Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks

[The Original Greaser Bob 2819]

3 hours ago, EuroHorn said:

Racist

But mostly against whitey.  

[Chad Fuck 17619]

37 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

Do I even USA? Bitch, I hitched my wagon to a successful, ethnic woman so I could reap the rewards of someone else's hard work. If that's not American, I don't know what is.

It's the best, isn't it?

[Nice Guy Eddie 13481]

DEI covers a broad area but it's become the boogey man to the Right. Don't get me wrong I've seen a few DEI initiatives in the private sector that I don't fully understand but it's not always about race or LGBT items.

My current employer previously had unpaid internships in the summer for college students. The DEI dept is the one who recognized a problem and pushed a change because the unpaid aspect was deemed exclusionary for students who came from lower income background. They needed paid jobs in the summer and the company's unpaid policy encouraged kids with well-off parents to apply for internships. Now we only offer paid internships and have a more economically diverse group of summer interns. Seemed like a good DEI decision to me. The rich interns get the same pay.

Edited 20 hours ago by Nice Guy Eddie

[Dnaguy 11854]

22 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

DEI covers a broad area but it's become the boogey man to the Right. Don't get me wrong I've seen a few DEI initiatives in the private sector that I don't fully understand but it's not always about race or LGBT items.

My current employer previously had unpaid internships in the summer for college students. The DEI dept is the one who recognized a problem and pushed a change because the unpaid aspect was deemed exclusionary for students who came from lower income background. They needed paid jobs in the summer and the company's unpaid policy encouraged kids with well-off parents to apply for internships. Now we only offer paid internships and have a more economically diverse group of summer interns. Seemed like a good DEI decision to me. The rich interns get the same pay.

Paying people for their labor is Marxist.

[yoladu 4086]

1 hour ago, hookem2010 said:

Great, can we stop being so equitable and inclusive to mediocre white men? (As a mediocre white man, I'm allowed to say this.)

uhhh.. you have seen the make-up of his cabinet appointments, right?

[Doc Sam Beckett 5789]

1 hour ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Yep. "He won't do anything to our union" is what I was told. People living in their own reality.

Far cry from the day when different trades unions would strike together to support the one negotiating 

[bolverk 29603]

Real World alumnus turns Transportation Secretary.
https://bsky.app/profile/yasharali.bsky.social/post/3lbaztwvxpk2c

[956 Worldwide 34624]

Sean Duffy, a one time rep from Wisconsin and former DA (but most famous for being on The Real World) is leaving Fox News to take over DOT.  Second anchorman cabinet nominee. 

[David Dennison 18802]

2 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

Except union rank and file love them some Trump.

Forget unions. Errbody strike!

[Biff Tannen 45639]

2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Sean Duffy, a one time rep from Wisconsin and former DA (but most famous for being on The Real World) is leaving Fox News to take over DOT.  Second anchorman cabinet nominee. 

Everyone who dealt with the intelligence and competence of Mayor Pete is in for a rude awakening. 

[InkaUtexas 25757]

2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Sean Duffy, a one time rep from Wisconsin and former DA (but most famous for being on The Real World) is leaving Fox News to take over DOT.  Second anchorman cabinet nominee. 

I hated that fucking show. So whats next? Some goon from Jersey Shore? I know it won't be anyone from Yo MTV Raps.

Next it is David Duke as Race Czar.

[Dnaguy 11854]

19 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Forget unions. Errbody strike!

[bolverk 29603]

21 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

I hated that fucking show. So whats next? Some goon from Jersey Shore? I know it won't be anyone from Yo MTV Raps.

Next it is David Duke as Race Czar.

I didn't watch the show, so I don't know the cast of characters beyond whatever gets absorbed from background exposure to American pop culture and celebrity worship. But this dudebro seems worth keeping an eye on:

'Jersey Shore' Star Attends Trump Rally in New York City

[TwiceHorn 31399]

2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

I admire your belief in the legal system.

It doesn't actually have to work-work, it just has to gum things up a while.  It's very good at that.

[4th&Five 41497]

45 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Sean Duffy, a one time rep from Wisconsin and former DA (but most famous for being on The Real World) is leaving Fox News to take over DOT.  Second anchorman cabinet nominee. 

He got Puck’s sloppy seconds. 

