US Politics

Do you think he has a calculated strategy for appropriating more powers? His senior crew are more loyal to him this time, and they've all had plenty of time to work on this. The speed and manner of these appointments look suspiciously like a Plan. But plenty of people are categorizing them as just a giant troll, a fuck you to woke America. They poke fun at the circus. But it's about as funny as that big Saddaam Hussein speech when he had his opponents escorted out of the audience to be shot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Ba%27ath_Party_Purge

OK gatekeeper, I'm off.
Enjoy your closed group who share the same, safe, establishment-approved consensus.

FWIW I’d appreciate if you stayed. Always good with different views and opinions.

Yep, I enjoy reading your posts. Even if I don't always agree with them, they are often well thought out and researched and make me think about the counter arguement, which is great.

This thread is interesting to me as I've forgotten a lot about how things work in US politics so great to read more about it and also find @frank9755 posts interesting so please don't leave!

Executive means the government as opposed to the legislature, ie Congress.

You don’t seem to value precision or clarity.

The US Federal Government is made up of three, equal, branches. The Legislative branch is 1/3 of the government.

Executive, in an organisational context, is a senior managerial position ultimately accountable for putting into effect plans or board decisions.

I do agree that Kennedy is patently outmatched by the requirements of being federal health secretary, but administrative competence was not the reason he was chosen.

Did they think he was going to appoint OG Republicans or choices acceptable to the Democrats?

But Gaetz?! I mean you'd think there would be plenty of lackeys who'd protect Trump and his cronies from legal oversight.

Has anyone noticed the Trump effect on the US dollar? I feel like converting my paycheck into USD to stop the bleed of my Canadian savings.

To ammend the constitution don't 2/3 of the 50 States have to agree? As well as the Senate, HoR and President.

Hence it's very very difficult to do.

US$ and bitcoin are surging! Our mutuals are making a killing.

As I said before, I was very surprised that he was offered the role, and that he accepted it. But given that has happened, what he says next will matter far more than anything he has said in the past, when he was not in government.

That you're this polite on the second repeat represents an uncanny amount of patience for the obtuse belligerence coming your way...

Yup, especially with the US planning to use it as a Treasury with putting on the books for the reserve... BlackRock and Vanguard are only the beginning... As it gets more scarce while the government prints more money, the gap will only get larger for the common man to own it. I'm looking to pave the way by investing into adoption and education to help people escape this corrupt system of centralized bankers. Fight the power!

heh, pretty good.

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Biden allowing the use of long range missiles against Russian territory seems oddly anti-democratic. If he believed on their use, shouldn't he have allowed it sooner? Whereas now he is allowing an escalation, when a candidate promising to end the war has just won the election.

Maybe the idea is to roll back the Russian gains a little bit and add pressure. I can't imagine that 7 weeks before the transition it wasn't discussed with Trump and his gang before being announced.

There is a piece on it here

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-allies-react-biden-allowing-ukraine-strike-us-atacms-1987178

Maybe they are aligned and it benefits Trump's strategy for Biden to take this decision. It is scary though.

If it goes bad Trump blames Biden.
If it works Trump takes credit.

Most memorable thing for me is that he [Biden] took 2 year to nominate someone as chair for the deadlocked FCC.

In contrast, Trump has already named a replacement and he's not even in power

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/trumps-fcc-chair-is-brendan-carr-who-wants-to-regulate-everyone-except-isps/

I’m looking at the targeting of education and it’s looking like Trump is aiming to crystallise a class system to ensure the masses who can afford a private education are the only ones who will get an education.

Ok there are already huge wealth disparities and have been for ever, but he’s building the wall in his own society

Tories be all about walls.

Carr has talked about breaking up Google, Facebook/Meta and X/twitter.
Potential friction with Musk.

Gaetz withdraws. Someone was going to release the report details, weren't they...

Gaetz gone before he could even order the new letterheaded stationary. I wish I could remember which pundit proposed the 'Trunp woodchipper'.
Hardly anyone (of note) served a full term 2016-20.
Trump has a high attrition rate.
Who'll be the next zero time nominee?
Rubio, JFK jr, Dr.Oz?

*RFK Jr

Russia (formally) invades Ukraine. Israel (formally) invades Palestine and Lebanon. Now Texas (formally) bids to host a detention camp 3x the size of Auschwitz to house immigrants that the POTUS elect wants to round up using the armed forces.

Wtaf is happening to the world.