Saturday, November 23, 2024

Flotsam and Jetsam - Reviewing the Trump Picks

There are lots of reaction to the Pam Bondi nomination for AG, and a shocking number of them from Sundance at CTH, who sometimes seems will only be content when Donald Trump is his own cabinet, Pam Bondi?  AG Nominee Pam Bondi and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles – Ballard Partners Law Firm, Lobbyists, President Trump Nominates Pam Bondi for U.S. Attorney General – The Deep Swamp Smiles. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair is not as upset, as Axelrod, Left Panic Over Prospect of 'Competent' Presidential Wingman at DoJ. WokeSpy, MSNBC Panel Flips Out Over Trump’s “Dangerous” AG Pick Pam Bondi. Cam at Bearing Arms asks a reasonable question, Where Does Pam Bondi Stand on Gun Control? Probably pretty squishy. Paul Bedard at WaEx, Second Amendment advocates urge Trump to leash ATF, pick pro-gun director. At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.22.24,  EBL is OK with Pam Bondi for Attorney General,

A whole slew on new nominations too. Atop Da Hill, Trump expected to name Kelly Loeffler for Agriculture secretary. Sundance says Big Ag Breathes a Sigh of Relief, and announces President Trump Announces Nominees for Surgeon General, FDA and CDC, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, Dr. Marty Makary, Dr. Dave Weldon, President Trump Nominates Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Secretary of Labor, President Trump Announces Scott Bessent as Nominee for Treasury Secretary, President Trump Nominates Russ Vought for Director of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and breathes a sigh of relief when Trump Advisor Dan Scavino Says President Trump Never Considered Mike Rogers for FBI Director. I thought the deal with the Senate was Trump got Gaetz and the Senate got Rogers. Clearly, they didn't follow through. At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.22.24, Legal Insurrection, Trump Nominates Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Labor Secretary. 

More on previous nominees, at ET, 5 Things to Know About Linda McMahon, Trump’s Nominee for Education Secretary, "McMahon, a major donor and fundraiser for President-elect Donald Trump’s campaigns, is currently a co-chair of his transition team." I hope it's not a reward for service, and she'll actually reform education. Responsible Statecraft predicts With Rubio, Waltz, a harder line on Latin America looms. Leah Barkoukis at TownHall hears Homan Say They'll 'Absolutely' Use Land Texas Offered for Deportation Operation. Collin Rugg at Hat Hair, Hegseth Is a 'Far-Right Extremist' Cuz He Sold *Check Notes* Grenade Soap. At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.22.24,  Dana Loesch: Matt Gaetz Falls On His Sword, and Victory Girls: Pentagon Has “Profound Fear And Anxiety” Over Pete Hegseth and Watts Up With That, Confessing to the Error of Biden’s Ways, and A Look At President-Elect Trump’s Picks For The Key Energy Policy Positions NewsMax hears Matt Gaetz: I'm Not Returning to Congress. Capt. Ed, Gaetz: I'm Outta Congress for Good. Sundance, Matt Gaetz Says He Isn’t Coming Back to Congress. Ace, Musk, Vivek Lay Out Their Plans to Make America Solvent Again. "The New York Times ran another hair-on-fire article last week warning of the dangers of Elon Musk's cost-cutting. See, this Lunatic has a crazy way of cutting costs: He just cuts what he thinks can be cut, then sees if he's cut too much and makes adjustments later. Or, if he hasn't cut enough, he cuts some more. It's insane! No company could possibly survive such a regime of cost-cutting!" At Da Fetched, MTG to Work with Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy in New Role as DOGE Subcommittee Chair. At Althouse, "In private meetings at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Musk shows little familiarity with policy or the potential staff members being discussed, but..." ""... he returns repeatedly to a central point: What is required, he says, is 'radical reform' of government and 'reformers' who are capable of executing radical changes, according to two people briefed on the meetings, who insisted on anonymity to describe the internal conversations.... From "Elon Musk Gets a Crash Course in How Trumpworld Works/The world’s richest person, not known for his humility, is still learning the cutthroat courtier politics of Donald Trump’s inner circle — and his ultimate influence remains an open question" (NYT). Who's leaking?" Well, it's the NYT, so there's a pretty good chance they either made it up themselves or got it from some Democrat hack who made it up. On the otherhand, it's pretty useless for us normies to speculate what goes on in his head. We don't have the equipment. Sundance, Donald Trump Jr Outlines How He Exerted All of His Political Capital to Get JD Vance Selected as VP. Dave Strom at Hat Hair reads The Slantic: Trump Assembling Most Anti-Semitic Cabinet in Decades and Pew: Public Feeling Pretty Good About Trump Right Now. PJM's Stephen Kruiser says Trump's Big Tent GOP Seems Like a Great Place to Party for a While. From Sauron's Eye Trump sent two stimulus checks in his first term. Here's what experts say about another payment. Nope. At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.22.24,   John Davidson at Da Fed worries that The GOP Establishment Is A Greater Threat To Trump’s Agenda Than Democrats. Could be. On the other hand, State Department Provided Therapy Sessions to Its Employees Traumatized by Trump Victory. Fire anyone who attended.

