Now here’s a curious story. Might be quite interesting for those of you that are paying attention to all the mysterious posts President Donald Trump has made over the years. You know, the posts where he made spelling ‘errors’ and was mocked about it. But they seemed to be made on purpose, pointing to something else instead. For example: A LOT more. It used to lead to zoos and kid’s clubs on this platform. We also discovered Disney’s Club Penguin that I think had more than 80k young users. Very scary. pic.twitter.com/OjYpvumr7Y — Wish (@wishfulldreamz) June 4, 2024 Well, this time President Trump posted this: “I respect Jamie Dimon, of JPMorgan Chase, greatly, but he will not be invited to be a part of the Trump Administration. I thank Jamie for his outstanding service to our Country!” Donald Trump preemptively fired Jamie Dimon. That’s some quality trolling. pic.twitter.com/g3Tz5Q5n0j — Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) November 14, 2024 The thing is, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, has no desire to be a part of the Trump Administration. So why would he post this out of the blue? It’s written in a way to imply Dimon wanted to join, but like a manager turning down a job applicant, he was denied. “We’ll keep your application on file.” Was this to get our attention on Dimon? Should we be paying attention to his next move? Or could this be a way to sow doubt among the Deep State? Will this make them think that Dimon was secretly making deals with President Trump to join his team? Reuters reports: JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N), opens new tab CEO Jamie Dimon will not be invited to be a part of Donald Trump’s administration, the U.S. president-elect said on social media on Thursday. “I respect Jamie Dimon, of JPMorgan Chase, greatly, but he will not be invited to be a part of the Trump Administration,” Trump said in his post. A source told Reuters last week Dimon will remain at the bank and had no plans to join Trump’s administration after earlier having been the subject of speculation as a Treasury secretary candidate in the run-up to the Nov. 5 election. Trump, a Republican, beat Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in the election. Dimon said last month that his chances of taking an official post were “almost nil”. Trump is yet to announce a Treasury secretary pick. Dimon, who is one of the most prominent leaders in corporate America, has run JPMorgan for almost 19 years. Dimon and other members of the bank’s operating committee congratulated Trump and other elected representatives, according to a memo to staff last week seen by Reuters. The outspoken CEO travels frequently to Washington to speak with policymakers and has expressed views on everything from housing and the U.S.-China relationship to the economy. He continued his tradition of not endorsing any presidential candidate this year. WORD ON WALL STREET: Our panel breaks down the Federal Reserve’s next moves and react to Trump ruling out a role in his administration for Jamie Dimon pic.twitter.com/JJFaKxEjWe — Mornings with Maria (@MorningsMaria) November 15, 2024 RELATED REPORT: JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Preparing For High Risk — “Things Go Terribly Wrong” JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Preparing For High Risk -- "Things Go Terribly Wrong" Jamie Dimon is back in the news today, admitting he is preparing for basically every bad scenario under the sun. On one level, that's just what a good CEO does. They are constantly doing a "SWOT" analysis and looking for any hidden risk anywhere they can find it. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. Risks fall under the "Threat" category. Some of the best CEOs are constantly paranoid, constantly looking for anything that could take their business down. And that's what Dimon sounds like in this clip. Watch here: Jamie Dimon expecting very bad things to come.... Paranoid or just smart business planning? pic.twitter.com/f84Z0QCT4B — DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) May 17, 2024 As I said, on one level it's just good business. In fact, we've warned you plenty ourselves that we too see a MAJOR risk coming in the form of an EMP Attack. Those details here (and what you can do to prepare) if you missed it: Here’s Why I Think An “EMP” Is The Biggest Threat To America Right Now But Dimon is as connected as they come, and some are wondering if he has the insiders playbook... Does he know what's coming next? Does he know a big Black Swan event is coming? I think these are all fair questions: ? Jamie Dimon discusses risk management: Geopolitical crises ?cyber risks ?high energy ? He also emphasizes the importance of being prepared if things go terribly wrong and #Fintechs. Does Jamie have the playbook? ? ?