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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy are many media acting like Rump is already President??
NY Times had a story the other day "Kimberly Gilfoyle appointed Ambassador to Greece".
Last I checked, Rump can't appoint anybody to anything until after he is inaugurated.
He may have announced who he will appoint to various positions once he's in, but that's it.
The only President who can make appointments at this time is Joseph R. Biden.
Turbineguy
(38,468 posts)In a way it puts the turd in trump's pocket. Now he has to not blow it.
Meadowoak
(6,278 posts)julmur
(147 posts)Maybe because the democrats arent saying or doing a damn thing? Wheres the leadership? Wheres the fighting back? And the media has been full blown trump for years
Hope22
(3,071 posts)Just heard about a a butt load of pardons yesterday. He continues to make headway.
Ray Bruns
(4,700 posts)Until Trump is sworn in, Joe Biden is president.
Until Trump is sworn in, he really cant do anything so theres nothing right now to fight against.
The republicans won the election, so until they submit legislation, really nothing to fight against. Its all really a bunch of talk right now.
Aristus
(68,557 posts)He's in the office working. He's getting things done. He's not Shittering and Twittering, and he's not out on the fairway cheating at golf.
President Biden has real work to do. And it doesn't require lurching after the spotlight like a narcissistic, attention-crazed clown.
Johnny2X2X
(21,863 posts)A small billionaire oligarch class has complete control over our Federal Government, our economy, and the media. The decided they were sick of bleeding the working class little by little and they put Trump in charge to take everything from us all at once.
Irish_Dem
(59,156 posts)love_katz
(2,857 posts)Exactly 💯🎯.
Someone commented a number of years back, that the oligarchy wants to steal every penny from us all. They decided that they don't need us anymore and don't even have the decency to honor the social contract and let us live out our lives in dignity.
Hal Sparks has been doing shows about technology and the advances in robotics.
Basically, Muskrat wants to get the government subsidies for building them. First he will build robots which can pick the crops, which is why they are so hot to kick out immigrants.
Then, robots will be built that can do other jobs. At first, it will be jobs that are dangerous or dirty. But, it won't stop with those kinds of jobs.
When large numbers of the population are unemployed, the oligarchs don't want to have to pay for any of the social programs that will help them. It is always about the $$$$$$$ with these greed heads.
The oligarchs have always seen the rest of us as disposable. They have simply taken off their masks and come out into the open.
live love laugh
(14,519 posts)sop
(11,478 posts)UpInArms
(51,881 posts)Blue Full Moon
(1,286 posts)Mike 03
(17,232 posts)If some of us don't feel like we've had a break whatsoever from the Trump presidency, it might be because he has to varying degrees overshadowed even these last four years--in no little part because of the media's pathetic deference to him. When he's spoken or tweeted he has done it with the same voice he used when he was president. It never ceased, and reporters covered almost everything he did as if it was newsworthy, though it was often petty and trivial.
Anyway, thank you for making the point.
Blue Full Moon
(1,286 posts)Don't say anything because "high ground". That's how he got in the first place.
Hope22
(3,071 posts)He admits that he believes 2020 was stolen. He continued to undermine US policy and security for an additional four years and now he is set to undermine the future of this country for yet another four years. He is the wrecking ball of humanity. It has been an endless 17 years since his Birther baloney and hes never looked back! He feeds off of his own stale air.
Johonny
(22,192 posts)His actual presidency will be a disaster. Trump is good at pretending to be president. He sucks at actually being president. See for example, his first term.
live love laugh
(14,519 posts)malthaussen
(17,752 posts)They are such craven bootlickers, it turns my stomach.
-- Mal
KT2000
(20,918 posts)They have been all in for trump for four years. In dictatorships like Russian and China, the government controls the news. In an oligarchy, it is the billionaires!
love_katz
(2,857 posts)Mr.Bee
(408 posts)three daze coverage, Darn Old Trump, ARE YOU LISTENING??
This will not end well for you!
NoMoreRepugs
(10,628 posts)Initech
(102,406 posts)Something about this election still doesn't pass the smell test.