Trump's pick for Treas Secy is a gay, Yale grad, Wall St billionaire w/ 18 YEARS of working for GEORGE SOROS!! Isn't this EXACTLY what MAGA opposes?

[DrPepper12]

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-nominates-scott-bessent-as-treasury-secretary-picks-russ-vought-to-lead-budget-office.amp

Trump nominates Scott Bessent as treasury secretary; picks Russ Vought to lead budget office (Project 2025 PRIMARY AUTHOR)

Bessent was a key economic policy adviser and fundraiser for the Trump campaign.

Treasury secretaries often lead negotiations with Congress over tax and spending matters and play a role in dealing with foreign governments and financial institutions, as well as handling the operations of the Treasury Department and sub-agencies like the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Bessent previously attended & taught at Yale University. He worked at Soros Fund Management (SFM) from 1991 to 2005, starting as a partner and eventually leading the firm's London office. After starting his own venture capital and working at another firm, he returned to Soros Fund Management from 2011 to 2015 as chief investment officer, before he left to found his investment firm, Key Square Group.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/fox40.com/news/political-connection/ap-politics/ap-after-trumps-project-2025-denials-he-is-tapping-its-authors-and-influencers-for-key-roles/amp/

During the 2024 campaign, Trump denied knowing anything about the “ridiculous & abysmal” plans written in part by his first-term aides and allies. "President Trump never had anything to do with Project 2025,”

Regarding OMB Nominee Russ Voight:

The OMB director develops POTUS proposed budget. Vought is a primary contributor to the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 and a close Trump ally.

Additional Project 2025 contributors slated for CIA and Federal Communications chiefs

John Ratcliffe, Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, was previously one of Trump’s DNIs. He is a Project 2025 contributor.

Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, wrote Project 2025’s FCC chapter & is now Trump’s pick to chair the FCC.

MAGA, you got played... AGAIN!

Trump lied. These guys are P2025 elite globalists.

Trump delivered. They're all the outsider experienced guys he promised.

[D_Bone_Steak]

I dunno, it could be a cold-blooded calculative move. I mean the Treasure secretary isn't going to impeach you for some bullshit, especially if you don't plan on spending money on bullshit... plus she's on the other side of the fence.

Think about it... shower her with attention for such good work, make the numbers look good for her, and then be able to say "Look, even this progressive knows how good it is... the best ever... never any better numbers."

It is sort of alarming though... worked for George Soros... Jesus butt fucking Christ. I wouldn't trust her. That does make me want to ask questions. I'm going to ask Chat GPT about this... hold on...

Scott Bessent, a prominent Wall Street financier and former money manager for George Soros. Bessent, who is openly gay, would be the first LGBTQ+ person to hold this position if confirmed. He has a history of supporting Democratic causes, including Al Gore’s presidential campaign, before becoming a strong supporter of Trump.

Bessent’s priorities include extending Trump-era tax cuts and addressing the national debt through spending cuts. He advocates for deregulation and low-cost energy as key strategies to boost economic growth. During the campaign, he described this period as a “last chance” for the U. S. to tackle its debt without significant social and economic restructuring.

Alright, it's me again and not AI... yeah, okay. A real numbers person. It sounds like this person actually gives a fuck and would be a good pick. I don't give a flying fuck about the LG-HDTV++ gay bullshit... but the other stuff seems alright. A real money manager seems to be all about fixing this debt unlike whoever gave the green light to print out money and send it to Ukraine which did jack shit for U. S. Citizens outside of the burden of the resulting inflation from it.

I say yeah, get that gay butt fucking money manager in there like a gay guy gets in butts.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Those MAGANs are such Trump b****es, their boy could appoint a Martian to a sensitive post and they wouldn't care because their Lord and Master did it.

[Anonymous]

Trump is a business man. No other presidents have been. They’ve all be just elected for the heck of it. Trump hires people versus electing people. Big difference.

[Yabbut]

I guess that must mean he isn't the bigot the left claims he is.

