You Will Anyway: Surprise, surprise

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Surprise, surprise

WASHINGTON—The Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order that establishes a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers and to recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership.

If Donald Trump approves the order, it could fast-track the removal of generals and admirals found to be “lacking in requisite leadership qualities,” according to a draft of the order reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. But it could also create a chilling effect on top military officers, given the president-elect’s past vow to fire “woke generals,” referring to officers seen as promoting diversity in the ranks at the expense of military readiness.

MSN

"Retired" personnel like General Mike QAnon Nut Flynn?

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Yes, the Constitutional Rights of all Americans is Trump's top priority.

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What does he know about national defense?

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What does she know about national security???

If we're attacked by dogs or goats, we're golden.

UPDATE 11/13/2024:

Only the best people. Actually, I don't really care about his personal family life. But his qualifications and his MAGA attitudes are appalling.

I have no doubt. Makes you wonder if the Trump administration is bent on destroying the US military, and now that I say that, it seems a very likely goal.

I doubt it. Word is that the Pentagon is currently considering ways to avoid Trump's worst and illegal ideas. But when he appoints General Mike Flynn as the top guy, and finds other MAGA generals to replace the ones he's currently working to purge, it will come down to the soldiers themselves whether they'll follow such orders. I don't have a lot of confidence in them.

Probably joking. But who knows? OK, definitely joking - 10 years??? Right? Maybe he should have been appointed to the Department of Health - or whatever they're going to have for- if anything - and now that I say that, I'm not sure they won't abolish all health agencies. Or give them over to RFK, Jr, which would be essentially the same thing.

Yikes!

Department of Government Efficiency - DOGE - as in Dogecoin. Musk and Trump are going to attempt to turn US currency (and world currency) to dodgy cryptocurrency, which is where they've been moving their fortunes.

Well, they owned the libs, and that's what's important.

UPDATE 01:49 pm: And why nothing for Bobby yet?

“The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad,” Kennedy said during an interview on “The Joe Polish Show,” drawing laughter from the audience.

“Campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is, like, just poison,” Kennedy added, saying that “you’re either given KFC or Big Macs.”

Kennedy went as far to say that he considers some of the options “inedible.”

The Hill

You're given that because that's what Trump wants.

Kennedy, who dropped his own presidential bid and threw his support behind Trump in the final leg of the 2024 election, now appears poised to take on a role in the president-elect’s second administration.

The idea of him taking on an advisory role with a “direct line to POTUS” has been floated, according to a source privy to discussions about Kennedy this cycle, though the source said nothing is as of yet “solid or set in stone.”

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The president-elect said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on the government’s health care systems, a line that his son Donald Trump Jr. also enthusiastically repeated to conservative media after his father’s victory.

Gotta give him a job first.

UPDATE 11/14/2024: And there it is...

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Sexual assault seems to be almost a prerequisite for getting on the Trump administration list.

UPDATE 11/17/2024:

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