The Trump cabinet Thread

[Cryingdick]

5 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

He's a pervert.

 

Yeah well. Would you like to take a toke off of a Cigar used by Billy Bob?  He is tarnished so I am saying this is a good way to get rid of him if he can't get confirmed. 

Edited 16 hours ago by Cryingdick

[pattayasan]

2 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

 

Yeah well. Would you like to take a toke off of a Cigar used by Billy Bob?  He is tarnished so I am saying this is a good way to get rid of him if he s if he can't get confirmed. 

 

and if he gets a recess appointment without senate confirmation? Or an "acting" appointment?

[mogandave]

1 minute ago, pattayasan said:

 

and if he gets a recess appointment without senate confirmation? Or an "acting" appointment?

A recess appointment is an appointment. 

 

I think Clinton got about 150 recess appointments.

[pattayasan]

"The most obvious reason that Matt Gaetz should not, and cannot, become attorney general of the United States is that he is quite likely a statutory rapist," he contended. "And a proudly boastful one at that. This is not an exaggeration. Gaetz was notoriously caught bragging about his dating and having sex with girls to other Republican congressmen back in 2021 — and then showing photos of them to others on the House floor."

 

https://www.rawstory.com/attorney-general-matt-gaetz-statutory/

Edited 16 hours ago by pattayasan

[Cryingdick]

6 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

and if he gets a recess appointment without senate confirmation? Or an "acting" appointment?

 

Then they have a clean seat not being investigated which is a win-win.

[pattayasan]

Trump's cabinet is a 'grab bag' of 'freaks' — and that could save democracy: legal expert

 

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cabinet-freaks/

[pattayasan]

1 minute ago, Cryingdick said:

 

Then they have a clean seat not being investigated which is a win-win.

 

As AG

[Cryingdick]

Just now, pattayasan said:

 

As AG

Okay let me spell it out. He is rejected. They have a clean seat, he is confirmed they have a clean seat and an AG. My point is they get a clean up on aisle 5 in the house. If he isn't confirmed Trump will pick somebody else nothing ventured nothing gained. Now i don't really give a rat's ass either way just thinking of possible strategies. 

[pattayasan]

Just now, Cryingdick said:

Okay let me spell it out. He is rejected. They have a clean seat, he is confirmed they have a clean seat and an AG. My point is they get a clean up on aisle 5 in the house. If he isn't confirmed Trump will pick somebody else nothing ventured nothing gained. Now i don't really give a rat's ass either way just thinking of possible strategies. 

 

You do realize that there are strategies Trump can employ to appoint him without senate confirmation?

[mogandave]

3 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

You do realize that there are strategies Trump can employ to appoint him without senate confirmation?

You mean linke Clinton ans Obama used?

[Cryingdick]

5 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

You do realize that there are strategies Trump can employ to appoint him without senate confirmation?

 

I don't really care about that. My point is that it was pretty handy to be able to end the investigation and clean a seat. Trump could marry and blow him I don't care. I find him dodging the investigation the interesting part not what he does afterwards.

[sqwakvfr]

9 hours ago, Hawaiian said:

Former house speaker, Kevin McCarthy, predicts the Senate will reject Gaetz.

I don't think they like each other:

 

[pattayasan]

57 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

I don't think they like each other:

 

There's a few senators who don't like Gaetz either. Here's one of them

 

Pressure is building on the House Ethics Committee to release its findings on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who President-elect Trump said he will nominate to be attorney general.

 

“Mr. Gaetz’s likely nomination as Attorney General is a perverse development in a truly dark series of events. She was a high school student and there were witnesses,” Clune said in a post on the social platform X.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4991569-gaetz-ethics-report-pressure/

[pattayasan]

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Tulsi Gabbard as U.S. intelligence chief has sent shockwaves through the national security establishment, adding to concerns that the sprawling intelligence community will become increasingly politicized.

Trump’s nomination of Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who lacks deep intelligence experience and is seen as soft on Russia and Syria, is among several high-level picks that suggest he may be prioritizing personal allegiance over competence as he assembles his second-term team.

 

A Western security source said there could be an initial slowdown in intelligence sharing when Trump takes office in January that could potentially impact the “Five Eyes,” an intelligence alliance comprising the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/spy-world-vexed-by-trump-choice-gabbard-us-intelligence-chief-2024-11-14/

 

[jerrymahoney]

Trump picks his defense lawyers for top Justice Department posts

 

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday picked three members of his criminal defense team, including lead attorney Todd Blanche, to serve in senior roles at the Justice Department.

Trump nominated Blanche, who defended him at trial this year in a criminal case over hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, to serve as deputy attorney general, the second-highest position at the Justice Department.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-picks-his-attorney-todd-blanche-deputy-attorney-general-2024-11-14/

 

*******

 

IMHO all three including Emil Bove and John Sauer are highly credible and Blanche would have easy confirmation as full AG if/when Gaetz is out of the picture.

 

Edited 6 hours ago by jerrymahoney

[Celsius]

Trump is making some really horrible picks

 

 

[Hanaguma]

Doug Burgum for Secretary of the Interior!   

[Walker88]

Perhaps this is apocryphal, but I've "heard" that when RFK, Jr takes over as Health and Human Services Secretary, they're going to carve in the marble of the Dept:

 

"When vaccines are outlawed, only outlaws will be vaccinated".

 

By the way, neither polio nor smallpox vaccines are good for life. Their efficacy wears off with time, but "immunity" relies on the vast majority of folks being vaccinated and unable to transmit the viruses.  Best to be up to date, especially since al Qaeda has long had plans to weaponize smallpox, and lots of soccer Moms have bought into RFK, Jr's conspiracy theories.

