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DeSantis is better than a potential neo nazi for SecDef because he is eyeing Trumps job, we need the most amount of buffering between Project 2025 people and the military.

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Incidentally, “recess appointments” are what Matt Gaetz calls his dates. 

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Gaetz thought he’d be working with JV Dance and bailed when he found out it was JD Vance. 

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20 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I'm sure all of our free speech warriors we heard so much from during the campaign won't stand for this. 

The people that cry hardest for free speech are actually arguing the opposite

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If DeSantis has decided that he wants to be SecDef, Pete is in trouble. Ron is a legit 2028 candidate and some gop senators will want to kiss up to him now, at least quietly.

If Dems senators were smart about it, they would be playing games about Pete and the gop. Start making noise that you have an open mind about Pete. Force DeSantis to use more and more political capital. DeSantis doesn’t want to be the second choice after Pete loses the nomination. He wants Pete to drop out now.

 

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5 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

If DeSantis has decided that he wants to be SecDef, Pete is in trouble. Ron is a legit 2028 candidate and some gop senators will want to kiss up to him now, at least quietly.

If Dems senators were smart about it, they would be playing games about Pete and the gop. Start making noise that you have an open mind about Pete. Force DeSantis to use more and more political capital. DeSantis doesn’t want to be the second choice after Pete loses the nomination. He wants Pete to drop out now.

 

Why would he want it?

Its all liability.

You’re going to be blamed for anything that goes wrong in regards to Ukraine or a likely china invasion of Taiwan……

Oh and Have fun with administering the anti Trans agenda on the military.

Any cabinet job is a trap for anyone who doesn’t just want to lick Trumps boots or want it to facilitate their own grift.

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38 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

Why would he want it?

Its all liability.

You’re going to be blamed for anything that goes wrong in regards to Ukraine or a likely china invasion of Taiwan……

Oh and Have fun with administering the anti Trans agenda on the military.

Any cabinet job is a trap for anyone who doesn’t just want to lick Trumps boots or want it to facilitate their own grift.

Why would DeSantis want the job? His current job ends in two years. He’s a lame duck governor right now and Trump will ensure the headlines stay in DC not Tallahassee.

i do agree that DeSantis would be better off appointing himself as Rubio’s replacement. He can then be more independent in DC and appear nightly on TV. Is there a law preventing Ron from appointing himself? Does he meet the senate height requirement while barefoot?

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A simple Dem strategy should just to say that some in the GOP are actually fighting Trump/Hegseth.  Make the media go with the story about GOP infighting.

The GOP has such slim margins in the house and senate. Stir the gop groups up against each other. 

but Dems suck at strategy.

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9 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

A simple Dem strategy should just to say that some in the GOP are actually fighting Trump/Hegseth.  Make the media go with the story about GOP infighting.

The GOP has such slim margins in the house and senate. Stir the gop groups up against each other. 

but Dems suck at strategy.

I don't fully agree it was GOP humilation that got Mike Johnson the speakership, after like 30 rounds of voting they got tired of being the idiot party.

 

Silent GOP obstructionism is the only thing we have for the next two years, barring one or two more retirements in the house. I think the lead after all the retirements and resignations (Gaetz lol) is just two representatives, just one flip and that is all she wrote.

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But the closer one looks, the more complicated the image appears: The 220-member majority includes Florida’s Matt Gaetz, who recently resigned weeks after winning his re-election bid. It also includes Republican Reps. Elise Stefanik of New York and Michael Waltz of Florida, both of whom are poised to give up their seats to join the Trump administration.

Yes, there will be special elections to fill those vacancies, and Republicans like their chances of keeping those seats. But as a practical matter, in the first few months of the next Congress, the balance of power will be 217 to 215.

As a matter of arithmetic, on key votes in which Democrats are united in opposition, that means the House GOP conference will have to be completely united to succeed. If even one Republican member balks, it will be enough to derail the party’s legislative endeavors. (A 216-216 vote constitutes failure. Bills need a majority to advance.)

