Trump picks HUGE donor as UK Ambassador

Trump just picked his new Ambassador to the UK. It's NY Jets owner Woody Johnson.

Woody Johnson also just happened to donate a lot of money to Trump's campaign.

Looks like Trump is compensating people for their political financial donations, not for their knowledge and abilities.

I guess membership has its privileges.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/19/politics/woody-johnson-uk-ambassador/index.html



you know who else was a HUUGE donor to Trump? Linda McMahon, who is Trump's nominee to lead the SBA.

money talks, I guess.

 

I have to give Trump credit. He's doing a great job selling off the United States government to his benefactors and cronies.

Regards,

Jason Bourne

 

OK, so Obama did this too

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/03/36814...any-big-donors-to-ambassadorships-critics-say

But I thought Trump was going to bring change to Washington?

I thought he was going to drain the swamp?

I guess not

 

Check out what Obama did when he picked ambassadors.

 

Obama picked one of his major donors from California as the first ambassador to Japan, who was replaced with Kennedy. John Victor Roos is a former United States Ambassador to Japan and former technology lawyer. Before accepting the ambassadorship from President Barack Obama, Roos bundled at least $500,000 to the Obama campaign.

 

They had political experience instead of being just a football team owner. Big difference.

Regards,

Jason Bourne

 

Talk about favoring special interests.....

Now, what was so bad about the Clinton's favors they did to their special interests again, but suddenly its okay for Trump to do it?

 

Colleen Bradley Bell and her husband, Bradley Bell, attend an art and film gala in 2011. Colleen Bell, a big donor to Obama's campaign, has been confirmed as U.S. ambassador

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/03/36814...any-big-donors-to-ambassadorships-critics-say

Please direct me to your outraged post when this occurred.

 

Being a big bundler doesn't count as experience. Besides, putting people with government or academic experience in positions is the definition of keeping the swamp. Draining the swamp means getting people outside of the incestuous government bubble.

 

Or, perhaps he is picking people with enough confidence in his leadership to have put their money where their mouth was.

Positions or appointments for contributors has been standard politics as long as I can remember. The catch is qualifications, the will and ability to do the best job possible, comes before counting contributions.
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This probably explains why you didn't get an offer.

 

I thought the outcome of this election taught you that we don't want anyone with political experience.

 

Yes, why don't I go apply to be a brain surgeon? I don't have any medical background, but hey that's all fine and dandy. See how flawed that logic is? You need [people with political experience to run government, like you need someone with a medical background to perform brain surgery.

 

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Sure. It takes a political hack on the payroll of a donor to know how to be an administrator.

 

Thank you for proving my point so brilliantly. The illogic that plagues people into electing Trump is scary.

 

No, because being a brain surgeon is a specialized skill and being a bureaucrat is not. You could not have picked a worse example.

If people like you were around during the 1960's, you'd be telling LBJ "BUT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO DESIGN AN ENGINE." Bureaucrats hire people who do know the ends and outs of the sections they attempt to administer… Usually.

 

My point was simply electing someone because their resume is different is flawed logic. You have to walk the walk to talk the talk in politics, and running an empire is not a exception to that rule.

 

How is the Clinton Foundation doing ? One would think bill and Hillary have a lot of free time to work their " charity" and help poor children all over the world. Now I haven't looked into it but suspicion makes me believe a lot of foreign cash contribution dried up. Now why would that be Ronstar? Could it possibly be that there is no more pay to Play Ronstar? Did even one time you have an issue with this Ronstar? Or did they get a free pass because they are Democrats Ronstar? Or did they get a free pass because they were Clinton's Ronstar? Please sir , enlighten me.

 

No, it isn't. Thomas Sowell explains this well that Bureaucrats are intellectuals, they're not professionals like surgeons or engineers. There is an external mechanism to determine whether or not a engineers or financiers are successful in their fields, such as whether an engineer designs a bridge and the bridge collapses or whether a financier goes broke. I can determine whether or not professionals are good at what they do.

Bureaucrats, on the other hand, have no external mechanism to determine whether a bureaucrats are successful because their ned products are ideas, and there is no external mechanism to determine whether those ideas or good or bad.

 

You realize the donations dried up after Hillary lost don't you?

 

this thread is about Trump giving Cabinet positions and Ambassadorships to big time campaign donors.

please try to focus.

 

Yeah, democrats were destined to crawl or die. Trump is going to hit the ground running, watch.

 

Yes, and you do realize that this thread is about Trump appointing a special interest donor, right?

Something you would otherwise be frying Clinton over.

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Hit the ground running doing what? Shoving import tariffs on companies, that would end up driving them away from us?

Don't make me laugh.

 

You spelled YUGE wrong.

He probably just wanted to see someone named Woody Johnson working for him.

By the way, hows the Clinton Foundation donations going now?

 

I think that Trump is CORRUPT and doesn't even realize it.

 

Perhaps you never heard of Dr. Henry Kissinger. Or President Jimmy Carter, a nuclear engineer. Or Barrack Obama, a legal scholar. Or Dwight Eisenhower who was Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WWII. How about Dr. C. Everett Koop, a successful pediatrician who became Surgeon General.

My point is that many so called bureaucrats are highly trained outside of the political arena.

Regards,

Jason Bourne