Trump Defends the Criminal Goldman Sachs Members of his cabinet

[bshole]

• Pure gold...
  

  When you get the President of Goldman Sachs, this is the President of Goldman Sachs! Smart! Having him represent us, he went from massive paydays to peanuts. The peanuts, the little tiny…These are people that are great, brilliant business minds

  
  In other news.... Cohn walked away from Goldman Sachs in January with a $285 million payout from the investment bank to take up his role in the Trump administration. Gee Donald, Goldman gave a quarter billion dollars payout so he could join your cabinet and determine the nation's budget. You really believe the American people are so daft as to believe that the "salary" he is getting in his new position represents the sum total of what his compensation will be? Or maybe just maybe.... perhaps that parachute Goldman gave him to leave represents the front end of his real compensation and the back end will come when he leaves (after giving America a budget that transfers billions to the oligarchs).
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppih62m0y0Y

 

[nickqt]

Pure gold...


In other news.... Cohn walked away from Goldman Sachs in January with a $285 million payout from the investment bank to take up his role in the Trump administration. Gee Donald, Goldman gave a quarter billion dollars payout so he could join your cabinet and determine the nation's budget. You really believe the American people are so daft as to believe that the "salary" he is getting in his new position represents the sum total of what his compensation will be? Or maybe just maybe.... perhaps that parachute Goldman gave him to leave represents the front end of his real compensation and the back end will come when he leaves (after giving America a budget that transfers billions to the oligarchs).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppih62m0y0Y

48% of the population doesn't know, and or doesn't care if they do.

51% of the population doesn't know and might care, but are too busy playing with their phones, or erroneously bought into the BothSidesDoIt™ media narrative.

Just think of this as 2001-2009 and realize that because of cognitive dissonance and projection, none of it matters in terms of preventing the inevitable.

Prepare yourself, your family, and your neighbors to be able to live through another bunch of reactionary imbeciles breaking everything in sight so that they can sell the pieces off to their paymasters.

 

[woolfe9998]

Isn't this the speech where Trump said something like, "I don't want a poor person in my cabinet"? I think it's interesting that to Trump, you're "poor" if you aren't a billionaire. How out of touch can this phony populist be?

 

[UNCjigga]

Pure gold...


In other news.... Cohn walked away from Goldman Sachs in January with a $285 million payout from the investment bank to take up his role in the Trump administration. Gee Donald, Goldman gave a quarter billion dollars payout so he could join your cabinet and determine the nation's budget. You really believe the American people are so daft as to believe that the "salary" he is getting in his new position represents the sum total of what his compensation will be? Or maybe just maybe.... perhaps that parachute Goldman gave him to leave represents the front end of his real compensation and the back end will come when he leaves (after giving America a budget that transfers billions to the oligarchs).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppih62m0y0Y

B-B-But George Clooney just sold his tequila company for a BILLION dollars, why aren't you liberals complaining about him!!??!?!?

 

[zinfamous]

Isn't this the speech where Trump said something like, "I don't want a poor person in my cabinet"? I think it's interesting that to Trump, you're "poor" if you aren't a billionaire. How out of touch can this phony populist be?

Well, I heard that Trump was down to earth. ...because John Connor said so.

 

[fskimospy]

Isn't this the speech where Trump said something like, "I don't want a poor person in my cabinet"? I think it's interesting that to Trump, you're "poor" if you aren't a billionaire. How out of touch can this phony populist be?

I don't want to shock you too heavily but it's almost like he never cared about anything he said during the campaign and was just telling people what they wanted to hear.

This is interesting because people usually think politicians will say anything to get elected and then go back on their promises but empirical research shows that's not true, at least until Trump. Outside of the immigration crackdown which he genuinely seems to believe in he has shown zero interest in actually following through on the promises he made during the campaign. It's just all lies.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Isn't this the speech where Trump said something like, "I don't want a poor person in my cabinet"? I think it's interesting that to Trump, you're "poor" if you aren't a billionaire. How out of touch can this phony populist be?

Dude, drumpf and his whole family are down to earth, just ask conner or bucky or dsf or sp33dy or...

 

[pauldun170]

I've known Goldman people over the years
It takes a special kind of person to work there.

“I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its identity. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it…. The firm has veered so far from the place I joined right out of college that I can no longer in good conscience say that I identify with what it stands for. “

“The culture was the secret sauce that made this place great and allowed us to earn our clients’ trust for 143 years. It wasn’t just about making money; this alone will not sustain a firm for so long. It had something to do with pride and belief in the organization. I am sad to say that I look around today and see virtually no trace of the culture that made me love working for this firm for many years. I no longer have the pride, or the belief… I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work. “

“When the history books are written about Goldman Sachs, they may reflect that the current chief executive officer, Lloyd C. Blankfein, and the president, Gary D. Cohn, lost hold of the firm’s culture on their watch. I truly believe that this decline in the firm’s moral fiber represents the single most serious threat to its long-run survival….

“How did we get here? The firm changed the way it thought about leadership. Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence…Today, many of these leaders display a Goldman Sachs culture quotient of exactly zero percent. “

“Without clients you will not make money. In fact, you will not exist. Weed out the morally bankrupt people, no matter how much money they make for the firm. And get the culture right again, so people want to work here for the right reasons.”

