Trump47 Cabinet Picks & First 100 Days Agenda

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Mulberry Heel said:
And when it all implodes they'll

LOL. I'll believe that four GOP Senators have enough spine to challenge the whims of Dear Leader when (if) it actually happens. My guess is they'll rationalize supporting him and these other loons somehow, much as Lindsey Graham did a couple of days ago. Although it would be funny if Gaetz didn't get confirmed and couldn't return to his House seat. Of course Trump will probably just appoint him as a permanent "temporary" acting AG and let it go at that.
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I tend to agree. But they need to pay attention to the devil in the details of the recess appointment scheme. If Trump calls a recess because the Speaker and Senate leader plot to “disagree” about the Congressional recess and Trump uses Article II power to force a recess, then it’s Trump who will get to decide when to call them back into session (at least during this session/year). That is a tempting power to put in the hands of a day one dictator.
 


“… Even some Senate Republicans expressed doubts.

“He’s got his work cut out for him,” Senator Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican who was believed to have been on Mr. Trump’s short list for the defense secretary job, said of Mr. Hegseth on Wednesday.

[Ernst won’t buck Trump]

… Senator Todd Young, Republican of Indiana, said he was excited about many of Mr. Trump’s nominees. But when it came to Mr. Hegseth, he said, “I don’t know much about his background or vision.”

[So that’s a yes]

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During a recent podcast interview, Mr. Hegseth said that Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the senior military adviser to the president, should be fired for being too “woke.” He has also said that “we should not have women in combat roles.”

Mr. Hegseth, one senior Pentagon official said on Thursday, has instead sought to project the image of the Jack Nicholson character in the film “A Few Good Men,” who dramatically proclaims: “You want me on that wall.” …”

Jack Nicholson You Cant Handle The Truth GIF
 
nycfan said:

Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks​



“… Trump and his allies believe the FBI system is slow and plagued with issues that could stymie the president-elect’s plan to quickly begin the work of implementing his agenda, people briefed on the plans said. Critics say the intrusive background checks sometimes turn up embarrassing information used to inflict political damage.

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Ultimately, the president has the final authority on who he nominates and decides to share intelligence with, regardless of the established protocol set in the wake of World War II to make sure those selections don’t have unknown foreign ties or other issues that could raise national security concerns.

But circumventing background checks would be bucking a long-established norm in Washington. It also reflects Trump’s deep mistrust of the national security establishment, which he derides as the Deep State. Sources say he has privately questioned the need for law enforcement background checks.

Dan Meyer, a national security attorney in Washington, DC, said the incoming Trump administration “doesn’t want harmony.” They “don’t want the FBI to coordinate a norm; they want to hammer the norm,” he said. …”
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Trump is ignoring some long-established but ultimately unwritten norm? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
 
At this point, Education Sec. has to be Ryan Walters or Michelle Morrow.

Why else is Walters trying to buy Trump Bibles for OK classrooms?
 
rodoheel said:
I know some of that hysteria is genuine fear and anxiety, and that’s part of my point: there is no point in us putting ourselves through it more than we have to. It will be bad enough if and when bad stuff happens. The time we spend worrying before it happens is just unnecessary pain and stress.

This is very much a do what I say, not what I do thing. I’m just as bad about this. But both for our own sakes and the sake of not burning out others with dire warnings about disaster that may or may not happen, I think we should try to chill over the next couple months.
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In the real life conversations I’ve had since the election, I’ve presented my concerns as a range of possibilities between “not ideal, but not that far outside the norm for Republican admins” to “a monumental mistake that may take decades to repair.” I think the incessant doomsaying, understandable as I think it is from a worst case perspective and based in legitimate fear arising from a solid understanding of how government, economics, medicine, criminal justice, etc work, adds to the sense of detachment associated with “educated elites” when that worst case scenario doesn’t materialize. It also hastens the erosion of trust in the traditional (educated/professional) media, science, and other institutions.
 
HeelingAg said:
The presidency will humble him. You just wait.
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The good news also is Being Sec of DOD, DHHS, or AG will also humble you -as you basically need at Least a year to understand what the hell they do if you are an outsider
 

Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social)

Awful: Senate investigations into Trump's solicitation of $1 billion from Big Oil and Jared Kushner's financial dealings with Saudis will now hit a wall with GOP control, Dems tell me. We're headed for unchecked elite corruption under Trump. New piece from me...
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Article link since the Bluesky embed is a little different than X:

newrepublic.com

Trump’s New Oligarchy Is About to Unleash Unimaginable Corruption

The elevation of Elon Musk to a key role suggests that right-wing elites are set to embark on a spree of sordid self-dealing.
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20-30 years ago when I was doing a phase of reading about diseases and medicine, I ran across the statement several times about how much better off we would have been if vaccine development had outrun that of antibiotics. If antibiotics had been used to treat infections and vaccines to ward off disease, we'd have better results with both and a lot fewer antibiotic resistant germs, in their opinion.
 
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