USA 2024 presidential election

Clearly Elon Musk in Trump's executive has massive potential conflict of interest problems. The potential for corruption is gargantuan, and I cen see DJT making sure that the relevant laws are not enforced. He is after all, immune when it comes to official acts (including failure to act?)

Early setback for Trump.

Himself and Musk wanted Rick Scott as Senate Majority Leader because he indicated that he'd be most willing to do whatever was asked of him.

Unfortunately for them it was a private vote and Scott was eliminated in the first round of voting.

John Thune beat John Cornyne in the run-off and becomes the new Senate majority leader.

Apparently Arab-Americans who stayed at home because Biden was feeble about calling out Israeli misdeeds didn't.

Matt Gaetz being nominated for Attorney General.

**** lol.

Do they care?

It's also in the interest of the Trump government for Europe to shift to the right and there are few better ways to make a country shift to the right than being inundated with refugees or migrants.

I imagine Musk will be only too happy to see an end to this sort of snooping into his affairs and what better place to be right now than hanging with Donny? I believe there's up to 5bn in capital he borrowed that he hasn't declared where it came from and there is little doubt that Russia would consider it a small price to pay to have one of their assets back in the White House:

https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oligarchs-mean-for-musk/a-70088598

Im just back from a short break in Connecticut a largely Blue State early on during my visit I quickly realised how Trump had prevailed. People who had never before voted Rep. now voted Trump and when I asked why i got these answers. 1 Trump was going to restore law and Order in the Cities. 2 . The Illegal emigration was going to be sorted.3. The US were were going to stop wasting money on helping Ukraine. 4. A woman preident was never going to Happen.5 The whole aboortion womens rights and Transgender issues was plainy wrong. All these resopses were qualified with the resonse " Oh I know Trump is a despicable person but at least he is offering an alternative vision of America and Im happy with that" . One Democrat said she voted for Harris but the reason they lost was Biden should have stood down earlier. They also thought 3 Dollars for a gallon of petrol was outrageous. And what depressed me most was these were not Right Wing Maga types but ordinary working and in some cases buisness owners. But then again its their country and the can choose whom they like. Hopefully the whole thing doesnt implode into chaos, though some of his choices for cabinet are strange to say the least. Anyway thats what i encoutered during my short stay their last week.

Sadly, there was no one willing to listen to the concerns about genocide in Gaza . The Guardian carried a report a number of days ago. It said those concerned with the destruction in Gaza were faced with 99.99% chance of Trump making things worse, or 100% chance of Biden/Harris making it worse.

We now see that Biden has increased munitions supply to Israel in defiance of his own statement that he would reduce the supply if humanitarian aid was not allowed into Gaza. So, those voters were right.

Everyone he has picked so far is from a safe seat. Their only concern was the length of time between now and the special elections if the majority was wafer thin.

Whatever about the rest of the picks this one is straight up a "I'm coming after my political enemies" indicator. Picking someone who has zero morals and will likely be incompetent but will be 100% loyal.

If I were someone who had had a beef with Trump in the past I'd be considering moving to Canada.

Even Senate Republicans think he's a terrible pick. Thing is they have 53 of them now and I can't see 4 of them being brave enough to vote against him in a public vote. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins might because they don't have to worry about being primaried. Struggling to think of any others.

I guarantee that Oklahoma's Markwayne Mullin will vote for him, if it comes down to it, even after saying this about him last year.

There seems to be some talk of getting these picks through when Senate is on recess - no idea if that's actually a real thing or not but personally I hope the Senators have to vote for these clowns.

The whole Trump's first term wasn't too bad, don't worry too much about second one hasn't aged well already.

I don't recall key appointments like this from his first term.