[brewsterbudgen]

11 hours ago, pattayasan said:

"The most obvious reason that Matt Gaetz should not, and cannot, become attorney general of the United States is that he is quite likely a statutory rapist," he contended. "And a proudly boastful one at that. This is not an exaggeration. Gaetz was notoriously caught bragging about his dating and having sex with girls to other Republican congressmen back in 2021 — and then showing photos of them to others on the House floor."

 

https://www.rawstory.com/attorney-general-matt-gaetz-statutory/

Underage girls too; not that that will bother Epstein's chum, Trump!

[Hawaiian]

13 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Underage girls too; not that that will bother Epstein's chum, Trump!

Even some Republicans think Gaetz is a bad choice.  The fact that he resigned to avoid an investigation is telling.  Hopefully, the Senate will reject his nomination.

[jerrymahoney]

Todd Blanche -- who Trump has said he will name Deputy AG and who literally sat next to Trump for weeks on end in the NY Courtroom of the 34 felonies -- would, if he takes the spot as of now, be answerable to AG Matt Gaetz.

OK. Edited 3 hours ago by jerrymahoney

[riclag]

3 hours ago, Celsius said:

Trump is making some really horrible picks

 

 

That’s weird!

 

[John Drake]

Appointing Tulsi was good. But making RFKjr head of HHS is even better. I am happy.

[riclag]

1 minute ago, John Drake said:

Appointing Tulsi was good. But making RFKjr head of HHS is even better. I am happy.

Spot on John ,

Look at what the dems were offering 

before!

Mayorkas, Garland and the military guy wearing a skirt 

[John Drake]

1 minute ago, riclag said:

Spot on John ,

Look at what the dems were offering 

before!

Mayorkas, Garland and the military guy wearing a skirt 

 

Things must change. That is what I want to see, and it appears to be that agents of change are being put in place. The country is in a mess, both domestically and internationally. The USA needs to get in shape, figuratively and literally. It will start with getting rid of the entrenched interests in food and pharma. Entire departments need to go. Americans are eating poison food and taking unsafe drugs. 

[riclag]

25 minutes ago, John Drake said:

 

Things must change. That is what I want to see, and it appears to be that agents of change are being put in place. The country is in a mess, both domestically and internationally. The USA needs to get in shape, figuratively and literally. It will start with getting rid of the entrenched interests in food and pharma. Entire departments need to go. Americans are eating poison food and taking unsafe drugs. 

Another

 

Things must change argument,

 

NYT Ezra Klien tells Liberals pretending 

Crime in Cities wasn’t a major issue to 

shut the … Red shift in big cities and but but its Fox News BS.

 

[Walker88]

On 11/13/2024 at 7:52 AM, Hanaguma said:

You mean the guy with 2 Bronze Stars for valour in combat? Instructor in counterinsurgency? Degrees from Princeton and Harvard? Yeah, totally unqualified....

Gee, I'm Harvard and Stanford, served in the intel community under cover, was ostensibly a diplomat, and have run businesses. Why didn't 47 call me? I was even a regular guest on CNN Business, back when I was in finance, so I've got the Talking Head chops.

 

Hegseth will be running a $900 billion entity with 2.5 million men and women in uniform and 700,000 civilian contractors. He hasn't even ever run a lemonade stand, and even in the NatGuard, he never supervised more than a few dozen people at most. Also, having been in the NatGuard doesn't mean one knows his way around the Pentagon, defense contractors, plus have some diplomatic skills.

 

What do you think he will do when the US faces its first post-Biden geopolitical crisis? Do you think he knows how to deploy the 7th Fleet? What parts of the nuclear triad he should put on notice? Is he skilled enough both in modern warfare and in the up=and-coming technology that will be at the forefront of future offensive and defensive capabilities?

 

I suspect like Gaetz, Hubbard and RFK, Jr, Hegseth will be a recess appointment, giving him 210 days or so before even the chance his confirmation comes up in the Senate.

[Walker88]

5 hours ago, pattayasan said:

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Tulsi Gabbard as U.S. intelligence chief has sent shockwaves through the national security establishment, adding to concerns that the sprawling intelligence community will become increasingly politicized.

Trump’s nomination of Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who lacks deep intelligence experience and is seen as soft on Russia and Syria, is among several high-level picks that suggest he may be prioritizing personal allegiance over competence as he assembles his second-term team.

 

A Western security source said there could be an initial slowdown in intelligence sharing when Trump takes office in January that could potentially impact the “Five Eyes,” an intelligence alliance comprising the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/spy-world-vexed-by-trump-choice-gabbard-us-intelligence-chief-2024-11-14/

 

Five Eyes will go into hibernation for 4 years. Add to those on long sabbatical, in terms of liaison cooperation, the BND in Germany, the DGSE in France, the NPA in Japan, and the NIS in South Korea. Even Mossad, burned once by 45, who mouthed off to FM Lavrov and Amb Kislyak, is going to pull back.

 

None of those foreign intel agencies trust 47, and certainly none is going to trust Tulsi Gabbard, the sole person who backed Assad in Syria after he used chemical weapons on his own people, plus someone who is against any sort of action against Putin for his invasion of Ukraine. If Gabbard takes to the skies in a C-17, I doubt the plane will even get clearance to land in any major US ally nation. Of course she would get clearance to land in Moscow.

 

The US will be markedly less secure---both from hostile nations and international terrorism---under 47. Best to stay from from coasts and major US cities for the next few years. Many planned terrorist attacks were uncovered and squelched specifically due to liaison cooperation with the US intel community. That is halted completely until at least January 2029.

 

Just in case, kiss your kids goodbye.