All Things Trump: the story continues...

[Tero]

Trump DOJ, however they are with Gaetz, will reopen investigation of Hunter and joe Biden and their dealings in Ukraine.

[Tero]

....But leave aside for the moment that she is manifestly unprepared to run any kind of agency. Americans usually accept that presidents reward loyalists with jobs, and Trump has the right to stash Gabbard at some make-work office in the bureaucracy if he feels he owes her. It’s not a pretty tradition, but it’s not unprecedented, either.

To make Tulsi Gabbard the DNI, however, is not merely handing a bouquet to a political gadfly. Her appointment would be a threat to the security of the United States.
(Atlantic)
... Fox News host named Pete Hegseth, is so blatantly unqualified—a caricature of MAGA fidelity—that some insiders say even the Senate sworn in this January, with its 53 Republicans, may vote not to confirm him as leader of the Defense Department.

The same might be true (one can always hope) of Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, the far-right Democrat turned MAGA Republican, who has no relevant experience except, perhaps, that she has avidly parroted Russian propaganda lines to explain a wide variety of international developments.

As for Gabbard, picked to oversee and coordinate the 18 U.S. intelligence agencies, not much need be said beyond “Holy shit!” If confirmed, she will replace Avril Haines, who had been—in contrast to Gabbard’s slim résumé—deputy director of the CIA and deputy national security adviser before President Joe Biden nominated her for the job.
If the Senate doesn’t dismiss Gabbard’s nomination as an insult to the enterprise of intelligence gathering and analysis, then we are in serious trouble as a nation. At the very least, one can expect hundreds of intelligence professionals to resign—which may be Trump’s intention. He wants to destroy “the administrative state,” as his erstwhile strategist Steve Bannon once put it. Putting Gabbard in charge of the intelligence apparatus is one way of doing that.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... gence.html

[Brian Peacock]

Elon's first task will be to create a bureaucracy to reduce the amount of government bureaucracy.

Something like the Efficiency Department of Government Efficiency: EDGE. And as its head he'll obviously be the EDGE Lord.

You can have that one for the blog Tero

[Tero]

But but...Bill Barr was smarmy too!

“There’s no conceivable justification for nominating somebody this smarmy and this offensive for a position of such significance in this democracy other than to have a puppet and somebody who, as Gaetz has demonstrated, will do anything Trump asks,” said Ty Cobb, a former Trump White House lawyer.

Many rank-and-file Justice Department staffers — who were already dreading what Trump might do at DOJ — were flabbergasted by the Gaetz announcement. “This is completely wild. It’s so out of bounds, it’s just shocking,” said one career DOJ lawyer, who was granted anonymity out of concerns about retaliation. “He’s there for one purpose: to enact retribution.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/1 ... t-00189496

[Tero]

Trump, the modern Don Quixote, fighting wind mills, will cost us.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... e-policies

Under Biden, the US legislated the Chips Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, all aimed in varying degrees to deal with the climate crisis while also bolstering American manufacturing.

The IRA alone, with its major incentives for clean energy, is credited with helping create around 300,000 new jobs, with the vast majority of $150bn in new manufacturing investment flowing to Republican-held districts.

Trump, however, has called this spending wasteful and vowed to erase it. “I will immediately terminate the green new scam,” the president-elect said shortly before his election win. “That will be such an honor.

[Tero]

sargonas
11h11 hours ago
By the way… It’s straight up impossible to grow coffee beans in the United States, so enjoy that 20% markup on your coffee thanks to tariffs!

midnightandreggie
12h12 hours ago
I hope the people who didn't vote for Kamala Harris because of Biden's Gaza policies are happy with Trump's appointment of Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel, a man who says there is no such thing as a Palestinian & all of Israel was giving by God to the Jews.

yeah, Pontius Pilate is ambassador