Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:39 PM
TubbersUK (1,427 posts)
Trump originals say they're getting frozen out
Source: Politico
Early Trump campaign operatives angst about their future as the Republican establishment muscles its way in. They’ve been with him from the beginning – when no one believed he could win, and when the Republican Party establishment wanted absolutely nothing to do with him. But now, as President-elect Donald Trump builds out his administration, the group of loyalists who helped launch his campaign and powered its stunning early victories are growing worried they won’t be getting plum jobs. snip Several say they feel alienated from the transition effort -- especially from Priebus, an establishment figure who will be White House chief of staff. Priebus collided bitterly earlier this year with Lewandowski, who as Trump’s first campaign manager hired many of the originals, and played a major role in his June firing. “None of us are exactly Cabinet-level,” said one staffer who is among those pining for a job, but so far hasn’t been given any promises. “Most of us just want to do a good job and help the country, but apparently we don't play the game very well.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-original-operatives-frozen-out-232383
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TubbersUK | Dec 2016 | OP |
NRaleighLiberal | Dec 2016 | #1 | |
CincyDem | Dec 2016 | #2 | |
DK504 | Dec 2016 | #39 | |
FreakinDJ | Dec 2016 | #54 | |
NYC Liberal | Dec 2016 | #55 | |
madaboutharry | Dec 2016 | #3 | |
liberal N proud | Dec 2016 | #4 | |
Eugene | Dec 2016 | #5 | |
ToxMarz | Dec 2016 | #11 | |
Kathy M | Dec 2016 | #71 | |
NanceGreggs | Dec 2016 | #6 | |
Lucky Luciano | Dec 2016 | #18 | |
DK504 | Dec 2016 | #40 | |
JI7 | Dec 2016 | #7 | |
JI7 | Dec 2016 | #8 | |
vinny9698 | Dec 2016 | #9 | |
PatSeg | Dec 2016 | #10 | |
Raster | Dec 2016 | #13 | |
PatSeg | Dec 2016 | #44 | |
Raster | Dec 2016 | #49 | |
PatSeg | Dec 2016 | #59 | |
Raster | Dec 2016 | #62 | |
Raster | Dec 2016 | #12 | |
Xipe Totec | Dec 2016 | #14 | |
louis-t | Dec 2016 | #15 | |
TeamPooka | Dec 2016 | #16 | |
KittyWampus | Dec 2016 | #17 | |
Turbineguy | Dec 2016 | #19 | |
enid602 | Dec 2016 | #30 | |
Hong Kong Cavalier | Dec 2016 | #20 | |
tblue37 | Dec 2016 | #23 | |
Hong Kong Cavalier | Dec 2016 | #26 | |
keithbvadu2 | Dec 2016 | #21 | |
Strelnikov_ | Dec 2016 | #32 | |
BeyondGeography | Dec 2016 | #22 | |
Bradical79 | Dec 2016 | #24 | |
JudyM | Dec 2016 | #25 | |
Sunlei | Dec 2016 | #27 | |
Kingofalldems | Dec 2016 | #28 | |
sfwriter | Dec 2016 | #29 | |
yeoman6987 | Dec 2016 | #37 | |
Kingofalldems | Dec 2016 | #38 | |
sfwriter | Dec 2016 | #46 | |
Kingofalldems | Dec 2016 | #47 | |
sfwriter | Dec 2016 | #48 | |
sfwriter | Dec 2016 | #45 | |
LisaM | Dec 2016 | #31 | |
dembat | Dec 2016 | #33 | |
Ford_Prefect | Dec 2016 | #34 | |
Ilsa | Dec 2016 | #35 | |
Paladin | Dec 2016 | #60 | |
Ilsa | Dec 2016 | #67 | |
Paladin | Dec 2016 | #68 | |
Ilsa | Dec 2016 | #69 | |
Paladin | Dec 2016 | #70 | |
not fooled | Dec 2016 | #36 | |
MustBeTheBooz | Dec 2016 | #41 | |
They_Live | Dec 2016 | #43 | |
Bernardo de La Paz | Dec 2016 | #42 | |
Thekaspervote | Dec 2016 | #50 | |
Guy Whitey Corngood | Dec 2016 | #51 | |
Adsos Letter | Dec 2016 | #52 | |
Mr.Bill | Dec 2016 | #53 | |
LenaBaby61 | Dec 2016 | #56 | |
hatrack | Dec 2016 | #57 | |
MBS | Dec 2016 | #58 | |
lastlib | Dec 2016 | #61 | |
Nitram | Dec 2016 | #63 | |
Generator | Dec 2016 | #64 | |
Yavin4 | Dec 2016 | #65 | |
trueblue2007 | Dec 2016 | #66 |
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:42 PM
NRaleighLiberal (58,548 posts)
