{"id":7599,"date":"2025-01-13T08:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=7599"},"modified":"2025-01-13T08:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:09:11","slug":"rule-39-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/rule-39-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule #39"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get In Line<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Like it or not, the Nation elected Donald Trump as the President of the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;And, unlike Trump and his MAGA-followers in 2020, the Democrats got \u201cin-line\u201d and did their duty as American citizens.&nbsp;&nbsp;They, we; accepted the election results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>That we (Americans) elected a man who supports fascist (that word!!) goals, programs, and ideas hasn\u2019t changed.\u00a0\u00a0Many of my friends believe we should just oppose everything that Trump tries to do, and I don\u2019t blame them.\u00a0\u00a0Working with a fascist, someone who puts a dagger to the throat of American democracy, is repugnant.\u00a0\u00a0But\u2026and this is what many \u201cother\u201d Democrats believe\u2026 perhaps we should oppose when we can, cooperate when possible to further our national goals, and prepare to win in 2026 and 2028, to save our country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>Barack Obama talked to Trump at the Carter funeral.&nbsp;&nbsp;That&nbsp;&nbsp;wasn\u2019t treason.&nbsp;&nbsp;Kamala Harris and Joe Biden pointedly ignored Trump. That wasn\u2019t wrong either.&nbsp;&nbsp;Two opposite things can be true at the same time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Norms<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The American tradition, the \u201cnorm\u201d, is that a newly elected President gets to choose his own staff.&nbsp;&nbsp;That includes those staff members \u201cconsented\u201d to by the United States Senate.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican Senator Lindsey Graham was a stern advocate of this \u201cnorm\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;He voted for Democratic appointed judges, cabinet secretaries, and agency heads, until he didn\u2019t.&nbsp;&nbsp;After the Kavanaugh hearings and the 2020 election, he opposed most of Biden\u2019s appointments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But some Democrats are willing to give Trump his appointees.\u00a0 In fact,  they feel that they can give  Trump the \u201crope to hang himself\u201d, and are all-in for that.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">One of the valuable lessons we learned in the first Trump Administration, was not to get distracted by the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2017\/03\/08\/shiny-balls\/\">Shiny Balls<\/a>\u201d (an essay from 2017, no raunchy reference intended).&nbsp;&nbsp;The first one was Matt Gaetz, who\u2019s ill-fated appointment to Attorney General was doomed from the start (<a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/flash-bang\/\">Flash\/Bang<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;Now that the side-show ended, we are \u201cdown\u201d to the \u201creal\u201d Trump appointees.&nbsp;&nbsp;Let\u2019s take a look, divided into three categories:&nbsp;&nbsp;the \u201cnormal\u201d, the kind of \u201ccray-cray\u201d, and the \u201ccompletely whack\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Normal<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Marco Rubio&nbsp;\u2013 Secretary of State<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Scott Bessent&nbsp;\u2013 Secretary of Treasury<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Doug Burgham&nbsp;\u2013 Secretary of Interior<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Brooke Rollins&nbsp;\u2013 Secretary of Agriculture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Howard Lutnick&nbsp;\u2013 Secretary of Commerce<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Lori Chavez-DeRemer&nbsp;\u2013 Secretary of Labor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Scott Turner&nbsp;\u2013 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Sean Duffy&nbsp;\u2013 Secretary of Transportation<ul><li>Doug Collins&nbsp;\u2013 Secretary of Veterans Affairs<\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><ul><li>Susie Wiles&nbsp;\u2013 WH Chief of Staff<\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><ul><li>John Ratcliffe&nbsp;\u2013 CIA Director<\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><ul><li>Michael Waltz&nbsp;\u2013 National Security Advisor<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Elise Stefanik&nbsp;\u2013 Ambassador to the United Nations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cray-Cray<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Pam Bondi&nbsp;\u2013 Attorney General (<em>2020 election denier<\/em>)<ul><li>Chris Wright&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;Secretary of Energy (<em>climate crisis denier<\/em>)<\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><ul><li>Linda McMahon\u00a0\u2013 Secretary of Education (<em>Public Education Defunder)<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><ul><li>Kristi Noem&nbsp;\u2013 Secretary of Homeland Security (Governor of South Dakota and <em>confessed puppy killer<\/em>)<\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><ul><li>Tom