‘Straits of Vermouth’: Democrats roast two Trump cabinet members with one Iran war post after Bessent’s press briefing botch (www.independent.co.uk)
from return2ozma@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 15 Apr 23:00
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nkat2112@sh.itjust.works on 15 Apr 23:19 next collapse

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Nice.

ageownage@slrpnk.net on 16 Apr 00:26 next collapse

Man works for the White House. I, to, would be thinking about my next drink.

lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world on 16 Apr 01:41 collapse

The “man” to which you’re referring is a card carrying nazi fascist

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world on 16 Apr 02:28 collapse

a […] nazi fascist

I can expect you know literally anything about Scott Bessent given this acute political insight. I didn’t know non-fascist Nazis could be a thing, but now I’ll be on the lookout.

So is he a “card-carrying Nazi fascist” exclusively because this disgusting, wealth-stealing, crony capitalist vermin supports Trump and is in his cabinet for self-enrichment, or did you have a complaint that makes him a “Nazi fascist” outside of that?

Genuinely curious what else you think this man has done to make him a literal, avowed Nazi; I’ve cut the snark for this part.

pulsewidth@lemmy.world on 16 Apr 03:02 collapse

Probably the part where he was a major power broker in getting Trump elected the second time, and has now been rewarded with a high position in his government?

Trump’s second campaign was literally ‘I’ll overthrow the government if I have to, I’ll deport all the immigrants, I’ll be a dictator from day one’. I’d say anyone that then spends every waking moment and a significant amount of their own money is at least well on the way to being a fascist.

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world on 16 Apr 04:01 collapse

Agreed it makes him an accomplice to fascism inasmuch as hopping on the bandwagon and materially supporting for self-enrichment. I wouldn’t object to people saying that makes him straight-up fascist; it’s a close call for me, where he doesn’t give a shit about the fascist ideology itself and cares exclusively about money, but that’s still doing a fascism™ at the end of the day.

But, you know, they kind of accused him of being an avid neo-Nazi. “Nazi” and “card-carrying” have meanings. Like we really want to pretend the person who called him a “nazi fascist” knows fuck-all about Bessent? Even the tidbit you just shared about how he got here?

pulsewidth@lemmy.world on 16 Apr 08:39 collapse

Yeah, I agree that ‘neo-Nazi’ is a logical leap for sure with what is publically known of Bessent.

underisk@lemmy.ml on 16 Apr 04:14 collapse

Unless they’re literally roasting them over an actual literal fire I don’t care. You can’t shame the shameless.