This is a unpleasant fact that you may have already know. I ran across this report that concluded that a US presidential candidate could mathematically win the electoral vote with as low as 23% of the popular vote. In other words the present electoral college system allows even a highly disliked candidate to be elected to be leader of the whole country even though a low minority of citizens support him/her. This isn't exactly what happened in 2016 but it is in the same vein.

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/02/500112...e-popular-vote

When you consider this, that figure isn't that far off:
Over 90 Million Eligible Voters Didn’t Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election
http://heavy.com/news/2016/11/eligib...tered-results/

That is an excellent piece, thank you for sharing.

Yea, I don't get why these old rich dudes want to work when they are worth billions. Tillerson? Like why? Even Trump is WTF. Dude, you are 70 and you decided to go after the hardest, most stressful job on the planet? A job where a guy like Obama looked like he aged 20 years while in office? Honestly, no wonder Trump is going to FL and playing golf every weekend. I'd be doing the same thing.

Greed is a hell of a drug I guess.

That is very cynical. I'm optimistic about him after reading the story.

How about a sense of duty? Pretty sure he doesn't need more money and was looking forward to retirement.

What was Kerry's motivation?

Tilersom should resign, then get divorced then go chill out.

To jump right on the unfortunate truth tillerson's wife probably never worked in her life but is badgering him to do it?

It's one thing if your spouse makes you realize you need to do it is another to do it just because they say you need to it.

In the scheme of problems Tillerson is a weird one. Traditionally foreign policy is probably the area the White House is most needed for when it comes to the federal government. While a lot of trump's cabinet are aggressively dangerous, tillerson is just apathetic and tired. While I would be greatful for those traits in pretty much any other administration position it is dangerous in the SoS.

You are the one making this partisan, not me. I said old dudes that are worth billions. That goes for all of them.

Sense of duty? Tillerson?

HAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

GTFO here w/ that crap. Dude won't even bother having a press conference. But yea, he's got a sense of duty. Geez, do you just blindly support everyone in Trump's cabinet no matter how silly it makes you look?

Yea I think that was what the story was meant to do. How are you optimistic about oligarchy, unless of course you yourself are an oligarch?

Sense of duty or 500 billion dollar oil deal? I mean which makes more sense?

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/1...sanctions.html

Let's just be honest.

And if one jumped down the conspiracy hole you could wonder what information Russia has on republican congress people that they might use to surpress investigaions.

It's a cluster and the reality is anyone who is not fully on board with real and complete independent investigations has to be suspect. There is no way else we can deal with this. Regardless of the house intel members just because something is being investigated doesn't mean it's a conviction. To be fair they literally talked out of both sides of their mouths on that one. But for now let's focus on the one that has to do with the existence of any investigation is unfair and a smear.

Why do your claims not apply to Kerry? He was a 70 year old white dude that is richer than Tillerson. I don't like Kerry's politics at all, but I think he took the job because of a sense of duty. I feel the same way about Tillerson after reading that story. I don't really understand the comment about oligarchy. The guy is an engineer that rose up the ranks at Exxon, presumably because he's very talented and smart as hell. Whatever, though. He's rich, so he must be a scumbag, right?

Its almost as if Tillerson isn't interested in diplomacy and his only reason for accepting the job is to insure that sanctions against Russia are lifted.

Your greed narrative makes no sense. He owns no Exxon shares.

No, he's a scumbag because of his ties to Russia. He's also not qualified for the job. Cutting trips short because of fatigue and the NK crap shows that. Love how you making Tillerson a victim here though.

Your reading of the situation leaves much to be desired

This Gorsuch guy is gonna say gosh golly while he makes you have a rape baby I guarantee it.

Tillerson doesn't seem like a monster, although I havent gotten to his chapters in the Exxon book Im reading. The problems with him are (1) he's another billionaire with no US government experience in an administration that has way too many of those, (2) Exxon operates like a foreign government and have actively undermined US interests in the past, e.g. in Chad.

And he'll fire you when you take the day off for the birth.

He is the CEO of a multinational oil conglomerate. And he's our head diplomat with no foreign policy or diplomacy experience. Also he and his company stand to benefit greatly if sanctions are lifted. Also he has a friendship award from a guy that our FBI says interfered with our electoral process.

See this is that dumb ****.

He is also ok with large cuts in the State Department against a whole crap load of generals wishes. By them more bullets is the strategy i guess.