I mean compared to Tulsi, Nikki might as well been a blue haired woke anti-Trump activist... Relatively speaking of course. I had no doubt Tulsi would be part of this administration. She has bootlicked too much to not get a position. As much as I think Nikki is fake, she has more of a spine relative to Tulsi in calling Trump out.
What if we filled all government positions with the top 1000 rated pornstars on pornhub? Imagine all the pawgs in the administration.
Rubio for Secretary of State https://nypost.com/2024/11/13/us-news/trump-officially-taps-marco-rubio-to-be-secretary-of-state/
Tulsi, Gaetz, Elon, Vivek, Noem most based administration in history, this is amazing Trump picking people who have been harassed by DoJ/intel agencies (Gabbard/Gaetz) is smart
His service looks legit to me, at least. Anyone who was mobilized in Bush's War on Terror and served deserves credit. Walz and Vance fit this criteria. Hegeth serve more tours than either combined. That doesn't mean he's qualified for the post, but it's a civilian post for a reason. It doesn't matter whether he's qualified or not. Only matters if the Senate will confirm him.
So a lot of these appointments may get an eye roll at worst from me - they may or may not be qualified, but they shouldn't do a lot of harm. This one though .... this one is very concerning to me... this one could do real harm potentially. I guess we will find out.
Ya he was a infantry platoon commander in Bagdad post invasion. So I'm sure he commanded in some small scale skirmishes here and there. His Bronze stars don't have "valor" devices on them so that means he didn't get them because of some combat heroics. But ya he was the real thing. Doesn't make him an expert on military defense. Anyways you are right that these positions are designed to be held by civilians anyways. There is this habit of awarding almost every officer in a battalion from platoon commander to battalion commander with some type of award like a bronze star for merely doing their basic duties as commander after returning from deployment. A lot of battalion formations for awarding bronze stars to a bunch of First Seargents and company commanders after our deployment. Lower enlisted get frustrated because we are like "this dude is getting a bronze star for existing".
Politics aside - really? I guess he is loyal - I just hope now that he is married that he doesn't traffic of **** minors anymore.
Trump said he'd install only loyalists to his cabinet, so these picks aren't much of a surprise. Hard to find serious people among his loyalists.
www.politico.com /news/2024/11/13/trump-cabinet-picks-appointments-matt-gaetz-00189395 Trump’s Cabinet picks were looking relatively normal. Then came Matt Gaetz. - POLITICO For days, some Trump allies had hailed his lengthy list of appointees so early in the transition process as indicative of the legwork that transition chairs Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon put into vetting candidates and readying his second administration, as well as the disciplined operation Wiles was running. “To me what I see is decisiveness. They’re moving quickly. I think they’re not really struggling to find talent. They’ve got a deep bench here and a lot of people who want to serve and are excited to serve. I like the decisiveness of it,” said Scott Jennings, a GOP strategist and former aide to President George W. Bush. “It signals to me they’re going to hit the ground running.” “You ought to be looking forward to a pretty hopping winter,” he added. But there were also signs that Trump is less concerned with qualifications for his new Cabinet posts than with finding roles for allies who have been loyal to him — the one thread that ties together all of Trump’s appointments from his first week as president-elect. “President Trump is picking his most competent loyalists first — as he should,” Mike Davis, a former GOP Senate aide and prominent conservative lawyer who had been floated as a possible attorney general, told POLITICO on Tuesday. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s selection as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security raised eyebrows after she was dismissed early on in Trump’s search for a running mate, and has not been viewed as one of the party’s leading thinkers on immigration policy. Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, Trump’s new Environmental Protection Agency administrator who is widely respected by Republicans across the party’s spectrum, but has no specific background in environmental issues — even from a deregulatory perspective. Multiple officials from Trump’s first administration had expected an announcement later — likely in December, when Trump made his EPA pick the last go-around — and Zeldin’s name was not in the mix. While Hegseth has experience in the military, with three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, the former executive director for Vets for Freedom and former CEO of Concerned Veterans for America has no defense policy experience and was picked as Defense secretary, alarming national security officials and defense analysts. “I would say that the No. 1 way to make our government more efficient is to choose leaders in the agencies that know how to run large organizations, and can do that as a priority,” said Max Stier, president and CEO of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, which tracks presidential transitions. “And so far, the people they are choosing do not have that experience. It is a very different proposition to be in the news business, as opposed to running a multi-trillion dollar, many million-person organization — to take the most obvious example.” Trump has already outpaced his own record from 2016, when a flurry of November Cabinet appointments put him far ahead of other recent presidential transitions. President Joe Biden didn’t make his first Cabinet-level appointment announcements — Alejandro Mayorkas and Antony Blinken as secretaries of Homeland Security and State, respectively — until Thanksgiving week in 2020. But it’s left some, like Stier, worried that Trump is sacrificing speed for quality. “They are fast and furious right now with naming names,” Stier added. “Now, the question will be, do they appreciate how important the process is? Not only the back end, in terms of confirmation, but on the front end, in terms of the kind of vetting that ought to occur before you nominate folks.” “They’re picking people quickly. That could be efficient but not effective,” he added. Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for the transition, said this week that Trump’s picks reflect his “America First” agenda. “The American people re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail,” Leavitt said. “President Trump will continue to appoint highly-qualified men and women who have the talent, experience, and necessary skill sets to Make America Great Again.” As for the bolded, it's the poison to choose from a group of Know Nothing loyalists or that group of "Project 2025ers" who are considered "Experienced Insiders" but also hardcore ideologues less beholden to Trump...
Hegseth spoke at the 2018 Arutz Sheva conference in Jerusalem, where he stated "there's no reason why the miracle of the re-establishment of the Temple on the Temple Mount is not possible." Speaking at the National Council of Young Israel gala in New York City the same year, he said “Zionism and Americanism are the front lines of Western civilization and freedom in our world today.” Well - politics aside, I wonder what all those Palestinians in Michigan that decided to not vote think about this.