[Dbeasy 15027]

How can I get a fact based review of rfk jr. I’ve obviously heard about his anti-vaccine stance, but I know nothing about the guy. I now have friends who are watching his videos and are all up in arms about how rfk jr has to go in and fix the fda, usda, etc. I just assumed he was a nut job and everyone half intelligent knew that. 

[yoladu 4086]

58 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Real World alumnus turns Transportation Secretary.
https://bsky.app/profile/yasharali.bsky.social/post/3lbaztwvxpk2c

white.. check

male.. check

 

[Okie State 3796]

My brother is anti-Trump, but is all about RFK. He seems like just another loon to me, but I guess we'll see. I'm for getting rid of a lot of the garbage in our foods so it would be nice if somehow that came to fruition. I'm not betting on it though.

[Red Five 40768]

Jon Lovett said the other day that Rob Schneider had been named Ambassador to Germany. He let it go for 10-15 seconds before saying it was a joke. I believed it. 

[Biff Tannen 45639]

15 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

How can I get a fact based review of rfk jr. I’ve obviously heard about his anti-vaccine stance, but I know nothing about the guy. I now have friends who are watching his videos and are all up in arms about how rfk jr has to go in and fix the fda, usda, etc. I just assumed he was a nut job and everyone half intelligent knew that. 

Google RFK jr whale and RFK jr bear. That should be plenty. 

[Captainant 27559]

40 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

It doesn't actually have to work-work, it just has to gum things up a while.  It's very good at that.

Boy are you gonna be annoyed when the fascists just change the legal system to suit their needs. Ya know, like the fascists have done literally every other time in history they've taken over

[TwiceHorn 31399]

27 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

How can I get a fact based review of rfk jr. I’ve obviously heard about his anti-vaccine stance, but I know nothing about the guy. I now have friends who are watching his videos and are all up in arms about how rfk jr has to go in and fix the fda, usda, etc. I just assumed he was a nut job and everyone half intelligent knew that. 

Former heroin addict.  Sex junkie (cheater).  General purpose health, vaccine, and pharma kook. Never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like. Whale juice.  Don't even have to get to the bear cub.

He is, apparently, quite serious about most of his pet subjects.  Nevertheless, he is not a serious person.

Edited 17 hours ago by TwiceHorn

[Francisco 2.0 32379]

51 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

It doesn't actually have to work-work, it just has to gum things up a while.  It's very good at that.

Of course it does.  

I fully expect it to be un-gummed though for certain things beginning January 20, 2025.  

 

 

[Schulz2.0 28920]

38 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

How can I get a fact based review of rfk jr. I’ve obviously heard about his anti-vaccine stance, but I know nothing about the guy. I now have friends who are watching his videos and are all up in arms about how rfk jr has to go in and fix the fda, usda, etc. I just assumed he was a nut job and everyone half intelligent knew that. 

He helped a good amount of Samoans decide against vaccinating their kids. A measles outbreak later killed 83 kids.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/trump-administration-rfk-criticisms

[Dbeasy 15027]

People all around me don’t understand how unqualified these nominations are. They just are not knowledgeable at all. People close to us. I’m losing my faith in the country and its people. This is crazy that disinformation is working as well as it is. I’m really down about this. 

[Foosters 17797]

48 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

How can I get a fact based review of rfk jr. I’ve obviously heard about his anti-vaccine stance, but I know nothing about the guy. I now have friends who are watching his videos and are all up in arms about how rfk jr has to go in and fix the fda, usda, etc. I just assumed he was a nut job and everyone half intelligent knew that.  new friends

fify

[Willfully Horn 7982]

On 11/15/2024 at 11:03 AM, DixonHur said:

I'd have to give the ramifications more thought, but TBH, on the surface, I wouldn't opposed to that if it meant we could shrink the military and use those tax dollars for healthcare and education at home.  

Of course, that last part falls under the "things that would never happen under a Trump administration for $1,000, Alex" category.

No world wars since May 8, 1945. Just a thought.

 

On 11/15/2024 at 12:10 PM, bad_teammate said:

What are some of the criteria that sexual predators use to pick their targets?

She's no perfect victim, that's for sure!!!!

A major problem with Trump and his followers is how they will ignore the massive, massive problems within their own ranks due to an overwhelming and crippling desire to either not give the opponent any ground or to simply own the opponent. No self-reflection allowed. No reason allowed. No common sense allowed, generally. Truth doesn't matter and values don't matter, only how each individual thought impacts relative position to the hated enemy.

