Stymied by the restrictions of government, Trump empowers Kushner..

[HipChick]

President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans and fighting opioid addiction — by harvesting ideas from the business world and, potentially, privatizing some government functions.

The White House Office of American Innovation, to be led by Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will operate as its own nimble power center within the West Wing and will report directly to Trump. Viewed internally as a SWAT team of strategic consultants, the office will be staffed by former business executives and is designed to infuse fresh thinking into Washington, float above the daily political grind and create a lasting legacy for a president still searching for signature achievements.

“We should have excellence in government,” Kushner said Sunday in an interview in his West Wing office. “The government should be run like a great American company. Our hope is that we can achieve successes and efficiencies for our customers, who are the citizens.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-taps-kushner-to-lead-a-swat-team-to-fix-government-with-business-ideas/2017/03/26/9714a8b6-1254-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.0373c738d1c4

[alwaysinflux]

1. Hey, Jerk

We aren't your "customers"; you work for us!

[Sculpin Beauregard]

3. Yeah, he shouldn't get too comfortable.

[applegrove]

12. Ha!

[Hortensis]

38. Don't you think this has to be a BAD BLOW to Bannon,

Robert Mercer, the Kochs? Bannon lost a big chunk of power here obviously.

IMO, power shifted away from a dangerous jerk openly trying to destroy liberalism and secularism in government by smashing our current systems of government and also hoping to blow up the planet in a war between Christianity and Islam is not a bad thing.

This White House is conservative and swinging for the GOP, but compared to the extremism of Bannon and Ryan, Kushner looks almost like a Democrat . So does Rump for that matter when he's not under the influence. Not that that's going away, but Rump's erratic unreliability has to be causing a lot of heartburn on vast estates.

[wcmagumba]

2. Another drumph failure waiting to happen...nt

[FakeNoose]

30. When was Jared Kushner elected?

I must have missed it, I don't remember him running for any office.



Just sayin'

[Jonny Appleseed]

4. "The White House Office of American Innovation"

That sounds scary. It's filled with such bullshit nonsense buzzwords that it's practically 50% a money-laundering front already.

Government isn't a business. And I can't believe the last thing that bothered me was the nepotism, I didn't even realize it until I was about to post this. Wow this fucking normalization.

[riversedge]

19. the only things required of us peons is tax money and to shop shop shop

[Volaris]

40. That's That's the same thing Jr said when we were worried about Iraq.

'Don't worry, we got this. Just go shopping (while we start a war on your dime that doesn't need to happen so I can have just as big a dick as my daddy and Cheney can use it as an excuse to steal from people and torture and murder anyone who disagrees).'

The GOP thinks the Federal Government is a business...THEIR BUSINESS, and we the purchasers don't get to have a say what products get stocked. You know what I want to see on the shelf??

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE AND PUBLICLY FUNDED ELECTIONS!!

[nolabear]

5. Oh. Hell. No. He can't just give over the running of the country to his family.

Company? It's NOTHING like running a company!

We need advocates. We need people in office to scream without ceasing. This is insane.

[HipChick]

9. At the same time his Son-In-Law is chasing deals in China

[Warpy]

31. I'm sure Congress and the Judiciary will remind them of that periodically

when they tell them to put their grandiose and unworkable ideas where the sun never shines.

I think they're all in for a series of rude awakenings. I just wonder how long it will take Dolt45 to quit.

He's already discovered that saying "Repeal health care and replace it with something better" and snapping his little fingers doesn't make it happen, especially in a party that's long on dogma and short on policy.

[ProfessorGAC]

41. Besides, What Would They Know. . .

. . .about running a well-run company? Do well run companies declare bankruptcy multiple times because the entire business model is based on leverage?

[Volaris]

42. Agreed. We need the DNC and Congressional Leadership

To set up a british-style shadow government and start assigning cabinet positions. Yeah, it's more work, but it's OUR work, and if I were them I would be happy to contribute. Remember 'herding cats'? It's easy if you put something the cats want where you want the cats to go. This has the added benefit of being good bait to get everyone on the same page. They already have the priorities list (the democratic platform), what's missing is organizational structure at the top. We need an 'unoffical' president to start prepping policy proposals, setting goals, put everyone on the same page and keep notes about who's playing ball and who's not. EVERY action by this administration needs an official unoffical response, and needs it within 48 hours...let's MAKE Shouty Spice resign lol.

