Eliot Cohen: "Stay away. They’re angry, arrogant, screaming “you LOST!” Will be ugly"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even idiotic Ben Carson has jumped off the Trump Train.

You think Bannon was going to keep a black man?
Seriously?

Being that Bannon hired black men (and women, and Asian men, and Latina women, and so on) to write for him at Breitbart, yes.

And Ben Carson has said for months that he'd prefer to be an outside advisor for a Trump administration rather than have a position within it.

Damn straight, bro! They're just butthurt because they LOST. And we WON!!! WINNNINGG!!!! WINNNNINNNGGGG! Bigliest winningest!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even idiotic Ben Carson has jumped off the Trump Train.

You think Bannon was going to keep a black man?
Seriously?

Aren't they going to need a token?

Are you black?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the article:

His friend’s email conveyed the feeling that ‘we’re so glad to see the bicoastal elites get theirs,’” added Cohen, who described the response as “unhinged.’’

You see this from the Trumpsters posting here. It's not about governing or whatever else, it's about sticking it to the "elites" they feel have been laughing at them for so long. These people would cut off their own limbs if they thought it would upset liberals - they are all about confrontation, in favor of whatever dems are against no matter how reasonable it might be. Any possible compromise is unacceptable.

The depths of this crazy is just astounding. What a clusterfuck.

Every day this reminds me more and more of the Russian Revolution. That worked out wonderfully for everyone.

Yup. It's a weird hybrid of the Russia 1917 and Germany 1933.

Gosh, I didn't even think of the Russia 1917 parallel. So we are casting Bannon as Rasputin? Fabulous. Does Ivanka know how this ends? Maybe she thinks she'll get to be the lost Anastasia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even idiotic Ben Carson has jumped off the Trump Train.

You think Bannon was going to keep a black man?
Seriously?

Being that Bannon hired black men (and women, and Asian men, and Latina women, and so on) to write for him at Breitbart, yes.

And Ben Carson has said for months that he'd prefer to be an outside advisor for a Trump administration rather than have a position within it.

Damn straight, bro! They're just butthurt because they LOST. And we WON!!! WINNNINGG!!!! WINNNNINNNGGGG! Bigliest winningest!!!!

Voted for Hillary, so actually I "lost"... bro. I'm just interested in the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is so wonderful that it deserves to be quoted. Why does Jared Kushner hate Chris Christie?

So what exactly is Kushner’s disdain with Christie? His distaste for the politician has been widely documented and linked to Christie’s involvement in the prosecution of Kushner’s father Charles Kushner, who was sentenced to prison in 2005 on 18 counts of tax evasion, witness tampering and making illegal campaign donations. But to fully understand the genesis of the bad blood, you must look back to 2005, when Christie, then U.S. Attorney, pounded his chest over his success in getting a guilty verdict in the Kushner case. He’d pushed for Kushner to be sentenced to three years for his crimes, which included hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and capture it on videotape in an act of retaliation against his sister, a witness for the prosecution.

What trash they all are. I wonder if Donald sees Jared as his secret soulmate and wannabe son.

YOU CANT MAKE THIS SHIT UP.

[Anonymous]

Here's his opinion piece in the WaPo. Scathing.

The tenor of the Trump team, from everything I see, read and hear, is such that, for a garden-variety Republican policy specialist, service in the early phase of the administration would carry a high risk of compromising one’s integrity and reputation.

The president-elect is surrounding himself with mediocrities whose chief qualification seems to be unquestioning loyalty. He gets credit for becoming a statesman when he says something any newly elected president might say (“I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future”) — and then reverts to tweeting against demonstrators and the New York Times. By all accounts, his ignorance, and that of his entourage, about the executive branch is fathomless.

One bad boss can be endured. A gaggle of them will poison all decision-making. They will turn on each other. No band of brothers this: rather the permanent campaign as waged by triumphalist rabble-rousers and demagogues, abetted by people out of their depth and unfit for the jobs they will hold, gripped by grievance, resentment and lurking insecurity. Their mistakes — because there will be mistakes — will be exceptional.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-told-conservatives-to-work-for-trump-one-talk-with-his-team-changed-my-mind/2016/11/15/f02e1fac-ab7c-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.d29a213ccb42#comments

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's his opinion piece in the WaPo. Scathing.

The tenor of the Trump team, from everything I see, read and hear, is such that, for a garden-variety Republican policy specialist, service in the early phase of the administration would carry a high risk of compromising one’s integrity and reputation.

The president-elect is surrounding himself with mediocrities whose chief qualification seems to be unquestioning loyalty. He gets credit for becoming a statesman when he says something any newly elected president might say (“I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future”) — and then reverts to tweeting against demonstrators and the New York Times. By all accounts, his ignorance, and that of his entourage, about the executive branch is fathomless.

One bad boss can be endured. A gaggle of them will poison all decision-making. They will turn on each other. No band of brothers this: rather the permanent campaign as waged by triumphalist rabble-rousers and demagogues, abetted by people out of their depth and unfit for the jobs they will hold, gripped by grievance, resentment and lurking insecurity. Their mistakes — because there will be mistakes — will be exceptional.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-told-conservatives-to-work-for-trump-one-talk-with-his-team-changed-my-mind/2016/11/15/f02e1fac-ab7c-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.d29a213ccb42#comments

They couldn't deserve it more. I just hope they don't take all of us down too.

[Anonymous]

Thanks to most of you chatting in here. This may be one of the few sane, adult-inhabited threads in this forum.

I'm a strong diplomacy-first liberal, but all my conservative friends who studied with Dr. cohen are so happy he wrote this. They finally feel that there is a voice expressing their fears and concerns with this administration. We need more statements like this and that made by McCain today.

[Anonymous]

So a Never Trumper who consistently criticizes Trump writes one piece saying conservatives should give working in the new administration a chance so they can inject some civility and respectability.

Then a friend of his in Trumpland yells at him, and from the blowup with his friend he says no respectable person should work for Trump.

Sounds balanced.

[Anonymous]

I am genuinely fearful for what will happen when this clown car encounters its first serious national security issue. This shit is for real, and these people are just not up to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am genuinely fearful for what will happen when this clown car encounters its first serious national security issue. This shit is for real, and these people are just not up to it.

This is what's keeping me up at night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So a Never Trumper who consistently criticizes Trump writes one piece saying conservatives should give working in the new administration a chance so they can inject some civility and respectability.

Then a friend of his in Trumpland yells at him, and from the blowup with his friend he says no respectable person should work for Trump.

Sounds balanced.

The friend reached out to Cohen for names of people who would be interested in working for the Trump administration, Cohen provided some names, friend went on a crazy email rant, and Cohen tweets that people should reconsider working for that mess for at least the first couple of years lest their careers go down in flames. I'm sure there are plenty of Republicans in DC who are appreciative of the heads up.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like the train wreck everyone with a brain expected. If you thought the response to Katrina was bad just wait to see what these dumbs do...to everything. You'd have to be desperate to take a job in this administration.

[Anonymous]

I am genuinely fearful for what will happen when this clown car encounters its first serious national security issue. This shit is for real, and these people are just not up to it.

THIS! They could actually kill us all....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am genuinely fearful for what will happen when this clown car encounters its first serious national security issue. This shit is for real, and these people are just not up to it.

Exactly. I am 100% confident that a Romney, Clinton, Kasich, or Bush administration could manage a national emergency or national security threat on Day 1. They would have the people and procedures in place. The Trump Administration is extremely thin on people, competency, and ideas. And, unfortunately, our enemies know this, too. If Putin invades Latvia on January 21, how will a Trump administration react? It's utterly frightening.