Trump Builds War Room to Defend Cabinet Picks

[DonViejo]

Source: Political Wire

December 26, 2016
By Taegan Goddard

Politico: “The transition team has recruited dozens of Republican public relations veterans and policy experts to help sell the public and the Senate on Trump’s selections, according to sources close to the transition. Their task will be to convince Americans that the billionaires, generals, donors and CEOs chosen by the president-elect have the expertise to manage the federal government — even if they have no Washington experience.”

“Every nominee has his or her own team of sherpas, or guides, to teach them about the inner workings of their agency, help prep them for confirmation hearings and guide them through the process of filing a mountain of paperwork… Meanwhile, each nominee has been assigned a ‘media sherpa,’ who has been tasked with managing negative stories about nominees, helping to sort out the logistics of meetings with senators and their staffs, and providing background information to reporters.”

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[niyad]

1. how much is this costing the taxpayers?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. That's okay; it's all being sent to Republicans.

Money laundering, that's usually called.

[Historic NY]

2. Orwell's 1984 Newspeak.

[kimbutgar]

3. Just like bush

Healthy forests=opening up national forests to logging companies
No child left behind= a lot of children left behind.

[MFM008]

4. Fuck him

Some democrats have to stand up against this garbage.

[cstanleytech]

6. Some will I am sure but it wont be easy especially since the GOP has gerrymandered many of

the states and unless SCOTUS steps in and orders the GOP to stop we are probably going to get royally screwed.

[Thor_MN]

9. One can't gerrymander a US Senate election, or Presidential election

Gerrymandering will work for US House positions and local elections, but they can't affect the Senate, where confirmations are held.

That said, gerrymandering can put people in positions where they can affect the vote counting.

[cstanleytech]

12. Actually you can if you gerrymander the state properly and gain control over it

you can then pass all sorts of laws to put hurdles in front of voters that you know are unlikely to support the candidate that your political party is supporting.

[Thor_MN]

13. Thank you for expanding on what I said in the last sentence of my post.

I thought it was fairly clear but you stated more clearly.

[LenaBaby61]

16. Unless SCOTUS steps in and orders the GOP to stop we are probably going to get royally screwed.

Royally screwed, and for a very long time IMHO.

NOT seeing Dems hold the line on WHO tRumputin puts on that Supreme Court. They'll buckle as usual, and tRumputin will get to appoint who he wants to the Supreme Court. Wish Dems knew how to street fight. Oh well.

[cstanleytech]

17. A little bit of it is them not holding that line but the reality is currently that they often

are unable to because of the current makeup of the House.
If we want change there then we need to focus more on the state level offices because if the GOP controls that we have seen what happens, they pass laws to stop people from being able to vote under the bogus guise of trying to stop voter fraud.

[ananda]

10. Some just won't be enough.

It has to be all Dems all the time!

[hollowdweller]

5. Dems better get on the ball. Trump is going to have a world class propaganda wing.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Corporate PR techniques

are vastly understudied and appreciated for their effects

perhaps because they are so ubiquitous, we listen to them every day

Deny, deflect, ignore. Pence did this royally.

We are in for a hard time.

[LenaBaby61]

18. We are in for a hard time.

So true.

Dems bring a gallon of milk to a street fight vs thuglicans, and I don't see that ending anytime soon. Dems will continue to get steam-rolled for the unforeseeable future.

We're royally screwed unfortunately for a good long time.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. This sounds very organized, well planned.

We can't ignore it.

I just wish the Dems were as focused.

[DBoon]

24. 20th century totalitarians learned from madison avenue

The advertising techniques pioneered in the early 20th century were copied by regimes in Italy, Germany and the Soviet Union for political control

[Crash2Parties]

23. Inexplicately, Obama just built Trump a wonderful new propaganda toy

That new office/agency designed to bless news as "authentic" will have its first director named by...Trump/Pence/Putin

[TeamPooka]

11. The Wag The Dog sales campaign begins now. nt

[Blue Idaho]

14. I'd love to see a four year long orchestrated campaign

Litigating each and every member of his staff, his cabinet, and the fat fuck himself. I'm sure there are plenty of violations that have been and will be committed by these dumpsters. Keeping them all continually busy in court actions might just slow down the damage they can do in their appointed positions.

[MBS]

15. My dream as well. n/t

[wordpix]

20. we're getting under the orange skin and that's the silver lining

he wouldn't be arming up if it weren't for us.

[not fooled]

21. What they can't do

There are two main types of dump nominees: the predators (e.g. Mnuchin, Tillerson, Zinke), brought in to loot and exploit or facilitate imposition of facism (Sessions), and the saboteurs (Perry, Carson, DeVos, Pruitt) whose role is to destroy the agency. Dump's PR flacks can't overcome or erase the past actions of these assholes, such as their parasitic behavior, racism, incompetence, or stated destructive agenda.

However, most likely the corporate media won't give sufficient coverage to the sordid history of these vermin and the PR will work well enough to fool many muricans. dump's toadys are counting on it.

[raging moderate]

22. We MUST stop pretending that Trump is actually building anything.

This is very similar to our cultural mass delusion that the pharaohs built the pyramids, that the kings built the castles, and that the popes built the cathedrals. No, they did not! Other people built these things. People like most of us. We can build things, too. Some of us are building some wonderful things. And, when they do, they should get the credit.