Trump47 Cabinet Picks & First 100 Days Agenda

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Ramrouser said:
Kelly Loeffler is a great choice to head the SBA.
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Because nothing says "I will champion small business" like marrying the billionaire CEO of a huge company and then spending her whole career in that huge company. She first was hired in "investor relations" and then the CEO of a subsidiary (note: most small businesses do not have subsidiaries).

I mean, I guess she's a better choice for that than Gaetz for DOJ, but it's not actually a good choice.
 
Shocked. Is there one (or more) Trump appointment you like or at least think is competent to do the job?
 
Ramrouser said:
Shocked. Is there one (or more) Trump appointment you like or at least think is competent to do the job?
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Like?

no way whatever GIF

Some are much better than others though. Rubio is qualified. Bondi is qualified. Not a whole lot of other meat on the bone. How are you feeling about the populist, blue collar Trump having at least 14 billionaires among his appointees?
 
Ramrouser said:
Shocked. Is there one (or more) Trump appointment you like or at least think is competent to do the job?
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Honestly, I don't really know what the SBA does so I don't care. I was just responding to this notion that Loeffler is a good person for it. Typically, the SBA administrators have experience with small businesses. That includes, by the way, Trump's first SBA head, Linda McMahon, who as far as I know was a perfectly competent SBA administrator.

But anyway. I have no idea if Rubio is qualified for SoS. Other people here say he is, so I have no real basis for disagreement. I'm not expecting a GOP president to pick a guy I actually like, so I guess Rubio is fine. We'll see what happens when he's in office.

I have no real opinion about Ag dept, as I don't know that agency well enough. Bessent at Treasury is competent to do the job. He has some weird economic views -- views with which I disagree quite profoundly, but ironically enough most other folks with those views are leftist economists, so that's in and of itself strange.
 
lawtig02 said:
Like?

no way whatever GIF

Some are much better than others though. Rubio is qualified. Bondi is qualified. Not a whole lot of other meat on the bone. How are you feeling about the populist, blue collar Trump having at least 14 billionaires among his appointees?
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I think it’s good to have talented, successful businessmen and women in the cabinet.
 
Trump is much better when he's fighting against something. It's naturally hard to remain on top when you have the power. And he's especially not good at it.
 
SBA was better run under Trump than during the Biden Administration in my experience. The Biden SBA isn’t terrible but very disappointing how they handled PPP when they took over.
 
Ramrouser said:
I think it’s good to have talented, successful businessmen and women in the cabinet.
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Except, as someone else already pointed out, in Loeffler's case "successful" needs some clarification. Loeffler's "success" came after she married a billionaire businessman and then spent her entire "successful career" working in said husband's business empire. I mean, if you want to call that successful then by all means go ahead, but don't pretend that she worked herself up the hard way - she basically managed several of her husband's business subsidiaries. Maybe she would have gotten there on her own, maybe she wouldn't.
 
So I'm wondering what impact the NIH director will have for dook** and UNC who receive hundreds of millions of dollars in NIH research grants...

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'Cancel culture' colleges could soon see money targeted by Trump's NIH pick: report

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the National Institute of Health is ready to settle a score – and he’s revving up a fight against campus culture at elite universities, according to a new report.And that could mean Stanford professor and economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya uses the power...
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heelinhell said:
So I'm wondering what impact the NIH director will have for dook** and UNC who receive hundreds of millions of dollars in NIH research grants...

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'Cancel culture' colleges could soon see money targeted by Trump's NIH pick: report

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the National Institute of Health is ready to settle a score – and he’s revving up a fight against campus culture at elite universities, according to a new report.And that could mean Stanford professor and economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya uses the power...
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Given UNC's historic reputation as a liberal university I would imagine that it won't be good. I was wondering which one of Trump's appointees would fire the first shot of what will almost certainly be a major government effort to move (or just force) America's public and private universities in a rightward direction, much as Orban did in Hungary. As a private university it will be harder to go after dook, although withholding NIH grants would certainly hurt even them, although likely not to the extent it would at UNC.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Given UNC's historic reputation as a liberal university I would imagine that it won't be good. I was wondering which one of Trump's appointees would fire the first shot of what will almost certainly be a major government effort to move (or just force) America's public and private universities in a rightward direction, much as Orban did in Hungary. As a private university it will be harder to go after dook, although withholding NIH grants would certainly hurt even them, although likely not to the extent it would at UNC.
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Courts won't let him do that. Not even SCOTUS. It's not the job of the NIH to police university culture. Congress did not give it the authority to make determinations about research funding based on those types of considerations.
 
superrific said:
Courts won't let him do that. Not even SCOTUS. It's not the job of the NIH to police university culture. Congress did not give it the authority to make determinations about research funding based on those types of considerations.
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I wish I could believe in your confidence that the courts under the Trump administration will protect us from the control of the billionaire oligarchs and all efforts that Trump and his minions will seek to exercise in the establishment of an autocratic/fascist state.
 
www.nytimes.com

Trump Vows to End Birthright Citizenship and Pardon Jan. 6 Rioters in NBC Interview

In his first sit-down broadcast network interview since winning re-election, President-elect Donald J. Trump vowed to pardon Capitol attackers and to try to end automatic citizenship for children of immigrants.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump outlined an aggressive plan for opening his second term in an interview that aired on Sunday, vowing to move immediately to crack down on immigration and pardon his most violent supporters while threatening to lock up political foes like Liz Cheney.

In his first sit-down broadcast network interview since being re-elected, Mr. Trump said that on Day 1 of his new administration next month, he would extend clemency to the hundreds of his backers who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and try to bar automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to immigrant parents.

Without giving a time frame, Mr. Trump also indicated that he would fire the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, out of personal pique because “he invaded my home” and was insufficiently certain at first whether Mr. Trump’s wound during an assassination attempt this year was caused by a bullet or shrapnel. And he said members of Congress who investigated his role in the Jan. 6 attack should be thrown behind bars.

“For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail,” Mr. Trump said of Ms. Cheney, a Republican who represented Wyoming, and the rest of the bipartisan House committee that looked into the attack. Speaking with Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” on NBC, he said he would not direct his new attorney general or F.B.I. director to pursue the matter but indicated that he expected them to do it on their own. “I think that they’ll have to look at that,” he said, “but I’m not going to” order them to.
 
Trump has appointed his paramour, Alina Habba, as "Counsellor to the President"...

Will she be counselling him regarding his performance in the bedroom ?
 
ZenMode said:
Depending on the exact quote, that does sound defamatory.

Olivia Troye said on MSNBC this week that Patel would “lie about intelligence” and “lie about making things up on operations” if confirmed by the Senate. According to NewsNation partner The Hill, Troye said Patel would “put the lives of Navy SEALs at risk” as the director of the FBI.
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How? Those comments are predictive, not statements of prior fact. And Patel is about as public a figure as you can get right now. Any lawsuit would be pure — oh what’s that word??? — lawfare.
 
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