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Yavin4

(36,692 posts)
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 12:10 PM Nov 8

Steve Bannon floats idea of Marjorie Taylor Greene serving as head of Homeland Security under Trump

Former Trump advisor and convicted felon Steve Bannon has floated the idea that Marjorie Taylor Greene should be appointed to the president-elect’s new administration as the head of Homeland Security.


https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/steve-bannon-marjorie-taylor-greene-dhs-trump-b2642851.html
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Steve Bannon floats idea of Marjorie Taylor Greene serving as head of Homeland Security under Trump (Original Post) Yavin4 Nov 8 OP
Please, God, just take me now... Ocelot II Nov 8 #1
If MTG becomes head of Homeland Security, God won't need to bother taking you. LudwigPastorius Nov 8 #34
Do it! She is completely unqualified so would be perfect! It really doesn't matter. Freethinker65 Nov 8 #2
Why Not? D_Master81 Nov 8 #3
JFC CurtEastPoint Nov 8 #4
Sounds good. Let's go. Prairie Gates Nov 8 #5
You think that the TSA at the airport is bad now. Yavin4 Nov 8 #7
She'd be able to get after the threat of the space lasers. tetedur Nov 8 #12
Wait .. doesn't she first dweller Nov 8 #6
Ick! LeftInTX Nov 8 #8
She seems nice. multigraincracker Nov 8 #9
Do it! XanaDUer2 Nov 8 #10
Anything to get her put of congress Johonny Nov 8 #11
She'll save America from space lasers in pizza parlor basements! struggle4progress Nov 8 #13
What could possibly go wrong? Initech Nov 8 #14
There's a kind of beautiful, yet horrifying, symmetry to it all. Yavin4 Nov 8 #16
No crazier than any of the other suggestions coming from the Trump camp. Solly Mack Nov 8 #15
Bannon is a troll GenThePerservering Nov 8 #17
They're gonna vet via trolling for all Cabinet positions: whoever makes the libs cry the most Prairie Gates Nov 8 #18
They are clearly going after a reaction newdeal2 Nov 8 #19
Quite the contrary. I'm rooting for MTG to get the gig. Yavin4 Nov 8 #22
I don't think it's a serious proposal newdeal2 Nov 8 #24
They all can go hog wild. Yavin4 Nov 8 #25
I say, "Go for it" Stuckinthebush Nov 8 #20
That's where I am too. intrepidity Nov 8 #28
traitor will pick trash off a garbage heap that fell off a shit wagon Marthe48 Nov 8 #21
Keeping us safe from Jewish space lasers!!!!!! PA Democrat Nov 8 #23
That would be the first, "I told you so," Ilsa Nov 8 #26
They should put her in charge of the department that controls the weather. surfered Nov 8 #27
It's going to require total misery for the cult of personality to be broken. OrlandoDem2 Nov 8 #29
It will be in control of all parts of governement Prairie_Seagull Nov 8 #30
Bannon has said he wants to destroy Federal Bureaucratic Institutions since the 1990's. haele Nov 8 #31
I can't see any reason to oppose it. JI7 Nov 8 #32
Ok Bannon. Anything to get people talking about him again now that he's out of prison FloridaBlues Nov 8 #33
Make her the Secretary of Bad-Built Butch-Bodies. LudwigPastorius Nov 8 #35
How did he not get cirrhosis yet? Dem4life1234 Nov 8 #36
Oh why the hell not Blaukraut Nov 8 #37
This message was self-deleted by its author Midnight Writer Nov 8 #38
GESPACHO Approved Kid Berwyn Nov 8 #39
And why the hell not? LisaL Nov 8 #40
Good, get her out of the Congress! Jit423 Nov 8 #41

LudwigPastorius

(11,160 posts)
34. If MTG becomes head of Homeland Security, God won't need to bother taking you.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:36 PM
Nov 8

Plenty of terrorists and FSB agents out there who will have carte blanche.

D_Master81

(1,926 posts)
3. Why Not?
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 12:13 PM
Nov 8

At this point I expect every person that serves in this administration to be completely unqualified for the position they will hold and only there to “shake things up”. It’s gonna be chaos

Prairie Gates

(3,600 posts)
5. Sounds good. Let's go.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 12:16 PM
Nov 8

She seems deeply unqualified and probably a few attacks will get through, but she's a loyal Trumpy and will say cool praises during the Cabinet meetings.

