The Trump Administration and Cabinet.

[sparebulb]

We should set up a pool for guessing the number of zio-joowz that will be selected.

 

[spudea]

Prediction, SoS will be Richard Grenell, not little Marco.

 

[Snowball]

Trump basically appoints ghost of John McCain as National Security Advisor.
(Rep. Mike Waltz) Walz is an uber-hawk, was pro-Ukraine War, mentored under Rumsfeld and Gates, and spent most of his career in the army. Waltz has recently spoke about escalating the U.S. role in Ukraine, and sanctions enforcement against Russia and China. Waltz was against leaving Afghanistan in 2022, and also voted to include all American women in a future military draft.

Trump appoints Rep. Lee Zeldin, political science major, army reservist and lawyer to head Environmental Protection Agency. Zeldin
ranks among the worst politicians for the environment, scoring only 14 out of 100 by the League of Conservation Voters.


Trump appoints rep. Elise Stepanik as U.N. Ambassador.Stepanik was awarded the "Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson Defender of Israel Award" by the Zionist Organization of America, probably because she led the charge in Congress to stufle freedom of speech and freedom of assembly on college campuses, and was proud about forcing UPenn and Harvard presidents to resign, because they allowed anti-war protests on campus.

Trump reported to tap Marco Rubio for State.

Israeli finance minister Smotrich says the Trump victory gives Israel the opportunity to annex the West Bank (and Gaza), a position advocated by the prior Trump envoy to Israel, David Friendman. Friedman is also rumored to be Trump's envoy again. Smotrich has declared 2025 will be, "with God's help, the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria" which means the expulsion of all Palestinians from both West Bank and Gaza.

 

[spudea]

Backlash to the Rubio rumor. The decision is still open.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/12/rubio-news-triggers-maga-backlash-00189024

 

[CaptUSA]

Mike Huckabee - Ambassador to Israel

 

[Snowball]

I'm sickeningly listening to Waltz around 14 minutes in, but you should start at the beginning. How are these people so stupid? Exporting our oil and gas to Ukraine? Europe? All that would do is raise prices for Americans at the pump and in the home. There isn't going to be any deflationary effect if Trump pursues a policy of "energy dominance" (a term he told Zeldin, his EPA choice), and seeks to drill baby drill (in areas that shouldn't be) for the sake of what, the military and political complex, not for Americans. Keep the oil and gas at home. But no, this isn't what they have in mind at all. They ridiculously think they can drill whatever is left in the American West and up in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and this will somehow challenge Saudi Arabia and Russia as oil producers. Well I got news for you, by the time those new claims will be approved and constructed, the Dems will already be winning in the polls for 2028. If supply can EVER reduce the price of gas/oil in a demand structure this enormous, it can ONLY happen if we don't have 700 bases around the world and seek to sell our new production to the world, as if we can replace Russia and the Middle East.
You've heard enough of me. I'm giving up because our system is so corrupt that only the least qualified, most corrupt and narcissistic asshats can get in political power.
You might have not given up hope yet, but that doesn't make you correct.

 

[Snowball]

I'm sickeningly listening to Waltz around 14 minutes in, but you should start at the beginning. How are these people so stupid? Exporting our oil and gas to Ukraine? Europe? All that would do is raise prices for Americans at the pump and in the home. There isn't going to be any deflationary effect if Trump pursues a policy of "energy dominance" (a term he told Zeldin, his EPA choice), and seeks to drill baby drill (in areas that shouldn't be) for the sake of what, the military and political complex, not for Americans. Keep the oil and gas at home. But no, this isn't what they have in mind at all. They ridiculously think they can drill whatever is left in the American West and up in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and this will somehow challenge Saudi Arabia and Russia as oil producers. Well I got news for you, by the time those new claims will be approved and constructed, the Dems will already be winning in the polls for 2028. If supply can EVER reduce the price of gas/oil in a demand structure this enormous, it can ONLY happen if we don't have 700 bases around the world and seek to sell our new production to the world, as if we can replace Russia and the Middle East.
You've heard enough of me. I'm giving up because our system is so corrupt that only the least qualified, most corrupt and narcissistic asshats can get in political power.
You might have not given up hope yet, but that doesn't make you correct.

 

[Origanalist]

 

[Origanalist]

 

[Origanalist]

 

[PAF]

The Born Overnight and All Of A Sudden New "Libertarians"!

Just In Time To Help Forge A New Technocratic Society!

- As a Biotech CEO Vivek Ramaswamy signed a letter supporting the “principles and best practices to increase gender diversity” in the life sciences industry, just five years later Ramaswamy became a mouthpiece against similar goals.

