The Trump presidency

[bimble]

He is basically just about holding back from explicitly saying the Soros thing.
I hope this stuff is just him expressing his disbelief that anyone could not love him, and hasn't got any deeper intent than that (delegitimising protest / further entrenching the divisions).

 

[chandlerp]

So were the crowd angry or just so-called angry?

 

[8den]

I know. My imperative to post screenshots was directed at those who post Tweets frequently.

Must be terribly annoying that it's the President's preferred form of communication.

 

[8den]

So were the crowd angry or just so-called angry?

Presumably he's implying they're not genuinely upset but instead getting some of the sweet Soros cash.

 

[hash tag]

 

[hipipol]

ref the above
US Muslim community campaigns to repair Jewish cemetery
US Muslim community campaigns to repair Jewish cemetery - BBC News
Despite the barrage of froth flecked hate derived lunacy for the White House, ordinary people remain sane and seek to prove the Love can Conquer concept - the notion promoted by that Palestine born hippy git so many Americans put their "faith" in

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Senator Fisher is confronted by protesters outside a fundraiser yesterday:

Hundreds protest U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer Tuesday

The best part of the video is at the end where her security is rushing her off. Imagine, being afraid of a bunch of middle aged women packing only cardboard.

I love how they phrase things:

Here is a Statement from Senator Fischer’s Office:

"This week, she is meeting with constituents who have been waiting to meet with her for some time. Our office receives hundreds of invitations every year and Senator Fischer tries to respond to as many as possible."

The participants in today's rally hope to have a town hall with Senator Fischer in the future.

The "constituents" she was meeting was a group called LIBA. It's a union of business interests who are against minimum wage, worker protections, health care, etc.

 

[CNT36]

Gen HR McMaster to be Trumps new National Security Advisor. Ok... anyone know the name? How bad is he... War on China faction or War on Russia faction? Or is it Iran he's after?

Quite a bit on him here The Lesson of Tal Afar Also worth the read for the background when somebody gets around to liberating Tel Afar.

McMaster and the 3rd A.C.R. had been stationed in Tal Afar for nine months. When they arrived, in the spring of 2005, the city was largely in the hands of hard-core Iraqi and foreign jihadis, who, together with members of the local Sunni population, had destabilized the city with a campaign of intimidation, including beheadings aimed largely at Tal Afar’s Shiite minority. By October, after months of often fierce fighting and painstaking negotiations with local leaders, McMaster’s regiment, working alongside Iraqi Army battalions, had established bases around the city and greatly reduced the violence. When I met McMaster, his unit was about to return home; the men were to be replaced by a brigade of the 1st Armored Division that had no experience in Tal Afar, and no one knew if the city would remain secure. (Within weeks, there were reports that sectarian killings were on the rise.)

The lessons that McMaster and his soldiers applied in Tal Afar were learned during the first two years of an increasingly unpopular war. “When we came to Iraq, we didn’t understand the complexity—what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship, with ethnic and sectarian divisions,” he said, in his hoarse, energetic voice. “When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.” Later, he said, “You gotta come in with your ears open. You can’t come in and start talking. You have to really listen to people.”

McMaster is a West Point graduate who earned a Silver Star for battlefield prowess during the 1991 Gulf War: his armored cavalry troop stumbled across an Iraqi mechanized brigade in the middle of a sandstorm and destroyed it. That war was a textbook case of what the military calls “kinetic operations,” or major combat in relatively uncomplicated circumstances; the field of battle was almost easier, some Gulf War veterans say, than the live-fire exercises at the National Training Center, in Fort Irwin, California. After the war, McMaster earned a doctorate in history from the University of North Carolina. His dissertation, based on research in newly declassified archives, was published in 1997, with the title “Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam.” The book assembled a damning case against senior military leaders for failing to speak their minds when, in the early years of the war, they disagreed with Pentagon policies. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, knowing that Johnson and McNamara wanted uncritical support rather than honest advice, and eager to protect their careers, went along with official lies and a split-the-difference strategy of gradual escalation that none of them thought could work. “Dereliction of Duty” won McMaster wide praise, and its candor inspired an ardent following among post-Vietnam officers.

 

[elbows]

CNN Money have a source that told them Conway has been kept off telly because the Trump regime have realised she is a bloody liability. Trump can do it better, the biggest liability ever doesnt need underlings shooting themselves in the foot when he can nuke himself in the groin at any moment of any given appearance.

Kellyanne Conway sidelined from TV after Flynn debacle

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

sorry, snip tool test

 

[coley]

CNN Money have a source that told them Conway has been kept off telly because the Trump regime have realised she is a bloody liability. Trump can do it better, the biggest liability ever doesnt need underlings shooting themselves in the foot when he can nuke himself in the groin at any moment of any given appearance.

Kellyanne Conway sidelined from TV after Flynn debacle

It has seemingly got much more quieter over there, Conway apparently muzzled, a decent pick for head of NSC, no tweets from the Buffoon,what's going on?
Have they quietly sectioned the tangerine twat?

