Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks

[SydneyCarton 47992]

11 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

lol, it’s all just people he sees on TV.  Very excited to get Dog the Bounty Hunter for US Marshal Service, Al Roker for NOAA, and Scrooge McDuck to lead the mints. 

Nono, the noaa is just going away. 

[Captainant 27576]

9 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Nono, the noaa is just going away. 

Hurricane season is gonna be a fuckin doozie for the next four years 

[hornmpa96 2618]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

i believe he gets to liquidate assets tax free

 

I’m guessing he has to pay a Trump tax based on the savings. You have to kick up to the boss.

[4th&Five 41499]

Dr. Phil definitely getting something. 

[MissingInAction 24968]

Dr fucking Oz for Medicaid/Medicare director.

I thought aggy was the champ in neverending stupidity, but this shit I'm just telling myself that I'm insane and none of this is real.

Edited 4 hours ago by MissingInAction

[TexArcher 37744]

At this point, I'm guessing MTG for Secratury of Edyucashun and Mike Lindell for Solo Chief of the newly created Pillow Force.

[TXSG8R 3362]

Herschel is gonna get a cabinet position…

[C-Man 27172]

Dr. Phil definitely getting something. 

Dr fucking Oz for Medicaid/Medicare director.
I thought aggy was the champ in neverending stupidity, but this shit I'm just telling myself that I'm insane and none of this is real.

Think Oprah would like a do-over on those two bozos?

[Bozo_Casanova 26407]

Who’s getting commerce? Is Don Lapre available?

[tx 3 putt 76753]

 

[Da Fino 2761]

39 minutes ago, TXSG8R said:

Herschel is gonna get a cabinet position…

EPA. Guy knows his stuff. 

According to Walker, America has some of the cleanest air in the world (that’s not actually true),“but since we don’t control the air, our good air decided to float over to China's bad air so when China gets our good air, their bad air got
[sic] to move. So it moves over to our good air space.” Walker’s solution? “We got to clean that back up.”

 

[Gandalfish 342]

39 minutes ago, TXSG8R said:

Herschel is gonna get a cabinet position…

I thought Trump already said he was going to be “in charge of missile defense”

[Biff Tannen 45643]

2 hours ago, Ojo Rojo said:

There is no longer any doubt - this is a bit.  These picks are for entertainment value only.  It turns out Trump actually does have a sense of humor.

He’s making a mockery of the entire country and our entire history. And we are letting it happen. 

[washparkhorn 9938]

Nothing to fear — Senator Judas Fetterman will save Medicare. 

. . . or maybe not

[mchookem 16303]

4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

He’s making a mockery of the entire country and our entire history. And we are letting it happen. 

 

[quigley 1534]

2 hours ago, Ojo Rojo said:

There is no longer any doubt - this is a bit.  These picks are for entertainment value only.  It turns out Trump actually does have a sense of humor.

I've had a couple of Trump voters tell me they want him to be president because of the yucks.

Assholes are measuring drapes for the White House and lapping up my progressive tears.

[Dnaguy 11870]

1 minute ago, quigley said:

I've had a couple of Trump voters tell me they want him to be president because of the yucks.

Assholes are measuring drapes for the White House and lapping up my progressive tears.

This. 
People elected a reality show personality and want their reality show presidency.

Hes giving the people what they want.

The nerds have been running the show too long. Now it’s time for a president that promises to eliminate homework and make Friday a half day.

 

[SubliminalHorn 6767]

1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

Nono, the noaa is just going away. 

Noaa gonna be anymore weather service 

[Anastasis 23443]

Oz ain’t gonna burn Medicare down. He was an ACA supporter and a Medicare advantage advocate. If anything he is probably inclined to expand Medicare access by removing or reducing the age in. 

[quigley 1534]

1 minute ago, Dnaguy said:

This. 
People elected a reality show personality and want their reality show presidency.

Hes giving the people what they want.

The nerds have been running the show too long. Now it’s time for a president that promises to eliminate homework and make Friday a half day.

 

Yeah, listening to "Rest is History" podcast about the 1968 election, Nixon just about lost it to Humphreys because the Dem shitshow was apparently captivating that year.

