Trump Picks Jon Huntsman To Be U.S. Ambassador To Russia

[Treedbear]

Trump Picks Jon Huntsman To Be U.S. Ambassador To Russia:

The Associated Press reports:
... "Trump also went after Huntsman during his tenure as ambassador to Beijing. In a series of tweets in 2011 and 2012, the celebrity businessman called Huntsman a "lightweight" and "weak" and claimed that China "did a major number on us" during his tenure."

Sounds like just what Puppetmaster Bannon ordered. Huntsman is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. But as for Ruski:

The Energy 202: Jon Huntsman's Russia connections run through Chevron:

But as Vox's Zack Beauchamp and others have written, the choice is confusing because Huntsman does not speak Russian and is not "a Russia expert, or anything close." Huntsman's experience in Russia appears to be limited to his business interests there. A company owned by Huntsman’s family does business in Russia, and he has traveled to that country in that capacity, report The Post's Abby Phillip and Lisa Rein.

And for the past three years, Huntsman has served on the board of directors of Chevron, the second largest U.S. oil and gas company — and one of the biggest corporations affected by curent U.S. sanctions against Russia.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Why do you need an Ambassador who knows something about Russia if Putin's just going to give Trump his orders directly without going through an intermediary?

 

[Elixir]

Why do you need an Ambassador who knows something about Russia if Putin's just going to give Trump his orders directly without going through an intermediary?

When things go south, there has to be someone besides Cheato to take the blame.

 

[Treedbear]

Why do you need an Ambassador who knows something about Russia if Putin's just going to give Trump his orders directly without going through an intermediary?

If Chevron wants to cut oil deals with oligarch's they should have chosen an ambassador who speaks the language. I think Tillerson dropped the ball on this one.

 

[blastula]

China is right next to Russia, he'll be fine.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Palin piled on in her tweet, adding, “Remember I can keep an eye on them from here,” an allusion to a 2008 interview in which she said her time in Alaska gave her insight into Russian actions.
“They’re our next-door neighbors,” she told ABC as the vice presidential nominee. “And you can actually see Russia, from land, here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.”

Russia's getting out of hand? So says the defeated. Not to worry... remember I can keep an eye on them from here. https://t.co/jQBCDV5O3W


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At least he didn't choose Caribou Barbie as Russian Ambassador.

 

[Treedbear]

...
At least he didn't choose Caribou Barbie as Russian Ambassador.

The ambassador needs to be approved by the other country. So Trump might have chosen her but Putin said

 

[Malintent]

China is right next to Russia, he'll be fine.

You can totally see it from Akekule Lake... just 200 miles across an impassible mountain range...

 

[barbos]

China is right next to Russia, he'll be fine.

You can totally see it from Akekule Lake... just 200 miles across an impassible mountain range...

That's not the only place where Russia has border with China

 

[Keith&Co.]

You can totally see it from Akekule Lake... just 200 miles across an impassible mountain range...

That's not the only place where Russia has border with China

Read the room. He's mocking Palin, not Russia.

 

[barbos]

That's not the only place where Russia has border with China

Read the room. He's mocking Palin, not Russia.

Well, unlike US-Russia border russians and chinese can actually watch each other over the border which is actually a river. So mocking kinda fails here.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Read the room. He's mocking Palin, not Russia.

Well, unlike US-Russia border russians and chinese can actually watch each other over the border which is actually a river. So mocking kinda fails here.

But he's not mocking Russians. Or the Chinese. Or the Russia/China border.... The actual conditions of the entire border have no bearing on the mockery.

Failing to do something that wasn't the goal is not really a failure...

 

[barbos]

Well, unlike US-Russia border russians and chinese can actually watch each other over the border which is actually a river. So mocking kinda fails here.

But he's not mocking Russians. Or the Chinese. Or the Russia/China border.... The actual conditions of the entire border have no bearing on the mockery.

Failing to do something that wasn't the goal is not really a failure...

He fails to mock Palin when he choose to use specific and tiny and isolated western part of of the border not realizing that Russia and China has extensive border in the East with a lot of cities and towns located at the said border (because border is a river for the most of it)

 

[Keith&Co.]