[blueonblack22]

Nor a project 2025 “dictator”.

[MisterWack]

So, I want to say this… As long as their side does it, they don’t bat an eye. Andrew Cuomo if he was in the Republican Party would’ve been defended for his sexual misconduct even as he used the word of God as a shield for his own skeletons in the closet (much like the Democratic Party with Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo, etc. using decency / good intentions as a shield from criticism)

Now let’s get into the meat of this, I remember hearing of George Soros’ son taking over his place though due to years of the Republican Party dog whistles, planting the seed of ‘global elites pulling the strings’, Jewish Space Lasers, etc. they aren’t transitioning to his son since his son isn’t as well known though to my knowledge his son already took over. There is no globalist plot, if there was one we’d be royally screwed like no paid sick leave, Union busting, Sweatshop Hours, minimum wage under $7 per hour and more also sabotaging education / over policing…. Now when I say that I mean Nationally in all 50 States (Washington DC too) so since we aren’t I’d say we are fine though Trump does want to increase the retirement age, bust the Department of Education, NOT raise the minimum wage, continues insisting his extreme tariffs will help consumers not bust them, also on a X call with billionaire Elon Musk he stated that companies should be allowed FIRE striking work force which Elon Musk agreed with.
Seems like the “globalist agenda”(if there were one) would be under Trump.

[MisterWack]

*Another reminder North Korea sent troops to Russia, China has supplied drones to Russia, Iran supplied missiles to Russia, and it is all under an alliance with Russia to help them win not only in Ukraine, but in future global conflicts since all of them have each other’s backs just like the Axis Powers of World War II. If America wants to prevent a bigger conflict, we got to secure Ukraine with everything they need. NO APPEASEMENT!

[lightbulb27]

that's the thing... they try to fit trump into some mold they formed in their mind. he doesn't fit, he hires anyone if he thinks they can do the job, shake things up.

Here's the think... I don't care. If he worked for Soros... and that was long ago and they haven't talked in years, then he knows Soros. who cares? Just let him do his job... which is to repair the finances of the country... back us out of WWIII globally, and attempt to reapir some of the social mess spread through govt.

Just think of his nominees process as shake and bake chicken. if someone tells him they are a good chicken, he will throw them into the mix and shake them up. He's the chef... just like when worked at McDonalds. By the way... I believe our first president to have worked in McDonalds, kinda exciting hugh...

if he doens't like the chicken mix he got, he will discard that batch and get another chicken.

everyone is a "chicken"... to be used... doesn't care what kind of chicken... might even be an osterich... doesn't care.

Trump testing a new candidate...

don't over think it...

[blueonblack22]

The left has been running and running on this huge lie that republicans are literally 1950s homophobes and Trump is the leader of it. Did he ever pledge to reverse gay marriage or something? He can honestly care less about gay people. Trans ideologies are a different story e. g. biological men in women’s locker rooms, competing in women’s sports. But again republicans are the Westboro church or something. What we care more about is if people can provide legitimate value beyond their “identity”. Your gender, race and/or orientation is no way a qualification for a job.

Pete Buttigeig only got into the democrat’s limelight because he’s gay. He was an absolutely pathetic secretary of transportation. He was on “paternity” leave for 2 months when the East Palestine, OH disaster.

Trump would only choose Scott Besent because he sees value in the job he can do (for whatever odd reason). He didn’t do it for identity politics and to be “woke”. Yes you can argue it’s a strange choice. But no way Trump chose this guy for democrat approval.

Another thing is unlike Joe Biden, Trump won’t hesitate to fire anyone if they can’t get the job done. Seriously who did Biden fire during his tenure in office?

[Anonymous]

While trump has frequently poor judgement in political people he gets the job done, and relys on experts.

That said his association with project 2025 is a positive like his work experience, not a draw back.