#Gold #Silver #Crypto pic.twitter.com/rKAm8n873R — Subjective Views (@subjectiveviews) April 28, 2024 In fact, it really caught our attention recently when we saw that Jamie Dimon suddenly filed paperwork to sell a ton of his shares in the Bank. Why is that weird? Because he has NEVER done that before. Literally, never before in 18 years. But now he's cashing out. Why? Well, inquiring minds want to know. Here was our prior report (I will publish in full below): Insider’s Selling (Part 3): Jamie Dimon Sells MILLIONS Of Stock — First Time Ever In Over 18 Years Insider's Selling (Part 3): Jamie Dimon Sells MILLIONS Of Stock -- First Time Ever In Over 18 Years This is Part 3 of a 3-part series about Stock Market Insiders selling massive amounts of stock in their companies. Parts 1 and 2 are listed below in case you missed them: Insider’s Selling (Part 1): Jeff Bezos Sells $8.5 BILLION of Amazon Stock Insider’s Selling (Part 2): Walton Family Cashes Out of Wal-Mart! And now part 3, featuring JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. This is a fascinating one to me because since Dimon became CEO of the bank in 2006, he has NEVER sold a single share --- until now: That's 18+ years and not a single sale. So why now? Why $150 MILLION now? SHIT ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN? Jamie Dimon sold $125m of JPMorgan stock through a plan, while his wife Judith Kent sold $25m of stock By Ed LinFriday, 23 February 2024 at 02:03https://t.co/o3ZjlPKQwI — Jack Straw (@JackStr42679640) February 24, 2024 Is Dimon selling perfectly at the top? That remains to be seen, but what we know for sure is he perfectly bought at the bottom: Jamie Dimon bought 1.235 million shares in the open market from 2009 to 2016 at the exact times when markets bottomed. Last week, he sold 821,778 shares of JPM stock worth $150 million for the first time ever. Impeccable timing? pic.twitter.com/Nk99iHm5Jj — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) February 26, 2024 In other words, I'm following this guy! Here are more details, from the NY Post: JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon cashed in about $150 million of his stock in the bank — the first time the head of the largest US lender has sold shares since taking charge in 2005. Dimon, one of the longest-serving chief executives on Wall Street, unloaded 821,778 shares of JPMorgan, according to an SEC filing Thursday. The selloff is part of a larger plan the bank revealed in an SEC filing in October to sell 1 million of the 8.6 million shares Dimon and his family own. A spokesperson for JPMorgan confirmed to The Post that “this was the planned sale of less than 10% of his holdings that we announced last October.” Jamie Dimon in a suit gesturing as he speaks during a Senate hearing on Wall Street firms. At that time, a regulatory filing attributed Dimon’s trimming of his personal stake in JPMorgan to financial diversification and tax-planning purposes. U.S. stocks smashed a new record high last week, but the rally may not last for long thanks to heightened risks that the economy returns to a 1970s-style stagflation scenario. US heading to 1970s-style stagflation, JPMorgan Chase strategists warn Chase sued over ‘unconscionable and predatory’ junk fees for depositing checks that bounce JPMorgan shares were up over 1%, to $183.07, in early trading Friday and the firm has a market capitalization of $527.3 billion — the largest of any US bank. Year-to-date, JPMorgan has already seen its share price rise more than 6%. Year-to-date, JPMorgan has already seen its share price rise more than 6%. Under Dimon’s nearly two-decade reign, JPMorgan’s shares have increased some 250%. Year-to-date, JPMorgan has already seen its share price rise more than 6%. Under Dimon’s nearly two-decade reign, JPMorgan’s shares have increased some 250%. Even after the selloff, Dimon and his family still own about 7.6 million shares in JPMorgan, which has more than $2.5 trillion under management, per the bank’s website. Dimon “continues to believe the company’s prospects are very strong and his stake in the company will remain very significant,” JPMorgan told The Post in October after announcing his planned stock sale. Dimon’s transactions involving JPMorgan shares are subject to the terms of Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the bank told The Post, which requires insiders to sell company stock by setting up a predetermined plan that specifies a transaction date and the amount of stock to be sold. So....what should you do?  What CAN you do? I will repeat what I've said in all 3 parts of this series....I am NOT a financial advisor -- hear me clearly on that -- but if you'd like to get out of stocks and into something SAFER for your retirement, may I suggest that Gold has ALWAYS been God's money? Gold has never failed, it was money in the Bible and it's still money today. And a store of value. So how do you protect yourself? And your family? How do you stay safe? And....here's a nice kicker....how can you do it with no money out of pocket?  (Yes, really!) Simple: you need to get some #Gold or #Silver in your own possession. It's called "physical" gold and silver. Not paper traded garbage on the stock exchanges that isn't backed by anything. Don't touch that stuff. I have two special hook-ups for you. Both involve PHYSICAL gold and silver. Because if you do NOTHING else, make sure you own "physical" gold and silver, not paper contracts. The paper contracts (like stock ticker SLV and GLD) could very well go POOF one day and disappear or go to zero, because they're not actually backed by the gold and silver they claim to represent. It's a massive game of musical chairs out there and when the music stops (and I think it will stop soon...) people who only own paper might find themselves owning something not worth the paper it's literally written on. And I know you'll never forget it if I give you this GIF so....Let's Get Physical: Now...WHERE do you get physical gold and silver and how do you know it's real and safe? And that you're getting the best price? Oh, and how about personal one-on-one real customer service? You know, like you were some Big Wig millionaire at Goldman Sachs who could just call their personal banker and get help? That's what I'm about to tell you.   I have two killer connections for you... The first is for purchasing gold and silver bullion. That means bulk bars. That's the cheapest and most economical way to do it, to stretch your dollar into as much gold and silver as possible. The website is called WLT Precious Metals and when you see my logo in the top left-hand corner, you'll know you're in the right place. You'll get a personal phone call with Ira Bershatsky (or someone on his team) and they will work with you free of charge for as long as needed to answer any questions you have and get you taken care of. How about that! You don't see that much anymore, but Ira and his team pride themselves on good old-fashioned real customers service: No sales pitch, just real, actual help. And the best prices you will find. Here's the only disclaimer I will give you: because they do pride themselves on dedicated service, it might take a few days before you get a phone call back.  Just be patient. Good things come to those who wait! You can contact Ira and WLT Precious Metals here. Ok, that was #1. Now I want to tell you about option #2. An equally great company, I am so happy to be working with these guys. This next company is called Genesis Gold and this is for people who want to purchase real physical gold or silver in their IRAs (Investment Retirement Accounts). You know what the beauty of that is? TAX FREE baby! I'm not a tax advisor, but that's a general oversimplification. Never pay more taxes than you are legally required to pay. And that's why I love getting gold and silver in my IRA (and why I hold a large chunk in an IRA myself!). There's so much to love about Genesis Gold, starting with the fact they are proudly and un-ashamedly Christina! They call it "Faith-Driven Stewardship" and they put it right on the homepage of their website along with a quote from Ezekiel: Wealth Preservation With Gold & Silver – The Genesis Gold IRA By your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered Gold and Silver into your treasuries – EZEKIEL 28:4 Genesis Gold Group believes the Bible gives clues on how man-made currencies (paper money) represent instability, and a lack of virtue and encourages living wastefully in excess. Conflicts have beleaguered us since the dawn of civilization, and they can all be encapsulated into one battle. The battle is between currency, man-made paper, and gold and silver — the two precious metals found in our Earth’s crust, sent to us by our Lord to use as money. Man-made currency always leads nations down the path to increased war, greed, and ultimate collapse. History has shown that abandoning gold and silver has always been a bad idea. Gold and Silver enforce discipline, nurture self-constraint, self-reliance, and balance, and lead to confidence, a restrained government, and a more stable foreign policy. Genesis Gold Group believes in empowering faith-driven stewardship with Gold & Silver are an integral part of a balanced portfolio. Protecting your finances with precious metals has never been more crucial during these trying times. With a combined 50-plus years in the precious metals industry, let your Genesis gold and silver experts guide you through the simplicity of asset protection and growth with our Genesis Gold IRA. Sincerely, Genesis Gold Group Empowering Faith-Driven Stewardship Oh....and they're VERY good at what they do. You also get physical gold and silver with Genesis, believe it or not!  The gold and silver is purchased for you (in whatever combination of coins and bars you prefer, a picture taken and sent to you, and then stored safely in a vault for you! I love what these guys are doing. Here's more on why gold and silver in your IRA are so powerful: You can contact Genesis Gold here. They are also very backed up with record demand, so you may have to wait a bit, but someone WILL get in touch with you for personal customer service and assistance! Tell 'em Noah sent ya! Oh, and did you know Genesis is recommended by SUPERMAN himself? It's true. Superman himself, Clark Kent -- Dean Cain -- came on my show a few weeks ago and we broke it all down: Watch here: Stay safe! Make sure you can weather the storm when it hits! Because the storm always hits eventually, doesn't it? As for me and my house, we will be ready.

