, just just saying things to Trump, like he
Speaker 1: is a constant presence there. Yeah, it's quite frightening. Now
Speaker 1: moving on, the guy nominated for National Security Advisor is
Speaker 1: named Mike Walls. He's a neo Khon. He's an anti assadist,
Speaker 1: pro Ukraine. He's advocated to take the cuffs off Ukraine
Speaker 1: to allow them to make strikes further into Russia. He
Speaker 1: was also the former counter terrorism advisor to Dick Cheney
Speaker 1: when when he was VP.
Speaker 2: Heah's super pro Israel too.
Speaker 1: Oh, everyone I list here is pro Israel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's pretty much.
Speaker 1: This is one of the most like openly pro war guys,
Speaker 1: right right, someone like this guy who's historically kind of
Speaker 1: like the anti Tulsi Gabbard. Yeah, yeah, takes the opposite
Speaker 1: stance on almost every single issue. He's he he's a Neocon,
Speaker 1: he's anti Assad, he's anti Putin.
Speaker 3: He's a member of the Kurdish Caucus in Congress. Actually interesting, interesting, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I hope he bounces out some of
Speaker 3: some of those crazy more like a saddest sort of
Speaker 3: or just Trump's natural tendency to see a strong man
Speaker 3: in one and be like, yeah, you go for it, buddy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. He was the first Green Beret to serve in
Speaker 1: Congress and has advocated the use of military intel to
Speaker 1: combat drug cartels and co sponsor legislation to authorize the
Speaker 1: use of military force against cartels in Mexico.
Speaker 3: Great guy.
Speaker 1: Another kind of more standard establishment pick, still not good,
Speaker 1: but a little bit more standard is CIA director John Ratcliffe.
Speaker 1: Briefly served as Director of Natural Intelligence near the end
Speaker 1: of Trump's first term and helped to defend Trump during
Speaker 1: impeachment hearings. He is more of like a standard pick,
Speaker 1: but like everyone else on this list, he has demonstrated
Speaker 1: fierce loyalty to Trump. EPA advisor Lee Zelden, a former
Speaker 1: New York congressman, no environmental or conservation experience, just an
Speaker 1: ordinary anti regulation conservative. After his announcement, Zelman wrote, quote,
Speaker 1: we will restore US energy dominance, revitalize our auto industry
Speaker 1: to bring back American jobs, and make the US the
Speaker 1: global leader of AI. Unquote, which does not appoint to
Speaker 1: much environmental protection. I'm going to quote from the New Republic.
Speaker 1: Zelden voted to cut EPA funding, scrap its chemical risk
Speaker 1: assessment program, and block the agency from taking action to
Speaker 1: restrict carbon pollution. He missed the twenty seventeen vote on
Speaker 1: whether to defund the EPA's criminal law enforcement program, but
Speaker 1: voted to prohibit funds from being used for this purpose
Speaker 1: the prior year.
Speaker 4: Quote after gording to the R and C, his emails
Speaker 4: were the worst email thread that I got added to.
Speaker 4: His emails are so unhinged, truly the worst thing he's
Speaker 4: ever done. Yeah, Zelden worst emails, So which actually makes
Speaker 4: sense that he wants to be a global leader of AI. Yes,
Speaker 4: that's probably what all his emails were.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty safe to assume that basically any
Speaker 1: progress that we have made on climate very minuscule, will
Speaker 1: be immediately undone, and we will just make a negative
Speaker 1: progress in the next four years with someone like Lee
Speaker 1: Zelden in charge of the EBA, which already has very
Speaker 1: little regulatory power, but it's about to have a lot less.
Speaker 1: Let's discuss borders are Tom Homan, former ICE director. He
Speaker 1: oversaw the family separation policy in twenty seventeen and has
Speaker 1: since said that American born citizens should be deported with
Speaker 1: their family to avoid separating families. He's advocated treating cartels
Speaker 1: like foreign terrorist organizations that Trump will use the full
Speaker 1: mighte of the US Special operations to take out. He
Speaker 1: also wrote the border section of Project twenty twenty five, James,
Speaker 1: do you have anything to say on our new borders?
Speaker 7: Are?
