Trump47 Cabinet Picks & First 100 Days Agenda

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HesNotHere97 said:
LOL... you be you.
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It's not my fault you decided to show up and humiliate yourself more quickly than any other poster in the history of the board. I mean, you literally asked the poster a question -- a "serious question" -- that had already been answered twice. My 10 year old can understand what he was saying. Why can't you?
 
Ramrouser said:
What these confirmation hearings are demonstrating is that:

1. The overwhelming majority of Trump's selections - Burgum, Bessent, Zeldon, Rubio, Ratcliffe, Duffy, Bondi, etc. - are unquestionably competent selections that could have been made by any Republican President elect. Yet, many can't help but view them through the lens of Orangemanbad.

2. The only "outside-the-box" picks are Hegseth, RFKJr, Gabbard and Patel.
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I am 1000% on board with the culture change trump and Hegseth want to bring to the military. He has the intelligence to do the job, however he lacks the wisdom and experience necessary to deal with the business side of the job. He understands the problems that have plagued the business side but he likely has no clue how to fix it and is going to be totally dependent on others. That isn't a good thing. I also think he will gravitate to spending so much time on the cultural part that the other things get neglected. We really can't afford that given the issues with modernization that need to be corrected.
 
Callatoroy said:
I am 1000% on board with the culture change trump and Hegseth want to bring to the military. He has the intelligence to do the job, however he lacks the wisdom and experience necessary to deal with the business side of the job. He understands the problems that have plagued the business side but he likely has no clue how to fix it and is going to be totally dependent on others. That isn't a good thing. I also think he will gravitate to spending so much time on the cultural part that the other things get neglected. We really can't afford that given the issues with modernization that need to be corrected.
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Fair points of concern. I agree with your earlier statement (I think it was you) that Hegseth, after a year or so on the job, may be viewed as a spectacular success or failure. - he’s that much of a wildcard. This pick could work out really well or really not so well.
 
Ramrouser - I come in peace, lol.
We currently have the most powerful fighting force in the history of the world.
Do you think it is wise to hand it over to someone who is a “wild card?”
There are plenty of competent people who could do the job.
It’s like JP Morgan hiring a (former) accounts payable director from Fifth Third Bank to be its new CEO (imo).
 
Ramrouser said:
Fair points of concern. I agree with your earlier statement (I think it was you) that Hegseth, after a year or so on the job, may be viewed as a spectacular success or failure. - he’s that much of a wildcard. This pick could work out really well or really not so well.
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I'm genuinely curious which of Trump's previous appointments would you consider a "spectacular success"?
 
Ramrouser said:
What these confirmation hearings are demonstrating is that:

1. The overwhelming majority of Trump's selections - Burgum, Bessent, Zeldon, Rubio, Ratcliffe, Duffy, Bondi, etc. - are unquestionably competent selections that could have been made by any Republican President elect. Yet, many can't help but view them through the lens of Orangemanbad.

2. The only "outside-the-box" picks are Hegseth, RFKJr, Gabbard and Patel.
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Which, other than Zeldon, circles us back to initial responses in this thread to his nominations. Don’t forget who Bondi replaced.
 
superrific said:
The accounts payable director would have more relevant experience.

It's like Bubba replacing Hubert with a player he plucked off the JV team.
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I don’t disagree but I was trying to be as judicious as possible while still making my point. My original post said “manager” but I gave him a promotion in a subsequent edit.
 
Gary Cohn was a good pick. Gold star for the first person who remembers why he resigned (hint: it starts with “t” and ends with “ariffs”).

I didn’t have an issue with most of Trump’s first cabinet. You know who absolutely detested them? Trump (after about a year).
 
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Ramrouser said:
What these confirmation hearings are demonstrating is that:

1. The overwhelming majority of Trump's selections - Burgum, Bessent, Zeldon, Rubio, Ratcliffe, Duffy, Bondi, etc. - are unquestionably competent selections that could have been made by any Republican President elect. Yet, many can't help but view them through the lens of Orangemanbad.

