Linda McMahon expected to be named Education secretary, sources say

[TheProle]

Trump transition co-chair Linda McMahon is expected to be named as secretary of the Department of Education, four sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

The decision took shape after it became clear that McMahon would be passed over for Commerce secretary. President-elect Donald Trump named his other transition co-chair Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department earlier Tuesday after the Cantor Fitzgerald CEO had thrown his name into the mix for Treasury secretary, sparking a battle with hedge fund manager Scott Bessent.

McMahon served as the administrator of the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term. She was appointed in 2017 and resigned in 2019 to become the chair of America First Action, a pro-Trump super PAC.

She is the board chair of the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump think tank that was formed in 2021 by McMahon, Larry Kudlow and other advisers from the first Trump administration.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/politics/linda-mcmahon-education-secretary-trump/index.html

[City Lights]

1. We're getting a czar for a department that will be eliminated?

That seems wasteful. Maybe the Musk boy and his buddy can look into this.

[Prairie Gates]

8. It's her job to dismantle it

[City Lights]

17. Oh ok. I thought maybe the Musk boy and his helper

would just eliminate it outright.

[Bread and Circuses]

2. bread and circuses..... that's what they're giving the peasants

TV personalities, TV doctors, and now wrestling elite.

Send in the clowns! 🤡

[TheProle]

5. panem et circenses

feed the belly
dazzle the eye

quell the anger
snuff the cry

make the people
forget they die

hide the truth
and spread the lie

take the land
and sell the sky

tell them how
but never why

feed the belly
dazzle the eye

[jfz9580m]

15. That is kinda cool

Where is that from?
Can’t find it. If it’s your own .

[TheProle]

19. Thank you for the kind comment

[jfz9580m]

20. It is a neat piece :)

I am taking a break from DU/net, but logged back on just to copy it to show it to someone who would appreciate it. It is very apt.

[UTUSN]

3. Another perfect match!1

[Johonny]

4. Better than say, Dennis Prager

[TheProle]

6. He'll need him for the Supreme Court

[BeyondGeography]

7. More trolling

What a card.

[Bookreadingliberal53]

9. She and her husband are garbage nt

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna176988

[Elessar Zappa]

10. I wouldn't doubt him finding a place in his administration from Vince McMahon either.

[Freethinker65]

11. DeVos redux

Thought Musk is axing the entire department anyway... or is the intent to steal the money and funnel it back into Trump's personal coffers...perhaps buying Trump Bibles for required curriculum and required uniforms designed and made in China by Ivanka?

[mzmolly]

12. Another person tied to child sex abuse?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vince-mcmahon-wwe-accused-allowing-rampant-sexual-exploitation-young-b-rcna176988

[Kid Berwyn]

18. Ring Boy Sex Abuse

She shouldn’t be anywhere near a school.

[carpetbagger]

13. My phone texts say it all...

girlfriend, a public school teacher: "Are you serious? I thought the puppy killer was going to do that."
me: "The puppy killer will run Homeland Security."
girlfriend "Oh yeah, that's right"

Said girlfriend is a Baptist who said we're going to Canada if she has to teach Bible lessons in school.

[sakabatou]

14. Again, Idiocrasy was not supposed to be a how-to guide

[Volaris]

16. The catch-22 being that most republicans are too idiotic to understand satire.