• Jesus@lemmy.world
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    Nothing new. He’s going to staff his administration with yes men. Same as Trump always does.

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      Not for the first round of appointments in 2017. Tillerson, Pruitt, Ajit Pai, DeVos, etc. were all industry insiders with their own harmful agendas who resigned as soon as they gutted whatever specific parts of their agencies they wanted.

      So, frankly, yes men are probably less harmful.

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      Not quite true the last time around. A dozen former advisors called him unfit for office. If they were yes men they would have kept their mouths shut and waited for the call to go back to his administration. This might actually be good news for America. Donald Trump is a fucking moron and it sounds like nobody in his new administration will call him out for being a moron, they’ll just go along with whatever stupid ideas he has.

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        To be fair, he hires who he thinks will be yes men, then the yes men get in and often realize it’s worse than they thought, they either don’t do what he wants or make him look bad, then they bail or get fired. Been like this for decades with Trump. In office and in private business.