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President-elect Trump's appointments part II

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I would say Gaetz as AG is the all time low. Chief LEO doing drugs with his underage sex partners ? Yeah, he's the bottom so far.
 
Bamaro said:
Who is trump recommending for this position and how would he answer the same questions.
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I agree!
"What are the 3 certifications that the FAA requires as part of the aircraft certification process?" That's a pretty down in the weeds question, but okay.

His qualifications were:

"Mr. Washington served in the Army for 24 years, rising to the rank of command sergeant major. Later, he led Denver’s Regional Transportation District and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and he became chief executive of Denver’s airport, which is one of the world’s busiest, in 2021."

I can't say he was good at these, but he at least had a significant amount of experience with being a transportation executive. Does that require knowledge of what makes a plane stall?

Mr. Washington took his name out of the running, maybe rightfully so. I still think he was a much better pick better than Hegseth.

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Pete Hegseth - Wikipedia

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"After graduating from Princeton University, Hegseth began his career working as an analyst for Bear Stearns. From 2003 to 2014 and again from 2019 to 2021, he served as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard, attaining the rank of Major. He received the Bronze Star while serving in the special operations forces during a combat deployment to Iraq in 2005.[3] In 2014, he voluntarily deployed to Afghanistan to train the Afghan security forces. Following his military service, Hegseth became an active figure in conservative and Republican politics and was the executive director of Vets for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America. From 2014 to 2025, he was a political commentator for Fox News and was a weekend co-host of Fox & Friends from 2017 to 2024."

There has to be a thousand people in the military with better and more distinguished careers that aren't as politically stilted. He was only a Major, and there are 6 ranks higher than his (plus the stars for General). He's just not experienced enough or truly qualified to run the Defense Department. (He's the definition of a pick for his sex, ethnicity, religion, etc. which under other circumstances would mean a poorly qualified DEI hire).
 
selmaborntidefan said:
Why doesn’t Trump just cut out the middleman, withdraw the Tulsi nomination, and appoint Vladimir Putin to head DNI?
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Accurate. I wonder how much classified info Gabbard has relayed to other countries already. I like her moxie, but she has some views that are interesting!
 
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JDCrimson said:
Toss up between him and RFKJr only because RFKJr has the potential to kill a whole bunch of people with insane views.
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Oncologist here... RFK is about as bad as it gets. He is anti-vax despite all of the attempts to sane wash him and it was hilarious watching him stumble as he revealed he apparently has no clue that Medicare and Medicaid are completely different programs. Apparently he can learn that on the job and it isn't important that he knows now. I feel sorry for Senator Cassidy. I can't imagine what it would like to be pressured to support Kennedy as a physician who believes in scientific medicine.
 
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Pro-RFK Jr. letter to the Senate includes names of doctors whose licenses were revoked or suspended
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A letter submitted to the U.S. Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services includes the names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked, suspended or faced other discipline, The Associated Press has found.

The AP found that in addition to the physicians who had faced disciplinary action, many of the nearly 800 signers are not doctors. The letter with the names of those who signed was provided to the AP by Sen. Ron Johnson’s office after he entered it into the Congressional Record on Wednesday during the first of Kennedy’s two confirmation hearings.

Among those who signed it were a self-described journalist, a certified public accountant, a firefighter/paramedic, a certified health coach and someone who said they had a bachelor’s degree “with an emphasis on Jungian Psychology.” The signers include at least 75 nurses, as well as physician's assistants. More than 90 did not include any credentials at all. Over 20 were chiropractors, representing an industry that has funded Kennedy's work.
The letter includes the header “ Doctors for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ” and begins with the words, “We, the undersigned physicians." It says lower down that it “reflects the collective voice of physicians and medical professionals” committed to addressing chronic disease.
Pro-RFK Jr. letter to the Senate includes names of doctors whose licenses were revoked or suspended
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Only the best.
 
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Tidewater said:
The substantive objection to the Hegseth nomination seem to center around diversity and objective standards.
For me, diversity is a means to an end (a competent and fully recruited force). If an otherwise qualified candidate declines to enlist/try out because he (or she) will be the only black/hispanic/asian in the unit, then the service loses out on a quality candidate. That is not good. If the military can adopt a policy that makes it more likely he (or she) will enlist, then good.
But we should not mistake the means (diversity) for the end (a fully-recruited and qualified force). I want every qualified man or woman, whether they are white, black , hispanic or asian that wants to serve to feel they belong. If they meet the standard, great. If they do not meet the standard, I do not care whether they fill some racial or gender quota.
I have seen this first-hand. You have 100 candidates for a school. They have to ruck x distance in y time (or run A distance in B time, or swim C distance in D time, or whatever). Those that meet the standard meet the standard.
Once you are not getting the right demographics (white, black hispanic, asian male or female), then the Army's solution is to look at the non-qualifiers and ask why we exclude those who meet the quota (even though they will be adamant that it is not a "quota" but a "goal" or "floor"). Candidate 67 (a member of whatever quota we did not meet this term) finished the ruck in Y-time plus 10 minutes. 10 minutes is not very much. Why can't we waive/relax the standard and let him in? That way our higher headquarters will get off the Old Man's back about not meeting our quota. Weak leaders who value their continued careers will give in an fudge/waive/relax the standard.*
It happened when women went to Ranger School. When they got to the Florida Phase, the Deputy Commanding General of the Infantry Center (a Brigadier General) flew from Fort Benning to Camp Rudder to grade the female candidates' patrols. Never mind that the last time the general had been on a patrol was 20 years prior. The Infantry Center sent him down so that nobody could second guess his judgment when he gave her a passing grade. Boom. Female quota met. Did she meet the standard? I don't know. Maybe. What I do know is that the DCG did not come down to Florida at all for my class. He stayed in his air conditioned office in Building 4, Ft. Benning, Georgia when I was in Florida.
I want every candidate that can meet the standard to have an opportunity. If a candidate does not meet the standard, I could not care less about their demographics.