2. The only "outside-the-box" picks are Hegseth, RFKJr, Gabbard and Patel.
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Also Gaetz.

I’d argue there are 6 positions that shouldn’t be fucked around with. Justice, DOD, State, CIA, FBI and DNI. Maybe throw in Homeland Security. He nominated complete clowns for 4 of those positions. Ratcliffe is a step above clown status, but still woefully unqualified to run the CIA.
 
Consider that most of Trump's Cabinet picks became increasingly unfit and unqualified during his first term and now have made another substantial lurch in that direction heading into Trump 2.0. The current nominations are the high water mark for Trump's second term.

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Callatoroy said:
I am 1000% on board with the culture change trump and Hegseth want to bring to the military. He has the intelligence to do the job, however he lacks the wisdom and experience necessary to deal with the business side of the job. He understands the problems that have plagued the business side but he likely has no clue how to fix it and is going to be totally dependent on others. That isn't a good thing. I also think he will gravitate to spending so much time on the cultural part that the other things get neglected. We really can't afford that given the issues with modernization that need to be corrected.
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Glad to hear you appreciate some of the concerns about Hegseth.

I'd be interested to know, though - what makes you think our military needs a "culture change" and what specific changes do you want Trump and Hegseth can bring? (Leaving aside whether Hegseth can actually successfully implement culture change, which I seriously doubt.)
 
Ramrouser said:
Fair points of concern. I agree with your earlier statement (I think it was you) that Hegseth, after a year or so on the job, may be viewed as a spectacular success or failure. - he’s that much of a wildcard. This pick could work out really well or really not so well.
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Seems like a massive risk we have absolutely no reason to take. You want to put the most powerful military in the history of the world in the hands of a "wild card" who might be a spectacular failure?
 
rodoheel said:
Glad to hear you appreciate some of the concerns about Hegseth.

I'd be interested to know, though - what makes you think our military needs a "culture change" and what specific changes do you want Trump and Hegseth can bring? (Leaving aside whether Hegseth can actually successfully implement culture change, which I seriously doubt.)
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DEI

The leaders of the most powerful military in the history of the world don’t agree that DEI is destroying the military, but right-wing talking heads with zero experience in or knowledge of the inner-workings of military said it is, so you do you think MAGA is going to trust?
 
Ramrouser said:
Fair points of concern. I agree with your earlier statement (I think it was you) that Hegseth, after a year or so on the job, may be viewed as a spectacular success or failure. - he’s that much of a wildcard. This pick could work out really well or really not so well.
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I mean, if you were looking to hire an associate, and you got an application from a woman with seven children from three different fathers and a history of fiscal mismanagement and alcohol abuse, would you even let her in the door?
 
nycfan said:
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"...In an exchange with Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Oregon on President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed trade policies, Scott Bessent, Trump’s pick to helm the Treasury Department, pointed to the glut of cheap Chinese good flooding the world as an argument for hefty tariffs.

... “Clearly, what has happened is trade has not been fair and that has fallen on the American worker, and we cannot allow that,” Bessent told the Senate Finance Committee as part of his confirmation hearing for the top Treasury post.

“China is the most unbalanced economy in the history of the world. They are in a severe recession-slash-depression. ... They are attempting to export their way out of that,” he added. Bessent said, “We cannot allow a player like this flood our markets.”

For context: China’s economy has indeed slowed in recent years as consumers cut their spending and prices fell, key markers of a recession. But its economy has not technically contracted just yet. The Chinese economy expanded at an annual rate of 4.6% in the third quarter, according to the country’s statistics agency. ... Still, some economists have cast doubt on the accuracy of China’s official economic figures, largely due to local officials falsifying data, which the government has taken steps to address. Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke has also pointed to the lack of transparency of China’s statistics agency."
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Of course he's right that China is flooding the world with cheap exports, in the USA especially via crap merch from Temu and Shein, etc. I suspect there will be a lot of early tariff targeting at the de minimis exception and cheap consumer goods.
 
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