I mean what other options are there? I could keep panicking, but I still have a day job.
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Trump, Pence meeting in New York on Cabinet picks
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I mean what other options are there? I could keep panicking, but I still have a day job.
Netherscourge
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He's busy tweeting in NYC
Ah, good to have Agent Orange back on Twitter regularly.
Can't wait for some more SAD! comments from him.
Giuliani is Secretary of the Hook
http://www.clickhole.com/article/shaking-washington-donald-trump-just-appointed-clo-5152
Angelus Errare
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Likewise I wouldn't vote for any candidate who has basically said racist insulting things about everyone not white.
Mister Zimbu
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We're getting attorney general Joe Arpaio aren't we
As long as it isn't Pam Bondi. While on one hand I'd love her out of my state, I couldn't imagine what harm she'd bring to the national front.
RPGCrazied
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You will get a war with Bolton. You know that right?
Look, I've resigned myself to getting some kind of war with President Elect Trumpster Fire in any event. I might as well get a war by someone who can make up "legitimate" reasons for the war than someone who blindly blunders into it!
But Hillary!
theignoramus
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Jeff Sessions, Attorney General candidate: Waged a war against Black civil rights activists in Alabama, thinks civil rights legislation was "intrusive" & called Whites who supported it "race traitors." Said he thought the Klan "wasnt so bad" until he found out some Klansmen he knew smoked marijuana. During the Reagan years, he failed his confirmation hearing for a bench as a Federal judge, because of unrepentant, racially charged remarks.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, possible Head of Homeland Security: "America's toughest Sheriff"- Openly supports racial profiling, proudly makes life a living hell for his prisoners. An original Birther, who, as of September, was still on the case for Obama's "real" birth certificate
Sheriff David "tell it like it is" Clarke, possible Head of Homeland Security: Compares BLM to ISIS and other Islamic terror groups & branded it a collections of thugs & lawbreakers out to destroy America. Thinks "police brutality ended in the 1960s", though he himself faces questions over a Black prisoner who died in his custody, having been deprived of food & water.
Mayor Guiliani: Thinks "Black people get shot police because they arent raising their kids to respect cops" & that he's "saved more Black lives" than any mayor in America, due to a campaign of aggressive, discriminatory policing he presided over in 90s New York.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, possible Head of Homeland Security: "America's toughest Sheriff"- Openly supports racial profiling, proudly makes life a living hell for his prisoners. An original Birther, who, as of September, was still on the case for Obama's "real" birth certificate
Sheriff David "tell it like it is" Clarke, possible Head of Homeland Security: Compares BLM to ISIS and other Islamic terror groups & branded it a collections of thugs & lawbreakers out to destroy America. Thinks "police brutality ended in the 1960s", though he himself faces questions over a Black prisoner who died in his custody, having been deprived of food & water.
Mayor Guiliani: Thinks "Black people get shot police because they arent raising their kids to respect cops" & that he's "saved more Black lives" than any mayor in America, due to a campaign of aggressive, discriminatory policing he presided over in 90s New York.
Netherscourge
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Interesting tidbit from the WAPO on why Christie is no longer doing the transition team:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...1b2f40-ab2f-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html
Talkingpointsmemo.com focused on a pretty scary part of the that article::
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/here-s-how-bad-it-is
So, Trump's son-in-law and now Presidential adviser looking for Top Secret clearance, who's father is a convicted criminal, is getting revenge against the man, Chris Christie, who put him in jail.
Nepotism 101
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...1b2f40-ab2f-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html
Talkingpointsmemo.com focused on a pretty scary part of the that article::
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/here-s-how-bad-it-is
So, Trump's son-in-law and now Presidential adviser looking for Top Secret clearance, who's father is a convicted criminal, is getting revenge against the man, Chris Christie, who put him in jail.
Nepotism 101
I never thought I'd pine for Christie to have more influence, but here we are. He's a prick, but he at least understands how non-insane government works and limits his retaliation to subtle shit.
The number of people being pushed out by that purge seems to grow - I had seen two earlier today then just Christie at first. Guess the Trumps married into 'petty and vindictive' in addition to being born into it.
