Trump's Cabinet

[ViperMan]

2 hours ago, disgruntledemployee said:

Dudes, I went to SOS in a Bush admin and the Blue Bedroom had plenty of social lectures.  Shit ain't nothin new.  But does this crap really need SecDef energy?  Between India/Pak shit, Israeli shit, Prez courting the M. East shit, renaming bodies of water shite, Chiner shit, Russian shit, Ukraine shit, Houthi shit, Signalgate dumbass shit, firing staff shit, Defense programs shit, budget shit (better show up with your homework, Pete.. don't be like Pash), dude has a lot of real shit to think about.  I mean, the Gulf of Alabama isn't gonna redo itself on all those maps.

If it doesn't require SECDEF energy, then it doesn't require my energy / attention. Fair enough?

Get rid of all the DEI nonsense. I never want to here another peep about it. I'd rather have a competent CSSs and finance shops than read another email from the CSAF or SECDEF about some eye-roll BS.

[dream big]

17 hours ago, disgruntledemployee said:

Dudes, I went to SOS in a Bush admin and the Blue Bedroom had plenty of social lectures.  Shit ain't nothin new.  But does this crap really need SecDef energy?  Between India/Pak shit, Israeli shit, Prez courting the M. East shit, renaming bodies of water shite, Chiner shit, Russian shit, Ukraine shit, Houthi shit, Signalgate dumbass shit, firing staff shit, Defense programs shit, budget shit (better show up with your homework, Pete.. don't be like Pash), dude has a lot of real shit to think about.  I mean, the Gulf of Alabama isn't gonna redo itself on all those maps.

It wouldn’t need SecDef energy if his predecessors hadn’t wasted time on it. 

[brabus]

There’s also an assumption here that he’s spent some huge amount of time on this topic. I doubt he’s spent much time at all on it, and therefore all these statements of “he has bigger things to spend time on” are just pissing into the wind. I don’t think it’s realistic to think he personally has spent shitloads of time at a desk solely devising plans and then executing them himself. That’s not how it works. 

[disgruntledemployee]

On 1/19/2025 at 6:07 PM, Sua Sponte said:

Ramswammy pulling a negative Scaramucci departing before a fake department even begins under a new administration.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vivek-ramaswamy-expected-to-depart-doge/

And now Musk, by most appearances, is pretty much gone too.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-wiped-elon-musk-name-150848889.html

[Sua Sponte]

2 minutes ago, disgruntledemployee said:

And now Musk, by most appearances, is pretty much gone too.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-wiped-elon-musk-name-150848889.html

Musk was able to derail several investigations into Tesla and SpaceX and his new payment platform for X. Musk got what he wanted. All the while DOGE was openly shuttering USAID, Musk was closing down or reducing regulatory agencies and things that would affect him and his companies. He was also able to harvest god knows how much personal data as well as the ability to install backdoors into any number of systems. Oh yeah, and White House communication is going through Starlink now. No way could be abused... 

He was able to accomplish exactly what he set out to do.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/tech-silicon-valley-government-influence-70b43ca6?st=fDN1mW&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

 

[brabus]

That’s a hell of a lot of conspiracy theory there. Not to say there are no things that would benefit his companies, but to address a couple of those points:

Starlink is a significant force multiplier in many ways - it is an excellent product that will continue to increase our military capabilities. It’s a better investment than much of what we’ve thrown at LM, Boeing, etc.

USAID is complete garbage, not even a shell of what it was originally designed to be. Same applies to many orgs/sub-orgs that DOGE highlighted. The regulatory bureaucracy filled with unelected bureaucrats must die - it is not a negative to target those things for closure.