Discussion: LIVE: OMB Pick Faces Questioning From Senate Gov't Affairs Panel

Why do these guys always look like they’re about to give a bilabial fricative when they take their oath. Is it because their forked tongues are trying to escape?

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70??? I’m supposed to wait until I’m fucking SEVENTY to retire?

Not in this life. These motherfuckers do NOT know what they’re starting.

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They are hoping when they cut all the regulations and make life miserable again you won’t LIVE to be 70. C’mon.

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OK, I don’t know what ā€˜bilabial fricative’ but it sounds massive…

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So if I followed this correctly it was fine to call for a government shutdown because they had to make a political point but when people were hurt it was only suppose to be a political point. When in reality wethey just had some dynamite laying around and thought it would be fun to blow something up, ā€œbut officer we didn’t know anyone would be hurt. Will this go on my permanent record?ā€

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Trump’s minions are essentially saying. ā€œDrumpf won; he’s now president, so he gets to define reality for everyone. He gets to tell everyone which facts are the ones we accept and which are to be ignored. He will be the arbiter of all conflicts and will decide which reality we must live in.ā€

This doesn’t just resemble an Orwellian dystopia, it IS one. Folks, you may not realize it quite yet, but war has been declared on us, on truth, on democracy and reality. This is not a drill and we are not going to wake up to find this is just a bad dream. It is time to fight this madman.

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One way to avoid hypocrisy is to always lie.

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It’s going to take some very brave and patriotic people in every agency to get the truth out to the rest of us. Media need to establish, maintain, and protect their contacts and sources. And there will be a fight to preserve the confidentiality of sources laws and decisions.

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Trump is so busy conning people with his ā€œsales technique,ā€ it doesn’t seem to occur to him that much of what he is saying isn’t accurate. He has been president for five days and still doesn’t get that part of his job is relaying accurate and truthful information when it doesn’t directly and immediately affect national security. Of course, if the truth adversely affects his poll numbers, that’s HIS problem, not ours.

My guess is that Trump is incapable of reading a biography of an American president, let alone learn from it. Even when he ā€œlearnsā€ from his mistakes, it’s far from the right kind of course correction.

Americans are going to need every honest bureaucrat to get out what Trump and his willing associates are up to.

And since we already see Administration crackdowns on department employees releasing any information, we have got to be prepared to defend those employees who want to do the right thing by keeping we the people informed.

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Jeez…I keep coming back to this …. photo. I mean, is he in pain? Overcome with emotion? Has a gas cramp? About to barf? WTF is wrong with this guy?

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Shouldn’t the question have been, "How many times will Trump tell you to lie before you resign?

Here’s your granny starver, justifying going back to the good old days before Social Security and Medicare, when old age brought illness and destitution.
We’ll never hear him talk about raising the cap on Social Security taxes, which would shore it up for the foreseeable future.

Democrats may ask tough questions, but Trump’s nominees that have been confirmed sailed through easily with Democratic votes. Why?

Trump would never nominate someone who was honest. Nobody who was honest would service under him. This guy was lying today about whether he would lie. It takes a special kind of liar to do this under oath and so naturally.

Stop calling it untruths, just call it what it is LIES. Call the President and his Administration LIARs. It’s not difficult, hold them accountable the way you would any other President.

False data is ALL he’ll release.

Wow the lie section of the thesaurus is going to take over the whole book after Donald is president.

False data, like Medicare would never cost more than 10 Billion dollars a year? or that Obamacare would only cost 900 billion over ten years? Benghazi attack was because of a YouTube video? That the unemployment rate is 4.7%