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« Reply #54045 on: November 13, 2024, 12:40:19 pm »

I suppose the first thing this new department will do is disband itself.
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« Reply #54046 on: November 13, 2024, 12:46:07 pm »

Apparently they’re only going to be acting in an advisory capacity.

Which further adds to the ironical aspect of them being responsible for some of the inefficiency they’re supposed to be removing.
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« Reply #54047 on: November 13, 2024, 12:50:35 pm »

Being just an advisory allows Musk to keep running all his private business
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« Reply #54048 on: November 13, 2024, 12:54:18 pm »

I suppose the first thing this new department will do is disband itself.
Maybe. The first step for it to actually become a department instead of a random ngo would be congressional approval for its existence; the executive can't just spin up stuff like that on a whim.

That's going to be a challenge on its own just due to there already being multiple ones doing exactly what it claims to be for...

Without that, though, it's literally just a random ngo. There's piles of those already, so at that point their impact is directly limited to whoever they can get to listen to them that has actual power. Questionable they'd even be getting federal funding for it.

Being just an advisory allows Musk to keep running all his private business
Pretty sure it not being advisory would, too. There's ethics laws and whatnot involved with conflict of interest, I think, but, well, enforcing those depends on the DoJ and federal courts, so...
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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #54049 on: November 13, 2024, 12:56:28 pm »

Are there any rules in place that would stop him?

Trump was surprised (as, indeed, I imagine most people were) that there were only norms that he not be in direct control of his assets while in office, not actual laws.
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« Reply #54050 on: November 13, 2024, 01:08:22 pm »

I don't expect Musk to stay in Trump's grace for long though. Two giant egos who both think they are the lord god almighty in one room, that cannot last long.
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« Reply #54051 on: November 13, 2024, 02:19:28 pm »

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-nominate-fox-news-host-pete-hegseth-defense-secretary-2024-11-13/
Hegseth, advocate for firing 'woke' military leaders, picked for defense secretary

What!? No!? Not the Woke Military Leaders!? <eyes bulging>
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« Reply #54052 on: November 13, 2024, 02:51:50 pm »

Apparently he also doesn't believe in germs.
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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #54053 on: November 13, 2024, 03:08:25 pm »

A UFO hearing was held today. I formally invite any hobbyist inventors or bored pilots of UFOs to buzz my residence tomorrow.
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« Reply #54054 on: November 13, 2024, 04:58:18 pm »

I want a flat-earther\moon-landing-denier for the adminstrator of NASA.
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« Reply #54055 on: November 13, 2024, 11:15:05 pm »

Matt Gaetz for Attorney General.

Edit: in saying that, Senate Republicans appear baffled by the decision.
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« Reply #54056 on: Today at 04:22:23 am »

Wasn't he done with politics because of allegations of sexual abuse of a minor?
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« Reply #54057 on: Today at 09:10:12 am »

Looking at our president-elect I'm going to wager that such actions are no longer a breaking point for modern Republicans.
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« Reply #54058 on: Today at 12:17:01 pm »

Trump's team has prepared a decree that will make it possible for Trump to fire and replace army officers easily and on a large scale.
Pete Hegseth, the chosen Minister of Defense has stated on multiple occasions that
- women should not be allowed to do physical labour
- he would rather have men from Ohio, Kentucky and Colorado than lesbian women from San Francisco for the army
- woke has made the US army weak
- he questions if highest commander Brown only got his job because he is black

Perhaps the time for a military coup is now, before the US military is changed into the Wehrmacht and SS
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« Reply #54059 on: Today at 01:29:21 pm »

On the idea of Gaetz as AG, and some of the other nominees, the reason trump wants the Senate to stay recessed is so trump can appoint all of his nominees via the Recess Appointments Clause.

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