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Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here (cnbc.com)
A confab of tech titans had a "productive" meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Wednesday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told CNBC, as Trump moved to mend fences with Silicon Valley before taking office in January. Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Cisco and Tesla were among the C-suite executives in attendance, with Apple CEO Tim Cook and Tesla CEO Elon Musk expected to get private briefings, according to transition staff. From the report: "We want you to keep going with the incredible innovation," Trump said. "There's no one like you in the world. ... anything we can do to help this go along, we're going to be there for you. You can call my people, call me -- it makes no difference -- we have no formal chain of command around here." At the meeting, Trump introduced billionaire Wilbur Ross, his Commerce secretary pick, and Goldman Sachs executive Gary Cohn, his choice for director of the National Economic Council. "They're going to do fair trade deals," Trump said. "They're going to make it easier for you to trade across borders, because there are a lot of restrictions, a lot of problems. If you have any ideas on that, that would be great."
heck of a choice
No doubt it would have made much more sense to choose you and maybe your mom for those two roles, given your collective expertise and lifetime of familiarity with the subject matter. Or were you thinking of perhaps some of Hillary Clinton's best buddies, instead? Trump has a long track record of running hundreds of business ventures. Clinton has a long track record of running only one (which failed, criminally) and a long track record of raking in millions in cash for her family while being Secretary of State. I know, you prefer her corruption because it's more familiar. Or something. You just like the fact that she was completely beholden to her financiers on Wall Street, as opposed to Trump, who paid his own way through to his nomination as a candidate. I wonder why that's your preference? Interesting.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
You mean all the Goldman Sachs executives he is putting in charge?
Please list "all of the" Goldman Sachs people that are going to be "in charge" of the country. Do you even understand how the government is structured?
They'll be getting paid to do what they want.
Do you understand that we're talking about the executive branch, here, and not somehow running the legislature? And if "getting paid" was what it was about, they'd never take a relatively low paying federal paycheck when they could make tens of times more simply being in the securities banking business in the first place. Anyway, back to your list of "all of the Goldman Sachs executives" that will be in charge. Do go on, please. GS has hundreds of executives. What will they all be doing, instead of working there, now? Some of them will have to settle for things like Deputy Assistant Under-Secretary for Communications at the Department of the Interior, working on farm reports and whatnot. Talk about "in charge!" Or by "all of the" do you mean "a couple of people that Trump trusts who have been working at GS until they agreed to step down to take these gigs?"
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
republicans will TRY. they hate it when people enjoy themselves in ways that they dont, personally, condone. "stop liking what I don't like!" is their theme.
otoh, republicans LOVE money. and no one can argue about how well colorado and washington are doing, tax-wise, from all the money coming in from 'sales taxes++'.
its almost entertaining to watch. their heads must be asploding.
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When you have to have your employees make 'Nuh uh! We're doing great! Here's why you're totally wrong!' type comments like this it's all over. The site may continue on as a shambling zombie version of itself for a few more years, but you'll never recapture the glory of the past.
When did this site become a third rate reddit?
Journalism degree? Well educated? Best laugh I've had all week. Thanks!
Just another day in Paradise
Citation needed. Desperately... Have they become better educated, on average, than they were 10 years ago? You did read the article I linked to, right? It says the percentage of Republicans in the profession declined over the decades — has there been an increase in education quality among journalists during the same period?
Can I ask for a citation again? Or should I accept the fact, that New York, Chicago, LA, and the Silicon Valley are such Republican strongholds, as evidence for your assertion?
Point was — and remains — journalists are, overwhelmingly, Illiberal. Whatever the reason for it, the fact explains their bias in coverage in general and assigning blame in particular.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.