You asked for it , you got it, Bryan Ekers !
Weapons grade stupid:
To put in his short list for his cabinet people like Ben Carson. Trump wants him for Secretary of Education. :smack:
Yeah, no problem that he is a snake oil salesman, a creationist, a climate change denier, and an ignorant of history.
Great surgeon, but he should stay away from other fields and education.
Jesus, Snowboarder Bo , are you trying to crash the fucking server? The poor hamsters will die from exhaustion!
Why. oh why did I subscribe to this thread? It’s going to make me either scream or cry every time i open it.
This is going to be YUUUGE!
It has it’s own thread, but I think this should be included here as well.
Trump’s tweet:
Pay no attention to the “election is rigged” rhetoric. That was yesterday.
And wtf are "professional protesters anyway?
Trump still doesn’t have that “acting Presidential” thing down. Why not condemn property damage or violence? Protests will continue & I doubt professional protesting has become a career option.
I hear some “Anarchists” made things ugly in Portland. But those guys impress me as worthless trust-fundies. A familiar subject for The Donald.
slumtrimpet:
It has it’s own thread, but I think this should be included here as well.
Trump’s tweet:
And wtf are "professional protesters anyway?
The soon-to-be most powerful man in the world* is still complaining about things being “unfair”. Sad!
It’s rumored that the degenerate Steve Bannon is under consideration for chief-of-staff. Watching these clowns trying to govern would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic and damaging.
ETA: Trump is back on Twitter. Real presidential you big fucking baby.
Sarah Palin in charge of the Department of the Interior? Start the giveaway of the national parks in three … two … one.
SteveG1
November 12, 2016, 12:08am
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BlankSlate:
It’s rumored that the degenerate Steve Bannon is under consideration for chief-of-staff. Watching these clowns trying to govern would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic and damaging.
ETA: Trump is back on Twitter. Real presidential you big fucking baby.
You mean the white supremacist Steve Bannon?
Personal life
In February 1996, Bannon’s second wife accused Bannon of attacking her at their home. Bannon was charged with domestic violence, battery and attempting to dissuade a victim from reporting a crime, but the case was dropped when his wife did not show up in court. In court records, she later claimed that Bannon instructed her to leave town to avoid testifying.[18][19][20] She also accused Bannon of making anti-semitic statements about their children’s schools.[21]
He’s also an accomplished thief, just like his new boss
Put in a major leadership role.
Donald Trump has a penchant for Goldman Sachs bankers turned movie producers.
First it was Steve Mnuchin, who in May joined Trump’s campaign as national finance chairman. He also is Trump’s likely pick for Treasury Secretary, and is part of the GOP presidential candidate’s recently-announced economic advisory team.
Now it’s Steve Bannon, who overnight was named CEO of the Trump campaign.
Bannon made his bones as a mergers and acquisitions banker with Goldman Sachs GS 1.31% beginning in the 1980’s, at the peak of Wall Street’s hostile takeover and junk bond booms. Most of his work was defending companies from such boardroom assaults ― in keeping with Goldman’s general stance on such things ― but he did later work on supporting some leveraged buyouts before moving into media and entertainment banking.
Then, in 2012, Andrew Breitbartdied, and into that vacuum he left behind stepped Steve Bannon, a rich guy-turned-conservative propagandist best known for making a fawning documentary of Sarah Palin.
Slowly but surely, Bannon turned Breitbart into not only the most-read conservative web outlet but also the most incendiary one. It was happy to embrace fringe beliefs like birtherism and play footsie with blatantly racist notions of black criminality. It wasn’t interested in looking even faintly objective, instead inventing easily understood “narratives” of crusading conservative heroes and their many victories against the hated left.
Buckleyite movement conservatism had always been tethered away from all that by its desire for “respectability,” the idea that it should be taken seriously by outsiders as a real intellectual force. Bannon’s Breitbart didn’t have such scruples – it was playing directly to its very specific audience – and it would follow that audience wherever it went.
This was the alt-right, a collection of racists, pick-up artists, men’s rights activists, and other noxious trolls of the internet.
Memnon
November 12, 2016, 12:23am
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Hey, everyone, remember when Trump said he’d surround himself with the best people? Well…turns out he’s so stupid, uninformed, and suspicious of competence that he’s not capable of figuring out who the best people actually are.
I know. Shocking, right?
SteveG1
November 12, 2016, 12:32am
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Memnon:
Hey, everyone, remember when Trump said he’d surround himself with the best people? Well…turns out he’s so stupid, uninformed, and suspicious of competence that he’s not capable of figuring out who the best people actually are.
I know. Shocking, right?
Many of the best and most qualified are refusing his job offers. They want nothing to do with him.
I would like to believe that. Have any of these people come out publicly. Or is this a CT rumor ala the right.
Oh shit, is this going to be a long thread.
Riemann
November 12, 2016, 2:53pm
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Here’s one that will be useful for his press secretary:
[QUOTE=Ron Ziegler]
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Ronald Louis Ziegler (May 12, 1939 – February 10, 2003) was the 13th White House Press Secretary, serving during President Richard Nixon's administration.
Ziegler was born to Louis Daniel Ziegler, a production manager, and Ruby (Parsons) in Covington, Kentucky. He was raised in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod denomination.[citation needed]
Ziegler attended Concordia Lutheran School and graduated from the eighth grade in 1953. He graduated from Dixie Heights High School in Fort Mitchell, Kent...
Memnon
November 12, 2016, 3:35pm
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This doesn’t strictly qualify for this thread, but apparently Mike Pence thinks the dangers of smoking are overhyped
Question for the group: What’s the likelihood that these guys, who can’t even wrap their heads around the dangers of smoking , are going to prove to be even remotely capable of knocking together a climate change policy that won’t fuck the planet into a tinker’s bucket?
E-DUB
November 12, 2016, 4:08pm
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There’s a saying in the personnel management field: “First-rate people hire first-rate people. Second-rate people hire third-rate people.”
Don’t even want to contemplate who the Surgeon General is going to be. If we even get one.
Ben Carson can do that in his spare time while he’s running the Department of Education. And since there is black man in Trump’s Cabinet, it’s proof he isn’t racist!
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