He's got establishment picks, wall street guys, alt-right sympathizers, Ted Cruz-style conservatives... (all of them hated him except alt-right and fought him every step of the way) and he's looking at some Democrats too.Originally Posted by Whis
He's even been reaching out to old school Bush appointees, like Condoleezza Rice.
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They're the Gary Busey of the staff appointment Celebrity Apprentice; there to keep people watching but you know they don't actually have a chance.
Mac, gathering the Republican garbage pile around you is not "picking from all sides." And if you think, not to harp on this but, that the guy who wants to put JEFF SESSIONS AND STEVEN BANNON in the White House is going to pick someone remotely concerned with civil liberties or indeed reality anywhere near power well
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Mac he literally campaigned on making a special registry WITH YOU ON IT, why don't you care about these things
I mean, it was just about as true of the Obama cabinet - maybe not quite as many Goldman people explicitly but that was a plenty millionaire crowd.
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this is all we needed to make america great again, old school W appointees
Hey, I never said I liked it.
If you win you should just stock the administration with your guys. But it flies in the face of Trump being a rigid nazi hardliner or whatever, he doesn't care about any of that and only looks at credentials and competence, so at least I have confidence in his judgment that if he ends up picking someone like Mitt he probably has a good reason for it.
I still wouldn't pick Mitt though if it was me.
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what parallel timeline do you post fromhe doesn't care about any of that and only looks at credentials and competence
e: HE PUT A CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER THAT WORKS FOR COAL COMPANIES IN CHARGE OF THE EPA
If that article about how he ran the Apprentice is true he literally never looks at credentials and competence, he just goes with his gut and whether or not he personally likes someone then hires someone else to justify how that decision was based on facts later.
He's draining the swamp. Amirite.
Spoiler:
He fired Chris Christie from everything so that's a point for recognizing competence
Well, the sense I get from Trump is that he's never been the type to self reflect and articulate reasons for why what he does works, but he just figured it out through his gut and experience. Just based on the people he keeps floating in the running though, it's not exactly what you'd pick if you were going for an alt-right dream team. There's establishment people, conservatives, and so forth, and the one thing they all share so far is being very credentialed.
> e: HE PUT A CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER THAT WORKS FOR COAL COMPANIES IN CHARGE OF THE EPA
So? That's part of his working class pitch to bring back those kinds of jobs. Dismissing those kinds of concerns is what made the Democrats lose, so they'll have to accommodate it in some way rather than just assume it's evil for people wanting to work.
Also, why are you so against Bannon. He just ran Breitbart and that's not racist for posting troll headlines.
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I give up
Also, regarding the muslim registry, come on, Rodyle, like the government doesn't already have that stuff on hand.
The no-fly list is already basically a muslim registry, and the "terrorism watch list" is just a polite way of saying "muslim registry." Between all the data out there, you're being naive if you don't think the government already has this stuff ready to go when they want to look someone up.
It's basically unnecessary really because it already exists. Trump just went ahead and proposed a less dressed up version, but it doesn't change what's happening. And he walked back those comments later anyway.
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It's very simple. Democrat is good and Republican is bad and and when you look at it that way Trump's cabinet isn't diverse at all.
Okay no, I'm going to make one last try.
1. Mac, you clearly are determined to ignore the facts on Breitbart but you will at least concede this: you admit that Bannon is Alt-Right yes? If that's the case, why is he in the cabinet? The Alt-Right has no actual political foothold, there's not one single reason to keep Bannon around after election day anymore than there is to ramble on about walls or special prosecutors.
2. Yes, the government has that data on hand. So why does there need to be a special list for Muslims? We don't need to canvas our citizenry, we have that on census data, and we already take note of where people are coming from on entering the country. It serves no purpose.
3. Trump can't bring back coal jobs and there's no reason to continue to pretend that he can after election day anymore than there is to pander to the Alt-Right. Coal is non-competitive even without restrictions, and those restrictions are there for the very good reason of not putting us all underwater.
4. The Dems are not assuming it's evil to want to work, they just aren't willing to lie and say non-competitive industries that ravage the planet can or should be brought back with the wave of the hand.
5. Jeff Sessions is the outspoken enemy of every step of progress made since literally the repeal of Jim Crow and he's going to be attorney general
1. I mean, he was leading the guy's campaign. He's basically his Karl Rove or David Plouffe. His selection has more to do with his media mastery than anything else; Trump cares about interacting with the media more than anyone else. On other areas, like his nationalist sentiments, they align, so there's some compatibility instead of hiring someone that wants to turn him into Jeb Bush.
2. We already have it, so we don't really need it. But since functionally it's the same thing, I don't think it's a big deal. But again he walked that back anyway to pinpointing people coming from hot spots in the Middle East. Most people agree with this stuff.
3. All right, but that's just a policy disagreement. Not something really worth typing in all caps about like it's some self evidently outrageous thing.
4. See #3.
5. Well, when you win an election, you're bound to see parts of the conservative agenda come through, right? You don't expect him to appoint a liberal Democrat. (Though with Trump you never know.) That's just the consequence of losing an election; Republicans and Democrats have lost before and survived. I mean, Obama was literally appointing communists.
As far as Sessions himself, he's just your standard conservative. What makes him stand out is he's been a big voice against illegal immigration and amnesty, and helped Trump form his illegal immigration policy, so putting him there in a law enforcement position is a signal that he's going to be serious about it hopefully.
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I still can't wrap my head around the fact that Jeff is short for Jefferson and not Jeffrey, that shit is literally intolerable. If I didn't know anything else about him I'd still think he's a total cock just from that alone.
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I mean Jefferson Sessions, holy shit.
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That's some peak colonial era plantation owner right there.
That's how bad it is, folks.
Is that why people always insist on writing his middle name in there like they're an anime character calling out their rival.
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The Jefferson Sessions is a solid album name.
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How isn't that already a Jefferson Airplane album?
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