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Thoughts on the Recent Victory: Cabinet Edition

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[Editor’s note:  There’s a lot of other news (especially Church-related) which we’re going to talk about. Right now, we are living through the greatest political comeback in history.  And the precipice of nuclear annihilation.  Please be patient.]

This is good.  Scratch that, this is great.

First off, let’s look who was not invited to serve:  Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley.  Right off the bat, Trump “invited them out” in a particularly catty fashion.  Serves ’em right.  “No Neocons Need Apply.”

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  The picture above is emblematic of that aphorism.  We could pull up dozens –nay scores–of pictures of the people that populated the Biden Administration and it would only amplify the point.

They could also make you throw up your lunch or spit out coffee.  So I won’t do it.  This one is bad enough.

Instead, today, I want to take a look at the appointments which President Trump has made for his incoming Administration and give them a grade.  I’ll also provide a brief context as well.

Let’s start with Robert F Kennedy, Jr, to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).  While I don’t agree with Kennedy’s politics (broadly speaking), I do agree with his critique of the American health care system.  I do so as someone who has been in health care for forty years now.  America has the most expensive health care system in the world.  And also the least effective one.  You want proof?  We are the most obese nation on earth, clocking in with over 50 percent of population (myself included) as being either “overweight” or “obese.”  As for Kennedy’s concerns about the overuse of vaccines and the entire Covidian nonsense, he was completely correct.  Gail has been writing about this for the better part of five years.  In fact, she alerted me to the iffiness of the plandemic almost from the start.  A+.

One more thing:  Kennedy is a wrecking ball in the same spirit as is Trump; a veritable battle-axe to a rotten system.  Let’s hope he succeeds.  America can’t be great again unless it’s healthy again.

Tulsi Gabbard:  Director of National Intelligence.  Be still, my heart!  Yes, she is easy on the eyes.  But she’s also smart, patriotic, a lieutenant colonel who served in the Army and a soldier saw combat  All of the above speaks well of her.  The fact that she is a ferocious anti-neocon is a delectable cherry on top of this splendid sundae.  The fact that she is going to sit at the top of the intelligence pyramid that has all but accused her of being a Russian agent has already caused several of the Deep Staters to evacuate their bowels.  Need I say more?  A+

Matt Gaetz:  Attorney General.  What a doozy!  I realize he’s no choirboy but given the non-stop screaming that’s erupted since he was nominated tells me all I need to know.  Several of the functionaries at the Department of Justice have lawyered up.  Good.  Even if they don’t go to prison, they are going to get a taste of the lawfare they’ve inflicted on Trump (as well as Stephen Bannon, Roger Stone, et al).    A+ [Editor’s note:  Gaetz has removed his name and Pam Bondi has been nominated instead.  Are we watching a rope-a-dope?  I suspect Trump get something for this, say DeSantis nominating him for the Senate?  Also, Gaetz resigned from the 118th Congress (the one that’s in session).  He was elected to the 119th Congress.  The one that begins on January 3, 2025.  Is this a 5D chess move?]

Marco Rubio:  Secretary of State.  Yes, I know he’s a neocon but my instinct tells me he’s not a lunatic in this regard.  As Senator, he got Victoria Nuland to spill the beans about the biolabs that NATO built in the Ukraine.  This was huge; it immediately called into question the entire neocon narrative.  Also, he’s been highly critical of funding the Ukraine war.  On the downside, he’s still an Israel-firster but as SecState, I imagine he’s not going to be a traitorous scumbag like Mike Pompeo.  Say what you will about Rubio but now that he’s resigning from the Senate, he’s got to “fly right”, otherwise his political career is finito.  B-

Pete Hegseth:  Department of Defense.  What can I say?  He’s a warrior.  Unlike a lot of the higher-ups at the Pentagon, he’s actually seen combat.  Yes, he’s got some baggage, but who doesn’t?  My personal pick would have been Douglas Macgregor, a committed anti-neocon but Hegseth has repented of his past associations.  Regardless, whoever’s in charge is going to have a hard time cleaning out the cultural rot that plagues the Armed Services.  B+

John Ratcliffe:  CIA.  I like this guy.  If memory serves he was acting CIA director during the first Trump Administration.  Must know where some bodies are buried.  B+

Tom Homan:  Border Czar.  This guy is ready to kick ass and take names.  Truth be told, his position may be the most important one in the government.  If he doesn’t succeed, we won’t have a country.  I’m of the opinion that he will succeed.  To all the 20 million illegals out there:  start packing your bags!  He’s a non-sentimental, tough-as-nails kind of guy.  Fantastic.  A+.

