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Rex Tillerson of ExxonMobil Expected to Be Named Trump's Secretary of State: Sources
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/rex-tillerson-exxon-mobile-expected-be-named-trump-s-secretary-n694371 ^
Posted on 12/10/2016 7:20:51 PM PST by DadOfFive
Donald Trump is expected to nominate ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state, two sources close to the transition process told NBC News on Saturday.
The 64-year-old veteran oil executive has no government or diplomatic experience, although he has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The pick would put to rest weeks-long speculation of who would earn the post as the U.S.'s top diplomat, and would place Tillerson fourth in line to the presidency.
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KEYWORDS: fumr; rextillerson; secretaryofstate; state; tillerson; trump; trumpcabinet; trumptransition
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Not Romney! Big Oil = Liberal heads exploding!
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:20:51 PM PST
by
DadOfFive
To: DadOfFive
Yes, and with JOHN BOLTON as his Deputy in charge of running day to day operations at STATE!!
If you could see me now, my face is starting to ache from the grin - I might need to go to the ER later - all this WINNING,I can’t take all this WINNING!!!!
To: DadOfFive
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:25:31 PM PST
by
dontreadthis
(I finally came up with this tagline)
To: DadOfFive
“Tillerson served as president of the Boy Scouts of America from 2010-2012, at the time that the delegates voted to allow openly gay youths to join their troops and earn their merit badges. After the vote took place, Tillerson led the Boy Scouts to implement the change”
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:26:07 PM PST
by
donna
(Radicalized Christians become missionaries and then they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
To: DadOfFive
Not only big oil, but more ties to the Ruskies. They can obsess on that and blame everything on the Russians.
This whole Putin thing is getting really tiresome.
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:26:57 PM PST
by
jazminerose
(Adorable Deplorable)
To: DadOfFive
From Conservative Treehouse:
When you accept the scope of the challenge, and recognize it is almost impossible to change the participants therein; and further accept these career embeds will work earnestly and diligently to undermine the structure of a Trump administration at every opportunity; perhaps only then can you identify the specific skill set of a leader who knows how to deliver results within MASSIVELY COMPLEX organizations.
Leaders who know how to operate complex global organizations, mega scale corporations, which, by their very nature, may contain hostile agents to the larger corporate mission ie. Exxon/Mobil are not commonplace. Hence, the jaw-dropping compensation those elite titans of industry command.
This is where a hammer (Tillerson) and a scalpel (Bolton) can be a unique partnership toward the deconstruction and restructuring. We knew it was going to take some out-of-the-box thinking to find the specific skills needed if Donald Trump was indeed intending to cut down the anti-American endeavors within the enterprise of the State Department.
Deconstruction and realignment while simultaneously managing/controlling the amount of damage internal agents can do toward larger administration objectives is a tenuous undertaking. Taking the rotting vehicle down to the frame and cutting out the cancerous rust is going to be an epic battle with ZERO Washington DC supporters as Trump endeavors through the restoration phase.
It can be anticipated the leadership within both wings of the UniParty (Democrat and Republican) will actually prefer to impede such an effort:
There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things.
Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Additionally, the potential economic battle -brought about by foreign nations who take exception to the pending trade realignments- can also be predicted to be waged on the destabilizing battlefield of global oil and energy (dollars as global trade currency). A looming Tillerson brings another unique attribute into the necessary America-First defense armory.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/12/10/nbc-report-trump-selects-rex-tillerson-as-secretary-of-state-with-deputy-john-bolton/
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:27:14 PM PST
by
jobim
To: jazminerose
It’s a communist plot. The Dem are the communists now.
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:30:05 PM PST
by
combat_boots
(God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
To: combat_boots
Tillerson is a solid choice. Especially with Bolton as his right hand man.
Plus it drives the libs absolutely nuts. They’re losing their minds on twitter tonight.
To: DadOfFive
Looks like the hiring process has evolved into nothing but Priebus-hand-picked RINOs and Trump’s big business buddies.
The problems that left-wing ideologues have created in government can only be solved by people who are as committed to conservative principles as the left is to socialist principles. Doesn’t look like we’ll be solving many problems in the next 4 years.
But, hey, at least we got to vote for the slow walk to socialist collapse instead of racing off the cliff at full speed with the Democrats.
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:33:53 PM PST
by
JediJones
(We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
To: DadOfFive
Mark Levin is knocking it...
To: combat_boots
You’re right. There’s not a sliver of daylight between the dem party and CPUSA anymore.
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:36:34 PM PST
by
jazminerose
(Adorable Deplorable)
To: DadOfFive
It’s a brilliant choice. Going with competence
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:38:42 PM PST
by
spyone
(ridiculum)
To: donna
BSA changed the membership policy in 2013. Not before that.
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:40:40 PM PST
by
Tuxedo
(It's YUGE)
To: conservative98
Levin basically knocks every pick. He’s the right’s version of a Liberal
To: conservative98
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:52:37 PM PST
by
JediJones
(We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
To: JediJones
Re : Post #9
“Looks like the hiring process has evolved into nothing but Priebus-hand-picked RINOs and Trumps big business buddies.”
Whaaa?
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:52:45 PM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Simon Foxx
I hope you’re correct about Tillerson and Bolton. But where has there been ANY indication that Bolton will actually have ANY position at State?
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:53:54 PM PST
by
Tucker39
(In giving us The Christ, God gave us the ONE thing we desperately NEEDED; a Savior.)
To: heterosupremacist
“Looks like the hiring process has DEVOLVED into nothing but Priebus-hand-picked RINOs and Trumps big business buddies.”
Cite your source(s)...
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:55:42 PM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: conservative98
Mark Levin is knocking it...
Everybody is knocking the pick except the Trump can do no wrong brigade. Trump has gone a bridge too far here picking a career corportist to head State. Little chance this guy is confirmed. 47 Dem no votes in the Senate for sure and take your pick of 4 from McCain/Flake/Sasse/Graham/Collins/Murkowski/Rubio/Corker, etc.
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:55:54 PM PST
by
lodi90
To: DadOfFive
Anybody would have been better than Romney, except maybe Corker.
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posted on
12/10/2016 7:56:52 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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