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59 points

My first reaction was… who?

But I think that’s the point. He’s a nobody yes-man who won’t exercise any influence that could challenge Trump. Learned that lesson with the last pick, who wouldn’t even commit some light treason to illegally keep Trump in power.

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54 points

I think you underestimate how well-known he is, especially to Republicans. He is definitely a Trump yes-man and always has been, but he is not an unknown at all.

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66 points

Maybe not “always has been,” as at one point he said Trump would be “America’s Hitler.”

But unlike most of us who would probably not want to work for someone you personally think could be Hitler, he’s done the normal GOP thing and flipped right over for the game of it all.

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16 points

I totally forgot about that, you’re right.

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8 points

Plus he’s got a beard now so he looks like a real patriot.

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5 points

Maybe not “always has been,” as at one point he said Trump would be “America’s Hitler.”

Maybe he meant it in a good way.

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5 points

Fair enough - not really the circles I run in so I really wouldn’t know.

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11 points

He’s a completely corrupt piece of shit that I’m sure they didn’t vet properly since Trump gets what he wants, so expect all kinds of skeletons to start coming out. Could even be some literal ones.

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A whole network of family and friends stepped in to raise him when his parents fell apart, and the generosity of scholarships and government grants for the economically disadvantaged paid his way through a Yale education, all so he could turn around and write a book about how poor people are actually lazy and just need to tug those bootstraps harder and start hitting their kids again

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14 points

Yeah but you see he found this really sweet ladder that he pulled up after climbing

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13 points

Must be nice to ‘suck off the state’s teat’ then boot all those climbing behind you into the abyss.

They’re all assholes.

Every. Fucking. One. Of. Them.

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4 points

This dude seems to be pretty sharp and is a huge threat. Him and his Peter Theil buddies are working hard to outright destroy democracy. I wouldn’t write this guy off as a yes-man.

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