[benld74]

6. Agree!! We should have excellence in government

Alas

America is stuck with your daddy-in-laws' administration!!

nt

[Binkie The Clown]

7. I see another crash-and-burn scenario about to develop. n/t

[Doodley]

8. It'll be a tremendous success to privatize everything under the Trump name, then it can go bankrupt!

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. so much winning! this will be winning squared! cubed! bigly stuff!

[Croney]

11. "float above the daily political grind"

= make their own rules and break the law.

[MedusaX]

13. This should scare the fuck out of everyone..

The last thing we need is a convenient universal "streamlining" of agency functionality implemented by a group of individuals who are completely autonomous and subject to zero oversight...

Keep in mind that in the past when Trump has collaborated on projects.....

... the resources and creativity needed and ultimately execute in an efficient, cost-effective, way,” Hicks said. “In some respects, this is an extension of some of the highlights of the president’s career.”

It has meant bringing in foreign agents & foreign investment $$$$ to be laundered...

Technological Exploitation & infiltration is what has gotten us in this mess....
Do we really want to hand over the keys to our entire government network/ functional data systems etc???

That is precisely the type of invisible cyber warfare invasion Putin would loooooove to achieve!!!

[C_U_L8R]

14. Rearranging the deck chairs

While the band drones on 'nearer my god to thee'

[Sculpin Beauregard]

18. Hee!!

[FreepFryer]

15. Gleichschaltung. And no, I didn't sneeze. :) (n/t)

[Docreed2003]

16. So the commissars are coming? Greeeeeeeat!

[Kath2]

17. Sounds like another disaster.

[riversedge]

20. Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas is ACTUAL

headline. It is terrifying.



Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas

[ChazInAz]

21. Who wrote that article?

It read like something a corporation's publicity committee would brainstorm together late at night over way too much Red Bull. The buzzwords and meaningless bafflespeak were exhausting to read.
Did Kushner's Commissars put it together as a press release?

[Jonny Appleseed]

22. It's strange how Trump talks like a third grade but everyone around him uses

The Corporate BS Generator
http://www.atrixnet.com/bs-generator.html

[Sculpin Beauregard]

23. Get them all the hell out

Of the White House. This has become open mockery of the office. Not to mention hemorrhaging of taxpayer money with all the trips to their personal property.

These assholes think they're a monarchy. Crime family is more accurate. RICO the crap outta them!

[nancy1942]

24. God help us all.

[Delphinus]

25. No, seriously this

can'take be happening!

[dchill]

26. Grift, graft.

[pangaia]

27. The US government is not a company you little shit fuck.

[Solly Mack]

28. I'm not a fucking customer you clueless moron.

I hope he ends up in prison like his father.

That new office is nothing but the selling off of government to their cronies.

[TeamPooka]

29. A grifter's wet dream. nt

[Kittycow]

32. Sounds like Congress will be out of a job!

Everything will be decided by toot-toot's family!

Those SOBs.

[orangecrush]

33. Jesus Christ

Haven't they done enough damage yet?

[Doreen]

34. Our country has just become the business of the trumps.

We are their owned business. Well, it is starting to look like that. We need to take our country back before this dictator takes it anymore.

[GulfCoast66]

35. Can't wait till he starts acting like a Department head and asking for meetings with congress

And is told to go pound sand.

Trump has no authority, legal, moral or presidential. The health care thing has castrated him and the country does not yet know it.

But the congress does.

[Azathoth]

36. Jared is another exceedingly mediocre trust fund larva

whose Harvard diploma cost his old man Charlie a few million dollars. His business "experience" consists almost entirely of using his dad's money to make some real estate purchases and running the New York Observer into the ground.

Yup, we're in good hands

[pfitz59]

37. Another "sole proprietor" who never faced a Board of Directors

Sure he has the chops to tackle government reform

[OldHippieChick]

39. He wants someone to figure out how he can just sign executive orders

and get what he wants w/out having to go thru that pesky Congress or having to worry about that peskier judicial branch. We'll see if Jared can figure that out ... I hear the "Jeopardy" song ...