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Here we go again.  You see Pete, the whole thing about NATO is, we haven't had to "do that" again in 75 years.  In other words.  It has worked.  Quite well.

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5 hours ago, 27-25 said:

Here we go again.  You see Pete, the whole thing about NATO is, we haven't had to "do that" again in 75 years.  In other words.  It has worked.  Quite well.

Ignore the Geneva Convention.

Goddamn globalists.

Also, it appears that he is criticizing our participation in WWI and WWII?

This guy is a complete fucking assclown.

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Sacks acts like he’s this independent billionaire who made it in his own but he’s a toady for Elon and Thiel. How nice for Elon that the AI czar will be able to slow down Open AI or Anthropic so Elon’s xAI can catch up. Gotta have competition here but god forbid if the govt helps other EV manufacturers.

 


 

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46 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Sacks acts like he’s this independent billionaire who made it in his own but he’s a toady for Elon and Thiel. How nice for Elon that the AI czar will be able to slow down Open AI or Anthropic so Elon’s xAI can catch up. Gotta have competition here but god forbid if the govt helps other EV manufacturers.

 


 

Isn't it great when the government picks winners and losers???? [/businessboard]

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Sacks acts like he’s this independent billionaire who made it in his own but he’s a toady for Elon and Thiel. How nice for Elon that the AI czar will be able to slow down Open AI or Anthropic so Elon’s xAI can catch up. Gotta have competition here but god forbid if the govt helps other EV manufacturers.

 


 

Yes, this is certainly needed and definitely goes along with the office of government efficiency whatever.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/us/politics/trump-administration-loyalty-test.html

 

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At the Trump transition offices in West Palm Beach, Fla., prospective occupants of high posts inside the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies typically run through a gamut of three to four interviews, conducted in recent weeks by a mix of Silicon Valley investors and innovators and a team of the MAGA faithful.

The applicants report that they have been asked about how to overhaul the Pentagon, or what technologies could make the intelligence agencies more effective, or how they feel about the use of the military to enforce immigration policy. But before they leave, some of them have been asked a final set of questions that seemed designed to assess their loyalty to President-elect Donald J. Trump.

 

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The questions went further than just affirming allegiance to the incoming administration. The interviewers asked which candidate the applicants had supported in the three most recent elections, what they thought about the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and whether they believed the 2020 election was stolen. The sense they got was that there was only one right answer to each question.

This account is based on interviews with nine people who either interviewed for jobs in the administration or were directly involved in the process. Among those were applicants who said they gave what they intuited to be the wrong answer — either decrying the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 or saying that President Biden won in 2020. Their answers were met with silence and the taking of notes. They didn’t get the jobs.

 

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Three of the people interviewed are close to the transition team and confirmed that loyalty questions were part of some interviews across multiple agencies, and that the Trump team researched what candidates had said about Mr. Trump on the day of the Capitol riot and in the days following. Candidates are also rated on a scale of one to four in more than a half-dozen categories, including competence.

Karoline Leavitt, the incoming White House press secretary, declined to address specific questions about the topics being raised in job interviews. Instead, she said: “President Trump will continue to appoint highly qualified men and women who have the talent, experience, and necessary skill sets to make America great again.”

 

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Previous administrations, of course, have also been interested in whether new hires were aligned with the president’s agenda. But the distinction between Mr. Trump’s process and past ones is that the interest goes well beyond alignment on policy. The Trump transition team appears to be trying to figure out whether prospective hires have ever shown a hint of daylight between themselves and Mr. Trump on specific issues, particularly as he tried to revise the history of his final weeks in office and its aftermath.