Forget the right-wingers and look at the reality of the last 6 decades of Democratic male figureheads. Look at it dispassionately and objectively and try seriously to dismiss in your own (as) fair (as it can be) mind the laundry list of sexual abuse at their hands as a Russian Psy-Op. If that is how it shakes out in your head, then you're just the opposite side of the Qoin.

If dealing with the question of women sexually abused by powerful men in the Democratic Party creates discomfort, it's possible to just shut the fuck up. We can do that. You can do that. Juanita Broaddrick, etc... We can just NOT have a comment if we don't know how to square the circle of our alleged support for sexual abuse victims and how that can sometimes bite us in the ass politically because men of all political persuasions sometimes/often assault and rape women.

Tara Reade is a perfect test case for this. She told people of it at the time, and we know of that. Her mother called in to a national show to get advice about it. She has acted strangely and in an adversarial way towards the man she says assaulted her and the party that protects him. If you do not know, with perfect knowledge, that this is a lie she cooked up from the beginning with her KGB handler (who picked her for... uh... reasons?), what is the move?

She's a powerless woman with no impact on anything who might very well have been sexually assaulted by a powerful man whose party and its media apparatus has systematically torn apart (like Juanita Broaddrick and unnamed/untold dozens of others over the years). If we have within us a desire to keep kicking her, we should figure out where that desire comes from because it looks pretty fucking dark.

Al Franken says hi.

 

 

On 11/17/2024 at 9:35 AM, CooterBrown said:

On the flip side, owned the libs.

Seems like this is good for health insurance companies. Or, am I missing something?

 

 

1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

It doesn't actually have to work-work, it just has to gum things up a while.  It's very good at that.

The gum gum hasn’t seemed effective at stopping the political right’s agenda, recently.

[Francisco 2.0 32379]

1 minute ago, Dbeasy said:

People all around me don’t understand how unqualified these nominations are. They just are not knowledgeable at all. People close to us. I’m losing my faith in the country and its people. This is crazy that disinformation is working as well as it is. I’m really down about this. 

 

People just don't really care about the government, other than when it directly affects them.  And they have a misguided opinion that somehow, someway the President is in complete command of the economy.

 

[Okie State 3796]

Some people want to burn the whole system down so this is actually what they voted for. It's going exactly as they hoped. Of course they don't really understand, or care to understand, the implications of doing that.

Edited 16 hours ago by Okie State

[Captainant 27559]

27 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

People all around me don’t understand how unqualified these nominations are. They just are not knowledgeable at all. People close to us. I’m losing my faith in the country and its people. This is crazy that disinformation is working as well as it is. I’m really down about this. 

[Macanudo 12968]

38 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

People all around me don’t understand how unqualified these nominations are. They just are not knowledgeable at all. People close to us. I’m losing my faith in the country and its people. This is crazy that disinformation is working as well as it is. I’m really down about this. 

I asked a guy at work who I know is a big Trumper and he played dumb about the nominees.   A general "I checked out after the election and don't really know much about who Trump is nominating."   They are willingly moving toward anarchy.

[StassneyHorn 6576]

9 hours ago, sidis said:

protip: if a video on youtube, twitter, etc... has any use of the words "DESTROYS" or "DEMOLISHES" or "WRECKS" or "DEVASTATES" or "DISMANTLES" or "ANNIHILATES" in the title (particularly if it is all caps), it can more than likely be summarily ignored.

How dare you leave out EVISCERATED

2 hours ago, bolverk said:

Real World alumnus turns Transportation Secretary.
https://bsky.app/profile/yasharali.bsky.social/post/3lbaztwvxpk2c

Duffy's wife was on Puck's season of Real World and fucked around with him. 

[Horn Dogg 3826]

Hopefully Mitch McConnell will decide he wants to cock block all of these nominations.  It still won’t make up for sins of the past, but it would make him a slightly better person.

[mchookem 16300]

1 hour ago, StassneyHorn said:

How dare you leave out EVISCERATED

Duffy's wife was on Puck's season of Real World and fucked around with him. 

 

[Anastasis 23437]

1 hour ago, Horn Dogg said:

Hopefully Mitch McConnell will decide he wants to cock block all of these nominations.

Mitch doesn't even know where he is most of the time now, nor remember that he resigned his leadership position. 

[CTC2 2772]

2 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

How dare you leave out EVISCERATED

Duffy's wife was on Puck's season of Real World and fucked around with him. 

