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There's no comparison between them. Trump's picks are mostly television personalities with no expertise whatsoever.

Wrong, 100%. Climatologists cam control for these much slower natural cycles in their models. Humans are 100% responsible for the recent warming

https://www.gao.gov/federal-health-care-spending

Which government workers should have been laid off due to covid? Btw you are wrong though. I personally know govt workers that were laid off due to covid but you have no clue and make baseless winger claims like this.

A highly disproportionate chunk of that growth is Healthcare related. You willing to reign that in?

As an expert attorney, I'm sure you know best that trump isn't guilty of anything, including the 30 or so counts that he was already convicted of.

Gaetz is out so maybe Hulk Hogan or Dana White can replace him.

Two different topics. 1) climate change is almost all if not 100% man-made. That's a fact and very simple. 2) the best policies in reaction to that fact are very much a matter of opinion and much more complicated.

Complete logical fallacy. Cherry pick predictions from specific people that over estimated the amount of climate change and use that to what? That climate change doesn't exist at all?

Yah. The problem is that he's an idiot and issues ridiculous and/or unlawful orders. Anybody with integrity is only going to go so far against their own conscience. That's what happened with his last cabinet (they got fired) but these guys have zero integrity so they'll just blindly do whatever he says. Most people will generally do what their boss says but not absolutely anything, regardless of how ridiculous.

It doesn't prove anything whatsoever. I'm talking about global warming, overall. Not one part of the planet getting cooler while another gets a lot hotter. That's merely a transfer of heat and not necessarily a significant overall change.

Sam Brinton was a nuclear engineer in charge of the office of nuclear energy so definitely more qualified than all of Trump's picks. Levine is an actual doctor in charge of the health & human services. Seems like you are actually proving my point that Biden's cabinet is MUCH more qualified than Trump's.

These clowns are less likely to get fired because they'll do whatever Trump says. They already have zero credibility, so don't have anything to lose by following (to a tee) whack job orders from Trump.

Are there any cabinet picks yet to be made? I would love to see Hulk Hogan heading up some agency. Entertaining figures are obviously the most important factor.

No comparison.

So why is he getting these type of people? Any ideas, or do you agree with my assessment that he just wants lackeys with nothing to lose if they toe the Trump line?

These people are obviously unqualified for their jobs, in general. He's also obviously picking people that don't have much respect from the general public. Well known but controversial. Most of them are conspiracy theorists, TV personalities (entertainers like Trump himself) and/or criminals. Wondering why people think this is. My theory is that he wants people that really don't have much credibility and would be unable to get such a position with any other President. That makes them toe the Trump line with unwavering loyalty. In other words, he's getting lackeys.

A problem is that the govt needs entities to buy its debt (bonds). If SS fund stops investing in bonds, then the bond return rate goes up by quite a bit and that makes our debt WAY more expensive. So this strategy may help with the SS fund, but make our overall debt problem worse. BTW, Trump's plan to not tax SS payouts will make the SS fund insolvent much sooner since a big portion of those taxes on SS payouts actually fund future SS payouts. Very glad that we're actually talking about attacking the big ticket items here. BTW, I recently realized that salaries & benefits for federal workers is about 5% of the federal budget. It's a complete joke that Elon is zeroing in on this.

Appreciate it when people tell it like it is.

Yah but most of that money goes to actual non-government people (e.g. social security and Medicare payments); not government employees. So that graph isn't very meaningful at all.

Try again

Horrible example. This was more a,transfer of heat from one part of the globe to another and caused by a specific event. You really knocked that strawman out of the park.

Lol. Yes, but on geologic timescales. Nothing like current rates. Plus, the earth actually should be cooling if we relied upon the natural cycles.

I agree 200%. Pentagon is a cesspool of government waste. Gotta gut that entire sector of spending.

Yes you should but I'm not electable because I tell it like it is.