Mr. Trump has maintained that Jan. 6, when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol, was actually an event filled with “love.” He has insisted that no one who was arrested was armed; criminal indictments say otherwise. He has described people convicted and imprisoned for their role in the Capitol attack as “hostages” and he has claimed, falsely, that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist and pro-MAGA podcaster, is among those conducting the loyalty tests, along with members of the personnel team. That team is led by Sergio Gor, who has helped run the publishing company that produces the president-elect’s books and ran a multimillion-dollar super PAC that supported Mr. Trump.

The more policy-focused interviews have been conducted by members of the transition staff and by potential agency heads, such as Kash Patel, Mr. Trump’s choice to lead the F.B.I., and Tulsi Gabbard, his pick to be director of national intelligence.

For some applicants, the process was a jarring mix of substantive policy discussions and clear attempts to assess their fealty. Two applicants said they were impressed by the quality of the questions on how to get new technology into the Pentagon, or change the structure of the intelligence agencies, only to be shocked by the final questions.

‘Traitors’ and ‘Snakes’

Mr. Trump has long been fixated on the concept of loyalty, but past criticism is not always a deal breaker. Vice President-elect JD Vance once called himself a “Never Trump guy” and said Mr. Trump was “unfit” for the office. Mr. Trump’s pick for secretary of state, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, once described Mr. Trump as a “con artist” who couldn’t be trusted with the nuclear codes.

Many of the people who worked for Mr. Trump in his first term and, to a lesser extent, those entering his next administration have said something critical about him at some point in time, given his hostile takeover of the Republican Party in 2016.

But he has transformed the G.O.P. in his image, and many of those past critics have now become vocal defenders of the Trump worldview.

Mr. Trump has told advisers that his biggest regret from his first term was appointing “traitors,” some of whom came to view him as a threat to democracy. He has singled out for especially harsh attacks his chief of staff, John F. Kelly, who has called Mr. Trump a fascist; his defense secretaries, Jim Mattis and Mark T. Esper; and his attorneys general, Jeff Sessions and William P. Barr.

Mr. Barr is a staunch conservative who satisfied Mr. Trump right up until the final weeks of his presidency, when he refused to use the Justice Department to help Mr. Trump overturn the 2020 election.

Mr. Trump had grown convinced that the “deep state” was out to get him during his first impeachment trial, which focused on his effort to pressure President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to investigate the son of his political rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr.

He became fixated on the bow-tie wearing State Department official George Kent, who testified against him. Mr. Trump demanded to know how someone like Mr. Kent, who would offer unflattering testimony, could be working in his government.

At the time, Mr. Trump brought back into the White House his close aide and “body man,” John McEntee, to serve as his loyalty cop. Mr. McEntee had no experience in government hiring but Mr. Trump appointed him in early 2020 to take over the powerful presidential personnel office — giving him the specific task of finding and firing the “snakes.”

Mr. McEntee got to work fast. He and his team incorporated a questionnaire designed to test loyalty in the hiring of government employees. As they were doing that, Mr. Trump’s lawyers were quietly working on a plan, called Schedule F, that would make it much easier to fire career civil servants. Such employees have protections to keep a stable level of expertise from one administration to the next, regardless of whether the presidency switches from one political party to the other.

Mr. Trump’s allies have made clear that Schedule F will be brought back in his second term.

 

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The leader of South Korea, who ordered the arrest of his political enemies was rebuked, and Democracy seems to have held in South Korea.  

 

You know that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, sure wished he had his Pete Hegseth in charge of the military....   might have been a completely different story.

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5 hours ago, C-Man said:

Um …

‘Trump’s pick for Surgeon General caused tragic gun accident as child that left dad shot dead: report’

https://nypost.com/2024/12/07/us-news/trumps-pick-for-surgeon-general-accidentally-shot-and-killed-her-father-report/

Well at least we know their treatment plan for when bird flu breaks out wide

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1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

Men, I'm starting to think that stashing guns in every drawer, cabinet, and shelf of my house is actually a bad idea.

What are you, a communist? It’s right there in the got dang articles of confederation that “thou shalt keep thy tacklebox above thy head in thy bedroom and thy fishing gun shall remain loaded inside ye tacklebox above thy head.” Educate yourself, Aggie08!

