Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks

[NorthLoop 14168]

9 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

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. 

So basically The Simpsons will have gotten it right yet again

 

[CooterBrown 17975]

18 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

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.

But why? All that shit is banned in Europe already and grocery prices are a lot cheaper than the US.  Does the reliance on frozen and shelf stable food in the US push fresh food prices higher?

Edited 5 hours ago by CooterBrown

[Horn Dogg 3827]

1 minute ago, CooterBrown said:

But why? All that shit is banned in Europe already and grocery prices are a lot cheaper than the US.  Does the reliance on frozen and shelf stable food in the US push fresh food prices higher?

When I lived in Europe a few years ago, grocery prices weren’t cheaper than in the US.  The selection available was much smaller as well.  Not that it was a bad thing, but most Europeans aren’t fat as fuck and stupid like we are, so they are OK with it.

[Ojo Rojo 1919]

14 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

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.

The best people.

[CooterBrown 17975]

2 minutes ago, Horn Dogg said:

When I lived in Europe a few years ago, grocery prices weren’t cheaper than in the US.  The selection available was much smaller as well.  Not that it was a bad thing, but most Europeans aren’t fat as fuck and stupid like we are, so they are OK with it.

Only place in Europe I've shopped for enough groceries to notice is the UK and prices there are definitely way cheaper for fresh food, meat and dairy. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13484]

12 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

Only place in Europe I've shopped for enough groceries to notice is the UK and prices there are definitely way cheaper for fresh food, meat and dairy. 

The UK imports as much as 46% of their food where the US only imports 15% so they can find the cheapest food sources in Europe   *info sourced from UK gov website and the FDA for the US.

I'm assuming its a non-starter that we push more of our food sourcing to Mexico and central america. 

Edited 5 hours ago by Nice Guy Eddie

[bolverk 29611]

Also, goodbye Net Neutrality. More below.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lbcpirsnfk2r

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Trump Picks Brendan Carr to Lead F.C.C.
Mr. Carr, who currently sits on the commission and is a vocal critic of Big Tech, has said the agency should regulate the tech industry.

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Sunday chose Brendan Carr to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, naming a veteran Republican regulator who has publicly agreed with the incoming administration’s promises to slash regulation, go after Big Tech and punish TV networks for political bias.

Mr. Carr, who currently sits on the commission, is expected to shake up a quiet agency that licenses airwaves for radio and TV, regulates phone costs and promotes the spread of home internet. Before the election, Mr. Trump indicated he wanted the agency to strip broadcasters like NBC and CBS of their licensing for unfair coverage.

Mr. Carr, 45, was the author of a chapter on the F.C.C. in the conservative Project 2025 planning document, in which he argued that the agency should also regulate the largest tech companies, such as Apple, Meta, Google and Microsoft.

“The censorship cartel must be dismantled,” Mr. Carr said last week in a post on X.

Mr. Carr could drastically reshape the independent agency, expanding its mandate and wielding it as a political weapon for the right, telecommunications attorneys and analysts said. They predicted Mr. Carr would test the legal limits of the agency’s power by pushing to oversee companies like Meta and Google, setting up a fierce battle with Silicon Valley.

Mr. Carr has “proposed to do a lot of things he has no jurisdiction to do, and in other cases he’s blatantly misreading the rules,” said Jessica Gonzalez, co-chief executive of the nonpartisan public interest group Free Press.

“Commissioner Carr is a warrior for free speech, and has fought against the regulatory lawfare that has stifled Americans’ freedoms, and held back our economy,” Mr. Trump said in a statement.

Mr. Carr didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Carr won’t have free rein to make changes. The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice have taken on the biggest roles in regulating tech, primarily through antitrust lawsuits and policing violations of consumer protection law.

Congress oversees the F.C.C.’s budget, and it would likely take new legislation to expand the agency’s regulatory oversight over companies like Google and Meta, which are not defined as communications services, legal experts said. The commission under the Trump administration would comprise three Republicans and two Democrats.

The F.C.C. is also prohibited from punishing television and radio stations for editorial decisions, except for uses of obscenities and violations of children’s television rules.

