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RFK, Jr. - Secretary of HHS, Trump latest unqualified nominee

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by VAg8r1, Nov 14, 2024 at 4:18 PM.

  1. g8orbill

    g8orbill Old Gator Moderator Premium Member VIP Member

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    Full list of Trump's Cabinet picks so far
    Here are the people Trump has chosen for critical Cabinet posts and other top White House jobs:

    • White House chief of staff: Susie Wiles. A++
    • Secretary of state: Marco Rubio. A++
    • Attorney general: Matt Gaetz. B
    • Deputy attorney general: Todd Blanche A
    • HHS secretary: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A
    • U.N. ambassador: Elise Stefanik. A
    • "Border czar": Tom Homan. A++
    • Defense secretary: Pete Hegseth B+
    • Secretary of veterans affairs: Doug Collins. A
    • National security adviser: Michael Waltz. A++
    • White House counsel: William McGinley. A
    • Solicitor general: Dean John Sauer. A
    • Secretary of homeland security: Kristi Noem. A
    • CIA director: John Ratcliffe. B+
    • Director of national intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard. B+
    • EPA administrator: Lee Zeldin. A
    • U.S. ambassador to Israel: Mike Huckabee. A+
    • U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York: Jay Clayton. B
    • Department of Government Efficiency: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. A++
    • Deputy chief of staff: Dan Scavino. A
    • Deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser: Stephen Miller. A
    • Deputy chief of staff for legislative, political and public affairs: James Blair. A
    • Deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel: Taylor Budowich. A
    • Presidential Personnel Office head: Sergio Gor. A
     
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  2. mdgator05

    mdgator05 Premium Member

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    What has Todd Blanche done that makes you think he is qualified for a top position? He is most famous for losing criminal cases (as Trump and Manafort's attorney). I suppose that you could blame that on both clients being obviously guilty, but I suspect you won't be doing that.
     
  3. PITBOSS

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    without hyperbole - have complete fealty to trump
     
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  4. duggers_dad

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    All of a sudden liberals are concerned about how the country is going to be run.
     
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  5. g8orbill

    g8orbill Old Gator Moderator Premium Member VIP Member

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    True but I do understand why. They lost and this is their only way to try and fight, plus it makes them feel better about the loss. I went thru these exact same feelings in 2020.
     
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  6. slocala

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    John Yoo, is that you?

    LOL. Those are some SWAC grades. Objectively, they are all A+++ if your goal is to unwind the administrative state and believe in the unitary executive theory.

    if your goal is to execute the laws written by Congress, you got a bunch of D’s purely based on comparative history of administrative action on laws.
     
  7. duggers_dad

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    Is “a bunch of D’s” the same thing as a bag of D’s ? ;)
     
  8. PITBOSS

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    With this clown car of appointments, everyone should.
     
  9. VAg8r1

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    Blanche is almost certainly Trump's backup if Gaetz goes down as expected. Not a big fan of Todd Blanche but he is infinitely more qualified for the position of AG than Matt Gaetz whose legal experience is probably insufficient for a position as an entry level Assistant US Attorney. Blanche actually has extensive experience prosecuting criminal cases as a supervisory attorney in the Southern District of New York. Blanche's failures are probably much more attributable to a demanding and delusional client who thought that he knew more about criminal defense than Blanche himself.
     
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  10. duggers_dad

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    I know I’m going to miss this guy …

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  11. VAg8r1

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    If you like what RFK, Jr. did in Samoa you're going to love what he could do in the US.
    Samoa's perfect storm: How a collapse in vaccination rates killed more than 70 children
    Confronted by such consequences [the measles epidemic and the deaths], anti-vaccine campaigners like Tamasese have struggled to deny responsibility. “The issue is the vaccine compared to the individual,” he told Stuff, a New Zealand-based media group, before being detained and charged.

    “If you’re putting the vaccine into a healthy, fully-functioning, fully nutritionally complete human being, this vaccine is probably likely not going to be an issue. “[But] if you put it into someone who has got a compromised immune system because they’ve got low nutritional profiles, then you’re going to have a dangerous vaccine.”

    It’s a new line of gobbledegook currently being spread by anti-vaccine campaigners around the world, most notably in the United States. The American lawyer, Robert Kennedy, nephew of the murdered president, John Kennedy is one of the main proponents.
     
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    By all accounts vaccine rates in 2021 causes a collapse of humanity.
     
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    He passed it the second time. About 20% today of all exam takers are repeat candidates. But ohh man you got him there...
    So now Dems are not ok with someone having a troubled past? Shocking since we what rammed down our throats about Hunter.
    Ya ill give you the nuclear power plant part. Its a damn shame our country has turned its back on nuclear power.
    Anti-vaccine (more specifically covid) - you can stop selling him on me!
    oh god, the bear thing is so damn petty. Hey, when you guys start to care that Hunter brought cocaine into the white house is the day I care Kennedy took a dead bear cub for meat but later staged it...

    Im curious, why are Dems so against a man who wants to tackle all the insane chemicals and poisons in our food supply? When did Dems become such big pharma advocates? What happened to questionning the things we put into our bodies? All the things that I used to love about the left are now considered right-wing BS... I remember when the left was anti war, big corp, and big pharma. Harris was backed by 83 billionaires while Trump had 52.
     
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  15. dangolegators

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    Did not realize Hunter Biden was nominated for a cabinet post. You have a link for that?
     
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    Here's what the Dems will look like after confirmation.

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  17. mdgator05

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    Wait, so you think that Hunter Biden has a great resume to lead a cabinet-level post too? Is that why you keep bringing him up? I mean, I don't, but, on the bright side, I do believe he actually passed the bar the first time!

    Haha, I am going to call BS on your supposed former love of the left. It is funny how like 90% of Republicans were Pro-Iraq war, but, 20 years later, suddenly 80% of Republicans were part of that 10%!
     
  18. PITBOSS

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    Well, below was rfk’s equivalent but more importantly neither were anti vax or conspiracy theorists


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  19. vegasfox

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    The FDA should be abolished. With just 1 decision on 1 drug (Inderal) with respect to 1 disease the FDA killed 50K+ Americans. No telling how many they've killed since 1962.
     
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