Hat Hair's John Sexton reads the Bulwark: Trump Is Running Again in 2028. That's just crazy talk, from crazy people. Ace, It's a Clown World After All, "The Bulwark continues farming their hysterical, paranoid readers for trauma-clicks." USA Today hears Trump still hasn't signed agreements to begin transition of power, White House says whines. "Trump has not agreed to memorandums of understanding with the General Service Administration, which includes an ethics policy. The delay in submitting the documents – which typically are filed at least a month before presidential elections – means the government can’t provide security clearances, briefings and resources to Trump’s incoming team before the president-elect is sworn into office on Jan. 20." They tried to screw him last time. From Twitchy, Here's Your Periodic Reminder Lefties Are STUPID: Check Out Their 'Plan' If Civil War Breaks Out, go to the library. Adam Turner at RedState, The Democrats Continue to Fall Down Their Doom Loop. They have to run on something other than hating Trump. 

Ace, After Staging an Insurrection for a Week and Attempting to Steal an Election By Counting Invalid Votes, Bob Casey Finally Concedes the Race for PA Senate to the Winner Dave McCormick. "All it took was the PA Supreme Court telling him to knock it off or face the law. He's claiming he wasn't grubbily attempting to steal a seat he lost, but instead just make sure all the people's votes were counted. Including all the dead people, fake people, and illegal alien people." At WeEx Salena Zite recounts How McCormick won Pennsylvania’s Senate race. Guy Benson at TownHall notes Georgia Conducted a Hand Count Audit of Its Election Results. Guess What it Found? "The results of the manual review released Wednesday showed 11 more votes for Trump and six fewer for Harris out of nearly 750,000 ballots reviewed by election officials across the state." Natalie Mittelstadt at JTN reports that Post-election, some states have already started focusing on election integrity, "Republicans in Ohio, North Carolina, and Arizona are all zeroing in on election integrity ahead of newly-elected officials taking office next year." At Da Signal, Harris Raises Money for Recount as Deadlines Pass to Seek One. "Raising money for a recount without any apparent intent to ask for one is likely acceptable under campaign laws, according to the Federal Election Commission." 

The NYPo ed board opines Biden, Mayorkas race to ensure more migrant damage after they leave. Cathy Salgado at PJM, Biden Administration Rigging System to Protect Illegals From Trump. Ace, Shocker: After Briefly Tamping Down on Illegal Alien Migration Just Before the Election, Biden Re-Opens The Spigots As He Exits the Stage, "Remember when Biden and then Kamala ran on the claim that the Biden-Harris Administration really took illegal immigration seriously and was fighting to tamp down on it? Well, that was a political strategy called "Lying." Da Blaze, Biden to launch ICE mobile app, further disrupting Trump's mass deportation plan: Report. Rep. Tom Tiffany@RepTiffany, "HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra cannot answer why he placed unaccompanied children with sponsors whose address was a strip club. He also cannot explain why he allowed them to be pimped out by individuals with no family ties to them. This is a sickening failure of oversight." At WaEx, Meet the charities spending millions to stop illegal immigrants from being deported. At Tablet, Mark Krikorian is all in on Sending Them Home. "Mass deportation’ starts with the removal of illegal aliens who break the law inside our borders, whether on the streets or on campuses." Pop Times calls it Shocking: NYC Dem Mayor Eric Adams Expands NYPD Using Money for Illegal Aliens after Reduced Influx. Sarah Hoyt at Insty thinks CONGRESS SHOULD PASS, THE PRESIDENT SHOULD SIGN A LAW BARRING FEDERAL FUNDS (EXCEPT IN EMERGENCY) TO ANY JURISDICTION OBSTRUCTING ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL LAWS: Denver mayor threatens to deploy cops, 50K residents in ‘Tiananmen Square moment’ to stop Trump’s mass deportations. NewsBusters, MSNBC Skips, CNN Spends 2 Minutes on Laken Riley Trial in Prime Time. MSNBC, The guilt of Laken Riley's killer was never in doubt, "For all the political controversy surrounding Jose Ibarra, the case against him was always a simple one." A slight revision of their original headline. VodkaPundit at Insty, DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Shameless court behavior of migrant charged with robbing and exposing himself to Alvin Bragg’s assistant prosecutor. 

Rick Moran at PJM says Biden's Last Gasp Effort to Forgive Student Loans Is Just as Illegal as All His Other Attempts. Nick Arama at RedState, Biden Gets Confused About Name of NBA Basketball Team He Invited to the White House. Matt Taibi at Racket, The Emperor Has No Brains. "America's post-electoral military escalation might amount to nothing, or it could be the last act of an empire gone mad. On ATACMS, ICBMs, and more nuclear poker." Sundance, Russia Did Not Fire an ICBM Today, They Fired Something Much Worse – A Message. The Daily Economy reports The Federal Debt Just Eclipsed $36 Trillion. Thanks, Brandon!

