Trump administration 2024-2028
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daftandbarmy
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Maybe Accenture can help, like with this big program?
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To be fair, this spat is supposedly because of the current restrictions on microchips, not the proposed tariffs.
But going back to @Underway ’s point on Canadian internal free trade, it would be hilarious and awesome if Trump was the catalyst for that.
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do we still need a brewery in each province if you want to sell your beer there?
ArmyRick
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The Mexicans are offended their currency is being compared to something so low as the Canadian Loony
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Trump Mulls Replacing Pete Hegseth With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — The Wall Street Journal
The president-elect is discussing replacing the current Pentagon nominee as the former Fox News host faces mounting scrutiny over allegations about his personal life
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Now just need to dump a few of his other choices.
It’s not. It may just be an incidental result if they dump Hesgeth. Statistically it seems more likely than not that a replacement would bring less baggage.
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I mean, given that experience in said portfolio doesn’t mean squat to Trump’s picks (see SECNAV), MTG and Laura Loomer don’t seem to have any cabinet posts yet
A post of mine re: Hesgeth was removed; my apologies.
Rephrasing: sufficiently significant credible concerns about Hesgeth’s conduct have been raised that he may not survive confirmation, and the incoming administration is probably assessing whether he is, in fact, a pick they want to remain committed to or whether they should switch up.
Reporting last night has Trump considering Ron DeSantis for the role instead:
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DeSantis has both active and reserve military service as JAG counsel and deployed to Guantanamo and Iraq. He of course has considerable governmental experience.
Rephrasing: sufficiently significant credible concerns about Hesgeth’s conduct have been raised that he may not survive confirmation, and the incoming administration is probably assessing whether he is, in fact, a pick they want to remain committed to or whether they should switch up.
Reporting last night has Trump considering Ron DeSantis for the role instead:
Trump may replace Hegseth with DeSantis as defence secretary pick: report - BBC News
Since Trump nominated Hegseth for the post, an allegation of sexual assault has surfaced along with concerns about h
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DeSantis has both active and reserve military service as JAG counsel and deployed to Guantanamo and Iraq. He of course has considerable governmental experience.
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Honestly prepare for the carousel like the last time he was in term. Trump dumping a cabinet pick is like me dumping the kids off at the pool. Do it once a day, twice if I ate Mexican.
Trump Mulls Replacing Pete Hegseth With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — The Wall Street Journal
The president-elect is discussing replacing the current Pentagon nominee as the former Fox News host faces mounting scrutiny over allegations about his personal life
Now just need to dump a few of his other choices.
Agree with his politics or not he is a significant upgrade to what is currently on offer.A post of mine re: Hesgeth was removed; my apologies.
Rephrasing: sufficiently significant credible concerns about Hesgeth’s conduct have been raised that he may not survive confirmation, and the incoming administration is probably assessing whether he is, in fact, a pick they want to remain committed to or whether they should switch up.
Reporting last night has Trump considering Ron DeSantis for the role instead:
Trump may replace Hegseth with DeSantis as defence secretary pick: report - BBC News
Since Trump nominated Hegseth for the post, an allegation of sexual assault has surfaced along with concerns about h
DeSantis has both active and reserve military service as JAG counsel and deployed to Guantanamo and Iraq. He of course has considerable governmental experience.
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Irony is like goldy or silvery, right?
OldSolduer
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This is incredibly stupid. DJT is a serial adulterous individual. I guess he gets a “pardon” over that….
I’ll leave now.
Halifax Tar
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If we discarded people because of adultery we wouldn't have a functioning society.
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Only over certain laws. But their list of responsibilities in the US federal construct is much smaller than in Canadian federal construct.
Someone once put it to me. In Canada the federal government's responsibilities are clearly defined and in some cases limited. The provincial responsibilities are less clearly defined and every time a "new thing" comes up it ends up in the provinces lap. This is why the federal gov't keeps getting involved in deal with municipalities and social programs of various sorts. In the US its the opposite. The civil war follow on boxed in the states responsibilities and rights clearly while the US federal government keeps accumulating them.
Part of this might be that in Canada the federal government are cowards who don't use the full power (particularly financial) to put the provinces in their place*. Mainly because we have multiple provinces that vote province first (Quebec and Alberta in particular).
*if you haven't noticed I'm a strong federalist. lol
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I can assure you, having grown up in Alberta, that Albertans have learned to vote Province first thanks to decades of ward heeling, Central Canadian Politicians using Alberta either as a punching bag or a piggy bank.
I really don’t care about adulterers. I take issue with those that profess being appalled by it yet get caught. The GOP being the party of traditional family values and all that…
Sexual assaulters and rapists however should be discarded. No sides of those two parties has a higher moral ground however and we can only judge individuals on that.
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President Truman pledged he would never knowingly hire a man that had cheated on his wife. When he was asked why, he said, “You know, if a man will lie to his wife, he’ll lie to me. And if he’ll break his oath of marriage, he’ll break his oath of office.”
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That same argument was used to flay a female B-52 pilot over lying about an affair. The argument was that she needed to be trusted with nuclear weapons, and she had broken the trust.
OFC this occurred at the same time that then President Clinton was busy lying about affairs…