[goaded]

If he relied on experts, he'd have publically worn a mask from February 2020, not waited until July.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded Like you trump's problem was how to define an 'expert' he ended up picking more than a few people such people so anointed who were in fact merely experienced ideologues at best.

[goaded]

Every single one of them had forgotten more than Trump will ever learn about medicine.

You can't say that he's chosen RFK Jr. for anything but idealogical reasons, surely? How many of his picks have any experience of running massive organisations or their fields of authority?

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded In my experience technicians such as scientist, engineers, and doctors, tend to make bad managers just as managers tend to make bad technicians.

While its true managers should know what the technicians do, the kind of talent required to manage people well which is the job of a manager tend not to be shared with the technician specific talent required to be good at the actual job.

So no I wouldn't want a doctor running almost any agency as my first choice. Management is a social talent and skill you need to prove yourself good at.

That said the idea that you would even want someone with their own pre-conceved opinions running such an origination at the top like this as a technician tends to have is asking for an abuse of power.

You would only put a technician in charge if the management is incompetent and then only until you can find a proper replacement.

[goaded]

A manager who thinks he knows more than his experts is a bad manager. RFK Jr. thinks he knows more about vaccines than well over a century of science and medical experience. He thinks contrails are a real threat to health rather than artificial clouds (although eliminating them would be cheap and reduce global warming).

He's clearly incompetent to run a health department. Just like putting a major in charge of 3 million people in the military. Just like putting a failed businessman in charge of the country.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded I would care more if I thought the Federal goverment had any legitimate power in the area at all. RFK was a compromise pick and he deserves to give it a try. He mostly wants to ask questions, so let him ask.

[goaded]

He's not just asking questions, he's got a conclusion and he's going to act on it, no matter how wrong it is.

“Is it hyperbole when I say these people should be in jail? They should be in jail and the key should be thrown away,” "he would replace 600 employees on his first day at HHS.", “To me this is like Nazi death camps, what happened to these kids,”
www.nbcnews.com/.../rfk-jr-vaccines-cdc-fascism-abuse-catholic-church-autism-conferences-rcna181605

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded It is not for the head of the HHS to jail anyone. and I would prefer he fire the entire staff. That said there is no abuse he could carry out at the HHS that isn't already par for the course of that origination.

His ideas are hardly worse than the ideas of past leaders.

[goaded]

Of course they are. People are going to die because of them.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded Hardly a new issue given people have been regularly dying because of HHS since the 'federal' agency was first created.

That is the nature of trying to govern very individualistic domestic issues from 1000 miles away. You never know what your agents are doing or who their doing it to.

The federal goverment was never given the power to create this agency in the first place for a reason.

[goaded]

You're being ridiculous. Texas, for example, decided to practically outlaw abortions and the mother and infant mortality rates skyrocketed. That's what happens when you don't follow the science.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded Texas isn't responsible for Biden giving away extremely dangerous drugs to be illegally misused by so called "doctors" in other states.
I'm sorry but if your going to take a drug like that without the required medical procedures your risking your own life in your attempt to take your babies life. You will forgive us if we don't feel as as bad about a murder as we do for the innocent baby she killed.

[goaded]

Now you're just flinging whatever you think might stick.

"From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%,"

"Between 2021 and 2022, the infant mortality rate increased by 8.3 percent in Texas... The Texas rate reflected a 12.9 percent increase in the actual number of deaths of children before their first birthday.

And while the death rate of babies 28 days old or younger fell in other states overall, it increased by 5.8 percent in Texas."

Hard to blame safe abortion medication for the deaths of infants, isn't it?

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded There are no safe abortion medications. A drug strong enough to cause a baby to die isn't going to leave them unharmed when it fails.

[goaded]

Oh, you only want perfect medications, 100% risk free? Like 100% risk free foods, there aren't any. Pregnancy isn't exactly risk-free, either, which is why maternal deaths increased by over 50% after abortions were made illegal in Texas. Women and infants were far safer before the abortion bans.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded There is a difference between a drug being risk free and being highly dangerous as the abortion drugs Biden put on the market are.

