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    I got it though.

    And you know it.

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    I don't care

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    I just bet you don't.

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    I don't do cheer leading for red team blue team trump team Clinton team

    It's not sports. They have a job to do. Trump has a job to do. So far he's sucking very hard at it.

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    Yup Trump running laps around MSM

    If Scaramuchi doesnt work out Trump shud hire Lavar Ball as press sect

    Can u imagine Lavar Ball up there

    would be epic
    He'd be the most intelligent and mature person in the white house

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    I don't do cheer leading for red team blue team trump team Clinton team

    It's not sports. They have a job to do. Trump has a job to do. So far he's sucking very hard at it.
    He's been terrific as far as I'm concerned.

    Every day isn't like the past 200+ years of yesterdays since January 20th.

    Tough.

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    He's been terrific as far as I'm concerned.

    Every day isn't like the past 200+ years of yesterdays since January 20th.

    Tough.
    What's "tough?"

    Trump has been neutered on every major decisions he's made.

    In order to be tough, your orders need to hold. They haven't. You know it's bad when you get overrruled on keeping the gays off the military.

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    JCS just took a directly into Trumps mouth.

    Legally.

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    He's been terrific as far as I'm concerned.

    Every day isn't like the past 200+ years of yesterdays since January 20th.

    Tough.
    Yeah we've seen your list of trump accomplishments

    They've either been debunked or shown as no big deal.

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    JCS just took a directly into Trumps mouth.

    Legally.
    Are you referencing this?

    Joint Chiefs: 'No modifications' to transgender policy from Trump tweet

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    Are you referencing this?

    Joint Chiefs: 'No modifications' to transgender policy from Trump tweet
    Of course. They didn't get the nonexistent memo. Now we get to see how long it takes Dear Leader's people to scramble and retcon this entire business.

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    they already did, he was just "distracting the media" like the presidential genius he is.

    they have their built in excuse for literally anything he does. "omg so genius hes toying with the media."

    trump tweets a pic and tags his daughter? "omg so genius hes toying with the media."

    ask them what his motive is? no answer.

    pathetic. these are truly stupid times.

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    After Pyle’s list of questions wound up on Bloomberg News, the Trump administration disavowed them, but a signal had been sent: We don’t want you to help us understand; we want to find out who you are and punish you. Pyle vanished from the scene. According to a former Obama official, he was replaced by a handful of young ideologues who called themselves “the Beachhead Team.” “They mainly ran around the building insulting people,” says a former Obama official. “There was a mentality that everything that government does is stupid and bad and the people are stupid and bad,” says another. They allegedly demanded to know the names and salaries of the 20 highest-paid people in the national-science labs overseen by the D.O.E. They’d eventually, according to former D.O.E. staffers, delete the contact list with the e-mail addresses of all D.O.E.-funded scientists—apparently to make it more difficult for them to communicate with one another. “These people were insane,” says the former D.O.E. staffer. “They weren’t prepared. They didn’t know what they were doing.”

    “We had tried desperately to prepare [Trumps' take-over team],” said Tarak Shah, chief of staff for the D.O.E.’s $6 billion basic-science program. “But that required them to show up. And bring qualified people. But they didn’t. They didn’t ask for even an introductory briefing. Like ‘What do you do?’ ”

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    What's "tough?"

    Trump has been neutered on every major decisions he's made.

    In order to be tough, your orders need to hold. They haven't. You know it's bad when you get overrruled on keeping the gays off the military.
    (tough) means if you don't like the way he's running it, tough. "There are consequences to elections." - Zero

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    Yeah we've seen your list of trump accomplishments

    They've either been debunked or shown as no big deal.
    I'll just bet they've been.

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    The one concrete action the Trump administration took before Inauguration Day was to clear the D.O.E. building of anyone appointed by Obama. Even here it exhibited a bizarre ham-handedness. For instance, the Trump White House asked the D.O.E.’s inspector general to resign, along with the inspectors general of the other federal agencies, out of the mistaken belief that he was an Obama appointee. After members of Congress called to inform the Trump people that the inspectors general were permanent staff, so that they might remain immune to political influence, the Trump people re-installed him.

