The Trump presidency

[Johnny Canuck3]

Infowars apologizes for spreading 'Pizzagate' theory. What does that mean for fake news?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Infowars apologizes for spreading 'Pizzagate' theory. What does that mean for fake news?

He should pay compensation too. The owners are out thousands for security and other costs.

 

[gosub]

Infowars apologizes for spreading 'Pizzagate' theory. What does that mean for fake news?

“We are not admitting that Mr. Alefantis, or his restaurant, have any legal claim.” Jones said. “We do not believe they do. But we are issuing this statement because we think it is the right thing to do. It will be no surprise to you that we will fight for children across America.”

Cunt of a very high order.

 

[CrabbedOne]

On Arms Control Wonk THE GHOST SHIP ANCHORED AT FOGGY BOTTOM

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Crisis management will be harder and more exhausting than anything Tillerson has done as the boss of ExxonMobil. If he is called upon for shuttle diplomacy, he has no one, at present, to mind the store and relay inside information of the White House’s off-line deliberations. Tillerson’s acting deputy, Tom Shannon, a career diplomat and holdover from the Obama Administration, is only sometimes granted access to Oval Office meetings when Tillerson is traveling.

During a serious crisis, senior officials act as their own staff officers. To be sure, they draw on institutional expertise, but they are the ones who do the heavy lifting on the fly. There’s precious little time to start from scratch and learn by doing. If the crisis occurs in a region that Tillerson does not know well, where are the senior diplomats who will advise him?

Absent a deputy and assistant secretaries, the Secretary of State can receive wise counsel from ambassadors – if they have not been sent packing by the White House or put on hold by Republican Senators. At present, 55 ambassadorial posts are vacant. In addition, crisis managers can glean essential information from the Intelligence Community – if the White House accepts inputs when they run counter to the President’s impulses.

The ambassadorial bench in the Trump Administration is particularly thin. Those nominated so far are high rollers and the President’s buddies. Every incoming President has this prerogative. It’s also a President’s prerogative to accept resignations of political appointments, but by demanding across-the-board exits by January 20th, Trump has made crisis management even harder. In the event of an early crisis on the Korean Peninsula, there are no U.S. Ambassadors in China, South Korea, and Japan. In the event of an early crisis on the Subcontinent, there is no U.S. Ambassador in India, as well as in China.

The NSC staff seems better suited to be the White House’s Policy Planning shop for military contingencies to fight Islamic extremism than to help Tillerson craft new diplomatic initiatives. Nor can the NSC presently serve as an interagency coordinating mechanism below the level of Cabinet principals. If national security adviser McMaster calls a Deputies Committee meeting, or an under-secretaries’ meeting, or a gathering of assistant secretaries, no confirmed appointees would show up.
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Imagine Team Trump in a real international crisis rather than self created cluster fuck. It really does not bear thinking about. All those Breitbart/Fox hacks and Trump cronies hyperventilating at each other. The Generals are able enough but are pretty one dimensional. The State Department remains done up like a kipper and it's not the only office lacking most of its operational muscle as Team Trump bickers.

This ends up suggesting they emergency hire in a able political technocrat to do crisis management. Someone like Bob Gates but nearly anyone of any real stature has said nasty things about an unforgiving Trumpski because he was pretty obviously a laughably bad choice to be President and they could not believe Americans would be fool enough to vote for him. It's more likely to be a highly strung nut like John Bolton or a wrestling promoter Trump owes a favour too. Yes a wrestling promoter.

 

[CrabbedOne]

On Wonkette Maureen Dowd Writes Good Thing

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… [Y]ou, Donald, are getting a reputation as a sucker. And worse, a sucker who is a tool of the D.C. establishment.
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Which is pretty much on the money.

Donald Trump: not the grifter but the mark.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Trump voter thought the president would deport ‘bad hombres.’ Instead, he’s deporting her husband

Trump voter thought the president would deport 'bad hombres.' Instead, he's deporting her husband

How stupid do you have to be to vote for Trump when your husband is a Mexican who's in the country illegally?

 

[8den]

Infowars apologizes for spreading 'Pizzagate' theory. What does that mean for fake news?

Should we be worried? Alex Jones walking back one of his many bullshit fact-free conspiracy theories was foretold by John The Baptist in the Book of Revelations of a portent of the end times.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Kellyanne Conway's tweet about Hillary's emails is coming back to haunt her

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Trump voter thought the president would deport 'bad hombres.' Instead, he's deporting her husband

How stupid do you have to be to vote for Trump when your husband is a Mexican who's in the country illegally?

I have difficulty mustering compassion for her. She was alright when she thought other people would be fucked over. She's only upset when it turns out her family gets fucked over too. The disconnect is staggering.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I have difficulty mustering compassion for her. She was alright when she thought other people would be fucked over. She's only upset when it turns out her family gets fucked over too. The disconnect is staggering.

There have been other stories like this, as you know; and it's always the same: "When Trump said he'd deport Mexicans, we didn't think he meant Jose [insert name of local Hispanic citizen who was an upstanding member of the community]!"

They didn't think it through; which is another way of saying - they're Trump supporters.

