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Post by aj2hall on Nov 14, 2024 0:44:44 GMT
I thought the discussion about appointments might be getting lost in the other threads. Sorry to those who dislike political threads. Worth noting the White House deputy chiefs do not need Senate confirmation. wapo.st/4evPKZNwww.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/13/us/trump-newsAttorney General - Matt Gaetz Deputy Attorney General- ToddBlanche (his personal lawyer in the NY fraud case) CIA - John Ratcliffe Director National Intelligence - Tulsi Gabbard National Security advisor - Mike Waltz Secretary State - Marco Rubio New department - Department of Government Efficiency - Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy Secretary Homeland Security - Kristi Noem US Ambassador to Israel - Mike Huckabee UN Ambassador - Elise Stefanik Secretary Defense - Pete Hegseth Immigration - Steven Miller - White House deputy Chief of staff for policy & Homeland security advisor & Tom Homan - border czar White Hose Deputy chiefs of staff - Dan Scavino, James Blair and Taylor Budowich Chief of Staff - Susie Wiles EPA - Lee Zeldin Health and Human services - RFK Jr This is long but worth reading (or listening to on her website) heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-12-2024Today the Trump transition team floated the idea that Trump could sign an executive order creating a board of retired senior military personnel that would review high-ranking officers and recommend removing any they deemed unfit for leadership. Vivian Salama, Nancy A. Youssef, and Lara Seligman reported in the Wall Street Journal that such a board would enable Trump to purge the military of the generals whom he considers insufficiently loyal to him. Generals who refused to carry out what they considered unconstitutional orders—including using the military against U.S. civilians—infuriated Trump during his first term.
The chairman of VoteVets, retired major general Paul Eaton, warned that such a plan would turn the U.S. military into Trump loyalists. Eaton also warned military personnel what that would mean for the troops, suggesting that folks should “take a look at Stalin’s officer purges in early WWII that resulted in the Soviet, now-Russian Army, enduring incompetence and the use of its rank-and-file troops as cannon meat. The American military is the envy of the world’s militaries, given its efficiency for military effect and stunningly low casualty count. Probably a good model to keep.”
Trump and his team, apparently led by Elon Musk, have begun to float names for different administration posts, all of whom appear to be picked to replace nonpartisan federal experts with right-wing culture warriors.
For secretary of homeland security, Trump has proposed loyalist Kristi Noem, currently governor of South Dakota. Noem had been under consideration for vice president, but fell out of the running after boasting that she had shot her dog for misbehaving. Earlier this year, Noem appeared to suggest that Texas, which became a state in 1845, was one of the original signatories to the Constitution. She has been a Trump loyalist focusing on the border.
For U.S. ambassador to Israel, Trump has picked former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, an evangelical Christian who denies Palestinian rights to the West Bank, instead supporting Israeli settlements in that land and saying that “Israel has title deed” there, calling the area by the biblical name “Judea and Samaria.”
For secretary of defense, Trump has tapped Fox News Channel host Pete Hegseth, a combat veteran and host of the weekend edition of Fox & Friends, a show Trump reportedly enjoys. As national security expert Tom Nichols points out, the Secretary of Defense has access to the nuclear command-and-control procedure. The secretary oversees about 1.3 million active-duty troops and another 1.4 million in the National Guard and employed in Reserves and civilian positions, as well as a budget of more than $800 billion.
Hegseth lobbied Trump to intervene in the cases of service members accused of war crimes, and he cheered on Trump’s January 6, 2021, rally. He became popularly known after accidentally hitting a man with an ax on the Fox & Friends show in 2015. Then, in 2019, he regained notoriety when he volunteered that he had not washed his hands in ten years because he does not believe germs are real. Hegseth has said women do not belong in combat and has been vocal about his opposition to the equity and inclusion measures in the military that he calls “woke.”
Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp of the Associated Press reported that the news that Trump has tapped the inexperienced Hegseth to run the world’s largest and most powerful military “stunned the Pentagon and the broader defense world.” While some Republicans say they look forward to getting to know him better, others appear to share the Pentagon’s concerns.
