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RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - BmorePat87 - 11-30-2016 (11-30-2016, 02:52 PM)GMDino Wrote: At least she has some experience for the post as an undersecretary or some such thing. Extremely qualified. Deputy Secretary of Transportation for Bush Sr and Secretary of Labor for W. Not really draining the swamp, though, by picking the wife of the Senate majority leader who worked in the last two GOP administrations. A lot of his picks are qualified. Qualification, of course, usually means you're connected. I'm not opposed to this, I'm just not one of those neo-nazis on twitter going "DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!", so I can have a laugh when he fails to act on this promise. The only pick I think is completely unqualified is his Secretary of Education. No experience working in or running schools. Never went to or sent kids to any public schools. She's just really rich from her family and her husband and has spent her millions fighting for laws that take money away from public schools and give them to private schools. RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - Belsnickel - 11-30-2016 (11-30-2016, 03:01 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Extremely qualified. Deputy Secretary of Transportation for Bush Sr and Secretary of Labor for W. Yeah, qualifications are there for most of them. Qualification alone doesn't make for a good pick, though. Not to say this specific one is a bad choice, just, there are some other questionable ones. RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - oncemoreuntothejimbreech - 11-30-2016 (11-29-2016, 08:52 PM)GMDino Wrote: http://usuncut.com/politics/trump-goldman-steven-mnuchin/ Who better to prevent Goldmans-Sachs from misleading investors than a guy who worked for Goldmans-Sachs? RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - BmorePat87 - 12-01-2016 (11-30-2016, 05:22 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Who better to prevent Goldmans-Sachs from misleading investors than a guy who worked for Goldmans-Sachs? The President-Elect already told us it was just smart and good business to take advantage of Americans who were struggling and losing their homes. Why would we expect less from his cabinet? http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/308245-trump-treasury-picks-bank-foreclosed-on-elderly-womans-house Foreclosing on a 90 year old woman for erroneously paying 27 cents less than what she owed the bank. Making millions off the housing crisis. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-treasury-foreclosed-homes-mnuchin-232038 RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - Griever - 12-01-2016 and heres the biggest joke of them all http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palin-consideration-va-secretary/story?id=43878336 sarah ****** palin RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - BmorePat87 - 12-01-2016 (12-01-2016, 02:07 PM)Griever Wrote: and heres the biggest joke of them all She's actually qualified. We half ass it with our veterans and she half assed it as Governor of Alaska. RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - Griever - 12-01-2016 (12-01-2016, 02:35 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: She's actually qualified. We half ass it with our veterans and she half assed it as Governor of Alaska. well damn, what was i thinking?! RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - GMDino - 12-13-2016 (12-01-2016, 05:01 PM)Griever Wrote: well damn, what was i thinking?! So while not needing daily intelligence briefings he has time for.... http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/13/kanye-meeting-donald-trump/ Quote:KANYE WEST RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - Bengalzona - 12-13-2016 (12-13-2016, 12:16 PM)GMDino Wrote: So while not needing daily intelligence briefings he has time for.... "Yo. Imonna let you finish, President-elect Trump. But everyone knows that I'm the most narcissistic person in the country!" RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - oncemoreuntothejimbreech - 12-13-2016 (12-13-2016, 01:39 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: "Yo. Imonna let you finish, President-elect Trump. But everyone knows that I'm the most narcissistic person in the country!" I figured Kanye would be too "exhausted" to travel. RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - Nately120 - 12-13-2016 (12-01-2016, 02:35 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: She's actually qualified. We half ass it with our veterans and she half assed it as Governor of Alaska. Didn't she blame Obama for giving her son enough PTSD that he was forced to hold a woman at gunpoint? I figure that could be extrapolated to every veteran easily enough. RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - Rotobeast - 12-15-2016 (12-13-2016, 12:16 PM)GMDino Wrote: So while not needing daily intelligence briefings he has time for....15 minutes ?!?!? LOL Trump is giving Kanye 15 minutes of fame. ![]() #AbsoluteMadman RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - Bengalzona - 12-16-2016 A lot of people have been scratching their heads about people Trump is fingering (not literally.... heh, heh, heh) to head departments and agencies in his administration. They either seem to have little to no experience with that field (Dr. Ben Carson, etc.) or they seem to be anti the agency they are being considered to lead (Scott Pruitt, etc.). And forget about "draining the swamp". These people primarily seem to be Washington GOP insiders. I've even postulated that this move was to undermine agencies from within. There maybe something to that. But I heard an interesting analysis on NPR speculating about why Trump was selecting these