Trump47 Cabinet Picks & First 100 Days Agenda | Hegseth confirmed 51-50

[JCTarheel82]

UIE hire.

And of course his name is fucking Buckley

 

[Patb78]

but but but the price of eggs...

They are $3.99 at our local Aldi. He hasn’t worked his magic on that front yet.

 

[nycfan]

 

[ChileG]

But she has a cross around her neck.

 

[BlooVooDoo]

But she has a cross around her neck.

I think that’s what women who are incapable of monogamy like to wear these days. It’s basically like an upside down pineapple.

 

[nycfan]

 

[HeelieHeelie]

Still think the nominees that will face stiffest opposition are the former Dems. Too easy for the GOP Senators to break ranks on those.

Exactly! Now that the election is over, RFK, Gabbard are no longer needed.

 

[nycfan]

Pence opposes RFK Jr on abortion grounds, but interesting that he is making a public statement like this.

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

“… A longtime anti-vaxxer with a propensity for far-fetched conspiracy theories, RFK Jr. has insinuated that an attempt to assassinate members of Congress via anthrax-laced mail in 2001 may have been a ‘false flag’ attack orchestrated by ‘someone in our government’ to gin up interest in the government preparing for potential biological weapon threats.

He has claimed that COVID was ‘targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,’ and that 5G is being used to ‘harvest our data and control our behavior.’ He has suggested that the use of antidepressants might be linked to mass shootings.

Each one of these theories is demonstrably false. The Republican Party has often found itself at war with mainstream science in recent years, but confirming RFK Jr. would be a remarkable anti-science advance. If Republican senators are willing to do so, is there any scientific belief they would place above the wishes of Donald Trump? …”

A Day for Pseudoscience in Congress

The stakes of RFK Jr.’s confirmation hearings are clear. What will senators decide?

www.theatlantic.com

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So far this Administration has been openly hostile to scientific expertise and I expect that will continue unabated regardless of what happens with the RFK nomination, but it is critical to keep this nut job out of government anyway. I find myself hoping the hard core GOP abortion opponents end up killing this nomination.

 

[nycfan]

Meanwhile, Bondi is on a glide path to approval.

 

[lawtig02]

Meanwhile, Bondi is on a glide path to approval.

She should be. Far from the person I would choose, but there's no reason I've seen not to confirm her.

 

[nycfan]

She should be. Far from the person I would choose, but there's no reason I've seen not to confirm her.

I take issue with her repeated lies about the 2020 election being stolen and active efforts to help overturn that election result, but given that this is a Trump nominee, I know that if a feature. But I acknowledge that other than that history of spreading disinformation to try to overturn a presidential election, despite my political disagreements with her, she is otherwise qualified for the post.

 

[WaynetheDrain]

Maybe they should also press him on his serial-killer like obsession with animal cruelty/torture.

 

[korgguy1971]

I think it's Trump's "Celebrity Appresident" pick. How bad does he have to be when his own siblings come out against him, like the family of Paul Gosar did? It could just be more kakistocracy 101. Elections have consequences. Well done, voters.

 

[nycfan]

Abortion rights:

 

[nycfan]

In the 2-3 minutes of the hearing I heard on way back from working out, RFK seemed to be struggling/not used to being directly questioned.

Gently Pressed in friendly questioning to define what he meant by returning to what he calls the “gold standard” he really struggled and basically claimed that the NIH currently doesn’t require that research results be replicable, which is nonsense. He then tried to claim as an example that amyloid plaques don’t cause Alzheimer’s (and NIH wasted 20 years of research on that because they didn’t require the original studies be replicated) — which is not my understanding of the current science. The drug targeting amyloid plaques didn’t work, and the results suggest a more complex relationship between the plaques and Alzheimer’s, but that is not the same thing as Kennedy’s claim that the NIH focused on the wrong thing for two decades.

He also claimed that the peer reviews of peer review studies should be published with the study, which is a weird suggestion if you’ve ever been involved in science peer reviewed articles. A lot of peer review comments impact edits (and additional research to close a gap) in the final product; they are not generally publication-ready critiques (or grandstanding, depending on your POV).

I dunno, maybe he had some great answers today, too. I only heard that small bit …

 

[4thgenheel]

 

[superrific]

Nicole Sheridan trying to act like a tough mafiosa is the most hilarious thing ever. Nobody is scared of Queen AuDig. She has no pull, and nobody gives a fuck what she has to say about anything.

 

[nycfan]

(Tillis was a friendly questioner who complained about the “shirts and skins” approach and that some people would keep asking heard questions even after you answer several correctly until you mess up)

Bernie opened up friendly but then was Bernie/Doubting Thomas