Anyone who argues such doesn't know that we're not a democracy, which makes them barely worth talking to about politics.

But.. but.. but...

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/...-than-clintons

*Over the course of the primary and general elections, the Trump campaign raised about $340 million. That included $66 million that the billionaire businessman contributed from his own pocket. The Clinton campaign, which maintained a longer and more concerted fundraising focus, brought in about $581 million.

The final FEC report showed the extent of the Trump advertising splurge. The campaign spent nearly $39 million on last-minute TV ads and another $29 million on digital advertising and consulting work done by Parscale's firm.

Clinton's campaign placed a far greater emphasis than Trump on television advertising, a more traditional way of reaching swaths of voters. She spent $72 million on TV ads and about $16 million on internet ads in the final weeks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0VexA_sqg0

Trump MAGAing by lying about the # of jobs then ****ting on the union chief. :lol:

I miss Douglas Adams - he would have been awesome during the Trump campaign. Early on I drew the comparison between Trump and Zaphod. I just noticed the "orange sash" bit. Too funny.

:popcorn:

Guy knows how to delegate

America eats all this trash up. Love the Donald but the fact its a headline makes me sick

future is in good fat fingers and hands

Look how that effeminate dweeb is holding his hands

We are a democracy.

Just not a direct democracy.

Burned.

Sounds like a good plan.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzFvE0-WQAQSQ4c.jpg

The USA is a Constitutional Republic.

If you are elsewhere then where you are at doesn't matter. :shrug:

wheres that list of journalists colluding with the DNC? i know its been posted in this thread

Yeah that's the one, any idea where the source list came from? I wonder if those links on the right are directly to source material, or just to the wikileaks general website..

Probably a link. I mean you could just go to wikileaks and type in their names to see what pops up.

Just googling one (don't mess with Wolf Blitzer - he's from my hometown!)

DNC staffers wrote questions for CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer when he interviewed Trump, new batch of 8,000 WikiLeaks emails reveals | Daily Mail Online

DNC sends questions to Wolf to ask Cruz and Trump in interview.

the list of those not colluding is a lot shorter

please **** off mordrin

Just curious - those of you that support Trump - are you on board with Trump primarily choosing people that donated heavily to or supported his campaign early on to all of his cabinet positions? Or were you expecting less cronyism from him (compared to what we typically expect from politicians & what's been referred to as "pay to play" politics)?

meh

Clinton thank-you event for top donors leaves some grumbling they didnt make the cut - The Washington Post

Right...so how do you feel about Trump exhibiting the same quid pro quo type behavior in his selections? Especially choosing goldman sachs execs & establishment ppl like Rince Preibus?

There's a big difference between hiring these people and taking their money in exchange for favors and policy changes.

So you don't think he's rewarding them with coveted positions (eg favors) for their support/donations? It seems in some cases he's selecting people that aligns with some of his campaign rhetoric (eg putting an anti-epa guy in charge of the epa), but in almost every case he's selecting people that supported him early on or supported him with big financial support.

What Trump's Cabinet picks reveal | TheHill
(i have no clue if the hill is left leaning or right leaning...just the first google article i could find)

Or he's hiring people that have experience in their respective fields. If he does the things he says he was going to do, which he has already shown a willingness to fight for jobs to stay in America, I don't give a **** if he has Hillary Clinton on his team.

it's lame but who would've honestly expected anything different?

it's all in the game yo

Yeah - its not anything different than what any other president does when filling his cabinet, i was just curious if supporters were ok with how he's been filling those positions or if they feel like he is basically breaking his promise to 'drain the swamp' by continuing the tradition of rewarding people who supported him (esp financially) with coveted cabinet positions

I never took drain the swamp to mean only hire outsiders that have no experience in politics.

would you kindly provide proof of all the names of the people he's appointing and their respective donation amounts here in this thread so i can analyze? thanks.

I don't think anyone did - i think trump supporters did believe there wouldn't be this kind of blatant quid pro quo type behavior exhibited, which is why i was curious about what you & other trump supporters thought about the selections.

See the link I posted from 'thehill'...again no clue whether thats a left leaning or right leaning site.

edit: side note...nbcnews must be watching my posts because they just put an article about this very subject on the front page...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WMm4z1gxuc

:lol: I love it. This clown is going to butt**** America so hard. He will be the Gorbachev of the United States.

I'm fine with it so long as the person hired is A) Capable of doing the job, and B) The best or one of the best applicants for that job.

I find that far more comfortable than say giving someone a seat on an intelligence board on the use of tactical nuclear weapons because they gave someone a quarter of a million dollars.

Maybe he's hiring these people because he feels they are the best for the job. I can see how this might be confusing to somebody that supports a candidate like Hillary who makes all decisions based on monetary donations.

Eggi just mad that his welfare company got their contract cancelled for new president plane.

that's how i feel as well...And, it seems like (as much as I vehemently disagree with trump's policy positions) he is picking people that align with his major campaign policy positions. I'd like to see a more diverse group than just straight trump loyalists though. I don't get the impression he's seriously considering anyone that didn't directly support him during the campaign.

I don't care about corporate cronyism, at least he's not filling his cabinet with radical muslims behind the scenes. Hillary "I've been hacked by Russians" would be ramping up going to war with Russia as well.