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Trump selects Mike Waltz as national security adviser, sources say
Reuters ^ | November 11, 2024 | Phil Stewart, Steve Holland, Idrees Ali

Posted on 11/11/2024 4:51:49 PM PST by iontheball

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Republican Representative Mike Waltz to be his national security adviser, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday, tapping a retired Army Green Beret who has been a leading critic of China. Waltz, a Trump loyalist who also served in the National Guard as a colonel, has criticized Chinese activity in the Asia-Pacific and has voiced the need for the United States to be ready for a potential conflict in the region.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: national; security; waltz
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To: kenmcg

Wrong Waltz.


21 posted on 11/11/2024 5:17:45 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: iontheball

Pulling people out of the House to fill jobs doesn’t sound very good. Unless those are safe seats. So right after a general election, special elections must be held to fill these new vacant seats.


22 posted on 11/11/2024 5:18:20 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: iontheball

I assume he does and he’s a risk taker.


23 posted on 11/11/2024 5:19:35 PM PST by wiseprince (Me)
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To: Eli Kopter

All House vacancies require a Special Election.


24 posted on 11/11/2024 5:20:35 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Jonty30

yup


25 posted on 11/11/2024 5:25:59 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (RINO going along to get along with)
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To: toddausauras

Not sure about that.


26 posted on 11/11/2024 5:34:31 PM PST by madison10
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To: iontheball

Will someone explain why we are using up our SITTING Sen/Rep’s instead of FORMER or candidates who came close but did not win?
Do these position REQUIRE that we impair our abioity to WIN?
I don’t think they do.


27 posted on 11/11/2024 6:07:04 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
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To: Ex gun maker.

As long as we have MAGA governors appointing replacements, it will be all good.

(still worried about DeRino and Vance’s replacement).


28 posted on 11/11/2024 6:09:34 PM PST by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: Ex gun maker.

I’ll handle this

Trumps first term was orientation. He hung out with some of the very bad kids along with everyone else. Invited his enemies in to learn

Second term was all about getting the dirt on everyone worink with the people he knew he could trust

This term is implementation. He is not going to waste more than a second on anyone he cannot trust

He’s been at US politics for ten years now, never mind his Ivy League finance economics education. He knows exactly how many congressmen he can spare. Hochul will work with Trump because she is going to have to not because she wants to

Tge Rolling Stones had a remote song about it on their “It’s Only Rock and Roll” album


29 posted on 11/11/2024 6:23:39 PM PST by stanne
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; kenmcg

He was the minute Waltz. His minute is over.


30 posted on 11/11/2024 6:45:02 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido
I prefer The Second Waltz
31 posted on 11/11/2024 6:50:37 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: iontheball

Trump needs to start picking people who AREN’T in government. Now.


32 posted on 11/11/2024 8:10:31 PM PST by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: kenmcg

Yeah, but it was funny anyway!


33 posted on 11/11/2024 8:17:05 PM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: stanne

Sorry, I still say Former or almost elected would be better on many levels.


34 posted on 11/11/2024 8:23:47 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
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To: military cop

Tere will be a special election for vacant House seats in, so far, Florida and New York.

Those seats should be safe Republican seats.


35 posted on 11/11/2024 8:44:22 PM PST by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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To: wiseprince

The day congress walk in then even under republican control they will be down two good votes. I wonder if he is going to pick anymore congressman.


36 posted on 11/12/2024 12:53:39 AM PST by Revel
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To: vpintheak

Strong Rumors: Rubio at State – Waltz as NatSec – Kash at CIA

November 11, 2024 | Sundance

If the basic story unfolding in Mar-a-Lago is to be believed, RFK JR, Elon Musk and a small group of technocrats and billionaires have become the ‘kitchen cabinet’ advisors putting the Trump administration together.  Rumors swirl that Melania Trump, Devin Nunes and Dan Scavino have checked out of the ridiculous “non-clown-car” hot mess until the dust settles.

Adding evidence to this possibility, the media are starting to report on some rather, well, shall we say, curious picks from the Mar-a-Lago transition group.

Everyone else, except you guys, will miss what each of the New York Post “leaked” names have in common.  They are all in direct alignment with the retention of the Intelligence Community as it exists.  For the IC, this is the team that lets them hunker down until ’28.

♦ Rubio at State:

Rubio would be the IC pick because, well, he is Vice-Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and a direct installment due to his efforts to support the prior Trump targeting; which included the big assist to then Vice-Chair Mark Warner.   The IC has super thick black files on Rubio, they’d love to have him at State.  This rumor seems ridiculous.

Actually, this rumor seems like a leak trap.

♦ Waltz as National Security Advisor.

Putting aside all of his wife’s very direct and sketchy associations with the World Economic Forum, Representative Mike Waltz is currently a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, HPSCI.

Waltz supports U.S. troops in Ukraine, wants to continue the anti-Russia narrative, and has openly pushed every narrative the IC has presented to him in briefings.  Mike Waltz believes everything that comes from the Intelligence Community as gospel.

As National Security Advisor, Waltz would be awesome for the intents of the IC stakeholders.  You cannot see the IC corruption around you from a position inside the IC corruption.

♦ Kash at CIA.

This is the one part of the outline of leaks that gives me hope all of these rumors are nonsense.

Kash at CIA would be as valuable as Andrew Weissmann as White House counsel.  Patel has never managed anything, let alone an aggressive and massive global spy agency.  However, he does like the spotlight and would be able to invest in a lifestyle more befitting his opinion of himself.

Remember,…

♦ The U.S State Dept and CIA operation is like a restaurant.

The Dept of State is the front of the restaurant, with the Secretary as the Maitre D’. The CIA is the back of the restaurant, the kitchen. The Director is the Chef.  The consulates are the wait staff. USAID are the food runners. The Dept of Defense are the bus boys.

The tables and chairs are assigned by the Maitre D’ according to their value.  Countries viewed as more important get the best tables.  The menus offered to each nation are completely different.  Israel has a table in the kitchen.  To get the best experience, tips (bribes) are required for everyone, from the parking valets outside, to the sommelier, to the server.   Currently, Ukraine is the biggest tipper.

On the oversight aspect the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is the control mechanism to approve/install the Secretary of State. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is the control mechanism to approve/install the CIA Director.  Everything therein and thereafter is a system of pretending it is something else.

If you think I didn’t previously say the IC would love to have Rubio, here’s a datapoint from July:

Remember also, everyone has a self-interest, including the billionaire Technocrats currently housed in Mar-a-Lago for the assembly of the cabinet.

The modern technocrats exist because the IC is their main benefactor.  Confronting the IC would be against the interests of the Technocrats.

These names and selections would be fatal flaws in a Trump administration from the position of confronting the IC apparatus.   Quite simply, with this assembly the IC cancer just goes dormant; the cancer appears to be in remission -everyone smiles- and then the cancer reemerges again in 2028 to kill the host.

Let’s wait and see if these names and positions actually happen.

37 posted on 11/12/2024 1:13:43 AM PST by Bratch
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