DONALD TRUMP HASN'T JUST PICKED HEADS OF CABINET
DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE WILDLY UNQUALIFIED FOR POSITIONS THEY
ARE GOING TO FILL AND PHILOSOPHICALLY DIAMETRICALLY
OPPOSED TO THE POINT OF THOSE DEPARTMENTS, HE ALSO JUST HASN'T
CHOSEN PEOPLE TO FILL LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF POSITION THROUGHOUT
THE GOVERNMENT, MANY OF THEM HOLDING IMPORTANT NATIONAL
SECURITY POSITIONS.
AND SO LET'S TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND THE WAY PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE DONE IT.
BARACK OBAMA, AS CENK ALLUDED
TO, DID NOT FILL THE TIME HE WAS SWORN IN ALL THE POSITIONS,
ESPECIALLY IN NATIONAL SECURITY, SO WHAT HE DOES WAS HE HAD THE
PREVIOUS BUSH APPOINTEES HOLD THAT POSITION FOR SEVERAL WEEKS.
TRUMP IS NOT DOING THAT --
THOSE ARE CASES WHERE LEAST HE HAS CHOSEN SOMEONE, THEY JUST
HAVEN'T BEEN YET APPOINTED.
INTERESTINGLY --
I WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED THAT UP WITH, NO, WE ARE NOT FUCKING
AROUND, YOU HAVE TO TELL US WHO IT WILL BE.
HOW CAN THEY HAVE
A HEAD OF THE CIA AND WE DON'T KNOW WHO
IT IS?
SO --
THOSE DEPARTMENT WILL BE WITHOUT LEADERSHIP UNTIL HE
CHOOSES SOMEONE, THEN THE ETHICS INVESTIGATIONS AND HEARINGS AND
THEN THE VOTE, FOR SOME REASON HE DOESN'T THINK IT'S IMPORTANT.
CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, THIS GUY RAN ON A WALL ON THE
BORDER, DOESN'T THINK WE NEED LEADERSHIP AT THE BORDER IN THE
INTERIM.
THAT IS JUST A FEW, APPARENTLY THEIR 600 POSITIONS,
MANY IN DEFENSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY, THAT HE HASN'T EVEN
CHOSEN SOMEONE FOR THE POSITION YET, LET ALONE HAD THEM
VETTED AND VOTED ON.
I WAS PARTLY WRONG ABOUT THIS, BECAUSE EARLIER IN THE WEEK I
WAS TALKING ABOUT HIS INCOMPETENCE, I'LL GET TO IT
WHEN I GET TO IT, I THINK THAT IS PROBABLY STILL SOMEWHAT TRUE.
BUT I REALIZED, HAVING READ ALL THESE STORIES, SOMEONE IN THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION -- NOT TRUMP, HE'S NOT INVOLVED IN THE
DETAILS AT ALL -- DID COME UP WITH THIS PLAN, AND IT'S A
FAIRLY CLEVER PLAN.
ONLY TWO NOMINEES HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED SO
FAR, AND HE'S NOW PRESIDENT, THAT THE LOWEST AMOUNT SINCE
GEORGE H.W.
BUSH.
THERE IS A REASON FOR THAT, OBAMA FOR
EXAMPLE, AND BUSH, BROUGHT PEOPLE MUCH EARLIER ON, ONCE
THEY KNEW THEY WON, THEY WERE BRINGING HIM IN FRONT OF THE
SENATE TO GET CONFIRMED IN TIME SO THAT WHEN THEY TOOK OFFICE
THEY WOULD BE READY TO GO.
THAT IS HOW OTHER REPUBLICANS AND
DEMOCRATS DID IT.
TRUMP INTRODUCED THEM REALLY, REALLY
LATE.
NOW HE GETS TO SAY THEY HAVEN'T CONFIRMED ANYONE, ONLY
TWO GUYS, WE ARE IN A PANIC, ALL THESE POSITIONS ARE NOT FILLED.
WHY?
YOU JUST KICKED THEM OUT THE DOOR.
THEY ARE NOT FILLED,
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY.
