Originally published at: Trump appoints conspiracy theorists to co-chair his transition team - Boing Boing
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Makes sense - a piquant amuse-bouche of deep state rabbit holes, served on a tin foil hat and redolent of delusion and implausibility to tease the palate before tearing into the mephitic red meat and gravy hellscape of ■■■■■’s second term.
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You know he’s taking this seriously when he names two of the people least known for levelheaded administrative competence to lead his transition team. He might as well add MTG and Boebert while he’s at it.
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So I can do a favor for Don and get a government job. Might come in handy if he cuts SS
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Gabbard and Kennedy are still bitter at the Democratic political machine for not giving either of them a chance at leading the party.
I guarantee neither of them has enough self-awareness to realize that anyone who would pivot to supporting Trump never shared the ideals of the Democratic party to begin with.
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Putin is presumably also grumpy that he wasn’t able to extend his influence to both major US parties through them. Trump is throwing him a bone with this. After all, a major area of overlap between these two and Trump is their willingness to drop support for Ukraine.
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Oh hell no.
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Already done by the Heritage Foundation, they’d be rubber stampers
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Aside from the Project that he pretends to know nothing about, the one thing Trump has insisted on is that the last election was rigged and his charges are unfair persecution by the Deep State. All of the Republicans have had to present it as if it’s a real possibility. So all his transition team were going to be conspiracy theorists, his entire party are conspiracy theorists, and these are just some of the more enthusiastic ones.
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The Dems need to turn up the weird alert now by pointing out the craziness of the Cult Lady and Brainworm Failson.
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So someone the American public thoroughly rejects as a leader, to the point he quit the race, will be appointed as a leader by someone who has already claimed that the American public’s votes should only count if he wins, and has failed to ever win the popular vote for any office. At least the Republicans are running well qualified people.
The Kennedy flip flop and lies are so outrageous it is impossible to see him as anything but a pitiful craven power hungry pile of shit. Am I missing some good quality he still has?
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… his wacky sense of humor 
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Presumably he was too cheap to pay for the dream team of Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan.
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First time he got elected, he didn’t even have a transition team (which really showed how unseriously he was taking his run, and how little he expected to win), so… this is him taking it more seriously? (Honestly not sure.)
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From what I understand, if you live in Hawaii and want to have a future in politics, you join the Democratic party. Tulsi is a democrat for ambition, the worst sort of person you want to lead, but there it is.
If there was a viable two party system in the state there wouldn’t be types of problems. Wyoming has the same problem the other way.
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What exactly is an “honorary co-chair?” Usually an “honorary” anything means the person is being honored by being named but doesn’t actually have any responsibility or power. Like an honorary degree. It’s a nice gift to honor someone but it isn’t a true degree.
So, this is just anti-virtue signaling? Or pacification like with Trump’s sons? A title to keep them happy without any real ability to make decisions
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Last time around, Trump went looking for a VP who would do the work of the office of the presidency, leaving Donald as essentially a figurehead with lots of time time to grift and golf. It’s concerning this time he’s looking for figureheads and has plans for his time in office.
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Good point. This is a purely symbolic act. The goal is to try to capture the votes of the “contrarian” lefties who would otherwise vote for a third party candidate.
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a participation trophy?
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