Vivek Ramaswamy cosigned a 2017 “Open Letter to the BioPharma Community” that includes an explicit commitment “to drive diversity as a top priority.”


- In 2020, he called a bill "sensible" from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that would provide people taxpayer-backed masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. But on Aug. 1, 2023, Ramaswamy replied, "No," when asked if he "ever supported 'Masks for All' legislation by Bernie Sanders," records show.

Claiming that he is the “true outsider”:


Vivek Ramaswamy's Roivant Advisory Board

Kathleen Sebelius

Kathleen Sebelius previously served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Barack Obama, where she presided over 11 operating divisions, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health and oversaw the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Before that, she served as governor of Kansas.

https://theorg.com/org/roivant-scien...hleen-sebelius
https://www.marketscreener.com/busin...R-E/biography/


Tom Daschle

Senator Daschle is one of the longest serving Senate Democratic leaders in history and one of only two to serve twice as both Majority and Minority Leader. During his tenure, Senator Daschle navigated the Senate through some of its most historic economic and national security challenges. He served for three years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force Strategic Command. After military service, he spent five years as an aide to South Dakota Senator James Abourezk before seeking elected office. Senator Daschle is the Founder and CEO of The Daschle Group, A Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donelson. As a well-known expert on health policy reform, he has written two books: "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis" and "Getting It Done: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate to Make Way for Health Care Reform"

https://biography.omicsonline.org/un...daschle-967225


Olympia Snowe

Republican Senator Maine
Senate Armed Services Committee Subcommittee

Memory-holed - Data, once present, is no longer present.

In Ramaswamy’s Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence, he proposes the idea of a 59% minimum inheritance tax.

Ramaswamy draws the number from suggestions proposed by economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez.

Piketty, an avowed socialist, authored Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021.

“Piketty argues that the time has come to support an inclusive and expansive conception of socialism as a counterweight against the hypercapitalism that defines our current economic ideology,” the book’s Amazon description reads.

Saez co-authored The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay, which advocates a “form of capitalist reformism similar to that of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,” according to World Socialist Web Site.

“If anything, I’d take the figure Piketty and Saez arrive at as a minimum. We shouldn’t allow people to become billionaires just by having rich parents”, Ramaswamy wrote.

- Vivek Ramaswamy Tried To Sell The Feds A National Medical Surveillance System


- Vivek Ramaswamy Strikes Again, This Time Launching a Beijing-based Biotech Player with a Pipeline

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy stated in a Tuesday Twitter post that he is the only candidate who has committed, as president, to “militarily defending Taiwan” against China. Expanding on his war pledge, Ramaswamy wrote:

I favor strategic clarity: Defend Taiwan vigorously until the U.S. achieves semiconductor independence, then resume the posture of strategic ambiguity when the stakes are lower for the U.S. The American way of life depends on leading-edge semiconductors manufactured in Taiwan, and we can’t risk China gaining near-total leverage over the entire U.S. economy.​

In the meantime, Ramaswamy calls for the US government to pursue expansive militaristic activities in and near Taiwan, stating “the U.S. should rapidly arm and train Taiwan with Anti-Access/Area Denial weapons while running at least one destroyer warship through the Taiwan Strait each week.” That sounds like a recipe for provoking the attack by China that Ramaswamy promises he would use the US military to counter.


http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2023/august/29/no-war-for-semiconductors/

 

[Anti Globalist]

Trump's transition team should contact me about the CIA position. My first and only task will be to abolish the agency.

 

[TheTexan]

Trump's transition team should contact me about the CIA position. My first and only task will be to abolish the agency.

They should hire me. I would pretend to abolish the agency.

But really keep it going

 

[PAF]

Kristi Noem for Department of Homeland Security

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/kristi-noem-homeland-security-secretary/index.html

Kristi Noem On The Record

 

[PAF]

Mike Huckabee - Ambassador to Israel

Mike Huckabee On The Record

 

[Todd]

Holy shit. Did nobody get in this guys ear the last 4 years about people best suited and trustworthy or is he just a moron who likes getting stabbed in the back by his entourage?

 

[Origanalist]

Ugh

 

[Origanalist]

double post

 

[Origanalist]

 

[unknown]

Holy shit. Did nobody get in this guys ear the last 4 years about people best suited and trustworthy or is he just a moron who likes getting stabbed in the back by his entourage?

The latter.

He got a bit of a wake up call, but he's still asleep at the wheel, just like last time.