But the news that Trump wants a Fox News Channel host in one of the most important positions in the United States government got overtaken quickly by Trump’s announcement that “the Great Elon Musk, working in conjunction with American Patriot Vivek Ramaswamy,” an entrepreneur who challenged Trump for the presidential nomination, will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” under his administration. Their advice will, Trump announced, “pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.”
Their project is nicknamed “DOGE,” an apparent reference to Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency and meme coin, known as “Dogecoin.” That cryptocurrency surged after the announcement of the new DOGE under Trump, adding to the gains of 153% since Election Day.
By law, a president does not have the power to create a new department or agency, and participating in one would require Musk and Ramaswamy to get rid of their conflicts of interest.
Trump’s announcement said that Musk and Ramaswamy would “work together to liberate our Economy, and make the U.S. Government accountable to ‘WE THE PEOPLE.’ Their work will conclude no later than July 4, 2026—a smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. I am confident they will succeed!”
Trump appears to see himself as the founder of a new United States of America while, ironically, the real winners of the chaos he is ushering into the government will be Russia, China, and the other autocratic states eager to dismantle American democracy.
Trump’s demonstration of his plans just before Senate Republicans have to choose their leader seems an attempt to jam those who might stand against him into his camp. And yet, the Framers of the Constitution believed that the Senate would be the key guardrail to stop the rise of an autocrat who would destroy democracy and install himself as a king. They expected that the determination of senators to guard their own power would protect the nation.
Almost two hundred and fifty years into their experiment, we’re about to find out if they were right.
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 14, 2024 0:51:14 GMT
He's absolutely right. None of this is a surprise to anyone who was paying attention and took Trump at his word. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/matt-gaetz-attorney-general-trump.htmlBut Trump’s selection of Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, along with his selection of Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, shows that Trump did mean what he said. He is going to govern with a sense of vengeance, and personal loyalty really is the coin of his realm.
Gaetz’s nomination is particularly dreadful. He isn’t just the least-qualified attorney general in American history (he barely practiced law before running for elected office and has served mainly as a MAGA gadfly in Congress), he’s also remarkably dishonest and depraved.
Gaetz has created immense turmoil in the House. He was primarily responsible for deposing the House speaker Kevin McCarthy in a fit of pique, and he’s so alienated House colleagues that one had to be physically restrained from attacking him on the House floor. He has a reputation as showing colleagues explicit pictures of his sexual partners, and he is under a House ethics investigation into whether he had sex with an underage girl while he was a member of Congress.
Gaetz has denied these claims, and the Department of Justice closed its own investigation into sex trafficking and obstruction of justice last year.
Gaetz’s nomination is a test for Senate Republicans. Can they summon up the minimum level of decency and moral courage to reject Gaetz? Or will they utterly abdicate their constitutional role of advice and consent in favor of simply consenting even to Trump’s worst whims?
No matter what happens next, however, Gaetz’s nomination is reaffirmation that the Donald Trump who tried to overthrow an American election hasn’t matured or evolved or grown. He is who he is, and it should surprise no one that he nominated a vengeful loyalist to lead the most powerful law enforcement agency in the United States. |
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Post by scrappinmama on Nov 14, 2024 0:51:24 GMT
An accused sex trafficker for attorney general. That definitely tracks. A known white supremist to as deputy chief of policy also tracks with this administration. Department of Government Efficiency isn't even an official department. He's just making shit up now. Why not put Elon as the first lady? Melania clearly doesn't give a damn.
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 14, 2024 0:53:30 GMT
An accused sex trafficker for attorney general. That definitely tracks. A known white supremist to as deputy chief of policy also tracks with this administration. Department of Government Efficiency isn't even an official department. He's just making shit up now. Why not put Elon as the first lady? Melania clearly doesn't give a damn. Worse than making shit up, he's creating an entirely new department. Something he doesn't have the authority or power to actually do. Only Congress can create a new department. But details like the Constitution have never stopped him before. |
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Post by Merge on Nov 14, 2024 0:55:12 GMT
Someone online commented that it seems Trump is filling his cabinet with characters from the Star Wars cantina, and that seems about right. Has there ever been such a collection of miscreants and weirdos in the White House?
