I might as well start the inevitable Dr. Oz thread.
At least he is an actual M.D., unlike the proposed head of Health & Human Services. (What am I saying?! I saw his daytime show a few times. And if he quacks like a duck and ducks like a quack, he’s a quack.)
Is Trump picking his team based purely on what he sees on TV?
Will we see David Duchovny leading the FBI? Patrick Stewart at NASA? Cookie monster running the FDA?
Make it so. 
I’m holding out for Gilbert Gottfried as White House Communications Director and Don Draper for Foreign Affairs Specialist.
(Yes, the latter is an actual State Department job title.)
I heard that Jimmy Kimmel is going to be named Ambassador to Antarctica. And Judge Judy is said to be his next Supreme Court pick. (And if Martha Stewart doesn’t want Secretary of the Interior, I would suggest Sam Elliot. He could do some great voiceovers for public service announcements about why “Drill baby drill” is consistent with the traditions of the old west.)
In some ways I feel a bit of relief that Dr. Oz was named to head Medicare—because based on the campaign speeches I thought sure it was going to be Hannibal Lecter.
The argument in favor of Lecter running Medicare was that he would reduce Medicare costs by reducing the number of old people. One at a time.
This is not a joke. I just now saw it in the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/11/19/trump-education-secretary-linda-mcmahon/
Yes, that’s Vince McMahon’s wife of WWE wrestling fame and a TV celebrity in her own right. And another very big donor.
But won’t the position be short-lived? Didn’t Trump promise to shut down the Department of Education?
I suppose next we will hear that Simon Cowell has been appointed Director of the National Endowment for the Arts. (I suppose that’s a better choice than Brittany Spears.)
Britney.
I find it helps to remember that “Britney Spears” is an anagram of “Presbyterians”.
It’s a pity Tony Hart isn’t still around - I’d support him for the role. I wonder if Morph is still available…?
Gilbert Gottfried died a couple of years ago, and is still more qualified than what we are getting. 
Exactly. A man who likes to dote on a fictional criminal like Hannibal Lecter would have no hesitation appointing a dead comedian.
Besides, if Trump held a press conference as President and didn’t want to answer a question, he could simply say, “Take that up with the White House Communications Director.”
I have been imagining Dr. Oz in a press conference and every time he starts to answer a question, you hear the distinctive Gilbert Gottfried AFLAC Duck say, “Big Quack!!!”
Apppointing a dead guy could actually be a very good thing.
Dead guys have been known to win elections. Mel Carnahan is the best known, but there have been others.
Just putting this here:
Some of those appointees should be more Pennywise than Bozo.
At least Gaetz just withdrew from consideration as AG! This is a win, if a small one 
Well, at least one of them has already been expelled from the clown car.
Yes. It just goes to show that even clowns have standards.
I must admit, I’m having difficulty seeing the difference between the AI’s interpretation of ‘normal clowns’ and ‘evil clowns’.
I’m not sure if that tells us something about AIs … or about clowns. 
I’ve never seen the “It” movie with the evil clown, but some of these clowns have “eye marks” and general features like the “It” clown.
Without the “It” movie, I don’t think there would be a general pattern for “evil clown”----other than the old photos of John Wayne Gacy.
Actually, the eye marks more closely resemble Tim Curry’s Pennywise from the older miniseries (top). This interpretation is closer to a generic clown, and the ‘evil’ seems to mostly come from Curry’s facial expressions in some scenes.
The bottom is from the more recent miniseries, and these different eye marks are more overtly ‘evil’.
That standard being: “If you have a habit of paying underage girls to have sex with you, try your best to at least keep it out of the media.”
Very high standards…
