BigSqwert Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 BREAKING: U.S. President-elect Trump invited Philippines' Duterte to visit White House next year: Duterte aide via Reminds you of Hitler palling around with Mussolini. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 (edited) https://www.yahoo.com/news/beijing-faces-de...-050920301.html Trump wants what exactly? War? Trade war? This is just idiotic. The Chinese government is spending billions of RMB to keep the currency from devaluing further. Who wins when the money flees the country for higher rates of return in NYC, LA, SF and Vancouver? Real estate developers in prime markets. When you impose tariffs, your consumers lose with higher prices. If we do the same to China, American consumers will pay 30-50% more for every product they buy, starting with their beloved Apple products. Are we going to intervene to save every US job? That will not only raise costs to consumers over time, it will also lead to less tax revenues for the government or lower school district budgets due to TIF. That's the opposite of GOP free trade policies, as noted for preeminent economist and scholar Sarah Palin. We can complain about dumping steel, coal, cement, rare earths materials on the rest of the world...but the US government never subsidized those inefficient industries, causing jobs to flee to Asia the last thirty years. Another legit concern is copyright law...best to go after companies like Alibaba directly (especially when listed on American stock exchanges), since they represent the Chinese government by proxy anyway. WTO complaints will take too long to be resolved. But adjudicating past grievances in present day is going to be counterproductive. In China, policies benefit the government first. That's why they have $3+ trillion in capital reserves. The US could follow the same "anti-American" policies, and that would lower the Federal budget as well as trade deficits, but it will hurt consumers by making nearly everything they pay increasingly expensive. The government can take those profits and pay off the debt or spend on a wall or the military. Who's in favor? All say, aye! http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/04/donald-trum...&yptr=yahoo More Trump ties and hats to be manufactured abroad? Guess Trump's not such a great negotiator after all if he's provoking a war before even coming close to Inauguration Day. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-taps-forme...-111946945.html Consider swamp drained...Carson for HUD Secretary. Edited December 5, 2016 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Trump’s Taiwan phone call was long planned, say people who were involved Donald Trump’s protocol-breaking telephone call with Taiwan’s leader was an intentionally provocative move that establishes the incoming president as a break with the past, according to interviews with people involved in the planning. The historic communication — the first between leaders of the United States and Taiwan since 1979 — was the product of months of quiet preparations and deliberations among Trump’s advisers about a new strategy for engagement with Taiwan that began even before he became the Republican presidential nominee, according to people involved in or briefed on the talks. The call also reflects the views of hard-line advisers urging Trump to take a tough opening line with China, said others familiar with the months of discussion about Taiwan and China. “Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into their country (the U.S. doesn’t tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea?” he asked. “I don’t think so!” The United States does impose a tax on Chinese goods — 2.9 percent for non-farm goods and 2.5 percent for agricultural products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 For his next trick, Trump will be selecting Tea Leoni as SoS because she is in a show called Madam Secretary. Love putting Carson into a position where he himself says he isnt ready for. wheeeeeeeeeeeee lets go this is fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 5, 2016 -> 08:23 AM) Trump’s Taiwan phone call was long planned, say people who were involved Apparently, the Heritage Foundation was heavily allowed, along with one of Dick Cheney's former national security advisors in Stephen Yates (currently vying for administration position.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 (edited) QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 5, 2016 -> 11:59 AM) For his next trick, Trump will be selecting Tea Leoni as SoS because she is in a show called Madam Secretary. Love putting Carson into a position where he himself says he isnt ready for. wheeeeeeeeeeeee lets go this is fun He won't even admit whether he stayed in Section 8/public housing or not. Should be one of the more entertaining confirmation hearings...especially if we get into aliens, grain storage, the pyramids and his 1% buddy through whom a lot of the family money is invested (mostly real estate) being shielded from Federal health care fraud proceedings. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-adviso...-112250866.html Trump advisors aim to privatize oil/natural gas rich Native American reservations. Why do I see the next Michael Moore doc coming out of this? Edited December 5, 2016 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 5, 2016 -> 11:59 AM) For his next trick, Trump will be selecting Tea Leoni as SoS because she is in a show called Madam Secretary. Love putting Carson into a position where he himself says he isnt ready for. wheeeeeeeeeeeee lets go this is fun it's like he's deliberately tempting the EC to do the one job it was designed to do, keep incompetent clowns from the Presidency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 (edited) Linda McMahon of WWE fame for head of the small business administration. She was the single largest donor to the trump foundation. https://t.co/psZE4VpbXA His entire transition has been one f*** you to everyone who didn't vote for him and also everyone who did. Edited December 8, 2016 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Neither Trump or Linda McMahon could sell the stunner worth a damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gop-sets-clo...