A bombshell report from The New York Times suggests that despite her title, Attorney General Pam Bondi is hardly running the show at the Department of Justice.
According to the Times, Bondi “sees her role as that of a surrogate, a faithful executor and high-volume messenger, compelled to cede ground to empowered players in the West Wing.”
“The decisions are being made at the White House, and then they’re being pushed down to the Department of Justice, which is very, very atypical,” observed DOJ alum Elizabeth Oyer. “It feels like she is just performing a part. She is like an actor, in a way.”
Well of course. Trump doesn’t trust women, but he likes having them around as tokens to flaunt. I doubt any women under his admin are allowed any actual amount of power or control over their own departments.
Maybe Noem. She’s proven herself to be a sociopath, and that’s his kind of people.
Even she has that Pakled Homan to do the real dirty work. She just cosplays for photo ops.
…she shot and killed her puppy because she didn’t feel like training it. She’s definitely a sociopath.
This is how you get past the problem of Senate confirmation hearings when the person you want to appoint is so horrible that the process could expose things like how they’re less of a Nazi sympathizer and more of an actual Nazi.
Similarly, Trump’s team has repeatedly denied that Elon Musk was the head of DOGE in order to reduce the amount of congressional oversight that he receives.
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That’s why Trump chose media personalities to head all his departments
They all look like vapid bimbos.
That’s a good point.
It turns out, WE were the real deep state all along!
The real deep state is the friends we made along the way.
Yeah, this is why they’ve been spamming social media(including lemmy) with the whole “Kakistocracy” thing recently.
They really want you to think the idiots are in charge, that way you don’t try to dig deeper as the idiots chop off everything they see and some parts they’re told. Just look at the Librarian of Congress thing. People were making jokes about librarians, meanwhile she was basically in charge of defining DMCA and digital copyright.
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I’m confused, you say the idiots are in charge, but then say that they’re fall guys following a playbook. Which one is it?
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A’ight, I’m with you on that.
Am I surprised a Stasi looking pedophile is in charge? Nope.
Am I surprised a bottle blonde Barbie bobblehead is a token figurehead? Nope.
The guy even looks like a henchman. Wtf.
He’s 100% the image of the violent overseer that cracks his whip across the backs of slaves with a smug sickly sneer on his ugly face in a movie. The one that everyone cheers for when his victims get their justice against him, slashing him with his own whip a dozen times before choking him out with it. Let us hope he receives his deserved comeuppance in real life as well.
Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller
hes also the guy that DYED his scalp to make it look like he has a youthful amount of hair.
She’s too busy delivering 747s from her “former” bosses to her “current” boss to be bothered with much else.
OBVIOUSLY, she was the conduit for this entire deal. Qatar had already paid her a fortune for her lobbying services, she would have been the first phone call they made to set up the deal.
“bombshell!! Trump slammed by liberal party!!” bombshell my fucking nuts, when are y’all going to actually do something about it though? I’m so fucking tired of these stupid “bombshell” and “liberals slam” headlines while the media plays softball with this admin as if they aren’t burning the nation to the ground.
And the Heritage Foundation controls Stephen Miller
They are running the Project 2025 playbook right? Makes sense that Heritage Foundation is the QB. We fucked up.
I could read a similar report for almost any cabinet post, or more likely multiple cabinet posts, and I wouldn’t bat an eye. I would almost assume this is happening in most cases to some degree.
Most of these secretaries are picked for their willingness and ability to absorb what passes for tough questions in congressional hearings while the real power like Hobgoblin here make the decisions.
Duh? You don’t think a Fox News host is actually running the DOD either right? Or Naomi DHS?
This has been transparent from the start.
Been transparent that this is how the GOP governs since they had an actor with dementia play “President” in the 80s.
All these Germans
Blondi, bombshell. I like it.
