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

[Kulindahr]

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So even though Melania's plagiarism is okey dokey...apparently it is a no go for Monica Crowley who gets shunted off to Billy Bush like infamy and career failure now that she's withdrawn from the rat pack list of staff picks.





https://www.yahoo.com/news/inaugura...nues-twitter-assault-084748177--election.html

Gotta love it.

I always told students the reason I gave an automatic F to a paper with plagiarism was simple: it's nicer than what plagiarizing (and getting caught) in real life is likely to hand you.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Perry got a "D" in trigonometry? Back when I took trig (mid 70's), I got an "A" for both semesters and was excused from final exams due to averaging a 93 for one semester and a 92 for the second Of course, that may have been because I needed trig in my architecture major; something, obviously, Perry didn't need for his animal sciences

I got As in trig 'cause I thought it was fun -- not as much fun as geometry, but still fun.

I have to wonder if Perry was just dim or if he got As in drinking and partying.

 

[rareboy]

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[eastofeden]

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Thanks for posting..hadn't seen this one yet.

I have been very happy and proud of the Democrats throughout this process..every one of them.

They are accurately expressing my own concerns......

I am waiting for some ethical Republicans to find their voice. Marco Rubio did it...

Orangeman said he wanted to be a President for all Americans. His choices reflect exactly the opposite with a few exceptions. They are shockingly unfit for the position....

 

[Benvolio]

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Anybody will be better for workers than Obama. That is part of the reason the voters supported the GOP.

 

[KaraBulut]

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The final certified election results: Clinton: 65,844,954 (48.2%) / Trump: 62,979,879 (46.1%),

His choices reflect exactly the opposite with a few exceptions.

The cabinet choices have Pence's fingerprints all over them. The nominees for departments that conservatives despise are woefully underqualified and in some cases, inept. Fortunately, there are a few good (and non-billionaire) apples in the basket.

 

[Kabluey]

Anybody will be better for workers than Obama. That is part of the reason the voters supported the GOP.

Except that unemployment decreased back to what Republicans were calling boom levels once the mess caused by GW was cleaned up.

Having the rich determine the fate of the average person hasn't historically worked out so well.

 

[eastofeden]

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The cabinet choices have Pence's fingerprints all over them. The nominees for departments that conservatives despise are woefully underqualified and in some cases, inept. Fortunately, there are a few good (and non-billionaire) apples in the basket.

...and this has been my nightmare since he announced Pence...Cheney part two....and Pence is potentially far worse than Cheney IMO. These choices for the most part are nightmarish...insane...

Trump is woefully unqualified.....the emperor isn't wearing any clothes....a quick look at orangeman and the big picture should make that clear....

I think we have President Pence and Vice President "Transition Team".....and we are so screwed....

 

[Kulindahr]

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Anybody will be better for workers than Obama. That is part of the reason the voters supported the GOP.

If the Democrats had picked a sensible choice (instead of the most distrusted presidential candidate in history), Trump would have lost about 65% to 25% in the popular vote, and would have been lucky to win a single state. A large portion of those who voted for him did so holding their noses because they'd rather go with the least liked presidential candidate in history than the least trusted.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Thanks for posting..hadn't seen this one yet.

I have been very happy and proud of the Democrats throughout this process..every one of them.

They are accurately expressing my own concerns......

I am waiting for some ethical Republicans to find their voice. Marco Rubio did it...

Orangeman said he wanted to be a President for all Americans. His choices reflect exactly the opposite with a few exceptions. They are shockingly unfit for the position....

I've been impressed by the parts I've watched. They are systematically demonstrating that whatever Trump has said, measuring by his cabinet picks he has no ability to represent all Americans.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Anybody will be better for workers than Obama. That is part of the reason the voters supported the GOP.

This sounds so much like a senile old lady clutching at her rosary in the belief it will make sense of the world.

Maybe if you stopped chanting right-wing incantations for a while, you might see the real world. You'd find that the lies about Obama aren't needed; there's plenty wrong with his presidency without demonstrating your lack of connection with the real world by making crap up.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Except that unemployment decreased back to what Republicans were calling boom levels once the mess caused by GW was cleaned up.

Having the rich determine the fate of the average person hasn't historically worked out so well.

And that while the GOP blocked legislation that would have provided another four million jobs during Obama's send term and another four million over the next couple of years.

 

[Benvolio]

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This sounds so much like a senile old lady clutching at her rosary in the belief it will make sense of the world.

Maybe if you stopped chanting right-wing incantations for a while, you might see the real world. You'd find that the lies about Obama aren't needed; there's plenty wrong with his presidency without demonstrating your lack of connection with the real world by making crap up.

