All Things Presidential Election 2024

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GOPerfect said:
Discipline among the troops. Just like the generals that will do the Bidding of the President that has never served.

While in the Military, I reported to civilians. They said, I obeyed.

When I was an MP as an NCO, I controlled all situations that I was in; regardless of those with rank around me.

General respect overall.
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The real key is to have someone in charge that understands that they *shouldn't* tell people what to do.

They should tell people what needs to be done, and then let the people under them who know how things work figure out how to make it happen.

You don't order a drone strike on Qasem Soleimani. You tell the generals that you need Qasem Soleimani to be room temperature ASAP and let them figure out what assets and methods are best to achieve that.

Then the generals work out who they have that's best for the job, and let *them* figure out the next step.

Strategic decisions at the top, but operational details determined as close to the door kickers as practical.
 
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zorro said:
I hope he succeeds as this is one of the most important roles to fill in my opinion

But when you compare him to Austin as an example - and I am not saying he is fantastic!!!!………….but at least he has come through the process - 4 star general and held numerous significant command positions globally

Sorry, I just don’t see this one at this point in time

Just my humble opinion and hope to be proven wrong
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Sorry can't behind the likes of someone who wears this. Not to much going on upstairs.....


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Hegseth... I'm going to parallel my promotion to Program Manager a few years ago. I was procurement, and the PM I worked with was not doing well. One day, my Director calls me into her office, shows me a huge pay raise, and says we're making you the Naval PM representing supply chain. I asked what my job description was. No joke, she said - work with the Senior PM's who lead the program with the USN, learn what they need, and use all of your experience to get them answers, and solutions to their problems. That's it. That was my job description. So I called on decades of experience with Engineers, Quality, Finance, Contracts, Projects, Business Development, Aftermarket, Manufacturing, etc... and gave the Sr. PM's exactly what they needed, and a lot that they didn't know they needed. With Hegseth, he's got the background, he knows how shit is done, and I guarantee that if he doesn't - he knows who to ask that does. You don't get promoted by ALREADY having done the job. You get promoted by showing the competence to figure out a better way to do what the person before you did, or could not.

He'll be fine.
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Right on!
 
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Republican Lauren Boebert won in the 4th Congressional District Tuesday night where she was seeking a third term after switching her home turf.
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Lauren Boebert wins Colorado’s 4th Congressional District

Republican Lauren Boebert won in the 4th Congressional District Tuesday night where she was seeking a third term. She said Democratic contender Trisha Calvarese called to concede.
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Dem Rep. Goldman: ‘Shocked’ Trump Picked an Unqualified Fox News Host to Head Pentagon​

Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) said Tuesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that he was “shocked” President-elect Donald Trump picked Fox News host Pete Hegseth as the next secretary of defense.

Goldman said, “I’m shocked, truly. This is exactly what we worry about and warned about Donald Trump, which is that he is going to appoint unqualified loyalists to shape this government into his own personal thiefdom, and get revenge on generals and put essentially really unqualified people.”
Goldman concluded, “It’s bad enough that you have Kristi Noem, who has zero experience with the border, with Homeland Security, being a governor from South Dakota, heading up our Department of Homeland Security. Now you have a fox news host who has got his finger on the nuclear weapons. It’s very dangerous.”
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Dem Rep. Goldman: 'Shocked' Trump Picked an Unqualified Fox News Host to Head Pentagon

Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) said Tuesday on CNN's "OutFront" that he was "shocked" President-elect Donald Trump picked Fox News host Pete Hegseth as the next secretary of defense. | Clips
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Not too shocked

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livingston said:

Dem Rep. Goldman: ‘Shocked’ Trump Picked an Unqualified Fox News Host to Head Pentagon​

Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) said Tuesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that he was “shocked” President-elect Donald Trump picked Fox News host Pete Hegseth as the next secretary of defense.