1. Trump originals!
![]() maybe they will wind up being sold on ebay! |
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:44 PM
CincyDem (5,361 posts)
2. Help me understand...
...they invested their time and best efforts in supporting a candidate with and expectation that, should he win, he would recognize the effort and quid-pro-quo them into some position of power. That's just wrong on so many levels, not the least of which is belief that Trump would remember them once he had what he wanted. They're just contractors to be stiffed. The stupid - it runs deep in these ones. |
Response to CincyDem (Reply #2)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:44 PM
DK504 (3,847 posts)
39. These are the same babies
crying about pay to play...Oh irony is so striking.
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Response to CincyDem (Reply #2)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:20 AM
FreakinDJ (17,644 posts)
54. Least you forget FOBs
at least they kept that promise
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Response to CincyDem (Reply #2)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:23 AM
NYC Liberal (19,882 posts)
55. Zero sympathy from me. I hope they're finally realizing their hero
is a con man, and that he doesn't care about anyone but himself, and anything but making more money. He has no loyalty, and he is not grateful to anyone because he thinks everything that happens to him is solely because of his own brilliance.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:47 PM
madaboutharry (38,740 posts)
3. Well.....
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:52 PM
liberal N proud (59,800 posts)
4. They aren't millionaires
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:55 PM
Eugene (57,266 posts)
5. Trump made a career out of screwing people over.
They were expecting something different?
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Response to Eugene (Reply #5)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:00 PM
ToxMarz (2,084 posts)
11. When someone shows you who they are, believe them!
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:56 PM
NanceGreggs (27,687 posts)
6. Trump's personal slogan ...
"YOU fucked up - you trusted me."
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Response to NanceGreggs (Reply #6)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:16 PM
Lucky Luciano (11,089 posts)
18. Truer words have rarely been spoken. nt
Response to NanceGreggs (Reply #6)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:47 PM
DK504 (3,847 posts)
40. So goes the gratitude of the Pig Elect
Donnie Two Tones Tic Tacs. I'm just crying me a river.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:57 PM
JI7 (87,936 posts)
8. i would love it if lewandowski is one of those being screwed over
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:59 PM
vinny9698 (1,016 posts)
9. They got the Trump Treatment
And they knew beforehand how he treated other employees and contractors before they signed up. So they walked into the arrangement with their eyes wide open. They will now be charged for all the pizza and drinks they ate. Can not have free loaders now can we.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 07:59 PM
PatSeg (45,311 posts)
10. There is no loyalty in Trump world
He expects it, but doesn't reciprocate.
I'll bet they all had to sign confidentiality agreements, so they can't even write tell-all books. |
Response to PatSeg (Reply #10)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:02 PM
Raster (20,989 posts)
13. EVERYONE who works for tRump, close to him signs...
...confidentiality agreements. tRump is notorious for his confidentiality agreements.
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Response to Raster (Reply #13)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 10:53 PM
PatSeg (45,311 posts)
44. Yeah
It is part of his MO, giving him license to do or say whatever he likes without consequences. What a "nasty man".
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Response to PatSeg (Reply #44)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:23 PM
Raster (20,989 posts)
49. Nasty man... that's being charitable.
Response to Raster (Reply #49)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 10:26 AM
PatSeg (45,311 posts)
59. Seriously
I've run out of adjectives and none of them really hit the mark with this man.
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Response to PatSeg (Reply #59)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 11:00 AM
Raster (20,989 posts)
62. I agree, no they don't...
...this is the unthinkable --the "situation" THAT NO ONE, including the tRump itself, took seriously. Now we find this is as serious as a heart attack.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:01 PM
Raster (20,989 posts)
12. I believe they are called "the expendables"
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:06 PM
Xipe Totec (43,708 posts)
14. Welcome to the Biglies nt
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:09 PM
louis-t (22,603 posts)
15. News alert, you've been conned by the best.
Congratulations. Bernie Madoff wishes he were as big a con artist as drumpf.
