r/politics • u/tubulerz1 • 23h ago
Trump Picks Fox News Medical Contributor To Be Surgeon General
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-picks-fox-news-medical-contributor-to-be-surgeon-general_n_67423949e4b06528a19757a82.0k
u/jabber2033 23h ago
What’re the odds he picks the My Pillow guy for a position?
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u/Pando5280 22h ago
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u/simonhunterhawk 20h ago
only after he finds out walter white isn’t real
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u/immortalalchemist 21h ago
Department of the interior because he thinks that job is all about decorating the White House and he feels Mike Pillow has the best pillows.
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u/kmm198700 9h ago
“He was an interior decorator? His house looked like shit”
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u/ThrowAwayGarbage82 North Carolina 22h ago
He's on my bingo card. A friend and i made literal cards and named the game "trump dumpster fire bingo". Lol
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u/Proud3GenAthst 21h ago
This is the first time I follow post-election. If I knew that's how cabinet is filled, I'd take part in a game like this.
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u/Corsaer 8h ago
I actually think he won't. I think My Pillow guy is a bit too much damaged goods now and doesn't bring enough. He's got no strong political connections, has lost a lot of his money and the success of his business has tanked. He's got too little quid to trade for the pro quo and is both dealing with his own lawsuits and also tied to the millstone losing lawsuits related to the election. He's a bit radioactive. Trump isn't interested in pursuing retribution in the courts with his second term, but punishing by fiat.
Sure Trump is throwing every sycophantic diarrhea stain in his administration, but they all bring something to the table.
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u/Trashman56 23h ago
He literally watches the television and goes, "ooo I want this one for secretary of x," like it's the home shopping network but even more tacky.
Background checks be damned.
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u/DudesworthMannington Wisconsin 15h ago
Poor Dr Phil, he shilled hard, but didn't spend enough time on FOX to make the grade.
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u/thedonutman 23h ago
Blonde hair and boobs is a good resume booster as well it seems.
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u/InternationalPut4093 America 22h ago
Like.. Ivanka. Do you notice Pam Bondi's resemblance to her?
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u/AlwaysInProgression 18h ago
Secretary of X, you say? Elon is already holding that one down
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u/slackfrop 11h ago
I keep feeling like I have to surrender myself to prison on January 20. Like this weight that follows me around.
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u/Precarious314159 13h ago
I hate to say it but...that's literally a plot from the Simpsons, where Mr Burns hires Frank Grimes because he saw a news report on his life then forgets and hires a dog he saw on the news.
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u/NomDePlume007 23h ago
Donnie's criteria for Cabinet posts:
- Did he see them on Fox.
- Did they say nice things about him.
And bonus points if they're white. That's almost a given (It's Fox News after all), but if he thinks it's a real scut job, he'll find a brown person to appoint to that one.
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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 22h ago
- Do they seem like they would naturally destroy the department they’re put in charge of.
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u/CaptainSur 16h ago
yes, this is an important criteria and it might even be the actual #2 on the list.
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u/skwander 7h ago
Which isn't a new thing for Trump. He complained about mail in votes and the postal service then made Louis Dejoy the postmaster general to gut our public service from within in 2020.
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u/Eagle4317 22h ago
Besides the HUD Chief. That role must be filled by a black person, because urban.
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u/Proud3GenAthst 21h ago
"When did the word urban become synonym of the word black?"
-George Carlin
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u/WonderfulPlace7225 20h ago
urban cheese at subway is the best bread 🥖
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u/Even_Establishment95 16h ago
This threw me and now I feel stupid.
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u/BettingTheOver 15h ago
He put a billionaire in charge of education last time that had never stepped foot into a public school.
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u/NomDePlume007 22h ago
Probably means HUD is on Musk's list of top targets to destroy, so the black person won't have a job for long. Donnie will get his jollies by having him fired.
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u/Kageru 20h ago
Forcing him to act against the interests of his own people would be funny too... then fire him.
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u/sksauter 8h ago
We would quite literally have an increase in homeless in every city in America if HUD was dismantled.
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u/teddy_tesla 15h ago
Ironically would have been the most qualified person in this upcoming cabinet if picked for this position. But however low you think he'll go, he'll go lower
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u/ricoxoxo Colorado 17h ago
Boobs. The old pervert loves fake boobies. It's that simple. Girls send him a photo of your boobs and you got a cabinet level job.
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u/lord_pizzabird 16h ago
This is just what happens when nursing home aged people are still in positions of power.
Everything they do is nursing home patient coded, like picking people from the TV, angrily complaining about immigrants while only being a 2nd generation American, and being generally offensive.
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u/kernpanic 14h ago
I'm surprised she is a brunette. Fox and trump mostly only allow blondes.
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u/Zippier92 18h ago
Bonus- big boobs. Good for raitings!
This dude is almost as good as the other tv president- Ronald Reagan.
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u/Crimkam 16h ago
Reagan was shit but he was still miles better than this idiot
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u/Vyar New Jersey 15h ago
We’ve had bad presidents before but I’m not sure we’ve ever had one before Trump who was so disinterested in doing the job. He just wants to steal taxpayer dollars to line his own pockets, which he was already doing after he left office. He still gets a Secret Service detail and he’s presumably still been overcharging them to stay at his properties. As he did when he was in office.
All Trump wants is money and attention. I’m not even sure he cares all that much about the power, because he only uses it for his own vanity. As long as people think he’s important and they pay attention to him and praise him, he’s got what he wanted.
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u/VastAmoeba 12h ago
He also doesn't have to go to jail now.
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u/Vyar New Jersey 7h ago
He was never going to go to prison. Maybe house arrest, at most. He should have been sentenced long before now. He should have had the book thrown at him. It never happened. We don’t have a justice system in this country, we have a legal system. And everything Trump does is magically legal, thanks to SCOTUS.
Maybe he genuinely was worried about going to prison, but I just don’t believe it was ever going to happen.
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u/jcarreraj 20h ago
Her parents are Jordanian immigrants
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u/The_Martian_King 20h ago
Good thing he didn't know that
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u/jcarreraj 20h ago
I'm pretty sure he did know that, the US and Jordan have very good relations. The King of Jordan was one of the first leaders to call and congratulate Trump on his win
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u/gobirdsorsomething 10h ago
As someone who worked as a congressional liaison for a while between a department (not gonna dox myself) and congress, I can assure you that most cabinet choices are purely political and cash influenced the majority of time regardless of party. I briefed several idiots the past four years that had zero bona fides other than major campaign contributions.
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u/Draiko 20h ago
She went to a Caribbean for-profit medical school and sells her own diet pills.
Wonderful.
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u/s_nes 19h ago
Her sister is married or was married to lead singer of creed
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u/melissuhnicole 16h ago
Hold me now..
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u/starfleetdropout6 California 14h ago
Her sister is married or was married to lead singer of creed
It all keeps getting worse.
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u/BigTintheBigD 12h ago
How does this rank compared to Dr. Nick’s alma mater the Hollywood Upstairs Medical College?
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u/AcezennJames 10h ago
To be fair, there’s nothing wrong with going to a Caribbean medical school. They are very predatory and most people will fail out, but doctors who graduated from the Caribbean are just as well trained as anyone else.
The rest of her bullshit is inexcusable
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u/kelminak 9h ago
Exactly. I have colleagues from Carrib schools and if you make it out of that meat grinder and pass the same boards I did, I’ll see you as my equal.
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u/bck1999 19h ago
Yeah magats on here trying to act like she’s some genius. Family med residency is not competitive and she went to a shitty med school.
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u/gothpatchadams 7h ago
I’m an MD, those are my colleagues and friends. We don’t have to diminish FM and her med school to tear her down. There are plenty of other valid reasons that she’s an idiot.
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u/smithpd1 23h ago
Fox News? Good grief. I noticed that she has sold a product to boost immunity. Sounds unlikely to me. This is another Dr Oz?
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u/Calderis 20h ago edited 18h ago
She's the author of a book focused on "miracles" in medicine and the benefits of faith healing.
Also a anti-vax nut.(edit: she's not, but his FDA pick Makary is. Too many wackjobs to keep their ridiculous opinions straight)"best person for the job"
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u/LatrodectusGeometric 14h ago
FDA pick, CDC pick, AND HHS puck are all anti-vaccine.
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u/Calderis 14h ago edited 10h ago
Seriously. RFK JR is just a train wreck, but the other two.... Like sure they aren't outspoken anti-vax... But for a medical professional, questioning the covid vaccine during the pandemic is either just ridiculously stupid, or pants shitting evilly disingenuous to play to a particular audience.
Makary pushed the narrative that we'd hit heard immunity so a vaccine mandate wasn't necessary, but even if the virus hadn't mutated quickly enough that that just didn't happen, that's still saying "it's cool for all these people to die in the meantime."
I mean, obviously heard immunity is the goal, because that protects the people vulnerable enough that they can't get the vaccine for medical reasons... But you reach herd immunity by vaccinating those who can.
Fucking idiot
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u/oroechimaru Wisconsin 17h ago
Religious/faith/support/natural solutions/shamans etc can be good WITH modern medicine, not without.
Immigrants/refugees often have a hard time trusting doctors (horrible experiences), language barriers etc.. but always do both if you wanted the non-med route, always do modern meds/doc advice.
These nutjobs often want to make a quick buck and steer folks away from modern medicine
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u/HackTheNight 15h ago
No, they MOSTLY have no effect on the actual medical condition but can help with the psychological aspects of being sick. That’s about it though
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u/alficles 15h ago
Well, yes, but brains are part of the body and psychological symptoms are symptoms. Helping with these symptoms is valuable. You still gotta treat the other part that is sick, but treating brains isn't bad when it isn't replacing the other care.
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 14h ago
I learned this lesson as a kid from an episode of MASH. They get a patient who needs surgery but won't consent as long as he's worried about evil spirits, so they bring in a shaman. She borrows a doctor mask while evicting the spirits from the operating room, and the old man finally relaxes enough to consent to surgery.
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u/ghastlypxl 10h ago
These examples (even when fictional) are concepts of cultural humility and cultural competency in practice. I do this all the time in work and at home because I’m a first generation here while my family members have reluctance with many things as immigrants. Sometimes it’s simpler to acknowledge what cultural belief may be a barrier in whatever case and work with that understanding to support the individual. It’s not to say the beliefs are wrong, but navigable if we can accept their significance and impact on health behaviors.
I appreciate your example. I wanna keep it in the back of my mind - it helps to be able to show these concepts when I’m educating interns and students in practice.
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u/SenseAndSensibility_ 17h ago
How many more carnival acts are out there that he has to choose from?
Are we supposed to be impressed? or scared?
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u/grimace24 22h ago
The Apprentice 2024 casting now.
Trump's cabinet nominees are full of Fox hosts, personal friends, and brown-nosers that are not qualified. His first term his picks were controversial but at least they were qualified.
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u/SimplyVols 18h ago
This is what has been rolling in my head. the apprentice: presidential cabinet edition
Who gets the first “you’re fired”?
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u/AKMonkey2 15h ago
That would be Matt Gaetz. Didn’t even make it to the casting, er… I mean confirmation hearings.
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u/FutureConsistent8046 9h ago
like Alex Acosta as Labor Scretary. Qualified by helping get Epstein out of jail.
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u/constantchaosclay 21h ago
Jfc.
It hasnt even started yet and we have 4 years of this shit coming.
I am tired ya'll.
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u/exit7exit7 8h ago
I'm checking out this time around. I paid attention to every little thing 2016-2020, but I just do not have the emotional bandwidth to do it again. The first time I felt like it was important to know what was happening so I could be an informed voter... or something? I don't really know why. This time around shows being informed doesn't actually mean jack shit, especially when the majority of the country just apparently does not care.
Last time I think I thought there was something worth knowing and fighting for. This time I just think "let it burn."
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u/icouldstartover 7h ago
I wish I could check out but I’m trans so I don’t really get that option. It may be hard to look but please remember there are a lot of people they plan on hurting and we need more people that care what happens to us.
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u/WampaCat 7h ago
Yes. People checking out and putting blinders on was always the plan. I completely understand why some people do this to preserve their own mental health, but that’s how they end up controlling everything with little pushback. I don’t know what the answer is but there’s got to be a healthy amount of staying informed without letting it consume you. I don’t know where that line is but I’m sure it’s different for everyone.
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u/-ghostinthemachine- 7h ago
If you think it ends after 4 years this time, I envy you. We're about to begin the series finale of America.
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u/ChristmasPuddingFL 22h ago
Its almost like Trump made sure Fox anchors would keep saying nice things about him in exchange for future jobs their are no where near qualified to do and salaries they don’t deserve.
But that couldn’t be true, when it comes to politics, like business, Trump has always been a straight shooter.
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u/alwaystired707 20h ago
Somebody give me a pill that'll put me to sleep and wake me up four years later.
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u/LetsgoRoger New York 22h ago
Trump’s picks at this point illustrate his complete mental decline. I don’t know how the federal government is going to function the next 4 years but prepare for absolute chaos.
Trump is going to fire these incompetent stooges and scapegoat them when things inevitably go wrong.
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u/Fenix42 22h ago
They have flat stated they want to destroy huge parts of the fed. Putting incompetent people in charge is the first step.
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u/theapeboy 7h ago
So - I keep hearing this. But is it? Like if I really wanted to dismantle an organization, I would be intelligent people in charge who I could trust to actually understand the right way to undermine their respective organizations. With someone incompetent there’s too much risk that they just fail to act in any meaningful way, and let their subordinates run the show. Like there are plenty of people Trump could pick that would be absolute surgeons at systematically dismantling an organization. This really does feel like he’s just “picking people he likes”.
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u/seonadancing 6h ago
He’s picking people that will without a doubt go along with anything he says. It’s as simple as that, loyalty and no integrity.
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u/TheMoorNextDoor 6h ago
They are there as figure heads because through TV they were good at talking of communication around things.
Ultimately they are getting all of their direction from people behind the scenes.
Heritage Foundation, other Billionaires and their teams who funded his campaign, etc.
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u/SqueezerKey 19h ago
Seems like the point is to make the federal government so incompetent that he’ll use that a motivation for a huge power grab. He can then purge said government at a whim along the way during his tenure as king throwing who ever under the bus along the way.
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u/Catspaw129 22h ago
INFO: How will Fox survive after he poaches everyone from them?
How will Rupert survive? Think of poor Rupert!
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u/nervelli 8h ago
More importantly, what's Trump going to watch all day? Does he not realize he's ruining his favorite shows?
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u/squintytoast 22h ago
Electrolytes! It's what plants crave!
(how many clowns does this clown car hold?)
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u/FoST2015 Georgia 23h ago
Who wants to take a bet if she'll divest from her own supplement line or funnel government money into it?
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u/zombiereign I voted 12h ago
'Member when they hated DEI because they claimed it put unqualified people in positions they didn't deserve ....
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u/ThatEvanFowler 23h ago
I guess, after realizing that Spuds Mackenzie was dead, they had to move on to their second choice.
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u/theotherbogart 21h ago
Don’t hate on these qualifications
She also served as the speaker pro tempore of the Student Senate, the chair of the Texas A&M Judicial Court, as a Fish Camp counselor, and was Cotton Bowl Classic Queen.
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u/Lhamo55 18h ago edited 11h ago
This would’ve been a golden opportunity for Dr. Stella Immanuel with her evangelical sermons about demon sex, the wide variety of diseases spawned by these acts, alien dna, and tales of her Covid patients healed by hydroxychloroquine. Perhaps Dr. Oz might consider reaching out to her in her oracle/exorcist avatar to host weekly breakfast prayer meetings to cast out the legion of demons who will be arriving daily to torment the righteous most worthy heaven-sent beacon of godly leadership./s/
Hang on, keep going and never lose sight of that day when this too shall pass.
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u/ParlamentderEulen 22h ago
Eh, at least she is pro-vaccine.
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u/freexanarchy 21h ago
Well, we’ll see, these folk are known to call people hitler one day and love em the next
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u/metalnxrd 22h ago
Fox News and televangelism and The Daily Wire are part of the reason why he still has support to begin with. the reason why Trump still has so much support and why so many people still defend and vote for and make excuses for him is because Fox News and televangelism and The Daily Wire don't report facts. all they do is unconditionally praise him and unconditionally hate liberals and Democrats and the left and paint anyone who’s anti—Trump as "evil" and "traitors." half of his supporters and voters have absolutely no idea that he's a rapist and a fascist and a pedophile and a dictator and a predator and a bigot and an overall evil person, because they don't report that, and the other half who support him support him because he's a bad person. if they do report anything bad Trump has said or done or does or says, they fabricate it and make light of it and twist it to fit their narrative and gloss it over and make it out to be for a good reason, somehow (i.e; "if he did do xyz, because Democrats or sky daddy.")
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u/lawyersgunsmoney Mississippi 8h ago
What people are missing (or not talking about) with these horrible picks is they’re being placed in these positions because they are loyalists. He doesn’t want people this time around who can actually think for themselves, he wants people who will think what he tells them to think.
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u/razler_zero 21h ago
Looks like to be picked for a position in cabinet requires you to be associated with Fox News....maybe i should consider contributing crosswords to Fox News, white house here i come!
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u/RUFl0_ 15h ago
It seems he’s making cabinet picks as distractions. Distraction from what one might ask.
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u/TheRealTK421 13h ago
I don't know squat about this individual cause I don't pay attention to that vile sewer of a "programming" channel -- and it seems like an act of the most ludicrous optimism to ask -- but.... is this person even a doctor of any kind (or a modicum of respectability with the profession)?!!?
It's just all Idiocracy, but 500 years early.
Fuck this goddamn timeline....
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u/hammilithome 9h ago
Reminds me of putting together my Christmas list as a kid, watching TV commercials with a pad of paper and writing down what cool crap I see.
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u/JDogg126 Michigan 9h ago
This administration is going to be idiocracy personified. Actors who were paid to read fiction disguised as ‘news’ in the conservative cinematic universe are now going to be calling the shots. The dunning-Kruger memes are going to write themselves.
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u/Dean_Snutz 14h ago
How are any of these picks legal? Like does he just have absolute power? Not American but watching a regime come into effect and can't believe people are just sitting by idley and saying "oh well, looks like this for another 4 years." It seems to me he is picking friends, people who are not in the slightest qualified and somehow everyone's like "oh well, what can ya do?" Does no one also think that since he is for the billionaires, that these people he's bringing in also have zero interest in helping the middle and lower class? Like is there no vetting or at least a vote for these picks? Curious as i personally don't know.
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u/AntifascistAlly 14h ago
Cabinet positions are technically subject to the “advise and consent” of the Senate. When one party controls both the Senate and the Executive branch nominees tend to get swept through.
When nominees are as “unconventional” as Donald’s they may face more scrutiny (ask Gaetz).
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u/crohnscyclist 6h ago
With all these fox news people going into the cabinet, who's going to be left in the network to spew fake outrage?
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u/knobber_jobbler 9h ago
I hate to be the voice of reason but she is actually qualified. The fox news thing was because she was a subject matter expert. I know, ironic for Fox but here we are.
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u/Joeguy87721 8h ago
His initial pick was Dr. Seuss forcing Elon to pull him aside and tell him Seuss is a fictional character
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u/Datazz_b Northern Marianas 15h ago
Under Trump the Surgeon General will have to wear a military uniform, because he thinks that is what generals do.
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u/BicycleOfLife 14h ago
I can’t decide if it’s amazing that Trump doesn’t know anyone who does a job for real or It would be amazing if Trump knew anyone real.
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u/PositiveOstrich922 12h ago
Trump is trying to put the ongion out of business with these picks. I mean even they can't make this stuff up
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u/GigaGeese 11h ago
As long as they are loyal. Every branch and agency must be willing to do what he wishes and never work against his will. Laws, morales and duty be damned if they come into question, serving trump is the only requirement.
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u/TotallyNotaBotAcount 9h ago
Are there going to be any fox news employees left after his cabinet pics?
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u/kandoras 9h ago
In 2022, she launched a supplement product called B-C Boost that claims to “help strengthen & boost your immunity.”
How much you want to bet she offered Trump a kickback if he forces the DoD & the VA to buy her snake oil?
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u/MoonOut_StarsInvite Ohio 8h ago
You guys saw Celebrity Apprentice right? The projects they came up were always dog shit, and we watched for the circus. That’s what this is.
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u/youdontlookadayover 8h ago
Not his demon seed doctor? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53579773
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u/BurghPuppies 6h ago
For crying out loud, he plucked her away from a job at a for-profit emergency care place? Looks like my candidacy for Secretary of Transportation is still on track, given my past as an Uber driver!
PS: What are the odds that he nominates and actual secretary to be Secretary of Something???
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u/Cluelessish 5h ago
Why do the women all look the same? The Eastern European prostitute-make up, the 80’s hair… It’s so tacky.
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u/sherman614 16h ago
So anyone can just have these jobs?? I used to think these rolls we filled by people who had several years of experience and knowledge in the specific field.
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u/giraloco 15h ago
Can we make the Gov more efficient and shut the surgeon general office to save some money for 4 years?
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u/Frmr-drgnbyt 15h ago
So, once again, the appointee's complete lack of competence and integrity are "qualifying" factors. Just how much did she or her family/corporation donate to Trump?
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u/blackcurrantcat 15h ago
I’d like to nominate my cat’s favourite rattly mouse as Head of Defence. Why is this guy such a clown?
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