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goobster  ·  2718 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn’t About Hillary Clinton

So let's flip this lamp around the other way and shine it on Donald Trump.

How broad is his contacts database?

How many people from non-profits, social welfare organizations, scientific institutions, and the food industry does he know?

Now let's dig into that list and come up with 1,000-plus names of people who would be effective, wise, and informed on the different roles, policies, legal issues, and political processes that the new President will need to face on Day 1 in office.

I know, right?!? I'm laughing my ass off, too!!

The Donald lives in a tiny, safe, microcosm of the New York super-rich. The last time he visited the ghetto and took a look at the social issues there, it was from the window of his private airliner, flying into La Guardia.

Seriously. This guy can't get off Twitter long enough to compose a complete sentence or thought. Do you really think his Presidential appointees are going to be anyone other than big business cronies, and totally unskilled rich friends he owes a favor to? Does his history show any involvement with the sausage-factory process of making policy, fighting for legislation, and collaborating with people you despise to do something for the greater good?

Now answer that last question for Hillary Clinton.

Nuff said?





kleinbl00  ·  2718 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'll bet Mike Pence has a thousand names and I doubt I'd like any of them.

johnnyFive  ·  2718 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Now answer that last question for Hillary Clinton.

I can, but the problem is that her main plus in this view is that she'll be better at instituting policies I find abhorrent.