And then she tried to deny it. I remember at the time that I kind of hoped he had given her a world class case of the herpes. 

[Ojo Rojo 1918]

3 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

People all around me don’t understand how unqualified these nominations are. They just are not knowledgeable at all. People close to us. I’m losing my faith in the country and its people. This is crazy that disinformation is working as well as it is. I’m really down about this. 

Just now?

[tx 3 putt 76724]

 

[tx 3 putt 76724]

8 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

He got Puck’s sloppy seconds. 

 

his wife is a world class cunt 

[WhatTheBuck 28759]

9 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Google RFK jr whale and RFK jr bear. That should be plenty. 

Don’t forget “RFK Jr brain worm.”

[WhatTheBuck 28759]

[Balcones 320]

11 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

How can I get a fact based review of rfk jr. I’ve obviously heard about his anti-vaccine stance, but I know nothing about the guy. I now have friends who are watching his videos and are all up in arms about how rfk jr has to go in and fix the fda, usda, etc. I just assumed he was a nut job and everyone half intelligent knew that. 

This sums it up.

[DDD Dad 14304]

Derp

Edited 5 hours ago by DDD Dad

[DDD Dad 14304]

12 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

How can I get a fact based review of rfk jr. I’ve obviously heard about his anti-vaccine stance, but I know nothing about the guy. I now have friends who are watching his videos and are all up in arms about how rfk jr has to go in and fix the fda, usda, etc. I just assumed he was a nut job and everyone half intelligent knew that. 

 

[Macanudo 12968]

If a Democrat Senator doesn't ask RFK during confirmation hearings "Mr. Kennedy, during a divorce proceeding you alleged that due to a worm that had "eaten part of your brain" you were incapable of paying alimony.  How are you caple of holding a Cabinet level position based on that?" then I will be very unhappy.

[Hank Kingsley 20890]

1 hour ago, Balcones said:

This sums it up.

 

Twitter is the new Facebook. 

 

[David Dennison 18802]

13 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

He got Puck’s sloppy seconds. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13481]

Loving how many reps and senators (all GOP) are coming out saying what a bad pick Gaetz is. Trump may ultimately get Gaetz through but it’s going to cost him. I guess it will be worth to get his cases thrown out and maybe going after some people.

two points 

• if we start to hear gop senators say that trump won a mandate and they should trust his picks, Gaetz is in.
• in a normal year with normal nominations, a scandalous nominee would withdrawal their nomination, or be told to do so. Gaetz is too much of a”let the world burn” person. Even if told by the Trump team, gaetz might make Trump admit he was wrong which Trump can’t. 

[SydneyCarton 47962]

14 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

How can I get a fact based review of rfk jr. I’ve obviously heard about his anti-vaccine stance, but I know nothing about the guy. I now have friends who are watching his videos and are all up in arms about how rfk jr has to go in and fix the fda, usda, etc. I just assumed he was a nut job and everyone half intelligent knew that. 

13 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

People all around me don’t understand how unqualified these nominations are. They just are not knowledgeable at all. People close to us. I’m losing my faith in the country and its people. This is crazy that disinformation is working as well as it is. I’m really down about this. 

 

You've made dozens of posts on this board the last 6 months talking about how shocked and amazed you are at disinformation working, how stupid and uninformed so many of your friends seem to be, and looking for primers to explain what is happening to folks in your life, etc. 

It doesn't seem like you've having much success. Here's a hint, your friend are stupid and/or pieces of shit, and you should get new friends. Because there probably isn't that much time left before things become unbearable, so you might want to spend what time you have not in the company of dipshits. 

14 hours ago, Okie State said:

My brother is anti-Trump, but is all about RFK. He seems like just another loon to me, but I guess we'll see. I'm for getting rid of a lot of the garbage in our foods so it would be nice if somehow that came to fruition. I'm not betting on it though.

This won't happen becuase it will fuck up the profits of too many food industry businesses. You think they're going to let people pull sugar and corn syrup out of their products? Corn Syrup is already ubiquitous thanks to government subsidies. Nothing is going to change. 

 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13481]

We can definitely get rid of chemicals or preservatives in our food. Food costs will go up, even if only because that loaf of bread you bought on saturday won't last until next saturday.

and if coke is somehow ordered to drop high fructose corn syrup in favor of cane sugar, it will cause an imbalance in the market. corn prices will plummet and sugar will become difficult to find.