Richardson notes that it was a bad day for Cabinet officials on Capitol Hill. The clip that got the most airplay on social media was Gestapo Barbie and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem not knowing what habeas corpus is. Habeas protections go back to the Magna Carta are a bedrock tenet of civil liberties. Noem's answer was not only off, it was the exact opposite of what habeas is. If we lived in any sort of system with the ability to actually hold people accountable, she would be impeached and removed by the weekend.
We had Secretary Brain Worms being challenged on the savage cuts to health care funding, and his plan was either to lie or to claim ignorance of decisions made by his own department. Marco Rubio was excoriated for abandoning whatever principles he may have once espoused. Trump's nominee for IRS Commissioner was exposed to be the sort of person who should have absolutely zero control over the IRS.
Donald Trump is a deeply stupid man experiencing steep and notable cognitive decline (from an already low baseline). He says and does things that are not just contentious, but empirically wrong. China doesn't pay the tariffs; we can't build a "Golden Dome" missile defense system; the Qatari Pimp Plane was not a gift; markets are not fine with his moves. It should be noted at this point, that Joe Biden is also old and that if an old man falls and hurts himself he might need a wheelchair, but this is only really true about Joe Biden.
Trump, being stupid, has assembled a Cabinet and an administration full of people he has seen on TV defending him. Fox News "personalities" litter his administration. Noem, Hegseth, Kennedy, Gabbard, their main qualification seems to be that they are photogenic. They clearly have no idea how to actually do their jobs. Josh Hawley complaining to Noem that FEMA is absent from his state is deeply hilarious, because how can someone whose only job qualification is a certain plastic hotness have any idea about disaster management? The TeeVee Administration is going to make the FEMA response to Hurricane Katrina look like the Apollo Lunar program.
Trump's former lawyer, Alina Habba, who would rather be hot than smart, because you can fake being smart, brought charges against a member of Congress who was visiting an ICE detention center. This is blatantly contrary to existing law, similar to charging the judge in Wisconsin. I would strongly suggest that these cases will not make it past summary judgement. In fact, it is precisely in the Courts where being photogenic rather than knowledgeable and competent is going to be a real detriment to Trump's plans to destroy America's civic democracy, economy and standing in the world.
Of course, this all barely matters, because the median American voter is pretty dumb when it comes to government policies, too.
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