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Trump administration 2024-2028

captloadie said:
I was doing some investigating into Trump's new administration, to get a feel of what his list of appointees would look like. One might assume that he would have straight white guys across the board, with all this talk of rolling back DEI. However, out of the 23 nominations I found, 11 do not fit that mold. There are 8 women nominated, 2 of which are non-white. There is an openly gay man, an African American, and a man of Indian descent.
More surprising are the positions that some of the females are nominated for: Homeland Security Secretary, Attorney General, Ambassador to the UN, Director of National Intelligence, and Labor Secretary.

If they are all confirmed, it will be interesting to see how the internal dynamics of government work this time around, and if they all last the four year.
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This is something most people already know and why the "he's a racist/bigot" narrative has never held for long. It's kind of surprising some people are only just observing this now.
 
captloadie said:
I was doing some investigating into Trump's new administration, to get a feel of what his list of appointees would look like. One might assume that he would have straight white guys across the board, with all this talk of rolling back DEI. However, out of the 23 nominations I found, 11 do not fit that mold. There are 8 women nominated, 2 of which are non-white. There is an openly gay man, an African American, and a man of Indian descent.
More surprising are the positions that some of the females are nominated for: Homeland Security Secretary, Attorney General, Ambassador to the UN, Director of National Intelligence, and Labor Secretary.

If they are all confirmed, it will be interesting to see how the internal dynamics of government work this time around, and if they all last the four year.
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Just to note, anti-DEI just means your against giving away positions to people who aren’t as qualified as someone else due to the colour of their skin, sexuality, etc. it doesn’t necessarily mean you are against people for the colour of their skin, sexuality, etc.
 
captloadie said:
However, out of the 23 nominations I found, 11 do not fit that mold. There are 8 women nominated, 2 of which are non-white. There is an openly gay man, an African American, and a man of Indian descent.
More surprising are the positions that some of the females are nominated for: Homeland Security Secretary, Attorney General, Ambassador to the UN, Director of National Intelligence, and Labor Secretary.
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Trump isn't a misogynist or racist. He's an oppertunist who places skill and experience loyalty to him above skin colour and gender.
 
Jarnhamar said:
Trump isn't a misogynist or racist. He's an oppertunist who places skill and experience loyalty to him above skin colour and gender.
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I don't think Trump will keep anyone for long if they underperform and make him look bad. So I would include performance as another requirement.
 
Jarnhamar said:
Trump isn't a misogynist or racist. He's an oppertunist who places skill and experience loyalty to him above skin colour and gender.
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Which has also placed loyalty above competency. His team has made a fair number of screw ups already, which tells me either they don't care or are incompetent enough to not read the rules before doing something. Example the firing of all the Inspector generals, sent them all an email they are terminated effective immediately, when by law to fire an IG they need to give written notice to congress 30 days in advance. Not to mention the unintended consequences of actions such as shutting down USAID (a big soft power tool) and offering buy outs to the entire CIA.
 
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MilEME09 said:
Which has also placed loyalty above competency. His team has made a fair number of screw ups already, which tells me either they don't care or are incompetent enough to not read the rules before doing something. Example the firing of all the Inspector generals, sent them all an email they are terminated effective immediately, when by law to fire an IG they need to give written notice to congress 30 days in advance. Not to mention the unintended consequences of actions such as shutting down USAID (a big soft power tool) and offering buy outs to the entire CIA.
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I haven't followed the IG issue... but I have followed the USAID issue and if you listen to Marco Rubio talk about it, that outfit needs a thorough house cleaning.
 
QV said:
I haven't followed the IG issue... but I have followed the USAID issue and if you listen to Marco Rubio talk about it, that outfit needs a thorough house cleaning.
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House cleaning is fine, burning the house down in another thing, the cost of flying people and equipment home from various international programs is likely to be high. When you eliminate an organization like that entirely, if you plan to rebuild, with the loss of experience it will decade decades to build new programs to deliver results.
 
I don't think you are aware of the alleged problems with that organization. It wasn't just a few bad players here and there. It was actively working against the US government in places. You should find some non-CNN/MSNBC coverage on it.
 
brihard said:
Wow, no kidding. Every CIA intelligence officer working Panama, or Canada, or Denmark, or Britain is one not working China, Russia, or Iran.
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Some people were upset that every FBI officer working parents who were unruly at school board meetings was one not working other crimes. So now with the same theme in a different frame, is it possible to understand the irritants on "both" sides and want to resolve all of them?
 
Quirky said:
Yes. Europe has taken in over 6 million Ukrainian refugees, not to mention millions more from the Middle East and Africa over the past decade. The Arab world has vast amount of land and money to resettle, temporarily or not, 2 million of their own. They need to suck it up and do their part.
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How easy it is to slide right up to the line at which ethnic cleansing begins.
 
MilEME09 said:
House cleaning is fine, burning the house down in another thing, the cost of flying people and equipment home from various international programs is likely to be high. When you eliminate an organization like that entirely, if you plan to rebuild, with the loss of experience it will decade decades to build new programs to deliver results.
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A government agency can only be effectively run and maintained by people who care about its mission. If it becomes a grifting tap or a source of in-kind partisan political support and the people who care about the mission fail to fix it, the problem eventually falls to people who don't care about the mission. Often enough, they will have neither the patience nor the expertise to employ a deft hand.

Everything useful that gets burned down along with the damaged parts is, substantially, due to the people who allowed the rot or caused it. This is a lesson in real time for everyone who cherishes and still controls something useful that they know is being partly misused. Fix now, or find out later.
 
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