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He'll probably fire him really close to his retirement date so contesting it is pointless.

By the way my sister works for the Fed board of governors and intends to retire when he leaves.

Just add ‘em to the list.

Steve Jobs was that way. We got some good products out of it but it can be blamed for his early death when, surprisingly, eating carrots didn’t cure his cancer.

From your lips to gods ears.

Is it more charitable to assume he’s misinformed and won’t brook correction from his staff or that he’s just lying?

You wonder if he actually is that misinformed. I could see it. He just spouts something like that off and those around him, instead of correcting him, just say “what a fantastic insight Mr President”.

Uncontrolled liabetes.

He had learned all he could from Elizabeth Warren and was ready for the big leagues.

They're starting to realize they fucked up.

This is so horrible to contemplate. I wish he would just drop dead already.

said in The Venezuelan Oil Thread:

Trump is saying the oil companies need to invest their own money, but he’ll provide the security.

That was yesterday, this is today:

This is interesting. The story is behind a paywall but the gist is Trump is trying to shield the Venezuelan oil money that (he thinks) he gets to control from creditors who would be entitled to it.

It’s ironic because he says Venezuela stole ‘our’ oil. What they actually stole is the assets of the creditors. But he’s blocking them from being made whole. No idea how successful he’ll be.

Zero chance ICE survives the next democratic administration. None whatsoever.