Trump's Appointments

[starwater]

Now he can tap MJG for something.

The only position I can think of, for which she's qualified, would be in the new Bureau of Transgender Identification. BTI needs someone who can spot a transgendered person by, for instance, seeing a fierce brow line or a certain Cro Magnon chin structure on a 'woman'. This would be second or even first nature for our Marj.

And she can be the Sargent of bathrooms. No transgenders allowed in the womens.

 

[bilby]

His resignation including the next term.

“I hereby resign as U.S. representative of Florida’s 1st Congressional District effective immediately. And I do not intend to take the oath of office for the same office in the 119th Congress to pursue the position of attorney general in the Trump administration,” Gaetz said in the letter.

I'm curious how binding that is. The context would be he is Attorney General, so obviously not in Congress. But now that is over, can he rescind it? For the House seat in the next Congress, I think it is a gray area. It isn't in the Constitution and may be governed by obscure Parliamentary rules.

One thing is for certain, if Gaetz is out of Congress for good, this would be one of the best things Trump has done as his role of President Elect!

Seems ambiguous to me. "I do not intend to take the oath of office for the same office in the 119th Congress to pursue the position of attorney general in the Trump administration" could mean that he is quitting in order to pursue the AG post; Or it could mean that he is intending to take the oath of office, but will do so for reasons other than the pursuit of the AG post.

"It's German. It says, "The Bart, the" - Robert Terwilliger.

 

[robnisch]

Pam Bondi - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Well, she is more qualified than Matty.
She is anti LGBQ+.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Trump doesn't know anyone outside Florida.

 

[southernhybrid]

Now he can tap MJG for something.

The only position I can think of, for which she's qualified, would be in the new Bureau of Transgender Identification. BTI needs someone who can spot a transgendered person by, for instance, seeing a fierce brow line or a certain Cro Magnon chin structure on a 'woman'. This would be second or even first nature for our Marj.

And she can be the Sargent of bathrooms. No transgenders allowed in the womens.

Now that you mention it:

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/at...rnment-efficiency/ZDJQNO4Z65DBRF7GFPL7HU3R4U/

ATLANTA — Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been picked to lead a subcommittee that will be formed under the new Department of Government Efficiency when the new administration takes office in January.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head that agency.

Greene tweeted out the news shortly after Fox News Digital posted an article about it.

You can't make this shit up!

 

[jonatha]

Slap a tax on those space lasers or start charging for sending hurricanes to hit the right people and the debt ought to be paid off in no time...

 

[Shadowy Man]

Now he can tap MJG for something.

The only position I can think of, for which she's qualified, would be in the new Bureau of Transgender Identification. BTI needs someone who can spot a transgendered person by, for instance, seeing a fierce brow line or a certain Cro Magnon chin structure on a 'woman'. This would be second or even first nature for our Marj.

And she can be the Sargent of bathrooms. No transgenders allowed in the womens.

Now that you mention it:

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/at...rnment-efficiency/ZDJQNO4Z65DBRF7GFPL7HU3R4U/

ATLANTA — Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been picked to lead a subcommittee that will be formed under the new Department of Government Efficiency when the new administration takes office in January.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head that agency.

Greene tweeted out the news shortly after Fox News Digital posted an article about it.

You can't make this shit up!

How can they make a subcommittee in a department that doesn’t exist?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Now he can tap MJG for something.

The only position I can think of, for which she's qualified, would be in the new Bureau of Transgender Identification. BTI needs someone who can spot a transgendered person by, for instance, seeing a fierce brow line or a certain Cro Magnon chin structure on a 'woman'. This would be second or even first nature for our Marj.

And she can be the Sargent of bathrooms. No transgenders allowed in the womens.

Now that you mention it:

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/at...rnment-efficiency/ZDJQNO4Z65DBRF7GFPL7HU3R4U/

ATLANTA — Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been picked to lead a subcommittee that will be formed under the new Department of Government Efficiency when the new administration takes office in January.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head that agency.

Greene tweeted out the news shortly after Fox News Digital posted an article about it.

You can't make this shit up!

Does this require her to step down (puhlease!!!) or is this fake "committee" not requiring full time involvement?

 

[southernhybrid]

Now he can tap MJG for something.

The only position I can think of, for which she's qualified, would be in the new Bureau of Transgender Identification. BTI needs someone who can spot a transgendered person by, for instance, seeing a fierce brow line or a certain Cro Magnon chin structure on a 'woman'. This would be second or even first nature for our Marj.

