The American people demand extreme vetting

[AnalCreampieGiver]

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[IrezumiKiss]

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[KingOrfeo]

Exactly! There's enough of those bad apples to make the whole batch suspect.

What, like Skittles?

 

[phrodeau]

Refugees are less likely to be terrorists than the native population. That's true of every country, including Germany.

So mathematically, the more refugees you accept, the lower percentage of terrorists you'll have.

I'll say it again.

Refugees are less likely to be terrorists than the native population. That's true of every country, including Germany.

So mathematically, the more refugees you accept, the lower percentage of terrorists you'll have.

 

[phrodeau]

Back to the Senate hearings:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/us/politics/donald-trump-cabinet-nominations.html

Hearings for Betsy DeVos, Mr. Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Education; Andrew Puzder, his labor secretary nominee; and Representative Mike Pompeo, Republican of Kansas, Mr. Trump’s pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, have all been pushed back as Democrats clamor for more time to collect and review the standard background checks that nominees traditionally undergo before their hearings commence.

Wilbur Ross, Mr. Trump’s pick for secretary of commerce, will also be delayed several days because his ethics agreement is not complete, according to the chairman and ranking Democrat of the commerce committee.

The delays represent a stumble for the incoming Trump administration, which has vowed to run government with a businesslike efficiency, and highlights how in several respects its preparation to take office is behind that of predecessors.

 

[Boxlicker101]

How many American people have you spoken to about this extreme vetting? Usually senators approve cabinet nominations with little or no discussion, on the grounds that presidents should be able to have the advisors they want.

 

[KingOrfeo]

How many American people have you spoken to about this extreme vetting? Usually senators approve cabinet nominations with little or no discussion, on the grounds that presidents should be able to have the advisors they want.

Trump is not your usual PEOTUS. There is nothing normal about this situation, nothing at all.

 

[BattlingSoul]

What is wrong with extreme vetting?

Why should anyone be allowed into the country ILLEGALLY.

And yes, if you are coming from a region of Extremism, you should be THOROUGHLY vetted...

 

[phrodeau]

What is wrong with extreme vetting?

Why should anyone be allowed into the country ILLEGALLY.

And yes, if you are coming from a region of Extremism, you should be THOROUGHLY vetted...

There's lots of extremism in Alabama.

 

[KingOrfeo]

What is wrong with extreme vetting?

So, you agree, that none of Trump's nominees should be approved until their ethics background checks are done and they have released all their income tax returns?

 

[BotanyBoy]

So, you agree, that none of Trump's nominees should be approved until their ethics background checks are done and they have released all their income tax returns?

Why?

Do they have to release their tax returns??

 

[KingOrfeo]

Why?

Do they have to release their tax returns??

Same reason Trump should release his: Because they might shed light on any potential conflicts of interest the nominees might have. Also, just because. These are the people who are going to be running our government, for Og's sake, their right to privacy is extremely limited by that fact.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Trump is not your usual PEOTUS. There is nothing normal about this situation, nothing at all.

He was elected. That's pretty normal. He is being hassled by liberals. That's also normal. He will almost certainly be persecuted by part of the news media. Among Republicans, that's normal. There are some abnormalities: Some people are already calling for his impeachment, and he hasn't even taken office yet.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Same reason Trump should release his: Because they might shed light on any potential conflicts of interest the nominees might have.

Fair argument.

Also, just because.

Glad to know you don't believe in privacy, everything right down to thought itself must be controlled by the state, good socialist.

These are the people who are going to be running our government, for Og's sake, their right to privacy is extremely limited by that fact.

It's really not, but at least your honest about where you stand on privacy.

 

[phrodeau]

Fair argument.



Glad to know you don't believe in privacy, everything right down to thought itself must be controlled by the state, good socialist.



It's really not, but at least your honest about where you stand on privacy.

We all know where Donald Trump stands on privacy.

"Well, I'll tell you the funniest is that I’ll go backstage before a show, and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else, and you know, no men are anywhere. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it. You know, I'm inspecting, I want to make sure that everything is good.

You know, the dresses. ‘Is everyone okay?’ You know, they're standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody okay?’ And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that."

 

[BotanyBoy]

We all know where Donald Trump stands on privacy.

Told you he was a lefty

 

[KingOrfeo]

There are some abnormalities: Some people are already calling for his impeachment, and he hasn't even taken office yet.

If Trump does not put his businesses in a real blind trust, one run by someone he does not know and has no contact with, he will be the first POTUS ever to be guilty of impeachable offenses from Day One. (No, it is not illegal to be president and a businessman at the same time; but it is almost unprecedented and very shady, and since the Constitution does not define an impeachable offense, it is whatever Congress decides it is, and that one would be an easy sell politically.)

 

[KingOrfeo]

Told you he was a lefty

No, I hear he uses his right hand in those situations.

 

[phrodeau]

Extreme vetting of Rick Perry starts tomorrow.

Today, it was revealed that he really didn't know what the Department of Energy was responsible for.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/us/politics/rick-perry-energy-secretary-donald-trump.html?_r=1

WASHINGTON — When President-elect Donald J. Trump offered Rick Perry the job of energy secretary five weeks ago, Mr. Perry gladly accepted, believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry that he had long championed in his home state.

In the days after, Mr. Perry, the former Texas governor, discovered that he would be no such thing — that in fact, if confirmed by the Senate, he would become the steward of a vast national security complex he knew almost nothing about, caring for the most fearsome weapons on the planet, the United States’ nuclear arsenal.

“If you asked him on that first day he said yes, he would have said, ‘I want to be an advocate for energy,’” said Michael McKenna, a Republican energy lobbyist who advised Mr. Perry’s 2016 presidential campaign and worked on the Trump transition’s Energy Department team in its early days. “If you asked him now, he’d say, ‘I’m serious about the challenges facing the nuclear complex.’ It’s been a learning curve.”

 

[KingOrfeo]

Today, it was revealed that he really didn't know what the Department of Energy was responsible for.

Well, it's responsible for nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and . . . I forget the third thing.