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Shiftless2 said:

House Ethics Committee meeting canceled amid firestorm over Gaetz report #620​

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. But
when the going gets tough for house Republicans they make a 3 day weekend of it. - get outa town -

dis·cour·age (dĭ-skûrĭj, -skŭr-)
tr.v. dis·cour·aged, dis·cour·ag·ing, dis·cour·ag·es
1. To deprive of confidence, hope, or spirit: Making so little progress after so much effort discouraged us.
2. To dissuade or deter (someone) from doing something: My adviser discouraged me from applying to big universities.
3. To try to prevent by expressing disapproval or raising objections: The agency discouraged all travel to the areas hardest hit by the disease.
[Middle English discoragen, from Old French descoragier : des-, dis- + corage, courage; see COURAGE.]

Synonyms: discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit
These verbs mean to make less hopeful or enthusiastic: researchers who were discouraged by the problem's magnitude; apathy that disheartened the instructor; did not let the technical difficulties dismay them; a failure that dispirited the team.
Antonym: encourage
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.
 

Gaetz withdraws as Trump’s pick for attorney general, averting confirmation battle in the Senate​

Gaetz has withdrawn as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general following scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigation.

Matt Gaetz withdrew Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general amid continued fallout over a federal sex trafficking investigation that cast doubt on his ability to be confirmed as the nation’s chief federal law enforcement officer.

The announcement averts what was shaping up to be a pitched confirmation fight that would have tested how far Senate Republicans were willing to go to support Trump’s Cabinet picks. It represents a setback in Trump’s efforts to install fierce loyalists in his administration and is the first indication of the resistance the incoming president could face within his own party to picks with checkered backgrounds.

“While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was ...

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Matt Gaetz withdraws as Trump's pick for attorney general, averting Senate confirmation battle

Gaetz has withdrawn as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general following scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigation.
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sear said:
The other shoe hasn't fallen. We'll see who ends up as Trump's AG. "Out of the frying-pan, into the fire"?
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That's the $64,000 question - while Gaetz leaving is a good thing we can expect Donnie to appoint someone who is at least as bad (and maybe worse).
 
Speaking of quacks ....

Trump names Dr. Mehmet Oz to head Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services​

By Tami Luhby, Kate Sullivan and Alayna Treene

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a key federal agency that oversees health insurance coverage for more than 150 million Americans.

“I have known Dr. Oz for many years, and I am confident he will fight to ensure everyone in America receives the best possible Healthcare, so our Country can be Great and Healthy Again!” Trump said in a statement on Tuesday. “Dr. Oz will be a leader in incentivizing Disease Prevention, so we get the best results in the World for every dollar we spend on Healthcare in our Great Country.”

Trump, who is also seeking to slash spending in the federal government and has long had Medicaid in mind for reductions, also promised Oz would take a scalpel to the massive agency.


“He will also cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency, which is a third of our Nation’s Healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire National Budget,” the president-elect said in his statement.

Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and television personality, ran unsuccessfully for Senate in ....

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We can thank Oprah for inflicting Oz on her television audience and now on the US in general

From ‘magic’ weight-loss coffee beans to red onion stopping cancer: Dr Oz’s history of baseless medical claims​

Mehmet Oz has been nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, working alongside vaccine-sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr​

decade ago, Dr Mehmet Oz was hauled in front of a Senate subcommittee where he was grilled over false claims he had been peddling about diet and weight loss on TV.

“The scientific community is almost monolithic against you,” then-Senator Claire McCaskill said, referring to products he had been touting as “miracle” weight loss cures.

Oz trained as a surgeon before he was a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show in the early 2000s.

He went on to host his own program, The Dr Oz Show, where he spouted other dangerously misleading claims ranging from “magic” coffee beans to spur weight loss and selenium supplements to prevent cancer.

A 2017 paper published by the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics called him “a dangerous rogue unfit for the office of America’s doctor.”

Now, he is preparing to serve in Donald Trump’s second administration as lead of ....

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Speaking from memory over 50% of his claims are wrong. For example, from the article:

In a 2012 episode of The Dr Oz Show, Oz claimed that selenium supplements – a mineral found in certain foods – was “the holy grail of cancer prevention.”

But a 2014 National Library of Medicine study concluded there was “no convincing evidence” to date that “suggests that selenium supplements can prevent cancer in humans.”

Rather, it found that “extremely high intakes of selenium can cause severe problems, including difficulty breathing, tremors, kidney failure, heart attacks, and heart failure.”
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Trump voters feel very differently about things now that he’s won, our new poll shows​


Donald Trump’s supporters thought voter fraud could determine the election outcome — until he won.

Heading into Election Day, nearly 9 in 10 Trump voters said fraud was a serious issue. Afterward, just a bit over one-third said so.

Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris has scrambled public opinion about a range of other issues, too. For example, ....

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Shiftless2 said:
"Donald Trump’s supporters thought voter fraud could determine the election outcome — " #629
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Isn't that what Trump said?

If MAGAs are paranoid about the U.S. Southern border, why would that paranoia not also extend to non-MAGAs, within the U.S.?
 
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Shiftless2 said:
"... list the price of tariffs ..." Pt #631
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What a clever dinosaur! BUT !!

"... on receipts ..." is fine if it doesn't require replacing the hardware that prints them.
But chain stores and others may wish to simply make the information available in terse paragraph form from their Internet home page.

The astounding, blaring message here:
American economists seem to have reached a consensus that if Trump actually implements his tariffs threats, U.S. consumers will suffer the consequences.

We may hope Trump is merely bluffing, in his hope merely the threat of such tariff war with the world will buy Trump some benefit. Whether the nascent 2nd Trump administration will be agile enough to execute constructively, TBD.
But Trump may be sentient enough to understand, if his opening gambit is quickly exposed as a bluff, it will knee-cap the remainder of his 4 years in office. That understanding may result in Trump over-playing his weak hand. Enjoy the left-overs.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"... I would imagine that's a simple software patch." S2 #633
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Then both.

- meanwhile -

Election 2024​

We're careening toward inauguration day.
Not at all clear to me what MAGA voters will think if Trump adheres to his campaign agenda.
 
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