Politics Thread

[GoMuskies]

Trump voters demanding "safe spaces".
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/09/dona...e-safe-spaces/

Ha, you should probably read the article.

[GoMuskies]

Hey guys, our next President is publicly fighting with CIA about Putin and putting a CEO who is friends and business partners with Putin as Secretary of State.

I think I like the Tillerson pick. I preferred Romney, but Tillerson is better than Giuliani or Bolton IMO. Leading a company like Exxon really should be excellent experience for this job.

As of the CIA, maybe not the best to feud with them publicly, but I don't really have a probably with Trump taking them on. Someone needs to.

[Caf]

I think the most ironic pick so far is 3 men who are either Goldman Sachs alumni or current employees. Simply because Trump, and literally everyone, was critical of Clinton giving speeches there. However, that was probably my least favorite of the 10,000 non-issues during the campaign.

[GoMuskies]

Excluding anyone with Goldman ties from a search for economic advisors would make about as much sense as excluding anyone with Princeton ties from a search for really smart people.

[X-band '01]

Hey guys, our next President is publicly fighting with CIA about Putin and putting a CEO who is friends and business partners with Putin as Secretary of State.

Those will be entertaining confirmation hearings in the Senate to say the least.

[Juice]

I think the most ironic pick so far is 3 men who are either Goldman Sachs alumni or current employees. Simply because Trump, and literally everyone, was critical of Clinton giving speeches there. However, that was probably my least favorite of the 10,000 non-issues during the campaign.

It wasn't that she gave speeches. It was that she talked shit about Wall Street but gave speeches to them and accepted money from them as she pretended she was going to fight against them.

[Caf]

Excluding anyone with Goldman ties from a search for economic advisors would make about as much sense as excluding anyone with Princeton ties from a search for really smart people.

That would be a fair comparison if Princeton had to settle with the SEC for its role in the global financial crisis.

[Caf]

It wasn't that she gave speeches. It was that she talked shit about Wall Street but gave speeches to them and accepted money from them as she pretended she was going to fight against them.

On the point of the speeches, that's true. Bernie was more of the one that hit her on the simple fact that she gave the speeches. However, Trump did go after her for being "controlled" by Goldman money.

[GoMuskies]

That would be a fair comparison if Princeton had to settle with the SEC for its role in the global financial crisis.

Irrelevant. The best and brightest gravitate to Goldman. If you want the best and brightest, you're often going to have to look to people who've worked at Goldman.

[Caf]

Irrelevant. The best and brightest gravitate to Goldman. If you want the best and brightest, you're often going to have to look to people who've worked at Goldman.

I'm not sure how that's irrelevant. I agree that Goldman people are smart and will do a fine job, but people are understandably skeptical of the name since '08. Also Goldman doesn't have a monopoly on the best and brightest. Most chairs of the council of advisers were academics in past careers.