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    I'll just bet they've been.
    But there was actually a long history of even the appointees of one administration hanging around to help the new appointees of the next. The man who had served as chief financial officer of the department during the Bush administration, for instance, stayed a year and a half into the Obama administration—simply because he had a detailed understanding of the money end of things that was hard to replicate quickly. The C.F.O. of the department at the end of the Obama administration was a mild-mannered civil-servant type named Joe Hezir. He had no particular political iden y and was widely thought to have done a good job—and so he half-expected a call from the Trump people asking him to stay on, just to keep the money side of things running smoothly. The call never came. No one even let him know his services were no longer required. Not knowing what else to do, but without anyone to replace him, the C.F.O. of a $30 billion operation just up and left.

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    I'll just bet they've been.
    #parrot

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    Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah.

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    Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah.
    A lunch or two with the chief financial officer might have alerted the new administration to some of the terrifying risks they were leaving essentially unmanaged.

    Roughly half of the D.O.E.’s annual budget is spent on maintaining and guarding our nuclear arsenal, for instance.

    Two billion of that goes to hunting down weapons-grade plutonium and uranium at loose in the world so that it doesn’t fall into the hands of terrorists.

    In just the past eight years the D.O.E.’s National Nuclear Security Administration has collected enough material to make 160 nuclear bombs.


    The department trains every international atomic-energy inspector; if nuclear power plants around the world are not producing weapons-grade material on the sly by reprocessing spent fuel rods and recovering plutonium, it’s because of these people. The D.O.E. also supplies radiation-detection equipment to enable other countries to detect bomb material making its way across national borders. To maintain the nuclear arsenal, it conducts endless, wildly expensive experiments on tiny amounts of nuclear material to try to understand what is actually happening to plutonium when it fissions, which, amazingly, no one really does. To study the process, it is funding what promises to be the next generation of supercomputers,

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    they already did, he was just "distracting the media" like the presidential genius he is.

    they have their built in excuse for literally anything he does. "omg so genius hes toying with the media."

    trump tweets a pic and tags his daughter? "omg so genius hes toying with the media."

    ask them what his motive is? no answer.

    pathetic. these are truly stupid times.
    Idiot! The motive was to distract the media while they moved all the elements of Operation Remember Remember the 27th of Julyember into place. It's almost noon in the Aleutian Islands....

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    The Trump people didn’t seem to grasp, according to a former D.O.E. employee, how much more than just energy the Department of Energy was about. They weren’t totally oblivious to the nuclear arsenal, but even the nuclear arsenal didn’t provoke in them much curiosity. “They were just looking for dirt, basically,” said one of the people who briefed the Beachhead Team on national-security issues. “ ‘What is the Obama administration not letting you do to keep the country safe?’ 
    The briefers were at pains to explain an especially sensitive aspect of national security: the United States no longer tests its nuclear weapons. Instead, it relies on physicists at three of the national labs—Los Alamos, Livermore, and Sandia—to simulate explosions, using old and decaying nuclear materials.

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    In the run-up to the Trump inauguration the man inside the D.O.E. in charge of the nuclear-weapons program was required to submit his resignation, as were the department’s 137 other political appointees. Frank Klotz was his name, and he was a retired three-star air-force lieutenant general with a Ph.D. in politics from Oxford.
    The keeper of the nation’s nuclear secrets had boxed up most of his books and memorabilia just like everyone else and was on his way out before anyone had apparently given the first thought to who might replace him. It was only after Secretary Moniz called a few senators to alert them to the disturbing vacancy, and the senators phoned Trump Tower sounding alarmed, that the Trump people called General Klotz, on the day before Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States, and asked him to bring back the stuff he had taken home and move back into his office. Aside from him, the people with the most intimate knowledge of the problems and the possibilities of the D.O.E. walked out the door.

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    Idiot! The motive was to distract the media while they moved all the elements of Operation Remember Remember the 27th of Julyember into place. It's almost noon in the Aleutian Islands....
    By the time I arrived the first eighth of Trump’s first term was nearly complete, and his administration was still, largely, missing.
    He hadn’t nominated anyone to serve as head of the Patent Office, for instance, or to run FEMA. There was no Trump candidate to head the T.S.A., or anyone to run the Centers for Disease Control.
    The 2020 national census will be a massive undertaking for which there is not a moment to lose and yet there’s no Trump appointee in place to run it. “The actual government has not really taken over,” says Max Stier. “It’s kindergarten soccer. Everyone is on the ball. No one is at their positions. But I doubt Trump sees the reality. Everywhere he goes everything is going to be hunky-dory and nice. No one gives him the bad news.”

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