Posted on 12/14/2016 7:26:01 AM PST by Freemeorkillme
Tuesday evening on the radio, Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin addressed the announcement that Exxon-Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state.
Levin said that the choice of Rex Tillerson ranks among the “worst” of Trump’s Cabinet picks.
Rex Tillerson: Trump’s most disastrous pick – The Conservative Conscience Ep77 Listen:
Tillerson has close ties to members of the ruling class establishment. His nomination was praised by the likes of Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, and James Baker — luminaries of the Bush administration and, in the case of Rice and Gates, lobbyists for Exxon-Mobil. Additionally, his close relationship with Vladimir Putin is a major cause for concern.
Fundamentally, Tillerson is the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time. As Levin read from Conservative Review Senior Editor Daniel Horowitz’s piece today:
Trump should have appointed a secretary of State who regards the current State Department with as much disdain as Scott Pruitt regards the EPA. The problem we have at the State Department is not a management crisis. We have a moral and intellectual problem with the State Department that has persisted for decades. It stems from a deep-rooted culture of moral relativism and an “America-last” mindset. As such, we needed a man with a strong ideological rudder who understands the issues, is on the right side of them, and willing to bust up the entire State Department structure and the global foreign policy apparatus.
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The left goes for every slice they can get to get the loaf, which they know they will get eventually.
So do the crony globalists. That’s why they are all actively supporting Tillerson. They want a seat at the Trump cabinet table and he gives them that. Buy a clue. This is not a good pick for us.
Trump is a micromanager
Thanks.
Uh WRONG!
Trump is a micromanager , proof:
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-separation-anxiety-trumps-management-style-poses-challenges-in-oval-office-2016-12
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— It has proved to be one of Donald Trump’s greatest strengths in building a worldwide luxury brand: An obsessive attention to detail, down to the curtains hanging in hotel rooms and the marble lining the lobby floor.
He micro-manages deals. It is what he loves. Once he has it all set up like he likes it he moves on to the next deal or new thing.
Government is 1% deals and 99% management on cruise control. Different animal. I guess we will see. If you consider setting up the deal “micro-managing” I would concede the point. However, having worked for a micro-manager with a clearly established business plan and steady business he does not impress me as the same kind of animal. Trump is more of a shiny-object kind of boss.
We will see. If he tries to micro-manage something as large as the U.S. government he is in for some serious frustration and exhaustion.
Governments are not acts of nature, they have no inevitability. Rather, they are inventions of man, to serve a set of specific interests.
The US federal government was established to prevent illegal acts of force and fraud, occurring either domestically or from foreign threats. Our duty to any other country goes only as far as it serves to protect our national interest ie the safety of citizens.
Alliances, foreign entanglements, domestic spending programs, etc, are all artificial constructs that can be changed to suit the people for whom government serves.
Security agreements with countries like Taiwan are inventions to enrich those who would benefit from conflict. With your surprise at my position, I'm assuming you've got something at stake?
I’ve heard EVERY Trump nominee called a “crony globalist” or something similar at this point. And these are the same people that called Pence a GOPe insider and Trump a Hillary plant.
So you will have to excuse me if I rather hear from these people myself, chosen by a man that the “smarter” people got everything wrong about as well, than listen to every wannabe Alex Jones.
And my question is still unanswered: WHOM would you rather see nominated for SoS? Serious names, not Sara Palin or Michael Savage.
Dont just tell me this isn’t a “good pick”. Tell me what is the better one.
NO, he was not.
Mark Levin is a real conservative and he hates populist posers. Like many of us, he eventually came around to endorsing the nominee because Hillary.
He micro-manages deals. It is what he loves. Once he has it all set up like he likes it he moves on to the next deal or new thing.
Spot on. I’ve noticed the same thing. But stuff that doesn’t float his boat like most foreign policy issues he can be quiet disinterested and flippant about in interviews. His off hand comment in one interview about sending son in law Jared to the middle east was quite revealing, IMO.
I’m starting to see some similarities to Obama in Trump with him having an overly influential kitchen cabinet/inner circle and a general disinterest in foreign affairs outside of the chicoms and Iran. Of course Trump loves his country and that is not an issue like with the kenyan. However, Trump risks projecting an image that it is not a good time to be an ally of the US. Trump stoking the Putin bromance nonsense by picking Tillerson will be quite damaging. That will make everything he tries to do on the world stage much harder.
I had forgotten his NeverTrump announcement back in April(?) and made the same statement. Completely forgot that this statement put me off him until after the nomination.
After the nomination, NEVERHILLARY, IIRC.
Yes, I think all of us stood/stand together on this: NEVERHILLARY
And my question is still unanswered: WHOM would you rather see nominated for SoS? Serious names, not Sara Palin or Michael Savage.
Someone with experience engaging bad actors on the international diplomatic stage would be nice. Someone who won’t stoke the Putin bromance nonsense would be nice. PEOTUS Trump had to work real hard to find a Sec. of State. nominee so bad on so many levels. Nothing good will come from this. I would be fine with all the named candidates except Corker and Tillerson.
*** He buggered up the Boy Scouts. ***
I think Robert Gates was head of BSA when it went gay.
Tillerson left the helm in 2012.
All of the named candidates have people that think they are (insert stuff here) as well. Do I just not take their complaints seriously?
This is why people are not taking any the complaints seriously. Because it’s all “I’m going to tell you how this is wrong”, and no helpful suggestions so we can hold this better name up to scrutiny to see if the other side is actually offering a thoughtful alternative and not just barking complaints.
Congrats on everyone letting everyone else know quite thoroughly how terrible you personally think this or that guy is, now demonstrate the ability to equally demonstrate that you can field a suggestion that is far superior that doesn’t get the same type of accusations of being a “crony NWO globalist blah blah blah”.
I’m all ears here if anyone wants to put up some credible suggestions.
*** I forgot about the boy scout deal. That’s a deal breaker for me. He should have the millstone treatment. ***
Tillerson left the BSA before Robert Gates became the head of it and hung out the Gay “Open for Business” sign.
The second Levin comes on my radio I turn it off. Why would I listen here? He has gone way beyond the bend. There used to be long, long daily threads here for the Levin show. Now may a couple of dozen, if that.
Levin was unhinged this election. He talks up being a conservative but he is not even rational much less a balanced, nuanced thinker. His cognitive dissonance and self contradictions have damaged any gravitas he once had.
That’s rich. The wonderful diplomats who have presided over the destabilization of the middle east have the expertise only experience can bring. Snicker.
Statescraft is the business of Nations, cutthroat, duplicitous, plots within plots. Tillerson’s experience will be perfect preparation and it’s actual experience not the posturing of Washington mountebanks.
Levin is a walking example of how men can be Bitch Eating Crackers* too.
(Expression meaning you froth with so much irrational hatred for someone, say a woman, who happens to be eating crackers, that you rip her for that (or any move she makes) like “Would you LOOK at that bitch eating crackers???”)
I’m sorry to say that I listened to that SOB for years, but his shrill, screaming tirade against Trump and anyone or anything associated with him grates on me as much as listening to that bitch Hillary Clinton.
So Mark railed against Tillerson. Big f’ng deal! Is there a single person Trump intends to nominate that Levin hasn’t railed against? As I’ve said before, the alternative was Hillary Clinton for God’s sake! Is Trump a constitutional conservative like Levin? No, but he is an American with a wide streak of nationalism in him and, for now, I’m good with that.
I cannot forget the last time I listened to an entire Levin show several months ago when Levin went on and on asking “Who are these globalists?” and “What is globalism anyway?” Really? The jackass is either a fool or a tool - you choose.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you've never been a regular listener.
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