Speaker 3: It's kind of troubling because again, you've got someone here
Speaker 3: who is competent, right, who has worked at a high
Speaker 3: levels in government. He was an Obama appointee, right.
Speaker 1: He's worked at ICE like forever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, Like when Obama was selling records
Speaker 3: for deportations, Homan was doing it, which I think tells
Speaker 3: you everything about you know, the shit that we forget
Speaker 3: about Obama. But yeah, like again troubling because Homan is
Speaker 3: a real hawk on this stuff and has previously been Like,
Speaker 3: he was effective at doing family separation right, and it
Speaker 3: wasn't particularly organized. As we've seen, it's difficult for people
Speaker 3: to find and reunite the families. They've been doing it
Speaker 3: ever since Trump left office. But he was effective at
Speaker 3: getting that shit done. And that worries me in terms
Speaker 3: of deportations, because ICE will need to scale up massively,
Speaker 3: as we spoke about, and like that will require someone
Speaker 3: with leadership experience, and he has that. Like then that
Speaker 3: is concerning.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some more diplomatic roles for ambassador to
Speaker 1: the UN. Trump has named Elise Stephanic, who has no
Speaker 1: diplomatic experience but has been extremely vocally pro Israel. She
Speaker 1: harshly interrogated university presidents amid campus protests against the genocide
Speaker 1: in Gaza, and is consistently advocated against US participation in
Speaker 1: the UN and now is going to be the UN
Speaker 1: ambassador to quote from the New Republic quote. In a
Speaker 1: statement last week, Stephanic heralded Israel's decision to ban the
Speaker 1: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in
Speaker 1: the Near East or UNRA from operating in Israel, the
Speaker 1: West Bank, and Gaza, claiming that the seventy four year
Speaker 1: old aid program quote instills anti Semitic hate in Palestinians
Speaker 1: and houses weapons for terrorists unquote. She's also called on
Speaker 1: the United States to defund the refugee program, criticizing the
Speaker 1: Biden administration for issuing one billion dollars to UNRA since
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Unquote.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is like a typical talking point of like
Speaker 3: right zionists, right that the United Nations is somehow an
Speaker 3: arm of Hamas and the UN the United Nations Directed
Speaker 3: Welfare Agency is actively funneling weapons to Hamas, and like
Speaker 3: it's just not true. It's an excuse for targeting aid
Speaker 3: workers in Gaza.
Speaker 1: The UN already has such little control over any degree
Speaker 1: of like enforcement for like humanitarian aid, and having this
Speaker 1: person be the US ambassador to UN will make what
Speaker 1: little power they have even like diminished. Yes, just last October,
Speaker 1: she called for a quote a complete reassessment of US
Speaker 1: funding of the United Nations unquote, after calls from the
Speaker 1: Palestinian authority to expel Israel from the UN for war
Speaker 1: crimes and human rights abuses. Now the ambassador to Israel
Speaker 1: is set to be Mike Huckabee, the former governor of
Speaker 1: Arkansas and evangelical Christian Zionist. Similarly, he has no diplomatic experience,
Speaker 1: im going to quote from the Atlantic quote. He has
Speaker 1: led religious pilgrimages to Israel and visited the country dozens
Speaker 1: of times over the course of several decades. He also
Speaker 1: opposes a two state solution to the Israel Palestine conflict
Speaker 1: and says that quote, there's really no such thing as
Speaker 1: a Palestinian unquote. He is really bad. Yes, Mike Huckabee
Speaker 1: is really bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty bad.
Speaker 1: He has also advocated for Israel to permanently annex and
Speaker 1: take control of the West Bank, and he like legitimately
Speaker 1: believes in a religious political ideology to return all Jewish
Speaker 1: people to the Holy Land of Israel to trigger the
Speaker 1: Biblical apocalypse resulting in the death of all Jews.
Speaker 8: Well, my feelings personally, and I'm speaking only as a person,
Speaker 8: I think Israel would only be acting on the property
Speaker 8: it already owns. I think Israel has titled the Judea
Speaker 8: and Samaria. There are certain words I refuse to use.
