Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks

[mchookem 16727]

ikr

 

 

but like, this timeline? 

 

[TwiceHorn 31984]

2 hours ago, Balcones said:

Look, I get it. Democrats believe all women.

*unless they make claims against Dems.

Al Franken would like a word.

[StassneyHorn 6755]

Posting nude pics of a woman who wasn't aware she was exposed is bad. And should be negged and reported. 

[StassneyHorn 6755]

and also banned. Ban that guy

[tx ind 7056]

2 hours ago, Balcones said:

I 100% think anyone who sexually assaults a staffer or 17 year old should be in prison. 

[RomaVicta 30497]

2 hours ago, Balcones said:

If he did, as you claim, he should be in prison. Why have the democrat led FBI/DOJ not charged him yet? 

Sad.

Your whole view of government is a partisan sophistry scorecard. "How can I turn any event into a commentary on the ebil libs." Your determination to make everything about political party says more about you than anyone else. Your entire self-worth is tied to the success of a piece-of-shit human named Donald Trump who wears your jersey.

Just win, baby! 

I guess it's easier than thinking or maintaining any sort of a moral code. Your candidate is you. Your president-elect is you. Like him, you are shameless thus proud of being deplorable so long as you come out on top.

[RomaVicta 30497]

2 hours ago, Balcones said:

Your stance is you support a President who sexually assault his staff? Neither Biden or Gaetz have been charge, right?

 

Tara Reade alleged that Democratic nominee Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 in a Capitol Hill office building when she was a staff assistant in his office. Biden denied Reade's allegation.

 

2 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

She is also a Russian asset and defected last year.  Look it up.

Negged for spreading lies, Balcones.

[TexArcher 38816]

I just realized I'm going to punch at least one person at Thanksgiving.

[royiv 9676]

23 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

I just realized I'm going to punch at least one person at Thanksgiving.

There’s a very entertaining thread for these stories. Please, please contribute to it. We need comic relief.

[Bozo_Casanova 26773]

3 hours ago, Balcones said:

I 100% think anyone who sexually assaults a staffer or 17 year old should be in prison. 

Except for the ones that you elect president or appoint attorney general. 

Edited November 15 by Bozo_Casanova

[Evil Bill Obrien 3493]

5 hours ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

I am confident that 95% of Americans cant name more than 4 supreme court justices. It's crazy. I know tons of "smart" people that cannot do this. 

Well out of the first 4 I named off the top of my head only 1 was dead so think I did alright…no clue how I didn’t get Kavanaugh top 4 after all the drinking beer memes from his senate hearings…

[Bateshorn 9989]

Holy shit, they totally tricked him into resigning his seat. I think Susie Wiles just capped Matt Gaetz.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/us/lawmakers-demand-ethics-report-gaetz.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[Bozo_Casanova 26773]

30 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

I just realized I'm going to punch at least one person at Thanksgiving.

Not me. I am just going to laugh and laugh. I never wanted to live in Bartertown but I’ve always thought it was a possibility, and over that time I thought a lot about it, and wrote about it in passing here, and hedged accordingly. 
It feels weird to say, but I have felt mainly elated over the last week. Like I’m freed from worrying about whether the center would hold, freed from the anxiety of the ledge.

[hobbes2702 13350]

2 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

Would you fucking morons quit engaging with someone who is obviously either a troll or an 8 year old with a learning disorder?

No because he’s not a troll. Much like sack he’s just a piece of shit and those people need to be pointed out.

[C-Man 27684]

13 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

Holy shit, they totally tricked him into resigning his seat. I think Susie Wiles just capped Matt Gaetz.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/us/lawmakers-demand-ethics-report-gaetz.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Mind posting the article? I have sub to The Athletic but not NYT.

[wildcat09 29555]

1 minute ago, hobbes2702 said:

No because he’s not a troll. Much like sack he’s just a piece of shit and those people need to be pointed out.

Man, we can all see that without you assholes quoting every post he makes for fucking pages. 