Alex Jones submitted a court filing to expose the illegal sale of Infowars to The Onion. The DOJ is involved and hopes to use the model against Tucker and Beck. “They ADMIT that the Justice Department is heavily involved in directing all of this … they admit on MSNBC and CNN this model being used […] The post Infowars ‘Buyers’ “Violated the 13th Amendment” Against Slavery appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

President-elect Donald Trump pledged to purge bureaucrats who push the left-wing the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda and could otherwise obstruct his policy agenda. Now, following a landslide victory, he’s finally going to get his chance. The Biden administration launched its whole-of-government approach to DEI with a pair of executive orders that left no agency unmarred by the left-wing ideology, even capturing institutions essential to America’s defense, intelligence gathering, and foreign policy operations. Federal bureaucrats now expect Trump to sign an executive order shuttering DEI offices and operations throughout executive agencies. In total, agencies under the Biden administration are believed to have planned or taken an estimated 500 actions intended to embed and promote DEI. An ongoing series of Daily Wire investigations highlighted how the federal government has been captured by the DEI agenda, documenting some of the most extreme ways in which the ideology impacted the operations of the federal government. DEI officials in each agency enlisted federal employees across the government to form “affinity groups” and “employee resource groups, identity-based employee organizations that effectively serve as far-left activist nodes within America’s executive agencies. The affinity groups had support from the Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s human resources department, which said that affinity groups “support agency efforts to strategically advance DEI.” The Trump administration could use these affinity groups to expedite its DEI purge, using membership lists to identify bureaucrats who use their post to advance woke ideology — and who could potentially seek to obstruct Trump’s agenda. Trump will have the authority to shut down DEI offices throughout the federal government, but formally ending the infrastructure used to push the ideology within the executive branch may not be sufficient on its own to purge the doctrine from the bureaucracy. Former Trump administration official Ben Carson told The Daily Wire that bureaucrats would often attempt to defy the president’s orders when they personally disagreed with them. “Their tendency would be to try to slow-walk things that they disagreed with,” Carson explained. The America First Policy Institute’s James Sherk, a former Trump administration official, outlined how bureaucrats worked to block the president’s agenda through a combination of underperformance, obfuscation, and “outright insubordination.” “Some career employees went beyond withholding information — they actively misrepresented the facts about what agencies could, or could not, do,” Sherk explained in a report for AFPI, adding that other bureaucrats “would flatly disregard political appointees’ directions and instead do what they thought best. Such insubordination and intransigence occurred commonly in some agencies and infrequently in others.” Former White House Director of Operations for Presidential Personnel James Bacon asserted that bureaucracy’s ability to sidestep the president undermines the will of the American people, who expect those who they elect to have the power to change and enact policy. “If the policies stay the same no matter who you elect, that’s when democracy is dead,” Bacon contends. “The founders chose Congress and the Supreme Court as the check on executive power, not the president’s staff.” Media outlets documented this same bureaucratic resistance in the early days of the Trump administration, with Bloomberg News writing that “officials have found it best to simply delay implementation of new initiatives in hopes they may be modified or canceled” in a piece titled “Washington Bureaucrats Are Quietly Working To Undermine Trump’s Agenda.” The Washington Post reported that Trump faced “resistance from within” as federal agents worked to halt the president’s policy agenda. “Less than two weeks into Trump’s administration, federal workers are in regular consultation with recently departed Obama-era political appointees about what they can do to push back against the new president’s initiatives,” the outlet reported. The reports from former Trump administration officials and members of the media alike indicate that scrapping DEI on paper may not truly mark the end of the ideology and its influence on the federal government. But the Trump administration is also expected to conduct a purge of bureaucrats who may otherwise attempt to obstruct the president’s policy agenda and work to maintain the influence of DEI and far-left ideology within the government. Trump has announced that he will reissue his “2020 executive order restoring the president’s authority to remove woke bureaucrats.” The order in question would reclassify tens of thousands of bureaucrats and make them fireable by the executive. These bureaucrats work under about 4,000 political appointees chosen by the president in conjunction with his Presidential Personnel Office. But, unlike these appointees, the bureaucrats maintain their employment across presidential administrations — even those they may be hostile towards. The executive order, which