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[Foffy]

Witch? She seems like one of the sanest people on the Trump camp imo.

Sane and Trump are paradoxes.

Try again...?

 

[exmachina64]

Odds that reps will be able to nuke the filibuster?

Moderate.

 

[shira]

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/7/13551988/donald-trump-cabinet-cronies

- Newt Gingrich as secretary of state
- Rudy Giuliani as attorney general
- Reince Priebus as chief of staff
- Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as secretary of defense or national security adviser
- Steve Mnuchin, Trump's finance chair, as secretary of the Treasury
- Lew Eisenberg, RNC finance chair, as secretary of commerce

See the article on reviews of each. The main point, however, is that they were chosen mostly out of favoritism, and not so much out of talent. I'm going to assume we will see more such appointments in the coming four years.

Flynn at least seems somewhat competent, so hopefully will not be someone who wants to nuke or attack a country right away.


As for Health and Energy:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-welch-steve-mnuchin-favourites-a7393871.html

- Ben Carson - Health Secretary
- Harold Hamm - Energy Secretary (it isn't Palin thankfully, but either way he's been pro-Keystone and against Obama's climate change initiatives, and a climate change denier himself; lesser of two evils overall?)


Get ready for the circus!

Is this real life?

 

[Riposte]

Christie gets nothing? Goddamn.

 

[d00d3n]

Sane and Trump are paradoxes.

Try again...?

Well, possibly, but I wouldn't call the entire Trump camp insane, particularly a hired professional like Kellyanne.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

Christie gets nothing? Goddamn.

He must not have gotten Trump his McD's fast enough.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Odds that reps will be able to nuke the filibuster?

The filibuster can be removed with a bare majority vote--the question is not ability but rather if they want to, knowing that they will be a minority party at some point in the future and will rely on it at that point.

 

[ProfessorMoran]

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/7/13551988/donald-trump-cabinet-cronies

- Newt Gingrich as secretary of state
- Rudy Giuliani as attorney general
- Reince Priebus as chief of staff
- Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as secretary of defense or national security adviser
- Steve Mnuchin, Trump's finance chair, as secretary of the Treasury
- Lew Eisenberg, RNC finance chair, as secretary of commerce

See the article on reviews of each. The main point, however, is that they were chosen mostly out of favoritism, and not so much out of talent. I'm going to assume we will see more such appointments in the coming four years.

Flynn at least seems somewhat competent, so hopefully will not be someone who wants to nuke or attack a country right away.


As for Health and Energy:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-welch-steve-mnuchin-favourites-a7393871.html

- Ben Carson - Health Secretary
- Harold Hamm - Energy Secretary (it isn't Palin thankfully, but either way he's been pro-Keystone and against Obama's climate change initiatives, and a climate change denier himself; lesser of two evils overall?)


Get ready for the circus!

I wonder whom Rudy is going to go after.

They'll probably have a new FBI director.

Stanley McChrystal as head of the CIA.

 

[SalvaPot]

lol at Christie, he is the equivalent of the girl working as a waitress for years to get his boyfriend through law school and gets dumped as soon as he graduates.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

It's just unbelievable.

The bad guys won.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

lol at Christie, he is the equivalent of the girl working as a waitress for years to get his boyfriend through law school and gets dumped as soon as he graduates.

Honestly, how are you the biggest suck up to Trump and somehow end up the second biggest loser after Clinton? I'd feel bad for him if he wasn't such a POS

 

[IrishNinja]

if Giuliani is in charge of fuck all i will literally revolt

 

[jerry113]

not so much a legion of doom than it is a legion of SHEER INCOMPETENCY

 

[Dash_Riprock]

Honestly, how are you the biggest suck up to Trump and somehow end up the second biggest loser after Clinton? I'd feel bad for him if he wasn't such a POS

He's the 3rd biggest loser. Jeb "Please clap" Bush comes right after Hilldawg.

 

[Lightning_Roller]

We're in the soup now, ladies and gents. It's about to get crazy. And the not the good kind either.

 

[joshcryer]

I love hos his potential cabinet is literally establishment. It's funny as hell.

 

[the_sun_king]

I feel nauseous.

 

[MaddenNFL64]

This is an inevitable outcome. Presidents-elect typically recruit cabinet secretaries from their wide base of support among industry, media, state and federal politics, commerce, science and technology, etc. Trump did not have wide bases of support among any of those groups. He had zero newspaper endorsements. Almost no one in his party expended any effort to support him.

These are who are left.



Utah Senator Mike Lee (tied with Cruz for most conservative senator in post-war period) and about 10 circuit or district judges picked by the federalist society and handed to him as a condition of conservative support for his candidacy.

Im fucking depressed now...

 

[MaddenNFL64]

Moderate.