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Post by Merge on Nov 14, 2024 0:56:42 GMT
An accused sex trafficker for attorney general. That definitely tracks. A known white supremist to as deputy chief of policy also tracks with this administration. Department of Government Efficiency isn't even an official department. He's just making shit up now. Why not put Elon as the first lady? Melania clearly doesn't give a damn. Worse than making shit up, he's creating an entirely new department. Something he doesn't have the authority or power to actually do. Only Congress can create a new department. But details like the Constitution have never stopped him before. Apparently the workaround is that this is an extra-governmental effort to advise the actual government on cost-cutting measures. I'm sure most of these measures will involved slashing entitlement programs and turning various departments into privately run profit centers for their corporate cronies. |
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Post by fiddlesticks on Nov 14, 2024 1:03:57 GMT
Their loyalty has paid off. It frightens me to my core.
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 14, 2024 1:04:03 GMT
Not surprisingly, Trump still refuses to sign the ethics code (that he signed into law). He has no plans to avoid conflicts of interest and id probably trying to hide donations. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/us/politics/donald-trump-ethics-transition.htmlTrump Holds Up Transition Process Over Ethics Code
President-elect Donald J. Trump has not submitted a required ethics plan stating he will avoid conflicts of interest.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has not yet submitted a legally required ethics pledge stating that he will avoid conflicts of interest and other ethical concerns while in office, raising concerns that his refusal to do so will hamper the smooth transition to power.
Mr. Trump’s transition team was required to submit the ethics plan by Oct. 1, according to the Presidential Transition Act.
In 2019, Congress amended that law to require candidates to create and publicly post an ethics plan before the election and to “include information on how eligible presidential candidates will address their own conflicts of interest during a presidential term.”
That bipartisan law was born in part out of concerns about ethical issues during the first Trump administration.
While Mr. Trump’s appointees were required to comply with ethical codes, Mr. Trump declared shortly before taking office that he would not divest his assets, nor would he place them in a blind trust.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, has since identified more than 3,400 conflicts of interest tied to Mr. Trump during his first administration, among them holding political events and hosting foreign dignitaries at hotels and resorts owned by his company.
While the transition team’s leadership has privately drafted an ethics code and a conflict-of-interest statement governing its staff, those documents do not include language, required under the law, that explains how Mr. Trump himself will address conflicts of interest during his presidency.
Since Mr. Trump created his transition team in August, it has refused to participate in the normal handoff process, which typically begins months before the election.
“He’s completely thumbing his nose at the idea that all Americans are participating in the same basic public enterprise,” said Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland who last month wrote to Mr. Trump and urged him to comply with the Presidential Transition Act’s legal requirements.
Of particular note, Mr. Raskin said, was the fact that Mr. Trump’s transition team blew past the Sept. 1 deadline to sign the agreement with the General Services Administration. That document provides for a variety of services to be made available to the president-elect, including $7.2 million in funding for the costs of transition. But it also puts a $5,000 cap on individual donations to the transition and requires the public disclosure of all its donors.
By refusing to sign that agreement, Mr. Trump effectively faces no limit on contributions and does not need to name his donors publicly. Money raised by the transition is not regulated by any other government agency.
A separate concern involves the other memorandum of understanding, with the White House. Among other things, it sets the conditions under which the current administration can share sensitive government information with the incoming president’s team.
Until the Trump transition signs that document, the Biden administration is legally barred from providing it with the security clearances needed to share classified intelligence and national defense briefings, Mr. Stier said. It also cannot give transition employees physical access to the 438 different federal agencies that they will soon control, and it cannot allow them to review their files.
But by law, that agreement cannot be signed until an ethics plan that conforms to federal statute is submitted to the White House and posted online, creating something of a game of chicken between the outgoing Biden administration and the incoming Trump transition.