There are no safe abortion drugs because abortions are designed to kill humans. So of course its going to effect the mother just like the baby. If either survive they are likely to be damaged by the same.

[goaded]

They're not "highly dangerous", they've been around since the turn of the century, so "Biden put on the market" is obviously bullshit.

They're designed to stop a very early pregnancy, a third of which spontaneously abort at about that time anyway.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded Tell that to the infants and women who have died because they didn't get the previously required ultrasound before and after to verify whether the baby was and that it has subsequently cleared.

I guess the

[goaded]

Obviously that's far less likely to happen than all the extra problems leading to deaths of mothers and infants in Texas since the abortion ban.

"the first pregnancy ultrasound is the anatomy scan, which is performed around 20 weeks.", so weeks after mifepristone is no longer appropriate. You're just making stuff up now.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded The first ultrasound previously required for this drug is is used to rule out the woman doesn't have an Ectopic pregnancy.

[goaded]

When was that, then? As far as I can see, the drugs are the cure for an Ectopic pregnancy, the ultrasounds are to find out if they're needed, even if the pregnancy is desired.

Making the drugs harder to obtain results in more deaths.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded Ectopic pregnancies are very rare and abortion is allowed in all states.

[goaded]

And yet women are dying because they're not getting abortions or other care that used to be accessible even in Catholic hospitals; why is that?

[Opinion Owner]

I don't know why this is happening in your fictional world @goaded

[goaded]

It's called the United States of America, and I wish the current situation was fictional.

Women are being turned away from hospitals with life threatening problems because the right wing has decided they know best.

[Opinion Owner]

Are you talking about abortion or some other medical treatment actually banned by HHS or FDA? @goaded

If Abortion so you must be confused, Women are not even being turned away for abortion in labor in these united state of America. Only in certant states is the procedure banned unless the life of the woman is at stake in the judgement of a 3rd doctor.

[goaded]

Dilation and evacuation or induction of labour; they were always best practice for when a fetus has no chance of survival, but now doctors are scared of being sued or even arrested and imprisoned for performing an abortion and turn women away. Some have died.

You need to re-do your second paragraph, it's unclear. But if something is true "in [certain] states" that means that it is true in the US.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded It is true you can abort a baby in some states up to birth. Therefore abortion is available in these united States up to birth. Its also banned from conception in some states and all services are unavailable in many areas all together for lack of healthcare facilities.

Hence why you don't say because something is banned in some areas it is not avalable.

[goaded]

If you prefer, women and infants are dying because it's "banned in some areas" and so "not avalable" to them. I'm pretty sure I've never said anything counter to that, in fact I've been quite specific about Texas being a place where mortality has shot up since they banned abortions with few exceptions that are vague and doctors are unwilling to explore since they risk being imprisoned.

That's the discussion you're trying to ignore with your "not all men" style response. The drugs you want to claim are "dangerous" have saved a lot of lives.

[Opinion Owner]

I don't accept your premis that women and infants are dying for want of abortion. @goaded That simply isn't supported by the science or the law.

you might argue they are dying because of ignorance of the law, or they poised themselfs, or used a dangerous drug without following the rules Biden abandoned such as was the case in Georgia.

But no woman has died because of the law in Texas on this issue.

[goaded]

Of course it's supported by the science, the figures literally come from scientific studies.

jamanetwork.com/.../2819785
www.cdc.gov/.../maternal-mortality-rates-2021.htm

The question is why don't you accept the science? And why are you lying about this?

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded take a closer look at your dataset next time that data goes up to 2021, it is also not a compete set. Row was overturned in 2022

[goaded]

"SB 8 passed an entire year before Dobbs. That was the biggest difference between Texas and the other states that did not see such a major rise in maternal mortality."
www.texasstandard.org/.../

Good luck getting useful figures from Texas, this page inexplicably shows 2013, 2019, and 2020.
healthdata.dshs.texas.gov/.../pregnancy-related-mortality-ratios

Sorry, perhaps not "inexplicably", it's Florida's Covid reporting again.