Michael Waltz:  National Security Advisor.  Gotta be honest, not my cup of tea.  Too hawkish on Iran.  I’m not sure where he is on the Ukraine, What I’ve heard is ambiguous.  Like Hegseth, he’s said to be a recovering neocon.  C-.

Chief of Staff:  Susie Wiles.  First time ever a woman has been appointed to this job.  She has deep Reaganite roots, which is good.  She also worked for Pfizer.  Not so good.  Let’s give her a watch and see “gentleman’s C” for the time being.  (Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino:  B.  Deputy Chief of Staff for policy, Steven Miller.  A+.)

The rest on this list are people who I don’t know much about but seem innocuous enough.  Some, such as Kristi Noem, Lee Zeldin and Sean Duffy, are committed Trump loyalists.  Good enough for me.  To be honest, some of the names which follow I really like but I wish the departments they are going to head were didn’t exist.  Things like Education, EPA, Transportation, Energy, etc.

Maybe they can help Trump put their respective departments on the glide path to oblivion.  One way would be to remove them from D.C. and relocate them to Flyover Country.  Things like Dept of Agriculture to Omaha, Interior to Denver, Transportation to Indiana, Postmaster-General to Philadelphia, things like that.

Anyway, here they are:

  • Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought
  • U.N. ambassador: Elise Stefanik
  • Secretary of veterans affairs: Doug Collins
  • Interior secretary: Doug Burgum
  • Secretary of energy: Chris Wright
  • Secretary of transportation: Sean Duffy
  • Secretary of commerce: Howard Lutnick
  • Secretary of education: Linda McMahon
  • White House counsel: William McGinley
  • U.S. Ambassador to NATO: Matthew Whitaker (Possible replacement as AG)
  • Secretary of homeland security: Kristi Noem
  • EPA administrator: Lee Zeldin
  • Solicitor general: Dean John Sauer
  • FCC chairman: Brendan Carr
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator: Dr Mehmet Oz (I thought he would be Surgeon General.  How about Dr Ben Carson for that position?)
  • U.S. ambassador to Israel: Mike Huckabee (Ziocuck Central)
  • U.S. ambassador to Canada: Pete Hoekstra (why not just go ahead and conquer it?)
  • U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York: Jay Clayton
  • Department of Government Efficiency: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.  Next to Border Czar, this may be the most important department in the Federal government.  Lucky for us, two of the smartest men on the planet are going to head this one up.
  • Deputy chief of staff for legislative, political and public affairs: James Blair
  • Deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel: Taylor Budowich
  • Presidential Personnel Office head: Sergio Gor
  • White House communications director: Steven Cheung
  • White House press secretary: Karoline Leavitt

Last, but certainly not least, I hope that Dan Bongino is chosen to head the Secret Service.

Anyway, buckle up!  It’s going to be an exhilarating ride!

 

 

 

Comments

  2. This is fantastic news! Trump’s new pick as director of NIH is not a covidian. RFK Jr approves:

    “I’m so grateful to President Trump for this spectacular appointment. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is the ideal leader to restore NIH as the international template for gold-standard science and evidence-based medicine.”.

  3. I think the photograph at the top of the article contains a typographical error. It’s really a picture of RFK, jr., as he normally appears, on the right, and on the left a picture of him wearing a Hallowe’en outfit. Please correct this mistake.

  5. More information from Gail regarding the late Scott Bennett:

    “Scott was Orthodox. It was suggested that the Church gave him all the access he needed to uncover what was going on in Ukraine. He was very involved in Ukraine (all the way back to 2014).

    “Many are saying he was murdered, [perhaps his cancer] was due to uranium poisoning.*

    “I saw Scott on various podcasts fairly recently…he did not look at all sick. He was recently saying that if something happened to him, it wasn’t suicide. He had gotten death threats.”

    *Using depleted uranium to build shells is a war crime according to the Geneva Conventions, precisely because it has long-term deleterious effects on people long after they are used. Especially cancers.

