I've not been following this closely enough but it's certainly about an old guard fighting, for something...
...Taylor's been expressing her political views I believe for the mid-terms, in contrast to Kanye - or whatever he's now called, now - re-closing his social media again, again!?
President Donald Trump said his own daughter and current White House adviser Ivanka Trump would be "dynamite" as a potential replacement for United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.
Trump said there is no one more competent for the job.
"The people that know, it's nothing to do with nepotism," Trump said on the South Lawn before leaving for Iowa. "Ivanka would be dynamite, but, you know, I would then be accused of nepotism, if you can believe it, right?"
Trump picks golf club, Mar-a-Lago members as ambassadors
WASHINGTON – When President Donald Trump needed an ambassador to represent the United States in Romania, he enlisted a real estate lawyer who was a member of one of his private golf clubs.
For South Africa and the Dominican Republic, he tapped longtime members of his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. To represent the U.S. government in Hungary, he chose a man from another Florida club operated by the president’s private companies.
Ambassadorships long have been among Washington’s choicest political prizes, and presidents frequently award them to friends, political allies and campaign donors.
“There was always a country club mentality with some of this,” said Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan group that investigates government ethics.
The difference is that the president also is the country club’s proprietor, and he has handed out foreign postings and other government jobs to his paying customers.
Membership rolls of Trump's clubs are not public. USA TODAY identified members through interviews, news accounts and a website golfers use to track their handicaps.
Since he took office, Trump has appointed at least eight people who identified themselves as current or former members of his club to senior posts in his administration. USA TODAY identified five of those appointees in mid-2017, prompting criticism from ethics watchdogs that the selections blurred the boundary between Trump's public duties and his private financial interests.
Since then, Trump has appointed three other members as ambassadors in Europe and Africa. One has been confirmed by the Senate.
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...Taylor's been expressing her political views I believe for the mid-terms, in contrast to Kanye - or whatever he's now called, now - re-closing his social media again, again!?
https://howlonguntiltrumpleaves.com/
"Barbed Wire can be a beautiful thing, when used properly"
(or words to that effect)
WTF :!:
also, consolidated the senate in the midterms (and lost at the house, but still...)
https://keepandbear.com/products/build-the-wall?fbclid=IwAR31qO1OuEUwCNL9LvtrdJBYpWqEVbq36qWV_tMh_AU6k3KbTq8RysGjQ0Y
anyway...
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http://time.com/5475293/trump-fossil-fuels-cop-24-katowice/
WASHINGTON – When President Donald Trump needed an ambassador to represent the United States in Romania, he enlisted a real estate lawyer who was a member of one of his private golf clubs.
For South Africa and the Dominican Republic, he tapped longtime members of his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. To represent the U.S. government in Hungary, he chose a man from another Florida club operated by the president’s private companies.
Ambassadorships long have been among Washington’s choicest political prizes, and presidents frequently award them to friends, political allies and campaign donors.
“There was always a country club mentality with some of this,” said Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan group that investigates government ethics.
The difference is that the president also is the country club’s proprietor, and he has handed out foreign postings and other government jobs to his paying customers.
Membership rolls of Trump's clubs are not public. USA TODAY identified members through interviews, news accounts and a website golfers use to track their handicaps.
Since he took office, Trump has appointed at least eight people who identified themselves as current or former members of his club to senior posts in his administration. USA TODAY identified five of those appointees in mid-2017, prompting criticism from ethics watchdogs that the selections blurred the boundary between Trump's public duties and his private financial interests.
Since then, Trump has appointed three other members as ambassadors in Europe and Africa. One has been confirmed by the Senate.
😂
TIM APPLE! 😂
the guy is such a fucking buffoon.
Tim Apple ~facepalm
Ha!
Hey, well, I guess you could say he's just taking us back to the roots of most our (western) surnames?!? You know cartwright, miller, etc...
Maybe he's onto something, which begs the question Donald ? 😀
what would his name be then? Donald Bankruptcy? Donald Egomaniac? Donald Asshat?