[safe sex 11913]

3 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Mind posting the article? I have sub to The Athletic but not NYT.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/us/lawmakers-demand-ethics-report-gaetz.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE4.a18P.wtF2TpUjMq7w&smid=url-share

Gift link

[wood 11747]

3 hours ago, Ojo Rojo said:

An anti-vax crackpot as head of HHS.  This shit is fucking rich.  Wow!

Yeah, I mean ... was Dr. Nick just not available, or what?

[Bateshorn 9989]

31 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Mind posting the article? I have sub to The Athletic but not NYT.

I’ll try to do it in the AM. The big take away is Cronyn is calling for the release of records. Combined with Blanche being named deputy AG, kinda looks like they did Johnson a solid and rid him of his Gaetz problem.

[DDD Dad 14570]

5 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Well, if after granting POTUS, or this POTUS very strong immunity, it will at least be laughably ironic if they start cutting back everyone else's.  

Yea. Laughably. 
 

[Hermanator 7570]

1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

Man, we can all see that without you assholes quoting every post he makes for fucking pages. 

If every single person that posts here legitimately just put these jackasses on ignore they would go away. No fun to troll when no one acknowledges your existence. 

[WhatTheBuck 28904]

On 11/13/2024 at 5:33 PM, Chad Fuck said:

At least one is going to HUD.  

Not any news I've seen, just a feeling. 

There is precedent with Dr. Ben Carson, going to Housing and Urban Development, who admitted he wasn’t qualified to run a large bureaucracy (and took the job anyway), but whose experience suggested he should be placed somewhere like HHS. For some inexplicable reason he was placed at HUD. Makes you wonder what the thought process was. I don’t think it’s an unreasonable assumption to make that it was based on something superficial. 

[TwiceHorn 31984]

7 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

Yea. Laughably. 
 

I'm like bozo, I'm just laughing at all this shit.  My give-a-fuck is now officially broken.

[G650 14421]

8 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

It feels weird to say, but I have felt mainly elated over the last week. Like I’m freed from worrying about whether the center would hold, freed from the anxiety of the ledge.

I'm not sure I would say I'm elated, but my anxiety basically went poof last Wednesday.

 

I am cackling at every possible Trump nominee though.

[Thatguy 9286]

12 hours ago, Balcones said:

Look, I get it. Democrats believe all women.

*unless they make claims against Dems.

Weird that Reade popped up with that accusation right as Joe Biden was making a run for the Presidency right? Then she defected to Moscow, but that didn't seem strange to you at all. Full speed ahead. The math was simple addition to the rest of us but to you it was Ergodic Theory.

[Thatguy 9286]

Trump on the way to his next cabinet meeting

 

[Balcones 315]

30 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Weird that Reade popped up with that accusation right as Joe Biden was making a run for the Presidency right? Then she defected to Moscow, but that didn't seem strange to you at all. Full speed ahead. The math was simple addition to the rest of us but to you it was Ergodic Theory.

She and the Russians have been planning this for years!

(CNN)Newly surfaced video from 1993 appears to feature the mother of Tara Reade, a woman who accused presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden of sexual assault, calling into a cable TV show to seek advice around the time of the alleged assault. 
 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/25/politics/tara-reade-mom-larry-king

In a "Larry King Live" segment that aired on August 11, 1993, on CNN, an unnamed woman calls in to the show with her location identified on the screen as San Luis Obispo, California. The show was about the cutthroat nature of Washington, DC, politics and media.

"Yes, hello. I'm wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington?" she asks. "My daughter has just left there after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him."

 

[DigglerontheHoof 21516]

3 minutes ago, Balcones said:

She and the Russians have been planning this for years!

 

(CNN)Newly surfaced video from 1993 appears to feature the mother of Tara Reade, a woman who accused presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden of sexual assault, calling into a cable TV show to seek advice around the time of the alleged assault. 
 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/25/politics/tara-reade-mom-larry-king

In a "Larry King Live" segment that aired on August 11, 1993, on CNN, an unnamed woman calls in to the show with her location identified on the screen as San Luis Obispo, California. The show was about the cutthroat nature of Washington, DC, politics and media.

"Yes, hello. I'm wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington?" she asks. "My daughter has just left there after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him."

 

Now do Trump's 19 some-odd sexual assault accusations.  Don't forget his Epstein connections. 

