Yeah. Idiocracy is indeed happening.
Why list her as a WWE executive but not list Trump as a WWE Hall of Famer?
Wrestling fan for over 40 years.
Honestly, given the options that Trump could dredge up from the 9th circle of hell, this isn’t the worst choice.
Linda McMahon sat there for 50 or so years and did nothing while her husband committed all sorts of atrocities. And she deserves everything she gets for doing that. All the criticism surrounding that is 100% valid. But I want to point out the key words there. “Did nothing.” Because that’s pretty much Linda McMahon’s resume.
As CEO, she did nothing. Vince called the shots. She just signed the paperwork – at best. Her position was mainly a figurehead position just to ensure McMahon’s power in the company was that much more entrenched. She has all the charisma and personality of cigarette ash, and her on-air persona was literally to sit in a wheelchair and say nothing because she wasn’t capable of better acting.
She had a cabinet position during Trump’s first administration, and did a whole lot more nothing.
I would expect the same thing here. Linda McMahon is an unqualified hack who shouldn’t be in the position, but if there’s a silver lining, it’s this: Left to her own devices, McMahon will likely do nothing. Education won’t get any better, but it won’t get any worse either. She’s smart enough to know when she has no idea what she’s doing, and if the past 50 or so years is any indication, she’ll spend the next four years doing a lot more nothing and hoping nobody notices.
Yes, she absolutely will follow Trump’s directives to the letter. But Trump’s attention span is worse than Linda McMahon’s acting skills. I hate to say it like this, but if Trump stays focused on removing all the brown people and forcing his cronies to buy his watches, there’s at least the possibility that McMahon could just keep her head down for 4 years and at least not leave the DOE worse off than the way she found it. She’s got a 50 year resume showing her skills at doing nothing. Hopefully she’ll continue that trend.
There’s a huge issue with that, though, that seems all too often overlooked: by doing nothing, our systems will still fall behind. They will continue to decay, to lag increasingly behind our peers and adversaries. At absolute best, the inevitable death of 1,000 cuts marches on.
Well, I think did nothing and let Vince do whatever he wanted while she signed the paperwork is the more relevant and scarier bit of what you’re responding to and what that person missed. There’s no silver lining to a Yes Man with what these people want to do to education.
You’re missing my point slightly.
Yes, if Trump is dead-set on killing the DOE, we’re fucked. You’re right there. But unlike many of Trump’s other yes-men, Linda McMahon is not known to have the drive to do anything by herself. Go watch any of her WWE footage or any time she’s made a public statement. That woman hasn’t lifted a finger in her life without calling on her assistants to check on her nails. And we all know that Trump has the attention span of a methhead with ADHD. The silver lining is that if Trump decides to set his sights elsewhere, she’ll do little damage on her own, unlike a more ambitious yes-man who will take the initiative.
Think of it this way. It could have been Boebert. Or MTG. Or Jim Jordan. Plenty of cronies exponentially worse than McMahon if they were chosen, and all of which would have the initiative to do it themselves if Trump’s attention was focused elsewhere.
Sure, but I’ll take the thousand cuts over being shot right directly in the face, pretty much every time.
At least that would illicit a reaction out of the masses; that’s exactly why these authoritarians aim to slowly strangle our safety nets. We will apparently happily let them do it, as long as it doesn’t cause us immediate and perceivable harm.
Given the results of the election, that reaction may not be the one you think it is.
Trump is just nominating people he can remember or saw on TV at this point, isn’t he?
He picked people that would work with him. Most people think he’s a moron and difficult to work with so why waste their time. They are all washed up and trying to catch some sunlight to cash in on.
“Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.”
I’ve heard it called his TV cabinet.
HA! Love it!
If we have to rely on stuff he can remember we’re gonna end up with a camera and a TV to be in charge of stuff (he’s already put in a person, man, and woman).
Only the best and brightest.
Can the TVA please prune this fucking timeline already.
will the tva even survive the circus about to (re)invade washington? i know it’s entirely self-funded, but still… it is a federal agency. a socialist-like one, at that… the og ‘new deal’ programs and a signature of fdr’s administration. every one of those is like a trigger for donvict crazy mode.
Dunno what TVA you’re thinking of, but the person you responded to was much more likely referring to the fictional TVA from Marvel.
They were probably taking about the Tennessee Valley Authority. It’s a big deal even if you’ve never heard of it.
“Pruning” is a specific action defined in Marvel’s Loki where a timeline that branches away from the Sacred Timeline is destroyed for fear of it causing problems, so no the original commenter wasn’t talking about the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Woosh?
c/whoooooosh
I don’t know what DOE employees did in a past life to deserve devos and whatever the fuck choice this is.
I dunno about their past lives either, but in this they made the eternal fuck up of wanting to impact American education at a time when the country was sliding into fascism.
This must be how President Camacho comes to be.
Camacho at least was smart enough to know he wasn’t that smart, and thus had the sense to listen to a particularly smart advisor who wasn’t stupidly insane though!
Yeah I was saying that the other day, in Idiocracy they actually listened to the advice of the smart person and tried to improve things. We’re not even doing that lol
Camacho apparently fixed the time machine and came back to run for president in 2024, because they forgot how to make cheese in the future.
Sadly he didn’t get enough votes ☹️
Doubt it. He ranks low on the color chart.
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Given that the US education system is wrestling with so many problems, maybe she is the right choice. /s
Bah Gawd It’s Over! The DOE is dead! Broken in half!
The amount of his picks that are involved with sexual abuse of minors seems pretty over-the-top even for a republican administration. At this point, do any of them not have histories of involvement with sexual abuse and/or harassment? Maybe Oz… idk.
Could have been worse, last time it was Betsy Devos
I thought he was going to pick MTG or Boeboert, to be honest
Hulk Hogan was too busy?
Hulk Hogan and Dog The Bounty Hunter are going to be Co-Directors of National Intelligence
You know what? Please. Don’t even pretend this is not a joke anymore.
Fuckin’ put me in the screenshot.
I’m sure he’ll get something. Looks like this time Trump is only looking for loyalty, his previous cabinet still had a ton of people that were only there because he felt he needed to keep McConnell happy. This time there’s going to be no ‘adults in the room’.
Mr Fuji and Mr Siaito
At least the kids would learn that steroids and TBIs are bad.
She’s worse than Hogan
He’s in Orlando this week signing autographs at the IAAPA expo.
Didn’t he want to abolish the education department? Or like is this how he wants to destroy it?
I think this is the first person who’s coming back from the previous Trump term, although in the first term she was on the small business administration, which makes somewhat more sense (though still not a lot considering) for someone who ran a pro wrestling business.
