I never said it was law. It is more like a gentleman's agreement [although documents were signed], and If the US doesn't back it with real actionable effort, it will [probably] die.
Everyone assumes the worst about Trump - I don't
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I agree.
This video is complete crap. I wasted 7 minutes of my life watching this shiat.
He is making a prediction three years ahead when we can't even predict whether it will rain tomorrow with any certainty or not. The reason is that he has predicted other things with quite a bit of accuracy, and when people have this sort of success, they start believing that all events have the same complexity metric and that you are endowed with some supernatural gift.
I disagree it is shit. I think what he is doing is setting a base from which to start recording facts about the Trump presidency going forward. Setting the stage for "I told you so". In particular?
My interest in the prediction is to watch people's long long standing beliefs slowly come undone as they gain experience, and if they are smart, they begin to gain real wisdom. I believe Obama learned almost nothing from his presidency - he didn't want to rock the boat, and as long as statistics that people used looked good (There are lies, damn lies, and statistics), he didn't care what the real people in the domain were telling him at ground zero. Hope and change? What change did we get? If anything, the swamp is infested to the gills under his presidency.
Loyalty to people who don't deserve it, but are your friends, is nearly impossible to overcome.
I am interested in seeing if when Trump chooses one of these guys to the cabinet, and he starts to realize how incompetent they are, how soon will he bring out the "You're FIRED!" line out. Is he interested in appearances, or performance?
Cenk thinks Trump is irredeemable and a one term president. Worse, he thinks impeachment likely - and I don't necessarily disagree - Trump has show that self-dealing is at the heart of who he has been. Let's see if Trump has learned anything in his 70 years.
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Trump is cleaning the swamp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Drain the swamp!
Drain the swamp!
Drain the swamp!
Drain the swamp!
Ok, I am impressed, so far. Trump is doing before he is even Prez, what Obama claimed he couldn't do at all.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........
Tossed aside by Trump, industry lobbyists scramble to connect
Eamon Javers | @EamonJavers
3 Hours AgoCNBC.com
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For weeks, Kevin O'Connor was the quiet Trump campaign transition leader for the Department of Justice. O'Connor is the managing director and general counsel of Point72 Asset Management, hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen's private firm.
He also worked for the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani (as in Rudy) and for the Justice Department under President George Bush.
O'Connor's appointment was likely to attract both praise for his deep knowledge of the Department of Justice, and criticism for his role at the side of a billionaire whose firm was involved in a massive insider trading case.
But never mind all that, because O'Connor is gone.
Eric Thayer | Reuters
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump
An apparent victim of a purge of top level transition officials, O'Connor joins former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers and a bevy of other well connected Trump transition officials who suddenly find themselves on the outside looking in. Some of those departures were reportedly related to a broad ouster of aides who were perceived as being close to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who led the Trump transition until last week.
On Wednesday, the Trump purge accelerated, now with an effort to push out lobbyists close to the effort. NBC News confirmed that Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who has taken over the transition leadership, had ordered the removal of all lobbyists from the team. That move came in the wake of criticism for Trump's use of lobbyists on his transition team despite his pledge to "drain the swamp" and clean up Washington ethics.
In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes," Donald Trump seemed to express frustration that his team had to depend on lobbyists for expertise. "That's the only people you have down there," Trump said. "Everybody's a lobbyist down there." At the same time, he pledged to make changes: "We're going to phase that out. You have to phase it out."
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/16/tossed-aside-by-trump-industry-lobbyists-scramble-to-connect.html
Drain the swamp!
Drain the swamp!
Drain the swamp!
Drain the swamp!
Ok, I am impressed, so far. Trump is doing before he is even Prez, what Obama claimed he couldn't do at all.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........
Tossed aside by Trump, industry lobbyists scramble to connect
Eamon Javers | @EamonJavers
3 Hours AgoCNBC.com
259COMMENTSJoin the Discussion
For weeks, Kevin O'Connor was the quiet Trump campaign transition leader for the Department of Justice. O'Connor is the managing director and general counsel of Point72 Asset Management, hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen's private firm.
He also worked for the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani (as in Rudy) and for the Justice Department under President George Bush.
O'Connor's appointment was likely to attract both praise for his deep knowledge of the Department of Justice, and criticism for his role at the side of a billionaire whose firm was involved in a massive insider trading case.
But never mind all that, because O'Connor is gone.
Eric Thayer | Reuters
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump
An apparent victim of a purge of top level transition officials, O'Connor joins former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers and a bevy of other well connected Trump transition officials who suddenly find themselves on the outside looking in. Some of those departures were reportedly related to a broad ouster of aides who were perceived as being close to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who led the Trump transition until last week.
On Wednesday, the Trump purge accelerated, now with an effort to push out lobbyists close to the effort. NBC News confirmed that Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who has taken over the transition leadership, had ordered the removal of all lobbyists from the team. That move came in the wake of criticism for Trump's use of lobbyists on his transition team despite his pledge to "drain the swamp" and clean up Washington ethics.
In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes," Donald Trump seemed to express frustration that his team had to depend on lobbyists for expertise. "That's the only people you have down there," Trump said. "Everybody's a lobbyist down there." At the same time, he pledged to make changes: "We're going to phase that out. You have to phase it out."
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/16/tossed-aside-by-trump-industry-lobbyists-scramble-to-connect.html
In September, the Trump campaign pitched rolling back food safety regulations in a fact sheet, arguing they are burdensome to farmers and criticizing increased inspections of food manufacturing facilities as “overkill.” The sheet referred to the “food police” at the Food and Drug Administration. The campaign later deleted the proposal from its website.
SNIP
Trump himself is a self-professed germaphobe who prefers eating at fast-food restaurants because he believes they have higher food safety standards.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-...ol-lunches-michelle-obama-health-food-stamps/
Trump talk so much BS to appease, to win the election.
SNIP
Trump himself is a self-professed germaphobe who prefers eating at fast-food restaurants because he believes they have higher food safety standards.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-...ol-lunches-michelle-obama-health-food-stamps/
Trump talk so much BS to appease, to win the election.
there needs to be a dislike button