Speaker 8: There is no such thing as a West Bank. It's
Speaker 8: Judy and Samaria. There's no such thing as a settlement,
Speaker 8: their communities, neighborhoods, their cities. There's no such thing as
Speaker 8: an occupation.
Speaker 1: This is why he believes this. This isn't like out
Speaker 1: of care in his heart for Jewish people. It's that
Speaker 1: he wants to trigger the apocalypse. And to do this
Speaker 1: he needs to both like, eliminate all Palestinians, give total
Speaker 1: control of the land to Israel, make all Jewish people
Speaker 1: live there so that Jesus can come again and do
Speaker 1: the wars and blah blah blah blah blah, all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. It's nasty. The last diplomatic pick here
Speaker 1: is Middle East Envoy Steve Whitcoff, who's a Trump campaign
Speaker 1: fundraiser and a real estate developer. He has no diplomatic
Speaker 1: or foreign policy experience pro Israel. He'll basically just be
Speaker 1: assisting and all of the bad things that everyone else
Speaker 1: I have already named is going to be doing.
Speaker 2: Wait, sorry, my brain just broke.
Speaker 4: So the Middle East Envoy is just like a real
Speaker 4: estate investor guy. Yep, yep, that seems I mean, I
Speaker 4: mean yeah, is it much better than Jared is going
Speaker 4: to do peace in the Middle.
Speaker 2: East like last time.
Speaker 1: Yes, you can look at this similarly to like Jared
Speaker 1: Kushner's proposals to like develop what once was Gaza and
Speaker 1: just like viewing wars in the Middle East as a
Speaker 1: real estate development opportunity. You can see a guy like
Speaker 1: this kind of in line with that side of like
Speaker 1: the Trump campaign.
Speaker 4: Jared's got to handle it, and we're gonna handle these
Speaker 4: ad breaks.
Speaker 1: All right, we are back. It's time to discuss the
Speaker 1: elephant in the room.
Speaker 3: Genuinely brought that out in my mind.
Speaker 2: Are we doing?
Speaker 1: We are going full DOGE? So I am. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna read part of the statement from Donald Trump announcing
Speaker 1: this new government agency DOGE. More on that later quote.
Speaker 1: I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: working into conjunction with American patriot Kraamaswami, will lead the
Speaker 1: Department of Government Efficiency DOGE. Together these two wonderful Americans
Speaker 1: will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy,
Speaker 1: slash excess regulation, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies.
Speaker 1: It will become potentially the Manhattan Project of our time.
Speaker 1: Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of DOGE for
Speaker 1: a long time. To drive this kind of drastic change,
Speaker 1: the Department of Government Efficiency will provide advice and guidance
Speaker 1: from outside of government, and will partner with the White
Speaker 1: House and Office of Management and Budget to drive large
Speaker 1: scale structural reform and create an entrepreneurial approach to government
Speaker 1: never seen before. Their work will conclude no later than
Speaker 1: July fourth, twenty twenty six. A smaller government with more
Speaker 1: efficiency and less bureaucracy will be the perfect gift to
Speaker 1: America on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
Speaker 1: Declaration of independ unquote.
Speaker 3: Jesus christ Man.
Speaker 1: So this is this is the new quote unquote government agency,
Speaker 1: which is not real. Right, this is not a real
Speaker 1: government agency. Trump just can't create one out of thin air.
Speaker 1: And in this statement it does clarify that they will
Speaker 1: be providing advice and guidance from outside of government.
Speaker 3: That's pretty funny. This is a children's table, like they
Speaker 3: have the plastic cutler reads it's.
Speaker 1: The children's table. Yes, he's He's sending musk and the
Speaker 1: vec off to the side to have their little fun.
Speaker 1: They'll make like a blog post that talks about who
Speaker 1: to cut, you know what programs to cut. VEC specifically
Speaker 1: talked about like ending healthcare for veterans, which I'm sure
Speaker 1: will go over very well, and they'll submit that to
Speaker 1: Trump and then the people in charge of the Office
Speaker 1: of Management and Budget will probably just throw it in
Speaker 1: the trash. But we will see. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to understate Musk's general influence in like Trump's operations,
Speaker 1: because Musk right now does have a great deal of influence.
