Some people say that Donald Trump has been politically successful so far because he captures the zeitgeist of the country, but I just can’t figure out how it can be that the people want more “real-estate investors, hedge-fund managers and bankers” in charge of the economy. But that’s who Trump named today as members of his economic advisory team. They’re all men, too. Probably all white men, although I am not familiar enough with all of them to say that for certain.
I don’t think it’s the case that whatever is good for hedge fund managers is good for the country, and I don’t think people are in love with real estate investors or trust big time bankers as far as they can throw them. They’re nothing populist about Trump’s economic team, nor is it inclusive or broad. Are there any academicians at all? Anyone from “Main Street”?
How about the guy who takes his hats off the boat from China?
Sir! This horse is still dead! Let me beat it some more.
Weel, I don’t believe it is “set a thief to catch a thief, either. Moar of same for their voters, just a different mask.
Watch both candidates to see who they pick, imo. It will tell you a lot.
Not an economist in the bunch. None of these people would be qualified to be on the Federal Reserve Board.
Even?
If TrumpTalk were limited to what isn’t a sham, that would be:
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but perhaps his children are real and not holograms.
Even his supporters are beginning to sense that they’ve been conned. They’re just not clear as to who is behind the con.
Yes but see Trump has a plan! All of these guys together have had numerous years of experience in filing bankruptcies. Thus the group will try hard to use that experience to stiff every country and company out of any funds owed by the Federal Government.
In fact, there is one guy with a doctorate in economics from Harvard.
Here’s a thought experiment: How would Trump leverage the powers of the executive, Robert Mugabe-style, in order to maximally enrich himself? I’m wondering how he could be constrained, God forbid that he need to be.
Once you become President it’s almost impossible to go bankrupt. You write another book and someone gives you an enormous advance. You write two books. You become a figurehead at some university and create a revenue stream from that. Charities, presidential libraries. You’ll never have a poor former President.
Granted, Trump is setting new boundaries, but he’s not going to get elected.
The President currently has the power to launch a nuclear war (but not a full-scale conventional war, requiring an AUMF) on his say-so. A President has access to absolutely all classified documents and can inst-declassify them. A President has the power of immediate preventive detention in cases of an imminent attack on America and drone assassination in cases of imminent attack on America. A President has the right of all citizens to keep and bear arms.
Further seizure of power would likely be commandeering the media solely for Trumpaganda. Wait….
Not entirely true;
The President needs the Secretary of Defense to agree before the order can be given to the USA nuclear forces to launch. This is a written requirement. Two man rule for access to nuclear weapons even works at the presidential level. Yes tRump could nominate Bolton or a more brain dead troglodyte to be Sec of Def, and have a rubber stamp, but the requirement cannot be tossed aside, it is the law.
Also each officer in the chain of command from Sec of Def down to the two people who push buttons to launch missiles must agree to follow through with tRumps order, KNOWING what it means. Ain’t gonna happen.
Trump’s economic populism is a sham. No one cares. The narrative is that people who know how to make money for themselves know how to jigger the economy to make money for themselves and allow a few pence to fall on those below. Tickle-down pence.
Looks like the GOP counterparts (designated partners) to Hillary Clinton’s economic advisors, save the reps of what is left of national labor unions. I suppose the poker player fills in that slot on Trump’s team.
Also looks like the policies will bend heavily toward private equity firms that operate outside SEC regulation. The sheep shearers will be hidden this time, but they will be there.
And Trump outs himself as merely a flunky, not a playah.
Not Guy Fawkes, but a damp squib.
Inaccurate. Trump was the playah to many a flunky along the way. In isolation many of those that were normally playahs became Trump’s flunkies. None big enough on their own to take Trump down. In coordination, they could have smashed him to smithereens long ago. He may now have given them the opportunity to do so.
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Billmon:
Reince Priebus wouldn’t know what to do with a pair.
We don’t know how he operates behind closed doors.
Ward Harkavy tweet:
Greenwald:
in Olympic women’s Real Football.
The utterly astonishing turning point (that poor Hope Solo, premier keeper in women’s football, now has to live with being on near-continuous replay loop) was when she turned a routine save on a free kick into a Colombia goal, letting the ball slip first through her hands, then between her legs into the goal. I wouldn’t have believed it possible if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes (again and again and again and . . . ). A more uncharacteristic lapse by a usually-rock-solid performer would be nearly impossible to imagine.
Hard to fault her much for the second Colombia goal, though: a near-perfect free kick from near the right corner, bending into the goal just behind her and just under the crossbar. If she had done everything perfectly, her attempt to punch it over the crossbar might have had a chance, but I think she slightly miss-timed her leap, and the ball slipped by just over her reach.
Gutsy, tenacious performance from Colombia.
U.S. seemed a bit flat (beyond just Solo), especially in first half after Colombia goal on Solo miscue. Even with the tie, they won their group, and they were already through to the quarterfinals. Can’t help wondering if that knowledge took some edge off their motivation and/or focus.
Good goals though by Crystal Dunn and Mallory Pugh (youngest U.S. Olympic goal-scorer ever at, I think, age 18 — the future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades!).