Trump signed but which could not be fully implemented before he left office, would remove civil service protections from those bureaucrats, who some say are excessively difficult to fire. It is only one of the ways that Trump could potentially ensure that the executive agencies comply with his policies, however. As president, Trump will also be able to work with Congress to rescind funding from agencies he deems bloated or insolent, offering him another lever to use against bureaucrats who he believes may undermine his agenda. The impending effort from the incoming Trump administration has reportedly already sent shockwaves throughout the administrative state. “I would say there is a general feeling of dread among everyone,” one bureaucrat said. “We are absolutely having conversations among ourselves about whether we can stomach a round two.”​​

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It’s been less than two weeks since former President Donald Trump vanquished Vice President Kamala Harris, setting the stage for his return to the White House in January. Yet even though their preferred candidate lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College, the liberal media are already taking swipes at Trump’s initial Cabinet picks, an early indication that the press plans to hound the new President’s every move. And if you’re feeling a little deja vu, it’s because we saw the exact same thing eight years ago, after Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016. As NewsBusters carefully documented at the time, liberal reporters and commentators savaged Trump’s first group of appointees as “radical” and “racist” “ignoramuses” who “disdain the missions of their assigned agencies.” One of Trump’s first selections in 2016 was campaign guru Steve Bannon as a top White House advisor. The media were displeased. On the November 14, 2016 World News Tonight, ABC’s Tom Llamas blasted Bannon as “a champion of the alt-right, a conservative movement many say is fueled by racism, sexism and anti-Semitism.” Over on NBC, anchor Lester Holt accused Trump of “lifting a man with ties to white nationalists into the heart of the White House.” “There is nothing to laugh about when the President-elect has picked a white supremacist with ties to terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan to be his senior advisor,” The Root’s Jason Johnson seethed on CNN’s Newsroom. “People need to be concerned, and people need to push back against this kind of presidency.” Liberal journalists didn’t much care for his choice for National Security Advisor either, branding Lt. General Michael Flynn as “divisive,” “controversial” and “ignorant.” On NBC’s Today, Steve Kornacki warned: “To call this divisive might be understating the case.” “Look, Michael Flynn — General Flynn — has made fair criticisms of how this administration dealt with the rising threat that became ISIS,” former NBC host David Gregory allowed on CNN’s New Day. “But then, you jump the shark into this kind of Islamophobia — to indict — to say that Islam is a political ideology — what he has said — and not a religion; to indict four billion Muslims around the globe — I mean, that’s just short-sighted, ignorant thinking.” The reception was just as chilly for Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, tapped to be Attorney General. “Trump Atty General Pick Dogged by Racism Allegations,” screamed CNN’s on-screen graphic on November 18. “He referred to organizations like the NAACP and some other civil rights groups as being, quote, ‘un-American and Communist-inspired,’” NBC’s Peter Alexander fretted during a live update on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, November 18. On NBC’s Sunday Today (November 20), Bloomberg’s John Heilemann complained: “There are millions and millions of non-white Americans, who are looking at the group, not because it’s so white, but also because if you take those people together — Bannon, Flynn and Sessions — all three of them have a history of being involved at a minimum racially insensitive endeavors. Having said racially insensitive things, and to some people worse than that....That’s a hardline group, on immigration, on foreign policy, on politics....that’s an ideological group and that’s a hardline group.” Over on Fox News Sunday, liberal commentator Juan Williams took his own shot: “You have people who I would say don’t fit into exactly a team of rivals, but to many people a team of radicals.” The next morning, Heilemann popped up on CBS This Morning to hit the race theme again: “It is a very monochromatic group....I think it would be a smart thing for the Trump team to move to get some diversity, in order to, kind of, reassure the many millions of Americans who are a little worried.” After a Thanksgiving respite, Trump’s selections — and the media’s tart takes — resumed. On November 29, CBS’s Norah O’Donnell blasted the choice of Representative Tom Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services: “Donald Trump makes more cabinet picks, including the man who intends to blow up ObamaCare.” Millionaire reporters acted as if wealth was disqualifying. “Trump campaigned against Wall Street and he also said he was going to drain the swamp, yet he’s filling his cabinet with billionaires, millionaires, and some Washington insiders,” ABC correspondent Tom Llamas scoffed on Good Morning America, December 1. “You know, before the election was over, before election night and right after, I described the Trump group as a pirate ship. Well, some of these nominees it looks like it’s a pirate