I wanted a place to discuss all things related to this topic, but starting with appointments.

Starting a list:

Mike Huckabee - US Ambassador to Israel

Politics

Trump names Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head Department of Government Efficiency - 'Manhattan Project of our time' DOGE!!

Pete Hegseth - Sec Def.
Dan Bongino - Homeland Security (not yet confirmed)
Stefanik - Ambassador to UN.
John Ratcliff - CIA
Mike Walz - National Security Advisor
Tom Hohman - Border Czar

Get to know Donald Trump's Cabinet: Who has the president-elect picked so far?
Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Pete Hegseth, other Cabinet picks for top administration jobs since winning the 2024 presidential election
By Morgan Phillips , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Louis Casiano , Andrea Margolis , Chris Pandolfo , Greg Wehner , Emma Colton Fox News
Published November 12, 2024 4:35pm EST | Updated November 17, 2024 8:26pm EST


Former defense official says a second Trump term promises a ‘realistic,’ ‘better’ outcome in the Middle East.

Former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Elbridge Colby discusses what to expect in the Middle East under President-elect Trump on ‘The Story.’

Since winning the election last week, President-elect Donald Trump has begun evaluating and rolling out his picks for his Cabinet and other top roles.

Here’s a roundup of whom Trump has picked to fill top jobs in his administration:

Publicly announced

White House Chief of Staff – Susie Wiles
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations – Elise Stefanik
National Security Adviser – Michael Waltz
"Border Czar" – Tom Homan
Ambassador to Israel – Mike Huckabee
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator – Lee Zeldin
Middle East Envoy – Steven Witkoff
White House Counsel – William McGinley
CIA Director – John Ratcliffe
Department of Government Efficiency – Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy
Secretary of Defense – Pete Hegseth
Homeland Security Secretary – Kristi Noem
Deputy Chief of Staff – Dan Scavino
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor – Stephen Miller
Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political and Public Affairs – James Blair
Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Personnel – Taylor Budowich
Director of National Intelligence – Tulsi Gabbard
Secretary of State – Marco Rubio
U.S. Attorney General – Matt Gaetz
Secretary of Health and Human Services – Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York – Jay Clayton
Secretary of Veterans Affairs – Doug Collins
U.S Solicitor General – Dean John Sauer
Deputy Attorney General – Todd Blanche
Secretary of the Interior – Doug Burgum
Communications Director – Steven Cheung
Director of Presidential Personnel – Sergio Gor
Press Secretary – Karoline Leavitt
Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary – William Owen Scharf
Secretary of Energy – Chris Wright
Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission – Brendan Carr-- excerpt, rest at link above --


With links for each person. Really good resource.

'Very stupid': New York Times beclowns itself with botched 'fact-check,' proving RFK Jr.'s point
Joseph MacKinnon
November 18, 2024
https://www.theblaze.com/news/very-stupi...=email-breaking


The publication that spread Hamas propaganda last year appears keen to outdo itself.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's proposed Health and Human Services secretary, has pledged to "Make America Healthy Again" primarily by tackling the "chronic disease epidemic" and the corporate capture of federal regulatory agencies.

The environmental lawyer's adjacency to the Republican president and his recent criticism of experimental gene therapies have made him a frequent target for criticism by lawmaking recipients of Big Pharma lobbying money and the liberal media. In their efforts to dunk on Kennedy, establishmentarians have in many cases exposed their true loyalties as well as their aversion to inconvenient facts.

The New York Times is now among the outfits that has risked such exposure in its desperation to characterize Kennedy as "wrong."

'The science shows that these dyes cause hyperactivity in children, can disrupt the immune system, and are contaminated with carcinogens.'

By attempting to miss a point that Kennedy was making in a recent interview, the Times' Christina Jewett and Julie Creswell unwittingly defended his thesis. Critics have since descended upon the liberal publication, mocking it over its botched fact-check.

At the outset of their article, titled "Kennedy’s Vow to Take On Big Food Could Alienate His New G.O.P. Allies," Jewett and Creswell wrote, "Boxes of brightly colored breakfast cereals, vivid orange Doritos and dazzling blue M&Ms may find themselves under attack in the new Trump administration." -- excerpt, rest at link above --

A Continental MEGA-Quake?
What will MAGA’s resurgence mean for Europe?
John Carter
Nov 22, 2024
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/a-contine...tm_medium=email


I’ve avoided commenting on the spectacular results of the US election, as the zone has been flooded and honestly, it wasn’t clear what there was to say aside from “hooray!” I certainly took a giant L on my own election prediction, which was that the regime would reprise their dirty tricks from 2020 and simply steal the vote. Several people pointed out in the comments of that piece that Trump’s organization was deploying an army of poll watchers and lawyers across the country, which appears to have been successful in impeding or dissuading much of the fraud. There was evidence of the expected shenanigans in Democrat-controlled districts, with some late-night vote dumps leading to suspicious-looking poll bumps; however, these were insufficient to overcome Trump’s crushing lead.

In the aftermath, there’s been a debate between populists and elite theorists, with the former holding that Trump won because the people overpowered the elite, and the latter insisting that Trump was allowed to win because the elite wanted him to win. The truth is probably somewhere in between. Trump’s popularity is quite real: he won the popular vote this time, thereby depriving the Democrats of the moral victory they waved around like a bloody shirt after 2016; moreover, Trump won a larger percentage of the black male and Hispanic vote than any Republican candidate in, well, maybe ever ... a remarkable achievement when one considers that he’s campaigning on deporting lots of Hispanics.

Elite theorists point to the defection of the tech bros to MAGA, most notoriously Elon Musk, though Zuckerberg and Bezos were also making noises of, if not full-throated support, at least grudging neutrality. Apparently a fair bit of Wall Street and private equity money also backed Trump. Then of course there’s Musk’s liberation of the regime’s 5GW narrative-control psycho-media platform Twitter, reborn as the free speech platform X; this undoubtedly had a huge effect. Finally there’s Trump’s support amongst Zionists, who have been badly spooked by the vitriolic response of the academic and street left to Israel’s post-10/7 ethnic cleansing campaign.

Then again, the elite were hardly unanimous in their support of Trump. The Kamala Kampane raised a lot more money than Trump did, over a billion dollars; Trump might have the world’s richest hektobillionaire, but most of the regular billionaires supported Kamala. The legacy media, too, wasn’t exactly endorsing Orange Hitler. To the contrary, it was all in on Kamala’s ‘Strength Through Brat Joy’ messaging. Insofar as the propagoblins started becoming critical of Kamala towards the end, this felt more like panic than deliberate sabotage. In the end, neither the money nor the media nor the hand-maidens were sufficient to push the most unlikeable and least impressive candidate in history over the edge.

The balance of evidence doesn’t really suggest that Trump was chosen by the elite, so much as that the elite reluctantly came to terms with the fact that, after they’d thrown everything they had at him – relentless defamation, lawfare, assassination attempts – they’d gotten outplayed, were going to lose, and might as well cut their losses. Speaking of the assassination attempts, they really should have clicked that they were outmatched after the Butler rally. That was a divine intervention moment1, from which point Trump was essentially ordained by God. You don’t fight the almighty and win.-- excerpt, rest at link above --


Really good read. Tell me if you can't access it.

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I like the idea of the EU being dissolved and more conservative governments coming into power.

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