Still, Mr. Carr could use the bully pulpit of the agency to pressure companies, the experts added. He could also threaten to block mergers or investigate regulatory failures, which can result in fines or the loss of licenses.

“Brendan is by far the most talented politician on the commission right now,” said Blair Levin, a former chief of staff for the F.C.C. and policy adviser for the New Street investment research firm. “But the real question is what can he actually do with the authorities the F.C.C. has now.”

Mr. Carr, a career telecommunications attorney, received a law degree from the Catholic University in Washington. He joined the F.C.C. as a legal adviser in 2012 and became general counsel five years later.

In 2017, Mr. Trump appointed him to one of the Republican seats on the commission. Mr. Carr focused on promoting high-speed wireless internet, which was still being rolled out in rural areas. He also supported the Republican chairman Ajit Pai’s rollback of regulations like net neutrality, which categorized internet service providers as utilities for regulation purposes. The F.C.C. under Democratic control reinstated the rules this year, and they are being challenged in court.

“When the transition is complete, the F.C.C. will have an important role to play reining in Big Tech, ensuring that broadcasters operate in the public interest, and unleashing economic growth while advancing our national security interests and supporting law enforcement,” Mr. Carr said in a statement after the election.

Mr. Carr has also aligned himself with Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who is a close ally of the president-elect.

Mr. Musk’s Starlink satellite internet provider received an $885 million grant in late 2020 from the F.C.C.’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, which gives internet service providers funding to bring high-speed internet to rural homes and businesses.

But the Democratic-led F.C.C. revoked that grant in 2022 because Starlink failed to meet speed requirements and couldn’t prove it would serve enough unconnected rural homes, according to the F.C.C.

Mr. Carr vociferously opposed the decision, saying in a statement that the Biden administration had targeted Mr. Musk.

“In my view, it amounted to nothing more than regulatory lawfare against one of the left’s top targets: Mr. Musk,” Mr. Carr wrote in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal published last month.

 

 

[RomaVicta 29874]

Most voters can't name one of their own senators. Many can't find the USA on the globe.

When it comes down to accountability they don't have a clue on their own. Some (most now) listen to their God-chosen cult leader for the facts. They have no basis to question that account.

We'll talk about secretaries failing or intentionally doing harm. 

The cult will absolutely know that it's the socialist baby killing/eating Dems and the deep state.

[TwiceHorn 31399]

6 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Also, goodbye Net Neutrality. More below.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lbcpirsnfk2r

 

Pretty sure net neutrality has been a dead letter for quite some time, because there has not been a non-R majority on the FCC since the Pai days.

The horrors have not come to pass apparently because the ISPs can't figure out which media play to back.

[G650 14181]

27 minutes ago, Horn Dogg said:

When I lived in Europe a few years ago, grocery prices weren’t cheaper than in the US.  The selection available was much smaller as well.  Not that it was a bad thing, but most Europeans aren’t fat as fuck and stupid like we are, so they are OK with it.

A lot of that is because the food delivery system is so much more localized and less industrialized than the US. Which the upside is much fresher food in most countries.

[bolverk 29611]

3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Pretty sure net neutrality has been a dead letter for quite some time, because there has not been a non-R majority on the FCC since the Pai days.

The horrors have not come to pass apparently because the ISPs can't figure out which media play to back.

To be fair, Net Neutrality is only one item in that article to be worried about. I mentioned it because it's been a hot topic around here and was buried within the story.

[Horn Dog 9761]

18 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Most voters can't name one of their own senators. Many can't find the USA on the globe.

When it comes down to accountability they don't have a clue on their own. Some (most now) listen to their God-chosen cult leader for the facts. They have no basis to question that account.

We'll talk about secretaries failing or intentionally doing harm. 

The cult will absolutely know that it's the socialist baby killing/eating Dems and the deep state.

True.  I would bet the majority of Texans think the power outages were cause Houston elected a dem mayor.  

[Dbeasy 15027]

1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

 

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. 

 

Ya that was my plan until exactly 14 days ago, when the election results demonstrated to all of us that the number of people being duped by disinformation is even bigger than most people estimated. I would bet that over half your friends and family, and certainly half my friends and family, are under the spell of disinformation. Are you really going to dump half your friends and family?

