https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/01/antivaxxers-david-weldon-cdc-nomination

(Developed from various news sources.)

In July 2018, Trump held a secret meeting with Putin in Helsinki, Finland. No one was present except the two of them and a interpreter, who was sworn to secrecy. To this day those conversations have been concealed. After the meeting Trump said he trusted Putin 's denial of election interference more than he trusted our own intelligence agencies. He spoke of Putin's words as "Strong and powerful."

In 2019, the Washington Post reported that the former president went to "extraordinary lengths" to conceal details of his conversations with Putin, leaving some subordinates without a clear record of the world leaders’ interactions.

Similar questions were raised after the disclosure of an unplanned conversation with Putin during a G-20 dinner in Osaka, Japan, in June 2019 during which Trump was not accompanied by an interpreter.

He had told reporters beforehand that his private discussions with Putin were "none of your business."

In May of2017 Trump held another secret meeting with Russian Foreign Minister, Lavrov, and Russian Ambassador, Kislyak, in the oval office. Again no records of the meeting exist, but it's been established Trump turned over foreign intelligence to the Russians that compromised our relations with our allies and divulged their access to the working of the Islamic States.

Trump also reportedly boasted to the Russians about the intelligence he was receiving, telling the two men, "I get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day":

"Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United States learned only through the espionage capabilities of a key partner. He did not reveal the specific intelligence-gathering method, but he described how the Islamic State was pursuing elements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could cause under varying circumstances. Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State's territory where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat.

BuzzFeed also confirmed The Post's report, with one U.S. official saying that the disclosures from the president to the Russians were "far worse than what has already been reported."

In news reports, Trump admitted having about a dozen secret phone calls to Putin prior to the last election.

Now we come to Musk who has been holding secret meetings with Putin since 2022.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. According to the Journal's intelligence sources, Musk and Putin continued to have talks into this year, even as Musk began to ramp up his criticism of U.S. military support for Ukraine and became actively involved in the election campaign of Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump.

Putin once asked the entrepreneur to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese President Xi Jinping, two people briefed on the request said.

The bombshell claims land at a critical time in the U.S. election campaign, but the businessman's influence extends far beyond politics, via his social network platform X and his tech company SpaceX, through which he has megabucks government contracts and high-level security clearance to classified U.S. information.

In October 2022, Musk also began tweeting a series of Kremlin talking points about the war, which he presented as a plan for peace, but triggered major pushback from top officials in Kyiv, even from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy himself.

In early 2024, Ukrainian military intelligence reports said that Musk's satellite service was being used by the Russian army on the Ukrainian front.

According to Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin's only communication with Musk was a phone call in which he and Putin discussed "space, as well as current and future technologies."

Knowledge of Musk's Kremlin contacts appears to be a closely held secret in the U.S. administration, according to The Wall Street Journal, and several White House officials said they were unaware of them.

Is it inconceivable to infer, because of Musk's close ties with Russia and his business interests therein, that his sudden appearance as Trump's primary advisor and influencer is a calculated move by Putin who holds enormous power over Musk? Now Musk, a private citizen has taken to formulating government policy and has even threatened duly elected members of our government if they don' accede to his demands.

Is this the government you voted for?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ethics-transition-agreement-b2656246.html

While Congress quakes as they kneel in subjugation before Trump, Putin, Xi, and Kim are high fivin' in celebration of Musk's influence in picking the leaders of our entire Defense Systems. Trump's newest appointee, John Phelan. a successful businessman and art collector, knows about as much about the Navy as he does about quantum physics. But at least physics is somewhat speculative, whereas the Secretary of the Navy faces a range of actual challenges, reflecting the complex and evolving nature of naval operations, global security, and internal governance. Here are some of the primary challenges:

1. Budgetary Constraints

Balancing Resources: Managing a multi-billion-dollar budget to fund shipbuilding, maintenance, personnel, and modernization while addressing fiscal limitations.

Cost Overruns: Programs such as aircraft carriers, submarines, and advanced weapons systems often experience significant delays and cost increases.

Competing Priorities: Navigating trade-offs between readiness, modernization, and personnel welfare.

2. Modernization and Technological Advancements

Shipbuilding Delays: Keeping pace with the construction and delivery of new vessels to meet strategic goals.

Integration of Emerging Technologies: Incorporating AI, hypersonics, cyber capabilities, and autonomous systems into naval operations.

Aging Fleet: Addressing the challenges of maintaining and upgrading an aging fleet while planning for the future.

