Donald Trump

RFK Jr is only remaining high profile Trump supporter not appointed yet to a position. Trump has been appointing fast and furious last few days so I’d expect something in next 48hrs.
Prior to the election RFK Jr said he'd want a position not subject to Senate confirmation.
 
I wonder if Musk has his eye on 2028.
He's not interest in becoming president. His ambitions are far higher.

Musk wants to save the world. Get humanity spread out over more than one planet. Switch us off excess reliance on fossil fuels, and replace them with solar power and electric vehicles. Navigate the coming AI revolution and ensure that human freedom continues.

US politics is just an irritating but necessary task that he has had to attend to, lest it threaten his real goals.
 
I don't recall that he had a concern about the confirmation process. He wanted an advisory role not limited to one department.
He publicly told several people that Trump had promised him HHS, which is a cabinet position. I thought it was poor form to go around saying that. Even if Trump did tell him that, the proper thing to do is keep quiet until the nomination is actually made.

I still expect to see him get something good. Trump will be smart to use him to help root out the deep state. RFK Jr. has very strong reasons for wanting to see this done, and Trump will want to use that kind of motivation to further his goals.

I'd love to see RFK Jr. as director of the FBI, or the CIA! That would blow people's minds.
 
The difference I'm expectations between Trump and Biden is absolutely staggering. Biden entered with no expectations placed on him at all, apart from some BLM nonsense that quickly disappeared once it was no longer useful.

Trump's impact could truly be global.
If Trump shrinks the government and cleans out the Deep State including lots of prosecutions, it's going to be much harder for the EU countries to keep up their old ways.

You have El Salvador, Argentina, and now the US undergoing a rapid shift in governmental policy, almost a revolution.

If Trump succeeds, the US won't be the last to see this happen.
 
If Trump shrinks the government and cleans out the Deep State including lots of prosecutions, it's going to be much harder for the EU countries to keep up their old ways.

You have El Salvador, Argentina, and now the US undergoing a rapid shift in governmental policy, almost a revolution.

If Trump succeeds, the US won't be the last to see this happen.
What El Salvador achieved puts pretty much every western and latin American country to shame. That truly was revolutionary.
 
What El Salvador achieved puts pretty much every western and latin American country to shame. That truly was revolutionary.
It really was. They had one thing going for them, which was that all the bad guys have tattoos identifying them. As I understand it, Bukele had the army round up everybody with tattoos, and threw them in a high security prison for life without trial. That's a ballsy, high stakes step for government to take, but in this case the results were brilliant.

What he did was extra-judicial, but because the tattoos gave the gang members away, I believe it truly was just. If anybody is in those prisons but never did anything wrong, they're still guilty by association of being accomplices to the crimes of the others. There are probably still other guilty people running around who didn't get the tattoos for some reason, but those people know now to stay on the straight and narrow path, or else!

Most countries, including the US have no equivalent way to identify who gets rounded up. If a mass round up was attempted, it must inevitably include a great deal of injustice. That being said, I'd be willing to see strict 1 or 2 strikes you're out laws applied for all felonies and all but the lowest misdemeanors after conviction in court.
 
It really was. They had one thing going for them, which was that all the bad guys have tattoos identifying them. As I understand it, Bukele had the army round up everybody with tattoos, and threw them in a high security prison for life without trial. That's a ballsy, high stakes step for government to take, but in this case the results were brilliant.
It is amazing what social proof does in these circumstances, too.

A lot of the criminals and liberal morons enabling them are quite easily neutered when the public falls behind the new commonsense.

At heart, both groups are bullies with a low and easily disturbed sense of self.

This also works in reverse. Where, for instance, were the 50-60-year-old leftist Karens during the Clinton years around 1995?

Or the 40-year-old Karens in 2005? And the 30-something Karens in 2015?

These people probably always had Karen tendencies but they just came out into the open around the late-2010s.

They are opportunists and vultures, yet easily put in their place when they overstay their welcome.
 
It really was. They had one thing going for them, which was that all the bad guys have tattoos identifying them. As I understand it, Bukele had the army round up everybody with tattoos, and threw them in a high security prison for life without trial. That's a ballsy, high stakes step for government to take, but in this case the results were brilliant.

What he did was extra-judicial, but because the tattoos gave the gang members away, I believe it truly was just. If anybody is in those prisons but never did anything wrong, they're still guilty by association of being accomplices to the crimes of the others. There are probably still other guilty people running around who didn't get the tattoos for some reason, but those people know now to stay on the straight and narrow path, or else!

Most countries, including the US have no equivalent way to identify who gets rounded up. If a mass round up was attempted, it must inevitably include a great deal of injustice. That being said, I'd be willing to see strict 1 or 2 strikes you're out laws applied for all felonies and all but the lowest misdemeanors after conviction in court.
The full body molasses coloured tattoo?
 
It really was. They had one thing going for them, which was that all the bad guys have tattoos identifying them. As I understand it, Bukele had the army round up everybody with tattoos, and threw them in a high security prison for life without trial. That's a ballsy, high stakes step for government to take, but in this case the results were brilliant.

What he did was extra-judicial, but because the tattoos gave the gang members away, I believe it truly was just. If anybody is in those prisons but never did anything wrong, they're still guilty by association of being accomplices to the crimes of the others. There are probably still other guilty people running around who didn't get the tattoos for some reason, but those people know now to stay on the straight and narrow path, or else!

Most countries, including the US have no equivalent way to identify who gets rounded up. If a mass round up was attempted, it must inevitably include a great deal of injustice. That being said, I'd be willing to see strict 1 or 2 strikes you're out laws applied for all felonies and all but the lowest misdemeanors after conviction in court.
Yea I agree that it's difficult to apply to places like Europe or the US. A conservative government could punish criminals who get caught red-handed more severely. However, this would get abused at some point where people would end up in prison for life for hate speech or not using the right pronouns.

The western world loves standardization, even at the cost of commonsense and logic. Therefore, it wouldn't work, unfortunately.
 
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