Trump's Cabinet of horrors exposes his totalitarian drift

[thaibeachlovers]

16 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Well if he actually says it and if he actually means it, perhaps he can start working on getting rid of the hatred and division by encouraging his followers to be more accepting of diverse opinions. The absolute opposite seems to be the case right now, there's a lot of intolerance on both sides. 

Completely irrelevant to guess about it now. The only thing that counts is results. Ask yourself in 4 years if things are better or worse.

It's obvious that most voters considered that 4 years of Biden/ Harris made their lives worse.

[Walker88]

15 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

You mean as opposed to big pharma pushing more crazy diet pills and procedures. 

 

Let's hope. 

So you're a scientist and expert of GLP-1 agonists? Do tell.

 

I seem to remember you have admitted to being fat. If your abhorrence of GLP-1 agonists is because you intend to alter your diet and hit the gym, I applaud that sentiment. Being fit and slim is a wonderful thing.

 

Personally, I've never been overweight or out of shape, but if it takes GLP-1 agonists to get other people into a state of health, that seems to be a good thing. I certainly prefer that to the anabolic steroids RFK, Jr reportedly has taken, and certainly it is preferable to the heroin he admits to having used when he chose to become addicted.

[Walker88]

12 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Completely irrelevant to guess about it now. The only thing that counts is results. Ask yourself in 4 years if things are better or worse.

It's obvious that most voters considered that 4 years of Biden/ Harris made their lives worse.

Actually, those 'most voters' are hoping for a miracle and were susceptible to the pie-in-the-sky fantasy 47 tossed them.

 

I'm still waiting for the cult to explain what exact plans and policies 47 has to lower prices and juice the economy (which has been gangbusters since he was voted out in 2020, but which requires those who wish to participate to have marketable skills and talents). I'd even be willing to listen to a 'concept of a plan'.

 

When I was earning my MBA, I do not remember my professors noting any link between mass deportations or high tariffs and economic growth/low inflation. Maybe if I had attended 47's eponymous "university".......

 

I do know Misters Smoot and Hawley tried big tariffs almost a hundred years ago, and after that the US suffered from the Great Depression and upwards of 25% UE.

 

Shall I put the famous George Santayana quote here? My guess is 47 would confuse George with Carlos Santana, and then say, "with a name like that, he must be a rapist or murderer who sneaked across Biden's open border".

[Walker88]

14 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

So did Gaetz and Gabbard not have background checks when they were in congress? 

 

Trump would be a fool to trust the FBI or anyone in the Biden administration. 

No. They did not have checks.

 

So 47 doesn't trust the man he appointed as DirFbi, Christopher Wray?

 

If you toss Wray into the same bucket as other previous "Best People", like Mattis, Kelly, Coats, Tillerson, Bolton, Esper, Pence, etc., it certainly doesn't say much about 47's assessment abilities. All of those guys became "losers" once they stopped sniffer the4 vapors of 47.

[Walker88]

13 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

So Gaetz is alleged to have has sex with two prostitutes, and all the mongers are outraged. How funny is that?

If you know of any mongers who dallied with underage females like Gaetz allegedly did, you can contact local Thailand police and report them.

[Walker88]

14 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

How about calling it the: Free America's Growth Again

Growth under Biden exceeded growth under 45, even BEFORE Covid, so you are hoping 47 can do something he failed to do as 45.

 

In the cult, fantasy springs eternal. I would have said 'hope' instead of 'fantasy', but all MAGA has is false hopes.

[Presnock]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

LOL. How many political appointments in the past knew anything about running a government department?

That is why they have permanent staff to advise the political apparatchik.

those "permanent" staff are according to the Project 2025 are targets for being fired unless they are known Trump fans.

[bubblegum]

[retayl]

6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

LOL. How many political appointments in the past knew anything about running a government department?

That is why they have permanent staff to advise the political apparatchik.

and then the boy genius appoints Musk to get rid of the permanent staff.

[mogandave]

3 hours ago, bubblegum said:

Hunter was investigated, charged and found guilty

 

Gaetz was investigated, and was not even charged, much less convicted. 

 

See the difference? 

 

 

[mogandave]

5 hours ago, Walker88 said:

Growth under Biden exceeded growth under 45, even BEFORE Covid, so you are hoping 47 can do something he failed to do as 45.

 

In the cult, fantasy springs eternal. I would have said 'hope' instead of 'fantasy', but all MAGA has is false hopes.

As far as I know, no one is claiming the rich did not get much richer under Biden. That’s why the rich elites supported him, and then Harris. 

 

They love cheap labor and cheap cr*p from China. 

 

[Yellowtail]

7 hours ago, pattayasan said:

When Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was up for confirmation or when VP Harris was added to the ticket, they called them DEI hires. They want you to believe that Harvard graduate with over 20 years of experience is not qualified but Fox personality is qualified to run the DOD

Uh, that would be a Fox personality with a bachelor's from Prinston, a master's from Harvard, 20 years of military service, three combat tours and two Bronze Stars. 

 

 

[pattayasan]

37 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Uh, that would be a Fox personality with a bachelor's from Prinston, a master's from Harvard, 20 years of military service, three combat tours and two Bronze Stars.

 

Yes, but how was SHE a DEI hire?

Edited Thursday at 08:12 AM by pattayasan

[pattayasan]

It seems Trump likes the "alpha male" type.