Speaker 1: I think this doge thing isn't something to be too
Speaker 1: worried about. Though. Now, as a as a fun side
Speaker 1: note to kind of demonstrate the nonsensical nature of this,
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about something that Vivek has proposed.
Speaker 1: He has said that a way to cut down a
Speaker 1: government bureaucracy would be to make a list of all
Speaker 1: of the non elected government employees and fire the ones
Speaker 1: that have a Social Security number that starts or ends
Speaker 1: with an odd number. This way, you can automatically cut
Speaker 1: seventy five percent of the workforce without having to worry
Speaker 1: about racial, gender, or political discrimination. The Vech says, quote,
Speaker 1: not a thing will have changed for the ordinary American unquote.
Speaker 3: I think that's going to work that way.
Speaker 1: This is proposing cutting like two million people. Talking to
Speaker 1: front of the pod Lex Friedman, he framed this as
Speaker 1: a thought experiment, not necessarily a policy proposal, and said
Speaker 1: that a more complicated form of this idea could select
Speaker 1: to save people with quote the greatest commitment and knowledge
Speaker 1: of the constitution unquote. This is goofy, Like this is fake,
Speaker 1: Like this isn't this isn't real. He's not going to
Speaker 1: cut seventy five percent of the workforce. You should be
Speaker 1: more concerned about Schedule F, a policy that Trump will
Speaker 1: reinstate that gives him power to remove government employees at will,
Speaker 1: to select for people that align with him more ideologically. Like,
Speaker 1: that's the real thing to be concerned about in terms
Speaker 1: of like government staffing. I'm not much concerned about Vivek here, though.
Speaker 1: The Washington Post did report that some Trump advisors have
Speaker 1: asked Congress for thirty five to fifty million dollars to
Speaker 1: fund the DOGE Commission. The alternative is to raise money
Speaker 1: from the private sector, which seems more likely. It's also
Speaker 1: just very funny to have like an efficiency department ran
Speaker 1: by two people, especially if you're going to ask to
Speaker 1: spend fifty to fifty million dollars because yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 1: the best way to improve government efficiency is to give
Speaker 1: two billionaires fifty million dollars.
Speaker 3: It's to have two people running running an apartment. That's great,
Speaker 3: Like that's what we need. Too many.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also like a fake department that'll just produce
Speaker 1: like a write up that talks about cutting social Security.
Speaker 3: Right, one will throw it in the bin.
Speaker 1: That's all it's gonna be. Musk has also gone to
Speaker 1: Twitter to try to get people to send in job
Speaker 1: applications to work for free, to like sort to sort
Speaker 1: through these like these people that should be cut from
Speaker 1: federal government. He just wants people to do work for free.
Speaker 1: So now you have people setting in job applications to Twitter.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that'll end great for those people. Part of
Speaker 1: this just feels kind of like a scheme to like
Speaker 1: coerce Trump into allowing the formation of a fake government
Speaker 1: agency to pump the value of doge coin. Like, yes,
Speaker 1: dogecoin did like boost some value after this announcement, and
Speaker 1: like this is very suspicious and like should be maybe
Speaker 1: illegal because this could just be like a cryptocurrency scheme,
Speaker 1: which is very very likely now despite the kind of
Speaker 1: goofy nature of Doge, and like the idea that this
Speaker 1: is basically just Musk of Abeck sitting at the kids
Speaker 1: table to keep them happy while the adults take care
Speaker 1: of real business. I don't want to rush over the
Speaker 1: influence that Musk currently has on the Trump admin. Basically
Speaker 1: since election night, Musk has essentially been living with Trump
Speaker 1: at to mar A Lagos, just.
Speaker 3: Like the first buddy.
Speaker 1: Yes he is. He started to call himself first buddy,
Speaker 1: which makes me deeply uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: The richest man ones yeah, first friend, with benefits absolutely pathetic.
Speaker 1: Musk is reported to be giving input on staffing decisions
Speaker 1: and joining phone calls with foreign leaders under play a
Speaker 1: clip from scene on here.
Speaker 6: Multiple sources tell me tonight that Musk has been seen
Speaker 6: at mar A Lago nearly every single day since Donald
Speaker 6: Trump won, dining with him on the patio at times.
