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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.
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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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.
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.)
 
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.
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?
 
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.)
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?
 
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.
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?
 
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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."
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.
 
In all honesty you guys wouldn't know truth if it hit you in the ass because you never step outside the world of the View and maddow. At least I know when fox news is lying.
Whats up with this ridiculous assertion that everyone who leans left watches MSNBC? I honestly don't know anyone personally who does. I do know a ton who watch Newsmax, Fox News, and OAN all the time...but even so i don't assume that every Trump voters does that.
 
Whats up with this ridiculous assertion that everyone who leans left watches MSNBC? I honestly don't know anyone personally who does. I do know a ton who watch Newsmax, Fox News, and OAN all the time...but even so i don't assume that every Trump voters does that.
And on top of that, who actually watches the View? I mean there are clearly people who watch it, but it doesn't even ping my radar as a political show. At least accusing us of watching MCNBC makes some level of sense.
 
Point made.

You are way to involved in the political climate of this country.

You always have been.

Tell me this... How many rights did Trump 45 take from you or anyone you know?

How did he change this country into a "fascists state?"

Did he take away the right for gay marriage? Women to vote?

No... you like to make a huge issue out of a person that you disagree with and scream that the world is ending. It didn't 45 years ago when Reagan was elected and the same group of "intellectuals" were saying the same damn thing.

The schtick is old. Get over it. Your party lost. If you have mental issues, emotional issues over a damn election then I'd suggest you stay off of public boards that offer differing opinions.

Sorry.. thems the facts jack.
Guess you missed the latest where republicans are trying, again, to repeal gay marriage.

Also, 45 had guard rails. Notice most of those people came out against him in the campaign. He is putting nothing but yes men/women into leadership roles this term and he doesn't need to worry about another election, so we will see if this term parallels the first term in anyway.

I hope that in 4 years we can look back and say it didn't turn out like we feared. Guess we will see.
 
The guy in charge of his detail? Yikes. I thought the people on his detail should all have been reassigned to lower profile protectees.
Why, that incident seems to have been a positive for him. It almost makes the conspiracy nuts, saying it was staged, seem credible.
 
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