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Oh, the HUD director is going to be a Black guy, huh? Trump is nothing if not consistent.

 

Actually about as pro-Labor a Republican as you can find. I don't know what her Project 2025 marching orders will be.

‘We Are Alarmed’: Pro-Business Groups Freak Out Over Trump’s Pick for Labor Secretary

 

Probably not a good sign when there are these sentences in a story about his selection

While Turner’s views on housing issues aren’t clear

His selection was met with some befuddlement in the housing industry,

 

She'll fit right in

Trump’s intel pick was placed on government watch list for overseas travel and foreign connections

 

What does it say about a "fair and balanced" news organization when you lose half-a-dozen hosts and contributors to a Presidential administration?

The fluoridated water thing Trumpers are making headway on - a city out this way just moved to take it out - has been around for so long. Its surprising to me how little it is making waves nationally. But I'm guessing it won't be the first conspiracy theory that becomes Trump doctrine over the next four years. Pretty sure the Education Department will only have one mission now, to ensure that all schools teach phonics and not that pinko "whole language" way of learning how to read.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/05/conspiracy-watch-fluoride-pinko-plot/

 

An interesting take on why Sean Duffy got the nod as transportation secretary. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news...ore-he-was-offered-top-trump-job/76483488007/

 

Hiring a reality TV star with no government experience didn't work out as well as the egg people remember.

 

An article about Trump's aptly headlined #MeToo Cabinet:

The #MeToo Cabinet

 

Bolton slams Trump’s pick for counterterrorism director as ‘con man’

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...on-donald-trump-sebastian-gorka-cabinet-pick/

“He needs a full field FBI background investigation about his educational claims and things like that. I think he is a perfect example of somebody who owes his position purely to Donald Trump,” Bolton told Collins. “He doesn’t display loyalty. He displays fealty. And that’s what Trump wants.”

“He doesn’t want Gorka’s opinions. He wants Gorka to say, ‘Yes, sir,'” he said, adding. “And I am fully confident that’s exactly what will happen no matter what it is Trump says.”