If neither side blinks, Mr. Trump’s team would be forced to assume control of the entire federal government cold. That, Mr. Stier said, could leave the country vulnerable at a critical moment.
“The consequences are severe,” Mr. Stier said. “It would not be possible to be ready to govern on Day 1.” |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 14, 2024 1:09:50 GMT
Gaetz is pretty sure of himself. He has resigned from the House. His seat must be fill within 8 weeks. There is a possibility it will be effective by Jan 3rd for Congressional swearing in. x.com/atrupar/status/1856849982420144398 |
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 14, 2024 1:27:14 GMT
Lee Zeldin - he's going to set efforts to combat climate change back by years. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/11/trump-prepares-immigration-crackdown-with-miller-homan-posts/Zeldin, 44, Trump’s EPA pick, is a lawyer by training who lacks extensive experience in environmental policy. He served four terms in Congress representing Long Island and lost the 2022 New York governor’s race to Democrat Kathy Hochul. The League of Conservation Voters gave Zeldin a 14 percent lifetime score for opposing environmental bills such as closing a Clean Air Act loophole that allows companies to dump unlimited “forever chemicals” into waterways.
In a Fox News interview on Monday, Zeldin indicated his emphasis would be on deregulation, without naming specific Biden administration policies he would reverse.
“Businesses strive to grow, expand here and have the ability to export what they produce, as opposed to exporting their jobs,” he told Fox’s Martha MacCallum. “There are regulations that the left wing of this country has been advocating through regulatory power that ends up causing businesses to go in the wrong direction.” |
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Post by Merge on Nov 14, 2024 1:27:55 GMT
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Post by micheley on Nov 14, 2024 1:35:14 GMT
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Post by mollycoddle on Nov 14, 2024 1:44:24 GMT
It’s a shitshow. How could Gaetz get confirmed? The House apparently just finished its ethics investigation. Did he resign to prevent that from coming out?
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Post by mollycoddle on Nov 14, 2024 1:46:55 GMT
I hadn’t seen your post when I was speculating on the same thing. Since he has already resigned, it makes sense. I really wish that it would get leaked. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 14, 2024 1:47:55 GMT
Interesting that the chairman of the House ethics Committee make comments, about TFG and Gaetz and that he trusts TFG and his decisions.. x.com/ChadPergram/status/1856803967298048271Show more: Ethics Cmte Chair Guest on Gaetz being picked for AG as he is under a House Ethice investigation: I have great trust in President Trump and those people that he will surround himself with and put his confidence. So, I'm sure that Trump and his transition team, have taken into consideration, all the good and bad, surrounding every one of the candidates that they're looking at appointing. And so, I do not question President Trump's appointment at all. x.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1802803825826304266Show more: The House Ethics Committee has closed four probes into me, which emerged from lies intended solely to smear me. Instead of working with me to ban Congressional stock trading, the Ethics Committee is now opening new frivolous investigations. They are doing this to avoid the obvious fact that every investigation into me ends the same way: my exoneration. This is Soviet. Kevin McCarthy showed them the man, and they are now trying to find the crime. I work for Northwest Floridians who won't be swayed by this nonsense and McCarthy and his goons know it. |
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Post by lizacreates on Nov 14, 2024 1:47:58 GMT
Only the best people! Yay! Make America Great Again!
(I’m upset because I didn’t have Gaetz on my bingo card. I had other freaks as AG, like Pirro. But Gaetz?! Lol. Even by MAGA standards, that is truly, undeniably, inarguably wackadoo.
Gabbard. DNI!! D. N. I. Leader of our intelligence community! Holy mother of god. I don’t have a religion, but I think I’m going to adopt one now because I need to pray or something.)
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Post by Merge on Nov 14, 2024 2:05:02 GMT
I hadn’t seen your post when I was speculating on the same thing. Since he has already resigned, it makes sense. I really wish that it would get leaked. Enough of the House hates him that it almost certainly will be leaked. Further speculation is that Gaetz is being teed up for failure and will ultimately be pulled in favor of someone arguably even worse - TX AG Ken Paxton. Or our governor, Greg Abbott, who was formerly AG here. Both of these would be far more dangerous because they actually know what they're doing. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 14, 2024 2:10:57 GMT
Gabbard just another of Putin's puppets..
