Trump has filled his administration with sycophantic loyalists instead of highly competent and experienced people. Anyone else worried about this? Why did Republicans in congress confirm them?
He would never appoint anyone who wasn’t a sycophant, and a qualified person would never be a Trump-sycophant. He also likes to feel like the smartest person in the room, which means that there really have to be some incredibly stupid people in that room.
Why did Democrats confirm them?
He likes sycophants. That’s the most important thing for him.
They are very much qualified. But their qualification is not related to whatever position they have.
Their sole qualification is that Trump considers them loyal to him.
It’s disturbing, but I’m much more concerned with the CIA assets being installed at every level of government. They are a much more dangerous and more long-term threat.
They have no problem pulling down his diapers and with kissing his shit covered ass… I guess.
No one else wants to work with him.
And he hates having people questioning him, especially when smarter than trump
Read Project 2025.
Don’t be so glib. That’s almost 1,000 pages of finely detailed plans, hardly digestible in an evening.
Try this then
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It’s almost like a qualified and effective government isn’t his priority.
Serious answer: Because they’re sycophants. People call Trump all kinds of names, but the only thing that truly matters is that he’s the poster boy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I invite you all to have a read and get your head around the subject. It explains every single thing about Trump. (Aside from the obvious dementia that’s set in the past 4 years or so.)
To Trump’s mind, anyone who says he’s a great man, is automatically smart and qualified. He had a few great picks first time around, but they crossed him one way or the other and were suddenly dumb and unqualified.
If you’ve never been around a hardcore narcissist, the idea of such a person is truly hard to comprehend. Everyone throws that word around willy nilly, but it’s a diagnosis, with meaning and criteria. For example, people often point out his lies. Obvious, right? But in his mind, he can’t lie. His brain will rearrange contrary facts to mean that someone else was wrong. Back to your question, he requires unquestioning sycophants to satisfy his “never wrong” mentality. Anyone calling him out causes brief cognitive dissonance, and that’s poison to most of us, really hurts, but it’s shear hell for a narcissist. For a minute anyway. :)
As to the confirmations, plenty of Republican lawmakers tanked their careers by so much as seeming to go against Trump, in even the smallest ways. They now have two choices: Ride the tiger they created and hope they can still have some influence, or, defy him and have no influence.
I can expand on that all night long, but that’s the bones of the story.
This is probably the most reasonable non-consipiracy based explanation.
Standard dictator bullshit, fucking obviously.
Because sycophancy is the only quality he requires.
Why did Republicans in congress confirm them?
A better question is…why did so many Democrats confirm them, as well?
As the saying goes “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”. Better these idiots than anyone competent who could cause real damage intentionally.
That’s a great way of looking at it. I’m not sure if it was that or simple cowardice, but I like your interpretation.
Gee, I dunno… maybe corruption?
Uh it was on purpose. You’re rightly concerned about the first point (their competence) with less focus on the second (their ability to lock his nuts). His priorities were the opposite.
And that is why you, my dear internet stranger, have already proven yourself to be a better Presidential candidate than the asshat we got.