So how did workers wages increase versus inflation? How has employment for blacks improved? If you restore employment lost but bring in low wage outsiders to take the jobs, what have US workers gained

 

[Benvolio]

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I've been impressed by the parts I've watched. They are systematically demonstrating that whatever Trump has said, measuring by his cabinet picks he has no ability to represent all Americans.

No one can represent all Americans. We are far too divided, too diverse, too multicultural.

 

[gsdx]

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No one can represent all Americans. We are far too divided, too diverse, too multicultural.

You do things FOR all Americans and not things AGAINST a portion of them.

 

[Benvolio]

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You do things FOR all Americans and not things AGAINST a portion of them.

That is not the same as representing them. To represent a group you must present its viewpoint, opinions and wishes. If you claim to what is best for all, you are necessarily imposing your opinions and wishes, upon many who disagree with you. Moreover all people do not have common interests. What is good for the welfare class is not good for taxpayers who have to pay for it. Republicans believe free enterprise is good for all; democrats believe in total regulation.

 

[gsdx]

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Moreover all people do not have common interests. What is good for the welfare class is not good for taxpayers who have to pay for it. Republicans believe free enterprise is good for all; democrats believe in total regulation.

None of which has ANYthing to do with what we're talking about.

Trump says he's for ALL Americans.

Except for the Muslims who he wants to eliminate fromt he face of the Earth.
Except for the Mexicans who are criminals, rapists, and drug dealers.
Except for the blacks who are responsible for crime-ridden cities.
Except for...

 

[smokeshadow]

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The Donald's transition team has ask a number of Obama appointees to stay in their positions until they have had a chance to fill those slots

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/power-shifts-trumps-team-remains-unprepared-govern

Those people were supposed to have been appointed weeks ago so they could have been vetted by the Senate in time. The whole mess is going to jump up and bite us in the ass

 

[KaraBulut]

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I've been impressed by the parts I've watched. They are systematically demonstrating that whatever Trump has said, measuring by his cabinet picks he has no ability to represent all Americans.

Generally, I find the way that nominees have been treated in the past to be mostly political theater. And some of the nominees have had their reputations dragged through the mud over relatively minor oversights- something that doesn't encourage the best and the brightest to take low-paying government positions that require a lot of work and not a lot of visible reward.

This year, I've been wondering whether the nominees were actually vetted. The Heritage Foundation and Pence seem to be proposing most of the nominees but it doesn't seem like they vetted them (maybe they really didn't think Trump was going to win?).

And even scarier- there's thousands of appointees that haven't even been named. While many of these nominees don't require Senate confirmation, they do require ethics reviews and security clearances- those take weeks to perform. Is there even a functioning government at this point? Does Trump really believe that he can take weekends off when there's so few key positions that have been vetted, appointed and confirmed?

Mr. Trump will be sworn in at noon Eastern time on Friday, but his team was still scrambling to fill key administration posts when he got here on Thursday, announcing last-minute plans to retain 50 essential State Department and national security officials currently working in the Obama administration to ensure “continuity of government,” according to Sean Spicer, the incoming White House press secretary.

As of Thursday, only two of Mr. Trump’s 15 cabinet nominees — John F. Kelly, to head the Department of Homeland Security, and his nominee for defense secretary, Gen. James N. Mattis — had been approved by congressional committees and were close to assuming their posts.

In all, Mr. Trump has named only 29 of his 660 executive department appointments, according to the Partnership for Public Service, which has been tracking the process. That is a pace far slower than recent predecessors...

Source

The Obama administration has written 275 briefing papers for the incoming Trump administration: nearly 1,000 pages of classified material on North Korea’s nuclear program, the military campaign against the Islamic State, tensions in the South China Sea, and every other kind of threat the new team could face in its first weeks in office.

Nobody in the current administration knows whether anyone in the next has read any of it.

Source

 

[rareboy]

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The Donald's transition team has ask a number of Obama appointees to stay in their positions until they have had a chance to fill those slots

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/power-shifts-trumps-team-remains-unprepared-govern

Those people were supposed to have been appointed weeks ago so they could have been vetted by the Senate in time. The whole mess is going to jump up and bite us in the ass

I don't know why any of these people would stay...just in order to be humiliated and treated like trash the moment that TrumpCo. finds their replacement.

from the article...a telling point.

And therein lies the broader point. Trump and his team have known for months they needed to prepare a vast executive-branch team to take the reigns of power this afternoon – and they blew it badly. The Republicans didn’t just ask dozens of Obama appointees to keep going to work because of the officials’ competence; Trump World is also scrambling because it’s desperate.

Trump and his team were supposed to line up a small army of officials, and that simply never happened. The Washington Post is maintaining an online database on executive-branch offices that require Senate confirmation, and there are a total of 690 positions. As of now, Trump has nominated a grand total of 30 people to fill those posts.

They are unfit to take the reins.