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Any guesses on the cabinet?

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  • KlausK Offline
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    Klaus
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    What's this "czar" business about? Is there some constitutional amendment that defines the role of "czar"?

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    • jon-nycJ Online
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      jon-nyc
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      No it’s just a colloquialism. Really a title given by the press. His real title is ‘special envoy’.

      It’s customary for the press to give this description to important ad hoc positions that presidents create now and then.

      Only non-witches get due process.

      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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      • George KG Offline
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        #37

        James Taranto (formerly of the WSJ):

        Screen Shot 2020-11-23 at 7.01.54 PM.png

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          Aqua Letifer
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          #38

          Good one.

          I also wonder what he means by his icon image.

          Please love yourself.

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          • KlausK Klaus

            What's this "czar" business about? Is there some constitutional amendment that defines the role of "czar"?

            Doctor PhibesD Online
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            Doctor Phibes
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            #39

            @Klaus said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:

            What's this "czar" business about? Is there some constitutional amendment that defines the role of "czar"?

            Basically, if he doesn't perform well, he and all his immediate family will be taken to a log cabin out in the woods and summarily shot.

            It's harsh, but fair.

            I was only joking

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            • Catseye3C Offline
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              #40

              <---- searching in vain for headline that says 'Blinken Gets Nod from Biden'.

              Here's a bit of profile. Embarrassingly biased, but anyway. One observer at State describes him as "calm, non-political, experienced approach to everything". https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_405a68671d1c5a32f1afda120a0abde8

              I'm kind of excited about his credentials.

              Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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              • Catseye3C Catseye3

                <---- searching in vain for headline that says 'Blinken Gets Nod from Biden'.

                Here's a bit of profile. Embarrassingly biased, but anyway. One observer at State describes him as "calm, non-political, experienced approach to everything". https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_405a68671d1c5a32f1afda120a0abde8

                I'm kind of excited about his credentials.

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                #41

                @Catseye3 said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:

                <---- searching in vain for headline that says 'Blinken Gets Nod from Biden'.

                Here's a bit of profile. Embarrassingly biased, but anyway. One observer at State describes him as "calm, non-political, experienced approach to everything". https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_405a68671d1c5a32f1afda120a0abde8

                I'm kind of excited about his credentials.

                First time, for that role, I can think of that it wasn’t someone I had heard of before. That’s not a good or bad thing just an observation.

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                • LarryL Offline
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                  Larry
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                  #42

                  There's not going to be a Biden cabinet.....

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                  • George KG Offline
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                    George K
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                    #43

                    NatSec Advisor nominee sent emails to Clinton's unsecured server.

                    The Very Best People

                    Biden’s likely choice for national security adviser sent more than 200 classified emails found on Hillary Clinton’s private email network, and touted a now-debunked allegation before the 2016 election which fueled the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump was in cahoots with Russian leaders.

                    Biden will select Jake Sullivan to serve in the White House role, The New York Times and Bloomberg reported.

                    Sullivan, 43, was one of Clinton’s top policy advisers when she served as secretary of state from 2009 through 2013. After Clinton left Foggy Bottom, Sullivan served as national security adviser to then-Vice President Joe Biden. He was a senior foreign policy adviser to both the Clinton and Biden campaigns.

                    Sullivan was a key figure in the saga surrounding Clinton’s use of a private email network for government business. Clinton exclusively used the private server, eschewing guidance from the State Department to use government networks.

                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                    • LuFins DadL Offline
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                      LuFins Dad
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                      #44

                      I think his cabinet will likely be full of Prevagen, Galantamine, and little blue pills.

                      Oh, you meant a different cabinet...

                      The Brad

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                      • LarryL Larry

                        There's not going to be a Biden cabinet.....

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                        jon-nyc
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                        #45

                        @Larry said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:

                        There's not going to be a Biden cabinet.....

                        Larry, if you end up in the Philippines, maybe you can move into Hiroo Onoda's old hut.

                        Only non-witches get due process.

                        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                          xenon
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                          #46

                          I dunno much about Blinken - but he had a harrowing story about his stepdad.

                          As a kid he was in a school of 900 students. They all got marched away by Nazis one day.

                          He broke free of the March and ran into a forest. He heard a tank, it was American. He was the only kid out of those 900 to survive.

                          Now that’s some shit.

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                          • X xenon

                            I dunno much about Blinken - but he had a harrowing story about his stepdad.

                            As a kid he was in a school of 900 students. They all got marched away by Nazis one day.

                            He broke free of the March and ran into a forest. He heard a tank, it was American. He was the only kid out of those 900 to survive.

                            Now that’s some shit.

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                            @xenon said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:

                            Now that’s some shit.

                            Wow . . .

                            Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                              He was in the top half of his law school class.

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                              • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                @Larry said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:

                                There's not going to be a Biden cabinet.....

                                Larry, if you end up in the Philippines, maybe you can move into Hiroo Onoda's old hut.

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                                #49

                                @jon-nyc said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:

                                @Larry said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:

                                There's not going to be a Biden cabinet.....

                                Larry, if you end up in the Philippines, maybe you can move into Hiroo Onoda's old hut.

                                I dont live in huts.

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                                  George K
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                                  Biden selects architect of DACA to lead DHS

                                  Presumed President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Monday he wants Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Homeland Security Department, tapping an Obama-era mainstay who helped create the DACA program that protected “Dreamers,” but was also part of the team that expanded family detention.

                                  He also was deputy secretary, under Secretary Jeh Johnson, when the department grappled with the first surge of migrant children and families in 2014 and 2015. The department dramatically expanded family detention — from 100 beds to 3,000 — and built the chain-link fence pens, now derided as “cages,” used to hold immigrants who were in the country illegally at the border.

                                  All right, then.

                                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                    #51

                                    A monster!

                                    He is a monster!

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                                    • CopperC Copper

                                      A monster!

                                      He is a monster!

                                      George KG Offline
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                                      George K
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                                      #52

                                      @Copper said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:

                                      A monster!

                                      He is a monster!

                                      alt text

                                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                      • George KG George K

                                        Biden selects architect of DACA to lead DHS

                                        Presumed President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Monday he wants Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Homeland Security Department, tapping an Obama-era mainstay who helped create the DACA program that protected “Dreamers,” but was also part of the team that expanded family detention.

                                        He also was deputy secretary, under Secretary Jeh Johnson, when the department grappled with the first surge of migrant children and families in 2014 and 2015. The department dramatically expanded family detention — from 100 beds to 3,000 — and built the chain-link fence pens, now derided as “cages,” used to hold immigrants who were in the country illegally at the border.

                                        All right, then.

                                        George KG Offline
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                                        George K
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                                        @George-K said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:

                                        [Biden selects architect of DACA to lead DHS]

                                        Well, isn't this special:

                                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                        • MikM Offline
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                                          Seems problematic.

                                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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