Jesus wept, a Fox and Friends host running the Pentagon…good luck rooting out that waste.
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This made me wonder what Elon’s salary will be heading this department?
My guess is that he will do the job for no salary, to great acclaim from the MAGA crowd. His real reward will be to protect his government contracts and procure new ones.
As someone noted above, protecting his existing contracts will include hollowing out agencies who will offer scrutiny he does not like.
But so long as the military is untouched, and Musk’s team roots out a few obscure or ridiculous examples of waste, all will be well.
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You cannot create a new government agency without an act of congress. Given they have slated this end within about 6 months this does not sound like something they are going to do officially. So like most of what is projected to happen in this government its going to be an end around around proper process, transparency, CoEs etc
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If you point out the lower % for turnout, you also should mention that Trump has exceeded his totals from 2020. 2020 is probably and hopefully, going to be the most unrepeatable election in our lifetime so I don’t think much can be taken from the overall turnout, or many other statistics that were below previous examples.
That is probably the case, however you have to at least address the issue with conviction and not respond by saying “we will follow the law, blah, blah, blah”. Buttigieg had an unrelated example that he responded to excellently (with regards to late term abortions) that addressed the issue rather than giving a bland response. His response was hard to argue with, albeit not impossible.
Probably another reason why Walz was in hindsight such a terrible choice, much more so than the aforementioned.
What makes you think these will be a negative? There are currently tariffs in place, and there are always deportations.
I doubt that embarrassment will get any traction in this thread, now on the other hand if it was Trump …
Thankfully there was no throttling of democratic posts or the ability of the administration to ban accounts and subvert opinion.
And those with post secondary education, so in other words moving away from the working mans (sorry) party. At least the “educated” can label those less educated as dumb for voting for Trump, because doubling down really worked the first time.
@toro You cant be correct, the mainstream media was adamant that it went down, I mean the correcting of the number from the FBI? must of been fake because it got no traction in the media.
Well pointed out. And in other free speech news, X will still allow posts from the Guardian.
The DOJ one is fascinating. You cant hire non American citizens for this particular industry, its against the LAW! Oh and by the way, we taking you to court for not hiring immigrants.
You are such a bullshitter, everyone knows you are Sharon Stone. BTW I hate all your movies and your vagina is too hairy 
Damn, I’m tired now.
20K per hour?
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Matt Gaetz as AG. Fuck sake. Kill me now.
Day 1 of seeing his appointments: You know, I dont like Republican governments, but this is surprisingly normal
Day 2: Ok, now we’re getting somewhere
Day 3: WTF
Day 4: He appointed the Menendez brothers to what now?
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Ezra’s take is an interesting one, but I feel its a bit too calculated. I think these guys are just sycophantic enough to get Trump’s interest and he likely doesnt even appreciate how absurd they are as picks
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And Tulsi, someone credibly suspected of being a Russian asset, as DNI.
[insert gif of the jack off dance because this is all just a game]
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Almost !
Close as hell to the above mentioned ! Rejoice, Russia Today’s candidate has been chosen !
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Here’s a useful link and well thought out link for tracking the appointments:
Can anyone tell me what the issue is with getting the senate to confirm the appointments if the Reps have the senate? Can it be dragged along from the Dems side? I cant find a decent explanation anywhere why its and issue and why he feels “recess appointments” is the solution.
Before anyone goes off on Trump and “recess appointments”, please be aware that Obama used it so extensively the supreme court ruled unanimously that he overstepped his powers .
The problem the Senate presents Trump is that there are still Republicans there who don’t have to kowtow to him. Unless the constitution changes, two thirds of them will be there after he is out of power, so they can raise questions like ‘why are you putting a pedophile in place as Attorney General’, or ‘why are you appointing someone your own security picks suggested is compromised by Russian intel in a national security position’.
Obama’s use of recess appointments was somewhat forced upon him by the Senate simply refusing to even hold confirmation hearings, which itself was also deemed an abuse of their confirmation power. As I have noted elsewhere, the American system is not nearly as elegantly and perfectly designed as Americans like to think, it has always relied on norms to work. Those norms have been in a decaying orbit for at least a generation.
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Most Senate confirmed roles can still be filibustered so without a 60 vote super majority it is possible to block non-judicial nominees even with full GOP compliance. But the expectation is Trump is planning on appointing people so absurd that even some Republicans will have a backbone and say no. And we’ve already seen some examples of that.
You know it takes enormous balls and lack of self awareness to ask a question only to then act like you already have enough information on the issue to reject answers you dont like.
But anyway, recess appointments are not in themselves controversial. Republicans have traditionally objected to them because it is a practice that gets around their ability to block appointments, which is increasingly one of the few things they think the senate is for. Obama was rejected by the SC in the latter years of his second term not because recess appointments are problematic, but because in response to McConnell refusing to allow the GOP even participate in senate confirmations, Obama stretched the limit of what could be defined as a recess to try to sneak a few nominations through. These werent cases where if Obama put a better nominee up McConnel would have done his job. Mitch was just saying Obama was not going to get confirmations full stop.
Trump, in contrast, is asking for a pledge to accept recess appointments as a general principle. Once he gets that he then has in his pocket the ability to get Thune to call a recess whenever he needs to appointment someone without going through the confirmation process. The two situations are not the same.
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No doubt anything Musk does will work out nicely for Musk,Trump and their acolytes otherwise Musk will be sacked muy pronto!
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And the shit hits the fan big time!
At the current rate of appointees with fingers in the pie, it wont take longhand they are still 2 months away from being able to do what they(Trump)like.
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FIFC
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Perhaps disproprtionately, but within the specific field of nominations, what happened to Bork was unfair. He perhaps deserved not to be confirmed, he definitely deserved a challenging confirmation process, but the Democrats firmly established they were willing to set aside norms (a justice’s qualifications used to be the criterion, not views). Of course, the controversial nature of Bork’s views was precisely while Reagan picked him. But it has been a very steady downward trajectory ever since then.
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He was a willing participant in the Saturday night massacre and even republicans voted him down. It was before my time and get there is context you pick up living through it you don’t get just from reading, but, other than their victim complex, I’ve never understood what makes republicans so upset about that one. It as a “fuck you” move from Regan and he got the response he expected.
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Best to leave now anyway before the ocean reclaims it.
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