pacino wrote:damn trump is costing us jobs already!

Wells Fargo & Co., the third-largest bank in the country, will close about 400 bank locations over the next two years, but has not announced specifically which banks will be closing.

pacino wrote:

“I have learned a great deal about the important work being done every day by the outstanding men and women of the DOE,” Perry said in his opening statement at his Senate confirmation hearing this morning. “My past statements made over five years ago about abolishing the Department of Energy do not reflect my current thinking. In fact, after being briefed on so many of the vital functions of the Department of Energy, I regret recommending its elimination.”

“I don’t want to be in a position ever to be lobbying my former colleagues in Congress,”

pacino wrote:i mean he admitted right there he didn't know

Beyond computer science circles, Gelernter has made a name for himself as a vehement critic of modern academia. In his 2013 book, “America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats),” he condemned “belligerent leftists” and blamed intellectualism for the disintegration of patriotism and traditional family values. He attributed the decline in American culture to “an increasing Jewish presence at top colleges.” (Gelernter himself is Jewish.)

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In some ways, Gelernter is a characteristic Trump appointee. He shares the president-elect's bombastic rhetorical style and disdain for elites. In an October op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he reluctantly endorsed Trump, Gelernter compared President Obama to a “third-rate tyrant” and called Hillary Clinton a “phony.”

pacino wrote:3.5 years ago:

“I don’t want to be in a position ever to be lobbying my former colleagues in Congress,”

Now: Joe Lieberman testified on behalf of Betsy DeVos because he's a lobbyist for one of Trump's lawfirms

td11 wrote:

pacino wrote:3.5 years ago:

“I don’t want to be in a position ever to be lobbying my former colleagues in Congress,”

Now: Joe Lieberman testified on behalf of Betsy DeVos because he's a lobbyist for one of Trump's lawfirms

joe lieberman is the biggest piece of #$!&@ fake democrat ever. am i misremembering that he played a major role in getting single payer removed from ACA back in 08/09? hate him

td11 wrote:

@politicalmath 10h10 hours ago
If you think the longest serving TX gov doesn't know what the Dept of Energy does, you are so partisan you are intellectually non-functional

td11 wrote:

pacino wrote:3.5 years ago:

“I don’t want to be in a position ever to be lobbying my former colleagues in Congress,”

Now: Joe Lieberman testified on behalf of Betsy DeVos because he's a lobbyist for one of Trump's lawfirms

joe lieberman is the biggest piece of #$!&@ fake democrat ever. am i misremembering that he played a major role in getting single payer removed from ACA back in 08/09? hate him

pacino wrote:is this normal?
662 positions yet to be announced?

Trent Lott, a lobbyist close to several people on the transition, said the transition team was relying on lobbyists and others for lists of potential hires and policy recommendations. In some areas, like transportation, he said he was impressed by the hiring. And overall, he said, the team was “working aggressively, like a fruit basket turnover.”

WASHINGTON
The FBI and five other law enforcement and intelligence agencies have collaborated for months in an investigation into Russian attempts to influence the November election, including whether money from the Kremlin covertly aided President-elect Donald Trump, two people familiar with the matter said.

The agencies involved in the inquiry are the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Justice Department, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and representatives of the director of national intelligence, the sources said.

The BBC reported that the FBI had obtained a warrant on Oct. 15 from the highly secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court allowing investigators access to bank records and other documents about potential payments and money transfers related to Russia. One of McClatchy’s sources confirmed the report.

td11 wrote:

pacino wrote:3.5 years ago:

“I don’t want to be in a position ever to be lobbying my former colleagues in Congress,”

Now: Joe Lieberman testified on behalf of Betsy DeVos because he's a lobbyist for one of Trump's lawfirms

joe lieberman is the biggest piece of shit fake democrat ever. am i misremembering that he played a major role in getting single payer removed from ACA back in 08/09? hate him

JUburton wrote:

td11 wrote:

pacino wrote:3.5 years ago:

“I don’t want to be in a position ever to be lobbying my former colleagues in Congress,”

Now: Joe Lieberman testified on behalf of Betsy DeVos because he's a lobbyist for one of Trump's lawfirms

joe lieberman is the biggest piece of #$!&@ fake democrat ever. am i misremembering that he played a major role in getting single payer removed from ACA back in 08/09? hate him

He is such #$!&@ garbage. How he was ever on a goddamn presidential ticket is mind boggling. Gore probably would have won if he picked...anyone else. And then he railroads the public option from the left. I hate him.

Only last week, Al From, president of the Democratic Leadership Council and an influential voice among moderate Democrats, lobbied both Mr. Gore and his campaign chairman, William M. Daley, on behalf of Mr. Lieberman, who is the chairman of the council.

He told Mr. Christopher to go ahead with full vetting on this group, which included Senator Lieberman, Governor Shaheen, Senator Edwards, Representative Gephardt, Senator Bayh and Senator Kerry,

drsmooth wrote:

td11 wrote:

@politicalmath 10h10 hours ago
If you think the longest serving TX gov doesn't know what the Dept of Energy does, you are so partisan you are intellectually non-functional

I don't know this politicalmath individual but imagining Rick Perry doesn't know something doesn't require partisanship - it merely requires checking the highlights of his recent political career.