Goldman said, “I’m shocked, truly. This is exactly what we worry about and warned about Donald Trump, which is that he is going to appoint unqualified loyalists to shape this government into his own personal thiefdom, and get revenge on generals and put essentially really unqualified people.”
Goldman concluded, “It’s bad enough that you have Kristi Noem, who has zero experience with the border, with Homeland Security, being a governor from South Dakota, heading up our Department of Homeland Security. Now you have a fox news host who has got his finger on the nuclear weapons. It’s very dangerous.”
www.breitbart.com

Dem Rep. Goldman: 'Shocked' Trump Picked an Unqualified Fox News Host to Head Pentagon

Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) said Tuesday on CNN's "OutFront" that he was "shocked" President-elect Donald Trump picked Fox News host Pete Hegseth as the next secretary of defense. | Clips
www.breitbart.com www.breitbart.com
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Because Pete Buttigieg was so qualified to be transportation secretary lol.
 
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So how long will it be before the left begins a mass exodus from a totalitarian NAZI regime ? Because I sure as shit wouldnt stay in a country where Im ""Hunted down ""and imprisoned in camps. Looks to me like they are going to hang around watch thier 401K skyrocket and wait till 2028 for another chance at socialism . Everything they said is a lie, they dont even believe it themselves . Now they have to live with the fact that Kamala was beaten by a NAZI. She lost to a fucking NAZI!! How god dam bad do you have to be when the people choose Hitler over Kamala?

In four years they will be raiseing thier right hand in salute to the NAZI that turned the country around.
 
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Pete Hegseth has said exactly how he will shake up the Pentagon
Story by Missy Ryan, Dan Lamothe, John Hudson, Alex Horton


“First of all, you’ve got to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs,” Hegseth said, referring to Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. “Any general, any admiral, whatever,” who was involved in diversity, equity and inclusion programs or “woke s---” has “got to go,” Hegseth said.

In his statement announcing the nomination, Trump cited a book that Hegseth wrote — “War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free” — and its treatment of what the president-elect said was a “left-wing betrayal of our warriors, and how we must return our military to meritocracy, lethality, accountability, and excellence.”
 
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livingston said:

Dem Rep. Goldman: ‘Shocked’ Trump Picked an Unqualified Fox News Host to Head Pentagon​

Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) said Tuesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that he was “shocked” President-elect Donald Trump picked Fox News host Pete Hegseth as the next secretary of defense.

Goldman said, “I’m shocked, truly. This is exactly what we worry about and warned about Donald Trump, which is that he is going to appoint unqualified loyalists to shape this government into his own personal thiefdom, and get revenge on generals and put essentially really unqualified people.”
Goldman concluded, “It’s bad enough that you have Kristi Noem, who has zero experience with the border, with Homeland Security, being a governor from South Dakota, heading up our Department of Homeland Security. Now you have a fox news host who has got his finger on the nuclear weapons. It’s very dangerous.”
www.breitbart.com

Dem Rep. Goldman: 'Shocked' Trump Picked an Unqualified Fox News Host to Head Pentagon

Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) said Tuesday on CNN's "OutFront" that he was "shocked" President-elect Donald Trump picked Fox News host Pete Hegseth as the next secretary of defense. | Clips
www.breitbart.com www.breitbart.com
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Here are some front page headlines from The NY Times this week. One is made up. See if you can get it.

  1. Europe Braces for Trump: “Worst Economic Nightmare Has Come True”

  2. Republicans Riding Trump’s Coattails Snatch Control of Senate

  3. Doubts Grow Over the Booming Trump Trade, and Trumponomics

  4. Trump’s Tariffs Could Deal a Blow to Mexico’s Car Factories

  5. Trump Starts to Fill Out Cabinet With Loyal Defenders
 
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C3D said:

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Here are some front page headlines from The NY Times this week. One is made up. See if you can get it.

  1. Europe Braces for Trump: “Worst Economic Nightmare Has Come True”

  2. Republicans Riding Trump’s Coattails Snatch Control of Senate

  3. Doubts Grow Over the Booming Trump Trade, and Trumponomics

  4. Trump’s Tariffs Could Deal a Blow to Mexico’s Car Factories

  5. Trump Starts to Fill Out Cabinet With Loyal Defenders
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