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I remember when Obama won in 2008, everybody said "Don't worry, his campaign advisers are all Wall Street Skeptics. They're gonna get cabinet positions."

And of course, from Wikileaks, we saw that Michael Froman of Citigroup was picking the Obama Cabinet, and all those campaign advisers were relegated to powerless White Paper Committees while Wall Street Crooks got the Cabinet positions.

Despite a mandate of fixing Wall Street, Obama dropped all rhetoric on regulated Wall Street immediately, and began working on a subsidy scheme for Aetna/US Healthcare.

One skill that Trump possesses is to pick the right people for the right jobs. Lets give credit where credit is due.

Strategist says

One skill that Trump possesses is to pick the right people for the right jobs. Lets give credit where credit is due.

And more importantly, the skill to fire people.

If true that would be a poor choice unless he told Dimon any greed or self interest would count towards his death at the hands of Clinton's old personal trainer while working out at the end of his term.

So is this any worse than say, Paulson or Rubin from Goldman Sachs being Sec. Treasury?

It's not like there's anything new here afaict.

Thunderlips Licks Shill Tears says

Strategist says

One skill that Trump possesses is to pick the right people for the right jobs. Lets give credit where credit is due.

And more importantly, the skill to fire people.

LOL. Trump just fired Christie.

Bezos and Slim's Blogs are never going to give Trump a break.

First 100 days: Hearings on Amazon Monopoly, working conditions at "High Tech Jobs of the Future" Amazon Warehouses, hearings on billionaire ownership of media outlets and trust busting Media Conglomerates.

Maybe rules limiting foreign ownership of US Media to 5% of shares (Fuck you, Murdoch and Slim)

Attack is the best Defense.

Tried to read the article from the original post, but it's gone: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/10/donald-trump-advisors-considered-jpmorgans-jamie

"We're sorry, the page you were looking for isn't found here."

Anyway, the story is "Trump's advisors considered", not "Trump personally offered position to".

Gov. Chris Christie is no longer the leader of the transition team, and Mike Pence is taking over. Hawkish on War!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/us/politics/donald-trump-transition.html?_r=0

rando says

Anyway, the story is "Trump's advisors considered", not "Trump personally offered position to".

Stop it, Patrick, you're not supposed to read articles with a critical, cynical eye.

So far Trump has not appointed Geithner and Larry Summers to his transition team :)

I won't be horrified. I'll see it as a concession to get other shit done.

The person who was elected with a mandate to reform Wall Street was Obama, and it turned out his job was to run down the clock on prosecutions. His appointment of Geithner, Summers, and Holder of the Marc Rich pardon was evidence he was lying the whole 2008 campaign.

Trump's mandate is to trim the excesses of outsourcing and insourcing, repeal Heritage Foundation Care, and generally check Neoliberal Globalization.

Hillary was supported by big banks and millions of OPENLY anti-white racist misandrists who made no secret of their irrational, hateful, dangerous prejudices.

Expected. The price to pay to get what we want in 4 years. Successful or not, after the primaries, this is the only way.

The dirty little secret is that all legislation is controlled by the staffers. The politicians are too busy running for reelection.

E.G. term limits would make the problem worse. Because that would throw more power to the staffers.

Bankers are staffers, which is why Goldman Sachs has had someone in the white house for ever.

I said this before the election, I'll say it again. You cannot fix a broken system from within. Trump is NOT a financial outsider. He is just as buddy buddy with wall street as Obama and every president before that back to LBJ. If this seriously surprises anyone you should be smacked in the back of the head for being so gullible.

Ceffer says

I'm glad to hear that Trumpligula was always in the pocket of the Shadow Government, just as the Founding Fathers intended.

But we'll never know, which one was their first choice and which was their second.

Nice!!!!

It's going to be interesting to see a Government by the people for the people.
I hope he gives the NSA Cyber watch tower even juristiction over all digital data comming out of Washington to be monitored.
Trump would have never pulled off what he did, had Hillary kept it all on the Whitehouse.Gov email. The Snoop center doesn't watch their email.
I think they should have at least the Meta Data on the government offical communication. I mean real Meta Data like they were supposed to have, not the whole Email Server folder.
But who sent what subject and how many bytes to who and where. That would go along way to give oversight commities more power. And will keep Ameirca honest for another 250 years.

Id prefer Ted Nugent.

Can we have Tina Fey instead?

