Terrible choice of it happens.

Crazy times. DOGE

Actually a very interesting commentary on Trump's future administration.

Speaking to an Australian crowd, Niall Ferguson makes a well thought argument on what the Trump administration policies will be like. The acceptance of there being really the "Axis of evil", an anti-US coalition, and not as just mere wordplay as during the times of Dubya Bush, is going to be a crucial part in making Trump's foreign policy or what it's going to have to deal with. This discussed contrasted to Mearsheimer's views makes it worth listening to.

The rats are fleeing the ship, starting with illegally-appointed Jack Smith. The corrupt, political persecution has failed. Now he has only a few months to destroy all his evidence and communications, and milk his taxpayer-funded government payday until the last second.

Jack Smith Plans to Step Down as Special Counsel Before Trump Takes Office

Jack Smith, the special counsel who pursued two federal prosecutions of Donald J. Trump, plans to finish his work and resign along with other members of his team before Mr. Trump takes office in January, people familiar with his plans said.

Mr. Smith’s goal, they said, is to not leave any significant part of his work for others to complete and to get ahead of the president-elect’s promise to fire him within “two seconds” of being sworn in.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/jack-smith-special-counsel.html

Trump selects Matt Gaetz as AG

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as his attorney general.

“Few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan Weaponization of our Justice System,” Trump wrote Wednesday in a post on his Truth Social platform. “Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department.”

Gaetz said in a post on X that it would “be an honor to serve” in the role.

The congressman remains under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for sexual misconduct, with the bipartisan committee saying in a rare statement in June that some of the allegations against Gaetz “merit continued review.”

Being probed are allegations that Gaetz may have “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct,” the committee said at the time. — CNN

I would say the reputation of Gaetz in Congress, even amongst Republicans, is 'notorious sleazebag', although 'weasel' and 'snake' might also be appropriate epiphets.