[Thatguy 9286]

2 minutes ago, Balcones said:

She and the Russians have been planning this for years!

 

(CNN)Newly surfaced video from 1993 appears to feature the mother of Tara Reade, a woman who accused presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden of sexual assault, calling into a cable TV show to seek advice around the time of the alleged assault. 
 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/25/politics/tara-reade-mom-larry-king

In a "Larry King Live" segment that aired on August 11, 1993, on CNN, an unnamed woman calls in to the show with her location identified on the screen as San Luis Obispo, California. The show was about the cutthroat nature of Washington, DC, politics and media.

"Yes, hello. I'm wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington?" she asks. "My daughter has just left there after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him."

 

Again. Dead silence for 17 years and then as soon as election season comes here she comes right? Whether it is true or not there was a clear attempt to affect the election. Then she returns home in 2024 again just as election season starts claiming she again wants to press charges. But it had nothing to do with the election right?

 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/15/tara-reade-biden-assault-accuser-returns-to-us-from-russia-to-press-charges-a85707

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/politics/security-clearances-fbi-gabbard-gaetz/index.html
 

Quote

CNN — 

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candidates for administration jobs, people close to the transition planning say.

Trump and his allies believe the FBI system is slow and plagued with issues that could stymie the president-elect’s plan to quickly begin the work of implementing his agenda, people briefed on the plans said. Critics say the intrusive background checks sometimes turn up embarrassing information used to inflict political damage.

Skipping background checks because they might uncover disqualifying information. 

[RomaVicta 30497]

I hadn't heard this story. I looked up her name. Found this from Politico:

If she was assaulted or says she was, investigate all you want. If Biden assaulted her, he's a piece of shit and should pay for it.

I don't find the story credible, but I won't stand in the way of an investigation. 

There is a history of GOPs digging up women to make rape charges that are pretty iffy. Of course, Balcones story about what "some believe" about the call to Larry King is extremely convincing.

[bad_teammate 13479]

37 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Now do Trump's 19 some-odd sexual assault accusations.

Look over there!

The Democratic Party has no legs to stand on and their treatment of the sexual assault victims of their hero politicians has been unacceptable and disgusting since the days of JFK and probably even before. Playing off 50+-year-old men sleeping with 19+-year-old girls and women as them simply being naughty lotharios instead of abusers of power, status, and position. It's not cute; it's sexual assault and rape. It ruins these women's lives and then we point at them and mock them for being ruined.

"Oh you're going to trust a woman who dislikes the guy who raped/assaulted her when she was a teenager/early 20s? OH REALLY!? If she was a REAL victim and a REAL American she would know how dangerous DRUMPF is and shut the hell up!!! We all know real victims are 100% consistent all the time and tell everyone right away when a powerful man assaults them!!!"

All this "IT'S A RUSSIAN PSY-OP!" crap is as deranged as any Q-ANON crap. Maybe more deranged, because we're supposed to be the smart ones.

Edited November 15 by bad_teammate

[Anastasis 23699]

10 hours ago, TexArcher said:

I just realized I'm going to punch at least one person at Thanksgiving.

If I hear one motherfucker talking about seed oils they’re getting it. 

[The Royal We 3090]

9 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

I’ll try to do it in the AM. The big take away is Cronyn is calling for the release of records. Combined with Blanche being named deputy AG, kinda looks like they did Johnson a solid and rid him of his Gaetz problem.

Well at least we know that the Botox Bullyragger will just slink away quietly and totally won't make a scene dragging everyone else in the GQP through a river of shit.

So there's that. Which is nice.

[956 Worldwide 35516]

24 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

Look over there!

The Democratic Party has no legs to stand on and their treatment of the sexual assault victims of their hero politicians has been unacceptable and disgusting since the days of JFK and probably even before. Playing off 50+-year-old men sleeping with 19+-year-old girls and women as them simply being naughty lotharios instead of abusers of power, status, and position. It's not cute; it's sexual assault and rape. It ruins these women's lives and then we point at them and mock them for being ruined.

