The 2024 United States Presidential Election Thread

[Samoa Looch]

Ron DeSantis running the Pentagon...

 

[Comrade Khan]

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-mulls-replacing-pete-hegseth-with-florida-gov-ron-desantis-8f682ad2

President-elect Donald Trump is considering Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a possible replacement for Pete Hegseth, his pick to run the Pentagon, according to people familiar with the discussions, amid Republican senators’ concerns over mounting allegations about the former Fox News host’s personal life.

Are you fucking kidding me

How are a.tgese positions appointed n not based on merit and experience. Your countries rules are so fucking stupid

 

[Chris]

Trump Picks Former Representative Billy Long to Lead I.R.S.

The move would effectively fire the current I.R.S. commissioner, whose term was set to last to 2027, and shake up an agency that the Biden administration has been spending billions to beef up.

www.nytimes.com

President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Wednesday that he would nominate Billy Long, formerly a Republican congressman representing Missouri, to lead the Internal Revenue Service, effectively pledging to fire the tax collector’s current leader, a Biden appointee.

Mr. Trump’s choice, announced on his social media website, would shake up the I.R.S. at a pivotal moment. The Biden administration has poured billions of dollars into modernizing the agency and beefing up its tax collection efforts in an effort to improve customer service and crack down on tax cheats.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/politics/kelly-loeffler-trump-small-business-administration/index.html

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday announced former Sen. Kelly Loeffler as his pick to lead the Small Business Administration.

“Kelly will bring her experience in business and Washington to reduce red tape, and unleash opportunity for our Small Businesses to grow, innovate, and thrive. She will focus on ensuring that SBA is accountable to Taxpayers by cracking down on waste, fraud, and regulatory overreach,” Trump posted on Truth Social, also noting that she’s co-chairing his inauguration.

 

[Chris]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-picks-fiserv-ceo-bisignano-head-social-security-administration-2024-12-05/

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has chosen Fiserv CEO Frank Bisignano to head the Social Security Administration.

 

[Samoa Looch]

Steve Rattner (@steverattner.bsky.social)

Musk and Ramaswamy have already identified $516B dollars in government savings — it includes cutting all of Veteran’s Affairs health care, eliminating the NIH, and ending funding for federal prisons. @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social

bsky.app

I wonder if there will be an outcry over this from the far-right, ultra-patriotic, "if you kneel during the national anthem you shit on all the veterans" MAGA crowd about this.

...ah, who am I kidding. Of course not.

 

[Chris]

Yay more private for profit prisons that get paid based on how many criminals exist

 

[Chris]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5025712-trump-names-caleb-vitello-as-acting-director-of-ice/

President-elect Trump named Caleb Vitello as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday night.

Vitello has 23 years of experience at the agency and previously played significant roles in the deportations of illegal immigrants, Trump noted during his announcement.

 

[Chris]

Elon Musk spent a quarter-billion dollars electing Trump, including financing mysterious 'RBG PAC'

The super PAC, which defended Trump on abortion, got its more than $20 million from the "Elon Musk Revocable Trust."

www.nbcnews.com

Billionaire Elon Musk poured more than $20 million into a mysterious super PAC at the end of the 2024 campaign, part of more than $250 million he spent overall to boost President-elect Donald Trump, new campaign finance reports show.

Musk financed RBG PAC, according to the report the group filed Thursday night with the Federal Election Commission. The super PAC, which did not disclose its donors before the election, launched ads contending that Trump did not support a federal abortion ban.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social)

Trump reiterates plans to deport / make stateless US citizens. Claims that deporting US citizens will "keep families together" when his mass deportations begin.

bsky.app

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Bluesky

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[Chris]

You tell recruiters that can't recruit at HBCUs then they're gonna be twiddling their thumbs all day, where are they going to find the fodder

 

[Chris]

Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination

Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.

www.nytimes.com

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

The letter, obtained by The New York Times, marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice, according to Richard Roberts, winner of the 1993 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine, who helped draft the letter. The group tries to stay out of politics whenever possible, he said.

But the confirmation of Mr. Kennedy, a staunch critic of mainstream medicine who has been hostile to the scientists and agencies he would oversee, is a threat that the Nobel laureates could not ignore, Dr. Roberts said.

 

[Chris]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-picks-hardline-republican-kari-lake-lead-voice-america-2024-12-12/

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was picking Kari Lake, a former news anchor and a hardline Republican who failed to win an Arizona Senate seat last month, to be the director of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America.

Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site, said Lake will "ensure that the American values of Freedom and Liberty are broadcast around the World FAIRLY and ACCURATELY, unlike the lies spread by the Fake News Media."

Lake, a strong Trump supporter who has echoed his false claims about fraud at the 2020 election, also lost the governor's race in swing state Arizona in 2022 and was previously an anchor at Phoenix-based Fox 10.

Voice of America (VOA) is an international media broadcaster that operates in more than 40 languages online and on radio and television.

During his first term in office, Trump clashed with VOA and accused it of amplifying Chinese propaganda after it showed a segment on a light show marking the reopening of Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus pandemic first emerged.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

And of course, he's starting his own propaganda station.

 

[Samoa Looch]

Didn't even knew yet that Trump's putting his Daughter-in-Law to "work" too now.

So much for de-swamping Washington.