Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks

[HornOnTheBayou 8897]

28 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

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

At this point, I would take Wilson the Neighbor. Come to think of it, Wilson the Neighbor is about as good as we're going to get.

[MissingInAction 24979]

7 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

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. 

We are right there together waiting in our straight jackets  for our hourly dose of thorazine.

[Biff Tannen 45651]

4 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

We are right there together waiting in our straight jackets  for our hourly dose of thorazine.

This may be preferable soon. 

[tx 3 putt 76801]

[Anastasis 23445]

16 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

We are right there together waiting in our straight jackets  for our hourly dose of thorazine.

There are many posters here that would benefit from some light antipsychotics sprinkled into their breakfast. 

[Anastasis 23445]

Medicare Advantage even covers the long acting versions. As long as you can clear the PA. 

[Brisketexan 104940]

Herschel is gonna get a cabinet position…

I mean, at this point, aren’t we pretty much praying for that? It really would be the best possible outcome. You can’t have a complete train wreck of an admin if you don’t fill it with utterly deranged conductors.

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. 

Ummm….no. See below.

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

Oz will cause pain and chaos, or he will be booted.

[Anastasis 23445]

22 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I mean, at this point, aren’t we pretty much praying for that? It really would be the best possible outcome. You can’t have a complete train wreck of an admin if you don’t fill it with utterly deranged conductors.

Ummm….no. See below.

Oz will cause pain and chaos, or he will be booted.

The biggest expansions of Medicare over the last 25 years have occurred under republican administrations. Oz is more likely to continue that trend than swim against that stream. 

 

Edited 11 hours ago by Anastasis

[Da Fino 2768]

1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

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. 

I think the worry is that he doesn’t know what he’s doing and it’s not actually going to be his decision to act on it. 

[Anastasis 23445]

1 minute ago, Da Fino said:

I think the worry is that he doesn’t know what he’s doing and it’s not actually going to be his decision to act on it. 

 

Just going on what I read here. Zoom out and that describes most individuals in the government. 

[Brisketexan 104940]

The biggest expansions of Medicare over the last 25 years has occurred under republican administrations. Oz is more likely to continue that trend than swim against that stream. 
 

Wait…you think this is a Republican administration? FFS, it’s a chaos-agent reality TV administration riddled with malignant fascists and oligarchs. It’s at most Republican-adjacent, at least if we define “Republican” as the party you’re referring to from the past.

[Da Fino 2768]

Just now, Anastasis said:

 

Just going on what I read here. Zoom out and that describes most individuals in the government. 

That describes most people. 

[Anastasis 23445]

Just now, Brisketexan said:

Wait…you think this is a Republican administration? FFS, it’s a chaos-agent reality TV administration riddled with malignant fascists and oligarchs. It’s at most Republican-adjacent, at least if we define “Republican” as the party you’re referring to from the past.

I'll wager any amount you wish on Medicare expansion vs. contraction over the next 4 years. 

[tx 3 putt 76801]

2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Wait…you think this is a Republican administration? FFS, it’s a chaos-agent reality TV administration riddled with malignant fascists and oligarchs. It’s at most Republican-adjacent, at least if we define “Republican” as the party you’re referring to from the past.

 

oz will be backed by a building full of new employees hand picked by project 2025 

[Anastasis 23445]

1 minute ago, Da Fino said:

That describes most people. 

democracy is fun, right?

[Da Fino 2768]

2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

I'll wager any amount you wish on Medicare expansion vs. contraction over the next 4 years. 

So bold. 

[Anastasis 23445]

4 minutes ago, Da Fino said:

So bold. 

I was told there was going to be olds dying in the streets. But those olds are maybe boomers. And they have it coming to them. Its all very complex. 

Edited 11 hours ago by Anastasis

[InkaUtexas 25836]

Just now, Anastasis said:

I was told there was going to be olds dying in the streets. But that olds are maybe boomers. And they have it coming to them. 

So boomer dying in the streets is ok with you? Quite a Mao take you have there.

[Anastasis 23445]

4 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

So boomer dying in the streets is ok with you? Quite a Mao take you have there.

I was told they were the worst and most selfish generation. So you tell me. 

Edited 10 hours ago by Anastasis

[DixonHur 11290]

7 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

So boomer dying in the streets is ok with you? Quite a Mao take you have there.

[InkaUtexas 25836]

2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

I was told they were the worst and most selfish generation. So you tell me. 

When the fuck did I ever say that?

Maybe stop listening to Maoist. Good thing Bernie is older than a boomer or he would have to take one for your team.

Man, just go track obscure greek protests please.

[Anastasis 23445]

4 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Man, just go track obscure greek protests please.

The FDA has under the current administration literally been promoting unproven claims regarding drugs they are supposedly regulating and y'all think that Trump appointments are a threat to the system. Maoist, lol. 