"... recent legislative changes that redrew committee membership and began the process to remove Texas from the federal maternal mortality tracking system."
www.texastribune.org/.../

"A third woman has died under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors reach for riskier miscarriage treatments"
www.texastribune.org/.../

But I'll look.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded Alright... I looked at each of your articles and i only find political claims not evidence of your charge.

FYI Texas is also among the youngest of American states and therefore would have the most pregnancies regardless. The data for many of these studies are also again pre-overturn of roe v. wade.

Also the woman who died didn't have anything to do with the abortion ban given her baby was already gone, just bad judgement on the account of the doctors.

[goaded]

No, you also saw women being turned away for pregnancy related care needed to save their lives. That's not "political claims".

Tell you what, YOU find ME the figures for maternal and infant mortality in Texas for 2014-2018, if you can, or something else that proves that the studies are mistaken.

I'm getting a bit sick of responding to any of you guys who do nothing but throw shit around like "Texas... would have the most pregnancies regardless" when you know we're talking about the rates of death, not the absolute numbers, or "The data for many of these studies are also again pre-overturn of roe v. wade.", when "SB 8 passed an entire year before Dobbs.", and earlier years are what they're comparing to (which is probably why they're missing and Texas is withdrawing from reporting them to the CDC).

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded Its very difficult to care about this issue your talking about rather small numbers which are politically manipulated, and as illustrated by the examples given with connection in supposition at best, whereas there would be clear and easy to find evidence of such cases if what you said was true.

Thus far you haven't produced any evidence to justify this position and even if you were to it would only be to suppose we kill one innocent person to reduce a questionable the risk upon anther less innocent person.
What is certant and documented however is the effects of the abortion poison Biden has legalized and distributed.

[goaded]

In other words, you have nothing to show statistics from the studies are mistaken, and you're just going to ignore three women who died because they couldn't get traditional life-saving treatment because doctors are scared of going to prison.

And lie about what Biden's done.

[Opinion Owner]

I don't care enough about the issue to do your research for you given your own given data from the far left already tells what your looking to prove can't be proven. @goaded

If it could Democrats in Texas would not be picking such cases to claim some kind of conspiratorial relation to their cause.
They would have Real cases with clear and direct links. Instead it is the same thing in just about every state where I see them do that. They pick really dumb cases and try to argue what the doctor or woman was thinking about the law is what led them a incorrect choice.

In no case did the law actually prohibit a good treatment option, nor did they have good reason to do so. The more honest ads feature people crying about having to carry a child they don't want.

[goaded]

Oh, bullshit. If there was a new law saying you could be sentenced to 99 years in prison for doing something wrong when helping someone injured in a car accident, how likely are people to try? Wouldn't the predictable deaths directly attributable to that law? Wouldn't the number of deaths from car accidents rise in the statistics?

Of course those deaths are directly attributable to the law, and of course the reason the state governments are suddenly not looking at maternal and infact mortality is because they have something to hide.

Like I said, it's Florida's covid reporting all over again, where they'd report every two weeks very few deaths in the last week, but the total number of deaths went up five times as fast.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded I don't think you understand just how well funded and organized the murder industry (abortion lobby) is on the left in this country. If they had a real case they would have thousands of very good and clear cut examples to show. They would not have presented these ridiculous examples.
These people are not incompetent like a lot of other areas of the left they are too well funded for that. So I have confidence there are no such cases.

As for your supposition about doctors, I also don't think you understand the legal jeperty our goverment has put doctors in for decades on almost every choice they make in this country.
One of the reasons healthcare is soo expensive in this country is doctors have to pay enormous amounts for liability insurance and spend lots of time in court and being 2nd guessed.