Kamala should have lit a blunt on the All the Smoke pod. (I was half expecting her to take a puff)

[quigley 1534]

1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

Oz ain’t gonna burn Medicare down. He was an ACA supporter and a Medicare advantage advocate. If anything he is probably inclined to expand Medicare access by removing or reducing the age in. 

Trump Admin expanding ObamaCare!!!

Hartford will burn the WH down.

[Anastasis 23443]

1 minute ago, quigley said:

Trump Admin expanding ObamaCare!!!

Hartford will burn the WH down.

ACA is not Medicare. But other than that, good post. 

[Anastasis 23443]

He was in favor of mandates though. And if I understand correctly his chief issue was that the mandates were not aggressive enough. Which was always the Achilles of the aca. 

[SubliminalHorn 6767]

10 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Oz ain’t gonna burn Medicare down. He was an ACA supporter and a Medicare advantage advocate. If anything he is probably inclined to expand Medicare access by removing or reducing the age in. 

Medicare Advantage plans suck. Him being an advocate for those plans is not a flex

[washparkhorn 9938]

And the effort to remove “birthright citizenship” will flow from Amy Comey Barrett’s belief that the 14th Amendment is “illegitimate.” She argues the Court would not raise the issue, but Congress has the right to declare the 14th Amendment illegitimate. The decision would come down to Kavanagh deciding whether the 14th was properly ratified. 

 

[Anastasis 23443]

4 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Medicare Advantage plans suck. Him being an advocate for those plans is not a flex

That’s a debatable matter of policy. Over 50% of Medicare beneficiaries enroll in ma. If you want Medicare for all, ma is one pathway to that. 

[quigley 1534]

8 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

ACA is not Medicare. But other than that, good post. 

My mistake on the ACA.

You're right. Trump is going to expand Medicare... ADVANTAGE, which is just what Hartford wants.

[Dnaguy 11870]

5 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

And the effort to remove “birthright citizenship” will flow from Amy Comey Barrett’s belief that the 14th Amendment is “illegitimate.” She argues the Court would not raise the issue, but Congress has the right to declare the 14th Amendment illegitimate. The decision would come down to Kavanagh deciding whether the 14th was properly ratified. 

 

All the reconstruction era amendments are illegitimate when you think about it….

/Trump judges

[quigley 1534]

Just now, Anastasis said:

That’s a debatable matter of policy. Over 50% of Medicare beneficiaries enroll in ma. If you want Medicare for all, ma is one pathway to that. 

Bullshit. It's more expensive and provides worse coverage. Fuck off.

[Anastasis 23443]

1 minute ago, quigley said:

Bullshit. It's more expensive and provides worse coverage. Fuck off.

Objectively false. But again these are policy debates to be had. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Anastasis

[HornOnTheBayou 8896]

2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

lol, it’s all just people he sees on TV. Al Roker for NOAA

 

2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

Nono, the noaa is just going away. 

Why do you think he's giving it to the black guy? 

[SubliminalHorn 6767]

7 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

That’s a debatable matter of policy. Over 50% of Medicare beneficiaries enroll in ma. If you want Medicare for all, ma is one pathway to that. 

Yeah and they enroll in plans that have shitty reimbursements and since they are run by private insurance companies, will often deny coverage

[Anastasis 23443]

3 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Yeah and they enroll in plans that have shitty reimbursements and since they are run by private insurance companies, will often deny coverage

CMS sets the coverage criteria. 

[quigley 1534]

4 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Objectively false. But again these are policy debates to be had. 

Let me google this for you:

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/higher-and-faster-growing-spending-per-medicare-advantage-enrollee-adds-to-medicares-solvency-and-affordability-challenges/#:~:text=Medicare spent $321 more per person for,in 2019 for beneficiaries in traditional Medicare.

I work in this space you. Let me tell you how much people like having to change doctors because their advantage plan dictates it or if they like having meds rejected because prior authorizations. They don't.

Hartford benefits from this people don't.

5 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Yeah and they enroll in plans that have shitty reimbursements and since they are run by private insurance companies, will often deny coverage

It's marketing.

You're right. He's wrong.

[SubliminalHorn 6767]

2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

CMS sets the coverage criteria. 

