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Donald Trump's cabinet picks

Bernie would be bad for America's economy. He would continue the Obama Era just like Hillary would've. Glad democrats didn't get the oval office.
 
Jarrad said:
idk sometimes people take politics far too seriously. Trump becoming president isn't the end of the world. It doesn't give him the authority to blow up China or something.
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Um... it actually does give him the authority to blow up China or any other country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Command_Authority

irhaskell8 said:
The electoral college is much more sophisticated and challenging. If it was for the popular vote, Trump would have campaigned differently.
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Elections are not supposed to be like a board game. The point of an election is not to be sophisticated and challenging, it's to be representative of the will of the people. The ability for someone to become president of the United States without actually being popular puts the U.S. in company with countries like Russia, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Iran where you also don't have to be popular to be the leader.
 
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i wonder what it's like living in other realities.

anyway, i think his cabinet is basically the usual alt-right nonsense except now we have to take this past year's right-wing sociopathic tantrum seriously because the public forgets every 20 some years that surprise, these kinds of angry, anti-intellectual businessmen do not care about them. i would argue that people that aren't troubled by his cabinet choices either have nothing to lose or aren't informed enough to realize they're all against their own best interest.
 
umjammer brandi said:
i wonder what it's like living in other realities.

anyway, i think his cabinet is basically the usual alt-right nonsense except now we have to take this past year's right-wing sociopathic tantrum seriously because the public forgets every 20 some years that surprise, these kinds of angry, anti-intellectual businessmen do not care about them. i would argue that people that aren't troubled by his cabinet choices either have nothing to lose or aren't informed enough to realize they're all against their own best interest.
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The last major U.S. recession was in 2008, so it actually took the public less than 8 years to forget that letting businessmen run the government ends in disaster. My cats have better long-term memory than most Americans.
 
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I don't think theyre that bad, he could have done better than Rex Tillerson butttt.... I think he chose people that he knew would be right for that position. we don't know anything about why he picked these people, and so there must be a good reason for each of them
 
Red Cat said:
Um... it actually does give him the authority to blow up China or any other country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Command_Authority



Elections are not supposed to be like a board game. The point of an election is not to be sophisticated and challenging, it's to be representative of the will of the people. The ability for someone to become president of the United States without actually being popular puts the U.S. in company with countries like Russia, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Iran where you also don't have to be popular to be the leader.
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You got that from Wikipedia. He doesn't have interest in just blowing up another country randomly. .-.

Elections are challenging because you have to sophistically represent yourself to the people. Before the election Trump was popular in the business aspect.

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nami26 said:
I don't think theyre that bad, he could have done better than Rex Tillerson butttt.... I think he chose people that he knew would be right for that position. we don't know anything about why he picked these people, and so there must be a good reason for each of them
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He picked them based on their qualifications.

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Red Cat said:
The last major U.S. recession was in 2008, so it actually took the public less than 8 years to forget that letting businessmen run the government ends in disaster. My cats have have long-term memory than most Americans.
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The people we have in office right now are doing a bang-up job. .-.

It makes sense that Mr. Trump and his economic plans will help save the country from financial ruin. Don't make fun of Americans.
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umjammer brandi said:
i wonder what it's like living in other realities.

anyway, i think his cabinet is basically the usual alt-right nonsense except now we have to take this past year's right-wing sociopathic tantrum seriously because the public forgets every 20 some years that surprise, these kinds of angry, anti-intellectual businessmen do not care about them. i would argue that people that aren't troubled by his cabinet choices either have nothing to lose or aren't informed enough to realize they're all against their own best interest.
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I wish you could see it differently. Hillary didn't win the election because the American people were right to feel that she did not care about them.
 
irhaskell8 said:
Bernie would be bad for America's economy. He would continue the Obama Era just like Hillary would've. Glad democrats didn't get the oval office.
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Correct me if I'm wrong here, didn't Trump plan to rid of Obamacare- then changed his mind? I don't like the guy AT ALL, but personally, Obamacare hasn't been very helpful for my family.
 
MayorSarah13 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong here, didn't Trump plan to rid of Obamacare- then changed his mind? I don't like the guy AT ALL, but personally, Obamacare hasn't been very helpful for my family.
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He's still against Obamacare. That doesn't help many families.
 
irhaskell8 said:
Elections are challenging because you have to sophistically represent yourself to the people. Before the election Trump was popular in the business aspect.
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Trump is anything but sophisticated. He got votes by being a shock-jock in an era where people are obsessed with reality TV and think the president should be entertaining. It's fascinating that so many people are so loyal and unquestioning to a guy who has done literally nothing for them. His defenders worship him like a god and think everything bad about him is a lie even when there is solid proof that it's true. They think every action he takes is out of the goodness of his heart and that there is not any remote chance that he could be doing something for his own self-interest even though he's been doing that his entire life. The one thing Trump deserves credit for is being so good at finding sheep looking for a shepard.
 
Red Cat said:
Trump is anything but sophisticated. He got votes by being a shock-jock in an era where people are obsessed with reality TV and think the president should be entertaining. It's fascinating that so many people are so loyal and unquestioning to a guy who has done literally nothing for them. His defenders worship him like a god and think everything bad about him is a lie even when there is solid proof that it's true. They think every action he takes is out of the goodness of his heart and that there is not any remote chance that he could be doing something for his own self-interest even though he's been doing that his entire life. The one thing Trump deserves credit for is being so good at finding sheep looking for a shepard.
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People are in an era where they're tired of politicans doing NOTHING for anyone else and doing everything for themselves! If you do a poll over why people voted for President-Elect Donald J. Trump there will be no responses in which they state they voted for him because he's entertaining.

