The Buck Stops at the Top

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The "buck" is said to stop at the top.

In the United Staes of America, you can not get any closer to the top, than the position of President.

We had President Obama, and he was lucky. There were people in public office that accepted that it was sometimes necessary to cross the partisan line.

President Obama did the best that he could with what he had.

We could believe in what he said.

We accepted his explanations, because they were mapped out.

Here, today, we have the Orange Entity That Would Be Emperor.

Anyone can tell a story about him.

They would never have to mention his name.

His ill fame, untrustworthiness, and ugly behaviors are well known.

One of his ugly behaviors is manufacturing enemies.

"These women are liars, "he cries.
"These victims are liars," he cries.
"These witnesses are liars," he cries.

The elderly dissipated, corrupt, immoral, grifter has not met a dirty trick that he did not like.

He points his pudgy, thick, vulgar finger at others in accusation.

"I am a victim," he cries. What he neglects to say, is that he robs others.

His conscience is so empty, he robbed the CIA of their integrity, by filling the chairs with Trump supporters and decieved the public about how the CIA felt a
about what he said, and what he was doing. He exploited the situation and used and abused the CIA.He perpetuated a lie at the expense of others.He violated their expectations. He pulled a prank. He pulled a switch and bait on the CIA.

The Orange Entity That Would Be Emperor, boasted in November, “I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me."

A joke has been made, that every time he orders people to believe him, it is certain whatever he said before that, was a lie.

People are embarrassed for him. He continues to go beyond the pale, despite the position he holds.He continues to smear his slime upon the high office he has stolen. He despoils and pollutes everything he seeks to exploit.

Trump broke with decades of presidential precedent and blamed the military for the failed operation — and for Owens's death — rather than taking responsibility himself

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...owens-carryn-widow-yemen-raid-speech-congress


Military Officers Aren’t Happy With Trump’s Tribute To A Fallen Navy SEAL


Current military officers used the word “distasteful” to describe President Donald Trump’s mention of Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens, who was killed during a raid in Yemen, during his speech to Congress

"...the raid in Yemen has already become a political issue amid questions over whether the intelligence garnered from it was worth the risks and costs, including six injured troops, a lost V-22 Osprey,( $70 million US aircraft) and as many as 30 civilian deaths, in addition to Owens’ death."

https://www.buzzfeed.com/nancyyouss...ute-to-a-falle?utm_term=.jpMXDE1VR#.ywoz0Ajdo

The White House And Military Are Blaming Each Other For A Botched Raid And That’s Weird

The contrast between the military assertion that the president signed off on the raid and Trump’s most recent statements made it difficult to know how decision-making on major military operations happens in the Trump White House. Is the White House involved in every detail as it was under the Obama administration? Or has Trump decided to take a more hands-off approach, like President George W. Bush?

Owens’ father, also called William Owens, called for investigation in an interview with the Miami Herald published Sunday. But he did not say what kind of investigation he wanted, though his displeasure with the president and the decision-making process suggested that was the focus of his concerns. Owens said he refused to meet the president when his son’s remains arrived in the United States.

“Why at this time did there have to be this stupid mission when it wasn’t even barely a week into his administration? Why?” Owens told the Herald. “For two years prior, there were no boots on the ground in Yemen — everything was missiles and drones — because there was not a target worth one American life. Now, all of a sudden we had to make this grand display?’


https://www.buzzfeed.com/nancyyouss...other-for-a-bo?utm_term=.baPjNMpDo#.dyKwLOWkP

Vetrans Outraged at How Trump Expolted a SEAL Widow's Grief for Himself

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/veterans-outraged-at-how-trump-exploited-a-seal-widows-1792869922


The Orange Enity That Would Be Emperor told the curious crowds that only He could save them from certain danger and disasters.

What he did not say, is who would save them from him.
 
If you do no allow him to wash away his disastrous decision to try to put on a show about himself, being more tough on terrorism than President Obama, with the tears of the widow of the man he led to be slaughtered...

- you are disrepecting the widow of the man he led to be slaughtered.

What was the widow told ? What did she know ?

Why did she alow herself, and the memory of her husband, to be used by Trump ?


Trump "authorized that mission and it did not go well," retired Adm. James Stavridis, the former Supreme Commander of NATO, told MSNBC.