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I know it's fucked up to say about a 13 year old, but there's gotta be like a 45% chance that she shot her father, right? Maybe not on purpose, maybe just didn't think it was loaded, but pretty likely the gun was in her hands. 

A little more believable than her standing on a bed next to her completely asleep father while she searches for something in a fucking tacklebox on the shelf directly above his head, only for the gun to fall perfectly enough onto a mattress to discharge into dad's brain.

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I know it's fucked up to say about a 13 year old, but there's gotta be like a 45% chance that she shot her father, right? Maybe not on purpose, maybe just didn't think it was loaded, but pretty likely the gun was in her hands. 

A little more believable than her standing on a bed next to her completely asleep father while she searches for something in a fucking tacklebox on the shelf directly above his head, only for the gun to fall perfectly enough onto a mattress to discharge into dad's brain.

Just one more thing, Ms. Nesheiwat…  

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While not a cabinet pick, it's looking more likely that DeSantis will appoint Lara Trump as Rubio's replacement in the Senate. She resigned as go-GOP national leader today.

I can't believe that DeSantis would do this move without something for himself, and I don't think that he would be dumb enough to do this solely on a promise that Trump will take care of him in '26 when he's out as FL governor. Makes me wonder if we're closer to Hegseth being out.

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3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

who stores their fishing equipment on a shelf over their bed?

If I've learned anything over the past 10 years or so, it is that I have way, way underestimated the potential for humans to do stupid things.  Further, the variety and number of said stupid things is far beyond my comprehension.  Like Carl Sagan's "billions and billions" of stupid things.  I am constantly amazed by the things my poor brain could not conceive, yet here I see there is some human doing it.  Usually for innerwebz clicks that cannot be bought, sold or used to feed themselves.  What's more, there is evidently a carve out for hotties showing their goods, because, you know, undefeated.   They alone can be bought, sold or feed off of innverwebz points.  The mind boggles.  

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8 hours ago, aggie08 said:

Men, I'm starting to think that stashing guns in every drawer, cabinet, and shelf of my house is actually a bad idea.

When I was 19 years old I went with a couple of friends down to Alice, Texas to visit the relatives of one of them. That friend warned us about his crazy uncle, who lived alone, it turned out, in a small, rundown house.  He seemed nice enough, but after a few minutes he started showing us all the pistols, rifles and knives he had stashed around. He'd say things like "And if they come in that window, I can just reach under this pillow right here and blast them with this .357.  If they come in through the back door and I'm in my kitchen, I can grab THIS pistol under the frying pan and this rifle I got hidden behind the refrigerator."  I asked my friend later "has he ever had any cause to use any of those?"  He said "dude, this is Alice. There's no violent crime here at all. The last murder occurred in 1949, when a radio DJ was murdered by a deputy sheriff.  He's lived in that house for 30 years and we're all amazed he hasn't shot and accidentally killed himself."

 

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These people are all certifiably insane.

Or they're incredible grifters.

Or both. 

Nothing they say means fuck all. He can literally say the exact opposite tomorrow, and no one on the right will correct him.

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The leader of South Korea, who ordered the arrest of his political enemies was rebuked, and Democracy seems to have held in South Korea.  

 

You know that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, sure wished he had his Pete Hegseth in charge of the military....   might have been a completely different story.

Actually he did, he resigned after the coup and now faces charges. We need the most amount of buffering possible

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On Thursday, Yoon's Defense Minister, Kim Yong-hyun, resigned. Kim recommended the declaration to Yoon, according to impeachment documents targeting Yoon and South Korea's interior minister. He also ordered troops deployed to Parliament, according to Vice-Defense Minister Kim Seon-ho – almost 300 troops stormed the building after the declaration, South Korea's secretary general said.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/12/05/south-korea-defense-minister-resigns-martial-law-backlash/76791601007/

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