Surviving a second Trump admin*

[O Really]

I really don't like saying anything nice about Trump, but really, Pam Bondi is probably as good as we'd get with any repug President. She's an election-denying Trumper, but comes with some decent qualifications and experience.

[GoCubsGo]

Just as contrast, this guy lost his job in Trudeau's cabinet for stuff that probably would have gotten him a job in Trump's.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics ... 7c1b&ei=54

Conflicts of interest, shady business dealings, false presentation of Indigenous ancestry...

FWIW, trump isn't even pretending this time around about putting his assets in "trust" or whatever. He's going to walk all over the emoluments clause while laughing in our faces.

[GoCubsGo]

I really don't like saying anything nice about Trump, but really, Pam Bondi is probably as good as we'd get with any repug President. She's an election-denying Trumper, but comes with some decent qualifications and experience.

While also being a right wing hatchet woman who tried to kill Obamacare multiple times.

Unfortunately, she'll probably sail through.

[O Really]

I really don't like saying anything nice about Trump, but really, Pam Bondi is probably as good as we'd get with any repug President. She's an election-denying Trumper, but comes with some decent qualifications and experience.

While also being a right wing hatchet woman who tried to kill Obamacare multiple times.

Unfortunately, she'll probably sail through.

Sure but killing Obamacare was/is just standard repug livery. I'm just saying she's not the worst of the asylum.

[GoCubsGo]

I really don't like saying anything nice about Trump, but really, Pam Bondi is probably as good as we'd get with any repug President. She's an election-denying Trumper, but comes with some decent qualifications and experience.

While also being a right wing hatchet woman who tried to kill Obamacare multiple times.

Unfortunately, she'll probably sail through.

Sure but killing Obamacare was/is just standard repug livery. I'm just saying she's not the worst of the asylum.

She can thank everyone else for making the bar so low that she actually looks reasonable.

[GoCubsGo]

The Senate still has work to do.

https://x.com/THEMOCOLLINS/status/1860005247579750736

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1860015287200022550

[Vrede too]

Pete Hegseth's Chances of Being Confirmed, According to Polymarket

The odds-on Fox News host Pete Hegseth being confirmed as defense secretary by the Senate have fallen significantly over the past 24 hours according to betting website Polymarket.

It came after CNN released details of a police report related to a 2017 incident in which a woman alleged Hegseth sexually assaulted her in a hotel room, which he strongly denies.

On Polymarket, Hegseth's confirmation odds went from 74 percent at 7 a.m. ET on November 21 to 52 percent at 10:50 a.m. ET on Friday after the CNN story was published....

Sure sexual assault is very bad, but Hegseth's misogynist policy positions and other wingnuttery should be sufficient to sink him regardless.

[GoCubsGo]

They may have to rename the Justice Department.

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/18 ... 5559959026

[Vrede too]

They may have to rename the Justice Department.

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/18 ... 5559959026

Now you're on the list, too, buddy.

[GoCubsGo]

They may have to rename the Justice Department.

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/18 ... 5559959026

Now you're on the list, too, buddy.

I'm in the deep, deep, deep state.

[Vrede too]

They may have to rename the Justice Department.

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/18 ... 5559959026

Now you're on the list, too, buddy.

I'm in the deep, deep, deep state.

Keep dissing the Trump/Bondi Justice Department and you'll be in the deep, deep, deep shit.

[GoCubsGo]

They may have to rename the Justice Department.

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/18 ... 5559959026

Now you're on the list, too, buddy.

I'm in the deep, deep, deep state.

Keep dissing the Trump/Bondi Justice Department and you'll be in the deep, deep, deep shit.

Me and Axel.

[Vrede too]

Former Rep. Dr. Dave Weldon tapped as CDC director

He was a Terri Schiavo idiot - her brain was revealed to be atrophied mush on autopsy.

He is an MD with Army and House experience, but he's never run an organization of any size. The CDC has 12K employees, has contracts and grants for many more, and has a $12B budget.

Trump names Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for surgeon general

Daughter of Christian Jordanian immigrants. No red flags in Wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janette_Nesheiwat

Trump chooses Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer as his pick for Labor secretary

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday threw a curveball to business-friendly conservatives by announcing Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon as his pick to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Labor.

A favorite of Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, Chavez-DeRemer is considered one of the most labor-friendly Republicans in Washington – and one of the few GOP members of Congress to co-sponsor the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, legislation stuck in committee that would gut right-to-work laws in nearly 30 states and make it easier for workers to unionize. Its companion bill in the Senate was introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, the progressive firebrand from Vermont.

... Chavez-DeRemer lost reelection to Oregon’s 5th District earlier this month.

She was first elected to the House in 2022, helping Republican women set a record in Congress at the time and becoming one of the first two Latinas to represent Oregon.

... Under the new Trump administration, the agency is still expected take on a more business-friendly agenda, but the president-elect’s pick to lead it has already provoked angry responses from conservative groups like Americans for Prosperity.

[GoCubsGo]

Must've slipped by the vetting committee.

[GoCubsGo]

Project 2025 arriving.

I don't understand, did DonOld lie to us?
https://x.com/AP/status/1860453283510231110
https://apnews.com/article/trump-projec ... ce=Twitter

[Vrede too]

Must've slipped by the vetting committee.

Payback to Teamsters President Sean O’Brien for speaking at the RNC. Dolt .45 loves to make deals.

[GoCubsGo]

Alarming would be a better word.
https://x.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1860712081059704979

[GoCubsGo]

GoFreePressGo!

https://bsky.app/profile/insidewithpsak ... pjehitlc2x

[GoCubsGo]

I never even thought about how he was paying for shit.

Who's he gonna owe now?

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/18 ... 2348160156

[Vrede too]

Alarming would be a better word.
https://x.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1860712081059704979

The cult reacts:

Republicans lash out at Democrats' claims that Trump intelligence pick Gabbard is 'compromised'

In part, this controversy is a stand-in for the revelations that TRE45QN is a Russian asset.