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Trump's Appointments

 
 
 
Elixir said:
Loren Pechtel said:
I'd be happy if they would just quit digging the hole deeper.
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You’ll be happier then, when Trump defaults on the entire 37t$.
Goods will be scarce, food might be scarce, but you’ll be … happier?
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I'm planning for the worst. Last time Trump was in office I was laid off from my longtime job, was out of work when the pandemic hit, my savings balance went way down, and my credit card debt went way up. What work I could find was not enough.

I started working at my current place a few months after Biden took over, and spent the last 3 years getting out of debt/building up my savings. I fully expect the economy to return to being a dumpster fire under Trump, and this time I am better prepared. One of the many things that concerns me is Elon using his new position to rig things in favor of Tesla and inflicting hardships on other EV manufacturers and self-driving companies. I work for a subsidiary of GM, and if he does enough damage, we'd be on the chopping block. So I'm going to hold off on getting my bathroom remodeled, and will keep building up my savings. It could be a bumpy ride.
 
Ford said:
Elixir said:
Loren Pechtel said:
I'd be happy if they would just quit digging the hole deeper.
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You’ll be happier then, when Trump defaults on the entire 37t$.
Goods will be scarce, food might be scarce, but you’ll be … happier?
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I'm planning for the worst. Last time Trump was in office I was laid off from my longtime job, was out of work when the pandemic hit, my savings balance went way down, and my credit card debt went way up. What work I could find was not enough.

I started working at my current place a few months after Biden took over, and spent the last 3 years getting out of debt/building up my savings. I fully expect the economy to return to being a dumpster fire under Trump, and this time I am better prepared. One of the many things that concerns me is Elon using his new position to rig things in favor of Tesla and inflicting hardships on other EV manufacturers and self-driving companies. I work for a subsidiary of GM, and if he does enough damage, we'd be on the chopping block. So I'm going to hold off on getting my bathroom remodeled, and will keep building up my savings. It could be a bumpy ride.
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Should I buy Tesla stock as a hedge against the destruction of Companies I actually like?
 
Elixir said:
Ford said:
Elixir said:
Loren Pechtel said:
I'd be happy if they would just quit digging the hole deeper.
Click to expand...
You’ll be happier then, when Trump defaults on the entire 37t$.
Goods will be scarce, food might be scarce, but you’ll be … happier?
Click to expand...

I'm planning for the worst. Last time Trump was in office I was laid off from my longtime job, was out of work when the pandemic hit, my savings balance went way down, and my credit card debt went way up. What work I could find was not enough.

I started working at my current place a few months after Biden took over, and spent the last 3 years getting out of debt/building up my savings. I fully expect the economy to return to being a dumpster fire under Trump, and this time I am better prepared. One of the many things that concerns me is Elon using his new position to rig things in favor of Tesla and inflicting hardships on other EV manufacturers and self-driving companies. I work for a subsidiary of GM, and if he does enough damage, we'd be on the chopping block. So I'm going to hold off on getting my bathroom remodeled, and will keep building up my savings. It could be a bumpy ride.
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Should I buy Tesla stock as a hedge against the destruction of Companies I actually like?
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I know as much about buying stock as I do about Bitcoin and quantum physics. Just enough to know I shouldn't be involved.
 
Ford said:
I know as much about buying stock as I do about Bitcoin and quantum physics. Just enough to know I shouldn't be involved.
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I know about that much, plus some of oft-repeated truisms “buy and hold proven Companies” and crap like that.
I’ve broken the rules and gotten lucky, barely besting the performance of the managed account. But right now … I’m thinking about safe havens because I really really REALLY don’t want to work again.
 
Hegseth apparently is a drunk, can't handle money, and can't keep his pants zipped. He had to step down from 2 nonprofit advocacy groups Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct.

www.newyorker.com

Pete Hegseth’s Secret History

A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job.
www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com

As I said before - these things all go under secondary skills on resumes for Trumps choices.
 
Excerpts from the Hartmann Report on recent appointments. (Two Infidels have already commented on Bhattacharya in this thread.)
[Dr. Jan] Bhattacharya’s stance against lockdowns and vaccine mandates, coupled with his promotion of herd immunity, raises questions about how far the NIH will be degraded under his leadership. This appointment, alongside other controversial nominations such as Bob Kennedy, a known vaccine skeptic, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, suggests a shift away from science-based public health policies in our agencies that were specifically created to promote science-based public health.
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Trump’s nomination of John Phelan, an art collector and Republican megadonor [amd private investment fund manager] who has never served in the military, as Secretary of the Navy, represents another radical departure from traditional appointments.
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Trump’s selection of Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) signals a significant shift toward embedding Christian nationalist ideologies within federal governance.... [Vought claims] that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and should be governed accordingly.
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Why would Phelan even want to be Sec'y of the Navy? The Navy has an annual budget of over a quarter of a trillion dollars. Opportunities for graft must be huge.
 