And she can be the Sargent of bathrooms. No transgenders allowed in the womens.

Now that you mention it:

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/at...rnment-efficiency/ZDJQNO4Z65DBRF7GFPL7HU3R4U/

ATLANTA — Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been picked to lead a subcommittee that will be formed under the new Department of Government Efficiency when the new administration takes office in January.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head that agency.

Greene tweeted out the news shortly after Fox News Digital posted an article about it.

You can't make this shit up!

How can they make a subcommittee in a department that doesn’t exist?

My guess is that they will ask the Republican Congress to approve it and the Tump suckers will gladly agree that it's needed.

 

[southernhybrid]

Now he can tap MJG for something.

The only position I can think of, for which she's qualified, would be in the new Bureau of Transgender Identification. BTI needs someone who can spot a transgendered person by, for instance, seeing a fierce brow line or a certain Cro Magnon chin structure on a 'woman'. This would be second or even first nature for our Marj.

And she can be the Sargent of bathrooms. No transgenders allowed in the womens.

Now that you mention it:

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/at...rnment-efficiency/ZDJQNO4Z65DBRF7GFPL7HU3R4U/

ATLANTA — Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been picked to lead a subcommittee that will be formed under the new Department of Government Efficiency when the new administration takes office in January.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head that agency.

Greene tweeted out the news shortly after Fox News Digital posted an article about it.

You can't make this shit up!

Does this require her to step down (puhlease!!!) or is this fake "committee" not requiring full time involvement?

If I understand this shit correctly, she will not have to step down. She will just lead a subcommittee as a member of congress. We are fucked when the "bleached blond, bad built butch body" is in charge of something in the federal government along with the two whackos, Elon and Vivek.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

She isn't in charge of anything. This "Department" has as much legal authority as a "Czar". I can only imagine that the whole point of this "DOGE" thing is to pretend someone that isn't the Heritage Foundation came up with these recommendations, then they'll push the Project 2025 stuff forward.

The reality is there isn't a lot to cut that won't harm the economy. The really funny part is that they won't cut taxes for normal people with these cuts, so we effectively will get fewer resources for the same amount of taxation, while the economy will slow. But at least the ultra-wealthy could see another cut.

 

[Shadowy Man]

She isn't in charge of anything. This "Department" has as much legal authority as a "Czar". I can only imagine that the whole point of this "DOGE" thing is to pretend someone that isn't the Heritage Foundation came up with these recommendations, then they'll push the Project 2025 stuff forward.

The reality is there isn't a lot to cut that won't harm the economy. The really funny part is that they won't cut taxes for normal people with these cuts, so we effectively will get fewer resources for the same amount of taxation, while the economy will slow. But at least the ultra-wealthy could see another cut.

But the debt, which is clearly a burden on the average American, will start getting paid off. That’s the point, right?

Elon did say there will be “temporary hardship” from his cuts. Not for him, obviously.

 

[jonatha]

But the debt, which is clearly a burden on the average American, will start getting paid off. That’s the point, right?

Assuming you're serious.....

In 2024 the deficit was $1.83T. If you cut $2T (somehow) and tax receipts stay the same (somehow), you reduce the debt of not quite $36T by $170B, or a bit over 0.5%.

(The point is to eliminate the government and institute an oligopolic kakistocracy....)

 

[Shadowy Man]

But the debt, which is clearly a burden on the average American, will start getting paid off. That’s the point, right?

Assuming you're serious.....

I was tongue in cheek there but that is the actual message that Elon was giving out and that might have been a swaying argument for voters, so we have to at least entertain its seriousness.

In 2024 the deficit was $1.83T. If you cut $2T (somehow) and tax receipts stay the same (somehow), you reduce the debt of not quite $36T by $170B, or a bit over 0.5%.

(The point is to eliminate the government and institute an oligopolic kakistocracy....)

 

[Elixir]

I

 

[Derec]

Police records reveal new details about sexual assault allegation against Pete Hegseth

That an allegation was made does not mean that it is true.
Apparently the woman is married - could the allegation have been a way to cover up her infidelity toward her husband? In addition to her extorting money from Hegseth.
From your link:

Days later, the accuser told a nurse that she suspected “something may have been slipped” into her drink that October 2017 night, according to the police report.