[SydneyCarton 47972]

15 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

Ya that was my plan until exactly 14 days ago, when the election results demonstrated to all of us that the number of people being duped by disinformation is even bigger than most people estimated. I would bet that over half your friends and family, and certainly half my friends and family, are under the spell of disinformation. Are you really going to dump half your friends and family?

Yeah, actually. Because it's impossible for me to enjoy the company when their stances and behavior are enabling pain. Which means I don't enjoy their company. And they probably don't enjoy mine. Do you enjoy going to weekly gatherings with people where you either blow up and let them know they're the dumbest motherfuckers alive, or just sitting there seething, asking yourself how you can still respect those people (hint: you can't)?

I actively avoid as many situations as I can that have a negative drawdown on my patience and mental health. I'll grit through my in-laws because my wife is a saint, but honestly, I don't have much time for any extra bullshit. 

You've been at this for months now. How are you efforts at educating and  rehabiliting going? Changed a bunch of minds, have you? What's the definition of insanity?

Edited 4 hours ago by SydneyCarton

[Dnaguy 11855]

2 hours ago, David Dennison said:

Is this a Gen X inception?

[Captainant 27562]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-gaetzs-underage-sex-probe-report-released-to-house-ethics-committee/

House Ethics Committee Chair Michael Guest (R-MS) revealed Monday that the formal report on their investigation into Matt Gaetz’s alleged misconduct was made available to all 10 members of the committee. According to Politico, only Guest and fellow ranking member Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) previously had a copy. On Wednesday, the committee is scheduled to meet to discuss Gaetz’s dossier. Guest’s announcement comes amid bipartisan calls from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to release the report’s findings after Donald Trump tapped Gaetz as his nominee for Attorney General. Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has pleaded with the committee to keep their findings sealed. The two-year-long ethics probe into Gaetz seemingly ended last week when the former Florida congressman resigned from the House. Since his nomination and resignation, however, a lawyer for the victims of Gaetz’s alleged sexual misconduct has revealed that his clients told the House Ethics Committee that they attended between five and 10 “sex parties” with the former congressman between mid-2017 and the end of 2018. Gaetz has continually denied any wrongdoing.

[C-Man 27162]

Lutnick to be commerce secretary. He’s a peach.

[C-Man 27162]

[Anastasis 23437]

LOL.  Media would absolutely lose their minds if all but like 1 or 2 (tim and byron) of the people in that graphic got an appointment. 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20379]

[bolverk 29611]

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-gaetzs-underage-sex-probe-report-released-to-house-ethics-committee/

House Ethics Committee Chair Michael Guest (R-MS) revealed Monday that the formal report on their investigation into Matt Gaetz’s alleged misconduct was made available to all 10 members of the committee. According to Politico, only Guest and fellow ranking member Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) previously had a copy. On Wednesday, the committee is scheduled to meet to discuss Gaetz’s dossier. Guest’s announcement comes amid bipartisan calls from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to release the report’s findings after Donald Trump tapped Gaetz as his nominee for Attorney General. Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has pleaded with the committee to keep their findings sealed. The two-year-long ethics probe into Gaetz seemingly ended last week when the former Florida congressman resigned from the House. Since his nomination and resignation, however, a lawyer for the victims of Gaetz’s alleged sexual misconduct has revealed that his clients told the House Ethics Committee that they attended between five and 10 “sex parties” with the former congressman between mid-2017 and the end of 2018. Gaetz has continually denied any wrongdoing.

It's going to get out one way or another.

A hacker is said to have gained access to a file with damaging testimony about Matt Gaetz.
An unidentified hacker has gained access to a computer file shared in a secure link among lawyers whose clients have given damaging testimony related to Matt Gaetz, the former Florida congressman who is President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to be attorney general, a person with knowledge of the activity said.

The file of 24 exhibits is said to include sworn testimony by a woman who said that she had sex with Mr. Gaetz in 2017 when she was 17, as well as corroborating testimony by a second woman who said that she witnessed the encounter.

The information was downloaded by a person using the name Altam Beezley at 1:23 p.m. on Monday, according to the person, who was not authorized to speak publicly. A lawyer connected to the case sent an email to the address associated with Altam Beezley, only to be informed in an automated reply that the recipient does not exist.

