"No Formal Chain of Command Around Here"

LooseGoose wrote:With all the recent successes (the last 20 years) of the US Government it's really, really scary to see someone try something different.

Spoiler:

steveschneider wrote:Interesting, Twitter wasn't at the tech meeting.

Anyone care to speculate?

steveschneider wrote:Interesting, Twitter wasn't at the tech meeting.

Anyone care to speculate?

LooseGoose wrote:

steveschneider wrote:Interesting, Twitter wasn't at the tech meeting.

Anyone care to speculate?

They have a nasty habit of shutting down Conservative accounts. Not "alt right" but people like Glenn Reynolds, Jim Geraghty, Eric Erikson.

Rocinante wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

They have a nasty habit of shutting down Conservative accounts. Not "alt right" but people like Glenn Reynolds, Jim Geraghty, Eric Erikson.

I have heard of none of these people.

LooseGoose wrote:Well except that even 538 will tell you that the jobs HAVEN'T been replaced. We still have troops in Iraq and numerous other countries.  

As I've said multiple times to deaf ears around here, I'm willing to give the guy a chance.   We've heard all of the scare crap about picking his cabinet slower etc, that turned out to be not true.  

If he fails, he fails.   It's not like this country hasn't weathered a failed Presidency before.

This silly pick, pick, pick weeks and months before he's actually President is stupid.   It's like people are big babies, can't accept the outcome of the election and want to re-litigate the whole thing again.

Spoiler:

Rocinante wrote:Glenn Reynolds left twitter willingly after a twitter gaff where he said people should "run down" protesters in Charlotte. He later apologized.

The other two have twitter accounts that seem to be active.

LooseGoose wrote:

Rocinante wrote:Glenn Reynolds left twitter willingly after a twitter gaff where he said people should "run down" protesters in Charlotte. He later apologized.

The other two have twitter accounts that seem to be active.

I know that about Mr. Reynolds. And your description leaves out some context. He said that rather than STOP when they might get beaten like Reginald Denny they should keep going and run over people IF NECESSARY - not on purpose. Big difference of trying to protect your family versus wantonly running people down.

But the point is/was that all of them have been shut down once or more than once by Twitter. The fact that the accounts are active now doesn't change that.

The meeting between President-elect Donald J. Trump and the nation’s tech elite was hyped as something out of “The Apprentice”: The new boss tells his minions to shape up. It turned out to be a charm offensive, a kind of “Dancing With the Silicon Valley Stars.”

“This is a truly amazing group of people,” the president-elect said on Wednesday in a 25th-floor conference room at Trump Tower in Manhattan. The gathering included Jeff Bezos of Amazon; Elon Musk of Tesla; Timothy D. Cook of Apple; Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook; Larry Page and Eric Schmidt of Alphabet, Google’s parent company; and Satya Nadella of Microsoft, among others. “I’m here to help you folks do well,” Mr. Trump said.

He kept going in that vein. “There’s nobody like you in the world,” he enthused. “In the world! There’s nobody like the people in this room.” Anything that the government “can do to help this go along,” he made clear, “we’re going to be there for you.”

GRR Spartan wrote:President elect Trump, his including Chief of Staff Priebus, advisor Bannon, the leaders of the tech world and 3 of Trump's children and his son-in-law.

Why were Trump's children and son-in-law present?

GRR Spartan wrote:President elect Trump, his including Chief of Staff Priebus, advisor Bannon, the leaders of the tech world and 3 of Trump's children and his son-in-law.

Why were Trump's children and son-in-law present?

LooseGoose wrote:With all the recent successes (the last 20 years) of the US Government it's really, really scary to see someone try something different.

The_Dude wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:Well except that even 538 will tell you that the jobs HAVEN'T been replaced. We still have troops in Iraq and numerous other countries.  

As I've said multiple times to deaf ears around here, I'm willing to give the guy a chance.   We've heard all of the scare crap about picking his cabinet slower etc, that turned out to be not true.  

If he fails, he fails.   It's not like this country hasn't weathered a failed Presidency before.

This silly pick, pick, pick weeks and months before he's actually President is stupid.   It's like people are big babies, can't accept the outcome of the election and want to re-litigate the whole thing again.

Spoiler:

Spot on. This was a change election. Politicians no longer serve the American public or fight for us.

This was also a culture war thing. The academic media types telling people what to think and belittling them if they disagree failed. Every time Lena Dunham or Katy Perry campaigned for Hilary she lost votes.

Democrats in their fit of rage are now backing political losers like fighting trump on china and balking when he saves American jobs.

The right used to always fall for the trap of publicly backing political losers that people were against. Trump changed everything.

GRR Spartan wrote:President elect Trump, his including Chief of Staff Priebus, advisor Bannon, the leaders of the tech world and 3 of Trump's children and his son-in-law.

Why were Trump's children and son-in-law present?

GRR Spartan wrote:Buh bye Blanch

AnomanderRake wrote:When are you guys going to stop spamming every topic with this nonsense about Trump causing a shift in voters and the rallying cry of rural America?

Trump did not win this election by converting moderates or rallying a large % of non-voters or new voters. Trump got the same voters that always vote Republican, who have more consistent turnout. He got less votes than Romney for fucks sake, Trump wasn't and isn't that likable of a candidate.

He won because Hillary is even less likable, and an unexciting candidate for a democratic base hungry for a progressive, with a poor campaign strategy which resulted in far too many voters staying home.