Lost in some of the outrage over this is that Trump's pick is LITERALLY unqualified. The law says a Chairman has to have been a vice chair, a service chief or held a combatant command. Caine hasn't done any of those and I don't think he was even the senior service general at a combatant command.
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TRUMP: *fires black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; fires female chief of naval operations; hires unqualified replacement, a white man*
NYT:
NYT:
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I say that with much sarcasm!
Small business owners all hate one thing in common:
Business Blackmailing and
Shakedowns. Elon Musk, a foreign Billionaire is shaking down American business for revenues, using the threat of the federal government.
It’s disgusting to rape businesses for greed.
#USDemocracy
@schiff.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov
This American invention of putting enough filters in the process to ensure the President would be a person of sober integrity doesn't look so good, does it?
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/22/nx-s1-5305305/trump-shakes-up-pentagon-leadership-fires-the-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-of-staff
They knew what they were doing and here we are.
This is the same as if a president had his child join the army and then immediately appointed them a general.
Are there no protections?
Also did anyone ask the other chiefs re their thoughts?
An honorable candidate would recognize that requiring a waiver for them to take the position is disqualifying especially in peacetime
He doesn't care about the law
He doesn't care about people being qualified or moral or anything
He, Musk, & the billionaires setting all this up are moving the chess pieces into position for the endgame
Dems are playing yahtzee
He put on a MAGA hat once, boom, hired!
The NYT is a fascist enabling rag.
The only prerequisite for the job(s) is fealty to Pinky & his kakistocracy.
You have something of a reach, work on ways to drive a wedge between Trump and MAGA
That is the weak link in this whole facist shitshow
I'm glad I dumped my subscription -- call it what it is -- Trump is paving the way to giving unlawful orders.
Grossly unqualified is more like it.
What a crappy, misleading headline.
Actually beyond that, since AA doesn't promote *unqualified* candidates.