yacht,” political analyst Matthew Dowd quipped on the same program. “Mr. Trump’s choice of [Steve] Mnuchin for Treasury and billionaire businessman Wilbur Ross for Commerce signals a turning away from candidate Trump’s attacks on Wall Street corruption,” correspondent Major Garrett echoed on CBS This Morning. Liberal reporters didn’t just resist Trump’s picks on television and in print; they also took their insults to Twitter. “Ben Carson may not know housing policy or how to run an agency but he's a world-class scammer,” New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait tweeted December 5, after the neurosurgeon and former GOP presidential candidate was picked to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development. “Yet another calamity — contemptuous choice for critical dept. Wonder if Carson would like a housing expert to perform brain surgery on him,” sneered New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman in his own tweets the same day. “Trump choice of Carson will spell calamity for poor but not just poor. It betrays utter ignorance about cities and economic development.” The media also had an icy reception for Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, tapped to head the Environmental Protection Agency. “The President-elect filled more administration posts today, putting a global warming skeptic in charge of protecting the environment,” CBS’s Scott Pelley fumed on December 7. Reporter Nancy Cordes offered her own slam: “The Sierra Club said today, ‘Having Scott Pruitt in charge of the EPA is like putting an arsonist in charge of fighting fires.’” The next morning, Today co-host Matt Lauer teased the Pruitt story: “Environmental disaster? Controversy sparked by President-elect Trump’s pick to run the EPA....His position on climate change putting a dark cloud over his nomination.” On CNN’s New Day, host Chris Cuomo launched the sleaziest attack: “He’s [Scott Pruitt] not accepting the science....Either you accept the science or you don’t....People thought the world was flat....People thought blacks and whites shouldn’t marry. People thought blacks shouldn’t be equal. That doesn’t mean you accept it as fact....” “Fast-food billionaire Andrew Puzder is Trump’s pick for Labor Secretary, and another potentially problematic confirmation. The CEO of Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s, Puzder said raising the federal minimum wage means cutting jobs,” NBC’s Katie Tur derided on that evening’s Nightly News. “Some Democrats called it a war on labor.” On December 13, NBC found fault with Trump’s choice for Secretary of State, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson. On Today, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell derided Tillerson as “a Texas oil man with no government experience and deep ties to Vladimir Putin” and “the first person nominated for Secretary of State in modern history with no public sector experience.” On Nightly News, correspondent Richard Engel reported from Moscow: “The Kremlin couldn’t be happier with the way Trump’s cabinet is shaping up, especially with Rex Tillerson as potential Secretary of State.” “Objectively speaking, we’ve never had an administration that’s spewed this kind of open anti-Muslim rhetoric, starting at the top with Donald Trump,” The Daily Beast’s Dean Obeidallah worried on CNN’s New Day on December 9. “He’s building a dream team of anti-Muslim hate there.” “I wish I could say that Ben Carson was the only person who didn’t have experience in his area,” the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin mocked on MSNBC’s AM Joy December 11. “What we have are ignoramuses, billionaires and a few generals....This is pretty frightful stuff. You have loads of people who have never been in government who don’t understand the difference between business and government.” Slate’s Chief Political Correspondent and CBS contributor Jamelle Bouie wrote a scathing piece bashing Trump’s Cabinet selections. “To run the government, he has picked men and women who disdain the missions of their assigned agencies, oppose public goods, or conflate their own interests with that of the public,” Bouie opined. “And as a cadre of tycoons, billionaires, and generals, Trump’s executive branch is a rebuke to the idea that government needs expertise in governing,” Bouie continued. “It’s the antimatter cabinet — an ungovernment brought forth by reactionary hostility to the idea of the public, a throwback to the industrial oligarchy that eventually brought American democracy to its knees....These appointments look like something beyond an expression of hostility to government: They look like a betrayal.” The New York Times elevated that same hostile message to its front page on December 18. “Seven men and one woman named by Mr. Trump to run vast government agencies share a common trait: once they are confirmed, their presence is meant to unnerve — and maybe even outright undermine — the bureaucracies they are about to lead. Some of those chosen — 17 picks so far for federal agencies and five for the White House — are among the most radical selections in recent history,” asserted correspondent Michael Schear. You can hear more than echoes of the media’s 2016 temper tantrums in their reactions to Trump’s 2024 Cabinet picks. It suggests we’re in for another four years of hyper-drama, with the media elite once again engaged in daily fistfights with a White House aiming to bust up the old establishment’s grip on power. For more examples from our flashback series, which we call the NewsBusters Time Machine, go here.