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AOC seems to have found a platform for herself by being just a Congresswoman. There are lots of powerful people in the House.

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Like Adam Schiff. Love that guy.

concordtom said:

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dimitrig said:

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AOC seems to have found a platform for herself by being just a Congresswoman. There are lots of powerful people in the House.

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Like Adam Schiff. Love that guy.

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I live near his district. In fact, if I turn up the volume on my tv really loud, I can annoy his constituents.

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Yeah, if Mayor Pete is going to continue his rise, he needs a bigger govt. job, which he probably can't get in a state-wide election in Indiana, so Biden appoints him to something at the federal level (especially after he conveniently dropped out when he did).

He served in the Army: Secretary of Defense! (fun to watch some heads explode there)

He's glib, bright and polished enough for Secretary of State (but probably a little young).

VP would be a good training ground for him, but I hear that might be taken already. Just realized he reminds me of France's Macron in a number of ways.

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No way on Sec of Defense.
Interesting Sec of State!
Macron - yeah, except that Pete isn't going to marry some lady twice his age.

BTW: What on earth is Kamala actually going to do?

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I'm curious to see how Andrew Yang gets worked into the fold. If I'm honest, I kind of want to see a Yang / Buttigieg ticket in 2024.

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Yang needs to run for something else first. Congress, mayor, governor. Show he can govern.

Buttigieg is the future in some folks' eyes, but not mine.

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Not "the future". But he is intelligent and talented. Would be good to put that to use, somewhere, somehow. That's all we are talking about here.

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He's intelligent and completely full of shyt. That works on the BearsWiin's of the world, but not on the rest of America. They'll try to make him their new Hitlery standard bearer, but it won't work.

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Or maybe you are just homophobic?

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Calling people you don't know racist, homophobic, etc. that you don't know is why you get so many people voting for Trump instead of the Democratic Party candidate.

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1. I'm sorry that you took offense.
2. I did not call you homophobic. I asked (with a suggestion in the question, obviously).
3. I asked you why you said he was full of it - as that should be a better rationale than homophobia.
4. If you are voting for Trump because people you don't know type things on a website, which you interpret loosely, then that is very sad. You should base your decision on the experience, track record, suitability to the job of the candidates, not on me.
5. Absent any non-sexual-preference reasons for not appreciating Pete's talent still leads me to ask the same questions. So, please, educate me, tell me what better reason you have. The door is wide open and the floor is yours. Tell the story.

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concordtom said:

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dimitrig said:

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AOC seems to have found a platform for herself by being just a Congresswoman. There are lots of powerful people in the House.

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Like Adam Schiff. Love that guy.

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I live near his district. In fact, if I turn up the volume on my tv really loud, I can annoy his constituents.

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Isn't he like Hollywood or Sherman Oaks or something?

okaydo said:

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dimitrig said:

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AOC seems to have found a platform for herself by being just a Congresswoman. There are lots of powerful people in the House.

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I live near his district. In fact, if I turn up the volume on my tv really loud, I can annoy his constituents.

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In the 1990s I lived in his district. Since then I moved and the district lines were redrawn anyhow.

For his first run for office as a state senator I was invited to a fundraiser at his house in Pasadena. I really considered going just to see what one of those things was all about but I didn't. I guess I missed my chance to buy access to a (now) Congressman. FWIW, he's a Furd.

Who should Gavin appoint to replace Harris? I haven't heard any names but could be interesting. Adam Schiff?

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Who should Gavin appoint to replace Harris? I haven't heard any names but could be interesting. Adam Schiff?

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That white single mom from down south has been mentioned.
...Katie Porter is who I was thinking of.

Good discussion of the candidates here, starting with mention that Latinos are now a plurality of the state at 39% (wow) and two Latino men's names.

Women saying it has to be a woman!
Asians are 15% of CA population and two are mentioned.

Porter and Schiff both mentioned here as well.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/10/27/californias-most-intense-campaign-the-private-pursuit-of-harris-senate-seat-432928

It would not surprise me AT ALL if Pelosi steps aside as speaker now. Some said during his handling of the impeachment proceedings that Schiff could be next in line for that job. Someone suggested he's a Pelosi protege (groomed for it) of sorts?

I'm sure other states and factions will be angling for that as well.

But will Nancy step down and retire NOW that Trump is out? Or will she wait until Mitch is in the minority as well (presumably 2022)?

Continuing on this theme, who do Dems run as Presidential candidate in 2024?

Biden is clearly not the sharpest bulb at this point, and he will age further. His gaffes will be highlighted and he will have a hard time debating a fast talking young Republican in 4 years. It just won't be a good look, frankly. He was a good enough compare/contrast to Trump, but I fear a repeat.