Like how the Russians hacked the Election?

I hear Merkel is prepping the same excuse in advance of her defeat next Fall.

anonymous says

"It's going to be interesting to see a Government by the people for the people." - You keep forgetting about Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell so it these are your type of "people" - you will love this.

Ryan also indicated that he wants to privatize Medicare, New York Magazine reported, Friday. This would effectively end Medicare, since it’s a publicly funded program. Handing it over to businesses would be the end of the program, even if “privatizing” sounds like a change or a reform.

You forget that Ryan and McConnell threw up obstacles to Trump and were gleeful when the bullshit Bush Bus Tape came out. They're with her. Trump needs to crush them ASAP.

Lindsay Graham voted for NeverTrump Evan McMullin.

anonymous says

We need less to no NSA, TSA, Patriot Act, Militarized Police Etc.

Where was Obama? Oh yeah, EFF gave him a 3.5/12 on his Surveillance Scorecard, which is an F-

Having a heavy weight wall street guy at the helm of the Treasury is to reassure investors that there will be at least one voice that might help prevent Trump from doing something insanely stupid (economically). That is understandable, and actually a little reassuring to me (that he won't have only loyal idiot yes men in his cabinet).

But Sara Palin ? That would be surprising, even to me.

Perhaps Trump should have Palin deal with Putin. She can see Russia from her house. No need to have a hotline.

Fuck Trump and Die Whitey

What about Newt what position has he been given?

anonymous says

WTF - you enjoy living in a quasi police state ?

Yeah, what did Obama do to stop it? He's been President for Eight (8), Ocho, Acht, Years/Anos/Jahren.

He's got 70 days, he can do a lot with executive orders.

rpanic01 says

Newt what position has

Trump splainer in chief

Ryan is no where in the picture, the election is over.

Just one bullet in Soros head this ends the next second.

I made that speculation on Wednesday and don't doubt it. People today are killed over nothing in the public square so this is really provocation. A friend who work at U of Florida's extension service but also is on a site that deals in old ceiling fans said the son of one of his customers put a post on his Facebook account that he was going kill Trump. All the more reason these people needed to loose the election. Here's a comment I made on a story about Ann Coulter fat-shaming protesters:

Hilarious! I love Ann Coulter and knew she was ecstatic after Trump's victory. The protesters are the same people who are so fragile they have to have safe spaces and trigger warning on campus to protect them against opinions they don't agree with. The ones who shut down speakers they don't agree with and cause them to be uninvited--every May brings rejections of conservative speakers who were invited but rejected by the "students". But when they want something, it's no holds barred.These are going to be dangerous people in their 30's and 40's if they ever get into government, heaven forbid. They are the modern day's equivalent of Chairman Mao's Red Guards during the Chinese Cultural Revolution when you could be killed for your thoughts.

Daddy says he'll make newt perch frozen on a rock and not blink for hours and hours.
Thunderlips is Tovbot2 says

What about Newt what position has he been given?

The guns will come out eventually I can't believe Obama is going to wait until he ends up worse than LBJ. Just like LBJ let the Marxist useful idiots create mayhem just until they weren't needed anymore.

Becuase move on.org and Open Society Foundations are financing the protests and also finance democrat candidates.

Well, apparently Trump financed the press.

I am sure she signed the petition-the leftie on the left.

www.youtube.com/embed/ZIpkdusnIkE

This is so funny!!!!! These idjits are real????

www.youtube.com/embed/OmRc9N1WGjI

God the incessant whining. I lost it today with a group of co-workers on the way back from lunch in my car when the protestor subject came up. "Why don't you like them it's freedom of speech?"

Same idiot sat next to me at lunch yesterday in the cafe and started complaining about her Chaldean neighbor, "You know the Christian's from the middle east who own all of the markets", and how she was sooo upset this old lady was pro-trump and anti-muslim. I calmly explained that I didn't blame her considering her peers were stuck up on top of a mountain last year surrounded by ISIS being genocided and it took forever for anyone to help.

Today I just couldn't take it. Fucking sad sacks all around me at work. Next weeks going to be fun now that I'm out as not a Hillary lover.

Is This Hillary part of the govt.?
I don't want to hear her private citizen opinion.
Why would anyone want to?

One is known to be an Anti-America,Constitution Hater when they think
Obama & Dems have the right to tell true americans what to say or do.

TRAITORS to american FREEDOMS!