3. Strategic Competition China and Russia: Countering China's growing maritime power and Russia's regional aggression requires enhanced naval presence and capabilities.

Indo-Pacific Focus: Strengthening alliances and maintaining freedom of navigation in contested waters such as the South China Sea.

Arctic Operations: Preparing for increased competition in the Arctic as melting ice opens new strategic passages.

And these are but a few of the qualifications inherent in the position.

Mr. Phelan, do you really believe you've earned the right -- or are capable enough -- to assume responsibility for the safety and survival of our nation?

See this report:

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will nominate an art collecting Republican megadonor who works in finance and has no military experience to run the Navy.

“It is my great honor to announce John Phelan as our next United States Secretary of the Navy!” Trump said, in a statement. “John will be a tremendous force for our Naval Servicemembers, and a steadfast leader in advancing my America First vision.”

Phelan heads Palm Beach-based private investment firm Rugger Management and formerly managed the investments of billionaire Michal Dell. His sole qualification for the Navy job seems to be that he helped the Trump campaign raise a lot of money. One fundraiser he hosted for Trump at his $38 million Aspen, Colorado, home this summer cost $25,000 to $500,000 per couple.

“Phelan has not served in the Navy. Of any other branch of military service,” said army veteran Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of the nonprofit Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America group. “But he is a big Trump donor. The least qualified and most overtly political cabinet in American history continues to expand.”

There is more:

:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-taps-financier-and-art-collector-with-no-military-experience-to-run-the-navy/ar-AA1uRqhT?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=d3a304cb8f084489839164cd4bdfa8f4&ei=45

I went to post a cute photo of my Phryge plush as TT40art, and I was told I was banned for reporting one fucking post a single time. Hi, if Reddit Admins see this: Your r/Conservative forum is a cesspool, and its mods are a bunch of thin-skinned power trippers. Fix this. Now.

Obviously, this guy never read "How to Win friends and influence People".

This guy, Homan, a prime contributor to Trump's Project 2025 initiative and Fox News talking head, thinks like all schoolyard bullies do, that because he has a little power, he has ultimate power.

Not yet confirmed, Tom Holman is already threatening every state in the union that it 'will be his way, or the highway, and if they don't comply with his radical-right agenda he will personally cut off all federal funds to those who won't knuckle down to his extremist demands.

Hundreds of millions of Americans, Republican, Democrat, or Independent depend on these monies to fund Health care services, education, social services, infrastructure, and public safety, to name but a few., and this pipsqueak zealot who wouldn't dare open his mouth if he didn't have a neighborhood bully (trump) to back him up, thinks he can intimidate the rest of society.

This is Maga at its worst, and Project 2025 at its worst. First, they are trying to menace the US Congress, and now every citizen in the union.

Look at this:

The Washington Post

President-elect Donald Trump’s ‘border czar’ nominee Tom Homan promised to slash federal funding to states who don’t work with his new immigration policies while admitting he has received death threats.

Homan appeared on Mark Levin’s show, Life, Liberty and Levin, on Sunday for an interview discussing the “border crisis.”

Levin, a Trump supporter, told Homan he has a “powerful weapon” to use against governors–notably from sanctuary cities–who refuse to cooperate with the Trump administrations plans. “If you have a governor who says, ‘I’m not going to cooperate'...then federal funds should be slashed to that state, and I mean hugely so, so that the people of that state understand that the governor is the responsible party,” Levin said.

Homan replied in the positive. “And that’s going to happen, Guaranteed, President Trump is going to do that,” he said.

Homan then claimed he was “being attacked” and that his family had been forced to move out of his home. “This administration has turned this world upside down, so now I’m being attacked,” Homan said. “I got death threats, my family’s not even living in my home right now,” he continued, without adding further context.

“You can hate Trump all you want, but you gotta love your community more than you hate President Trump,” Homan said.

Last week, Homan warned Democratic governors who pushed back on Fox and Friends, to “get the hell out of the way” and “don’t cross that line.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-border-czar-makes-big-promise-if-states-don-t-cooperate/ar-AA1uGPTF?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=87d7f4e44a5e456a89dcc9ca64c8d8a3&ei=59

https://www.politicalflare.com/2024/11/elon-musk-has-been-told-to-stop-outshining-trump-trump-is-the-king-not-elon/

This propaganda is alarming. Imagine if you actually believed this garbage?
"Democrats HATE justice, they HATE America, and they HATE you."

(ETA: Screenshots in the comments because I'm apparently not bright enough to do this right.)

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-twitter-elon-child-abuse-material-rcna63621