It really is getting to the point that the EC doing their actual jobs and dropping the unqualified/dangerous person, even at the risk of a crisis, could be preferable to this. I could only see that happening if Trump has a straight up public mental breakdown between now and when the EC votes, but I'm praying for that now. And I'm an atheist.
On one slightly optimistic note, I don't expect Arpaio or Clarke to get those positions. While I'm sure they're 'in the mix', there are a few somewhat sane (if outlandishly dickish) people near Trump who'd see them more as a liability than a benefit - particularly the rather senile Arpaio.
The number of people being pushed out by that purge seems to grow - I had seen two earlier today then just Christie at first. Guess the Trumps married into 'petty and vindictive' in addition to being born into it.
It really is getting to the point that the EC doing their actual jobs and dropping the unqualified/dangerous person, even at the risk of a crisis, could be preferable to this. I could only see that happening if Trump has a straight up public mental breakdown between now and when the EC votes, but I'm praying for that now. And I'm an atheist.
On one slightly optimistic note, I don't expect Arpaio or Clarke to get those positions. While I'm sure they're 'in the mix', there are a few somewhat sane (if outlandishly dickish) people near Trump who'd see them more as a liability than a benefit - particularly the rather senile Arpaio.
theignoramus
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Ive read on Weekly Standard that Mike Rogers was jettisoned because of the report he wrote on the Benghazi embassy attack and how it flew in the face of this conspiracy theory that Hillary's state department ordered embassy staff to "stand down"
TharpDaddy
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No idea if they're reputable, but according to Circa, Ben Carson declined a cabinet position
http://circa.com/politics/governmen...net-as-secretary-of-health-and-human-services
http://circa.com/politics/governmen...net-as-secretary-of-health-and-human-services
superdeluxe
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Uhh..if the choice is between Giulanni and Bolton for SEcState, Bolton would be preferred
superdeluxe
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Pretty much this.
....ffffffffuuuuuuuuucccccckkkkk. Life is about to get very very bad for us minorities
PepsimanVsJoe
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Wouldn't be surprised if it's true.
All signs point to this cabinet being a shitfest that's going to tank political careers.
DRAIN THE SWAP BRUH
About what I expected and just wanted Middle America wanted.
Ether_Snake
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It doesn't matter to Trump's electorate that he would hire establishment folks. The reasoning is that it's fine as long as Trump is in charge. That's why Trump can get away with anything; people desperately want corruption and lobbyists out of congress, and they think Trump can deliver on that, not based on who works for him, simply based on him being the boss. It is the single issue on which he absolutely has to deliver, and it's the one that is most likely to lead him into a confrontation with congress and his own party if he actually tries to.
My guess is that this will turn out to be his Achilles's heel: he'll need their expertise too much to challenge them and will just ride it out hoping to win in 2018 in a semblance of success, somehow. Problem is it's very doubtful that the Democrats will try to capitalize on his lack of serious action against corruption and lobbyists since they did very little about that in the past, unless the party is reshaped according to Sanders and Warren's ideals, which is extremely unlikely, and even if it was it might bring some people back while pushing others out, so it's quite a gamble.
My guess is that this will turn out to be his Achilles's heel: he'll need their expertise too much to challenge them and will just ride it out hoping to win in 2018 in a semblance of success, somehow. Problem is it's very doubtful that the Democrats will try to capitalize on his lack of serious action against corruption and lobbyists since they did very little about that in the past, unless the party is reshaped according to Sanders and Warren's ideals, which is extremely unlikely, and even if it was it might bring some people back while pushing others out, so it's quite a gamble.
theignoramus
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Jennifer Jacobs, National Reporter for Bloomberg Politics: Trump is discussing TED CRUZ for AG.
Could be a reach, but oh my if its true.
Could be a reach, but oh my if its true.
Abinash117
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All these names being floated just goes to show they have no one.
What a world
TheSadRanger
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I wonder which of the cabinet finalists will win a BRAND NEW CAR!?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/798721142525665280
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/798721142525665280
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