 

[CrabbedOne]

On ABAJournal White House counsel's office is staffing up team of lawyers, with 26 total so far

Trump not so slow about lawyering up.

 

[CrabbedOne]

On Bloomberg These Charts Show Alarm Bells Ringing on the Trump Trade

Worries over rapid tax reform (i.e. lovely big cuts for wealthy folk) being less credible after AHA repeal fails.

 

[CrabbedOne]

On Bloomberg Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs

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Alabama has been trying on the nickname “New Detroit.” Its burgeoning auto parts industry employs 26,000 workers, who last year earned $1.3 billion in wages. Georgia and Mississippi have similar, though smaller, auto parts sectors. This factory growth, after the long, painful demise of the region’s textile industry, would seem to be just the kind of manufacturing renaissance President Donald Trump and his supporters are looking for.

Except that it also epitomizes the global economy’s race to the bottom. Parts suppliers in the American South compete for low-margin orders against suppliers in Mexico and Asia. They promise delivery schedules they can’t possibly meet and face ruinous penalties if they fall short. Employees work ungodly hours, six or seven days a week, for months on end. Pay is low, turnover is high, training is scant, and safety is an afterthought, usually after someone is badly hurt. Many of the same woes that typify work conditions at contract manufacturers across Asia now bedevil parts plants in the South.

“The supply chain isn’t going just to Bangladesh. It’s going to Alabama and Georgia,” says David Michaels, who ran OSHA for the last seven years of the Obama administration. Safety at the Southern car factories themselves is generally good, he says. The situation is much worse at parts suppliers, where workers earn about 70¢ for every dollar earned by auto parts workers in Michigan, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Many plants in the North are unionized; only a few are in the South.)
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Sort of reasons why labour organised in the first place.

 

[Idris2002]

Should we be worried? Alex Jones walking back one of his many bullshit fact-free conspiracy theories was foretold by John The Baptist in the Book of Revelations of a portent of the end times.

To channel the vengeful spirit of Pickman's model for a mo, I think you'll find that revelations was the work of John of Patmos, not the Baptist.

 

[Idris2002]

On ABAJournal White House counsel's office is staffing up team of lawyers, with 26 total so far

Trump not so slow about lawyering up.

Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

 

[8den]

To channel the vengeful spirit of Pickman's model for a mo, I think you'll find that revelations was the work of John of Patmos, not the Baptist.

If you know one early Christian prophet driving half mad by sunstroke, and those funny mushrooms growing on cow dung, you know them all.

 

[Vitalik]

Bla bla bla assumption is not proper

 

[Pickman's model]

Bla bla bla assumption is not proper

Oh dear, not sure you're cut out for urban

 

[Vitalik]

 

[Pickman's model]

If you don't like assumption and baseless speculation, you're in the wrong place vitalik

 

[Vitalik]

If you don't like assumption and baseless speculation, you're in the wrong place vitalik

I have my own head on my shoulders , and i don't need your advice anyhow. It isn't your job to decide what someone should do.

 

[Pickman's model]

I have my own head on my shoulders , and i don't need your advice anyhow. It isn't your job to decide what someone should do.

Yeh. My advice was freely offered, but go on and ignore it and see where it gets you.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Bla bla bla assumption is not proper

If you can't talk out of your ass on Urban, where can you?

 

[Vitalik]

Yeh. My advice was freely offered, but go on and ignore it and see where it gets you.

Look , dude , i have nothing against you or someone else here, i just want to express what i think , that's all , i really appreciate your 'offer' but i don't understand why you or someone else should to interfere me or someone else. You don't even know what is going on but you give your assumption that you do. It isn't polite ! (child behaviour)

 

[Vitalik]

If you can't talk out of your ass on Urban, where can you?

Need actions not just simple talks that lead nowhere !

 

[Pickman's model]

Look , dude , i have nothing against you or someone else here, i just want to express what i think , that's all , i really appreciate your 'offer' but i don't understand why you or someone else should to interfere me or someone else. You don't even know what is going on but you give your assumption that you do. It isn't polite ! (child behaviour)

Nothing to say about djt tho I see

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Need actions not just simple talks that lead nowhere !

I don't mean to be unwelcoming, but all you will find on Urban is talk. It's what the place is for.

 

[Vitalik]

We have all nothing to share on here , i am the same citizen as you are , i just want to be polite to anyone , whatever he or she is talking , cos without polite and respect to each other , there will be no constructive talks whatsoever.

 

[Pickman's model]

We have all nothing to share on here , i am the same citizen as you are , i just want to be polite to anyone , whatever he or she is talking , cos without polite and respect to each other , there will be no constructive talks whatsoever.

Yeh
But do you have anything to say about Donald Trump?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

We have all nothing to share on here , i am the same citizen as you are , i just want to be polite to anyone , whatever he or she is talking , cos without polite and respect to each other , there will be no constructive talks whatsoever.

I suggest hanging around for a while to get a feel for the place. It has its own culture, much as a country has a culture. Get to know it and you'll enjoy your experience so much more.

I get the feeling that English may not be your first language. Where are you from, Vitalik?