Betrayal of Trump's anti-Washington, anti-Wall Street base has been swift

[taliey]

If only there was some way to see this coming.

[Captain N]

"Look, if you just got rid of the EPA, we wouldn't have to spend all this money trying to capture the EPA so it would let us pollute to our heart's content. We could just skip directly to the polluting and there'd be no corruption."

Why does this guy that Trump brought in to head the EPA remind me of Walter Peck from Ghostbusters when he shuts down the Containment Grid?

No clue what he's doing and in the end nearly destroys New York

[prwraith]

Most of the country voted for him thinking he'd remove corruption. Idiots. He was always going to be more of the same. It's fine if you voted for him, but don't using the argument that he was going to cleanse the government was naiveity at best

[DeadmanWalking]

Donald is changing the alligators for crocodiles and calling the swamp a moat after putting his castle there. They wanted something different so now they get a bunch of alt-right guys running the show. This should last a few months.

[Thepersona]

Something like that. Its just.... out there. I mean it defies all logic and common sense to anyone capable of rational thought. So I guess you could call it magic.

well, thinking that anarcho-capitalism works does indeed require a certain acceptance of magic

[Corvus]

He hires an insider and he is selling out to the establishment.
He hires an outsider and he is accused of having people with no experience.
He hires someone he knows and he is accused of cronyism.
He hires someone he doesn't know and he is taking on a complete stranger and unknown.

I think that about covers it.

[zaino]

1. To ensure all states have at least some level of representation.

is this not what the senate is for?

why should we trust a system based on total population when voting rates have been abysmal

[Berndorf]

To some degree I think the media is already trying to derail his presidency before he's even been sworn in yet. Like Priebus for being his chief of staff who some are mad about because Priebus is chair of the rnc. He needs someone with connections in the Rep party to help get w/e legislation he wants passed or overturned through congress. That's just the reality of things. I am neither pro or anti Trump at this point. I am going to wait at least 6 months after he gets sworn in to try and assess what sort of job he is doing though in terms of making changes or accomplishing anything he said he would. Some people are just looking for absolutely any excuse to bury him right now which is the sad state of American politics at the moment.

[Wells]

To some degree I think the media is already trying to derail his presidency before he's even been sworn in yet. Like Priebus for being his chief of staff. He needs someone with connections in the Rep party to help get w/e legislation he wants passed or overturned through congress. That's just the reality of things. I am neither pro or anti Trump at this point. I am going to wait at least 6 months after he gets sworn in to try and assess what sort of job he is doing though in terms of making changes or accomplishing anything he said he would. Some people are just looking for absolutely any excuse to bury him right now which is the sad state of American politics at the moment.

You see much complaining about Priebus? Most of the media seems outraged he selected a white supremacist for chief strategist.

The media isn't supposed to be a neutral transcriber of events. They're a watch dog and should have an adversarial relationship with the government.

[NoiseTank13]

Yeah, I think Priebus is the least of peoples concerns at the moment.

He's basically the Wormtail of that group.

[jdbond592]

He hires an insider and he is selling out to the establishment.
He hires an outsider and he is accused of having people with no experience.
He hires someone he knows and he is accused of cronyism.
He hires someone he doesn't know and he is taking on a complete stranger and unknown.

I think that about covers it.

Atleast these people are not pretending Trump is second coming of Christ

They are laughing at you.

[Berndorf]

You see much complaining about Priebus? Most of the media seems outraged he selected a white supremacist for chief strategist.

The media isn't supposed to be a neutral transcriber of events. They're a watch dog and should have an adversarial relationship with the government.

yes, Priebus was the first choice that was getting heavily criticized. Also, the media lost all credibility as a neutral or unbiased observer long, long ago. cnn literally published more pro Hillary op eds before she had even announced her candidacy than they did of Bernie or Trump during the entire election cycle. It was like 1 pro Hillary op ed ever 2-3 weeks for the 15 months of her campaign. Also, almost every single day the lead story on their website was pretty much a 'Trump is racist or misogynist' type story from the time the conventions ended until the election except for then Comey reopened the email investigation. Then on top of that you had the email come out of wikileaks in which Podesta had a list of like 20 journalists who could be counted on to take a list of talking points and write a pro Hillary article around them. Half of them also worked for cnn. I'm all for the idea of a critical media and even for applying it to Trump but our media just has no credibility left whatsoever.

[alexw]

Yeah, I think Priebus is the least of peoples concerns at the moment.

He's basically the Wormtail of that group.

That needs to go viral - wormtongue prebius

[Omega10]

Not to mention if the USA didn't have CA and NY, the USA wouldn't even be a 1st world country. I mean looking at statistics, the entire mid of the USA can't even beat the size of the Californian economy, and they expect the same voting strength as a state with possibly more inhabitants and economy size???

OK I looked at the statistics. Here they are.

