Trump Appointees & Nominees

[TBoneTX 45,260]

Here's a countering argument to the windbags on CNN and elsewhere.  Comments?

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Gabbard Is a Dream Come True for Foreign Policy Realists

 

[...] there are some egregious accusations that deserve to be scrutinized for the sake of propriety.

 

Two of them include Gabbard's stances on Syria and Ukraine, the epitome of liberal hubris.  The trotting out of Obama-era Democrats to denigrate Gabbard shows that they have not forgiven her for her cardinal sin, the heresy of opposing the prophet at the height of liberal internationalism.

Gabbard opposed the toppling of Assad in Syria by force, going against Obama and the U.S. government's stated policy of "Assad must go."  ]...]

 

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/gabbard-is-a-dream-come-true-for-foreign-policy-realists/

[TBoneTX 45,260]

Again, there's another side to the leftist howling.  Comments?

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RFK Jr will disrupt the US medical establishment

 

[...] Left-leaning outlets, such as the Atlantic, Washington Post, PolitiFact, and Forbes — as well as the predominantly Left-leaning medical establishment — were quick to lambast the choice, using selective quotations and a narrow focus to smear Kennedy.  But establishment mandarins who focus on his sometimes eccentric scientific claims, from vaccines to AIDS, overlook the single most important factor in his success: the anti-science, authoritarian policies of the Covid years.  As a result, they miss what matters most in the Kennedy phenomenon: his broadly appealing, and thoroughly centrist, reform agenda.

 

This knee-jerk reaction hides the dilemma that members of the medical establishment face: do they position themselves as defenders of an increasingly untenable status quo, or do they embrace the opportunities of RFK Jr.'s reform agenda, much of which aligns with values and concerns that they have been raising for years?  [...]

 

https://unherd.com/newsroom/rfk-jr-will-disrupt-the-us-medical-establishment/

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Elections Have Consequences:  How Trump's Second Term Challenges the Political Status Quo

 

[...] Responding to a CNN report that Trump is skipping FBI background checks for some of his cabinet nominees, including Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard (Trump's pick to be Director of National Intelligence), the gimlet-eyed attorney Cleta Mitchell observed that "Obama didn't have FBI vet his nominees because the nominees were corrupt; Trump isn't having FBI vet his nominees because the FBI is corrupt."  Bingo.

 

Why would Trump nominate such controversial figures?  [...]

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/17/elections-have-consequences-how-trumps-second-term-challenges-the-political-status-quo/

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Why they're terrified of Trump's cabinet picks

 

[...] Trump's critics predictably used his cabinet picks to give an 'I told you so' lecture to Americans who, in their view, were stupid enough to vote for this supposedly wicked man.  [...]

 

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/19/why-theyre-terrified-of-trumps-cabinet-picks/

[TBoneTX 45,260]

From this, it's unclear who I'd pick...

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Trump Takes His Time With Secret Service Director Choice

 

[...] Now that Trump has won, and Secret Service employees expect the incoming president to choose new leaders, agents and officers are deeply divided on who is the best candidate to thoroughly overhaul the agency.  The top reform many seek is to allow the Secret Service leaders to jettison DEI priorities and return to making hiring decisions instead of delegating recruiting and vetting to administrative personnel unfamiliar with the rigors of the protective assignments.

The top two names circulating among current and retired Secret Service agents and officers are [...]

 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/20/trump_takes_his_time_with_secret_service_director_choice_151979.html

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Before DOGE Cuts Funding, NIH Working Feverishly To Complete Study On The Effects Of Giving Meth To Jetpack-Wearing Hamsters

 

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A team of high-level researchers expanded its working hours this week to intensify efforts to finish an important project before the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts its funding, as the scientists worked feverishly to complete a study on the effects of giving meth to jetpack-wearing hamsters.

The specialized group of scientists and engineers were reportedly working around the clock in hopes of compiling conclusive data on how hamsters that were fitted with custom-designed tiny jetpacks reacted when given powerful doses of methamphetamine before Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's DOGE could significantly cut the study's federal funding or eliminate the project altogether.

"The work we're doing is of the utmost importance," said Professor Burtrom Hemphill, lead scientist for the Hamster Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/before-doge-cuts-funding-scientists-work-feverishly-to-compete-study-on-the-effects-of-giving-meth-to-jetpack-wearing-hamsters