Homan&nbsp;\u2013 Border \u201cCzar\u201d (driving force behind the first  Trump Administration&#8217;s <em>child&nbsp;separation plan)<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><ul><li>&nbsp;Russ Vought&nbsp;\u2013 Director of the Office of Management and Budget (a <em>co-author of Project 2025<\/em>)<\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><ul><li>Lee Zelden&nbsp;\u2013 Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency (<em>opposed to environmental regulation<\/em>)<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Kelly Loeffler&nbsp;\u2013 Administrator Small Business Administration (<em>no experience<\/em> in small business \u2013 made her fortune in corporate investment firm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Completely Whack<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Pete Hegseth&nbsp;\u2013 Secretary of Defense <em>(potential sex offender and a man with drinking problem<\/em>)<ul><li>Robert Kennedy Jr&nbsp;\u2013 Secretary of Health and Human Services (<em>leading anti-vaxxer<\/em>)<\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><ul><li>Kash Patel&nbsp;\u2013 FBI Director (put a <em>60 person \u201cpolitical enemies list\u201d<\/em> for prosecution in his book)<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Tulsi Gabbard&nbsp;&#8211; Director of National Intelligence (<em>friend of deposed Syrian dictator Assad and Vladimir Putin admirer<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shiny Balls<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Clearly the \u201ccompletely whack\u201d list is a total distraction.\u00a0\u00a0Who&#8217;s worse:\u00a0\u00a0a drunk womanizer who has never run a large organization in his life (the DoD has 2.8 million employees), or a former Congressman who likes dictators?\u00a0\u00a0Or how about Bobby, the leading anti-vaxxer in the Nation, a heroin addict with a worm in his brain?\u00a0\u00a0Or good \u2018ol Kash; who made his \u201cbones\u201d as Congressman Devin Nunes&#8217; \u201chitman\u201d in the early Trump years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">All four are uniquely unqualified.\u00a0\u00a0But it will take three Republican Senators (along with all of the Democrats) to deny confirmation.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s simple politics:\u00a0\u00a0maybe all three could vote against one, or even two.\u00a0\u00a0 The political ramification of voting (correctly) against all four is probably fatal.\u00a0\u00a0Millions of dollars (thanks Elon) will be poured into a primary against the \u201coffending\u201d Senator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u00a0But the real point is, even if all four on the \u201cCompletely Whack\u201d list were denied; it virtually guarantees the entire \u201cCray-Cray\u201d list gets through intact.\u00a0\u00a0And Trump couldn\u2019t ask for anything better:\u00a0\u00a0an election denier as Attorney General, a climate change denier at Energy, an anti-environmentalist at EPA, and a \u201cadministrative state\u201d opponent at OMB.\u00a0\u00a0Oh, and closer to my heart, a public education \u201cde-funder\u201d at Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Even the \u201cnormal\u201d gang isn\u2019t so great, but they\u2019re the kind of appointments expected of a Trump administration.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are likely to be, at least, competent in their area.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gibbs\u2019 Rules&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>NCIS<\/em> has been a stalwart CBS television show for the past twenty-two years.&nbsp;&nbsp;The lead character in the show (for the first twenty) was Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, who had a very special<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1024964\/ncis-gibbs-rules\/\">&nbsp;list of rules<\/a>, both for investigations and for life.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rule #39:&nbsp;&nbsp;there is no such thing as a coincidence.&nbsp;&nbsp;It isn\u2019t coincidental that two former Democrats (Kennedy and Gabbard, both cult-like figures), and a Fox TV host (Hegseth) are on the \u201cWhack\u201d list.&nbsp;&nbsp;Win, lose or draw; they are the Shiny Balls, the baubles&nbsp;&nbsp;placed intentionally to keep our eyes off of the rest of the appointments.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">There is minimal \u201cmomentum\u201d for Republicans to oppose any Trump appointee.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the \u201cwhack\u201d list will absorb almost all of that energy.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s easy to think the Trump people are stupid, or crazy, to put these names up.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the end though, they\u2019ll win however it goes:&nbsp;&nbsp;lose one or lose all four.&nbsp;&nbsp;The rest of the program will roll on.   Regardless how you feel about the MAGA leaders:  don&#8217;t underestimate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get In Line Like it or not, the Nation elected Donald Trump as the President of the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;And, unlike Trump and his MAGA-followers in 2020, the Democrats got \u201cin-line\u201d and did their duty as American citizens.&nbsp;&nbsp;They, we; accepted the election results. 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