"Oh you're going to trust a woman who dislikes the guy who raped/assaulted her when she was a teenager/early 20s? OH REALLY!? If she was a REAL victim and a REAL American she would know how dangerous DRUMPF is and shut the hell up!!! We all know real victims are 100% consistent all the time and tell everyone right away when a powerful man assaults them!!!"

All this "IT'S A RUSSIAN PSY-OP!" crap is as deranged as any Q-ANON crap. Maybe more deranged, because we're supposed to be the smart ones.

Lol, Tara Reade moved to Moscow and asked for Russian citizenship and went on Russian-intelligence controlled media with a convicted Russian intelligence operative who she said was a great friend.  A little more there than “Q-Anon.” 

Edited November 15 by 956 Worldwide

[Balcones 315]

54 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Again. Dead silence for 17 years and then as soon as election season comes here she comes right? Whether it is true or not there was a clear attempt to affect the election. Then she returns home in 2024 again just as election season starts claiming she again wants to press charges. But it had nothing to do with the election right?

 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/15/tara-reade-biden-assault-accuser-returns-to-us-from-russia-to-press-charges-a85707

I believe all women! Especially those who come out of the woodwork to accuse Supreme Court nominees.

[Ragde 258]

11 hours ago, TexArcher said:

I just realized I'm going to punch at least one person at Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving died in my family a few years ago when an elderly uncle gave a couple of people shotguns. Had a cousin get really outraged over the "toys" being brought out during the holidays. I'd have preferred someone just get punched.

[wildcat09 29555]

I’m gonna start negging every poster that quotes the troll.

[Balcones 315]

8 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

I’m gonna start negging every poster that quotes the troll.

We believe Blassy Ford. We do not believe Reade.

We believe all of Gaetz political enemies. We do not believe a three year long Democrat led DOJ/FBI investigation of Gaetz.

Miss anything?

[Thatguy 9286]

29 minutes ago, Balcones said:

I believe all women! Especially those who come out of the woodwork to accuse Supreme Court nominees.

Again. Popped up both times Joe ran for Pres and only then. Also ran to Moscow. Show me anyone without both of those ties and we are in business. I hate when people argue in bad faith just for the sake of trying to win. I would never use a Russian op in an argument. It just makes you look stupid.

[Thatguy 9286]

22 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

I’m gonna start negging every poster that quotes the troll.

The troll doesn't bother me one bit. I love for people to make comments here just so I can throw it in their face when the inevitable happens. So you can say I am preparing to troll the troll.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13706]

Trump putting wild picks into the AG and HHS is a misdirection as they drastically change other agencies. What's more fun to discuss on MSNBC? New vaccine rules or gutting 1000s of jobs in unknown departments? 

And high probability that Gaetz remains in the House. Trump probably has to throw one to the Senate to let them reject. It removes scrutiny on other nominees. Gaetz would agree to being cannon fodder to get a Trump pardon or two.

[Balcones 315]

3 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Again. Popped up both times Joe ran for Pres and only then. Also ran to Moscow. Show me anyone without both of those ties and we are in business. I hate when people argue in bad faith just for the sake of trying to win. I would never use a Russian op in an argument. It just makes you look stupid.

You got me. Obviously Ed Snowden is Russian operative too. 

[immamac 44197]

2 minutes ago, Balcones said:

You got me. Obviously Ed Snowden is Russian operative too. 

Snowden did massive damage to the intelligence community and did so completely illegally. It doesn't matter if you think what he did was right or wrong he's a criminal and fled to gain protection. 

You are on my last nerve. Stop fucking things up in threads and provoking people with nonsense. If you want to talk policy or beliefs/viewpoints go ahead stop coming in off the top rope with conspiracy bullshit and easily disprovable nonsense or hand wavy distraction equivalence. 

 

[CooterBrown 18272]

[TexArcher 38816]

[Schulz2.0 29241]

[DDD Dad 14570]

2 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

So far.

[TreatyOak 17194]

I feel a lot better about RFK Jr. ever since he clearly explained why he transported and dumped a dead bear in Central Park, and staged it to look like it died in a collision with a bicycle rider. For a while, I thought that was a really strange thing to do. Whew! 

[DixonHur 11938]

39 minutes ago, CooterBrown said: