"To have been nominated by President-Elect @realDonaldTrump to serve as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration is the honor of a lifetime. Over the past several days, as the gravity of this very important responsibility set in, I’ve concluded that I must respectfully withdraw from consideration."
Just read that Senator Mike Rounds, (R?) SD, has declared he believes that Wray should remain as FBI Director.
Surprisingly, Rounds is one of a very few Congress Critters that allows non-constituents to send his office an email. SO I just did. Basically, questioning, in a nice way, his intelligence and integrity to support keeping Wray (by inference the entire structure of the FBI) in place.
The other awful pick Trump has made is for USDA. The woman’s name escapes me at the moment, yet she has zero experience in agriculture. Somehow Massie and Cowan were passed over! This is a crucial role for our meat supplies and the immediate need to stop whatever nefarious things are injected into them and/or fed to them.
Susie Wiles is turning out to be the Uniparty infiltrater she has been rumored to be. If this is true then we’ll have another round of what happened in the first Trump presidency.
Boy, Winston Smith sure seems to paint in black and white. I like that he is worried that neocons and the old Republican establishment are surrepticially trying to infiltrate maga.
But he's dead wrong that "colorblind meritocracy" is a negative, or even not part of conservatism.
Still, I hope he's wrong. I still think the biggest problem is division even before the administration starts. I think DJT needs full backing to take on the Senate TDSers. His picks overall seem good. And maybe those who were anti-Trump even as recently as 2020 have changed for the better, just as I think Trump himself has, in many ways.
The gist is Wiles is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. While Trump is a consummate businessman and negotiator (which requires he can read people fairly well) his blindside is not knowing the intricacies of Government/Congress inner workings.
Part of being a great leader is assembling a team of people who are knowledgeable in the areas where you are weak. This was a serious issue with his first presidency. He was surrounded by people who desired his failure including his VP.
Wiles grew up in a household where the father was an alcoholic. She learned to navigate and become adept at being whatever she needed to be in order to survive. She is also, reportedly, a bit of a narcissist which accounts for her drive. These skills tend to make a person a bit of a chameleon.
In my opinion, we need to keep a watchful eye on how things develop as we may be overly critical or possibly right over the target.
Thanks, EK. Well said and informative. Thanks for taking the time to answer my query.
Yes, Wiles is a worry, especially considering DJT's track record with chiefs-of-staff. I take some heart in that it isn't a policy position. But much damage can be done.
Oof…I read so many different articles each day, they tend to blend together according to the subject matter. I will look back through my list and see if I can find the two I’m thinking exist 🤪
The buck-a-roni isn't going away anytime soon. All this talk of the dollar's demise is baloney. True, it is losing purchasing power every day, but well over half of all US dollars are held outside of the US and that is some $500 billion or there about.
I am not jumping on the Trump-picks-are-the-greatest bandwagon until I see the real deal in action. Trump still thinks that his warp speed mRNA injection program was the greatest thing ever. I do not agree one damn bit. I still do not trust him not to be bullied into doing the same thing again.
Although I hope it doesn't become a re-hash of his first term, Trump can of course fire Bondi, Chronister and any others that step out of line with Trump's aims.
As for Biden. We knew it would happen. Even if it does leave a foul taste behind.
Personally, I am indulging in Schadenfreude, seeing so many purported free-market people (like PBD f.e.) rejoice in new, more and higher taxes.
Just because the taxes in question are called tariffs.
Kudos to you for suggesting making the dollar actually worth anything instead of threatening other /sovereign/ nations striking /freely committed to deals/ with each other.
Trump is on a trajectory to unite not only BRICS nations even more against the USA, but to get European nations onboard the BRICS-train too if he keeps this up.
In Germany, the AfD is now talking openly about pulling Germany out of the EU, dumping the Euro, and re-industrialising which includes new nuclear reactors. None of this is stuff the current USUK regime wants to see happen, as it would also by necessity mean Germany making nice with Russia.
Thereby risking USA access to Ukraine's REMs. (The rabbit hole is turtles all the way down or something.) Thereby making Germany and by extension EU-rope independent on US gas. And a re-industrialised Europe, which can import materials and export high-quality products to MENA, Africa and the near Orient far easier than the USA can, would say "So what?" to US tariffs.
Make no mistake why Trump is blowing his horn on tariffs - it plays well with "middle America" to threaten "them durned cowardly eurotrashians" (racist stereotypes against whites are still okay, right?), and makes US industry like him just that little more, since protectionism is just what they need.
But I'm rambling. Expect tariffs on some symbolic goods (was it steel last time he was in office?) but with so many loopholes and specific language that nothing really happens (just as last time, by the way). Do not expect the much needed tariffs for goods from China/Asia, however.
That'd eat up too much profit for the US capitalists heavily invested in the communist dictatorship.
Or something. I'm expecting him to put demands on Denmark to give up Greenland to the US, because reasons (REMs, oil, gas, et cetera - not that media will mention that detail or that it would be naked theft of land under threat of arms).
DEA and DOJ picks will need time to tell. Your points are valid but somehow I think they will be OK. Some early Covid stupidity is forgivable. Just a little, not much. Bondi will be the most interesting. Biden pardoning his son is a bell-weather as he knows she is about to drop the hammer. Making the pardon date back to 2014 covers his ass for Ukraine bio labs which is potentially huge if it ever actually gets uncovered. I'm cautiously optimistic all the way around.
Mistreating your employees like that to 'encourage' them to get jabbed is horrific. What if one of them was forced from the force after taking it? Would the government pay THOSE bills? I doubt it.
All the best people. LOL. The Surgeon General pick is a doozie too.
https://x.com/ChadChronister/status/1864068222309277751
"To have been nominated by President-Elect @realDonaldTrump to serve as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration is the honor of a lifetime. Over the past several days, as the gravity of this very important responsibility set in, I’ve concluded that I must respectfully withdraw from consideration."
Great news! I've already got it thrown onto the end of the article that should be out soon :)
Cam a sitting president pardon himself?
Asking for a friend....
lol
Just read that Senator Mike Rounds, (R?) SD, has declared he believes that Wray should remain as FBI Director.
Surprisingly, Rounds is one of a very few Congress Critters that allows non-constituents to send his office an email. SO I just did. Basically, questioning, in a nice way, his intelligence and integrity to support keeping Wray (by inference the entire structure of the FBI) in place.
Send him a note folks. Cutesy time is over.
https://www.rounds.senate.gov/contact/email-mike
3d chess. Trump is throwing a bone to the establishment. There will almost certainly be plenty of oversight from DOJ.
EK, to what new revelation about Wiles do you refer? Do you have a link?
The other awful pick Trump has made is for USDA. The woman’s name escapes me at the moment, yet she has zero experience in agriculture. Somehow Massie and Cowan were passed over! This is a crucial role for our meat supplies and the immediate need to stop whatever nefarious things are injected into them and/or fed to them.
Susie Wiles is turning out to be the Uniparty infiltrater she has been rumored to be. If this is true then we’ll have another round of what happened in the first Trump presidency.
EK, to what new revelation about Wiles do you refer? Do you have a link?
I just found this one:
https://open.substack.com/pub/escapingmasspsychosis/p/concerns-over-the-coming-administration?r=15k78n&utm_medium=ios
I’ll keep looking 👀
Boy, Winston Smith sure seems to paint in black and white. I like that he is worried that neocons and the old Republican establishment are surrepticially trying to infiltrate maga.
But he's dead wrong that "colorblind meritocracy" is a negative, or even not part of conservatism.
Still, I hope he's wrong. I still think the biggest problem is division even before the administration starts. I think DJT needs full backing to take on the Senate TDSers. His picks overall seem good. And maybe those who were anti-Trump even as recently as 2020 have changed for the better, just as I think Trump himself has, in many ways.
Thanks again for responding!
I hope he’s wrong too. So much hangs in the balance.
Thanks, EK.
Don't spend any more time searching, just if you recall the gist of what you read/heard!
The gist is Wiles is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. While Trump is a consummate businessman and negotiator (which requires he can read people fairly well) his blindside is not knowing the intricacies of Government/Congress inner workings.
Part of being a great leader is assembling a team of people who are knowledgeable in the areas where you are weak. This was a serious issue with his first presidency. He was surrounded by people who desired his failure including his VP.
Wiles grew up in a household where the father was an alcoholic. She learned to navigate and become adept at being whatever she needed to be in order to survive. She is also, reportedly, a bit of a narcissist which accounts for her drive. These skills tend to make a person a bit of a chameleon.
In my opinion, we need to keep a watchful eye on how things develop as we may be overly critical or possibly right over the target.
Thanks, EK. Well said and informative. Thanks for taking the time to answer my query.
Yes, Wiles is a worry, especially considering DJT's track record with chiefs-of-staff. I take some heart in that it isn't a policy position. But much damage can be done.
Oof…I read so many different articles each day, they tend to blend together according to the subject matter. I will look back through my list and see if I can find the two I’m thinking exist 🤪
Exactly me, too!
No worries, I wasn't taking issue, just wanting to hear something I hadn't yet.
The buck-a-roni isn't going away anytime soon. All this talk of the dollar's demise is baloney. True, it is losing purchasing power every day, but well over half of all US dollars are held outside of the US and that is some $500 billion or there about.
I am not jumping on the Trump-picks-are-the-greatest bandwagon until I see the real deal in action. Trump still thinks that his warp speed mRNA injection program was the greatest thing ever. I do not agree one damn bit. I still do not trust him not to be bullied into doing the same thing again.
President Trump has a lot of stuff to do the minute he becomes president.
This country is a mess!
A Florida Neocon in the DEA ?? What could go wrong....
FJB
Although I hope it doesn't become a re-hash of his first term, Trump can of course fire Bondi, Chronister and any others that step out of line with Trump's aims.
As for Biden. We knew it would happen. Even if it does leave a foul taste behind.
I honestly expected Trump to pardon Hunter Biden, as part of a larger deal which would implicate worse actors than him.
That can still happen.
Hunter Biden can still be subpoenaed to testify, and can be charged with perjury or any other crime he commits going forward.
Personally, I am indulging in Schadenfreude, seeing so many purported free-market people (like PBD f.e.) rejoice in new, more and higher taxes.
Just because the taxes in question are called tariffs.
Kudos to you for suggesting making the dollar actually worth anything instead of threatening other /sovereign/ nations striking /freely committed to deals/ with each other.
Trump is on a trajectory to unite not only BRICS nations even more against the USA, but to get European nations onboard the BRICS-train too if he keeps this up.
In Germany, the AfD is now talking openly about pulling Germany out of the EU, dumping the Euro, and re-industrialising which includes new nuclear reactors. None of this is stuff the current USUK regime wants to see happen, as it would also by necessity mean Germany making nice with Russia.
Thereby risking USA access to Ukraine's REMs. (The rabbit hole is turtles all the way down or something.) Thereby making Germany and by extension EU-rope independent on US gas. And a re-industrialised Europe, which can import materials and export high-quality products to MENA, Africa and the near Orient far easier than the USA can, would say "So what?" to US tariffs.
Make no mistake why Trump is blowing his horn on tariffs - it plays well with "middle America" to threaten "them durned cowardly eurotrashians" (racist stereotypes against whites are still okay, right?), and makes US industry like him just that little more, since protectionism is just what they need.
But I'm rambling. Expect tariffs on some symbolic goods (was it steel last time he was in office?) but with so many loopholes and specific language that nothing really happens (just as last time, by the way). Do not expect the much needed tariffs for goods from China/Asia, however.
That'd eat up too much profit for the US capitalists heavily invested in the communist dictatorship.
Or something. I'm expecting him to put demands on Denmark to give up Greenland to the US, because reasons (REMs, oil, gas, et cetera - not that media will mention that detail or that it would be naked theft of land under threat of arms).
DEA and DOJ picks will need time to tell. Your points are valid but somehow I think they will be OK. Some early Covid stupidity is forgivable. Just a little, not much. Bondi will be the most interesting. Biden pardoning his son is a bell-weather as he knows she is about to drop the hammer. Making the pardon date back to 2014 covers his ass for Ukraine bio labs which is potentially huge if it ever actually gets uncovered. I'm cautiously optimistic all the way around.
You've really nailed it on all points in this post. Kudos.
Holy shit. This sherif was one of the filthiest, most vile covid tyrants. He's gotta go!!!!!
Mistreating your employees like that to 'encourage' them to get jabbed is horrific. What if one of them was forced from the force after taking it? Would the government pay THOSE bills? I doubt it.