Trump's leadership team

[boyst]

back to the cabinet picks...................and in this case, the hysterical reactions

 

Think Progress just cant stand it when corporations succeed. Trumps pick for labor secretary is Hardees/Carls Jr CEO Andrew Puzder whose company is famous for hot chicks eating hamburgers.

Hey, if your marketing plan works and it happens to include hot chicks eating big burgers, who cares?

Apparently Think Progress isnt all that progressive when it comes to beef and babes

Trumps labor secretary pick really likes his companys sexist burger ads

http://thkpr.gs/a1d358043990

 

 

 

 

 

those ladies have terrible posture. The one on the right is terrible Lordes

[B-Man]

CHANGE: FCC chairman to step down, handing GOP majority.

[Joe Miner]

Where is birdog to agree with this?

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-huge-education-level-drop-off-trump-cabinet-picks-article-1.2911859

[Tiberius]

Trump picks pro-settlement ambassador for Israel.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/us/politics/donald-trump-david-friedman-israel-ambassador.html?_r=0

 

 

All part of the "provoke a reaction" strategy. Keep the useful idiots angry and them steal everything

[Simon]

 

It's not an assumption of who you support, but pointing out the lunacy of using terms like national fortune or other feel good metrics that can't be quantified. To me a national fortune is a collective sum of individual fortunes in a country.

I was attempting to use the word "fortunes" in two different ways to point up a difference; that clearly went over like a lead zeppelin.

Anyhoo, I question your chosen example of what constitutes lunacy, To me the lunacy is the regularly cavalier dismissal of anything that can't be quantified and the marginalization of any person or idea which doesn't adhere to the idea that personal enrichment is the central tenet of our nation

 

 

And yes, in a place with rock solid individual and property rights, the zeal for increasing personal fortunes usually leads to a much better outcome for the collective, than trying to mandate some sort of national outcome by stifling the individual gains.

As evidenced by the wonderful condition in which we find our country and culture after 30+ years of naked greed and unchecked self-interest?

 

Spare me that canard, it's nothing more than a way to justify limitless avarice. Just the fact that you even need such a bullshlt rationalization to legitimize that type of self-serving gluttony should be enough in itself to expose the complete lack of virtue in that attitude.

 

And I'm not talking about government mandates as much as I am about personal priorities (although I do think the financial industry is one of about four areas that should be firmly regulated). Over the last several decades this nation has turned away from any sense of civic duty or personal responsibility it may have once had, and it's no coincidence that this attitude shift has coincided with a time where our financial institutions and business leaders have been viewing our economy as a zero sum game which exists for no other purpose than to gather as much as they possibly can unto themselves and do so by any means of which they can contrive. It doesn't make our nation stronger or wiser, it doesn't advance the cause of humanity and it sure as shlt hasn't lead to a better outcome for the collective. The fact that it's about to get worse is very, very bad news; and when the whole thing comes crashing down around our ears at some point down the road, not only are the folks that have been gorging themselves at the trough going to be the ones responsible but you guys that have been bending over backwards trying to justify it are going to be right there beside them. But I'm sure your gangsters won't worry themselves too much over it since it's become clear that being the cause of a problem no longer means you'll bear the responsibility for it's outcome.

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 17, 2016 by B-Man

[Azalin]

CHANGE: FCC chairman to step down, handing GOP majority.

 

It would be very good to see Net Neutrality done away with, especially if it removes the fed's regulatory involvement.

[B-Man]

Trump's Cabinet selections signal a bold shift after Obama

AP News: Dec 17, 2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — Propelled by populist energy, President-elect Donald Trump's candidacy broke long-standing conventions and his incoming Cabinet embodies a sharp turn from the outgoing Obama administration.

 

Trump, a Republican who pledged major changes after eight years of a Democratic White House, has assembled nominees for a Cabinet that includes many business executives who have never served in government, and military leaders are in line to oversee defense and homeland security. In one case, Trump has named someone who once called for dismantling the agency he'd lead.

 

A change of political parties at the White House almost always brings policy adjustments. But Trump's Cabinet expects to carry the outsider flair of his campaign, a role reversal compared with more conventional teams under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama that were heavy on former lawmakers, governors and veterans of past administrations.

 

 

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2016/12/17/trumps-cabinet-selections-signal-a-bold-shift-after-obama-n2260965

[Tiberius]

Trump's Cabinet selections signal a bold shift after Obama

 

 

AP News: Dec 17, 2016

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Propelled by populist energy, President-elect Donald Trump's candidacy broke long-standing conventions and his incoming Cabinet embodies a sharp turn from the outgoing Obama administration.

 

Trump, a Republican who pledged major changes after eight years of a Democratic White House, has assembled nominees for a Cabinet that includes many business executives who have never served in government, and military leaders are in line to oversee defense and homeland security. In one case, Trump has named someone who once called for dismantling the agency he'd lead.

 

A change of political parties at the White House almost always brings policy adjustments. But Trump's Cabinet expects to carry the outsider flair of his campaign, a role reversal compared with more conventional teams under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama that were heavy on former lawmakers, governors and veterans of past administrations.

