Discussion: Deputy WH Chief Of Staff Leaves To Become Next Trump Admin Drug Czar

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Carroll does not appear to have any public health experience.

In the Trump WH, that’s enough to move him to the top of the list.

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— an effort critics say hasn’t gone nearly far enough.

I don’t know about that. They’ve moved their peas all the way under the mashed potatoes, give them some credit.

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Has this administration picked anyone who was actually qualified for any job? Any single one? Can anyone name one single nominee who was qualified in any way other than being either a lackey or a multimillionaire donor? Is it any wonder that this man has failed at so many business ventures? He picks nominees for the most important positions in government the way mean girls in middle school pick their friends - for the way they look or the ways they agree on who they hate. We are in the middle of an experiment - how would FOX news run the country if it were a person? How do we like it so far?

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Senate hearings:

“Do you have any experience in the public health sector?”

“I took an ibuprofen this morning.”

People- please run for office. I’m getting a ‘contact psychosis’ from these bird brains…

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The White House also announced that Kellyanne Conway was joining Carroll to be the pubic face of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

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So the ONDCP will be a substation for Sessions? The only way to combat drug abuse is to arrest users and dealers.

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So she’ll be the “This is your face on drugs model”?

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Thank Goodness! Now something will be done about this national crisis!

  • Said exactly No person anywhere in the country.
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No. She does not cook crystal meth in that big black cauldron of hers. That is strictly for Witches’ Brew (the one with bat wings and toad eyes and stuff) and when she talks of going on a “trip” she means flying on her broom.

Oh ye of little faith. If Carroll maintains the record of the DT badministration you can expect pharmaceuticals to lead the DOW to record highs.

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Carroll does not appear to have any public health experience. He
worked for the Ford Motor Company before joining the administration and
also worked for the Justice and Treasury departments.But the
White House said that after law school, Carroll spent five years as the
assistant commonwealth attorney for Fairfax, Virginia, where the
majority of the cases were drug-related and he worked directly with
those affected by drug abuse.

interesting wording…“, but the White House says”…hmm wondering if this will be later followed up by a correction to his resume. Sounds like the reporter has no independent verification and we are taking their word for it, for now.

Also, that’s the best they could come up with for relevant experience? and…how long ago was that? He worked Ford and the Bush Administration…one would guess that assistant commonwealth attorney would have come before that…could easily have been 20 years ago.

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Please tell me the WH didn’t actually use the words “public face” when describing Kellyanne? What’s next Donald is going to the “public face” of health and nutrition? Of course they are running out of people who want to work there so they have to shuffle people around.

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But the White House said that after law school, Carroll spent five years as the assistant commonwealth attorney for Fairfax, Virginia, where the majority of the cases were drug-related and he worked directly with those affected by drug abuse.
He also worked with attorneys facing substance abuse issues at the Virginia State Bar.

So, by this logic… Josef Mengele, a member of the team of doctors responsible for the selection of victims to be killed in the gas chambers and for performing deadly human experiments on prisoners, is eminently qualified, and nominated by this president, to be the next Surgeon General of the United States.

" Stupid is as stupid does."

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So is the WH saying that the attorneys in the Fairfax division of the Commonwealth of Virginia are drug abusers?

drug dealers ! “We need business people in government”

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The only requirement for top level positions in the Trump Admin is the ability to fog a mirror.

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This is grand larceny . That is Trump is appointing people to positions to run government agencies with huge budgets whose only qualifications are that they will spend budgets so all the money winds up in Trump or a cronies pocket well ignoring or not performing the intended function of the agency. Trump is not the first Republican to do this, Bush Jr did the same an on almost the same scale. What really bothers is Republicans will then point to how bad, ineffective and corrupt is government as an excuse to gut programs for 99% of Americans well giving big tax cuts to 1%.

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Actually making Jim Carrol the Drug Czar is an informed pick.

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So. The career path in the Trump Administration seems to be working in the White House, see if you make it through the background check, swear fealty to The Donald and then get moved to a ‘job’ for which you are supremely unqualified for.

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" I can remove your appendix ! … I’m a diesel mechanic ! "

" How hard can it be ? ? …

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