At Fox, New York judge grants Trump request to file motion to dismiss charges, cancels sentencing indefinitely. "Trump spokesman labels ruling as a 'decisive win' for president-elect." NewsMax, Trump Gets Permission to Seek Dismissal of N.Y. Felony Case. Capt. Ed, NY Mag to Bragg: You Still Here? It's Over! Go Home! UPDATE: Sentencing Canceled. Driscoll at Insty, NY MAG TO ALVIN BRAGG: You Still Here? It’s Over! Go Home! "Everyone seems to realize that the days of lawfare are over — at least for Democrats. Jack Smith has decided to get out of Dodge, er, Washington DC, before the new sheriff rides into town on January 20. The Georgia Court of Appeals suddenly canceled a hearing without explanation, which could mean that Fani Willis has decided enough is enough. . . . Related: New York Judge Indefinitely Postpones Trump Hush-Money Sentencing, Will Consider Dismissing Case. More: Trump’s sentencing in New York has been delayed indefinitely and the Left is NOT TAKING IT WELL. Conan, what is best in life?"

The Unsinkable Mollie@MZHemingway "Exclusive: Pentagon ‘Intentionally Delayed’ National Guard Deployment To The Capitol On Jan. 6." Dave Strom, House Oversight Committee: DoD Inspector General Lied About January 6th. The Divine Ms. Devine at NYPo, Weaponizing of DOJ was a hatchet job against the American people – and the new Trump admin must restore trust.

Mark Tapscott at PJM reports the Biden-Harris Administration Spent $267 Million on 'Misinformation' Research, aka censorship. Driscoll at Insty, BLUESKY IS HELL ON EARTH: John Sexton, NY Times Tech Reporter: Bluesky is Fantastic "Bluesky used to be an annoying anti-Musk hate fest but now it's a freeing anti-Musk hate fest and he loves it."  At MSNBC, Ace reports Joe and Mika's Ratings Continue Collapsing Since They "Slithered on Their Bellies to Lick Trump's Boots", Bonchie at RedState, Stephanie Ruhle Calls Herself a 'Fat Chicken' Who Got Suckered By MAGA, and Then Gets It Completely Right and Sarah Arnold at TownHall hears Joy Reid Spew Hate Toward Trump Supporters Once Again. Imagine, OTP, Musk Floats Idea Of Buying MSNBC. Da Mail, Elon Musk sets his sights on struggling MSNBC as network is spun off by owner Comcast. "The blood in the water at MSNBC set Donald Trump Jr's tongue wagging on Friday. He joked on X: 'Hey Elon Musk... I have the funniest idea ever!' He was responding to a post that incorrectly claimed the network is already for sale. Musk, who launched a hostile takeover for Twitter and won, took the bait. 'How much?' he replied in his own post. While the pair may have been joking, this was the same question he asked in 2017 when a Twitter user urged him to buy the site. Four years later he purchased the platform for $44billion and rebranded it 'X'."  At the MidWesterner, Elon Musk deems Jocelyn Benson’s former employer Southern Poverty Law Center a ‘criminal organization’ "Michigan Secretary of State Benson, was SPLC 'hate 'crime' investigator, served as board director."

At Campus Reform, ‘Queer Marxism’ course coming to Cornell University next semester. Stephen Kruiser has Good News for Republicans — Dems Don't Grasp How Fringe and Cringe Their Coastal Elites Are. At Cal Matters, Conservative professors and students are suing California’s community colleges, and winning. Charlotte Hazard at JTN reports Republican senator introduces legislation to get rid of Department of Education.

Dave Strom sees the NYT Jumps Into Democrat Civil War Over Transing Kids--Guess Which Side They Pick. No need to check. At Twitchy, J.K. Rowling Gives Trans Activist India Willoughby a BRUTALLY FUNNY Lesson in Basic Biology. Jonathan Turley, Expelliarmus!: HBO Delivers Blow Against the Anti-Rowling, Anti-Free Speech Movement. Driscoll at Insty, AND THEN HE CRACKED OPEN A TALL FROSTY BOTTLE OF BUD LIGHT: "Jaguar boss says criticism of rebrand is ‘vile hatred and intolerance.’ The boss of Jaguar has defended the carmaker’s controversial rebrand and described criticism of its marketing campaign as “vile hatred and intolerance”." Insty, 2026 CAMPAIGN COMMERCIALS MAKE THEMSELVES:

At Althouse, "Their existence, and my relationships with each of them, are essential to my understanding of life itself." "That's a very strangely written sentence... by M. Gessen, in "What Democrats Are Getting Wrong About Transgender Rights"" At Breitbart, San Jose State Women’s Volleyball Could Win Conference Championship If Other Teams Forfeit over Trans Player
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