 

A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave, according to a detailed investigative report made public late Wednesday.

Hegseth, a Fox News personality and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be defense secretary, told police at the time that the encounter had been consensual and denied any wrongdoing, the report said.

News of the allegations surfaced last week when local officials released a brief statement confirming that a woman had accused Hegseth of sexual assault in October 2017 after he had spoken at a Republican women’s event in Monterey.

 

https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-assault-allegations-police-report-trump-e6ebec0a1a5c7fb51cb5e2198f5e12a5

[Yellowtail]

1 hour ago, pattayasan said:

 

Yes, but how was SHE a DEI hire?

I did not say she was. I was correcting you, that disparagingly called Pete Hegseth, a man with a bachelor's from Prinston, a master's from Harvard, 20 years of military service, three combat tours and two Bronze Stars, a Fox personality. 

 

 

 

[pattayasan]

1 minute ago, Yellowtail said:

I did not say she was. I was correcting you, that disparagingly called Pete Hegseth, a man with a bachelor's from Prinston, a master's from Harvard, 20 years of military service, three combat tours and two Bronze Stars, a Fox personality.

 

No mil experience past 8 years. Nobody would get any job requiring current experience after that time. Past incumbents have been from the military.

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, pattayasan said:

 

No mil experience past 8 years. Nobody would get any job requiring current experience after that time. Past incumbents have been from the military.

Where was Lloyd Austin before he was Secretary of Defense? 

[pattayasan]

1 minute ago, Yellowtail said:

Where was Lloyd Austin before he was Secretary of Defense? 

 

Austin: he 12th commander of United States Central Command

 

Hegseth: platoon commander.

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, pattayasan said:

 

Austin: he 12th commander of United States Central Command

 

Hegseth: platoon commander.

Austin was retired from the military, and had a cush spot on the board or Raytheon, that he will likely go bac to. 

 

You're such as phony

[Presnock]

2 hours ago, mogandave said:

Hunter was investigated, charged and found guilty

 

Gaetz was investigated, and was not even charged, much less convicted. 

 

See the difference? 

 

 

yeah but as soon as Trump appointed him, he quit the Congress as they were due to release their investigation that has witnesses to the charges against him  He too is a sleazeball in my opinion.  To put him in charge of the federal legal office is ridiculous and just a revenge move.  There are plenty of Trump legal folks that would do a better job in my opinion.

[spidermike007]

Using bond parlance, while his pick for defense is about a C rating, his pick for AG would be a D rating. A real junk bond level selection. True bottom of the barrel, as expected from Trump, as it is never about quality, intelligence, or capability. It is always about fealty. 

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, pattayasan said:

It seems Trump likes the "alpha male" type.

 

A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave, according to a detailed investigative report made public late Wednesday.

Hegseth, a Fox News personality and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be defense secretary, told police at the time that the encounter had been consensual and denied any wrongdoing, the report said.

News of the allegations surfaced last week when local officials released a brief statement confirming that a woman had accused Hegseth of sexual assault in October 2017 after he had spoken at a Republican women’s event in Monterey.

 

https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-assault-allegations-police-report-trump-e6ebec0a1a5c7fb51cb5e2198f5e12a5

Trump can easily relate to someone who "loves them young", as he was captured on video saying, while chatting with his buddy Epstein. 

[Yellowtail]

5 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Using bond parlance, while his pick for defense is about a C rating, his pick for AG would be a D rating. A real junk bond level selection. True bottom of the barrel, as expected from Trump, as it is never about quality, intelligence, or capability. It is always about fealty. 

So, nothing of substance, just glib regurgitation. How refreshing. 

[jerrymahoney]

BREAKING NEWS: Gaetz withdraws as Trump’s attorney general pick

OOPS didn't see topic started. Todd Blanche is eminently qualified if he wants full AG. Edited Thursday at 08:39 PM by jerrymahoney

[thaibeachlovers]

18 hours ago, Presnock said:

those "permanent" staff are according to the Project 2025 are targets for being fired unless they are known Trump fans.

You believe in Project 2025?

 

Apparently a sucker is born ever minute.

[thaibeachlovers]

10 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Trump can easily relate to someone who "loves them young", as he was captured on video saying, while chatting with his buddy Epstein. 

Still keeping on with the Trump hate posts. Yawn.

[thaibeachlovers]

10 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Using bond parlance, while his pick for defense is about a C rating, his pick for AG would be a D rating. A real junk bond level selection. True bottom of the barrel, as expected from Trump, as it is never about quality, intelligence, or capability. It is always about fealty. 

Trump really lives in your head, given by the hundreds of hate posts you have made about him.

 

You should charge him rent.

[thaibeachlovers]

10 hours ago, Presnock said:

There are plenty of Trump legal folks that would do a better job in my opinion.

But not many that would make Dem heads explode. I'll miss him. The Dem hysteria was soooooo entertaining.

[thaibeachlovers]

14 hours ago, retayl said:

and then the boy genius appoints Musk to get rid of the permanent staff.

Government departments always have loads of dead wood that need taking out to the trash, IMO.

People that can't work for the government, especially when the hiring is DEI.

[spidermike007]

Thankfully, Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration. Though Trump prefers low end, low quality, bottom of the barrel type candidates, he set the bar even lower this time. Gaetz was beyond unqualified. See ya, Matt. You won't be missed.