Gaetz, Markwayne Mullins is talking about Gaetz showing the videos of girls Gaetz was sleeping with .. showing pictures ON the House floor..
Testing limits...
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Nov 14, 2024 2:20:44 GMT
Is the circus complete yet?
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Post by micheley on Nov 14, 2024 2:25:05 GMT
It’s a shitshow. How could Gaetz get confirmed? The House apparently just finished its ethics investigation. Did he resign to prevent that from coming out?
Tuberville issued the warning during an appearance on Fox Business when asked whether the controversial attorney general nominee could be confirmed in the Senate, where the GOP will have a slim majority. |
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Nov 14, 2024 2:27:22 GMT
They need to do what is right even if it means they are primaries. So sick of the bullying people into submission.
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Post by edie3 on Nov 14, 2024 2:40:50 GMT
Is the circus complete yet? I am sure it is just starting |
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Post by epeanymous on Nov 14, 2024 2:42:29 GMT
Ladies and well mostly ladies, our nation’s finest minds.
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 14, 2024 2:42:43 GMT
Waiting to see what jobs he finds for Steve Bannon & Tucker Carlson
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Post by mollycoddle on Nov 14, 2024 2:45:57 GMT
It’s a shitshow. How could Gaetz get confirmed? The House apparently just finished its ethics investigation. Did he resign to prevent that from coming out?
Tuberville issued the warning during an appearance on Fox Business when asked whether the controversial attorney general nominee could be confirmed in the Senate, where the GOP will have a slim majority.Oh boy. Senators threatening each other. Tuberville is a moron, but a good little Trump toady. |
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Post by Just T on Nov 14, 2024 2:54:22 GMT
Waiting to see what jobs he finds for Steve Bannon & Tucker Carlson That will be the shit frosting on top of the shit cake. Every time I hear another person he is hiring, I am incredulous. We are in an episode of the Twilight Zone, right? Earlier today, I saw a comment on a TikTok video that I thought was perfect: He's not building a cabinet, he's building a junk drawer. What the hell has happened to our country??? The party who has screamed for YEARS that Democrats are pedophiles and sex traffickers will now have a man who is under investigation for having sex with underage girls as our Attorney General??? And a Fox News host as the director of defense. The US government has turned into a clown show. I hope I am alive to see what my grandchildren study in their history books about this time period. |
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 14, 2024 2:57:10 GMT
Defense Secretary - Pete Hegseth. The more I hear about him, the worse he sounds. He's opposed to women in combat zones wapo.st/4evPKZN www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/trump-administration-appointees/A combat veteran and Fox News host, Pete Hegseth has called for a more muscular approach to running the U.S. military. He was not widely expected to fill the role and is likely to undergo a tough Senate confirmation hearing. Hegseth, who served as an Army infantryman in Iraq and Afghanistan as a member of the Minnesota National Guard, has criticized the Biden administration’s approach to national security as weak. He has also written a book describing the military’s leadership as more focused on diversity than confronting global threats.heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-12-2024Hegseth lobbied Trump to intervene in the cases of service members accused of war crimes, and he cheered on Trump’s January 6, 2021, rally. He became popularly known after accidentally hitting a man with an ax on the Fox & Friends show in 2015. Then, in 2019, he regained notoriety when he volunteered that he had not washed his hands in ten years because he does not believe germs are real. Hegseth has said women do not belong in combat and has been vocal about his opposition to the equity and inclusion measures in the military that he calls “woke.”www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/11/13/pete-hegseth-trump-senate-confirmation/Eric Edelman, who served in the Pentagon during the administration of President George W. Bush and more recently organized against Trump, credited Hegseth for his wartime service. But he said that recent events, including Trump’s threats to use the military in a mass deportation of migrants, has highlighted there is a “nontrivial chance” that in the first two weeks of the Trump administration the Pentagon will be thrust into a major institutional and constitutional crisis.The defense secretary position is among the most difficult in government, Edelman said, adding that Hegseth’s dearth of experience at senior levels of industry, Congress or in the U.S. government make it a “big stretch” to think he’s ready to run the Pentagon.Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois), an Army National Guard combat veteran who lost both legs in Iraq and served previously as the assistant secretary of veterans affairs, blasted Hegseth on Wednesday as “wholly unqualified for the job.”“But we’ll see if Republicans fall in line for Donald Trump,” she added, predicting that they will. “I think Republicans would do anything for Donald Trump. They’ve rolled over [for] him time and again, and I’m sure they’ll be more than willing to confirm somebody who’s wholly unqualified.”The results, Duckworth predicted, “will be disastrous for our country.” She zeroed in on his past comments about women in combat units, which include him saying in a podcast interview published last week that he was “straight-up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.”“We have over 225,000 women serving in uniform,” Duckworth said. Elevating to defense secretary a person “who has made it clear he doesn’t value them, is not helpful to morale, to retention, to recruiting.”www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/us/politics/pete-hegseth-defense-secretary-trump.htmlBut Mr. Hegseth is likely to run into opposition from senior military officials and perhaps lawmakers who have served in the military for his embrace of narratives by troops who ran afoul of military justice rules. A former Pentagon official from Mr. Trump’s first term questioned Mr. Hegseth’s lack of experience — other than serving in the military — and raised concerns about his ability to win Senate confirmation, even with a Republican majority in the chamberFor comparison, here is Lloyd Austin's resume www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/2522687/lloyd-j-austin-iii/Mr. Austin was born in Mobile, Alabama, and raised in Thomasville, Georgia. He graduated from the United States Military Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree and a commission in the Infantry. He holds a Master of Arts degree in counselor education from Auburn University, and a Master of Business Management from Webster University. He is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced courses, the Army Command and General Staff College, and the Army War College.His 41-year career in the Army included command at the corps, division, battalion, and brigade levels. Mr. Austin was awarded the Silver Star for his leadership of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Seven years later, he would assume the duties of Commanding General of United States Forces – Iraq, overseeing all combat operations in the country.After a tour as the Army’s Vice Chief of Staff, Mr. Austin concluded his uniformed service as the Commander of U.S. Central Command, responsible for all military operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan. In this assignment, he led U.S. and coalition efforts to battle ISIS in Iraq and Syria. He retired from the Army in April, 2016.Since his retirement from military service, Mr. Austin served on the Boards of Directors for Raytheon Technologies, Nucor, and Tenet Healthcare. |
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 14, 2024 2:59:14 GMT
UN Ambassador - Elise Stefanik
wapo.st/4evPKZN
Elise Stefanik, a congresswoman from New York, is the fourth most senior Republican in the House, as chair of the House Republican Conference, and has been an outspoken defender of Trump in recent years. Stefanik has been deeply hostile to the United Nations, referring to it in recent months as “corrupt, defunct, and paralyzed”; “a cesspool of antisemitism” and as a entity that “rewards barbaric Iranian terrorists while punishing Israel for defending itself,”; and she has called U.N. Secretary -General António Guterres “an absolute disgrace.” Stefanik recently proposed withdrawing U.S. membership from the United Nations, should the body resist certain changes reform sought by the Trump administration.
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Post by Merge on Nov 14, 2024 3:03:30 GMT
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Post by micheley on Nov 14, 2024 3:14:10 GMT
Former President Trump shocked and appalled some Republican lawmakers on Wednesday by announcing plans to nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for attorney general.
Why it matters: Republican reaction to even Trump's most controversial nominations has been muted so far, but placing the scandal-prone right-winger in the nation's highest law enforcement role is a step too far for many.
"We wanted him out of the House ... this isn't what we were thinking," quipped one House Republican.
I cackled, and then got mad because it’s all just a big joke to these assholes.
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