President Trump's cabinet

[Argus]

1 hour ago, sharkman said:

They need someone as SOS that has the cajones to actually read requests for additional security, and then send the security.  Benghazi's deaths were totally preventable.

Of all the slogans I saw during this election, one of my faves was, "Trump that bitch"

It does, at least, express the ignorance of the braying asses who make up the bulk of Trump supporters. I guess 'Burn the witch!" was already taken.

[sharkman]

No one burned any effigy of Hillary as they are now of Trump.  I guess there are a lot of "braying asses" on your side, bub.  Not that you'd notice, or anything like that.  

[bush_cheney2004]

Why the long faces on Canadian "supporters" of Hillary Clinton ?

Wasn't this a victory for democracy ?   A victory for freedom ?  A victory for...AMERICA !!?

Canadians can continue to support Hillary by sending money to her crooked foundation.

[Michael Hardner]

Anybody have anything to say about the Cabinet ?

[Hal 9000]

Well, Trump has made the right decisions so far, Priebus is the man for COS, and Bannon is just an advisor, he'll have no real power.  Distancing from Christie is good too.  Kellyanne rumoured to be in a top position, something close to the president - that's good too.  Just waiting on SOS, fingers crossed for Bolton.

Trump knows he wants to surround himself with honesty and winners, rather than debt repayment - that bodes well.

OT - Why is CNN still pushing the fear angle?  

[kimmy]

1 hour ago, sharkman said:

No one burned any effigy of Hillary as they are now of Trump.  I guess there are a lot of "braying asses" on your side, bub.  Not that you'd notice, or anything like that.  

I don't think that's true. I saw photos of Hillary being hung in effigy prior to the election, and I have no doubt there would be more of the same if she had won. I also recall people hanging Obama in effigy many times over the years, as well as praying for assassinations or fatal disease. There's certainly no shortage of hot-heads on either side.

 -k

[?Impact]

5 hours ago, kimmy said:

Listen, I don't hate the wider man. I have hired wide people, tremendous workers, they do a tremendous job. Some of my friends are wide, they're lovely people. Nobody respects wide people more than I do, nobody.  I'm just telling it like it is. Being politically correct takes too much time, too much energy, and we have too much to do to waste time being politically correct.

 

Ouch....

 

I fell off my chair reading that one. Are you taking lessons from Donald Trump?

[Hal 9000]

7 minutes ago, kimmy said:

I don't think that's true. I saw photos of Hillary being hung in effigy prior to the election, and I have no doubt there would be more of the same if she had won. I also recall people hanging Obama in effigy many times over the years, as well as praying for assassinations or fatal disease. There's certainly no shortage of hot-heads on either side.

 -k

Wow, that's pretty bad, do you have photos of the demonstrations/riots on behalf of republicans?  Or is it that that's just your feeling?

[kimmy]

1 hour ago, Michael Hardner said:

Anybody have anything to say about the Cabinet ?

I checked in at Breitbart today prior to the announcement of Rince Priebus as Chief of Staff, and was interested to see a headline talking up Steve Bannon's leadership skills-- "The general who lead Trump to victory!" or some such... and another headline talking about how Paul Ryan said he could work with Bannon as Chief of Staff, plus an editorial reading "Rinse Rince! Priebus represents everything voters rejected!"  I didn't read any of these, but the headlines seemed to be trying to not-too-subtly hint that Trump ought to pick Bannon and not Priebus.

So, uh... does the administration's close ties to Breitbart seem a little  ... uh, strange?

People have been complaining for a long time that Clinton has too many connections with the media, that they gave her a free ride. But now we have a president-elect whose "senior advisor" and "chief strategist" also happens to run one of the most popular right-wing news sources. Does that seem like too close of a relationship? It seems like Breitbart is now not just a biased media outlet, but also now a defacto propaganda arm of the administration.

 -k

[Icebound]

 

Is not the whole idea of "politics"... to find people who can successfully keep their constituents from killing each other? ? ?

 

 

[Argus]

3 hours ago, sharkman said:

No one burned any effigy of Hillary as they are now of Trump.  I guess there are a lot of "braying asses" on your side, bub.  Not that you'd notice, or anything like that.  

Are you kidding? You don't think mass chants of "lock her up" is worse than that? It sounded very much like "Burn the witch!" to me, the shrieking of ignorant, angry peasants.

[kimmy]

32 minutes ago, Hal 9000 said:

Wow, that's pretty bad, do you have photos of the demonstrations/riots on behalf of republicans?  Or is it that that's just your feeling?

The message I was responding to mentioned burning of Trump effigies, and it's easy to find images of Hillary effigies being hung, as well as Obama effigies being hung.

Regarding riots in response to Obama's election, the only one I have evidence of happened at Ole Miss university in 2012. But again, no shortage of people calling for assassinations, praying for fatal disease, and of course the current president-elect calling for rebellion against the election results.

Why are anti-Trump people rioting in the streets while anti-Obama people were staging virtual-riots from the comfort of their Twitter accounts? Who can say... my theory is that riots are a young people type thing and a city-dweller type thing, and most Obama-haters are either not young or not city-dwellers.

