Trump picks former WWE executive Linda McMahon for education secretary

Can the TVA please prune this fucking timeline already.

will the tva even survive the circus about to (re)invade washington? i know it's entirely self-funded, but still.. it is a federal agency. a socialist-like one, at that.. the og 'new deal' programs and a signature of fdr's administration. every one of those is like a trigger for donvict crazy mode.
- Woosh?
- Dunno what TVA you're thinking of, but the person you responded to was much more likely referring to the fictional TVA from Marvel.
- c/whoooooosh

This must be how President Camacho comes to be.

Camacho at least was smart enough to know he wasn't that smart, and thus had the sense to listen to a particularly smart advisor who wasn't stupidly insane though!
- Yeah I was saying that the other day, in Idiocracy they actually listened to the advice of the smart person and tried to improve things. We're not even doing that lol
Doubt it. He ranks low on the color chart.

The amount of his picks that are involved with sexual abuse of minors seems pretty over-the-top even for a republican administration. At this point, do any of them not have histories of involvement with sexual abuse and/or harassment? Maybe Oz... idk.

Trump is just nominating people he can remember or saw on TV at this point, isn't he?

I’ve heard it called his TV cabinet.
- HA! Love it!
If we have to rely on stuff he can remember we're gonna end up with a camera and a TV to be in charge of stuff (he's already put in a person, man, and woman).
"Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV."
He picked people that would work with him. Most people think he's a moron and difficult to work with so why waste their time. They are all washed up and trying to catch some sunlight to cash in on.

Hulk Hogan was too busy?

Hulk Hogan and Dog The Bounty Hunter are going to be Co-Directors of National Intelligence
- You know what? Please. Don't even pretend this is not a joke anymore.
I'm sure he'll get something. Looks like this time Trump is only looking for loyalty, his previous cabinet still had a ton of people that were only there because he felt he needed to keep McConnell happy. This time there's going to be no 'adults in the room'.
At least the kids would learn that steroids and TBIs are bad.
She’s worse than Hogan
He's in Orlando this week signing autographs at the IAAPA expo.

Could have been worse, last time it was Betsy Devos

I thought he was going to pick MTG or Boeboert, to be honest

And there's the education grenade...

There's a huge issue with that, though, that seems all too often overlooked: by doing nothing, our systems will still fall behind. They will continue to decay, to lag increasingly behind our peers and adversaries. At absolute best, the inevitable death of 1,000 cuts marches on.
- Well, I think did nothing and let Vince do whatever he wanted while she signed the paperwork is the more relevant and scarier bit of what you're responding to and what that person missed. There's no silver lining to a Yes Man with what these people want to do to education.
- Sure, but I'll take the thousand cuts over being shot right directly in the face, pretty much every time.

It’s like he’s casting for the 9th circle of hell wow what a cast of characters.

Yeah. Idiocracy is indeed happening.

I don't know what DOE employees did in a past life to deserve devos and whatever the fuck choice this is.

I dunno about their past lives either, but in this they made the eternal fuck up of wanting to impact American education at a time when the country was sliding into fascism.

Given that the US education system is wrestling with so many problems, maybe she is the right choice. /s

Didn't he want to abolish the education department? Or like is this how he wants to destroy it?

Why

It's definitely a stretch, but she's not completely unqualified... I'm not saying she's a good pick either, but she did at least serve on the board of education for Connecticut for about a year.
Mostly continuing the theme of Trump picking random ass people he knows and throwing them wherever it fits, but this isn't likely to be the worst one.

Ok so countdown to the article that finally proves he just has a dartboard with people's names on it that he likes and wherever the dart lands is the pick for the department...

It can't be that random. He surely picks the worst suited for the job.
- I think he's just paying back favours TBH

Why list her as a WWE executive but not list Trump as a WWE Hall of Famer?

The McMahons are so weird.

It's kinda funny how Vince funded two failed campaigns, and the second the two seem to be estranged Linda has found political power through Trump.

I have no idea if Vince and Linda are still together, since they've been mostly separated for years now, but I wonder if this will also open doors for Vince considering he was booted out of TKO/WWE for the recent abus allegations.

Wasn’t the last one WWE as well?

Yes! Cena, Undertaker, and Ray Misterio are heading the Committee of Communication Keys or COCK for short.

it’s about time we replace PE with pro wrestling

Nothing like sweaty man on man action.

I think this is the first person who's coming back from the previous Trump term, although in the first term she was on the small business administration, which makes somewhat more sense (though still not a lot considering) for someone who ran a pro wrestling business.

Only the best and brightest.

This sounds like something a 10-year-old boy in the 90s would suggest.