Posted on 11/19/2024 12:28:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Hello and happy Tuesday. There are 62 days until President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in, and today we’re talking about keeping things normal.
Normal, of course, is subjective. As anyone who’s getting ready to attend a Thanksgiving dinner knows, often families can’t even agree on what normal looks like. My own Ohio grandmother used to make lobster in aspic for our special meal. Her Depression-era upbringing made her believe it was the height of fancy-pantsy, but it still gives me nightmares.
When it comes to Trump’s Cabinet picks, most of them so far are anything but ordinary.
“Normally, you let the president get his team, put his team in place,” said Sarah Binder, a professor of political science at George Washington University. “But these are pretty big, bold statements by Trump that he is going to go for vengeance and to destroy the deep state.”
Those anything-but-routine picks upend another normal: the confirmation process.
Traditionally, the Senate would hold hearings to vet nominations — and it may for uncontroversial picks, such as North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to head the Interior Department.
But today, we’ll look at three of those Cabinet choices who all have, to put it too politely, sex baggage weighing them down.
What’s not normal is that this isn’t even their biggest problem. Let’s take a closer look at how low the bar has sunk for abnormal.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I just posted this posting on the Washington Post’s forum: “With all three branches of government in Republican hands, it’s hard to imagine Trump’s cabinet picks failing to distinguish themselves by 2026, even with the libstream media attacking them every step of the way. And if establishment Republicans think they can win office in 2026 without a large number of Trump supporters supporting them, they had better think again.”
It’s been two weeks and we’re still making up votes, should we move to a popular where California decides elections?
Normal is an as-kissing RINO!
Normal is an as-kissing RINO!
Who reads the LA Slimes? Most Angelinos can’t read English.
I like the two memes...
RFK next to the big fat tranny, and
Pete Hegseth next to Austin with masks and a plastic covering over his whole face like a beekeeper.
Thanks a lot. I just ate and that made me sick...
It’s a Jack Ryan cabinet and about time.
But I bet the LA times thought Tom Daschle was a perfectly normal nominee for HHS, for example.
Gosh I remember the LA slimes raising alarms over all of Joe’s cabinet picks who were by all definitions not normal or unqualified, OH, wait. Where was the alarm over little petey buttjigger for Transportation, Granholm at Energy, Haaland at Interior(I guess being NA qualifies her), or how about Sam Brinton and all the other appointees whose only qualifications were mental illness and being sexual freaks?
Trump’s Cabinet picks are not normal D.C. slacker insiders improvement ensues.
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That’s the new standard for “normal”.
Normal is all the gusy who don’t know where $847B of Pentagon money got spent but are beholden for their phoney jobs to the guys who are on the receiving end of the $847B of Pentagon money.
Not normal is thinking that Pentagon money should be spent on the security of the people of the United States.
Preparing her little ducklings to find food in the swamp.
Yeah; like “Rachel Lavine normal”????? ROFL
I was going to say basically the same thing. I think the first four years demonstrated clearly the DC definition of normalcy (?).
Thanks for the laugh
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Glad to see the Times got rid of their lefty staff.
https://www.latimes.com/people/anita-chabria
Guess what...
She’s on BlueSky.
You know, that social media site where all the normies hang out.
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