Kamala, I'm not sold on, frankly.

But venturing out of that twosome could be unprecedented!!!!

I like Cory Booker, I decided through this last year. Amy Klobuchar, too, but Booker has really grown on me of late! He is always just too damn positive and I see no warts on him.

Maybe he could be elevated nationally with a choice spot in Biden's cabinet.

Great discussion (and there are many out there) of potential cabinet selections here.

https://medium.com/@robertjzitzmann/who-might-be-in-joe-bidens-cabinet-837e97a53492

As I have been reading through all these options, it's really truly exciting to realize that we should have veteran, skilled, intelligent leaders in government (executive branch) for the next 4 years. Populist names that were bandied about as potential VP picks are minimally present on these lists. Instead, deep experience and chops is what we should expect.

A new name I hadn't seen before in prior cabinet articles: Tim Kaine for Sec of State.

Jay Inslee is everyone's Sec of Energy.

We'll have a serious person also at the EPA.

You know, the trump administration was simply a complete shot show for 4 long years. What a joke!!

I look forward to this new group restoring some professionalism.

Mayor Pete - UN Ambassador.

Want to see Trumpers have a heart attack? Appoint Obama on the cabinet.

Tim Kaine sucks. I would consider Duckworth in as amb to the UN or Sec of State. Klobuchar for Atty General.

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Want to see Trumpers have a heart attack? Appoint Obama on the cabinet.

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Ha, yes, I was think Obama should be Chief Of Staff.
Republicans would absolutely howl!!!
They would call it a puppet regime!

Then run Michelle in 2024, haha haha.

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Tim Kaine sucks. I would consider Duckworth in as amb to the UN or Sec of State. Klobuchar for Atty General.

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I respect your opinion. But read the article as to why they say Kaine would be an excellent fit as Sec of State.

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Tim Kaine sucks. I would consider Duckworth in as amb to the UN or Sec of State. Klobuchar for Atty General.

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I respect your opinion. But read the article as to why they say Kaine would be an excellent fit as Sec of State.

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The article makes great points and I don't disagree. I just don't want to be reminded of the stench of the 2016 election. I also don't know if Kaine is the right person to rebuild the broken state department which is a big part of what Biden needs to do. We need a massive turnaround.

Election was called earlier this morning. Biden and Harris are going to focus on the COVID crisis in the near-term and expect to announce cabinet appointments in a few weeks. They're forming a new COVID task force and it will be quite interesting to see what steps they take before January to help recover from something that Trump obviously has no interested in addressing.

I would like to see Biden appoint a Republican or two to his Cabinet or other high level positions. It would be refreshing to see jobs go to the most competent people in the country, plus be a small step toward bringing the country together.

Typically there are meetings between the incoming administration and the outgoing administration to try to provide continuity. Given Trump's general attitude towards everything and the White House being a hot spot for the Corona Virus, it will be interesting to see if this tradition continues.

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Want to see Trumpers have a heart attack? Appoint Obama on the cabinet.

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Attorney General

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blungld said:

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Want to see Trumpers have a heart attack? Appoint Obama on the cabinet.

> attorney general

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golden sloth said:

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Typically there are meetings between the incoming administration and the outgoing administration to try to provide continuity. Given Trump's general attitude towards everything and the White House being a hot spot for the Corona Virus, it will be interesting to see if this tradition continues.

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The transition team has already been in discussion with the white house and from what I read (can't remember where), it was proceeding fairly normally. Obviously that may change but it will be interesting to see to what extent people in his own administration begin to tune Trump out.

I don't know why, but I was expecting Kamala to give a shoutout to Sarah Palin (and Ferraro).

okaydo said:

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I don't know why, but I was expecting Kamala to give a shoutout to Sarah Palin (and Ferraro).

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Sarah Palin is enjoying her $12,000,000, RIP Van Winkle 25 year old bourbon straight from the bottle and her Chippendales.

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That's not how Presidential speeches are supposed to go, is it?

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he's a wild and crazzy guyl

I hope on day one Biden passes an EO to waive all of the Trump admin NDAs. It's ridiculous that Trump forced people to sign them and we deserve transparency.

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I don't know why, but I was expecting Kamala to give a shoutout to Sarah Palin (and Ferraro).

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Nah. You don't sully yourself with comparisons to Palin. She's the second joke, behind Trump himself.

Unit2Sucks said:

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I hope on day one Biden passes an EO to waive all of the Trump admin NDAs. It's ridiculous that Trump forced people to sign them and we deserve transparency.

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I don't think that would be legally binding, would it??