Trump Staff Picks, Co-Conspirators and the Revolving Door of Departures

[Kabluey]

You know better. I say what i mean.

Dancing on the brink of a ban, usually.

 

[KaraBulut]

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^ But all of his trailer dwelling, knuckle dragging, poorly educated supporters from Bumfuck, Pennsyltucky are chubbing up thinking that TrumpCo. is going to share the pie.

Well, those poorly educated supporters are fickle. They will be the first to turn on him when they realize that nothing will change.

Even more concerning: they're the ones with the guns.

The voters that put Trump over the top are the perpetually angry voters who long for "the good old days" when every straight white man had a great job for life if he wanted it. And everyone else knew their place.

Those voters still believe that the good jobs are going to come back and that they're going to be restored to their positions of power over all of the women and minorities that they perceive are the cause of their downward momentum. Every 4 years, they look for a messiah who makes a lot of promises.

Time will tell whether anything will get better for them but given the proposed cabinet, it's not the middle class or poor that will benefit. Even more concerning, except for the women nominees, none of these guys have actually run a government and their boss doesn't have the experience, either.

Or maybe those nominees learned something while attending those $250,000 speeches that Hillary gave when they worked at places like Goldman Sachs?

Too bad you can't say what you would really like to say..eh?

And a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, an alma mater of Occidental College, Columbia, magna cum laude of Harvard University Law School and teacher of constitutional law at Chicago University.

I'll say it: he was Black and a Democrat. It's amazing he survived 8 years and it's amazing that he was able to accomplish anything given the rhetoric and the machinations that started in the very first week of his term.

 

[DantheManFL]

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And a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, an alma mater of Occidental College, Columbia, magna cum laude of Harvard University Law School and teacher of constitutional law at Chicago University.

But ignorant fucks don't care about any of that.

Much better a clown who inherited so much wealth he's poorer at age 70 than he was at the time of his inheritance.

Of course Ben's dislike of Obama has nothing to do with race, but he does use the talking points that everyone else who dresses hatred in PC does.

Plus, he was elected as an Illinois Senator in 1996, then a US Senator in 2004. Can't leave out the government experience.

 

[Benvolio]

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Plus, he was elected as an Illinois Senator in 1996, then a US Senator in 2004. Can't leave out the government experience.

He spent his time as senator running for president; introduced no bills of his own; blindly voted the party line.

 

[star-warrior]

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Holy moly. Just because she can handle a rifle doesn't mean she's qualified for this.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11...p-eyes-sarah-palin-head-veterans-affairs.html

Palin would be an unmitigated disaster, but she would fit the pattern of many Trump nominees. Donald Trump has embraced a philosophy of do the most harm with most of his cabinet selections. Trump selected an opponent of public education to run the Education Department. He chose a man who wants to cut Medicare and Social Security to head up HHS, and he nominated a Senator to serve as Attorney General who has made a career of out of undermining rights and civil liberties of minorities.

 

[DantheManFL]

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He spent his time as senator running for president; introduced no bills of his own; blindly voted the party line.

Read - learn.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/7/547838/-

 

[KaraBulut]

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Read - learn.

If only.

It's probably a good time to mention that the topic is "Trump Staff Picks" not re-adjudicating the term of the outgoing President. (Psst: those posts [that I won't quote since so many members have him on ignore] are bait for a derail. Beware of the bait.)

 

[nycguydowntown]

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I thinks it's great that all the hillbillies that believed he was against Goldman Sacs and all the speeches that Hillary gave and is in the pocket of Goldman now appoints a huge casino capitalist to be head of Treasury. For those of you who thought he'd appoint Bernie to take charge of banking---guess not. He's got the biggest bunch of billionaires and lobbyists lol---this should be fun to watch.

 

[Kabluey]

I thinks it's great that all the hillbillies that believed he was against Goldman Sacs and all the speeches that Hillary gave and is in the pocket of Goldman now appoints a huge casino capitalist to be head of Treasury. For those of you who thought he'd appoint Bernie to take charge of banking---guess not. He's got the biggest bunch of billionaires and lobbyists lol---this should be fun to watch.

Funnily enough, billionaires and their buddies will probably do okay under Trump... relatively speaking while the rest of the country burns, that is.

 

[nycguydowntown]

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Funnily enough, billionaires and their buddies will probably do okay under Trump... relatively speaking while the rest of the country burns, that is.

That's been the history or repub presidents---people have done better under Democrats but trump was suppose to be different than other repubs---30 years of trickle down making rich richer poor poorer----but we'll see what he produces besides wealth for him and his family.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Funnily enough, billionaires and their buddies will probably do okay under Trump... relatively speaking while the rest of the country burns, that is.

Of course. Trump will accelerate the transfer of wealth upward on the economic ladder, thus weakening the nation even more than it has since Reagan.

 

[rareboy]

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"We are going to appoint 'Mad Dog' Mattis as our secretary of defence,"

And so Trump announces the appointment of James Mattis as Secretary of Defense.

However, a legal hurdle must be overcome before he can be appointed.
Under US law, a retired officer must be out of uniform for at least seven years before he or she can serve as defence secretary.
Republican-controlled Congress will have to approve legislation bypassing the requirement so he can take up the role.

Anyone think he'll have any trouble with this?

I don't.

You can hear the GOP rolling over right now.

 

[KaraBulut]

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Anyone think he'll have any trouble with this?

I don't.

You can hear the GOP rolling over right now.

There's 4 generals or former generals that have been proposed for the cabinet: Petraeus, Kelly, Flynn and Mattis. Also mentioned have been Michael Rogers an admiral who is still on active duty and retired generals Jack Keane and Stanley McChrystal. McChrystal (aka the "Runaway General") was relieved of duty in 2010 by President Obama for comments that he made in a Rolling Stone article.

If he doesn't select Flynn for Homeland Security, his alternate choice is David Clarke, another job-dropping choice (4 things you need to know about Sheriff David Clarke). Clarke has no direct national security experience. One of the other choices for the job is Frances Townsend who has about 4 years of prior experience as a national security advisor to George W Bush. Considering the previous pattern, my money is on Clarke. All he needs is a $1 billion or so in the bank to make him the most qualified candidate.

 

[Sausy]

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Another bad pick.... Ben Carson appears to be Trump's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. But then again, being that Trump really doesn't give a horse's patootie for either part of the job description, why the hell not?

 

[mikemizanin729]

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https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....Business-Administration-cabinet-president/amp

I am happy for Linda McMahon. The McMahon family are all great people especially Vince.

 

[KaraBulut]

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...I am happy for Linda McMahon. The McMahon family are all great people especially Vince.

 

[Benvolio]

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Now, now, don't be depressed karabulut. You may feel miserable now, but it will pass.

 

[mikemizanin729]

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Now, now, don't be depressed karabulut. You may feel miserable now, but it will pass.

I'm certainly not miserable. I'm nothing but thrilled that she got this job. She worked damn hard.

 

[Kabluey]

Another bad pick.... Ben Carson appears to be Trump's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. But then again, being that Trump really doesn't give a horse's patootie for either part of the job description, why the hell not?

Would have thought the doctor might have had something to do with medicine.

Guess SNL had it right with Trump fixating on African American = 'urban issues'

 

[eastofeden]

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The entire cabinet and all of his choices is sizing up to be a perfect reflection of the man who appointed them....