AND THEN JOHN CORNYN, SENATOR FROM TEXAS,
TWEETS --
IF YOU HAVE SUPER CONTROVERSIAL NOMINEES, THIS IS
HOW YOU JAM THEM THROUGH.
YOU CREATE A SENSE OF PANIC AND
CONFLICT AND YOU GO, OH MY GOD, THEY ARE NOT FILLED.
THE CIA,
NATIONAL SECURITY, EDUCATION, ENERGY, WE HAVE TO FILL THEM.
THE DEMOCRATS HAVEN'T CONFIRMED ANYONE, WE WILL STAY HERE ALL
WEEKEND.
AND YOU KNOW POLITICIANS, THEY HATE STAYING
THE WEEKEND.
SO THEY ARE GOING TO JAM EVERYONE THROUGH.
IT'S A
STRATEGY, AND POLITICALLY A PRETTY SMART ONE.
DON'T REPUBLICANS HAVE THE MAJORITY?
WEREN'T THEY GOING TO
CONFIRM ANYONE TRUMP WANTED ANYWAY?
THEY WANT THE HEARINGS TO BE SHORTER AND THE NEWS CYCLE TO BE
SHORTER.
YOU WANT TO KEEP TALKING ABOUT HOW BETSY DEVOS
DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT EDUCATION, OR HOW RICK PERRY
THOUGHT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY WAS AN OIL COMPANY LOBBYIST?
YOU DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT, THEY ARE MORONS.
NO MORE STORIES ABOUT BEARS.
YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW BOTH OF THOSE PEOPLE WANT TO
DESTROY THE DEPARTMENTS THEY ARE THE HEADS OF?
YOU DON'T WANT TO
TALK ABOUT THAT, YOU JUST WANT TO JAM THEM THROUGH AND GO, IT'S
A PANIC.
NAOMI KLEIN EXPLAINED THIS A LONG TIME AGO, YOU CREATE
A CRISIS AND THEN SOLVE IT BY SAYING, CONFIRM ALL OF MY
INSANELY CONTROVERSIAL NOMINEES RIGHT AWAY AND LET'S GET IT OUT
OF THE NEW CYCLE.
YOU WILL WAKE UP ONE DAY AND THERE IS NO
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, WHAT HAPPENED?
REMEMBER WHEN WE PUT
BETSY DEVOS IN?
I HOPE SANDERS AND WARREN CONTINUE TO BE FIGHTERS, AND
CONTINUE TO DO WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR US TO GET THOSE AWESOME
VIDEOS OF THE INCOMPETENCE OF THESE NOMINEES.
WE HAVE TO GIVE CREDIT TO FRANKEN, HE'S BEEN GREAT, AND
KAINE HAD SOME GREAT QUESTIONS.
WHO IS KAINE?
TIM KAINE.
HE'S STILL AROUND?
I WATCHED SOME OF THAT GUY.
WHO IS HE?
THAT'S NOT THE TIM
KAINE I KNOW.
HE SEEMED COMPETENT AND HAD A PURPOSE, HE
SEEMED GENUINE.
HE IS SALTY NOW.
I'M WITH ANA BY THE WAY.
IF I WAS SANDERS, WARREN, ANY OF
THOSE GUYS, LET'S GO ALL WEEKEND.
I BROUGHT MY SLEEPING
BAG.
I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
LET'S HAVE ANOTHER HEARING.
AND
BY THE WAY, I'M GOING TO TALK TO THE PRESS ABOUT YOUR GROTESQUE
INCOMPETENCE, HOW YOU HAVE ENDANGERED THE COUNTRY BY FIRING
PEOPLE WHO WERE ALREADY DOING THE JOB WITHOUT HAVING ANYBODY
TO REPLACE THEM.
IT'S NOT ON ME, I'M NOT THE PRESIDENT -- BERNIE
SANDERS COULD HAVE BEEN, HE WOULD HAVE DONE THIS
COMPETENTLY, BUT THAT'S NOT THE DIRECTION WE WENT, DONALD TRUMP
IS THE PRESIDENT, AND YOUR POSITIONS ARE EMPTY BECAUSE
YOU
ARE INCOMPETENT.
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