 

 

 

 

 

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2016/12/17/trumps-cabinet-selections-signal-a-bold-shift-after-obama-n2260965

Populism? His cabinet is full of plutocrats and globalist. You people are so easily fooled

[B-Man]

Right now, conservatives need not worry much about why Trump has appointed such a conservative Cabinet. The point is that he’s appointed one, and that it likely will help the GOP reverse the statist, hyper-liberal course President Obama has charted and imposed.

 

 

Steven Pearlstein, a liberal columnist for the Washington Post, offers a different explanation:

 

Trump is not a Tea Party Republican. . .To the degree he does have policy instincts, they are more consistent with those of the pro-business New York Democrat he was than the right-wing avatar he pretended to be during the campaign. Most importantly, he has an insatiable need to be liked and respected. .

. .

 

 

Don’t be fooled by Trump’s cabinet appointments. To the key positions — Treasury, State, Defense, chief of staff — he has appointed practical military leaders and business people like himself. The more radical and ideologically driven nominees for Health and Human Services, Education, Labor, Justice and the EPA were made to reassure the Republican right that he really is one of them.

 

We shouldn’t underestimate the damage that these appointees will do over the next four years in dismantling the Obama legacy. But on the issues that rise to presidential attention — immigration, trade, taxes, infrastructure spending — Trump will opt for political expediency over ideological zealotry.

 

There’s precedent for a president operating in something like the manner Pearlstein describes. It is said that Richard Nixon adopted liberal policies on domestic issues — wage and price controls and racial quotas, for example — for the purposes of creating enough political capital to enable him to do what he wanted in foreign policy, his area of preoccupation.

 

 

Trump might similarly be prepared to adopt conservative policies on domestic issues for the purpose of keeping his base and his party happy enough to let him do what he wants on the matters he truly cares about.

 

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/12/why-such-a-conservative-cabinet.php

Edited December 18, 2016 by B-Man

[Tiberius]

Ya, Nixon, interesting comparison...

[B-Man]

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Why They Oppose Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

 

“Groups like the Leadership Conference and American Civil Liberties Union and NAACP are no longer about civil rights. They are about enforcing an orthodoxy of identity politics.

 

Identity politics helps Democrats win elections.

 

The only way Hillary had a hope to win the White House was to ride intense racial polarization among black and Hispanic voters. The groups opposing Jeff Sessions now exist to divide Americans along the skin color lines. . . .

 

They also want to cash out.

 

Leading the opposition to Jeff Sessions is Nancy Zirkin from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. The activists at the Leadership Conference live large on the struggle. The most recent IRS form 990s from this organization show Wade Henderson, the President, raked in $360,080 in compensation.

 

But that’s just the start.”

[B-Man]

THIS IS THE MOST ENTERTAINING PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION I’VE EVER EXPERIENCED.

 

New York Times in Full-Fledged Frothing Freakout Frenzy Over Friedman Pick.

[Tiberius]

Funny, the "Drain the swamp" slogan is no longer in favor with Dear Leader! He is so over that phase of his life, life l!!!

 

His top aide also just opened a lobbying firm next to the White House.

 

Now do you see why the Trump University fraud story was so important? Thanks FBI!

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/21/newt-gingrich-says-trump-is-done-with-drain-the-swamp/?utm_term=.ac4054e35e05

 

 

"That's according to Newt Gingrich, a top ally who told NPR in an interview that aired Wednesday morning that he was instructed not to use the phrase anymore because it has fallen out of favor with Trump.

 

I'm told he now just disclaims that, Gingrich said on Morning Edition. He now says it was cute, but he doesn't want to use it anymore.'

[DC Tom]

Funny, the "Drain the swamp" slogan is no longer in favor with Dear Leader! He is so over that phase of his life, life l!!!

 

His top aide also just opened a lobbying firm next to the White House.

 

Now do you see why the Trump University fraud story was so important? Thanks FBI!

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/21/newt-gingrich-says-trump-is-done-with-drain-the-swamp/?utm_term=.ac4054e35e05

 

 

"That's according to Newt Gingrich, a top ally who told NPR in an interview that aired Wednesday morning that he was instructed not to use the phrase anymore because it has fallen out of favor with Trump.

 

I'm told he now just disclaims that, Gingrich said on Morning Edition. He now says it was cute, but he doesn't want to use it anymore.'

 

[This is an automated response.]

 

You're an idiot.

 

Created by DC Tom-bot, beta version 0.2.

[Keukasmallies]

 

 

 

Did Trump even try to find a cookie-cutter SecDef? So, defense...that's primarily military right, why on earth would he ever pick a military person to be SecDef? Oh, because the defense dep't is primarily military focused. And, since POTUS is the CinC, there's no question that the head of the military in the country will be a civilian, is there? Maybe that's what draining the swamp means?

Do the anti's have only half a brain; must be, they supported the most flawed POTUS candidate in modern times?

 

 

[IDBillzFan]

Thanks FBI!

 

What is this supposed to mean?

[TakeYouToTasker]

 

What is this supposed to mean?

The board was so much more readable while he was on his hiatus.

[Tiberius]

 

What is this supposed to mean?

That the FBI tipped the scales on the election, obviously with its investigation right before the election. I thought they had cleaned themselves up from the days where they harassed Martin King and spied on him. I guess they are still a right wing hit squad in part

[Doc]

Hilly tipped her own scales.