They have to think long term though. Dems will take shit back someday, they cannot want this when it hits them... right?

 

[Verelios]

Rudy the Ass incorporated?

That's going to be lovely.

 

[KazenY2J]

 

[PopeReal]

But what about the outsider stuff?

This is full on Washington insider.

 

[bbalde]

Good job USA, well done... clap.gif

 

[Scofield94941]

I feel like George R R Martin would write this in his book about "America"

 

[BossDarkseid]

What's that thing comic book gaf says? League of Evil? Circle of Villains? Whatever it is, this is it and this is BEFORE they've been appointed. Jesus christ.

Legion of Doom is also valid

 

[User Name Here]

Gee wiz, I wonder what Carson thinks about abortion services.

And I wonder what Guliani thinks about the rights of Muslim people.

 

[Hypron]

But what about the outsider stuff?

This is full on Washington insider.

You really think Trump would do that

Go and tell people lies?

 

[mariachi507]

I want to shoot myself, I'm not going to, but I don't want to live in this version of America.

 

[EviLore]

The US Secretary of Energy...is going from MIT nuclear physicist under Obama...to...fracking industry oil executive & climate change denier under Trump.

 

[MaddenNFL64]

The US Secretary of Energy...is going from MIT nuclear physicist under Obama...to...fracking industry oil executive & climate change denier under Trump.

Wow, im sure this is the change that Trump supporters always wanted.

 

[PopeReal]

Gee wiz, I wonder what Carson thinks about abortion services.

And I wonder what Guliani thinks about the rights of Muslim people.

The US Secretary of Energy...is going from MIT nuclear physicist under Obama...to...fracking industry oil executive & climate change denier under Trump.

Good times.

 

[Disxo]

The US Secretary of Energy...is going from MIT nuclear physicist under Obama...to...fracking industry oil executive & climate change denier under Trump.

That paris treaty we worked so hard for...

 

[FunkyMunkey]

The US Secretary of Energy...is going from MIT nuclear physicist under Obama...to...fracking industry oil executive & climate change denier under Trump.

like i said, i hope the protest voters feel proud whether they added to the loss or not.

 

[Riposte]

I hope for everyone's sake Trump realizes a good coup involves "killing off" half your lieutenants and absorbing half of the old regime.

Hope this happens in particular for energy/environment matters.

 

[XMonkey]

I'm legitimately afraid. So much good will be undone.

Will Trump supporters not even care about the hypocrisy of these choices?

 

[Rentahamster]

They're making that assumption based on who stumped for him? Yeah, I'd wait for better sources.

 

[War Peaceman]

Christie's going to jail. Actually probably a better place to be with the Republican z listers. He looked so awkward during Trump's acceptance speech lol

He'd likely be more competent than the others mentioned here.

They're making that assumption based on who stumped for him? Yeah, I'd wait for better sources.

Some of these have been hovering around from sources for a little while. It is known that his transition team was not a priority though, so all could change.

 

[Garrett 2U]

The US Secretary of Energy...is going from MIT nuclear physicist under Obama...to...fracking industry oil executive & climate change denier under Trump.

You're old-fashioned and must come to embrace his Aloha Form.

 

[BoboBrazil]

Wow, im sure this is the change that Trump supporters always wanted.

His supporters are uneducated whites from rural America. They don't believe in education or climate change.

 

[Fox Mulder]

Might as well kill myself

This is like the end of the great silence.

 

[Synaww]

Best Timeline

 

[Yeoman]

Energy secretary and a climate change denier.
Beautiful.

 

[Rentahamster]

Some of these have been hovering around from sources for a little while. It is known that his transition team was not a priority though, so all could change.

I'm going to assume that all those people on that list think that Trump values cronyism (for lack of a better word*) a lot higher than they think he does.

 

[eyeball_kid]

I was around when we went through eight years of Bush. He was a shitheel, but at least there was a shred of decency in him.

Trump is something completely different. I don't know how to process this. He represents the worst of America. It's like voting for a toxic spill. How can he represent America? We are now no better than a third-world country.

 

[Angelus Errare]

establishment career politicians as his appointees huh.

Such shake up

 

[Cuburt]

I love hos his potential cabinet is literally establishment. It's funny as hell.

Yeah and same with his VP.

He just Trump University'd the country.

 

[kitschbeam]

lol @ Carson and Giuliani being on the list.

 

[War Peaceman]

I'm going to assume that all those people on that list think that Trump values cronyism (for lack of a better word*) a lot higher than they think he does.

Trump demands loyalty and rewards it. There is a reason he called Reince Priebus on stage with him at the acceptance speech. He is petty and won't tolerate those who abandoned him.

 

[KO Traveling Hobo]

 

[norinrad]

Newt Gingrich is back, that list needs John Bolton.

You can't have a list of really bad people without him