Transition Team/Cabinet Thread

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The next 4 years are going to be a nightmare.

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So many terrible people.  Sessions, Price and now this clown from Oklahoma who most likely doesn't give a s*** about the environment running the Environmental Protection Agency.

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I hope Heitkamp doesn't take the job.  We can't afford to lose a Senate seat.

By the way, how competitive is McMorris-Rogers' district?

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Honestly, I don't understand why Heidi would even want to join his administration. It's looking like it will have great potential to be spectacularly corrupt and hated, and by joining she will buy herself only an extra 2 years in public office assuming she were to lose in 2018, so how is this good for her? Does she really want being a member of Trump's cabinet on her resume? His reelection is no more a shoe-in than hers, so it's quite possible that she gets just 2 more years at the expense of her integrity/image. Just seems like a sucky deal to me.

But, then again, maybe I'm looking at it wrong.

Yeah it would be political suicide for her.

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wtf..........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKbjy3mTXPE

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Trump has only appointed 2 women to actual cabinet positions, one of which has been in Washington forever. He needs to appoint women to both agriculture and sec. Vet Affairs if he wants to show the gender proper respect.

Also, Carson looks more and more like the token black (and Chao like the token Asian).  Pathetic.

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Trump has only appointed 2 women to actual cabinet positions, one of which has been in Washington forever. He needs to appoint women to both agriculture and sec. Vet Affairs if he wants to show the gender proper respect.

Yeah because nothing says respect like quotas.

Well actually quotas is exactly what Trump is doing when he appoints one black person and one Asian to his cabinet just so that he can claim his cabinet is diverse.
The problem here is that Trump doesn't have a diverse social and business circle, he comes from a circle where it's ok to say things like "I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis.  I think it's very American"*
I'm sorry but that's not my America.

*This is an actual quote by the new secretary of Labor, Andrew Puzder.

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Lindsey Graham and John McCain should just leave and shut the hell up.

...because they don't agree with you?

Be glad he's just "asking" them to leave. Give the Trump cult a few more months, and they may start  talking camps and mass executions, just like their idols.

Hillary may have done that to us,she once said during the Campaign that white men needed to thrown into concentration camps.

What?

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I thought Heidi Heitkamp was going to be at Agriculture for the sake of picking off a token Democrat and putting the Senate seat in GOP hands? Guess not.

She's not stupid

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David Friedman appointed Ambassador to Israel, he's pro-settlements and is to the right of Netanyahu and supports moving the Embassy to Jerusalem.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/15/politics/trump-picks-campaign-adviser-friedman-as-us-ambassador-to-israel/index.html

Terrible.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/16/politics/tom-price-bill-aiding-company/index.html?adkey=bn

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How can this affect his nomination?  Price along with Puzder and Pruitt are by far the most dangerous Trump appointees.

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Fun Fact: Trump is the first president since Carter to not have a Hispanic member of his Cabinet.

Well only some of them are good people (apparently not enough for Trump to find someone to nominate).

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Fun Fact: Trump is the first president since Carter to not have a Hispanic member of his Cabinet.

Well only some of them are good people (apparently not enough for Trump to find someone to nominate).

Trump has never actually met one that he likes. He assumes that some of them are good people.

Good point.  But hey, at least he has an open mind.

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Perry is doing better here than he ever did in either of his presidential campaigns.

For all the jokes about "oops" I actually don't think he's a terrible choice for Energy

Moniz is a nuclear physicist.  Perry barely graduated college.  The department of Energy is in charge of the nuclear energy.  Do you want the guy from Dancing with the stars in charge?

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Perry is doing better here than he ever did in either of his presidential campaigns.

For all the jokes about "oops" I actually don't think he's a terrible choice for Energy

Moniz is a nuclear physicist.  Perry barely graduated college.  The department of Energy is in charge of the nuclear energy.  Do you want the guy from Dancing with the stars in charge?

You ignore the fact he was a successful Governor for literally almost 15 years. Dancing with the Stars is meaningless, you act like that is his only accomplishment.

That's your opinion.  But even if what you say is true, that doesn't mean he's qualified to lead the Dept. of Energy.

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Perry is doing better here than he ever did in either of his presidential campaigns.

For all the jokes about "oops" I actually don't think he's a terrible choice for Energy

Moniz is a nuclear physicist.  Perry barely graduated college.  The department of Energy is in charge of the nuclear energy.  Do you want the guy from Dancing with the stars in charge?

You ignore the fact he was a successful Governor for literally almost 15 years. Dancing with the Stars is meaningless, you act like that is his only accomplishment.

That's your opinion.  But even if what you say is true, that doesn't mean he's qualified to lead the Dept. of Energy.

That's not your decision to make.

No, but according to the U.S. Constitution I have the right to express my opinion and criticize the corrupt idiot that made the decision.