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Rhino wrote:
> On 2024-11-14 2:45 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

>> Whoopi and Behar and Hostin are beside themselves with outrage over 
>> Trump's cabinet picks, repeatedly referring to them as Trump's "clown 
>> car".
>> 
>> Well, let's have a look at who's been sitting in Biden's car over the last
>> four years:
>> 
>> https://ibb.co/4gLrmMj
>
>Some captions would be useful here - as well as explanations! I think I 
>recognize Lloyd Austin but what in blazes is he wearing on his head? Top 
>right: who is that? Bottom left: who is that? Bottom right: I know that 
>Buttgag and he's presumably preparing to "nurse" his adopted infant on 
>his paternity leave.

The Media Panics Over Trump’s Administration Picks
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-media-panics-over-trumps-administration-picks

Try to think back, if you can, to the transition period of the Biden-Harris 
administration. I’m talking about the personnel decisions — and particularly the 
key Cabinet appointments — that the incoming administration made in the weeks after 
the media called the race for Joe Biden, back at the end of 2020.

Those personnel decisions were treated as non-stories. They came and went, and the 
media didn’t talk much about them. There wasn’t a lot of outrage or debate. Pete 
Buttigieg, for example, became the Transportation Secretary because he likes trains 
and was vaguely interested in airplanes. And he’s gay. Those were his 
qualifications. So they put him in charge of the Department of Transportation, 
which has a budget of tens of billions of dollars and oversees the nation’s 
railways and airports. Why not? It made sense to Democrats at the time. What’s the 
worst that could happen? A train carrying toxic chemicals might derail somewhere in 
Ohio? What are the odds of that?

And then there was the nomination of Lloyd Austin to lead the Defense Department. 
That was really inspiring. You see, Lloyd Austin was serving on the board of 
Raytheon, one of the biggest defense contractors in the world. Raytheon was paying 
him a lot of money. And then, without much fanfare, the Biden-Harris administration 
appointed Lloyd Austin to run the Pentagon. What could go wrong? Surely Lloyd 
Austin wouldn’t try to enrich his former colleagues in the defense industry by, 
say, sending billions of dollars worth of weaponry to a tiny, corrupt country in 
Eastern Europe. That would be unthinkable.

And then there was the appointment of someone using the name Rachel Levine — a 
biological male originally named Richard who decided in middle age to start wearing 
a dress and rebrand himself as Rachel. It made perfect sense, we were told, for a 
man deeply confused about the basic realities of human biology to oversee the 
nation’s healthcare system. Sure, he might pressure hospitals to castrate and 
sterilize as many children as possible. He might pose for some uncomfortable 
photographs with Sam Brinton, the cross-dressing nuclear waste expert and 
kleptomaniac who’d been terrorizing airport baggage claims all across the Eastern 
seaboard for years, before also being appointed for a role in the Biden 
Administration. But that’s the cost of human progress, the transition team told us.

I’m going through these appointments to make a couple of points. The first point is 
that all of these appointments — and many others like them, including the 
appointment of an open-borders advocate to run the Department of Homeland Security 
— were grotesque. None of them should have been allowed to go through. But they 
did, and the country paid the predictable consequences. Biden appointed more cross 
dressers that we’d been used to seeing in government at that point, but otherwise 
his picks were exactly what we’ve come to expect. A bunch of corrupt and useless 
bureaucrats, who went on to do what corrupt and useless bureaucrats always do.

Thankfully, it’s clear that Donald Trump is not going to follow that typical 
strategy. Donald Trump’s incoming administration is already unlike any other in 
American history. This is a transition team that’s making a concerted effort to 
select competent, independent Cabinet officials — people who aren’t self-interested 
cronies, or morons who are selected on the basis of identity politics. He’s picking 
people who are actually competent and who might actually advance the agenda that 
the American people voted for. Imagine that.

Let’s start with one of the selections that was announced last night. Donald Trump 
revealed that Pete Hegseth, a Bronze Star recipient who served nearly two decades 
in the military — including in Iraq and Afghanistan — will be nominated as 
Secretary of Defense.

Hegseth is most recognizable at the moment as a Fox News host, where he often 
advocates on behalf of veterans. He’s also used his platform to outline changes 
that, in his view, need to be made to the military immediately. Watch:

https://youtu.be/p4iags3bPgc

This is all common-sense stuff. The overwhelming majority of countries don’t allow 
women in combat roles, for obvious reasons. And no, the military shouldn’t be 
teaching its soldiers about “white rage,” nor should the Pentagon be focused on 
recruiting girl bosses or “diverse” applicants. That strategy isn’t working. The 
military is now regularly missing its recruitment goals primarily because they’ve 
gone out of their way to alienate white men for political reasons. As a result, our 
military is much smaller than China’s. Morale is terrible. We’re constantly losing 
war games, as Hegseth pointed out. And making matters worse, our military leaders 
are clearly inept, as evidenced by the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

With this track record, the absolute last person you’d want to pick for the job of 
Defense Secretary is another Lloyd Austin. The Lloyd Austins of the world are the 
ones who created the very situation that Hegseth was talking about in the clip. 
That’s why you need someone who’s motivated and equipped to make some radical 
changes. You want someone who knows what it’s like to be a soldier in a warzone, 
and who hasn’t been corrupted by his connections to the military-industrial 
complex. In short, you want someone like Pete Hegseth.

As you’d expect, Democrats don’t see it that way. They lost their minds when Trump 
briefly paused the flow of military weapons to Ukraine, and now they’re losing 
their minds because Pete Hegseth might spurn the defense industry, too. Elizabeth 
Warren, the senator from Massachusetts, was particularly enraged. She was sneering 
last night, along with a lot of her colleagues. She wrote: “A Fox & Friends weekend 
co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense. I lead the Senate military 
personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of 
our servicemembers. Donald Trump’s pick will make us less safe and must be 
rejected.”

So right away, the woman who pretended to be an Indian tries to dismiss Hegseth as 
a “weekend co-host.” She completely ignores his military service, his ideas, and 
his advocacy for veterans. We’re supposed to believe that, if Hegseth had served on 
the board of Raytheon, he would somehow be vastly more equipped for the job. We 
apparently want Defense Secretaries who are bureaucrats or defense contractors. 
Because that has obviously worked out so well over the past three decades.

And in the context of a second Trump administration, the criticisms of Pete Hegseth 
make even less sense. Recall that, under the first Trump administration, the 
Pentagon actively sabotaged Trump’s policy objectives. Our envoy to Syria has 
admitted this. It’s one of the most incredible admissions ever printed, but it 
never got much attention. The envoy stated that officials in the first Trump 
administration were, “always playing shell games” in order to hide the actual 
number of U.S. troops in Syria from Trump.” That’s an actual quote — “shell games.” 
In other words, they were lying to the commander in chief. Trump wanted troops to 
leave Syria, and they told him the troops were gone. And it wasn’t true.

People should’ve been put on trial for that. But it just faded from memory. Given 
that background, you can understand why — this time around — Trump wants someone he 
can actually depend upon. He wants to work with people he can trust. That’s the 
single most important quality that a Cabinet pick can have. And that’s very obvious 
to Trump now, after what he experienced in his first term.

But Democrats are still going to resist this nomination anyway, for reasons that 
they can’t even articulate. They just know that it would be a disaster for them if 
an outsider took control of the Defense Department. 

That’s why one of CNN’s hosts tried to push back on Scott Jennings’ arguments for 
Hegseth last night. Watch:

https://youtu.be/ACUR7bBZXiM

For starters, it’s pretty amusing — as Jennings points out — for television pundits 
to attack Hegseth for being a “TV host,” when they’re all television personalities 
too. Either being on television makes you an idiot, or it doesn’t. And if it does, 
then all of these people should quit their jobs now, before CNN closes down and 
fires them anyway (which appears more likely to happen with each passing day).

And then the anchor says that civilians give the orders in the military, which is 
obviously true. But it’s the Pentagon — which is also run by civilians — that has 
the job of carrying out those orders. And as Jennings pointed out, the Pentagon has 
repeatedly failed to do its job. They were wrong about the spy balloon and what it 
was doing. They were wrong about the logistics of the Afghanistan pullout, which 
resulted in the deaths of American servicemembers. They couldn’t even build a pier 
properly. So what exactly is the argument for keeping these kinds of people in 
control of the Defense Department? How could we possibly do any worse than they’ve 
been doing?

That’s a point that Tom Homan, the incoming border czar, just made on Fox News. He 
was asked whether he was worried about having the title of “border czar,” given 
that Kamala Harris has done everything she can to run away from that title. Here’s 
how Homan responded:

	HOST: "The last person who was 'border czar' didn't want to be called 
	order czar. You're proud of it, right?"

	HOMAN: "I'm going to look like a genius. Because when you follow up 
	failure you can't help but succeed." ?? lmao pic.twitter.com/fyCbWbXqTs

	— Autism Capital ?? (@AutismCapital) November 11, 2024

“I’m going to look like a genius. Because when you follow up failure you can’t help 
but succeed.” 

That pretty much sums up the entire transition so far.

We’re so used to administration officials who lie to us — who try to use emotional 
blackmail and manipulation — that it’s pretty much impossible to be disappointed by 
the incoming Trump administration at this point. Just by demonstrating that they 
don’t care about the media’s manipulation and false narratives, they’re already 
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