And he doesn't need them anymore. |
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:10 PM
TeamPooka (22,770 posts)
16. Trump stiffs everyone. Suckers.
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:12 PM
KittyWampus (55,894 posts)
17. If Trump had kept them on, he'd have lost. He took on Bannon and away he went.
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:17 PM
Turbineguy (36,086 posts)
19. Ernst Rohm
had that problem as well.
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Response to Turbineguy (Reply #19)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:53 PM
enid602 (7,750 posts)
30. ah, yes
...the night of long knives.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:17 PM
Hong Kong Cavalier (4,541 posts)
20. ...as the poison coursed through his veins, the fox looked at the scorpion on his back and asked...
"Why'd you do that? Now we're both going to drown!"
The scorpion replied, "It's my nature." |
Response to Hong Kong Cavalier (Reply #20)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:35 PM
tblue37 (59,485 posts)
23. Ironically, when Trump recites the lines "You knew I was a snake before you took me in" his
suckers believe he is describing his political opponents!
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Response to tblue37 (Reply #23)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:40 PM
Hong Kong Cavalier (4,541 posts)
26. Yup.
Never seen so much denail since my trip to Egypt.
Okay, I've never been to Egypt. Just looked at it on Google Earth. |
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:27 PM
keithbvadu2 (31,884 posts)
21. The Donald is well known for non-payment.
Response to keithbvadu2 (Reply #21)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:05 PM
Strelnikov_ (7,758 posts)
32. Ka-Ching n/t
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:32 PM
BeyondGeography (38,640 posts)
22. Trump supporters respond
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:39 PM
Bradical79 (4,490 posts)
24. For the most part, they were morons.
In my opinion, Trump got elected despite these idiots, not because of them. The GOP establishment laid out the groundwork over the previous decades, and then Trump was pushed over the goal line by a combination of mainstream news outlets putting ratings first, Russian hackers, and the FBI. Other than Bannon getting the white suppremicists on board, and his people with Russian connections, I can't think of anything his team actually did to help him win.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:40 PM
JudyM (26,797 posts)
25. Good - let em fight it out.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:44 PM
Sunlei (22,651 posts)
27. Priebus and Pence do the transition work. If you haven't been called by now, you won't be included.
Go ask Kellyanne for a job, you can be on the Republicans new tweet team.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:44 PM
Kingofalldems (37,194 posts)
28. Trump: You are losers. I don't like losers!
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:52 PM
sfwriter (3,032 posts)
29. ha!
“None of us are exactly Cabinet-level,” said one staffer who is among those pining for a job, but so far hasn’t been given any promises. “Most of us just want to do a good job and help the country, but apparently we don't play the game very well.”
Ha ha ha ha ha bwaaa haaa haa ha ha..... hee... Schadenfreude, sweet sweet Schadenfreude. |
Response to sfwriter (Reply #29)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:25 PM
yeoman6987 (14,449 posts)
37. Good grief trump has to hire over 4,000 people in positions
I doubt they will be left out.
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Response to yeoman6987 (Reply #37)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:42 PM
Kingofalldems (37,194 posts)
38. Another pro Trump post.
You seem to get upset when he is criticized here. This is a Democratic site. We are not Trump supporters.
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Response to Kingofalldems (Reply #38)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 10:58 PM
sfwriter (3,032 posts)
46. Who was that. Aimed at?
Response to sfwriter (Reply #46)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:00 PM
Kingofalldems (37,194 posts)
47. Not you sir. Look on the top right corner of my post.
The post is directly above mine.
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Response to Kingofalldems (Reply #47)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:09 PM
sfwriter (3,032 posts)
48. Sorry, my phone is rendering it strangely.
Response to yeoman6987 (Reply #37)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 10:56 PM
sfwriter (3,032 posts)
45. You are right.
Jackson turned over nearly the entire government. It used to be more common. It's not so common now, but I'm unsure just how much of that is tradition and how much is law. If tradition is all that stands between us and spoils based governance, then we are essentially screwed.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:58 PM
LisaM (27,231 posts)
31. Pardon me if I don't weep.
I honestly don't see how anyone could have been swindled by him.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:06 PM
dembat (45 posts)
33. Trump originals say they're getting frozen out
I do not feel sorry for them.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:11 PM
Ford_Prefect (7,192 posts)
34. Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Imagine that, Trump used them to gain an advantage and at the first opportunity to reward them he screwed them instead. Isn't that just too precious?