 

[Ranbay]

I see trump has signed and executive order to ban anyone from TRAPPIST-1 already

 

[frogwoman]

I see trump has signed and executive order to ban anyone from TRAPPIST-1 already

 

[CrabbedOne]

On NBC Poll: Majority of Americans Worried About War, Feel Favorably Toward NATO

...
While 73 percent of Republicans under 30 have a positive view of Russia's relationship with the United States, just 31 percent of Republicans 65 and older say Russia is friendly or an ally. Of course, the age divide could be due in part to older Americans' experience with the Cold War.

Well look at the cut off Putinphilia only seems to have a grip on those with adult memory of the USSR:

Trump and alt-right propagandising has swung this quite a bit. This also tallies with what I've heard about growing levels of approval for authoritarian rule amongst young Septics.

 

[ohmyliver]

It has seemingly got much more quieter over there, Conway apparently muzzled, a decent pick for head of NSC, no tweets from the Buffoon,what's going on?
Have they quietly sectioned the tangerine twat?

I hear rumours that Trump's connection to Russian mobsters/Putin is going to have a light shone on it. It's quite probably internet 2.0 chaff. But there seems to be a lot being made of the letter delivered to Trump about the Ukraine which the deposed Flynn brought out in the open, it's already caused the Ukraine to arrest the Ukranian MP involved on charges of treason. Oh and the suspicious death of the Russian diplomat who, entirely co-incidentally, was the same person who invited Trump to visit the USSR in the late 80s, and put forward motions to stop criticism of Trump in the UN last year. Even if it's all bollocks it's an entertaining read in a sort of distributed web 2.0. thriller way.

 

[hot air baboon]

...anything anti-Russian emanating from the Ukraine needs some sort of health warning on it .....( although I did read about Trump doing a "Prince Andrew" selling his Florida mansion to a Russian businessman / mobster ( is there any other sort though ) at a fancy price ...

Site Behind Washington Post’s McCarthyite Blacklist Appears To Be Linked to Ukrainian Fascists and CIA Spies | naked capitalism

The DNC’s Ukrainian ultra-nationalist researcher cries treason

Because the PropOrNot blacklist of American journalist “traitors” is anonymous, and the Washington Post front-page article protects their anonymity, we can only speculate on their identity with what little information they’ve given us. And that little bit of information reveals only a Ukrainian ultranationalist thread—the salute, the same obsessively violent paranoia towards Russia, and towards journalists, who in the eyes of Ukrainian nationalists have always been dupes and stooges, if not outright collaborators, of Russian evil.

One of the key media sources who blamed the DNC hacks on Russia, ramping up fears of crypto-Putinist infiltration, is a Ukrainian-American lobbyist working for the DNC. She is Alexandra Chalupa—described as the head of the Democratic National Committee’s opposition research on Russia and on Trump, and founder and president of the Ukrainian lobby group “US United With Ukraine Coalition”, which lobbied hard to pass a 2014 bill increasing loans and military aid to Ukraine, imposing sanctions on Russians, and tightly aligning US and Ukraine geostrategic interests.

In October of this year, Yahoo News named Chalupa one of “16 People Who Shaped the 2016 Election” for her role in pinning the DNC leaks on Russian hackers, and for making the case that the Trump campaign was under Kremlin control. “As a Democratic Party consultant and proud Ukrainian-American, Alexandra Chalupa was outraged last spring when Donald Trump named Paul Manafort as his campaign manager,” the Yahoo profile began. “As she saw it, Manafort was a key figure in advancing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s agenda inside her ancestral homeland — and she was determined to expose it.”

Chalupa worked with veteran reporter Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News to publicize her opposition research on Trump, Russia and Paul Manafort, as well as her many Ukrainian sources. In one leaked DNC email earlier this year, Chalupa boasts to DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda that she brought Isikoff to a US-government sponsored Washington event featuring 68 Ukrainian journalists, where Chalupa was invited “to speak specifically about Paul Manafort.” In turn, Isikoff named her as the key inside source “proving” that the Russians were behind the hacks, and that Trump’s campaign was under the spell of Kremlin spies and sorcerers.

 

[bimble]

This tells about how, during the campaign, his staff worked hard to try to control his tweeting frenzies and calm him down by spoonfeeding him a select choice of 'good news', to soothe his ego.
If there wasn't any good news, they'd create some, by feeding stories to collaborative outlets, and enlisting a troup of twitterers to spread the story.
How Trump’s campaign staffers tried to keep him off Twitter

 

[CrabbedOne]

In The Atlantic I Was a Muslim in Trump's White House

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The evening before I left, bidding farewell to some of my colleagues, many of whom have also since left, I notified Trump’s senior NSC communications advisor, Michael Anton, of my departure, since we shared an office. His initial surprise, asking whether I was leaving government entirely, was followed by silence––almost in caution, not asking why. I told him anyway.