Something may have been slipped? Was blood toxicology done? Was anything other than EtOH found?

Timothy Parlatore, Hegseth’s lawyer, previously told The Washington Post that his client was “visibly intoxicated” that evening. Citing video surveillance footage that showed the two of them walking arm-in-arm, with the woman smiling and looking coherent, he claimed that the woman was the “aggressor” that evening. The newly released records confirm his description of the video footage but do not address his characterization of the woman as the aggressor.

Hmm. She seems coherent, walked "arm-in-arm" with him. Certainly looks like a regretted hookup and not a rape.

Also, I think the accuser's identity should be released. If this is to be an issue at the confirmation hearings, she should have at least as much integrity as Blasey Ford. Anonymous accusations should not derail nominations, regardless of party.

This CNN article goes more into details, including salacious ones.

Hegseth said that Doe asked him if he had a condom, and he didn’t. He said he asked her if that was a problem, and she said it wasn’t, and he ejaculated on her body.
After they had sex, Hegseth said, he had a “very clear conversation” with Doe, who told him she would tell her husband she had “fallen asleep on a couch in someone else’s room.” He told police that she showed “early signs of regret,” but did not elaborate.

Edited to add:
I looked at the actual police report.
The pdf is images and not selectable text. So I will paraphrase some points.
- Allegedly, she only remembered that she was assaulted after having sex with her husband that Monday.
- She did not go to the hospital until 4 days after the alleged incident. No wonder there was no evidence, whether or not anything happened.
- She and her husband (who was not at the events for some reason) exchanged a lot of texts about Pete Hegseth. She compared him with someone called TDB, and husband indicated that this TDB wanted to have sex with his wife, and that was not a good look for Hegseth to remind her of him.
- She came to her and her husband's room around 4am and said that she must have fallen asleep. This is consistent with Hegesth's statement that this was going to be her excuse for coming to the room that late. Husband also said that she did not have trouble walking and did not slur her speech.
- Police report cites a redacted witness who stated that Hegseth appeared very intoxicated while accuser did not. So who took advantage of whom?
- On video, neither had "unsteady gait" and accuser was smiling while Hegseth was talking.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Trump names Seb Gorka, Alex Wong to be senior national security staff

President-elect Trump has tapped his first term alums Alex Wong and Sebastian Gorka to join his national security team for his second go-around. Gorka will act as the deputy assistant to the presid…

thehill.com

Anyone feeling "safe" yet?

 

[BH]

RFK Jr. Has announced that in his first week he is going to call in all the department heads of the HHS and going to tell them all to halt drug development and study of infectious diseases for 8 years. He wants them to focus on chronic diseases instead. This potentially means the FDA halting all drug approvals. And stopping _all_ research on infectious disease? Are you fucking serious?

Not only will we lose out on potential breakthroughs, but we will lose out massively to China, to Europe, etc who will continue investing in new development and research and get both the benefits and the competitive edge against American companies. You can bet the most talented researchers an America are going to pack up their bags and head to countries where their research is supported and jobs will be more plentiful in these areas.

Where are the people screaming to get rid of government red tape and bureaucracy on this one? Where is the America First crowd when it comes to RFK Jr. damaging America and ceding our pharmaceutical industry and infectious disease research to Europe and China?

So...we're supposed to guzzle Ivermectin, clutch our healing crystals, and avoid chemtrails?

And drink raw milk, eat all organic and non-GMO and take homeopathic and Eastern Herbal remedies. We must also ditch all vaccines. Also chiropractic and acupuncture to treat various diseases and ailments. And also don't forget to stay away from 5G cellphone towers.

Trump thinks windmills cause cancer, and RFK Jr. thinks wifi causes cancer, so...do people who work at wind farms and use the company wifi have to worry twice as hard?

I think Trump and RFK JR are cancer. They are a HELA cell that jumped out of a petri dish and taught themselves speech.

 

[Elixir]

M

 

[Loren Pechtel]

But the debt, which is clearly a burden on the average American, will start getting paid off. That’s the point, right?

Assuming you're serious.....

In 2024 the deficit was $1.83T. If you cut $2T (somehow) and tax receipts stay the same (somehow), you reduce the debt of not quite $36T by $170B, or a bit over 0.5%.

(The point is to eliminate the government and institute an oligopolic kakistocracy....)

I'd be happy if they would just quit digging the hole deeper.

But my step #1 would be to undo The Felon's tax changes.