Surviving a second Trump admin

[O Really]

Remember when cabinet nominees got bi-partisanally booted for egregious issues such as failing to properly report taxes on the nanny? Quaint.

[O Really]

Yo, Supsalemgr - would you let Hegseth do your heart surgery? He's as qualified for that as for Defense Secretary. I'm pretty sure he must have been in a hospital sometime in his life.

[GoCubsGo]

And there will be zero accountability from congresscritters.

[Supsalemgr]

Yo, Supsalemgr - would you let Hegseth do your heart surgery? He's as qualified for that as for Defense Secretary. I'm pretty sure he must have been in a hospital sometime in his life.

Time will tell. I could ask the same about Mayor Pete as Transportation head.

[O Really]

Yo, Supsalemgr - would you let Hegseth do your heart surgery? He's as qualified for that as for Defense Secretary. I'm pretty sure he must have been in a hospital sometime in his life.

Time will tell. I could ask the same about Mayor Pete as Transportation head.

I thought Pete was a bit light for the role at the time, but he ended up doing a good job largely because he knew how to use the professionals under him. At any rate, several years at McKinsey is way better for the job than several years as a Fox talking head. Being mayor of South Bend is better than no elective office at all.

[Vrede too]

Yo, Supsalemgr - would you let Hegseth do your heart surgery? He's as qualified for that as for Defense Secretary. I'm pretty sure he must have been in a hospital sometime in his life.

Time will tell. I could ask the same about Mayor Pete as Transportation head.

I thought Pete was a bit light for the role at the time, but he ended up doing a good job largely because he knew how to use the professionals under him. At any rate, several years at McKinsey is way better for the job than several years as a Fox talking head. Being mayor of South Bend is better than no elective office at all.

Granted, Mayor Pete did not have education or experience specific to transportation. However:
He excelled in school, including high school senior class president, magna cum laude at Harvard, elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Hegseth did good, but nothing to compare.
McKinsey & Company is literally a management consulting firm.
South Bend has a Strong Mayor-Council form of government, meaning that Mayor Pete was the executive in charge of providing services for a city of over 100,000 residents. Part of this job would have necessarily involved transportation infrastructure, a key municipal service.
In contrast, Hegseth has never managed any large organization nor done any management consulting.

Poor choice for a whataboutism deflection, SoupySales.

[Vrede too]

So far, America-hating RepuQs (and a handful of Dems) have shown zero interest in crafting a competent and experienced national security team.

Senate confirms John Ratcliffe as Trump's CIA director

Kristi Noem confirmed by US Senate as Trump's Homeland secretary

Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Kristi Noem, of South Dakota, to be Secretary of Homeland Security )

Lockstep RepuQs except Moran (R-KS) did not vote.

Again, the only qualification is DonOLD adoration.

[neoplacebo]

I wonder if when RFK Jr is confirmed as HHS head there will be some lunatic Republicans and or magats who will hack off their children's arm after being vaccinated for entering public school this fall.....like how Col. Kurtz related the tale of VIet Cong doing that very thing after local kids in Vietnam were given vaccines by American soldiers....Kurtz said he could rule the world if he had five hundred men like that.

[GoCubsGo]

The clown car is back in town.

[GoCubsGo]

More clown car.

Kristi Noem Stood Up JD Vance at Her Own Swearing-in Ceremony

[Supsalemgr]

The clown car is back in town.

In case anyone missed, Colombia has "reconsidered" their original decision not to accept deportation flights.

An example of how Trump uses tariffs as a negotiating tool.

[Vrede too]

In case anyone missed, Colombia has "reconsidered" their original decision not to accept deportation flights.

An example of how Trump uses tariffs as a negotiating tool.

In case anyone missed it, the US economy is 80 times the size of bullied Colombia's. The lifelong cowardly "bone spurs" Chickenhawk in Chief sure is a stud!

[Supsalemgr]

Why am I not surprised Vrede attempts to distract from the facts of the matter.

[O Really]

Seems to me the facts are:
Trump's gestapo attempted to deliver some Colombians back to their home country, treating them generally like cattle, in military cargo planes. Colombia refused entry to the military plane and said they would welcome their citizens back if brought in a private or commercial plane with some reasonable dignity. And offered to send their own plane. Trump got belligerent and he does, and instead of accepting the reasonable compromise started threatening tariffs and other sanctions (which if effected would hurt primarily Americans). Sending the Colombians in commercial planes would have accomplished the same result (deportation) but without the big show. So the show much go on.

Along the line of deportation, seems Trump isn't happy the show on "round ups" isn't as spectacular as he wants, so he's set quotas for the ICE people. He wants to get up to about the daily average number of deportations Obama and Biden had with their "open borders"

[Supsalemgr]

One must admit he is getting attention. That is the point.

[O Really]

One must admit he is getting attention. That is the point.

And you think that getting attention is the best top priority for a President of arguably the most powerful nation in the world?

[GoCubsGo]

Hey, a 200 lb. eighth grader just successfully bullied a kindergartener.


We're number 1!

[O Really]

Hey, a 200 lb. eighth grader just successfully bullied a kindergartener.


We're number 1!

And when the kindergartener would have gone along with just a civil request. But then, bullies aren't into civil requests.

[1 CAT FAN]

One must admit he is getting attention. That is the point.

There is an outcry of whining from the left.

[Supsalemgr]

One must admit he is getting attention. That is the point.

And you think that getting attention is the best top priority for a President of arguably the most powerful nation in the world?

Yes. Especially since his predecessor received no attention from the rest of the world.