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I never heard of Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense. I went to investigate and discovered that he speaks exactly like me:

Pete Hegseth calls Putin a war criminal and says Biden has been a weak president. We should have sent Ukraine double the weapons and faster so this war would be over sooner with a victory for Ukraine.

https://x.com/AdamLowisz/status/1856513285274657046?t=CKeKX7TYlr3tIdTR1cx7bQ&s=19

This is just a small quote. The actual video is much better.

I’m very happy with Trump’s nominations so far. He’s putting people exactly where they should be. Vivek, for instance, would be horrid at foreign policy because he’s gauche and doesn’t understand it. But on cutting government waste he’d be great. He has exactly the personality for it.

25 responses to “More Great Appointments”

  1. methylethyl Avatar
    methylethyl

    Looks like Gabbard might get Director of National Intelligence?

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Disappointing. This is the first appointment that’s a miss but what are you going to do? Nobody is perfect. 😁😁😁

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    2. cliff arroyo Avatar
      cliff arroyo

      “might get Director of National Intelligence?”

      I’ve seen the idea that it will also mean she’s under constant surveillance….

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      1. methylethyl Avatar
        methylethyl

        Filing that one under “wait and see”.

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        1. cliff arroyo Avatar
          cliff arroyo

          “wait and see”

          Yeah, me too. It kind of sucks I really liked her when she derailed Harris in that one debate and in general till she (like Tucker Carlson) started sweeping for russia.

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          1. Clarissa Avatar
            Clarissa

            I liked her well enough as a Democrat. 😆😆😆 But as Republicans, we can do better.

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          2. methylethyl Avatar
            methylethyl

            I want to like her, but can’t get past the part where she was part of the weffie youth brigade.

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            1. Clarissa Avatar
              Clarissa

              What is the weffie youth brigade?

              Im feeling really behind today.

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              1. methylethyl Avatar
                methylethyl

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Global_Leaders

                It’s the World Economic Forum’s grooming program for bright young things who look like they might end up influential. Justin Trudeau, Elon Musk, Ed Miliband, David Cameron, Amal Clooney, Mark Zuckerberg, Pete Buttigieg, Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta, Chelsea Clinton, Leana Wen, Peter Thiel, Dan Crenshaw, bunch of celebrities, etc are also named as participants.

                It’s an open question whether Gabbard’s ever had any real association with them, and fwiw, they no longer list her on *their* stuff. She says no, she never had anything to do with them. It’s hard to know if that is true, or an internet-scrubbing campaign.

                https://pamho.medium.com/tulsi-gabbard-and-the-world-economic-forum-the-whole-story-4fca2e9fbf7d

                https://drdrew.com/2022/tulsi-gabbard-on-wef-young-global-leaders-the-truth-about-her-world-economic-forum-ties-ask-dr-drew/

                Do I believe that?

                (shrugs)

                I would like it to be true that she was nominated but never took them up on it. But back when she first hit the scene, there seemed to be a lot more info on the internet suggesting she had more to do with it. The search results one gets now, have a heavy whiff of search engine optimization to them.

                I certainly don’t think the WEF is above using someone’s name and photo without permission, but… that’s also dumb and arouses some suspicion, as it seems like a great way to rack up lawsuits and bad publicity.

                I don’t know. But can’t shake the bad feeling about it.

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              2. Clarissa Avatar
                Clarissa

                Thank you, I didn’t know anything about any of this. The venom spread by these organizations reaches far and wide, and it’s scary to consider that we walked into this mess without any understanding of what was actually happening.

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      2. Clarissa Avatar
        Clarissa

        That’s good, positive thinking. I like it.

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  2. Nonna Maus Avatar
    Nonna Maus

    All the talking heads are laying eggs and spluttering at these nominees;

    Random British man host Steve Hilton on Fox is happy though:

    Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence; Matt Gaetz as Attorney General;

    Reader, I saw this and cackled. Cackled.

    I think Thune is Senate Majority Leader now?

    I don’t think three Republican senators will vote against any of this so I still don’t get this desire from Trump for recess appointments. Appointing Marco Rubio as Secretary of State shows great trust on Trump’s part.

    Have a dance party for the trifecta!

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Does Gabbard need to be confirmed? I don’t know how it works.

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      1. methylethyl Avatar
        methylethyl

        Fairly certain they all have to be confirmed– anything out there is just “Been asked, and accepted the offer, pending installation of new admin”

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  3. Nonna Maus Avatar
    Nonna Maus

    They all need to be confirmed. But this isn’t going to be a problem for any of them.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      We’ll see.

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      1. Clarissa Avatar
        Clarissa

        Maybe that’s the play. Throw these losers a bone and then they don’t get confirmed and oppsie, we tried.

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      2. Clarissa Avatar
        Clarissa

        Tulsi on February 27, 2022:

        “Dear Presidents Putin, Zelensky, and Biden. It’s time to put geopolitics aside and embrace the spirit of aloha, respect and love, for the Ukrainian people by coming to an agreement that Ukraine will be a neutral country—i.e. no military alliance with NATO or Russia—thus…”

        A typical hippy-dippy clinical idjit.

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  4. Nonna Maus Avatar
    Nonna Maus
    1. I don’t think Trump is playing bait and switch or rope a dope or doing this as a dominance play. He’s too confident in the party and himself for that and the beginning of the administration is the best time to go for that. And doesn’t he have this wunderkund Chief of Staff? January 3rd is going to be a very exciting day because that’s when the new Congress is sworn in.
    2. I misspoke about the numbers. But I still don’t think a Republican-Independent combination of six senators is going to vote against any of the nominees.
    3. This assumes every Democratic senator votes against any of them, the end of a filibuster, and JV as tie breaker. Who knows, some Democratic senators might cross the aisle to vote for Gabbard or Gaetz. I could definitely see it for Rubio?

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  5. methylethyl Avatar
    methylethyl

    Do people who already have a seat in congress have to give up that seat to be in the cabinet?

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Gaetz resigned from Congress. Im starting to think that was the whole point.

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  6. methylethyl Avatar
    methylethyl

    Looks like RFKj might be the HHS pick after all?

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/14/robert-f-kennedy-jr-trump-hhs-secretary-pick-00188617

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    1. methylethyl Avatar
      methylethyl

      Official DJT Xitter:

      https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1857170020427595797

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      1. Clarissa Avatar
        Clarissa

        I think that’s good if he’s against artificial colorings in food and that kind of stuff.

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        1. methylethyl Avatar
          methylethyl

          Yeah. A lot of people are disappointed that he seems to have dropped the antivax thing as a condition of signing on with team Trump. But honestly, given the sheer amount of *money* involved in that scene, he’d have an entire industry gunning for him between now and his installation, if he were still talking about that. If that means we don’t get any action on vaccine accountability… well we’re no worse off than before. If it just means he has to zip his lip about it until he’s safely got the job (and the security that goes with the job), that’s cool too. But if we get none of that, and still maybe get rid of food dyes, and maybe (I know, fantasy, right) boot the drug industry out of the FDA… that’d still be pretty good.

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