Which advantage plans have many ways of denying coverage. And again, their reimbursement for many services suck, causing care to be limited. Believe me, I see it everyday 

[TexArcher 37744]

1 hour ago, TXSG8R said:

Herschel is gonna get a cabinet position…

Only if he gets that Sammy Sosa/Michael Jackson disease....

[tx 3 putt 76753]

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/18/wealthy-want-to-join-the-trump-administration-theres-a-tax-break-for-you-00189095

 

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There’s an arcane provision in the tax code that allows people who join the federal government to sell stock and other assets and put off paying the capital gains tax they’d owe.

 

 

 

[956 Worldwide 34649]

FFS people why are you arguing Doctor Oz’ policy ideas and playing into that deflection? He’s a celebrity TV doc and it doesn’t make a shit what his policy ideas are, he has no business running the nation’s largest social benefit program.  “Well Bob Vila knows his way around a job site, let’s hear his ideas for HUD.”  
 

It goes all the way to the top, even if DJT had good ideas, he’s a fake boss from TV.  He has no business being CINC of the global hegemon and all the people who put him there are really damn stupid. And yes, I stand by that, 48.9 percent of the adult electorate is stupid. 

[MissingInAction 24968]

2 hours ago, TexArcher said:

At this point, I'm guessing MTG for Secratury of Edyucashun and Mike Lindell for Solo Chief of the newly created Pillow Force.

Hahahhahahaha!

You wish!

[MissingInAction 24968]

3 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

FFS people why are you arguing Doctor Oz’ policy ideas and playing into that deflection? He’s a celebrity TV doc and it doesn’t make a shit what his policy ideas are, he has no business running the nation’s largest social benefit program.  “Well Bob Vila knows his way around a job site, let’s hear his ideas for HUD.”  
 

It goes all the way to the top, even if DJT had good ideas, he’s a fake boss from TV.  He has no business being CINC of the global hegemon and all the people who put him there are really damn stupid. And yes, I stand by that, 48.9 percent of the adult electorate is stupid. 

I admire your grip on sanity.

[bluto 4905]

2 hours ago, C-Man said:

 

 

Think Oprah would like a do-over on those two bozos?

 

 

I really don’t know that Oprah gives a rat fuck. They helped her get hers. 

[Anastasis 23443]

57 minutes ago, quigley said:

Bullshit. It's more expensive and provides worse coverage. Fuck off.

 

56 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Objectively false. But again these are policy debates to be had. 

 

44 minutes ago, quigley said:

Let me google this for you:

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/higher-and-faster-growing-spending-per-medicare-advantage-enrollee-adds-to-medicares-solvency-and-affordability-challenges/#:~:text=Medicare spent $321 more per person for,in 2019 for beneficiaries in traditional Medicare.

I work in this space you. Let me tell you how much people like having to change doctors because their advantage plan dictates it or if they like having meds rejected because prior authorizations. They don't.

Hartford benefits from this people don't.

It's marketing.

You're right. He's wrong.

MA plans are bound by the same NCDs and LCDs as traditional fee for service Medicare. Drug coverage is not provided by traditional Medicare, so that is just a diversion and irrelevant to this exchange. Yes, MA plans will leverage their networks. And more crucially imo, leverage outcomes based reimbursement schemes. Lots of room for improvement all around, no doubt, but the move from traditional fee for service to paying for outcomes is a move in the right direction imo. And traditional Medicare is not the driving force behind that movement. Providers that know or learn how to optimize their outcomes measures will benefit from that system, providers that just run a ffs shop will have challenges. Again, these are all good areas for policy debate. Oz, as least to the extent that you can rely on anything he has said previously, isn't going to burn Medicare down to the ground. 

 

 

[tx 3 putt 76753]

1 hour ago, washparkhorn said:

Nothing to fear — Senator Judas Fetterman will save Medicare. 

. . . or maybe not

 

 

oz is there to push the project 2025 agenda. he’ll have zero input and play along or he’ll be replaced asap 

[956 Worldwide 34649]

20 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

I admire your grip on sanity.