-162900269.html 7 1/2 years later, GOP still without a realistic replacement for ObamaCare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostfan Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 When terrorists abroad target a building with the brand name of the U.S. president in another country (this is a matter of when, not if - it will happen) how's his f***ing mental midget who gets triggered by SNL and mean tweets going to respond? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Dec 8, 2016 -> 06:52 AM) When terrorists abroad target a building with the brand name of the U.S. president in another country (this is a matter of when, not if - it will happen) how's his f***ing mental midget who gets triggered by SNL and mean tweets going to respond? And I'm not joking either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 (edited) Trump considers naming FDA chief who would radically overhaul the agency WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is weighing naming as Food and Drug Administration commissioner a staunch libertarian who has called for eliminating the agency’s mandate to determine whether new medicines are effective before approving them for sale. “Let people start using them, at their own risk,” the candidate, Jim O’Neill, said in a 2014 speech to a biotech group. O’Neill has also called for paying organ donors and setting up libertarian societies at sea — and has said he was surprised to discover that FDA regulators actually enjoy science and like working to fight disease. A source close to the Trump transition team told STAT that Peter Thiel, the billionaire Trump donor who is helping shape the new administration, is pushing for the FDA appointment for O’Neill, his managing director at Mithril Capital Management. Bannon, Trump's white nationalist senior policy adviser, has said in the past that he wants to blow up the federal government. Trump's picks all seem to be lined up to ensure that happens. Edited December 8, 2016 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 (edited) QUOTE (Brian @ Dec 8, 2016 -> 06:41 AM) Neither Trump or Linda McMahon could sell the stunner worth a damn. lol McMahon was also a big donor to Trump's campaign, to the tune of $9M. Glad we've drained the swamp and ended pay-to-play politics once and for all. Boy do all of his supporters who were thought that he was getting money out of politics have egg on their faces now! Edited December 8, 2016 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 After reading story after story about Goldman Sachs/Obama/Clinton speeches...now roughly half of his nominees have direct or indirect connections there. Not to mention those same 2-3 big banks are the ones primarily responsible for pushing the Dow Jones to record numbers since the election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 His voters got duped. They'll never admit it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 (edited) Trump names Andrew Puzder, a fast-food CEO and critic of substantially raising the minimum wage, to head the Labor Department He's also opposed to the expanded overtime pay rules that were set to go into effect on December 1st but have been blocked by Republican lawsuits. "Managers" making $30k-50k a year can look forward to not being paid any overtime for their 60-70 hour weeks because, in the words of Puzder, it would lower the "prestige" of those jobs to be paid for the work they're performing. Oh, and he was also a big donor to Trump's campaign. Edited December 9, 2016 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostfan Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Hillary Clinton appointed the top donor to her foundation to a Cabinet position. Wait, that's Donald Trump. My bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Seems increasingly likely the Exxon Mobil CEO is going to be Secretary of state. This makes sense because Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 10, 2016 -> 07:15 PM) Seems increasingly likely the Exxon Mobil CEO is going to be Secretary of state. This makes sense because Why would the CEO of Exxon want to be SOS? That is quite the pay cut. Future potential earnings? Does he have to resign his position as CEO to take the job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 10, 2016 -> 09:27 PM) Why would the CEO of Exxon want to be SOS? That is quite the pay cut. Future potential earnings? Does he have to resign his position as CEO to take the job? IF Russia has made you enough money, you owe them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 10, 2016 -> 07:27 PM) Why would the CEO of Exxon want to be SOS? That is quite the pay cut. Future potential earnings? Does he have to resign his position as CEO to take the job? I would imagine he already has more wealth than he could spend in several lifetimes. What possible qualifications he has, aside from "has received awards from Russia", is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 10, 2016 -> 11:53 PM) I would imagine he already has more wealth than he could spend in several lifetimes. What possible qualifications he has, aside from "has received awards from Russia", is beyond me. Apparently Exxon has a $300 billion drilling deal in the Russian Arctic that has been on hold since 2014 due to the sanctions. So this is a multi-billion dollar rapprochement for his pocketbook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 (edited) http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/11/us/polit...crats.html?_r=0 He also indicated that as president, he would not take the daily intelligence briefing that President Obama and his predecessors have received. Mr. Trump, who has received the briefing sparingly as president-elect, said that it was often repetitive and that he would take it “when I need it.” He said his vice president, Mike Pence, would receive the daily briefing. “You know, I’m, like, a smart person,” he said. “I don’t have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years.” He is also categorically rejecting any and all suggestions that Russia played a role in his election and that they were actively in favor of him, contrary to the conclusion of the intelligence community. Edited December 11, 2016 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Tillerson for Secretary of state. He has zero diplomatic and foreign policy experience, but he does have business ties to Russia. And, even more absurdly, Rick Perry for department of energy. This was one of the departments Perry wanted to eliminate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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