Discussion Trump cabinet thread...updated 11/24/24 (full list)

iRONic · Jan 28, 2025

Cousin Caroline roasts Bobby in a letter to the Senate:

“I have known Bobby my whole life; we grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator,” she wrote, before going on to say that his victims have included family members and the parents of sick children.

Caroline Kennedy calls cousin RFK Jr a predator ahead of confirmation hearing

Scathing letter warns senators about danger her relative poses if confirmed as health secretary

www.theguardian.com

Brainonska511 · Jan 28, 2025

iRONic said:
Cousin Caroline roasts Bobby in a letter to the Senate:

“I have known Bobby my whole life; we grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator,” she wrote, before going on to say that his victims have included family members and the parents of sick children.

Caroline Kennedy calls cousin RFK Jr a predator ahead of confirmation hearing

Scathing letter warns senators about danger her relative poses if confirmed as health secretary

www.theguardian.com

Somehow every story involving RFK Jr and an animal always gets worse than the one before.

Pens1566 · Jan 28, 2025

I hope someone asks RFK about his 12+ years of IV heroin use. Should be interesting.

RalphTheCow · Jan 28, 2025

Sadly I think Caroline will have about the same effect that Mary Trump did.

esquared · Jan 28, 2025

Pens1566 said:
I hope someone asks RFK about his 12+ years of IV heroin use. Should be interesting.

He said it made him a better student.

RFK Jr. Says Doing Heroin Made Him a Star Student

Just a few months before Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to oversee U.S. health policy, the former presidential candidate was painting a shocking picture of heroin’s effectiveness as a study aid. “I was at the bottom of my class,” he said during a podcast appearance on the Shawn...

www.yahoo.com

"“I was at the bottom of my class,” he said during a podcast appearance on the Shawn Ryan Show. “I started doing heroin, and I went to the top of my class."

Fucking moron.

eelw · Jan 29, 2025

Odd. That weird shakiness to his voice normally, it’s mostly absent during his nomination hearing.

Pens1566 · Jan 29, 2025

Just wanted to say, Ron Johnson is a fucking moron. And likely a traitor.

Pens1566 · Jan 29, 2025

I like how his wife is smirking right there behind him while we all know that he's probably raw dogged about 612 randoms while needle sharing since they've been together.

Indus · Jan 29, 2025

The only way I think RFK gets denied a sec spot is if the Republicans think he's bad for corporate interests and call him socialist dem.

It could happen..

nakedfrog · Jan 29, 2025

So the new general counsel for OPM is... well, a festering piece of shit. Recently represented alleged child molester and sex trafficker Matt Gaetz.

https://www.pogo.org/investigations/raging-misogynist-now-federal-government-h-r-s-top-lawyer

hal2kilo · Jan 29, 2025

esquared said:
He said it made him a better student.

RFK Jr. Says Doing Heroin Made Him a Star Student

Just a few months before Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to oversee U.S. health policy, the former presidential candidate was painting a shocking picture of heroin’s effectiveness as a study aid. “I was at the bottom of my class,” he said during a podcast appearance on the Shawn...

www.yahoo.com

"“I was at the bottom of my class,” he said during a podcast appearance on the Shawn Ryan Show. “I started doing heroin, and I went to the top of my class."

Fucking moron.

Then why did he stop using it?

trenchfoot · Jan 29, 2025

I got'ta LMAO at every Trump cabinet hearing knowing full well anything and everything his picks have defended themselves with amounts to a flattened ant hill because Trump is going to be micromanaging them, keeping them under observation looking for any lapse of loyalty and dissension. The hearings are a total farce.

His words will be coming out of their mouths, his actions will be their actions. It's very much like how conservative Sinclair who owns tv stations in many parts of the nation speaks his own propagandistic words through the many news anchors that work for him, word for word.

Trump wants a leakproof wrap around his gov't because he and his oligarch lackeys are going to perpetrate nefarious, malicious and malfeasant crimes and they don't want any established law to get in their way. They're going for the total control of the gov't to have their way to a point where they feel The People of the Nation will have lost any influence and control over their elected leaders.

The authoritarians the world over must be besides themselves reveling in the knowledge that Trump is easy pickings and no one is gong to be able to stop him from destroying the last vestiges of Democracy here in the USA.

pmv · Jan 30, 2025

This is a good point. That's what RFK jr (of all people) would use a time-machine for?