"I attend derivatives sales meetings where not one single minute is spent asking questions about how we can help clients. It’s purely about how we can make the most possible money off of them."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/o...30531006566AD9E19D4&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion

more
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/11/02/leaving-goldman-sachs/1672147/

 

[Phynaz]

You dumbasses want a drive-up bank teller in charge of the US Treasury I suppose.

 

[disappoint]

48% of the population doesn't know, and or doesn't care if they do.

51% of the population doesn't know and might care, but are too busy playing with their phones, or erroneously bought into the BothSidesDoIt™ media narrative.

Just think of this as 2001-2009 and realize that because of cognitive dissonance and projection, none of it matters in terms of preventing the inevitable.

Prepare yourself, your family, and your neighbors to be able to live through another bunch of reactionary imbeciles breaking everything in sight so that they can sell the pieces off to their paymasters.

Most of the media does not have that narrative. Food for thought unless you want to continue living in denial: The Democrats had 8 years under Clinton and 8 years under Obama to right the wrongs of those oligarchs and paymasters you're ranting about. How'd that work out for you?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

You dumbasses want a drive-up bank teller in charge of the US Treasury I suppose.

better than having a failed businessman/racist/sexist/xenophobe as president

 

[Phynaz]

better than having a failed businessman/racist/sexist/xenophobe as president

Take your ADD meds so you can stay on topic dumbass.

 

[mikeymikec]

You dumbasses want a drive-up bank teller in charge of the US Treasury I suppose.

You don't think it's a little odd for Trump to hire people from an organisation that he linked to "crooked" Hillary Clinton during his campaign?

 

[zzyzxroad]

better than having a failed businessman/racist/sexist/xenophobe as president

At least he is down to earth though.

 

[pauldun170]

You dumbasses want a drive-up bank teller in charge of the US Treasury I suppose.

You ever work for an Investment bank of know people who work at an investment bank? Goldman? Merrill prior to BOA acquisition?

I would prefer someone with a PHd in Economics or at least someone who has done something besides douchebag their way to the top of the Goldman bubble.

The guy succeeded at an Investment bank and rubbed elbows with Trump on the golfcourse.
That doesn't not qualify someone run the treasury or make Economic decisions that have broad scope.

 

[fskimospy]

You dumbasses want a drive-up bank teller in charge of the US Treasury I suppose.

Do you think there is any other alternative? Wrack your brain.

 

[woolfe9998]

Honestly, I couldn't care less how many Goldman Sachs execs Trump has in his administration, so long as his policies do not favor big banks and Wall Street. Unfortunately, Trump's proposed deregulation is music to Wall Street's ears. These proposals were generated by his economic team, many of whom are straight out of Wall Street.

Remember when Trump bashed Clinton's connections to Wall Street during the campaign?

 

[Azuma Hazuki]

Most of the media does not have that narrative. Food for thought unless you want to continue living in denial: The Democrats had 8 years under Clinton and 8 years under Obama to right the wrongs of those oligarchs and paymasters you're ranting about. How'd that work out for you?

Bill Clinton was a Republican. NAFTA and "welfare reform" are about the most Republican things I can think of. And I have no doubt Obama's larger donors took him aside shortly after the election and "explained" things to him, probably with a few threats to his family included.

The Clintons are the oligarchs, and frankly I think Obama is guilty of moral failures for his failure to act on some things, to say nothing of the increased surveillance he greenlit.

 

[xthetenth]

You dumbasses want a drive-up bank teller in charge of the US Treasury I suppose.

That is a neutral choice. No demonstrated knowledge or skills, and no demonstrated reason to trust them. Note that in a world where good choices exist this would be a bad pick.

However, we're not talking about a good choice, we're talking about someone with a demonstrated interest in extracting wealth from the population and delivering it to the industries he's supposed to be watching. This is appointing the biggest fox you've got to watch the henhouse and saying the yolk dripping from his snout just means he's good with eggs.

 

[buckshot24]

Isn't this the speech where Trump said something like, "I don't want a poor person in my cabinet"? I think it's interesting that to Trump, you're "poor" if you aren't a billionaire. How out of touch can this phony populist be?

He wants successful people in his cabinet. What is wrong with that?

 

[woolfe9998]

He wants successful people in his cabinet. What is wrong with that?

As I said in my post above, there wouldn't be, if his policies didn't favor big banks and Wall Street. Yet they do.

 

[disappoint]

Bill Clinton was a Republican. NAFTA and "welfare reform" are about the most Republican things I can think of. And I have no doubt Obama's larger donors took him aside shortly after the election and "explained" things to him, probably with a few threats to his family included.

The Clintons are the oligarchs, and frankly I think Obama is guilty of moral failures for his failure to act on some things, to say nothing of the increased surveillance he greenlit.

Are you aware of the No True Scotsman fallacy? And you're sure your post doesn't fit the Bill?

 

[buckshot24]

As I said in my post above, there wouldn't be, if his policies didn't favor big banks and Wall Street. Yet they do.

So him being out of touch isn't really the problem?

 

[Azuma Hazuki]

Yes, @disappoint, I am. And I will counter with "If it lies like a Republican, passes corporate-friendly legislation like a Republican, obstructs justice like a Republican, and tells the poor to go to Hell like a Republican, it is a Republican even if it calls itself a Democrat." See also Clinton, Hillary.

 

[zinfamous]

At least he is down to earth though.

nobody has ever been more down to earth. believe me, OK? nobody.