particular people. The reason they believe he is making these picks is to insulate the administration from Congress. When the Trump Administration wants to introduce a new policy, it will be these people taking it to Congress and trying to sell it. For that, he needs insiders. If the package the administration wants to sell is something that he thinks will be fought against by Congress (for example, upholding some EPA regs that Congress wants to get rid of), who better to sell it to Congress than someone who is known to be pretty anti-EPA to begin with? If that is the case, Trump may be far shrewder than many (including many GOPers) have given him credit for. RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - Dill - 12-17-2016 (12-16-2016, 09:44 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: A lot of people have been scratching their heads about people Trump is fingering (not literally.... heh, heh, heh) to head departments and agencies in his administration. They either seem to have little to no experience with that field (Dr. Ben Carson, etc.) or they seem to be anti the agency they are being considered to lead (Scott Pruitt, etc.). And forget about "draining the swamp". These people primarily seem to be Washington GOP insiders.But is there really any reason to believe Trump has this kind of foresight? We are talking about a guy who seems not to have thought through a number of issues, like the role his children will play in the transition, how he will manage conflicts of interests. He is not taking briefings before he speaks with foreign leaders. RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - Bengalzona - 12-17-2016 (12-17-2016, 03:10 AM)Dill Wrote: But is there really any reason to believe Trump has this kind of foresight? Part of the explanation I heard was that Trump doesn't know many of these people at all. But Pence knows them all quite well. Trump is basically using Pence as an Executive Officer and part of Pence's 'duties' are to find people for this purpose. If that is the case, it is not typical politics. Rather, it is more the way a corporation might be run. Considering that that is Trump's experience through life, that might make some sense. RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - Dill - 12-17-2016 (12-17-2016, 02:50 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Part of the explanation I heard was that Trump doesn't know many of these people at all. But Pence knows them all quite well. Trump is basically using Pence as an Executive Officer and part of Pence's 'duties' are to find people for this purpose. Well that would make sense. Pence would have a long game and some idea of how to play. His choice as VP was monumental. There is a problem here, though, since government is not like a corporation--though of all branches of government, the executive is most like one. In government, these people will be accountable to more stake holders. RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - JustWinBaby - 12-18-2016 (12-17-2016, 02:50 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: If that is the case, it is not typical politics. Rather, it is more the way a corporation might be run. Considering that that is Trump's experience through life, that might make some sense. Yep, so it's interesting to see how this works out. But I'd take issue if that much power is being given to Pence. If this was Romney, I'd be on-board and hopeful. But Trump, not so much. Long story short, Obama campaigned basically to drain the swamp back in 2008.....in 2012 he essentially admitted it can't be done as POTUS. I know some people here won't admit it....but there's a tremendous amount of similarities between Obama and Trump's campaigns....the latter is just much less polished and politically correct. RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - Dill - 12-20-2016 ![]() (12-18-2016, 06:12 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Long story short, Obama campaigned basically to drain the swamp back in 2008.....in 2012 he essentially admitted it can't be done as POTUS. Why, hell, I'll sure admit it. Polish Trump up-- get rid of the Muslim ban, the wall, NAFTA, Obamacare, the Iran Treaty, along with comments about ugly women, torture, radical Islam, Mexican rapists, a rigged election, that SCUM known as the free press, and killing militants' families, plus praise of Putin and some questions about why we can't use nukes and why we still need NATO, as well as quoting unvetted Breitbart stats--and his campaign is virtually identical to Obama's. To put this another way, absence of political correctness and polish is the essence of Trump's campaign. Take all that away and, yes, "similarities" with Obama's campaign and even Hillary's appear. RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - GMDino - 12-21-2016 http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/newt-gingirch-trump-drain-the-swamp-232878 Quote:Gingrich: Trump backing away from 'drain the swamp' RE: What to expect in the first 100 days - Nebuchadnezzar - 12-21-2016 From posts I've seen on Facebook I think the first 100 days will look like this... Day 1: Law passed stating all immigrants to be rounded up. Both legal and illegal. Day 2: every man woman and child of Hispanic origin will be executed by a bullet to the back of the head and their families will be sent a bill for the bullet and cremation. Day 3: All African Americans will be rounded up and shipped back to Africa. Day 4: The poor in the country will be euthanized and baried in a pit. Day 5: The crippled or any person with any defect will be euthanized and burned in ovens. Day 6: The United States will nuke Iran, North Korea and Russia...yes Russia. ... ... Day 100: The entire United States will look and feel like Aleppo. Seriously, I've seen people actually post stuff like this. |