You're calling all the individuals who voted for Trump unintelligent. They don't worship him like a god. We don't worship him like a god.

Trump has done many things. Helping out a single African-American mother. Donating and fighting for the veterans association. And much more. He is a successful businessman.

This thread started as an intellectual conversation going on between many individuals with different opinions. Now it's "he said, she said".

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His campaign was sophisticated enough to get the electoral college vote.
 
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irhaskell8 said:
He's still against Obamacare. That doesn't help many families.
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Obamacare is how my family gets me insulin for my type one diabetes. My parents are both still together, but my dad has a teacher job while my mom is unemployed. Insulin isn't cheap, you know. Trump is literally threatening to take away my fail safe for the thing that literally keeps me alive.
 
irhaskell8 said:
People are in an era where they're tired of politicans doing NOTHING for anyone else and doing everything for themselves! If you do a poll over why people voted for President-Elect Donald J. Trump there will be no responses in which they state they voted for him because he's entertaining.

You're calling all the individuals who voted for Trump unintelligent. They don't worship him like a god. We don't worship him like a god.

Trump has done many things. Helping out a single African-American mother. Donating and fighting for the veterans association. And much more. He is a successful businessman.

This thread started as an intellectual conversation going on between many individuals with different opinions. Now it's "he said, she said".

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1.(of a machine, system, or technique) developed to a high degree of complexity

His campaign was sophisticated enough to get the electoral college vote.
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His campaign was sophisticated enough because the voters are not. Hillary Clinton won among college educated voters and Trump won among non-college educated voters. So statistically speaking, Trump voters are less intelligent.
 
And by the way, i'm sure my family will likely find some way to get health insurance if Trump repeals affordable health care (which, i'm sure he will.) but it is going to be a lot harder. Thats what pisses me off about Trump. You don't know it, but i'm certain you can name a middle class family you know that uses Obamacare.

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Red Cat said:
His campaign was sophisticated enough because the voters are not. Hillary Clinton won among college educated voters and Trump won among non-college educated voters. So statistically speaking, Trump voters are less intelligent.
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One of the other reasons Hillary lost was because millenials were stupid enough to vote for Gary Johnson and Jill Stein thinking nothing of it. However surprise surprise you wasted your vote on candidates that didn't even win. My brother voted for Jill Stein and a day after he did he called my mom and dad crying.
 
Red Cat said:
His campaign was sophisticated enough because the voters are not. Hillary Clinton won among college educated voters and Trump won among non-college educated voters. So statistically speaking, Trump voters are less intelligent.
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Did you know there has been proof and accusations over college professing blackmailing/forcing their students to lean a certain way politically?

Pull up the statistics for that please. As far as I know Trump voters are more educated and much more sophisticated when debates start between Trump voters vs Hillary voters.

I could randomly say... Hillary voters are all middle-class. It's believable, to a point. Doesn't make it true. .-.

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N e s s said:
And by the way, i'm sure my family will likely find some way to get health insurance if Trump repeals affordable health care (which, i'm sure he will.) but it is going to be a lot harder. Thats what pisses me off about Trump. You don't know it, but i'm certain you can name a middle class family you know that uses Obamacare.

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One of the other reasons Hillary lost was because millenials were stupid enough to vote for Gary Johnson and Jill Stein thinking nothing of it. However surprise surprise you wasted your vote on candidates that didn't even win. My brother voted for Jill Stein and a day after he did he called my mom and dad crying.
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Your brother cried because he chose to vote for a third-party?

Jill Stein and Gary Johnson both affected Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The thing is... Donald Trump came out stronger... Hm, wonder why.
 
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irhaskell8 said:
Did you know there has been proof and accusations over college professing blackmailing/forcing their students to lean a certain way politically?

Pull up the statistics for that please. As far as I know Trump voters are more educated and much more sophisticated when debates start between Trump voters vs Hillary voters.

I could randomly say... Hillary voters are all middle-class. It's believable, to a point. Doesn't make it true. .-.

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Your brother cried because he chose to vote for a third-party?

Jill Stein and Gary Johnson both affected Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The thing is... Donald Trump came out stronger... Hm, wonder why.
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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html?_r=0

Now do me a favor and pull up the source for your college blackmailing story.
 
irhaskell8 said:
Did you know there has been proof and accusations over college professing blackmailing/forcing their students to lean a certain way politically?

Pull up the statistics for that please. As far as I know Trump voters are more educated and much more sophisticated when debates start between Trump voters vs Hillary voters.

I could randomly say... Hillary voters are all middle-class. It's believable, to a point. Doesn't make it true. .-.

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Your brother cried because he chose to vote for a third-party?

Jill Stein and Gary Johnson both affected Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The thing is... Donald Trump came out stronger... Hm, wonder why.
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Would you stop and look at the way you're treating other people in your posts, you're being an incredibly rude to everyone in this thread. I didn't say anything rude about you, I just stated what I think about Trump and my own political opinions. My family is democratic, and my brother said he felt like horses*** because he thought he wasted his vote and he let people around him convince him to make the wrong choice. He never liked trump, but he said afterwards that he thought back and should have voted for Clinton.

If you can't handle being civil to other people in a political conversation, then its time for you to stop. What you're saying is uncalled for when I didn't say anything rude to you, I only put in my 2 cents.
 
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