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Trump cabinet choices and other appointments

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Os Trigonum, Nov 12, 2024.

  1. durvasa

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    You "dipshit morons" really think that Hamas is "good for Palestinians".

    You are the reason this has gotten so much worse.

    Trump will be good for "Palestinians", because he will help eradicate Hamas.
     
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    Your spelling.
     
  4. Agent94

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    Wow, this is dumb as ****. It's the fulfillment of a right-wingers unhinged fantasy about how government works.
     
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    https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/poli...ckel-ideas-trump-presidency-coates-lcl-digvid

    So this is about having Democrats in congress "shadow" republican executive branch positions. Let say the actual AG does something they disagree with the "shadow" AG will speak out with their message. It's not really a shadow government. Again the Democrats are terrible at messaging.
     
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    Inside scoop. And also hearing "we are getting shots today" as the kid with coke bottle glasses folded their arms in anger.

    Our pediatrician told us her unvaxxed patients typically don't come back as often. She explicitly said "well, I can't recommend or not recommend vaccines, but I do notice my patients who "don't follow the schedule" tend to be in better shape". You do know there are stats behind this right @Agent94?

    It's so funny that yall think they were telling us the patient names. Doctors are allowed to speak in general terms you know, and this doctor being known to allow patients not to follow the schedule (there is a national list of this with doctor's by state I thankfully was given), they tend to have mostly patients that go there for that reason. It is California after all. Hard to find these doctors.
     
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    Good.

     
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    What are the stats? That would be interesting to look at.
     
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    It was a joke over your head! Haha!
     
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    Associations, comments, positions...sure, don't lump him in.

    But it's pretty obvious this is a man who believes white christians should rule America.
     
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    Well, the crosses inside the Big Cross are not exactly Jerusalem Crosses.

    Have at it, I do not mind, I remain suspicious, dude does not look like a decent man.

    Maybe give him some time to prove himself, which I would not be against either.

    [​IMG][​IMG]

     
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    Not to throw this off subject but, there are about 350 employees on the campus where I work.
    We were scheduling Influenza, adult pneumonia, and a covid booster clinic.
    they had to cancel the Covid booster clinic because less than 25 people signed up for the booster.
    25 was the minimum for the pharmacy to come on campus.
     
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    I do not think anyone in the public eye for politics would be so thick as to have that.
    But I might be wrong.

    Anyway................
    As Zac De La Rocha would say,

    Some of those that work forces
    Are the same that burn crosses
    Some of those that work forces
    Are the same that burn crosses
    Some of those that work forces
    Are the same that burn crosses
    Some of those that work forces
    Are the same that burn crosses
     
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    I can pretty much guarantee that the military (national Guard I guess)
    will be turned against our fellow Americans


    Rocket River
     
  19. Os Trigonum

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    more like the Coast Guard
     
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    Trump Cabinet pick Matt Gaetz seriously threatens democracy. Other picks don’t. | Vox


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    Some of his Cabinet appointments, like Sen. Marco Rubio for secretary of state or former Rep. Lee Zeldin for Environmental Protection Agency administrator, are basically what you’d expect from Republicans. You might disagree with their policies, but you can’t seriously argue they represent threats to the rule of law or democratic norms.

    Others, like former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, are troublingly unqualified and even outright dangerous — but not an immediate five-alarm fire for American democracy specifically.

    Yet at the same time, there is already clear and undeniable cause for alarm.

    Around the world, there are certain steps a leader takes if they want to destroy a country’s democracy, like putting loyalists in charge of law enforcement and politicizing the armed forces. Many of Trump’s early decisions fit this pattern to a T.

    The biggest red flag is the choice of arch-loyalist Matt Gaetz as attorney general. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is arguably the single most powerful domestic policy agency, running everything from the FBI to federal criminal prosecutors to civil rights litigation. Gaetz has few, if any, qualifications to manage all of this — except for his vendetta against the department, as it once investigated him on suspicion of sex crimes. (Gaetz denies the allegations and the DOJ dropped its investigation into them in 2023.) His pitch for the job, one Trump insider told the Bulwark, was to “go over there and start cuttin’ ****in’ heads.”

    Trump’s plans for the military are similarly ominous. Two teams of reporters, in the Wall Street Journal and Reuters respectively, have uncovered plans for a political purge of the brass — potentially including the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump’s proposed secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, is a Fox News commentator and MAGA diehard who called for precisely such a purge in a recent book.

    And then there’s Trump’s scheme to get his Cabinet picks in office. If the Republican Senate actually does block any of these picks, Trump has demanded the power to install them through recess appointments while the chamber is out of session. If enough senators balk, Trump reportedly has put together a complicated backup plan that boils down to the House giving him the power to go around the Senate entirely — effectively eviscerating its constitutional advice-and-consent role on appointments.

    Of course, we don’t know how much of these really bad ideas will come to pass. Trump is famous for saying things and failing to follow through. But given the enormity of the tail risk — the corrosion of American democracy — it’s critical to take what’s happening right now seriously.

    And that means being clear-eyed about the Trump agenda: both what’s not so scary about it, and what is.

    ...
     

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