Trump's Appointments (Already Including 1 Project 2025 Figure)
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Oh let me guess...you have something against Republicans with disabilities too? I think hed be a great pick.
I dont care what any of you libs think. He is entitled to a cabinet of his choosing and many of these people were already starts in their own right.
I like Hegseth but certainly his lack of experience is a question but he has served his country and I think will do well.
I realize the Republican party isnt full of a bunch of rockstars like Jean-Pierre and Mayorkas, but these guys will have to do.,
I like Hegseth but certainly his lack of experience is a question but he has served his country and I think will do well.
I realize the Republican party isnt full of a bunch of rockstars like Jean-Pierre and Mayorkas, but these guys will have to do.,
He's not entitled to the cabinet of his choosing. This isn't an autocracy.
Guess you have never heard 'to the victor belong the spoils'
Sure the selections fall under the advice and consent of the Senate but baring significant disqualifiers, I think a President should be given broad latitude to the cabinet he/she desires. The only one that could possibly fall in this area would be Matt Gaetz due to ethics concerns. The others have no possible disqualifiers.
"The process is often a formality, as Congress tends to defer to the President in selecting the Cabinet he needs to do the work of the executive branch. Only nine Cabinet nominees have ever been rejected by the Senate. If a nominee is expected to have trouble, he or she typically takes his or her name out of the running."
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The Constitution and the President’s Cabinet | Constitution Center
Only nine Cabinet nominees have ever been rejected by the Senate. Will Trump's nominees fare as well?
constitutioncenter.org
Read more. Talk less.
Sure. I think he should get his picks generally yes. I have zero issue with any one of his picks so far.
Love Gorsuch. Like Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett largely. I dont think any of them are radicals.
I dont suspect any of his future picks will be either.
Your days of ruling the country are over for now. You'll get a shot once again. But, God willing, Trump will get 2-3 more picks and cement a conservative SCOTUS for decades. And the country will be better off.
I have a lot of opinions on lots of issues but underlying much of it is an originalist/textualist/strict constructionist credo. So yeah the SCOTUS is pretty important to me.
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Does this go for both dem and repub presidents? I ask because of the 17 year run of Mitch M and his obstruction are at odds with your beliefs
Well I for one am incredibly glad Merrick Garland did not become a SC justice. The guy is terrible.
He's not getting paid so did they really hire him? Besides it's a great idea, Musk is the brilliant mind of our century.
Your mind is too small to grasp it.
Don't feel too bad, a trillion dollars is almost incomprehensibly large to the human mind.
This video from 2012 seems quaint now.
Our debt has increased over 2x since then:
As I have explained multiple times...probably to you more than once...the United States has never - EVER - been #1 in education if your metric is performance on standardized tests. It's a myth. And if you repeat it after it has been demonstrated to be false, it makes you a liar.
The very first international test designed to compare outcomes across countries was the First International Mathematics Study (FIMS) which would go on to become TIMMS. It was administered in 1964 to students in Australia, Belgium, England, Finland, France, West Germany, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden, and the United States.
Yeah...the US finished in 11th place. That's "eleventh place". Two 1's side-by-side. If you count the countries that participated...we finished next-to-last. In 1964.
American students first took the PISA, which is administered every three years, in 2000. We've never been better than middle-of-the-pack - though, interestingly, when scores for US students increased 5 points in reading, 13 points in math, and 13 points in science in 2009 over 2006 nobody really acknowledged it. Certainly not Eloon.
So just exactly WTF are you talking about, Mr. Musk?
Obviously racist math at work.
Like I said later in the thread, international comparisons aren’t really what we need to examine. The question is whether American achievement is better 45 years after the effort to federalize education, or worse.
The ASVAB is a very basic test, and I’d like to see how kids graduating high school performed in it across the board.
No luck in turning it up, but I recall a Pat Buchanan article years ago talking about our relative international rank, but diving down into subgroups the kids in America of Mexican heritage scored better than kids in Mexico. Kids in America of Swedish heritage outperformed Swedes, etc.
It’s just that our higher concentrations of lower performing sub groups ended up with us overall ranked behind countries like Japan, etc.
I just can’t recall the name of the researcher he was citing to share the original study.
There was a breakdown of PISA results some years back that broke out US schools by childhood poverty rate and showed schools with a <10% poverty rate outscored every country on the planet and it wasn't really close. FTR, Finland was #1 as a country and the entire country had a childhood poverty rate in the single digits. Comparing them to US schools with similar demographics had us beating Finland handily.
Schools with a poverty rate between 10% and 25% scored in the top ten in the world. Between 25% and 50% were in the top 25. Once it went past >50%, results started to crash with schools at >75% finishing next to last IIRC. And the problem is that the US has one of the highest childhood poverty rates in the world. So those results dragged everything else down. *shrug*
