Our Fascist Idiocracy: MTG Sees the Iceberg Ahead, Flees MAGA Ship

Says Republicans in the House hate Trump

Democratic Wins Media: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s appearance on 60 Minutes was more revealing than anything she has said in Congress. It was the first real sign that something inside the MAGA movement has shifted. Greene is not a moderate Republican or a cautious institutionalist. She has been one of the most loyal and extreme defenders of Donald Trump. So when someone like her begins to pull away, it signals a deeper fracture.

Greene raised concerns about healthcare subsidies expiring and the harm that would cause for working families. These are valid points, but they do not reflect her record in Congress. Nothing about her ideology has softened. The more likely explanation is that she sees the political winds changing inside the far right and is trying to get ahead of a movement that no longer feels invincible.

The Independent: When asked if Republicans talk differently about Trump behind the scenes, Greene replied: “Yes.”

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Our Fascist Idiocracy: Secretary of War Crimes and the Fog of War

Throwing the scapegoat under the bus

Reason: “I did not personally see survivors,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “The thing was on fire. It exploded, there’s fire, there’s smoke….This is called the fog of war.”

Financial Times: Speaking during a televised cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump said the defence secretary was doing a “great job”, while Hegseth justified Washington’s military campaign against alleged drug boats. “Narco-terrorists know you can’t bring drugs through the water and eventually on land if necessary, to the American people. We will eliminate that threat,” he said.

The Independent: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday continued what appears to be a deliberate effort to blame a veteran naval officer for the order to launch a second missile strike on an alleged drug-running boat that killed two survivors of an earlier missile hit…

Hegseth added: “We always have the back of our commanders who are making decisions in difficult situations, and we do in this case and all these strikes, they’re making judgment calls and ensuring that they defend the American people. They’ve done the right things. We’ll keep doing that, and we have their backs.”

During a subsequent question-and-answer session with reporters, Hegseth acknowledged that he had given the order for the first missile hit on the boat but claimed he’d already left the room when Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commanding officer who oversaw the mission carried out by the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, ordered a second missile fired on the wreckage.

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Our Fascist Idiocracy: Shhh. The President, 79, Is Sleeping

The world is safest when he's asleep

New York Times: President Trump appeared to be fighting sleep on Tuesday during a cabinet meeting at the White House, closing his eyes and at times seeming to nod off, after he criticized media coverage about him facing the realities of aging in office.

Over the course of two hours and 18 minutes, the president, who is 79, sometimes appeared to struggle to keep his eyes open as cabinet officials went around the room describing their work and heaping praise on him.

Independent: Trump was brutally mocked as “Dozy Don” by California Gov. Gavin Newsom in October after he appeared to drift off at an event discussing the threat his administration said is posed by Antifa activists, in revenge for the president’s regular jibes against “Sleepy Joe” throughout his presidency.

Unilad: [The] White House has strenuously denied any accusation that Trump fell asleep during the televised meeting and pointed to his engagement with the topic – without explaining why his eyes appeared to be closed, while his head rested against the back of his chair.

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Our Fascist Idiocracy: Kristi Noem Thanks Trump for Preventing Hurricanes This Year

He must have gotten a bigger Sharpie!

Independent: Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has bizarrely thanked Donald Trump for “keeping the hurricanes away.”

Speaking during the final cabinet meeting of the year on Tuesday (2 December), Noem expressed her gratitude to the US president, “Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane… even you kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that.”

No hurricanes made landfall in the United States during the Atlantic hurricane season, for the first time since 2015.

But, last month, Hurricane Melissa became one of the most powerful on record, killing at least 106 people across the Caribbean.”

People: As the president appeared to be frequently closing his eyes, his secretaries showered him with compliments on everything from his sacrifices for the American people to his apparent influence on the weather.

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