Our new Secretary of Defense:

[MyOwnPeace]

from the Washington Post:

The former Boeing executive has no military experience, no previous government experience and little experience with foreign policy.

Remember, IQ45 hires "only the best!"

Gonna' sleep well tonight?

[lpbk2713]

1. No problem.

Trump knows more than his generals anyhow.


OMFG

[madinmaryland]

11. Oops. Thought it said: "Trump knows more than his genitals anyhow."

[MissB]

12. Well that works too I suppose

[lpbk2713]

14. That could be appropriate too.

Actually he is pretty much of a dickhead.

[Marcuse]

17. Something about a smocking gun and a mushroom cloud.

[torius]

35. A very tiny mushroom.

Cloud.

[flibbitygiblets]

38. Thread winner right here!

[YessirAtsaFact]

22. Trump thinks with his genitals

But he doesn't know more than his generals.

[Grasswire2]

2. He's the puppet, evidently. nt

[Iliyah]

3. The Republican party can NEVER tell me that they are the party

of:

Patriots; security; economic.

The GOPers have failed the USA.

[Jarqui]

4. Hopefully, unlike his boss, he's literate ... nt

[flyingfysh]

5. Is he a Russian puppet?

The Palmer Report (https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/russian-puppet-secretary-defense-exposed/14911/) has a story titled "Exposed: Donald Trump’s new Acting Secretary of Defense is a Russian puppet". It in turn links to the Washington Post for some of its information.
You may not like Palmer Report, but this story should be checked out.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. All about the money my friends.

Boening has Contract issues pending.

[hibbing]

13. Yes, a sales job, inside sales n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

16. Boeing gave millions to Trumps Campaign and

Inaugural.

[The Genealogist]

7. I'm sure he ticks of Trump's most important qualification:

the insatiable desire to kiss ass.

[MiniMe]

8. At least he is the acting Sec of Defense

I don't think he has been Senate confirmed?

[DeminPennswoods]

20. He was confirmed, reportedly by a comfortable margin

by the Senate.

[EleanorR]

25. Um, no.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Um, yes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2018/12/23/patrick-shanahan-trumps-pick-acting-defense-secretary-steps-into-spotlight-after-mattiss-ouster/?utm_term=.31fee02718ea

[EleanorR]

29. Where does it say he's been confirmed as Sec. of Defense by the Senate?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. He was confirmed as deputy.

Since he was just appointed yesterday, obviously the Senate hasn't been able to confirm him, and maybe they won't have to since they've already confirmed him as deputy.

[EleanorR]

32. Right I understand that

He's acting secretary and hasn't been confirmed to the position of Sec. of Defense.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. He won't need to be reconfirmed unless he is chosen as the permanent SecDef.

As long as he is only the acting secretary he won't need it. Whoever is permanently chosen will.

[EleanorR]

34. Right

I believe MiniMe was asking if he was only acting Secretary and hadn't been confirmed to the job. That was what I was responding to.

[Firestorm49]

9. God save us all.

[SMC22307]

10. I just saw that in my Facebook feed...

and reached for a big tin of English Toffee. Drumpf is causing me to stress eat! Ugh.

[Linda Ed]

15. Russia Russia Russia

The only thing we can find in Shanahan’s record that would point why Trump chose him? His stated views on how the United States should essentially let Russia have Ukraine.

he was grilled by John McCain over his apparent desire to appease Vladimir Putin when it came to Ukraine. At one point, according to the Washington Post, an exasperated McCain said to Shanahan, “Have you not been aware of the thousands of people that have been killed by Vladimir Putin?”
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/russian-puppet-secretary-defense-exposed/14911/

[Xipe Totec]

18. Yes, but how many millibars of suction does he pull with his lips? nt

[orangecrush]

19. Dear God help us.

[spanone]

21. does the senate get to confirm?

[sheshe2]

26. Putin owns the Senate Majority.

so my guess is no.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. They did already, 17 months ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2018/12/23/patrick-shanahan-trumps-pick-acting-defense-secretary-steps-into-spotlight-after-mattiss-ouster/?utm_term=.31fee02718ea

[DeminPennswoods]

23. Shanahan's a mechanical engineer by training

Worked at Boeing, so he's familiar with gov't contracts and dealing with the military. I'd say he's the prototypical product of the military-industrial complex. At DoD there is a constant revolving door of civilian defense contractor execs to DoD and back and retired military to defense contractors.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. And by all accounts he was good at his job at Boeing. But he's another example

of someone who might have been good at his original profession but knows little about the position to which Trump appointed him - like Tillerson and Ben Carson. They get appointed because Trump thinks businessmen are good at everything (or black neurosurgeons know everything about urban housing because they're black), or because they said nice things about Trump on TV.

[uponit7771]

24. Yep, perfect for Putin ... no threat from US military

[liberalmuse]

36. Bunkertime?

Shit is going to hit the fan fairly quickly if this keeps up. Trump has pretty much decimated our government and its ability to respond in a crisis. Meanwhile, the GOP are distracted by their behind the scenes money deals.

[flibbitygiblets]

39. All of these incompetents in key positions--rendering the US defenseless from within

and the KGOP taking the $ and defending the traitor.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

37. was there open bidding when Putin bought the Republican party?

I don't remember any announcement of the auction.