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Anonymous wrote:Sam Brinton's qualifications to handle nuclear waste:

1. Gender fluid
2. Uses they/them pronouns
3. Has DOE clearance
4. Likes airports.

No one put Sam Brinton in charge of the DoE. They served as the deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy for six months. They also have a Bachelors in nuclear science, and dual Masters in nuclear science and engineering. More than adequately qualified for a deputy assistant secretary.

Don’t forget his raving and very specific kleptomania.

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Anonymous wrote:Unconventional but....

Princeton, Harvard, two bronze stars,
served in Afghanistan and Iraq so he had a lot of skin in the game.

And white nationalist tattoo.
Doesn't believe minorities or women should be in the military

But ok.

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Anonymous wrote:Unconventional but....

Princeton, Harvard, two bronze stars,
served in Afghanistan and Iraq so he had a lot of skin in the game.

Serving in low level military operations may make him a great operator, but that experience may not be sufficient to make him able to lead the world's most competent military at the strategic level.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sam Brinton's qualifications to handle nuclear waste:

1. Gender fluid
2. Uses they/them pronouns
3. Has DOE clearance
4. Likes airports.

No one put Sam Brinton in charge of the DoE. They served as the deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy for six months. They also have a Bachelors in nuclear science, and dual Masters in nuclear science and engineering. More than adequately qualified for a deputy assistant secretary.

Anonymous wrote:Unconventional but....

Princeton, Harvard, two bronze stars,
served in Afghanistan and Iraq so he had a lot of skin in the game.

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Anonymous wrote:Sam Brinton's qualifications to handle nuclear waste:

1. Gender fluid
2. Uses they/them pronouns
3. Has DOE clearance
4. Likes airports.

Ouch.

Obama's qualification for POTUS:

Community Organizer
Freshman Senator
Gave good speeches

Obama won elections. Giving speeches is a core role of a politician and all presidents are politicians. You become qualifed to be president by winning an election to be president. That's why Trump gets to be president again despite being a vain, ethically-challenged, despot-in-training. He is qualified in the sense that the people chose him for the role.

Appointed positions are different and we have to have higher standards because the people do NOT get to choose these people democratically.

Codswallop. The person the people chose, chose those the appointee. Obama's qualifications were weak yet he succeeded... why? He was charismatic, had good instincts and surrounded himself with solid people. The same can be said for anyone who runs large organizations. The Trump national security apparatus will be wide and deep with quality appointees at all levels. This won't be the doom you think it is.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to mention, the agency most responsible for our national security.

Generals are morons and don’t know what’s going on. Trump figured that out in term 1.

He’s right to choose a lower rank, and it’s a big FU to the Pentacon

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sam Brinton's qualifications to handle nuclear waste:

1. Gender fluid
2. Uses they/them pronouns
3. Has DOE clearance
4. Likes airports.

Education/experience
Brinton has a Bachelor of Science in nuclear engineering and vocal music from Kansas State University and a dual Master of Science in nuclear science and engineering and technology policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Their research focused on nuclear fuel cycles, including modeling reprocessing centers, reactor construction rates, and spent fuel storage.

Education
Brinton has a Bachelor of Science in nuclear engineering and vocal music from Kansas State University and a dual Master of Science in nuclear science and engineering and technology policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Their research focused on nuclear fuel cycles, including modeling reprocessing centers, reactor construction rates, and spent fuel storage.


Brinton has worked at several think tanks, including Breakthrough Institute, Third Way, Bipartisan Policy Center, and Deep Isolation. They were also the first employee at a nuclear waste start-up company

Exercised bad judgement and had ethical problems (stealing people's luggage and wearing their clothing for thrills).

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Anonymous wrote:In his book, "Hegseth talks of how he was one of 12 Nat'l Guard members Kept from Biden's inauguration due to extremism. He says it was due to his Jerusalem Cross tattoo, but I'm betting it was his tattoo of Deus Vult, the rallying cry of the 1st Crusade in 1099 - and White Supremacists today."

https://bsky.app/profile/dlj.bsky.social/post/3lasbdrmgqs2x

So he nominated a white supremacist to handle all the weapons of mass destruction. The man with the most guns, rule. Dumb Americans. They just elected their oppressor and his followers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sam Brinton's qualifications to handle nuclear waste:

1. Gender fluid
2. Uses they/them pronouns
3. Has DOE clearance
4. Likes airports.

Education/experience
Brinton has a Bachelor of Science in nuclear engineering and vocal music from Kansas State University and a dual Master of Science in nuclear science and engineering and technology policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Their research focused on nuclear fuel cycles, including modeling reprocessing centers, reactor construction rates, and spent fuel storage.

Education
Brinton has a Bachelor of Science in nuclear engineering and vocal music from Kansas State University and a dual Master of Science in nuclear science and engineering and technology policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Their research focused on nuclear fuel cycles, including modeling reprocessing centers, reactor construction rates, and spent fuel storage.


Brinton has worked at several think tanks, including Breakthrough Institute, Third Way, Bipartisan Policy Center, and Deep Isolation. They were also the first employee at a nuclear waste start-up company

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sam Brinton's qualifications to handle nuclear waste:

1. Gender fluid
2. Uses they/them pronouns
3. Has DOE clearance
4. Likes airports.

Ouch.

Obama's qualification for POTUS:

Community Organizer
Freshman Senator
Gave good speeches

Obama won elections. Giving speeches is a core role of a politician and all presidents are politicians. You become qualifed to be president by winning an election to be president. That's why Trump gets to be president again despite being a vain, ethically-challenged, despot-in-training. He is qualified in the sense that the people chose him for the role.

Appointed positions are different and we have to have higher standards because the people do NOT get to choose these people democratically.

Anonymous wrote:Sam Brinton's qualifications to handle nuclear waste:

1. Gender fluid
2. Uses they/them pronouns
3. Has DOE clearance
4. Likes airports.

Anonymous wrote:Unconventional but....

Princeton, Harvard, two bronze stars,
served in Afghanistan and Iraq so he had a lot of skin in the game.

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Anonymous wrote:Pete Buttigieg’s “qualifications” for Transportation Secretary:

1. Likes trains
2. Gay

Um no. Do you think gay people are inherently unequal because of their sexual preferences.

Pete B. Was the mayor of a city population of 900k people and a municipal budget of 1.6 billion dollars. I think he could handle DOT with a workforce of a little over 56k. It wasn’t Treasury or Defense.

I have no problem with Buttigieg, but it’s a big step from South Bend to US DOT. DOT is 100x the budget and staff of South Bend government. The mayor doesn’t run the entire population of the city, and the DOT serves the population not just the employees.

+1 I was annoyed by Buttigieg's appointment for this reason. It was a reward for doing well in the primaries and a nod to Mayor Pete fans. I think Pete is smart but he was not qualified for that appointment. And now he's "moved" to Michigan so he can run for office there and it's just transparently about the party trying to elevate him to a role from which he can run for President again instead of drawing from the ranks of already qualified people for these roles. It's a problem created by Pete overperforming expectations when he ran and then getting a lot of progressives who like the idea of a youngish, married, veteran, gay guy. They saw him and thought "Gay Obama!" and then tried to reverse engineer his resume to make that work.

This is not shade on Pete himself, but those instincts are VERY bad for the Democratic party and that's why Pete shouldn't have gotten that particular cabinet appointment.

So now that I've said all that I'll say: Pete Hegseth is not qualified to lead the DoD and his appointment is an embarrassment for all involved.

And yet, he has been a fabulous head of DOT.