Trump has appointed far right-winger Mike Pompeo to head the CIA. Lifelong member of the NRA, of course. He want not only wants to keep Gitmo open, when he came back from a visit there, of prisoners that were on a hunger strike he said. “It looked to me like a lot of them had put on weight.”
A real class act.
Some other positions he has are also bothersome to me:
That one is worrisome, given the job he’s about to step into, since it seems to indicate that he doesn’t really understand what “due process” is.
:eek:
Shaping up to be the most interesting Cabinet we’ve seen in a long time.
Euphemism has limits, you know.
May you live in euphemistic times.
Nothing will beat hiring the Montesano attorney as senior advisor to the FDA Comissioner unless of course Chris Christie get Secretary of Transportation.
Do you mean Monsanto?
ninja’d.
You got to get up pretty early in the afternoon to beat me!
I see Bannon’s greasy little paws all over these appointments. Trump is clearly putting no thought into any of it while he plans his ‘victory tour’.
I wonder if Judge Curiel will have a part in planning the itinerary.
Can I pencil you in for a 5:15 am beating, then?
Oh, and that “Let’s step back and give Trump a chance” crap?
It is over.
Trump doesn’t have time for such petty details. Too busy making America Great Again. That’s why he has “people”-- to do the actual work. Bannon might turn out to be the new Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. :eek:
Of course! Look, about forty per cent of the eligible public did not vote for Hillary, because they didn’t vote at all! And Il Douche got almost as many votes as she did! Only about a million off, which is pretty darn close! Put those numbers together, and you got a total mandate for the Republican Party to take this country anywhere they want!
Besides, if Trump really had wanted to win the popular vote, he would have campaigned more in New York and California, and would have won them easily!
(No, I am not making that up! He actually said that!)
Well, he’s already won my heart. And by ‘heart’, I mean ‘everlasting loathing’.
What are you going to do about it? Whine about it here? Smash some windows in Portland? Burn down a Little Caesars?
Elections have consequences.
Not when there’s a Supreme Court nomination at stake.
Don’t we know it.
We didn’t elect an emperor, did we? We can still let those who represent us in Congress know that there will be consequences if they roll over and play dead. We can give voice, and funds, to the Fourth Estate. We can quit acting like lobsters in a pot, willing to accept indignity after indignity just because we are too overwhelmed to fight. We can quit accepting the easy way out, the response that tells us what we want to hear without the hard facts to back them up, that answers that absolve us from responsibility by placing it on the backs of demonized “others”.
You say “Elections have consequences” as if those consequences absolve you of responsibility of what follows. I say the consequences of not doing enough( or not doing the right things) to stop this abomination is that there is an even greater responsibility to work harder to put right what goes wrong, to shine the light and display the headline, to never let up on the pressure.