RFK Jr. Stuns 'Daily Show' With The 'Worst' Possible Answer To 1 Simple Question

Michael Kosta could not believe this moment from the man President Donald Trump wants in charge of Health and Human Services.

uk.news.yahoo.com

Kosta rolled footage of Kennedy in 2020 saying that if he could go back in time, he would stop his children from getting vaccinated.

“I would do anything for that,” Kennedy said. “I would pay anything to be able to do that.”

Kosta was flabbergasted.

“That is the worst answer to what you would do with a time machine that I have ever heard,” Kosta said, adding in disbelief: “You can’t think of anyone else in your family that you would go back in time and try to prevent a shot from happening, Robert F. Kennedy Jr? No one else?”

K1052 · Jan 30, 2025

Cassidy sure doesn't sound like a "yes" on RFKjr. We'll see how he votes.

HomerJS · Jan 30, 2025

Trump wants Kash Patel as his FBI Director. Listen to this hearing excerpt.

https://www.reddit.com/r/houstonwade/comments/1idqftx/senator_dick_durbin_exposes_president_trumps_pick

trenchfoot · Jan 31, 2025

Maddow compares the outgoing SECDEF with Trump's pick and it pretty much says it all about what Trump thinks is the "right guy" for the job. It's just fucking unbelievable how Trump is making a mockery, a joke, sticking out a spiteful childish tongue wag at what the people of the nation actually needs from their leadership.

esquared · Feb 1, 2025

Ha ha ha ha. "The AP found that in addition to the physicians who had faced disciplinary action, many of the nearly 800 signers are not doctors"

Pro-RFK Jr. letter to the Senate includes names of doctors whose licenses were revoked or suspended

A letter submitted to the U.S. Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services includes the names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked, suspended or faced other discipline, The Associated Press has...

currently.att.yahoo.com

WTF?????

"Among the signers was Paul Thomas, an anti-vaccine doctor who voluntarily surrendered his medical license in 2022 after Oregon's medical board found he had engaged in repeated and gross negligence in the practice of medicine.

Thomas did not admit or deny the finding. NBC News reported that Thomas was part of a team assembled by Kennedy who remotely advised an anti-vaccine activist in Samoa during a measles outbreak there on how to treat children with vitamins."

Sure thing. Let's prevent the spread of measles, one of the most, if not The Most transmissible disease in terms of R0, ever, with fucking vitamins.

FelixDeCat · Feb 2, 2025

HomerJS said:
Trump wants Kash Patel as his FBI Director. Listen to this hearing excerpt.

https://www.reddit.com/r/houstonwade/comments/1idqftx/senator_dick_durbin_exposes_president_trumps_pick

I dont think he will be confirmed after watching that.

MrSquished · Feb 2, 2025

So far the Democrats have tried to slow down absolutely zero of Trump's nominations. Too busy hanging out with lobbyists and eating dinner.

manly · Feb 12, 2025

who woulda thunk it, Mitch McConnell is the last Republican Senator with a spine. 🤣

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-presidency-tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-02-12-25#cm725svpf00003b6rn03wxub8

UNCjigga · Feb 12, 2025

manly said:
who woulda thunk it, Mitch McConnell is the last Republican Senator with a spine. 🤣

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-presidency-tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-02-12-25#cm725svpf00003b6rn03wxub8

No—having a spine is making that move without being at the literal end of your political career, and without one foot in the grave.

Brainonska511 · Feb 12, 2025

manly said:
who woulda thunk it, Mitch McConnell is the last Republican Senator with a spine. 🤣

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-presidency-tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-02-12-25#cm725svpf00003b6rn03wxub8

Mitch's current actions are the equivalent of a pouring a water bottle on a fire he's been feeding gasoline to for his entire career.

MrSquished · Feb 13, 2025

holy fuck this guy is dumb lol

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Hegseth at NATO summit: "We can talk all we want about values. Values are important. But you can't shoot values."

bsky.app

K1052 · Feb 13, 2025

I hope the first thing RFKjr does is ban HFCS from US food products. If we're going down the farmers should be first up because they are huge morons.

manly · Feb 13, 2025

UNCjigga said:
No—having a spine is making that move without being at the literal end of your political career, and without one foot in the grave.

Brainonska511 said:
Mitch's current actions are the equivalent of a pouring a water bottle on a fire he's been feeding gasoline to for his entire career.

All true. I wasn't trying to give Mitch much credit; it's more comic relief than anything. Believe it or not, he's a never Trumper IMHO. Unfortunately he's also a bigger pussy (and a partisan hack) than he is a patriot. So yeah he DGAF about Trump on his way out. Of course he'll still vote 90%+ with POTUS on policy.

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