I swear, I don't know how much more I can take. I will admit, I've spent a great deal of time this week laughing maniacally at the choices Donald Trump is making for his "Cabinet". I really can't tell if this crazed laughing is because Trump is entertaining me with sheer lunacy, or if it's just me losing my sanity. Seriously folks, I would be surprised if there has EVER been a presidential cabinet of more unqualified people taking the most important jobs in the United States before. I really thought that his last cabinet was bad, but at least there were a few adults in the room to try to steer Nutbag Trump back into the correct lane when he was getting out of hand. I don't think that's happening this time around, judging by his latest selections. Let's have a look at some of the man's selections of people he wants to back him up as POTUS.
Trump has tapped former Democratic Presidential Candidate and Congressperson Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence (a position created after the Sept. 11th attacks in 01, and designed to help facilitate communication between intelligence agencies, including the FBI, CIA, and the DOD).
What good can we say about Gabbard? Well, she IS a veteran of the US Military, having served 20+ years in the Army National Guard. She participated in both "Operation Desert Storm" and "Operation Iraqi Freedom" including hostile situations and environments. She was awarded a Combat Medical Badge in 2005, for providing medical services for soldiers while under fire, indicating that she may have been in the medical branch of the Hawaii Army Reserves. She later won 4 consecutive terms for House District 2 in Hawaii, serving in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2021, not filing for Congressional Office again in order to run for the Office of POTUS. When she lost her bid for the Presidency, she supported Joe Biden for the office. Okay...that's the good. Now let's examine a few more things...
Since her run for President, Tulsi has seemingly fallen down a rabbit hole of MAGA indoctrination, becoming a darling in Trump circles, and winning the man's favor. She has never had any experience in intelligence, much less in coordinating the communications between 18 separate intelligence agencies. She has no idea how an intelligence agency is even run, at least according to my research into her employment history. Our current Director of National Intelligence is Avril Haines. Before she was appointed to this position, from 2015 to 2017, she served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor and actual led the Deputy Security Council's Deputies Committee. This was after her stint from 2013 to 2015 as being Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Honestly, I'm not sure how to even compare the experience levels of the two women because they DON'T compare. There is a big difference between assembling a voting group of congressmen and women to support a bill, and preventing a violent criminal attack upon US Global interests by making sure that all intelligence is verified and double checked, including the assignment of hundreds of agents out in the field that are in extreme danger of compromise 24 hours a day if a single wrong move is made. I'm sorry, but Tulsi Gabbard's experience does NOT qualify her for a position like this, in spite of what Donald Trump thinks. But I suppose that her being the new MAGA "it" girl, he had to give her something. There are quite a few folks out there that are qualified to do this job, unfortunately, none of them will work for Trump.
Moving on, let us touch on the subject of Matt Gaetz, who Trump has tapped to be our new Attorney General. This is hard to swallow since I think that Matt Gaetz is the most disgusting toad in the world next to Donald Trump. He should be serving time for the things that he has done, instead of moving up into the upper echelon of our government. I guess that an alleged lifetime objectifying women, trafficking young girls and abusing illicit drugs does sometimes pay. Come ON, folks--the man bragged on the floor of the US House once that he'd crush up ED medications, slam them back with Red Bull, and the result was that he could "go all night long." Nothing but class, that one. Strong Florida values, I guess.
Aside from being the Republican Class Clown of the House of Representatives for the past 8 years, Gaetz is notoriously known for his strong opposition and removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House and holding the whole house hostage until Trump-crazed speaker Mike Johnson took over the position. Matt Gaetz has served representing Florida's 1st congressional district from 2017 until yesterday afternoon, when he resigned just days before the House Ethics Committee was to release a report on him--which may or may not have included discoveries regarding inappropriate behaviors such as soliciting sex with a minor and sex trafficking. While former Rep. Gaetz IS an attorney, he is an attorney with light to middle experience trying cases, having only 7 trial court cases in his career. I recommend this report from the Tampa Bay Times for more information on his background: https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2024/11/15/is-matt-gaetz-an-accomplished-attorney-closer-look-his-record-lawyer/ .
Usual qualifications for the position of Attorney General require at least some experience in being a judge as well, something that Gaetz has never done. Our current Attorney General (who I'm really angry at and we'll discuss that later) is Merrick Garland who is an alum of Harvard Law and graduated with top honors. Before Merrick's appt to Attorney General of the US, he served as an appellate judge for the district of Columbia Circuit starting in 1997, until his appointment by Joe Biden in 2021. He was famously tapped to ascend to the US Supreme Court in 2016 by Barack Obama, a promotion halted by a bit of unethical practice by Mitch McConnell, then Speaker of the House, refusing to bring his appointment up for a vote in the US Senate. Suffice it to say, Garlands legal background goes back a very long time, and he has more than enough experience under his belt. In contrast, Matt Gaetz is TOTALLY unqualified for the office. I'll not even mention that the Department of Justice, which Gaetz would be in charge of, has 115,000 employees. I wonder if he's ever supervised more than ten people before?
All of this, of course, is just my opinion, coupled with fact. Make your own decisions. I'm tired and I need to put this to bed for now. Stay well, friends.
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