I told him I had to leave because it was an insult walking into this country’s most historic building every day under an administration that is working against and vilifying everything I stand for as an American and as a Muslim. I told him that the administration was attacking the basic tenets of democracy. I told him that I hoped that they and those in Congress were prepared to take responsibility for all the consequences that would attend their decisions.

He looked at me and said nothing.

It was only later that I learned he authored an essay under a pseudonym, extolling the virtues of authoritarianism and attacking diversity as a “weakness,” and Islam as “incompatible with the modern West.”
...

NSC staffer lasted 8 days under Trump.

 

[treelover]

Who is this lot at the CPAC Meeting?

 

[treelover]

ref the above
US Muslim community campaigns to repair Jewish cemetery
US Muslim community campaigns to repair Jewish cemetery - BBC News
Despite the barrage of froth flecked hate derived lunacy for the White House, ordinary people remain sane and seek to prove the Love can Conquer concept - the notion promoted by that Palestine born hippy git so many Americans put their "faith" in

The scale of the destruction really suggests political motives.

 

[killer b]

You think the desecration of a Jewish cemetery could have a political motive? That's some razor sharp analysis.

 

[TomUS]

Who is this lot at the CPAC Meeting?

Just the usual right wing Republicans.

 

[Cloo]

One of the things I find most disturbing coming out of Trumps America is various incidents of people saying racist things and having racist meetings and saying 'We couldn't do this/say this before'; even if in theory they still can't, the fact that they now feel that saying hateful shit will be OK'd by the authorities (and it surely will be in certain areas) is disturbing.

 

[sunnysidedown]

Not sure if this is the right thread for this. Not much in the news about it.

1 dead, 2 injured in shooting:

Charges filed in Olathe Austins shooting; suspect waives extradition to Johnson County

 

[stupid kid]

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He is basically just about holding back from explicitly saying the Soros thing.
I hope this stuff is just him expressing his disbelief that anyone could not love him, and hasn't got any deeper intent than that (delegitimising protest / further entrenching the divisions).

So were the crowd angry or just so-called angry?

Presumably he's implying they're not genuinely upset but instead getting some of the sweet Soros cash.

Nah, it's all true. When I got back from the Fort Worth protest march (which was awesome because it was in fort worth despite there being one in Dallas and one in Denton) Soros was standing outside my front door whistling some old german marching song, and he handed me a bag of cash and pre-packed lunch, which he apologized hadn't gotten to me earlier. He said he was doing it all door to door in person so that there wouldn't be one shred of documentary evevidence it ever happened. Then he chuckled to himself about how this would make the Republicans look like a bunch of anti-free speech conspiracy theorists before muttering something to himself about Alex Jones. He told me he was in a hurry as he had millions of people to finish paying and he saddled up his unicorn and rode off into the sunset.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Just like Santa Claus. Amazing.

 

[Anudder Oik]

Yes, I'd say you are - like links to most of the content and claims you are making, for starters. Which CNN broadcast? Which gang rape? Which anything you've claimed?

Three men appear in court over 'gang rape live streamed on Facebook'

<I don't think we need to see screenshots thanks - FM>

Satisfied?

 

[Anudder Oik]

The media has scoffed and acted smug over Trump's statement on Sweden, but if you do a bit of searching there's tonnes of stuff supporting what he says, unless every source I have seen is lying.
Oh, and there were riots in Stockholm last monday night.

 

[bluescreen]

The media has scoffed and acted smug over Trump's statement on Sweden, but if you do a bit of searching there's tonnes of stuff supporting what he says, unless every source I have seen is lying.
Oh, and there were riots in Stockholm last monday night.

Your point being? There's tonnes of right wing stuff out there. What was he saying exactly that Monday's disturbances bear out? He wasn't saying anything, was he, except "Sweeden!" What's going on in Sweden?

 

[Anudder Oik]

Your point being? There's tonnes of right wing stuff out there. What was he saying exactly that Monday's disturbances bear out? He wasn't saying anything, was he, except "Sweeden!" What's going on in Sweden?

He was saying they have a problem in Sweden with immigrants, based on a report from Fox news. Fox news lies but are you sure they have lied about this? It's no secret that the many thousands of migrants/refugees who have arrived in Sweden in recent years are living badly, in shoddy neighbourhoods and with high unemployment, and that is hardly a recipe for harmony, is it? Why is it hthat the do-gooders who want open borders never think of the reality that faces people once they arrive?

There are claims about a high percentage of rapes being carried out. Is it an orchestrated right wing conspiracy? The guys on the facebook live were boasting to the camera. Another case is said to have involved 11 afghans who kidnapped a woman and held her in the Mariannelund refugee camp for 7 hours. Several of them have been sentenced to prison. Are they all invented by the right wing? Does the liberal press even report this sort of thing?

The swedish government has prohibited the publishing of perpetrators origins to be mentioned in the press, so it is difficult to verify.

What is the point I am making? Well, perhaps it's that we are being lied to and things are being covered up for PC reasons and that this fact is fuelling the right straight to gaining power everywhere.