Trump Renominates Ajit Pai For Five More Years at the FCC (theverge.com)

According to Axios, Bloomberg, and several other publications, President Trump has nominated FCC chairman Ajit Pai for a second five-year term at the commission. "Pai's current term ended last June, though he's been able to stick around through the end of the year even without reconfirmation," reports The Verge. From the report: The nomination comes just days after Pai sat down with the president for a meeting, during which they're said to have "reconnected" but without actually discussing anything the commission is actively considering. Pai will need confirmation from the Senate for the nomination to be approved. He was first nominated in 2012 to fill the slot of a commissioner. With approval, he'll be able to stick around through at least the entirety of Trump's current term. The question now is when Trump will nominate people to fill the two slots still vacant at the commission. The FCC remains short staffed, with only three out of five seated leaders, which somewhat limits how quickly Pai is able to get through his agenda.

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Ajit Pai?

[Anonymous Coward]

The Ajit Pai who is a son of immigrants (per Wikipedia)?
An Indian-American, the first Indian-American to hold an FCC chairmanship?

That Ajit Pai?

Wasn't Trump supposed to be a racist who hates all non-whites and wants to deport all immigrants?
Why would he meet with and re-nominate an Indian-American son of immigrants if that is so?

Re:Ajit Pai?

[silentcoder]

Nice little qualifier there 'organised' so you can include violence during organised protests - but exclude the THOUSANDS of hate crimes that happened since November 8 (and you only name the on Garmin engineer case as if that's a rare exception - it was merely the deadliest in a pattern that's been playing out across America daily).

Not to mention you seemingly ignoring that in Berkeley it turns out the people who did the violence were not even part of the protests. They were outsiders who came in, as a group, specifically to cause harm - and probably Trump supporters or anarchists, they had nothing to do with the organised protest. In fact, the people arrested for violence at Berkeley - do you know know what they all have in common ? Not ONE Of them was a student there.

Remember when Trump claimed (falsely) that Hillary was sending people to his rallies to pick fights ? There is actually EVIDENCE that people were sent to liberal protests to pick fights and get the protestors blamed for it. I'm not saying Trump or even a Trump supporter sent them... but somebody did and I rather doubt it was a liberal - we don't make a habit out of deliberately shooting ourselves in the foot.

Gotta

[silentcoder]

fuck over them godless liberal elitists with their internets and their immoral netflix and chill. Do you really think the typical rustbelt, bible-thumper who voted for Trump cares if the internet gets destroyed ?
Trump could tell them that destroying the internet would make it harder for companies to open factories in other countries and they'll come running into your local starbux tomorrow with a pair of wire-cutters trying to sabotage the wifi.