[InkaUtexas 25836]

5 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

The FDA has under the current administration literally been promoting unproven claims regarding drugs they are supposedly regulating and y'all think that Trump appointments are a threat to the system. Maoist, lol. 

How many are you on?

[Anastasis 23445]

Just now, InkaUtexas said:

How many are you on?

Not enough apparently. 

[Da Fino 2768]

8 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

The FDA has under the current administration literally been promoting unproven claims regarding drugs they are supposedly regulating and y'all think that Trump appointments are a threat to the system. Maoist, lol. 

Did I miss this page? What drugs are we talking about? 

[InkaUtexas 25836]

Just now, Da Fino said:

Did I miss this page? What drugs are we talking about? 

Not sure, but Ana seems to still have some.

[Anastasis 23445]

Just now, Da Fino said:

Did I miss this page? What drugs are we talking about? 

Paxlovid, as just one example, but a particularly egregious one. 

[Da Fino 2768]

1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

Paxlovid, as just one example, but a particularly egregious one. 

So this is a Covid thing?

[Anastasis 23445]

Just now, Da Fino said:

So this is a Covid thing?

This is an evidence based medicine and FDA role/responsibility thing. 

 

But Dr. Oz I guess. 

[Da Fino 2768]

2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

But Dr. Oz I guess. 

He’ll crack the case. 

[Anastasis 23445]

1 minute ago, Da Fino said:

He’ll crack the case. 

I see the point conceded. 

[Da Fino 2768]

8 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

I see the point conceded. 

You’re not wrong. You’re just an asshole. 

[Anastasis 23445]

2 minutes ago, Da Fino said:

You’re not wrong. You’re just an asshole. 

And I will concede that. 

[Da Fino 2768]

2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

And I will concede that. 

Ok then. 

[InkaUtexas 25836]

[Hookah Horns 3083]

36 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

The FDA has under the current administration literally been promoting unproven claims regarding drugs they are supposedly regulating and y'all think that Trump appointments are a threat to the system. Maoist, lol. 

Seems kinda fallacious to say that there's no reason to worry bc the fda has already done bad things. 

[Anastasis 23445]

Just now, Hookah Horns said:

Seems kinda fallacious to say that there's no reason to worry bc the fda has already done bad things. 

The FDA and CDC and CMS will be fine. They are slow moving ships. We've all been through this before. Fucking Gottlieb was one of the best FDA heads in recent memory. Revolving door to PFE notwithstanding. 

[Willfully Horn 7985]

12 hours ago, bolverk said:

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.

Sworn testimony? That’s equivalent to fake news in comparison to the truth a computer’s hard drive offers, once sanctified through the Stanley Cup protocol. If only the testimony was, instead, a discovery from a purloined personal diary.
 

 

[RomaVicta 29878]

7 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

We are right there together waiting in our straight jackets  for our hourly dose of thorazine.

I opened the NYT because I can't sleep tonight. TFG. A wrestling executive, a wacky TV doctor, and a sex offender walk into a bar the White House.

What a sentence about the trend of selecting TV stars to run the government. His immediate family had/grifted enough last time to last them forever.

Emergency powers activated to round up Pedro and Maria using the Army will really start the fun. Let's get the American people accustomed to military presence on the streets. Pedro and Maria might be safer in the concentration camps than being hunted down by angry white men on those same streets. 

I'm sure y'all have been turning this stuff over. I guess I just felt like quoting news stories and commenting about absolutely unforeseeable occurences to me forty years ago.

Thanks for indulging me. I'm still largely shrugging about all this. It will change when the first stories about naturalized American citizens of color being found beaten to death in the first stochastic ejaculation of Trumpism Part 2. But I still won't be able to do anything about it.

Maybe the professional wrestling lady will do a great job with education.

I'd like to say Idiot World doesn't care, but, in reality, the idiots will high-five and applaud.

[SubliminalHorn 6774]

Can’t wait to see what Medicare is like when it’s “expanded” to be run exclusively by private insurers 

[Bozo_Casanova 26412]

So is Medicaid going to cover my Garcia Cambodia gummies or what 

[GreenspointTexas 9593]

We need to legit have a thread to see who graduated from UT Austin

[SydneyCarton 47999]

1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said:

We need to legit have a thread to see who graduated from UT Austin

You won't like what you find. 

[TexArcher 37748]

I mean, sure, a former WWE executive is going to dismantle public education.  Of course that's going to happen.

[Ojo Rojo 1931]

16 hours ago, Pancho said:

 

Is she the WWE chick?  Has to be, right?

[Ojo Rojo 1931]

17 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

i'm gonna start looking up past winners of The Apprentice to see which of them Trump might name to his cabinet.

I would say Omarion or whatever her name was, but you know....