no apparent relevant experience Heāll fit right in.
Hey, ya gotta hire SOMEBODY to shovel that grain into those pyramids!
He was hired to polish $31,000 dining room suites, for a salary of $582,000 per annum.
Grifters gotta grift.
Phew! And here I thought we might go a day without a new scandal. That was close.
A kid like this is almost precisely the opposite of who you would want as a chief of staff. But as a āconfidantā i.e. someone who will nod admiringly as Carson complains about how no one understands him, perfect.
āI could literally trust him with all of my earthly possessions and rest assured that I would get all of them back with interest, from the money that he stole from the taxpayers,ā Carson said.
I guess this is a case where we should hope that the apple did fall far from the tree.
Hey itās only 9:00 A.M. Give it some time.
I hear he headed the gift registry department at Neiman Marcus before being hired. Leaked emails sughest he put Carson up to his china purchase. Mueller has expanded his investigation to take a closer look.
No, no, NO!
Become a Precinct Committee Officer, sometimes itās a Ward officer. Meet your neighbors and get out the vote. Find good citizens willing to run for office.
Run for School Board. Make sure Civics is being properly taught. Think a majority of America knows how government works? Just 26% of eligible voters in America voted for Trump, and half of all voters stayed home last November. HALF! Todayās 12-year olds will be voting for President in 6 years. Make sure theyāre prepared.
Run for Mayor, City Council, County Commissioner, Borough Assembly. And get on your Planning Commission.
Run for State Legislature or Congress. The next census is in 2020 when weāll redraw Congressional Districts. Make them fair and open. Trump is ALREADY trying to rig the census- talk about āvoter fraudā!
Register people to vote. If you need to help people overcome the GOP-led voter-run-around campaign help them do that. This site, https://www.aauw.org/resource/organize-a-voter-registration-drive/, has a how-to on organizing a voter registration drive. Or even sitting outside Wal Mart with a folding chair and a card table. Yes, thatās the American Association of University Women. And while weāre here organize a League of Women Voters chapter in your community if you donāt already have one. Fair, honest and above board. Democracy functions better with them involved.
Civics, civility and civilization all share the same roots. Get crackinā!
The American right wing is nothing but projection. They rail on and on about government corruption, because they moment they are in power they go all in on how corrupt they can be, via nepotism and straight out stealing funds. Same as when they rail about immorality destroying America - you can know their exact kinks based on what they site as destructive forces.
Benā¦Benā¦Ben. Come on, this isnāt how you play the āhold my beerā game. While this is scandalous, itās still nothing compared to Pruitt and Zinke. Be better, Ben.
Meanwhile in swampvilleā¦the grift continues unabated while the rest of the country either plans for their summer vacation, goes off to their gardening chores or watches all the other shitshow antics out of this administration, beginning with the daily smoke and mirrors over the Russia investigation, and the constant reactions of the press as to tRumpās latest outbursts on Twitter, no matter the subject at hand.
While we are all preoccupied with this, children are being ripped from their parentsā arms and then lost to a fucked up refugee system no one in Congress wants to deal with; hurricane season is about to commence with no help in sight for Puerto Rico from last yearās hit; immigrants are being denied entry even for asylum-seekers; DeVos is trying to make students default on loans they should have had forgiven; the banks are now being able to play with other peopleās money again for pure investment purposes; and the world order, particularly with trust in our allies is falling apart piecemeal on a daily basis. Oh, and gas prices are up by over a dollar from last year because tRump wants the country addicted to oil again and has singlehandedly fucked up the markets in favor of the fossil fuel industry. Btw, NASA is freaking out too because tRump intends to get rid of climate science as part of their area of expertise. We are all being thoroughly hosed.
And once againā¦Republicans sit silent like a bunch of potted plants and do nothing. Nice democracy you had there, America.
Please folks, VOTE In November to get rid of the deadweight. Pretty please, with sugar on top.
So he graduated from Yale, Oxford and Harvard Law. Curiousā¦ does he have a law degree yet? Heās apparently been in school since he was (what?) 17 years old. Iād say that by the standards set by this administration, he is eminently qualified. I will also go out on a limb and predict he gets a really big office and his pay is higher than the senior level staffers (who will probably start exiting soon) and there will be an Inspector Generalās inquiry sometime next year about him.
Letās face it, Carson is an idiot. This is not brain surgery, this is large organization management and leadership, neither of which is something Carson can do. Sad.
@maricaibo, I see you post this a couple of time per dayā¦
You are advocating others to do something, my question, what have you done.
Myself:
ā¦I started working at least 20 hours per week in the 1st grade,
ā¦I worked myself from a mailboy/stock-boy up to a position as a COO of a business,
ā¦It took 10 years for my 1st degree but eventually I earned a PHD,
ā¦I taught at both the university and HS level,
ā¦I ran and won a seat on a school board,
ā¦I also served in Vietnam and while In-Country earned a āmaverickā appointment that ultimately saw me retire as an LTC.
Costaās father is Carsonās dear friend as evidenced by Carsonās testimony on Costa Sr.ās behalf when he was convicted of health care fraud.
That name doesnāt ring a bell. Is he a Rethugliklan governor of Southern state?
Ah, it doesnāt matter. As long as the meritocracy is preserved ā¦.
āI could literally trust him with all of my earthly possessions and rest assured that I would get all of them back with interest,ā Carson told the judge then. āTo sum it up, next to my wife of 32 years, there is no one on this planet that I trust more than Al Costa.ā
Ben, you couldnāt trust your wife of 32 years to buy office furniture. Youāre a really poor judge of character.
And Carsonās only the fourth-worst cabinet sercretary. (Or thereabouts.)