* The military is not the only ones vulnerable to this. United Airlines says by 2030, they want 50% of their pilot candidates to be women or people of color. Why does a pilot's color or sex matter? United did not say. But in 2029, when a candidate who meets the quota just barely fails to meet the standard for entry, the organizational pressure on the tester will be intense to pass the failure who meets the quota. ("You know, Jim. We are looking to promote someone out of the schoolhouse to be the new Vice President for Instruction. Corporate would really like to be able to say United has achieved its goal by 2030, and Candidate 51 would make that possible. We know he failed to meet the standard on the eyesight test, but just barely. Couldn't you see your way to "fix" those results so 51 gets into our Aviate Academy?")
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I've experienced this. I joined AFROTC because I wanted to be a pilot. Like one older brother, I have a depth perception problem. That's the reason he became a navigator. Between my sophomore and junior year, I had the mandatory physical. I failed. I knew I failed and the corpsman doing the test knew I failed. He kept encouraging me and giving me one more chance. Of course, I knew what was going to happen. I would get to camp, flunk the test and be diverted into administrative number, and be stuck for two more years in ROTC. Worse, I found out later that I was the leading candidate for cadet wing commander, so I would have had all those extra unpaid hours on me. So, I quit. That's the way quotas work...
 
Tidewater said:
We can, we have just chosen not to.
Look, the defense-industrial base is privately owned, government managed.
If the US government tells artillery shell manufacturers, "Since we are at peace, we will need you to product 1,000 rounds of artillery ammunition per year."
The factor owner says, "Okay, if you will commit to that rate for the next ten years, I can makes those at a cost of $500/round."
Then DoD says, "Okay, but we also want you to be able to ramp up production to 500,000 rounds per year."
"But you are not actually going to purchase 500,000 rounds a year?"
"Nope."
"We can certainly do that, but retaining the stand-by production capability to ramp up to 500k/year, the 1,000 rounds you are actually buying will now cost $10,000/round so I can afford to retain the plant, the trained personnel, the contracts with my suppliers, etc. to be able to ramp up production." (Those numbers are all made up, they just illustrate the inherent inefficiency of defense spending.)

All true.
Focusing on lethality is probably better than thinking about Kendi's How to Be an Anti-Racist or pondering the meaning of "white rage."
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Similar happens to us all the time...
 
bamacpa said:
I know the bar is awfully low in DC, but when someone states that part of their own brain was destroyed then they should be ineligible to serve. Is a full brain really too much to ask ?
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Worse, he's pleaded disability and inability to concentrate because of it...
 
As Jeff Greenfield put it, Senator Cassidy had a wrestling match with his conscience, and Cassidy won.

The RFK2 nomination has been advanced to the floor for a full vote by a 14-13 vote.
 
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5 years ago, we kept finding more and more people positive for Covid because we were actually testing them for Covid.

You would IMG_9948.jpegthink a guy who claims he has the greatest memory in the world would remember that he said that, but you would be wrong.
 
selmaborntidefan said:
As Jeff Greenfield put it, Senator Cassidy had a wrestling match with his conscience, and Cassidy won.

The RFK2 nomination has been advanced to the floor for a full vote by a 14-13 vote.
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What I'm hearing is that his constituency has been blowing up his office's phones for days. He knew that the next primary was not going to go well for him if he didn't start paying attention to them. So I think the correct way to state this was that Cassidy's career was having the wrestling match with his conscience.
 
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CrimsonJazz said:
What I'm hearing is that his constituency has been blowing up his office's phones for days. He knew that the next primary was not going to go well for him if he didn't start paying attention to them. So I think the correct way to state this was that Cassidy's career was having the wrestling match with his conscience.
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His constituency?

Or the right-wing version of left-wing “spontaneous protestors” hired for an outcome?

Hint: he knew all along what he was going to do. Pretending he was wrestling on this is nonsense. Anyone with that much doubt has an obligation to vote any nominee down.

Republicans defending this left wing putz and Democrats attacking him has been the Bizarro world fantasy run amuck.
 
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