Speaker 6: Today they were seen on the golf course together. Musk
Speaker 6: has been in the room when world leaders have called Trump,
Speaker 6: and tonight we've learned he's also weighing in on staffing decisions,
Speaker 6: making clear his preference for certain roles, even publicly Tonight,
Speaker 6: Elon Musk is backing Florida Senator Rick Scott as the
Speaker 6: next leader of the Republican Conference to replace Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 6: While Musk himself is still not expected to take any
Speaker 6: kind of formal position inside Trump's administration given how complicated
Speaker 6: it would be with his companies, what's becoming clearer to
Speaker 6: Night is that he doesn't really need to, With one
Speaker 6: source telling me Elon Musk is having just as much
Speaker 6: influence from the outside.
Speaker 1: NBC's reported that a source close to the transition team
Speaker 1: has told them that Musk is quote behaving as if
Speaker 1: he is co president and making sure that everyone knows it.
Speaker 1: And he's sure taking lots of credit for the president's victory,
Speaker 1: breaking about America pack and X to anyone who will listen.
Speaker 1: He's trying to make President Trump feel indebted to him,
Speaker 1: and the President is indebted to no one unquote, which
Speaker 1: is a very very fun statement from a Trump guy.
Speaker 3: It's also not true. Doesn't Trump ohloads of people money?
Speaker 3: Like empirically we know this.
Speaker 1: Yes, and currently through lawsuits, Trump does out people a
Speaker 1: lot of money. But yeah, not that that will matter
Speaker 1: at all anymore. In a meeting with House Republicans. Last Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Trump reportedly joked, quote, Elon won't go home. I can't
Speaker 1: get rid of him, at least until I don't like him, unquote,
Speaker 1: which kind of underscores the running bet pool that we
Speaker 1: have here at Colzone Media on when the Trump Musk
Speaker 1: falling out will happen, and we will we will keep
Speaker 1: up on this story very closely, because I really can't
Speaker 1: imagine that that Musk will stay here for too long.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll stay in some proximity, especially with all
Speaker 1: like the government contracts that SpaceX has, but Trump being
Speaker 1: like this close to Musk surely will result in some
Speaker 1: kind of fallout. And maybe maybe that's opium. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: that's me just fully hot up on hopium. But I
Speaker 1: really see able ASM working to our advantage here with
Speaker 1: Trump eventually just getting sick of this guy. And I
Speaker 1: think part of what Elon's doing here as well, and
Speaker 1: other people have possilated this, including Robert is like Elon
Speaker 1: can't run for president legally, right and out again, laws
Speaker 1: might just completely go out the window here. But because
Speaker 1: Elon's on, a natural born citizen like Elon can't run
Speaker 1: for president, and Elon does want power. So basically, Elon's
Speaker 1: trying to become as close as he can do President
Speaker 1: Trump to be like like this, source said co president, right,
Speaker 1: that's kind of his end goal heres. He wants to
Speaker 1: be the president and he can't, so this is as
Speaker 1: close as he can get. That is most of the
Speaker 1: main picks so far. Lastly, all mentioned like three people
Speaker 1: who worked on the Trump campaign who will now be
Speaker 1: serving as advisors, including danz Cavino, James Blair, and Taylor Buttowitch.
Speaker 1: All these guys appeared pretty frequently in the behind the
Speaker 1: scenes documentary about Trump's twenty twenty four campaign, and all
Speaker 1: three of these guys primarily focused on like weaponizing anti
Speaker 1: immigrant claims to get Trump elected. That was kind of
Speaker 1: their main focus, especially James Blair. But lastly, lastly, I
Speaker 1: do have one more person to mention, the co chair
Speaker 1: of Trump's transition team, the former CEO of WWE McMahon.
Speaker 1: She is working as the co chair for the transition team.
