Starting Monday: The Trump administration's days of blunder

[Zorro]

Last edited Fri Jan 17, 2025, 12:35 PM - Edit history (1)

Talk of tattoos, Jesus, enemies lists and a war with California mark the week before inauguration.

At a forum this week hosted by Politico, former top Trump strategist and current MAGA loudmouth Steve Bannon said insiders have a name for the first days of the incoming Trump administration. “We refer to it right now as ‘Days of Thunder,’” he said. “And I think these Days of Thunder starting next week are going to be incredibly, incredibly intense.”

Why would President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers compare their return to power with a 35-year-old movie about NASCAR? This can only mean they are expecting a series of car wrecks. And, in fact, the pileups have already begun — a familiar mix of incompetence, defiance of the law, infighting and tilting at windmills. (“Windmills are an economic and environmental disaster. I don’t want even one built during my administration,” Trump announced on Wednesday.)

Bannon himself is publicly feuding with billionaire Elon Musk, who has attached himself, barnacle-like, to Trump. Bannon told an Italian newspaper that Musk is “a truly evil person” who has the “maturity of a child” (fact check: mostly true), and that “he should go back to South Africa,” where Musk grew up during apartheid. Musk, in turn, has called his MAGA critics “subtards” and “contemptible fools” (fact check: well, let’s not go there).

On the same day Bannon spoke about Days of Thunder, I was in a hearing room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, watching the most extravagantly unqualified nominee I have ever seen. Pete Hegseth makes the closest runner-up, Harriet Miers, George W. Bush’s ill-fated Supreme Court nominee, look like Oliver Wendell Holmes. Hegseth has faced widespread and credible allegations of drunkenness on the job, financial mismanagement at the two small charities he ran, and sexual harassment and assault. (He paid a woman who accused him of assault while denying the accusation.) A weekend host for Fox News, Hegseth never ran a large organization and held a junior rank in the military, and he has said women shouldn’t serve in combat and disparaged the Geneva Conventions, which govern the laws of war. He also appears to have no idea what he’s doing.

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"Days of Chunder" also works for me.

[Phoenix61]

1. The only trait that exceeds their immorality is their incompetence.

I am hopeful this will save us from the worst of their impulses.

[Aristus]

2. Another point of comparison with "Days Of Thunder":

The prevalence in the GOP of Nicole Kidman-style bad plastic surgery.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. They only thunder they may have is Trump's flatulence.

[RussBLib]

4. blunder and plunder

...as stupid as many of them are, they are still going to plunder wherever they can.

https://russblib.blogspot.com