Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)
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ZenMode
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Good.
CFordUNC
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Throw away the key, and nuke it for good measure.
MOUNTAINH33L
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Best news I've heard all day.
lawtig02
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So naive, Senator. The Senate will never lay eyes on Mr. Gaetz.
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How exactly does one build support for the confirmation? What argument can possibly be advanced that this guy is not the worst choice imaginable?
I'm guessing this is more of a threatening session than consensus seeking.
lawtig02
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I think Trump's almost hoping a few Pub senators will balk. That will make it even easier for him to pivot to the recess approach.
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Et tu NY Post?
“… Gabbard backed the Iran deal, and said the Soleimani killing undermined our national security.
She’s been sympathetic to dictators in Syria and Russia, instead blaming the victims of violence like Ukraine and Israel.
She’s speaking softly and carrying no stick.
There’s a real fear that Gabbard won’t provide Trump with the intelligence he needs, but rather downplay threats with the intention of isolationism.
Trump has shown that he can balance the demands of a threatening world while working to avoid dragging America into another unnecessary war.
He can only do that if he’s given frank assessments by a dispassionate intelligence officer.
Tulsi Gabbard is not that person.
Gaetz must go
But even worse is Matt Gaetz, Trump’s nominee for attorney general.After years of Russia, Russia, Russia, no one has more reason to dislike the Department of Justice than Trump.
We can understand him wanting to throw a hand grenade into a system that investigated parents at school board meetings but turned a blind eye to migrant gangs.
But we don’t want him to be blown up by his own grenade.
Gaetz may provide the disruption, but he has neither the ethics nor the discipline to rebuild a proper system that will pursue fair prosecutions.
The congressman may have convinced Trump that he is the subject of “lawfare,” but it’s obvious all he wants is an escape hatch.
And Gaetz’s own run-in with the law diminishes how the Dems relentlessly hounded Trump.
He resigned from Congress before the release of an ethics report that reportedly accuses him of having sex with underage girls at drug-fueled parties.
His own colleagues say he’s a sleaze.
Neither Gabbard nor Gaetz are singular figures for what Trump wants to accomplish.
There are plenty of people who can cast a jaundiced eye at our intelligence services and purge the Department of Justice of bias — and do so without a bus full of baggage.
Both represent a bigger problem than their own faults reflect. …”
Please, Mr. President, ditch this dreadful duo — Gabbard and Gaetz
In January 2017, just a short week after taking office for the first time, President Trump had already issued 19 executive actions, and this paper dubbed him DON NONSTOP.
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If Trump is playing any 3D chess here, it's not for this reason. It's because the Gabbard and Gaetz selections are sucking up the oxygen that would otherwise go toward the appointment of a talk show host to lead the military.
And I suspect that latter one is Trump's most cherished. Trump realizes that the military is the main obstacle to his total power.
But a more likely explanation is that Trump wants Gaetz as attorney general.
lawtig02
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I think it's all of the above. Trump has zero intention of backing off any of these nominations. He's choosing the sycophants he wants in those roles. And if he has to formally neuter the Senate his own party controls to do it, all the better.
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Ohhh boy
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It is good. It’s also a great example of how quickly the wheels of Justice are capable of moving when the defendant isn’t allowed to delay trial for several years.
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Apparently his defense requested a bench trial to avoid the new DA coming in who likely would have made it a death penalty case. Also felt that their defense was on having some evidence suppressed (which wasn't), but that they will argue against that on appeal so better to get on to the appeal phase.
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This will certainly impact my coworkers.What can UNC expect given RFK's antipathy toward NIH ?
Currently UNC receives 522 million/yr in NIH funding...
UNC School of Medicine Ranks 6th in NIH Funding for Public Universities | Newsroom
All six basic science departments rank in the top 10 in National Institutes of Health funding for federal fiscal year 2023, including the Department of Genetics, which is ranked 1st among public schools. Eleven clinical departments rank in the top 30.news.unchealthcare.org
What Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said about the NIH
Trump’s pick for health and human services secretary aims to disrupt the National Institutes of Health, the country’s top funder of academic research. Doctors and public health officials have condemned the choice.www.insidehighered.com
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Two sources close to President-elect Donald Trump said they were optimistic after being briefed on today’s meetings with Vice President-elect JD Vance, Matt Gaetz and key republican senators.
“Matt is a polarizing person, but he’s very good one-on-one,” one source said, adding that there was a belief among those in support of Gaetz that getting him to sit down with senators and make his case would showcase how he has the right person for the job.
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This is a chance for Democrats.
Hegseth Wants a Christian Nationalist 'Insurgency'
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary, said on a podcast this week that he supported a system of "classical Christian schools" to provide the recruits for "an underground army" that will eventuallypoliticalwire.com
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Defense Secretary, said on a podcast this week that he supported a system of “classical Christian schools” to provide the recruits for “an underground army” that will eventually launch an “educational insurgency” to take over the United States.
"..."I think we need to be thinking in terms of these classical Christian schools are boot camps for winning back America," said Sumpter.
"That's what the crop of these classical Christian schools are gonna do in a generation," Hegseth agreed. "Policy answers like school choice, while they're great, that's phase two stuff later on once the foothold has been taken, once the recruits have graduated boot camp."
"We call it a tactical retreat," Hegseth continued. "We draw out in the last part of the book what an educational insurgency would look like, because I was a counterinsurgency instructor in Afghanistan and kind of the phases that Mao [Zedong] wrote about. We're in middle phase one right now, which is effectively a tactical retreat where you regroup, consolidate, and reorganize. And as you do so, you build your army underground with the opportunity later on of taking offensive operations in an overt way."
"Obviously, all of this is metaphorical and all that good stuff," Hesgeth claimed, which promoted both hosts and himself to burst out laughing. ..."
This guy wants to brainwash your kids. He wants to tell your kids what kind of Christian they can be. He wants teachers to tell you what kind of Christian they can be. They are trying to dictate how you raise your kids. Etc.