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Trump cabinet choices and other appointments

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

  1. Nook

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    It’s so funny to me - the effort to find ANYTHING at all, as if it discredits the mountain of evidence that he is a piece of ****. If the rape allegations and drinking problems are not enough - his own mother said he is a bad person.
     
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    I don't have Netflix right now, as I've lost interest in television, but I have a space and science loving relative that would gladly let me watch it at his place. (You guys would love one another.) It might take me a few weeks or more to arrange it but I'll watch it at some point.

    I would have never guessed where your profile pic came from but I like it. I hope you used a good DSLR to capture it as it looks very cool and would probably look nice printed large.
     
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    It's the 2A stuff about Bondi huh? Not that she took donations from Trump and then refused to sign on to the Trump University lawsuit. Typical.
     
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    Yo imagine your own mother saying you serially abuse women. Like I wouldn't know what to do. Id just collapse in shame if my mom said that to me. Wouldn't be able to go outside and face anyone I know. Because if my own mom thinks that of me what does anyone that isn't my mom thinks of me? Literally every person I know I walk across would believe I'm constantly abusing women. How can you interact with society with that in the back of your mind? That's just too much shame for me to handle. Hegseth apparently can tolerate a boat loads of shame.
     
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  5. Os Trigonum

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    Trump nominates financial software giant’s CEO to lead Social Security Administration

    https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ank-bisignano-social-security-administration/

    excerpt:

    President-elect Trump tapped financial software giant CEO Frank Bisignano late Wednesday to lead the Social Security Administration (SSA) in his second administration.

    “Frank is a business leader, with a tremendous track record of transforming large corporations,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “He will be responsible to deliver on the Agency’s commitment to the American People for generations to come!”
    more at the link
     
  6. Reeko

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    I do find it funny how Trump is the one who will “drain the swamp” and target the elites yet keeps appointing billionaires and business CEOs…I’m sure they’ll be looking out for the common man

    make the lemmings fight over trans people and illegal immigrants (the same ones these businesses hire and rely on en masse) so they don’t wonder why people were suffering during Covid yet businesses were making record profits…so they don’t focus on the rampant and blatant price gouging on everything from groceries, gas, to medicine…so they don’t focus on the corporations buying up a bunch of homes fcking up the housing market among a host of other things that actually affect people’s day to day lives
     
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    This one bought and paid for the position. He is also another Elon bestie. Musk is appointing many of these people. He is hilarious

     
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    as reported b by bloomberg

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    Senate Republican Joni Ernst, a combat veteran and rape survivor influential with GOP colleagues on military matters, pointedly declined
    to support Pete Hegseth’s embattled defense secretary nomination, calling for further investigation of allegations against him.

    Her comments, a day after a private meeting with Hegseth, show Trump’s choice of the cable television host to be in deep trouble. More allegations of sexual misconduct,
    alcohol abuse and mismanagement of two veterans organizations are surfacing regarding Hegseth. The rising storm of criticism makes it more likely
    he will be the third Trump pick to drop out in what’s been a tumultuous series of nominations.​
     
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  10. Nook

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    It’s pretty bad when you **** up your cabinet picks and appointments - especially when you have control of all the branches of government.

    How hard is it to not pick people that are associated with human trafficking and raping high schoolers…. Avoid people that are accused of raping a woman while her husband and son are in the same hotel … and avoid pointing your family.
     
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    Biden's daughter basically said he was a child molester. No grown man needs to be in the shower with his daughter. You ignore that though
     
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    This was always the playbook. Gin up fear and anger over immigrants and trans people. Push memes, misinformation and false promises.

    That Trump would appoint billionaires who will be able to oversee regulatory agencies over their industries was obvious. That he would appoint people who have all sorts of ethical conflicts was obvious given his own record and who he surrounded himself with.

    This is though where are country is at. More people care about memes than they do actual record or principles.
     
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    No she actually didn't.
     
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    maybe she . . . "insinuated" it

    :D

    just a joke
     
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    https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/12/trumps-strong-start/


    Trump’s Strong Start
    There’s no headwind this time.

    By RICH LOWRY
    December 6, 2024 6:30 AM

    It’s not 2016 again.

    President-elect Donald Trump is off to a strong start with markedly fewer obstructions than the last time he won.

    In football terms, he has a lot of green space ahead of him. In nautical terms, it’s plain sailing. In political terms, it might not be a honeymoon, but no one is throwing any furniture, either.

    Naturally, there are all sorts of potential pitfalls. Some of Trump’s more controversial cabinet picks could, if confirmed, blow up once they are in place (does anyone believe that RFK Jr.’s tenure at HHS would be smooth and uneventful?). Republicans only have two votes to spare in the House. Events will take a hand, and so will Trump’s mercurial nature.

    We are in a much different place than eight years ago, though. When Trump won in 2016, the shock to the system was so great that the body politic reacted strongly and reflexively. Trump was treated as a virus, and every antibody attacked him, from activists in the street to the director of the FBI.

    This time, the reaction is much more muted. Despite all the fevered warnings of an existential threat to democracy, when former top Kamala Harris advisers did an election postmortem on the podcast Pod Save America, they talked about how they could do better next time — in other words, there will be a next time.

    Despite the insistence of his enemies that Trump can’t be “normalized,” he’s been an inescapable fixture of American politics for about a decade now, with at least another four years ahead (he could well continue to dominate the Republican Party even after his second term ends).

    Like it or not, Trump is mainstream. He shows up at those most American events — football games and MMA fights — and gets applause. He eats McDonald’s. He himself is part of the pop culture.

    This time, unlike in 2016, there were no protests after he won the election, or any effort to get so-called faithless electors to keep him from assuming office.

    There is no cloud of illegitimacy over his victory. He won more convincingly than in 2016, carrying the popular vote and denying his opponents the opportunity to say he only won via the technicality and anachronism of the Electoral College.

    There has been no widely believed conspiracy theory — spun out of vaporous nonsense and hysteria — that his victory was the result of collusion with a hostile foreign power.

    Relatedly, this time Trump doesn’t have a bogus investigation hanging over his head. The Russiagate probe blighted the initial years of his first term. Now, the legal decks are clearing. Whereas special counsel Robert Mueller was about to enter the stage after Trump won in 2016, special counsel Jack Smith is exiting it. As Trump heads into the White House a second time, he is going to be less legally encumbered than he’s been in years.

    In 2016, Trump got elected despite a catastrophic unfavorable rating in the polling. This time, he was closer to a break-even favorable/unfavorable rating in some pre-election surveys, and he’s ticked upward since. In a recent CBS poll, 59 percent of people said they approve of his transition. If in 2016 it felt like Trump faced a stiff headwind at the outset, this time he has the wind — or at least a pleasant breeze — at his back.

    Trump is already looming much larger than the incumbent president, who, with the exception of the pardon of his son, has nearly disappeared. When Biden shuffles into retirement, he won’t, like Hillary Clinton, be complaining that Trump stole the election from him. If Biden is going to be bitter about anything, it will be about the machinations that denied him a Democratic nomination that he had already won.

    None of this means that Trump is guaranteed success in the crucial first two years of his presidency. But the conditions favor him in a way they decidedly didn’t eight years ago.​



     
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    That can't be it. You basically have to be a child molester at this point to feel the need to remove yourself as a Trump appointee.

    Edit: Nevermind, I didn't see that this is dumb Covid backlash and Trump basically pulled his nomination. It kind of shows how little thought has gone into these picks.
     
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    Well, looking at the facts of the case, the diary, the words, and her response and support for her father, it is worth taking that into account.
     

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