President Elect Trump

JC29856 said:

Go Beavers said:

Don't bring you ability to think logically or critically. Do bring your fear and ability to conform! Don't spell check whatever stupid sign you're bringing.

Im not much of a sign guy, last time I made a sign was when W as president stumped for local congressmen. It was a scoreboard that said USA Military with the number of however many were killed in Iraq at the time probable 3,200, then VS Iraqi Innocent Civilians with the number zero (0), "tommy franks...we dont do body counts", then time remaining with the word forever. cool story eh?

So Anakin, when were you consumed by the dark side? lol

HughFreakingDillon said:

JC29856 said:

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has issued a blanket mandate requiring politically appointed ambassadors installed by President Barack Obama to leave their posts by Inauguration Day, the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand said on Friday.

"I will be departing on January 20th," Ambassador Mark Gilbert said in a Twitter message to Reuters.

The mandate was issued "without exceptions" through an order sent in a State Department cable on Dec. 23, Gilbert said.

wow. is this usual?

A little bit but not really. The blanket mandate feels a little extreme but It is not at all unusual for most ambassadors to be done with their posts once the administration that appointed them is gone. Most of these ambassadors are political appointees who were big campaign donors. Most are not career foreign service people, they're just rich friends. Obama's rich friends will be replaced with Trump's rich friends. This is mostly not news.

JC29856 said:

rgambs said:

JC29856 said:

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has issued a blanket mandate requiring politically appointed ambassadors installed by President Barack Obama to leave their posts by Inauguration Day, the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand said on Friday.

"I will be departing on January 20th," Ambassador Mark Gilbert said in a Twitter message to Reuters.

The mandate was issued "without exceptions" through an order sent in a State Department cable on Dec. 23, Gilbert said.

Be sure to pat yourself on the back when he thanks all his supporters for their tireless work in getting him elected!

I'm not much of a back patter, although I was kinda proud and back patten when we got the PJ banner at the WF Center in Philly. Not the initial one planned but none the less. Anyway, my 1 PA vote made zero difference.

Don't be so humble! Tonifig was singing high praises back when you were doing the Lorde's work. He made you sound like an internet pied piper, leading Democrats away from Clinton to clear the way for Trump.

JC29856 said:

I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it.
DJT TWEETY

Probably tried to show him, but he was busy skipping those briefings and chilling on his gold shitter tweeting.

ledvedderman said:

vaggar99 said:

ledvedderman said:

No it's not. Tainted is a stretch. Russia hacked the parties and some states registration systems. There's zero evidence that even one vote anywhere was changed.
We lost this election. It's as simple of that. An imperfect messenger delivering an imperfect message lost to a total loser with a hate filled message.

we all know this election was stolen, otherwise we wouldn't be having this discussion. T won by a handful of votes in a few states. States that were in the bag for Clinton. Yes, she took them for granted. But don't forget the Comey letter. What was her national lead before that? 12 points?

No. We don't. There is zero chance that this was "stolen" or rigged. I said that when Trump said it was and I'm saying it now when moronic statements are made now. I've been in elections for 15 years and politics for over 20 and this isn't possible. Russia DID hack into state systems but they did not change the outcome of this election.

Seems like we are talking about two different things. I'm sticking with dnc hack and the impact it had on the election results. My firm belief is that the release of that info was enough to change enough legitimate votes from Hillary to Trump. The information was released by a foreign power with the intent of electing one candidate over another. Hence, a tainted election.

I'm sorry, man. I think the DNC hack hurt and certainly changed some people's minds on voting for Hillary. But if that's the angle you're going at, as opposed to legit hacking of election data, the letter from Comey is where you need to look. If any outside source, other than a terrible candidate and message, sank the Clinton campaign...it's Comey.

Your argument isn't enough to give any justification to an election being tainted to the degree that it's held again.

We lost. You can't move forward while looking backward. Time to move on.

Comey pretty worked it for trump to win and was successful. He's probably relieved to see the attention get put on Putin so he can be free and clear.