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Where is the party of merit?

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That profile pic is ON POINT! That smirking raised eyebrow is so prominent that it alone probably got him the job with Mugshot in Chief.

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For “merit” read “ideological purity”. I can make a reasonable argument that Rubio and Bondi are qualified for their jobs. The rest of them? Willingness to toe the line is all that matters.

Steve

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Did you notice that the new, official, portrait of TIG looks much like his Georgia mug shot?

Steve

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Loyalty certainly explains some of it, obsequiousness, too. But I’m going to go a step further and say incompetence is chosen to weaken government.

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I would not say “incompetent”, but competent in advancing an agenda. On the last go-around, the SecEd was Betsy DeVos, a strident advocate for school privatization. Now, the SecEd is Linda McMahon. What is her competence? Sports as entertainment spectacle. She is just the person you would want in charge of turning the US education system into nothing but a front for basketball and football teams.

Steve

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What?! Has he not done the requisite time at FOX ‘news’?

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And unlike all such official portraits since Ford, this one has no American Flag in it. Appropriate for such a traitor.

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It just means the new USian flag has not been unveiled yet.

Steve

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Will it just feature a scowling Donald Trump?

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I agree with your observations. I would add that Trump is not qualified for his job. He is a felon, he is breaking laws, he is nasty toward people, he is profiting from his presidential position with gifts galore (bribery at the highest level), gutting science and engineering professionals and contracts in government, in universities and private companies.

Trump has no coherent thinking or philosophy about the future of US science, health, energy, economy, safety, security, military, environment and foreign relations. We need the best brains in these areas to succeed to keep America strong. Trumps actions are making America weaker in all these areas.

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The Lysenkoists are in control.

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And those are his good points.

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Among us, there has to be someone we could send a bio of to Trump. In case he needs a replacement.

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Well, I think TIG has one overriding objective, make himself richer. I was laffing last night, when the news was reporting Musk’s disillusionment with the “BBB”, as the money he saved with DOGE, and more, is being used to fund more “JC” tax cuts, instead of reducing the deficit. Elon must have just fallen off the turnip truck, because taking from the Proles, and giving to the “JCs”, has been the drill for forty years.

Steve

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Thomas Fugate is definitely a “fuggit” hire. Nice write-up from ProPublica -

"In February, the White House appointed Fugate as a “special assistant” assigned to an immigration office at Homeland Security. He assumed leadership of CP3 last month to fill a vacancy left by previous Director Bill Braniff, an Army veteran with more than two decades of national security experience who resigned in March when the administration began cutting his staff.

In his final weeks as director, Braniff had publicly defended the office’s achievements, noting the dispersal of nearly $90 million since 2020 to help communities combat extremist violence. According to the office’s 2024 report to Congress, in recent years CP3 grant money was used in more than 1,100 efforts to identify violent extremism at the community level and interrupt the radicalization process.

“CP3 is the inheritor of the primary and founding mission of DHS — to prevent terrorism,” Braniff wrote on LinkedIn when he announced his resignation.

In conversations with colleagues, CP3 staffers have expressed shock at how little Fugate knows about the basics of his role and likened meetings with him to “career counseling.” DHS did not address questions about his level of experience.

One grant recipient called Fugate’s appointment “an insult” to Braniff and a setback in the move toward evidence-based approaches to terrorism prevention, a field still reckoning with post-9/11 work that was unscientific and stigmatizing to Muslims."

Don’t worry, we still have Patel and Bongino to help keep us safe…

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