Evergreen:

https://theonion.com/you-know-now-that-i-think-about-it-settling-diplomati-1820799747/
 

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When Donald Trump asked me to be his secretary of state, I was honored to be given such an extraordinary opportunity to serve my country. I was confident I could transition from my job as the CEO of ExxonMobil to become America’s chief diplomat. But after 10 months in my new role, I’m beginning to think that maybe settling complicated disputes between historically hostile groups of people is quite a bit different than drilling for oil.

As it turns out, the two occupations really don’t have much in common at all.

Discovering new oil reserves and finding ways to extract them is one thing, but serving as a mediator in foreign conflicts between dozens of warring factions whose discord goes back years, if not centuries, is actually another thing entirely. I figured the four decades I spent locating places to drill for oil would translate extremely well to navigating the complex histories of other cultures in order to negotiate delicate compromises that prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. I thought there would be some similarities there, but apparently that’s just not the case. Seriously, I was way off on that one.

Truth be told, when I walked into the State Department on Day 1, I was convinced I’d be well-equipped to deal with ISIS and Bashar al-Assad in Syria, having previously worked with submersible pumps to draw hydrocarbons buried deep within the earth up to the surface for eventual refinement and sale. But come to find out, bringing peace to Syria has a lot to do with understanding the dozens of shifting alliances between various government forces, armed rebel groups, and supranational jihadist militants, and very little to do with, say, selecting the proper drilling fluid. I know that now.

I’m really very sorry.

In retrospect, this should have become clear to me much sooner. When I met Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi back in March, he kept talking to me about strategies to rein in Kim Jong-un’s nuclear program, and I kept waiting for the discussion to turn to techniques for boring through bedrock to find hidden caches of petroleum. Well, it never did. To be honest, I’m not really sure why I thought it would. 

To be sure, there are times during diplomatic negotiations when oil does come up. Just last month, when I visited Saudi Arabia and Qatar, oil was alluded to on multiple occasions. But it was really only mentioned in passing. Any time I tried to dive into specifics like surveying an area for potential sources of oil, conducting seismic tests to find underground reservoirs, setting up rigs, drilling multilateral wells, or injecting steam into fields to extract heavier crude, none of the other diplomats at the table showed much interest.

In fact, pretty much every time I bring up the subject of oil these days, people seem to want to talk about something else.

Look, I never thought absolutely crucial tasks like going to the U.N. to address the representatives of the nations that are party to the Iran nuclear deal would be easy. I just thought it would be a lot like drilling for oil or, at the very least, distributing petroleum products to the 11,000 ExxonMobil-branded service stations across the United States. But it isn’t, so I’m kind of at a loss here.

The more I think about it, though, there is one similarity: If I really screw up a diplomatic dispute, we’re ultimately going to just walk away from it, same as we do with an oil spill.

 

[MissingInAction 24968]

Thank you.

I attempt to apply the logic necessary to solve complex data issues to the world dynamic of commerce and politics.

I don't know shit about fuck.

Edited 1 hour ago by MissingInAction

[SKJ 1307]

Wtf

 

Trump taps former WWE CEO Linda McMahon as education secretary

 

https://ground.news/article/trump-taps-former-wwe-ceo-linda-mcmahon-as-education-secretary_6f7811?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

[InkaUtexas 25816]

55 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

FFS people why are you arguing Doctor Oz’ policy ideas and playing into that deflection? He’s a celebrity TV doc and it doesn’t make a shit what his policy ideas are, he has no business running the nation’s largest social benefit program.  “Well Bob Vila knows his way around a job site, let’s hear his ideas for HUD.”  
 

 

Please don't give them any ideas. With our luck won't even be bob villa but tim the toolman taylor.

[Biff Tannen 45643]

21 minutes ago, SKJ said:

Wtf

 

Trump taps former WWE CEO Linda McMahon as education secretary

 

https://ground.news/article/trump-taps-former-wwe-ceo-linda-mcmahon-as-education-secretary_6f7811?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

[Mole 4325]

Welcome to Costco, I love you!

[956 Worldwide 34649]

3 hours ago, C-Man said:

 

 

Think Oprah would like a do-over on those two bozos?

 

 

Oprah is part of our problem, remember “The Secret” phase.  The most influential and successful woman in America told her audience “hey you should just disconnect from material reality and instead believe absolute horseshit, you’ll be happier and better off.”  And we all kind of went along with it because Oprah seems pretty nice.