The material does not appear to have been made public by the hacker.

The documents include information that is under seal with the Justice Department, which investigated Mr. Gaetz but did not file charges, and the House Committee on Ethics, which has completed its own inquiry into the former congressman. The Ethics panel’s members are scheduled to meet on Wednesday to decide on whether to vote to release material it has gathered.

But the hacked trove of documents stems from an altogether different source: a civil suit being pursued by a friend of Mr. Gaetz’s, Christopher Dorworth, a Florida businessman. Mr. Dorworth filed the suit against both the woman who says she had sex with Mr. Gaetz when she was a minor and Joel Greenberg, an erstwhile ally of Mr. Gaetz who is serving an 11-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to federal sex trafficking charges involving the woman.

Mr. Dorworth has claimed that he was defamed by Mr. Greenberg and the woman, both of whom had told federal authorities that Mr. Dorworth hosted parties where he, they,  Mr. Gaetz and others took drugs and openly had sex.

In mustering their defense, lawyers for Mr. Greenberg and the woman have solicited sworn statements from others who they say were witnesses. The 24 exhibits were attached to a  motion prepared by lawyers for Mr. Greenberg and the woman in response to Mr. Dorworth’s suit.

In addition to the depositions from the woman who was a minor at the time of the encounter and the woman who said she was a witness, the hacked information also includes sworn testimony from Mr. Dorworth and his wife, as well as testimony from Michael Fischer, Mr. Gaetz’s former campaign treasurer, who is also said to have attended the party. It also contains various supporting material, such as the gate logs showing who entered the property of the Dorworth home on the evening in July 2017 when the two women said the sexual encounter with Mr. Gaetz occurred.

The material apparently taken by the hacker is unredacted and includes the names and other personal information of the witnesses but is otherwise said to be more damaging to Mr. Gaetz than to his accusers, according to the person familiar with the hack. The hacker had not contacted the lawyers as of Tuesday morning, and it was not clear what motive the person might have.

[LCHorn 2603]

4 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

Only place in Europe I've shopped for enough groceries to notice is the UK and prices there are definitely way cheaper for fresh food, meat and dairy. 

 

4 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

The UK imports as much as 46% of their food where the US only imports 15% so they can find the cheapest food sources in Europe   *info sourced from UK gov website and the FDA for the US.

I'm assuming it’s a non-starter that we push more of our food sourcing to Mexico and central america. 

Staples were not cheaper in Madrid, although they have VAT that pushes the price up.  Now that they have Costco at least you can buy in bulk because grocery products are smaller than in the US.  
 

Also, grocery store shelves were fully stocked with processed foods-chips, crackers, tons of candy.  Even the breakfast cereals are mostly the overly sweetened variety like Frosted Flakes and not Kashi.  Anyway, that was a little surprising because you’re right, they aren’t a bunch of fat asses waddling around.*

 

*I do think culture plays a part-eating and drinking to excess is far less socially acceptable there.  

[David Dennison 18810]

3 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

Is this a Gen X inception?

Butt-Head, the GIF, or being old enough to know who Puck is?

[Sawbonz 27504]

Trump is going to have to dismiss both houses of congress to get a recess long enough to appoint someone without going through confirmation. If he does that and the legislature acquiesces, we know it’s over

[yoladu 4086]

white.. check

male.. check

[tx 3 putt 76724]

5 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

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. 

 

just follow european standards 

lot of companies have a european safe version of their is product 

[Dnaguy 11855]

16 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Butt-Head, the GIF, or being old enough to know who Puck is?

Exactly

[tx 3 putt 76724]

 

christian taliban 

[flatdawgs 1275]

5 hours ago, Horn Dogg said:

When I lived in Europe a few years ago, grocery prices weren’t cheaper than in the US.  The selection available was much smaller as well.  Not that it was a bad thing, but most Europeans aren’t fat as fuck and stupid like we are, so they are OK with it.

I walk out of my grocery store in Portugal paying about 40% less for basically the same stuff I get here in the US. The produce quality in particular is substantially better there as well.