Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr with no Naval experience

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SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr https://www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trump-replaces-admiral-office-naval-research-rothenhaus-riley-doge

THE EXPERIENCED HEAD OF A CRITICAL OFFICE that helps organize important technical research and disburse billions of dollars in funding for the U.S. Navy is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience.

Rear Admiral Kurt Rothenhaus was recently removed from his post as chief of naval research, the top post at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and replaced by Rachel Riley, a former partner at McKinsey & Company and Rhodes Scholar recipient who has been serving since January in a DOGE-related roles inside the Trump administration.

The move, which was described to us by two officials familiar with the matter, was confirmed by both the administration and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

“Usually the head of Naval Research is a very senior member of the military or the senior executive service with an extensive experience in technology, science, engineering,” Kelly, a former naval aviator and NASA astronaut, said in a brief interview. “That’s the kind of person we put in that job. So I think it’ll be important to see—and I don’t have a lot of information on this nominee’s background—but I do know it’s somebody rather junior who came from the world of DOGE.”

[Beaverhausen]

1. Mark Kelly is the king of understatement

WTF???

[uponit7771]

2. Yep, we're going to war or worse

[erronis]

7. Makes me think of the fungus that infects the bodies of the warrior insects

Slip those young innocent looking parasites into the organization and watch them eviscerate the host.

Good job, putin - and your fascist buddies in the US: bezos, thiel, musk, murdoch, etc.

[Paladin]

3. One thing about trump: he's consistent.

And that is no compliment...

[pat_k]

4. All part of the great transfer of treasury dollars into NVIDIA, Open AI, etc , to further prop up...

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... the "magnificent 10," and enable circular, incestuous deals that massively, and artificially, inflate values. With the obscene and destructive concentration of wealth in the top 0.1 percent, and the immoral, destabilizing level of concentration of wealth in the hands of the top 10%-0.9%, our economy is incredibly fragile. Similarly, such concentration in the market creates a house of cards that can, and undoubtedly will, collapse at some point.

The top 10 percent account for 50% of consumer spending. And if the market drops even just 10%, those people get nervous. Unlike the rest of us, who can't cut spending very much because what we spend overwhelmingly goes to essentials, when the top 10% get nervous, they can cut their spending by 20, 30, 40, or even 50% overnight, triggering a recession.

More on how fragile America's concentration of wealth, coupled with its "all in" bet on AI makes our economy here:

No Mercy No Malice @profgalloway
Scott Galloway
How Does the End Begin
https://www.profgalloway.com/how-does-the-end-begin/

The top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 account for 40% of the index’s market cap. Since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, AI-related stocks have registered 75% of S&P 500 returns, 80% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending growth. Meanwhile, AI investments accounted for nearly 92% of the U.S. GDP growth this year. Without those AI investments, Harvard economist Jason Furman noted, growth would be flat

[angrychair]

5. We are completely fucked

This is, I truly believe, only the part of iceberg we can see.

[pfitz59]

6. She will be lost on technical matters

and the military will suffer. All those scientists and engineers she now 'owns' will give her short shrift.

[Fil1957]

8. Well at least it wasn't "Big Balls"