Johonny

(22,293 posts)
11. Anything to get her put of congress
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 12:32 PM
Nov 8

I'm sure she will do a great job and last as long as anyone lasts in a Trump administration

Yavin4

(36,692 posts)
16. There's a kind of beautiful, yet horrifying, symmetry to it all.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 01:06 PM
Nov 8

Bush is annointed president by the SCOTUS in 2000. Then falls asleep at the wheel when were attacked on 9/11. Then he creates this monster new agency called Department of Homeland Security where perhaps the most unqualified person in the country will run it with global implications for us all.

Stephen King on his best day couldn't write a better horror story.

GenThePerservering

(2,675 posts)
17. Bannon is a troll
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 01:08 PM
Nov 8

I doubt "Congressman" Greene will be appointed to anything. Trump will only stand for so many women in positions of authority. She'd make a huge mess of it, though which might be a bonus. The faster this house of cards falls, the better.

Prairie Gates

(3,600 posts)
18. They're gonna vet via trolling for all Cabinet positions: whoever makes the libs cry the most
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 02:40 PM
Nov 8

gets the first offer for the spot.

It's all very good and sane government!

newdeal2

(1,158 posts)
19. They are clearly going after a reaction
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 02:41 PM
Nov 8

It’s clear all of these comments coming from Trumpers are designed to upset us. Let’s not give them the satisfaction.

newdeal2

(1,158 posts)
24. I don't think it's a serious proposal
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:01 PM
Nov 8

He is flooding the zone. Same with the Fuentes comments and the person who talked about putting kids in cages. They are trying to rile us up, probably to distract from whatever is really going on.

Yavin4

(36,692 posts)
25. They all can go hog wild.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:07 PM
Nov 8

I'm not going to get mad bc this is what this country wanted. So, let the country have it.

Stuckinthebush

(11,052 posts)
20. I say, "Go for it"
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 02:44 PM
Nov 8

Why the hell not. If you are going to burn it down, why not throw some gasoline on the fire?

I won't give them the satisfaction of seeing my disgust and fear. I'm just going to smile and tell them to have at it.

Marthe48

(19,441 posts)
21. traitor will pick trash off a garbage heap that fell off a shit wagon
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 02:47 PM
Nov 8

dregs foaming to the top of the sewage tank

PA Democrat

(13,343 posts)
23. Keeping us safe from Jewish space lasers!!!!!!
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 02:55 PM
Nov 8

I think they are just trying to piss off anyone with a brain.

Ilsa

(62,299 posts)
26. That would be the first, "I told you so,"
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:10 PM
Nov 8

to family members, as I emphasize her incompetence.

surfered

(3,895 posts)
27. They should put her in charge of the department that controls the weather.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:10 PM
Nov 8

She can do less damage there

OrlandoDem2

(2,351 posts)
29. It's going to require total misery for the cult of personality to be broken.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:16 PM
Nov 8

Mass deportations that cause riots.

Inflation as a result of tariffs.

Economic catastrophe.

And much more.

If it happens, then oh well. This is what America voted for.

Prairie_Seagull

(3,823 posts)
30. It will be in control of all parts of governement
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:21 PM
Nov 8

regardless who he chooses as a figurehead. Only question? Our Military.

imo.

haele

(13,676 posts)
31. Bannon has said he wants to destroy Federal Bureaucratic Institutions since the 1990's.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:24 PM
Nov 8

He wants a free for all "Just in Time" reactive Administration, that flexible pay/spend as you go type governance that depends on political whims and projects instead of long term strategic policies or regulations to ensure public safety and welfare.
He can't wrap his head around anything but start-up or R&D project management. That's where he got stuck in his early career. Never learned how to manage sustainability or lifecycle. He's fallen upwards ever since, riding on coat-tails of other "idea" people.
Because he doesn't care, so long as he can walk away and leave his clients to gain massive profits over the first year or two. After that, he'll come up with a new disaster fixing plan to profit his clients some more.
No thought to a future sustainability needed.

But first, he needs to get rid of regulations and Bureaucratic "slow downs" to implement his genius plans.

Haele

Dem4life1234

(2,021 posts)
36. How did he not get cirrhosis yet?
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:51 PM
Nov 8

And that man faced bad built stupid dingbat should be nowhere near government.

I hate these people with a burning passion and I hate the dumbasses who didn't vote.

Blaukraut

(5,924 posts)
37. Oh why the hell not
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:53 PM
Nov 8

Might as well go all in with the crazy. This upcoming shitshow will be a sight to behold.

Response to Yavin4 (Original post)

Jit423

(456 posts)
41. Good, get her out of the Congress!
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 05:05 PM
Nov 8

Name all the unqualifieds to positions. Then watch how government runs.

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