He fails to mock Palin when he choose to use specific and tiny and isolated western part of of the border not realizing that Russia and China has extensive border in the East with a lot of cities and towns located at the said border (because border is a river for the most of it)

Not at all.
The opposite, in fact.
You have to work kinda hard to find a spot that's technically Alaskan land where, on a clear day, you can kinda see land that technically is Russian. If unpopulated. Two tiny and isolated islands. And certainly not the location of the Governor's Mansion.

Out of all the spots along the border where you can see China, he chose a spot where it nearly impossible. Making mockery of Palin's pretense to authority on US-Russian relations by virtue of her position as Governor.

Or was it making mockery of her pretense to being the governor?

 

[Elixir]

He fails to mock Palin when he choose to use specific and tiny and isolated western part of of the border not realizing that Russia and China has extensive border in the East with a lot of cities and towns located at the said border (because border is a river for the most of it)

Not at all.
The opposite, in fact.
You have to work kinda hard to find a spot that's technically Alaskan land where, on a clear day, you can kinda see land that technically is Russian. If unpopulated. Two tiny and isolated islands. And certainly not the location of the Governor's Mansion.

Out of all the spots along the border where you can see China, he chose a spot where it nearly impossible. Making mockery of Palin's pretense to authority on US-Russian relations by virtue of her position as Governor.

Or was it making mockery of her pretense to being the governor?

"How to dissemble something that used to be really funny, to a point where there's no chance of it ever being funny again."

I know it was required, but DAMN! Thanks, barbos.

 

[barbos]

He fails to mock Palin when he choose to use specific and tiny and isolated western part of of the border not realizing that Russia and China has extensive border in the East with a lot of cities and towns located at the said border (because border is a river for the most of it)

Not at all.
The opposite, in fact.
You have to work kinda hard to find a spot that's technically Alaskan land where, on a clear day, you can kinda see land that technically is Russian. If unpopulated. Two tiny and isolated islands. And certainly not the location of the Governor's Mansion.

Out of all the spots along the border where you can see China, he chose a spot where it nearly impossible. Making mockery of Palin's pretense to authority on US-Russian relations by virtue of her position as Governor.

Or was it making mockery of her pretense to being the governor?

That's not what happened here. He looked at the map and saw that China and Russia has tiny border, missing the one on the East.

 

[fromderinside]

I know he's a boring Mormon. But, really. Is Jon Huntsman so boring that anyone need bring up 'Quitting Sarah' the answer to the question "who is less knowledgeable than 'Flag Salute' Ollie North about anything" on this thread?

 

[funinspace]

Not at all.
The opposite, in fact.
You have to work kinda hard to find a spot that's technically Alaskan land where, on a clear day, you can kinda see land that technically is Russian. If unpopulated. Two tiny and isolated islands. And certainly not the location of the Governor's Mansion.

Out of all the spots along the border where you can see China, he chose a spot where it nearly impossible. Making mockery of Palin's pretense to authority on US-Russian relations by virtue of her position as Governor.

Or was it making mockery of her pretense to being the governor?

"How to dissemble something that used to be really funny, to a point where there's no chance of it ever being funny again."

I know it was required, but DAMN! Thanks, barbos.

Or “Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.” -- E.B. White

Barbos, I also understood it as mocking of Palin...me thinketh that you have been staring at the blade too long.

 

[Keith&Co.]

I know it was required, but DAMN! Thanks, barbos.

But at least there's another joke.
Someone rushing to Russia's defense when all he's proving is that the actual joke went over his head...
Kind of performance art.

 

[barbos]

Not at all.
The opposite, in fact.
You have to work kinda hard to find a spot that's technically Alaskan land where, on a clear day, you can kinda see land that technically is Russian. If unpopulated. Two tiny and isolated islands. And certainly not the location of the Governor's Mansion.

Out of all the spots along the border where you can see China, he chose a spot where it nearly impossible. Making mockery of Palin's pretense to authority on US-Russian relations by virtue of her position as Governor.

Or was it making mockery of her pretense to being the governor?

"How to dissemble something that used to be really funny, to a point where there's no chance of it ever being funny again."

I know it was required, but DAMN! Thanks, barbos.

For that to appear funny you have to be bad at geography.