Swammerdami said:
Opportunities for graft must be huge.
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Yup. Freely* offered too. No enforcement will be allowed to touch ordained Murkin oligarchs in the aftermath of the purge.

* as long as proper tithe is offered
 
ideologyhunter said:
The Asshole is now said to be mulling over De Santis as the replacement for Hegseth.
Rolling stupidity covers the land.
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He is certainly not stupid and seems qualified. Well educated (Yale and Harvard, and without the benefit of so-called "affirmative action") and has experience in the JAG Corps. He also attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Navy.
 
Derec said:
ideologyhunter said:
The Asshole is now said to be mulling over De Santis as the replacement for Hegseth.
Rolling stupidity covers the land.
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He is certainly not stupid and seems qualified. Well educated (Yale and Harvard, and without the benefit of so-called "affirmative action") and has experience in the JAG Corps. He also attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Navy.
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Yeah, let's talk about the JAG experience.

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His own account of his service at the base and those of his associates also makes it clear that it was a transformational experience that hardened his views about politics, conflict and the Constitution.

He has repeatedly argued that the United States was correct in imprisoning detainees outside the legal system, and after joining Congress in 2013, he became a leading voice to keep the prison open, even though few of the detainees there were ever charged and most have been released. He has described the hunger strikes as part of a “jihad” against the United States, and characterized claims of abuse from detainees and their lawyers as attempts to work the system — foreshadowing his conservative views as a lawmaker on issues ranging from constitutional rights to military and criminal justice.
Asked about the hunger strikes, DeSantis said in the local CBS interview in 2018 that “what I learned from that … is they are using things like detainee abuse offensively against us. It was a tactic, technique and procedure.”

Former detainees, defense lawyers and other human rights advocates said in interviews that DeSantis’s actions at the base — and his continued view of what happened there as fully legitimate — present one of the most revealing and troubling chapters of his life, noting that he has never publicly expressed any concern or questioned his own role in what transpired.
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DeSantis was a small cog in the unethical actions of the W Admin, but he was hardened in a bad way with his experience with the unethical decisions and orders. The Guantanamo detainees can't go to the US because of the abuses they suffered when in the presence of people like DeSantis... who was just following orders.

There is simply no surprise his actions that helped lead to needless deaths during Covid-19, as it is consistent with how he has put politics over ethics.
 
Yes, and J.D. went to Yale Law. This doesn't count for much if you subsequently sought stardom in the GOP by becoming a strident, divisive demagogue, as both Vance & DeSantis have done. A (very) short list of DeSantis' Greatest Hit Jobs:

> went to war with Disney because Disney expressed disapproval of his anti-LGBTQ agenda
> established a Florida election police unit which, among other actions, harassed former felons who, on good faith, thought they now qualified to vote; also visited homes of voters who signed a pro-choice ballot initiative
> flew 50 asylum seekers to Martha's Vineyard, using them most callously as props in his performative political theater piece
> has overseen the rewrite of the Florida public school curriculum, using vague terminology to make it risky to teach anything remotely accurate about slavery (which was some sort of job training, after all) and civil rights
> threatened criminal prosecution of TV stations that ran pro-choice ads this year

So, yes, DeSantis would be a good fit for a Revenge Presidency. He would no doubt back Trump's inclinations to use the army to round up immigrants, establish prison camps, occupy sanctuary cities, and shoot demonstrators.
 
Derec said:
ideologyhunter said:
The Asshole is now said to be mulling over De Santis as the replacement for Hegseth.
Rolling stupidity covers the land.
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He is certainly not stupid and seems qualified. Well educated (Yale and Harvard, and without the benefit of so-called "affirmative action") and has experience in the JAG Corps. He also attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Navy.
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He ain't all that. For naval officers, LCDR to CDR is kind of a cutoff point between smart and not only smart but talented and in full control of their emotions, the self-actualized. There's plenty of smart underachievers in the world because they are dicked up in some other fashion. Harmless shore duty positions in the navy are littered with LCDRs of this ilk.
 
AND EVEN WORSE than that, you balk and snark at an administration who is brining in industry outsiders/non-lobbyists into the picture to root out the corruption
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This is a response on the local surfing forum in rebuttal to criticism of Trumps cabinet picks.
 
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