GSP (2015 Gross State Production, from Wikipedia)

California: 55 Electoral Votes, 2,448 billion dollars of GSP
Texas: 38 Electoral Votes, 1,639 billion dollars of GSP

Other states north and west of Texas that voted for Trump (ND, SD, NB, OK, KS, MT, WY, ID, UT, AZ, and AK combined):

54 electoral votes, 731 million dollars of GSP

Conclusion (if my math was correct): California has 50% more GSP than Texas, and 2 EV less then 50% more EV than Texas - California is under represented by 2 EV
Rest of the states: 1 less EV, and they produce less than a third of the GSP that California does.

[ringpriest]

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/tr...y-trump-s-team

I appreciate the sentiment, but calling it "betrayal" isn't really accurate - more like, "P.T. Barnum is proved right once again", or "wicked fools earn their just rewards" (while others suffer, too).

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yes, Priebus was the first choice that was getting heavily criticized. Also, the media lost all credibility as a neutral or unbiased observer long, long ago. cnn literally published more pro Hillary op eds before she had even announced her candidacy than they did of Bernie or Trump during the entire election cycle. It was like 1 pro Hillary op ed ever 2-3 weeks for the 15 months of her campaign. Also, almost every single day the lead story on their website was pretty much a 'Trump is racist or misogynist' type story from the time the conventions ended until the election except for then Comey reopened the email investigation. Then on top of that you had the email come out of wikileaks in which Podesta had a list of like 20 journalists who could be counted on to take a list of talking points and write a pro Hillary article around them. Half of them also worked for cnn. I'm all for the idea of a critical media and even for applying it to Trump but our media just has no credibility left whatsoever.

Please stop with the "oh, the media was in the tank for Hillary" narrative - if any major media outlet had said "Trump" and "bankruptcy" as often as they said "Hillary" and "email", Trump would not be the nominee, much less President-elect.

[Jaylock]

Anyone who believed anything different would happen is an idiot.


But hey, the Donald is bringing 'intellegent' outsiders like Ben Carson to his cabinet.

How is a brain surgeon not intelligent in your book? Or any other type of surgeon?

Its amazing what liberals will fathom up in their mind about right leaning people.

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I just love it, All the anti-Washington, anti-Wall Street bullshit is already proven to be a lie and hes not officially in office yet.

Shit this good has to be fatting.

He never said he was anti-wallstreet. In fact, hes very much wallstreet. Lets get washington career politicians out of power, and put in regular SMART citizens who know a thing or two about running successful businesses. Also, maybe just maaaaybe since he doesn't have political experience, maaaaybe he is keeping a few of the smarter / more conservative politicians to serve as his cabinet.. you know, to ADVISE him? Henry Ford didn't run the most successful car company for many years without having smart people at his disposal to inform him so he could make better decisions as the CEO.

But hey, its not surprising that you liberal left leaning WoW forum posters who live in other countries can't understand why a person who is going to be the CEO of the most powerful country in the world would have smart individuals around him to help him make decisions.

[Super Kami Dende]

Dunno about that. A lot of these Trumpists don't inhabit reality. So they will find some way to explain it away to themselves so they can carry on being Trumpists.

I mean Hilary's supporters are just about as far removed from reality.

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That needs to go viral - wormtongue prebius

I mean, refering to him as that would suggest Trump is akin to the King of Rohan, who is an absolute badass. Viral away!

[Bajaber]

Find this funny that on the right..they did the same you guys are doing..He broke promises when Obama was starting this. Up..I just find this as a funny joke being a Trump and Obama voter. I gave them a chance and let them get in office first..Before I started bowing my soul to whatever the media spits up. Like the right right now. OH!! He's so amazing He is god he can do no wrong..

Like wtih the Left with Obama hes the second comming he is like JFK Clinton..HA!! I will add this though the only pres that was a Rep I thought was a joke was Bush. What a joke and fool he was.

But yes you will notice if you look at Fox and other news that are right. Same with the Left they do this back and forth the Media is sadly playing both sides like fiddles and their enjoying the money from all the blind fools.

Its pretty easy to tell that Fox is not right wing like they say. It's easy to tell that Cnn and MSNBC are jokes. Again this happen while Obama was in office. Now its happening again. Maybe get over yourselves a bit and give him a Chance. Instead of going Buyer remores like the right did and I laughed at them then..Now I am doing it to you?

Or is it hard for both sides pride to find common ground and you have to insult a person that hasen't even been in office yet hmm?

[Lionhearte0]

Trump supporter here. Just came to laugh at you for being this desperate. It's like none of you listened to him before while he was campaigning so you all think he's suddenly betraying his base.

Here, wait for it:

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Bajaber]

Trump supporter here. Just came to laugh at you for being this desperate. It's like none of you listened to him before while he was campaigning so you all think he's suddenly betraying his base.

Here, wait for it:

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Like what I just posted above the right did the same during when Obama was running it got very old and silly.