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anonymousdonor 7 points ago +8 / -1

Rex Tillerson. Jim Mattis. He got the law changed so Mattis could be SECDEF. Those are two names and public ones. There were hundreds of swamp creatures nominated by Trump that were not senate confirmed.

You know what Biden would do if the senate wasn't playing ball? Recess appointments. How many recess appointments did Trump do?

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Barbs 11 points ago +11 / -0

They never had a recess. They always left the sessions open so he couldn’t do recess appointments.

Did you even pay attention at all the last four years?

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anonymousdonor 2 points ago +2 / -0

They held phony sessions of Congress that Trump could have called BS on.

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LinWoodDidntKillHims 8 points ago +8 / -0

Yup trump hired John Bolton which was a huge fucking mistake. Picked up where obama left off with drone strikes. The first two years of trumps presidency were hella rocky in the decisions he made.

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BoughtByBloomberg2 3 points ago +3 / -0

We were all riding Mattis dick till it turned out he was way more interested in that defense contractor money than not getting innocent men killed.

Rex Tillerson had deep GOP connections and I think there was some agreement between him and Trump but that all fell through when it turned out he thought he was running the show.

I never said Trump didn't make mistakes. I said you were complaining about a man not winning a round 1 KO with both hands tied behind his back.

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anonymousdonor 1 point ago +1 / -0

And I said you are presenting a false dichotomy.

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BoughtByBloomberg2 1 point ago +1 / -0

I am not presenting any dichotomy. I am saying that Trump was, unlike how the founders intended, dependent upon the Senate for the affirmation of his directors.

Look at the shitshow that were Congress under Paul Ryan. He put through nothing but RINO trash and now he's destroyed Fox News by making sure they only platform RINO bullshit.

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anonymousdonor 1 point ago +1 / -0

Trump could have played hardball with congress. And you are presenting a dichotomy, because there are thousands of positions in the executive branch that do not go through Congress. Some very important ones. And he could have put someone up, like Ric Grenell, that would never see senate confirmation.

Like the guy who was supposedly responsible for election integrity. That isn't a confirmed position. Trump listens to his lawyers and his lawyers do not have his interests in mind.