The goverment via courts, and legislation like this on every subject have created this legal jeperty. Which accounts for a large amount of the cost of medicine. So no if they are working as doctors this is no different.

[goaded]

I don't think you understand just how ridiculous that sounds. How many dead women would you accept as proof? How many lucky survivors whose lives were put at risk because of these laws? WHY are state governments covering up the maternal and infant mortality statistics?

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded Still waiting for them to find an example of one instead of missattribution the cause of death to whatever they don't like no matter how unrelated.

Joe Biden legalized the abortion pill, and lots of women have died because of its improper use without medical supervision, not because they couldn't get an abortion without a medical reason.

[goaded]

Of course it's related. Doctors don't do what they would have done before the law was passed because the law was passed. Women's lives are therefore put at risk or even lost because the law was passed. The law caused the deaths and excess danger to lives.

Joe Biden did not "legalize the abortion pill", it's been legal and judged safe for a generation, and you do not know that "lots of women have died because of its improper use without medical supervision" because they're not releasing those figures, either. And the only reason it would be happening, and you have zero evidence, is because the law was passed so that women turn to unsafe abortions.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded First of all your blaming the doctors ignorance not abortion. Second, you don't know that the doctor would have used anther procedure.

Doctors make poor choices all the time medicine is about managing your own ignorance based upon risk, anther route might have saved the woman's life. The law in this case had noting to do with his choice of treatment his ignorance was the deciding factor.

Third for the sake of argument lets say the doctor's ignorance of the law caused the issue as you diluted to, that doesn't set this law apart from every other passed by every legislator, and executive edict by HHS on a regular basis.

This law at least saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives unlike most all of the rest of them. Which of course is the bar you would have to pass to prove it (not the doctor's ignorance) kills, to prove the law does more harm than good.

This is the legal minefield doctors in this country have been working with for 60+ years. And a large part of the reason healthcare in America is soo expensive.

As for the abortion pill being safe without doctor's supervision that is obviously not the case and was not the case legally under Trump. Biden has bad "judgement"

[goaded]

No, I'm correctly blaming the law. The Texas abortion ban law hasn't saved a single person's life and it has led to multiple deaths.

Risking being sued is one thing, risking a lifetime in prison for best practice medical care is completely different.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded What are you insane? The Texas abortion ban has saved countless thousands of Texas lives!!!

Now your just channeling your inner German fascist. Just because you choose not to recognize the humanity of anther person with human DNA does not mean they are not a human.

If you want to blame the Texas law for lost lives then you should correctly blame every other law, and yes doctors do face criminal penilities and jail time if found to willfully contribute to the death of a patent. The Treatment option was a valid and a legitimate one, maybe anther would have worked better who can say.

[AviatorTom]

Trump's cabinet picks are probably the most culturally and racially diverse of any cabinet in history. Yet there are still those who complain that it's racist... because there is only one black on it.

[goaded]

[goaded]

www.nytimes.com/.../...ion-cabinet-appointees.html Of the nearly 60 nominees, which are the "culturally and racially diverse" ones?

[Zack-Bann]

Clear proof that the whole far right neo-nazi regime he’s created is nothing more than a boogeyman story
The guy is as flexible as anyone else

[msc545]

Yet another venture capitalist. It doesn't get any dirtier and more corrupt than this.

[Dongie]

That's the liberal opinion of the right of center.

Being centrists is the best place to be but the far-left has to go.

[exitseven]

If democrats are against these appointments it means Trump picked to right guy.

[Dargil]

What is your vision of America's future 10 years from now?

[seeyounexttuesday]

Trump: AT least some folks fighting the good fight
Kamala: Zero folks that aren't part of the swamp

Trump still a better pick.

[Anonymous]

It’s a good thing Trump can fire his penetrated ass anytime he wants to.

One gay move and gone.

[blueonblack22]

And Biden literally never fired anybody.

[Anonymous]

No. Nobody has a problem with the gays.

[Anonymous]

So what?