President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Nah, the media isn't obsessed at all:

 

Yes, some people believe their positions and what they work for mean something in the world. A challenging concept, I know.

 

Your transition is complete.

 

All you prediction makers need to fucking relax.

 

He. Isn't. The. President. What he says on the topic matters little.

 

The "status" one making the rounds on my Facebook feed is fucking hilarious. You know, the one that notes where the Dow is, etc. I find it priceless that these dipshits actually want to record, for comparison's sake, what the average price of gasoline is. As fucking if ...

 

Talk about obsessions, coach.

 

When you say "our," I'm assuming you're speaking for Russia.

 

As most of my family probably falls under the Trump banner and DQ isn't dumb or much of an asshole, can we add "ne'er do wells" to the choices? Or some other more mild rebuke?

 

A. They may have been career employees, but the jobs they held at the end were political appointments.

2. You're seeing a difference that isn't there between retiring and resigning.

C. It sounds like Kennedy learned he wasn't going to keep his job in the new administration, and decided to jump, rather than continue to assist with the transition. The same likely applies to the others as well.

 

Keep in mind that DQ ain't a Trump supporter ...

 

“It’s the single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional memory that anyone can remember, and that’s incredibly difficult to replicate,” David Wade, who served as State Department chief of staff under Kerry, told the paper. “Department expertise in security, management, administrative and consular positions in particular are very difficult to replicate and particularly difficult to find in the private sector.”

All the officials had submitted letters of resignation, a requirement when a new administration takes office for all jobs that are appointed by the president and that require Senate confirmation.

Ambassador Richard Boucher, the State Department spokesman for Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, said there’s always turnover when a new administration takes office and that top officials work with the new appointees to see who should stay on.

But the mass exodus will make it harder for Tillerson to hit the ground running, he said.

“You don’t run foreign policy by making statements, you run it with thousands of people working to implement programs every day. To undercut that is to undercut the institution,” Boucher told the paper.

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