Stolen Valor

Donald Trump’s appropriation of Ryan Owens’ heroism and Carryn Owens’ grief was a disgrace

Trump put her on display, seeking to appropriate her grief—and her deceased husband’s heroism—for his political gain. This was stolen valor on a presidential scale. And to make matters worse, it fits into a broader pattern of integrity theft by Trump, wherein he’s sought during his first weeks in office to attack or corrupt the integrity of the CIA, the military, and the Department of Homeland Security.


gsgs comment- It is really offensive, that he and his cabinet are using the dead body of Ryan Owen to avoid the flak they are taking for creating such a clusterfuck.It is as if they are killing him, all over again.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer suggested that “anyone who would suggest it’s not a success (The Yemen debacle) does disservice to the life of Chief Ryan Owens.”


http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox..._accounts_can_solve_every_policy_problem.html

MARCH 1 2017
:mad:
U.S. officials, on Wednesday, again disputed Donald Trump’s characterization of the January raid in Yemen as a success, as 10 current government officials, briefed on the operation, told NBC News the intelligence collected during the deadly raid has so far proven neither vital nor actionable. The renewed pushback comes a day after Donald Trump brought up the death of Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens in his address to Congress Tuesday night. Trump addressed Owens’ widow, Carryn Owens, lauding the fallen commando.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat..._claim_yemen_raid_got_vital_intelligence.html

It was not about her, and the husband that she lost, it was alll about him.


Malignant Narcissism: Collision of Two Personality Disorders



A person with malignant narcissism has the potential to destroy families, communities, nations, and work environments. This condition reflects a hybrid or blending of narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders. Psychologist Eric Fromm, PhD termed the disorder in 1964. Psychoanalyst, Otto Kernberg, MD later delineated the symptoms of the condition and presented it as an intermediary between narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders.

Those who interact with malignant narcissists often consider them jealous, petty, thin-skinned, punitive, hateful, cunning, and angry. Given their shallowness, they are not regulated emotionally and have beliefs that swing from one extreme to the next.

(Does this seem familar, and in keeping with what we know.?He has fixation on Rosie O'Donnell.)

They want to land on top, even when pretending to be altruistic or engaging in an activity that should not be 'all about them.' They often view the world through a primitive binary lens (e.g., winner/loser; smart/dumb; rich/poor; pretty/ ugly; black/white) - all the while sustaining the belief they are superior.


https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...arcissism-collision-two-personality-disorders


Chomsky has been a vocal critic of Mr Trump and declared the Republican party “the most dangerous organisation in world history” with him at the helm. “The party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of organised human life," he said in October. "There is no historical precedent for such a stand."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...isses-megalomaniac-donald-trump-a7449151.html
 
The "buck" is said to stop at the top.

In the United Staes of America, you can not get any closer to the top, than the position of President.

We had President Obama, and

And you wouldn't hold the guy accountable for anything that happened under his administration.

NOTHING. (R)'s are at fault for all bad things and (D)'s only do good things.

We get it, you hate the USA and wish you were born into Stalin's Soviet Russia.
 
"The Buck may stop at the top, but shit rolls down hill!"

If Trumpy bares the responsibility for accepting the word of a General, who relies on the word of a Coronal who takes the word of a Sargent, in a fuck up this huge: (1 KIA, a $70M Osprey down, and god knows how many expensive ordnance items expended, plus the fuel and maintenance for the aircraft, I expect the shit will splatter all over Spec Ops for this.

And who supplied the faulty Intel? Does a certain three letter agency come to mind? Haven't we found our Intelligence to be less that ideal, almost always? Perhaps the the heads need to roll in the Intel side as well?

I mean what the fuck are we doing? Raiding a Yemeni armed compound to steal some cell phone data? Why do we fund NSA to record every foreign cell call then?

Can you say Clusterfuck caused by hubris and idle Operations capability?
 
Who needs the truth, when you can revive patriotism, and wave the flag ?



The Reagan Administration pushed hard for NASA to launch shuttle.
Ronald Reagan wanted Challenger in orbit with teacher Christine McAuliffe so that he could speak with her live, during his State of the Union speech.

They did it over the objections of scientists.

January 28, 1986
The U.S. space shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after liftoff, killing all on board -- six astronauts and teacher Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian to go into space.

Sally Ride quit NASA 1987

The first American woman in space, Ride had a long-term same-sex relationship, something that didn't become known until she died in 2012; her obituary listed her female partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy, as a survivor. Ride, who flew multiple space missions, was married to a man, fellow astronaut Stephen Hawley, when she met O'Shaughnessy; the revelation of their divorce coincided with her retirement from NASA. "She was so eager to promote and protect the space agency, she might well have hidden her private life to help preserve its image," speculates biographer Lynn Sherr in the just-published Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space. Ride also had witnessed her lesbian sister, Bear, being forced out of a job in the clergy due to her sexual orientation, something else that may have kept the astronaut in the closet. Ride and O'Shaughnessy went on to found Sally Ride Science, an organization that encourages girls to pursue scientific careers. Their relationship was an open secret to employees there, known but not discussed, but Ride gave O'Shaughnessy permission to open her closet door posthumously.


http://www.advocate.com/arts-entert...78670192191040_778944838830242#f5f4fde08549dc
 
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