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Trumps Cabinet. Well it's happening, so here's the likely candidates:

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http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/7/13551988/donald-trump-cabinet-cronies

- Newt Gingrich as secretary of state
- Rudy Giuliani as attorney general
- Reince Priebus as chief of staff
- Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as secretary of defense or national security adviser
- Steve Mnuchin, Trump's finance chair, as secretary of the Treasury
- Lew Eisenberg, RNC finance chair, as secretary of commerce

See the article on reviews of each. The main point, however, is that they were chosen mostly out of favoritism, and not so much out of talent. I'm going to assume we will see more such appointments in the coming four years.

Flynn at least seems somewhat competent, so hopefully will not be someone who wants to nuke or attack a country right away.


As for Health and Energy:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-welch-steve-mnuchin-favourites-a7393871.html

- Ben Carson - Health Secretary
- Harold Hamm - Energy Secretary (it isn't Palin thankfully, but either way he's been pro-Keystone and against Obama's climate change initiatives, and a climate change denier himself; lesser of two evils overall?)


Get ready for the circus!


Edit: At least EPA will still somewhat exist although it'll be an obvious downgrade (bottom of article, also more info on Cabinet members):

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/who-is-in-president-trump-cabinet-231071

Environmental Protection Agency administrator

While Trump has called for eliminating the EPA, he has more recently modified that position, saying in September that he’ll “refocus the EPA on its core mission of ensuring clean air, and clean, safe drinking water for all Americans.”

Myron Ebell, a climate skeptic who is running the EPA working group on Trump’s transition team, is seen as a top candidate to lead the agency. Ebell, an official at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has come under fire from environmental groups for his stances on global warming. Venture capitalist Robert Grady is also a contender.

Other potential candidates: Joe Aiello, director of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Environmental Safety and Quality Assurance; Carol Comer, the commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, who was appointed by Pence; and Leslie Rutledge, attorney general of Arkansas and a lead challenger of EPA regulations in the state.
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This is an inevitable outcome. Presidents-elect typically recruit cabinet secretaries from their wide base of support among industry, media, state and federal politics, commerce, science and technology, etc. Trump did not have wide bases of support among any of those groups. He had zero newspaper endorsements. Almost no one in his party expended any effort to support him.

These are who are left.

God Dayumm said:
What a circus. Who were his favorites for supreme court again?
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Utah Senator Mike Lee (tied with Cruz for most conservative senator in post-war period) and about 10 circuit or district judges picked by the federalist society and handed to him as a condition of conservative support for his candidacy.
 
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What's that thing comic book gaf says? League of Evil? Circle of Villains? Whatever it is, this is it and this is BEFORE they've been appointed. Jesus christ.
 
Energy secretary being a climate change denier makes my blood boil more than anything else

This should have been like LGBT rights, over and done years ago but instead we still have some chuckle fuck republicans holding on to being on the wrong side of history
 
PsychoWARD23 said:
Energy secretary being a climate change denier makes my blood boil more than anything else

This should have been like LGBT rights, over and done years ago but instead we still have some chuckle fuck republicans holding on to being on the wrong side of history
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It benefits the coal and oil industry to deny it so money in their(republican) pockets.
 
Stumpokapow said:
Utah Senator Mike Lee (tied with Cruz for most conservative senator in post-war period) and about 10 circuit or district judges picked by the federalist society and handed to him as a condition of conservative support for his candidacy.
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Hm I read Lee politely declined the position, so it's down to the other judges he's been thinking about. Found a link to them here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-expands-list-of-possible-supreme-court-picks/

- Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah (Declined)
- Neil Gorsuch, a judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
- Margaret Ryan, a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
- Edward Mansfield, a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
- Keith Blackwell, a justice of the Georgia Supreme Court
- Charles Canady, a justice of the Florida Supreme Court
- Timothy Tymkovich, chief judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
- Amul Thapar, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
- Frederico Moreno, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- Robert Young, chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court

This is probably worthy of a separate topic tho (SCOTUS appointment).
 
Ben Carson at health?
Pyramids-were-for-storing-food Ben Carson?
Saint fucking god.

PnCIa said:
Semi-sane stretches it more than a bit. I remember some segment were he said something along the lines of "you have your data and i have my feelings".
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To be fair, that segment was more of a "Yes, but in politics feelings matter more than facts".
And seeing where we are, it's kind of hard giving him shit for that.
There's plenty of other reasons to, though.
 
hydragonwarrior said:
Hm I read Lee politely declined the position, so it's down to the other judges he's been thinking about. Found a link to them here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-expands-list-of-possible-supreme-court-picks/

- Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah (Declined)
- Neil Gorsuch, a judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
- Margaret Ryan, a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
- Edward Mansfield, a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
- Keith Blackwell, a justice of the Georgia Supreme Court
- Charles Canady, a justice of the Florida Supreme Court
- Timothy Tymkovich, chief judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
- Amul Thapar, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
- Frederico Moreno, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- Robert Young, chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court

This is probably worthy of a separate topic tho (SCOTUS appointment).
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None of them have especially notable legal records beyond being "textual originalists" and Heritage approved so there's relatively little to discuss.
 
B...Ben Carson?
As a Minister? For HEALTH?!
WHAT.

Yeah, sorry, the United States are totally and utterly fucked. Sorry. That's it. Back to the stone age for you.
 
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