President-Elect Trump's cabinet

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in WSJ speculates on President-Elect Trump's cabinet:

Pete Hegseth for SecDef.

Was NOT expecting that.

He'll probably be the first SecDef with ink.

Department of Veteran Affairs? Great pick. SecDef? FFS…

[LuFins Dad]

But still better than the other side…

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in WSJ speculates on President-Elect Trump's cabinet:

Pete Hegseth for SecDef.

Was NOT expecting that.

He'll probably be the first SecDef with ink.

Might have been a WW-II vet that had a US Marines or Iwo Jima tattoo or the like.

[89th]

@George-K said in WSJ speculates on President-Elect Trump's cabinet:

@jon-nyc said in WSJ speculates on President-Elect Trump's cabinet:

IHT but who is she?

Alina Habba - one of his attorneys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina_Habba

Isn’t she the one that brought a gamer laptop to his trial or something? If so, she needs a good spanking.

[George K]

@89th said in WSJ speculates on President-Elect Trump's cabinet:

she needs a good spanking

And I know just the person to provide it.

[George K]

DOGE

[jon-nyc]

Is he imagining that Congress will create a new department? Or did he just want to goose Dogecoin? (which doubled this week)

[jon-nyc]

Seems weird to create a department for 2 guys that are going to oversee a single 600p report.

[LuFins Dad]

Okay, just bought a few bucks worth of DOGECOIN for the hell of it

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in WSJ speculates on President-Elect Trump's cabinet:

Was that picture taken during Pride Month? Lots of half naked dudes, some with dog collars.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in WSJ speculates on President-Elect Trump's cabinet:

Was that picture taken during Pride Month? Lots of half naked dudes, some with dog collars.

You have a problem with that, you bigot?

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in WSJ speculates on President-Elect Trump's cabinet:

@George-K said in WSJ speculates on President-Elect Trump's cabinet:

Was that picture taken during Pride Month? Lots of half naked dudes, some with dog collars.

Uh, that's the NYC SEAL Swim across the Hudson River. Those "collars" are swim goggles.

If I was you, I'd go down there next year and make fun of those guys in person.

Nice knowing you...

[George K]

@Jolly c'mon, @jon-nyc was trying to be funny.

[Jolly]

@LuFins-Dad said in WSJ speculates on President-Elect Trump's cabinet:

@George-K said in WSJ speculates on President-Elect Trump's cabinet:

Pete Hegseth for SecDef.

Was NOT expecting that.

He'll probably be the first SecDef with ink.

Department of Veteran Affairs? Great pick. SecDef? FFS…

Princeton, Harvard, 2 bronze stars. Current rank is Major.

I agree, better at VA.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in WSJ speculates on President-Elect Trump's cabinet:

Is he imagining that Congress will create a new department? Or did he just want to goose Dogecoin? (which doubled this week)

The goal, as I understand it?

Trim $2T.

[jon-nyc]

All they're empowered to do is write a report. Then Congress still has to act.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in WSJ speculates on President-Elect Trump's cabinet:

All they're empowered to do is write a report. Then Congress still has to act.

That's why I've called them the Grace Commission.

[jon-nyc]

I'm not sure either of these guys are astute enough (or are so incentivized) to realize we can't really fix fiscal problems without a serious bipartisan commitment. Any true fix would cause a lot of pain to a shitload of people and if one party were responsible the other party will run on relieving the pain and would likely be victorious.

At some point we will need to get the two parties to jointly agree to each cause pain to their bases and stick to their guns.

Actually in today's world the above might not be sufficient, given the parties relative lack of strength. Today it would be too easy for someone to run for the nomination explicitly against the deal that had been struck, and the parties are no longer in a good position to block them.

Man that's depressing.

[Jolly]

Truman managed to get the majority of the Hoover Commission recommendations enacted.

Sometimes, you never know...

[jon-nyc]

Right - but there you had a Democratic president choose a Republican ex-president to lead it. That's about as bi-partisan as it gets.