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originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: schuyler
My imagination? Did I imagine him saying he could shoot somebody and his base would defend him?
originally posted by: schuyler
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: AnakinWayneII
If you ask me, which I guess you did, Trump has always been after one thing since being elected. He is after a Trumpian coup. He wants to turn the government into his own little fiefdom and run the country like a king. Filling his cabinet with flunkies and '' yes men'' until all opposing voices are silenced.
No more than what any president would do or has done. Every president so far has selected cabinet members, department heads, judges, etc. based on their own philosophy of government. If someone who is president whom you like, that's okay. If Trump does it, orange man bad.
originally posted by: neo96
Trump fires Secret Service director
Because of a chinese spy infiltrator at Mar Lago.
Don't read anything more than that in to it.
It's a breach that should have never happened.
originally posted by: UKTruth
The entire cabinet serves at the President's pleasure. They are there to carry out his wishes by executing his policies to the best of their ability. Within the Executive Branch, the President is already a king.
originally posted by: Wardaddy454
Evidently CNN covered this as well, for those of you that choose them as your news source. I wonder if they will include this tidbit.
originally posted by: fleabit
Trump hires professionals - then fires them, because their opinions don't match his reality (in his own head). I bet his staff is miserable, every single day.
originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: UKTruth
The entire cabinet serves at the President's pleasure. They are there to carry out his wishes by executing his policies to the best of their ability. Within the Executive Branch, the President is already a king.
The President can only hire and fire people in positions which are nominated, and intended to be confirmed. Positions below those, such as deputy directors, and their reports are supposed to be removed from a Presidents direct influence.
The President sets the direction, the cabinet sets policy to roughly follow that direction.
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: UKTruth
Turning smarmy now are we? Here in the US, any equating of the president to a king should be anathema to a free citizen, but you however seem to relish that notion.
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: bobs_uruncle
I love the way you sign your posts Dave.
I have noticed a consistent trend with liberals/progressives/sjws, they accuse everybody else for what they are in fact doing and blame everyone else for the problems they create.
I have noticed this about sjws as well. But I have noticed it about Trump suporters on this site as well. Have you?
I always think of this in terms of the biblical thing of the mote in the other's eye is easy to see but the log in ones own is not kind of thing.
But that trend of liberals and progressives. When have we really had a liberal or progressive president. None to my knowledge. Some will call Slick Willy a liberal and I call him at best a neo-liberal who fooled a liberal base into believing that he was their guy. Obama as well. Had he been a progressive he would have not accepted the backing of Wall Street and the banking industry or bailed out those banks and stuff. Other than that we have had little in the way or liberal let alone ''progressive'' presidents
originally posted by: conspiracy nut
a reply to: DAVID64
So you were cool with it when Obama "did it" and you're cool with trump doing it. If Obama jumped off a cliff....
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: jidnum
Every president has chosen who THEY want to work for them. Nothing new here.
Well,,,,,,,,,sure..
However, if you recall, one of Trump's campaign promises was to drain the swamp. This was to be done by hiring the ''the best people'', His claim was that he knew the best people to hire. This one one of his biggest promises.
Yet then he began to hire people and many of them proved to be right out of the swamp. As well he dismisses appointees left and right because it seems he is still searching for the ''best people''
It has been reported by many who have worked under him that he requires an oath of loyalty, not to the country but to him personally. It also appears that anyone who disagrees with him is let go or let go with acrimony. As we look at his cabinet almost a quarter of the cabinet positions are run by ''acting'' secretaries, many of which have no experience of work in the fields of which they are secretaries over.
So sure, all presidents hire people who they think and feel that will not only work in the best interests of the presidential agenda, but as well that they believe that the president can work with and trust their expertise when it does not mesh with the potus understanding of things. This president has shown the opposite. When anyone with expertise voices contradictory information from what the potus believes they are ridiculed and or fired.
You may of course take this all with a grain of salt, that is paying it no mind. There are however others of us who take these tell tale signs seriously and who propose that this president is not except in superficial ways, like all presidents before him and indeed is in need of closer scrutiny.