 -k

[Derek 2.0]

7 hours ago, kimmy said:

Now official that RNC chairman Rince Priebus will be Chief of Staff.

 

Called it.........smart move, he's a bridge between the establishment and the Trump/Tea Party wing

[Derek 2.0]

6 hours ago, Rue said:

Is that a Mexican name?

Greek

[Derek 2.0]

I've heard two more names mentioned: Gov. Tim Pawlenty as Treasury Secretary

                                                               Gov. Sam Brownback as Secretary of Agriculture

Edited November 14, 2016 by Derek 2.0

[BC_chick]

2 hours ago, Derek 2.0 said:

 

Called it.........smart move, he's a bridge between the establishment and the Trump/Tea Party wing

What about Bannon?  How's he going to mend the gap between the Jew-hating white supremacists who are celebrating his victory with the Evangelical crusaders for "God's Chosen People"?

Edited November 14, 2016 by BC_chick

[Derek 2.0]

1 hour ago, BC_chick said:

mend the gap between the Jew-hating white supremacists who are celebrating his victory with the Evangelical crusaders for "God's Chosen People"?

 

I don't know that he needs to.......it's a given "base".........just as progressives have the (Black) nation of Islam and the LGBTQ communities.....they have nowhere else to go.

 

Politics makes strange, and at times unwanted, bedfellows.

[DogOnPorch]

8 minutes ago, Derek 2.0 said:

 

I don't know that he needs to.......it's a given "base".........just as progressives have the (Black) nation of Islam and the LGBTQ communities.....they have nowhere else to go.

 

Politics makes strange, and at times unwanted, bedfellows.

Not really...they didn't all vote for Her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WMnoa8dLw8

[BC_chick]

29 minutes ago, Derek 2.0 said:

 

I don't know that he needs to.......it's a given "base".........just as progressives have the (Black) nation of Islam and the LGBTQ communities.....they have nowhere else to go.

 

Politics makes strange, and at times unwanted, bedfellows.

 

Well, seeing how our resident born-again defended adultery and promiscuity, I say you're probably right to an extent, but I still find the comparison not very apt.

Standing up for minority rights and LGBTQ isn't a conflicting stance.  The underlying commonality is that everyone should live their life without prejudice and with freedom and it's nobody's business what others are doing or thinking unless they're hurting others.  

That's why Democrats are the big tent party with many different supporters vs. the Republicans who are made of very few factions.  They can be against Islamophobia and homophobia at the same time even though Republicans, and even many on this forum, can't seem to grasp how the two issues are not mutually exclusive.  

Jew-hating and Israel-loving, on the other hand, will be a conflicting issue which will be more difficult to reconcile than the notion of equality for all.  

I'm personally very curious which direction his foreign policy will take because I think he'll appease the Evangelical base but this is the first time we are seeing white power Jew-hating types in government so what they'll do is anyone's guess.

Edited November 14, 2016 by BC_chick

[DogOnPorch]

Why Hillary lost right there. ^

[eyeball]

4 minutes ago, BC_chick said:

...this is the first time we are seeing white power Jew-hating types in government so what they'll do is anyone's guess.

Well, it's not like we haven't seen what's happened in other countries with governments that stumbled down this road.  I'm sure there was something about the importance of remembering this on the TV just the other day but...in one ear out the other as they say.

[DogOnPorch]

What countries might those be?

[eyeball]

You know.

[BC_chick]

6 minutes ago, eyeball said:

Well, it's not like we haven't seen what's happened in other countries with governments that stumbled down this road.  I'm sure there was something about the importance of remembering this on the TV just the other day but...in one ear out the other as they say.

The guy is so unpredictable I really can't say what he's gonna do but yeah there are many unsettling parallels. 

[kimmy]

13 minutes ago, BC_chick said:

The guy is so unpredictable I really can't say what he's gonna do but yeah there are many unsettling parallels. 

Oh come on guys, he's not Hitler.  I don't like him any more than you do, but he's not Hitler. Or even Makmood Amadinajinabad, for that matter. And he is in a system with checks and balances, and has sane people around who will keep him from getting out of control.  For example Kellyanne will probably take his Twitter away if he starts having a tantrum, and only give it back when he calms down and promises to behave.

I did notice that TV Show Amarosa, who has been his ambassador of black outreach during the campaign, has been talking about their "enemy list" in the past few days. Hey, Lindsey Graham! You're gonna "get it"! Watch out, Mitt Romney, you're gonna "get it" too!   We don't know yet what "it" is, or when "they" are gonna "get" "it", but we do know that that list exists, and that Mitt and Lindsey are on it... Megyn Kelly better watch her back as well. If Chris Christie were still on the team, I'm sure they would be worried about bridge closures and traffic jams in their home towns, but with Christie out of the picture, we can only guess what kind of retribution they're facing.

I am imagining packages of Trump Steaks being delivered to their homes, with the Best Before dates blacked out. Is it safe? Is it not safe? Who can guess? Be careful, Mitt, Meg, and Lindsey!

 -k