  6. Gail just received this sad news: https://www.rt.cp,/news/608075-rt-scott-bennett-dies/.

    Scott Bennett, a former US Army psychological operations office (PSYOPS), often went to the front lines of the Donbas and exposed the media lies that we were being spoon-fed by the corporate media. He was a great source of information for the alternative media (as we as our blog) and Gail regularly referenced his stories.

    He will be missed. Rest in Peace, Scott.

  7. George, you did not ask but here are my thoughts:

    A. The super volcano near Naples is about to go off.
    B. The Deep State is about power and exercising it.
    C. I have been having conversations with several friends that independently focused on living a life of vocation and repentance and God’s forgiveness
    D. The Cross is the the focus that leads to His Love and Mercy and that covers all.
    E. Repentance is the solution
    F. I accept the analysis of the prelude to Armageddon in the article.
    G. All of that means that each of us is being called to a deeper life of the Cross, His Love and Repentance.
    H. That Repentance involves action from each of us as we are called both for ourselves and others in Faith and Hope.

    For me, the mystery is simple yet quite broad. Mt 4:17.

    “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

    He is coming either for each of us personally or for the world as a whole, just as the Church has always prophesized.

    Politics alone is not a solution because it offers no access to hope and Mercy.

    Glory be to God and His Mercy

    Thank you.

    • I hope I didn’t give you the impression that politics “alone” was the key. If so, I apologize. Politics is simply a way of living in the City and like all ways of living (as a Christian) can be a physical “work” as in “working out our salvation.”

      Going to the City Council and complaining about trash pick up is not what I’m talking about here. Going to the School Board meeting and crying bloody murder because children are being taught about [insert monstrosity here] is an act of mercy. How so? By helping preserve the innocence of children.

      That’s on the local level. On the Federal level, making your voice known on issues of international importance is also beneficial, especially if your voice can stay unjust military action.

  8. George and Gail,what do you think of Dr. Rand Paul not being selected for a Cabinet position? He has consistently been amazing in DC–both with medical care, big pharma, and vaccine exposures (HHS position?) and also being one of the line voices about cutting federal bloat (DOGE?). He has been a Trump supporter for a long time, far longer than recent Democrat converts. I am sad about this and wonder if there is something more to his exclusion.

    • I’ll let Gail speak for herself, but as far as I’m concerned, I think it’s vital that Rand stays right where he is. He is the conscience of the Senate in my humble opinion and he can do a lot more damage to the Deep State as a Senator than he could as an executive.

      Maybe he could force an audit of the Federal Reserve. Here’s another thought: he’s soon going to be the senior Senator from Kentucky, maybe he can force the issue of opening up Ft Knox.

  9. I cannot think of a more despicable and morally depraved choice for Ambassador to Israel than Mike Huckabee. The guy refuses to acknowledge a Palestinian state in the West Bank, using the biblical names of Judea and Samaria instead, as if the Palestinians don’t even exist.

    We might as well say goodbye now to the Jerusalem Patriarchate and maybe the Antiochian Patriarchate also. You know who might start WWIII? Mike Huckabee, that’s who.

    • Joseph, I agree with you.

      While I admire Mike Huckabee as a man, he’s seriously deluded as regards to his theology. This is most regrettable and will have serious consequences for the future. My hope is that the office of ambassador is a nothing-burger, all things being equal.

      There’s also the possibility that while he’s there, the Lord will open his eyes as to the reality on the ground.

  10. In my opinion (and I hope I’m wrong), the DS is now in “regime survival” mode. They want at all costs to prevent Trump from taking office on Jan 20.

    Larry Johnson (for CIA analyst) thinks this is the case as well:

    “Let me suggest another explanation for the Biden volte face on the long-range version — Biden wants to provoke a war with Russia and create an emergency situation that would prevent Donald Trump’s inauguration. Farfetched? Maybe, but the Biden national security team is not known for making smart decisions or thinking strategically. There are officials in the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community who are terrified of Trump taking power. Their acts of subversion and treason over the past eight years will be exposed if Trump makes good on his promises to hold officials accountable for their criminal conduct. I think that provides a pretty solid motive for them trying to cook up an excuse to force the postponement of Trump’s inauguration.”

  11. Excellent roundup, George!

    I think the key word this time around is “loyalty”. He wants people who will follow his orders and insist that they be followed by their respective departments and agencies.