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:12 PM
Ilsa (61,227 posts)
35. Boo-fucking-hoo.
Serves them right for not seeing him for who he is: a lying, cheating, bigotted psychopath.
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Response to Ilsa (Reply #35)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 10:38 AM
Paladin (27,033 posts)
60. You beat me to it. Thanks. (nt)
Response to Paladin (Reply #60)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 05:36 PM
Ilsa (61,227 posts)
67. I didn't cuss this much during Shrub's administration.
But every day there is a new offensive nomination to DT's cabinet:
1. Anti-drug safety 2. Anti-food safety 3. War mongerers 4. Anti-climate change 5. Anti-environment 6. Anti-national parks, 7. Anti-equality, Etc ad nauseum. |
Response to Ilsa (Reply #67)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 06:05 PM
Paladin (27,033 posts)
68. Trump makes Dubya look like Churchill, by comparison.
It's really that bad, in my opinion.
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Response to Paladin (Reply #68)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 06:44 PM
Ilsa (61,227 posts)
69. It seemed like at the beginning,
the worst thing W did was bring in Darth Cheney to run things for him, like Pence will do for Trump.
I wonder how much federal land trump wants to buy? And I bet he gets a good deal on it, too. |
Response to Ilsa (Reply #69)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 06:54 PM
Paladin (27,033 posts)
70. The U.S. Treasury gets a staggering amount of money from those federal lands.
In the form of oil and gas royalties and grazing fees, out West. I'm sure Trump wants to make common cause with those Bundy goons and privatize the ownership of such lands, reaping huge benefits. And if a cherished national park gets in the way...tough shit. In my worst nightmares, I never dreamed it could get this bad, this quick.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:23 PM
not fooled (5,550 posts)
36. Pssst...credulous dump adherents
Your candidate was conning you as well as his moronic voters. Now that he "won", his true colors come out--he's a fascist and plutocrat who mouthed populism to get into power. Let the screwing commence! Just too bad that it will hurt the commendables (= opposite of his deplorables) who saw through his shit.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:58 PM
MustBeTheBooz (212 posts)
41. Nobody he's appointed so far is "cabinet level."
So they have that going for them.
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Response to MustBeTheBooz (Reply #41)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 10:24 PM
They_Live (3,172 posts)
43. Yes.
Thanks for the laugh.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 10:15 PM
Bernardo de La Paz (45,608 posts)
42. Chris Christie? ? ... crickets ... . nt
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:32 PM
Thekaspervote (29,669 posts)
50. Oh toooo bad!! When are trumpsters going to figure out dump,is only for dump
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:36 PM
Guy Whitey Corngood (26,055 posts)
51. Can somebody just get them all together in a room and
give 'em some PCP and a case full of guns?
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:48 PM
Adsos Letter (19,459 posts)
52. Cry me a river.
That is all.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 11:55 PM
Mr.Bill (20,962 posts)
53. They want jobs in the new administration?
They'll be lucky if they get paid for the work they've done so far.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 03:11 AM
LenaBaby61 (6,493 posts)
56. Trump originals say they're getting frozen out.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 09:54 AM
hatrack (57,722 posts)
57. Fuck 'em. They helped this asshole, and now he's shitting on them . . .
. . . just like he's shitting on this country.
Enablers getting what they deserve. |
Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 10:40 AM
lastlib (20,692 posts)
61. This could be a semi-good thing....
....He's not putting the neo-Nazis in, maybe just the Klansmen.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:19 PM
Nitram (20,702 posts)
63. Cry me a river.
That's what you get when you support a double-crossing con man for president.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 01:36 PM
Generator (7,770 posts)
64. The more people el putin hitler of the orange shade
pisses off the better. These are the people with inside info, and who will hold grudges. This are the people that can turn and betray him and bring him down. This is actually making me smile.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 03:51 PM
Yavin4 (34,252 posts)
65. Some people never think that the person screwing over other people won't screw over them
This never ceases to amaze me.
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Response to TubbersUK (Original post)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 04:49 PM
trueblue2007 (16,503 posts)