Speaker 1: She is the wife of A Vince McMahon. Now. She
Speaker 1: also served in Trump's first term as head of the
Speaker 1: Small Business Administration from twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen. Two
Speaker 1: failed Senate runs in Connecticut. Now, besides co leading the
Speaker 1: President's transition team, McMahon's also their front runner to lead
Speaker 1: the Department of Commerce. Now, to kind of tie this
Speaker 1: back to Matt Gates, she along with her husband, are
Speaker 1: also currently being sued for sex trafficking underage boys in
Speaker 1: the WWE. The suit alleges that WWE leadership knowingly allowed
Speaker 1: an announcer named mel Phillips to groom and molest the
Speaker 1: five plaintiffs who were hired as ring boys from the
Speaker 1: ages of twelve to thirteen. Ring boys basically like people
Speaker 1: who like help out on the side for you know,
Speaker 1: I see, they're kind of like performative roles. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's pretty fucked up. And the fact that this whole
Speaker 1: qunon movement has now resulted in two people being charged
Speaker 1: for sex trafficking or at least investigative for sex trafficking.
Speaker 1: Being this close to the Trump orbit, I'm sure, I'm
Speaker 1: sure we can just trust the plan and things and
Speaker 1: things will all things will all turn out fine. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a little it's a little Linda McMahon a fun
Speaker 1: fact there. So that is all I have to say
Speaker 1: at this point about the Trump cabinet picks. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be more. I know RFK is gonna be its own
Speaker 1: nightmare that we will get to. Yeah, I guess any
Speaker 1: closing thoughts, uh, Sophie or James on this this who's
Speaker 1: who of the worst people in the country.
Speaker 2: Who's gone I've come next?
Speaker 4: And that's basically it, and and not even that after
Speaker 4: this first round and then like obviously he's gonna fucking
Speaker 4: fire some people. Who's he gonna report who's he gonna
Speaker 4: replace them with?
Speaker 3: It will be like Instagrammers by the end of four years.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's really just going through all the people
Speaker 1: who have like pledged complete loyalty to him, including people
Speaker 1: who've like previously been critical but have like turned around
Speaker 1: and gotten fully on the Trump train. And like, the
Speaker 1: thing that links up all of these names is that
Speaker 1: Trump believes that they're not gonna turn on him, because
Speaker 1: that was the thing that really threw a wrench in
Speaker 1: his first administration. And the reason why he's appointing all
Speaker 1: these people who are just chronically unqualified, it's because they
Speaker 1: need Trump, right, Like if Matt Gates doesn't become then
Speaker 1: he's also like out of a job now because he
Speaker 1: resigned from Congress, and he'll also probably face more punishment
Speaker 1: for his alleged sex trafficking. But if he's in charge
Speaker 1: of the entire Justice Department, he's not going to get anything, right. Like,
Speaker 1: a huge part of Trump like trying to become president
Speaker 1: again is to get out of all of the criminal
Speaker 1: complaints and indictments that he's been facing the past year.
Speaker 1: And now none of those matter. I'll point you to
Speaker 1: a Legal Eagle video for like why none of the
Speaker 1: convictions will matter, None of the ongoing cases will matter.
Speaker 1: All those trials are now completely meaningless. He has gotten
Speaker 1: away with everything. Looking over this whole list, you see
Speaker 1: a lot of neo cons in foreign policy positions and
Speaker 1: like mega celebrity loyalists in domestic positions, which makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense for Trump trying to both like maintain
Speaker 1: his own power as well as showing off his kind
Speaker 1: of hidden neo contendencies. And this entire cabinet points towards
Speaker 1: centralizing power with just him and the White House. Right,
Speaker 1: these people are not qualified, So now Trump basically will
Speaker 1: puppeteer every department and Trump's advisors, including like Stephen Miller.
Speaker 1: So this is all about centralizing power and demanding fierce loyalty.
Speaker 1: That's what all of these appointments point towards.
Speaker 3: This is good ending. What a happy show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a great ending. You know, not all
Speaker 1: these will have happy endings because we're currently facing a
Speaker 1: pretty rough situation. But we will have some episodes later
Speaker 1: on in this week that do point more towards what
Speaker 1: you can do to protect yourself in the coming days,
Speaker 1: including Molly's episode tomorrow, so stay tuned for that. But
Speaker 1: this is just a quick, a quick rundown on why
Speaker 1: I don't like every single person appointed to these positions.
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