Posted on 06/22/2016 3:43:36 AM PDT by nikos1121
Wednesday, June 22, 2016: LIVE streaming coverage of Donald Trump’s speech at Trump SoHo in New York City. Coverage begins at 10:30 AM EDT.
New York City
SoHo, New York City
12h12 hours ago
This is perhaps @realDonaldTrump's strongest speech yet.
5h5 hours ago
How do they explain #Clintons getting millions from entities linked to Chinese govt and Middle Eastern dictatorships?
Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich
5h5 hours ago
Every government employee knows they aren't allowed to accept even small gifts from foreign governments. It's in the Constitution!
Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich
5h5 hours ago
#Clinton corruption is utterly disqualifying and media knows it.
Great ad.
Interesting that BIGTIME cRuzPAC donor has now adopted Trump’s Crooked Hillary AND Make America phrases.
I’m glad this PAC is attacking Hellary, just find it interesting that it’s cRuz’s (who has yet to endorse Trump) PAC funder, who has this new PAC using the above.
*Robert Mercer.
Several people mentioned that they were glad Trump finally got an instant response team in place.
This cRuz Pac reminds me of this story Donald told early in his rallies.
Businessman
Robert Mercer is an American computer scientist and co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund.
He is a major donor to conservative political causes. Mercer has donated to Super PACs affiliated with Freedom Partners, Club for Growth Action, and John R. Bolton. Wikipedia
Yep. I know all about Mercer. He’s a big donor to Open Borders groups.
Maybe it WAS him who went to Trump. Hmmmm.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Trump is one man instant response team. He is doing himself. Yesterday he mentioned this to BOR.
Donald has been one of the most unselfish people I've ever known. He has shared so much of his life with some many millions of people. That's amazing when you think of it.
This was the hydrogen bomb of political speeches. I’ve never heard anything like it.
Based on the population, the numbers were great, especially when you include those who died from all causes. That was my point.
We all react differently, and from our brief interaction today, one of us thinks the government is corrupt, the other one doesn't. We would be enemies on any battlefield, if we both fought.
I don't know how you came to that conclusion. Again, you seem to be missing the point. We have had corrupt and partisan political leaders in government before. What we are seeing now is widespread partisanship in the career bureaucracy. The cover-ups, manipulation of data, and the willing assistance of career bureaucrats to carry out the partisan agenda of political appointees are disturbing to me as a former career federal employee. Something is changing and it is not good.
The Pendleton Act was supposed to eliminate the spoils system and create a merit based bureaucracy. With the rise of public employee unions, there is an incentive to support the party of big and expanding government. When you look at endorsements and political contributions, federal employees overwhelmingly support the Dems. Anyone wanting to reduce the size and scope of government is considered an enemy.
One of the things that was happening in the Clinton administration and I have no doubt it is occurring in the Obama administration, is the conversion of Schedule C jobs (political appointments) to career civil service jobs. The jobs are then filled by the political appointees who held the jobs. They are converted into permanent civil service status. It is a way to transform the civil service into a partisan bureaucracy and saddle the next President with "political appointees" from the previous administration. GAO has done a number of reports on the issue. DOJ is one of the most affected agencies.
The public unions usually act as watchdogs on the conversions of civil service jobs to Schedule C jobs, but there is less resistance to converting the political jobs to civil service. However, the unions still don't like the the idea of filling the jobs with the current incumbents of the position. I suspect the Dems get a pass regardless. If Trump is elected, he will have to deal with Obama legacy employees who are now civil service and not required to submit their resignations upon the election of a new President. They essentially cannot be removed.
As far as battlefields are concerned, I have actually served in a war. I consider myself a patriot who will resist a tyrannical government. I won't "submit" to it because it is powerful.
Looks great. Thanks nikos and good morning everyone.
Great ad. Thanks NIKK.
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