2019 Pretending To Live In A Trump Alternate Universe

[bodysong]

"The Democratic presidential candidates meanwhile want to incarcerate everyone
in a socialistic state, costing a fortune, wrecking the economy and taking away
freedom."

October 2, 2019
Times Leader Op-Ed
Jay Ambrose

https://www.timesleader.com/opinion...-could-a-president-pence-save-the-republicans

October 21, 2019

Staff, guests and media are gathered at Schott North America Inc. this afternoon
to hear from Vice President Mike Pence, who is making a private visit to the
facility.

Pence arrived at Schott just before 4 p.m. and was taken on a tour along with
a number of people, including Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Dallas. Pence is slated to
speak after the tour is complete.

Between 300 and 350 people are present in the audience.

(Is this another one of those forced employee marches ?)

Permission to use the 2nd best jet, because he is speaking on a policy
with Obama's name papered over by a gilded TRUMP sticker.

(It is still NAFTA- slapping United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
on a Obama policy is not contructing something better.)


Donald Trump talks tough on trade but has nothing to show for it—
other than pain for America's families. Mike Pence has been his
complicit sidekick, propping up Trump’s reckless trade wars and
slighting hard-working Americans across the country.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 21, 2019

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/21/pence-biden-trade-usmca-pennsylvania-053814

 

[bodysong]

Sorry, people that are Pretending To Live In A Trump Alternate Universe

The cheering that you hear on the propaganda footage, was not for Trump.

It was for Chef Jose Andres. He threw out the first pitch.

The applause and cheers was for the veterans.

Trump did not laugh it off

He got angry, and pouted.

Then , he and Melania left the game early.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/stor...-with-boos-chants-lock-him-up-at-world-series

The veterans were presented to cheers before Trump was introduced
on the public address system and greeted with sustained and boisterous
boos. Trump clapped for the 13 seconds he appeared on the screens.

Here’s video of Trump getting booed again,
this time by the whole stadium.

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) October 28, 2019

 

[bodysong]

Trump’s Own Officials Question Claim That al-Baghdadi Was ‘Crying’:

Report

When Donald Trump announced Sunday morning that U.S. Special
Operations forces had killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
reveled in the last moments of the “world’s number one terrorist
leader.”

“He died like a dog, he died like a coward, he was whimpering,
screaming and crying,” Trump said. “And frankly, I think it’s
something that should be brought out.”

But two days after the announcement, it’s still unclear where Trump’s
information on al-Baghdadi’s last moments came from. The Pentagon
has been unable to confirm that al-Baghdadi was “whimpering, screaming
and crying,” and the Daily Beast reports that senior administration officials
have “no clue” where Trump got his information.

Trump couldn’t have heard al-Baghdadi because the live stream he
watched from the Situation Room Saturday did not include audio.

So, did Trump talk to the Special Forces members ?

When the Times asked White House officials Monday, they wouldn’t say.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/trump-officials-question-that-baghdadi-was-crying-report.html

Since it is Halloween, I will re-awaken the memory of the The Exorcist film.

The whole world can see that Trump's behaviour and actions are just as
abnormal as a child that is possessed by an evil entity.

General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper were tasked with providing
a plausible denial. As per usual, we do not know if these two men
are telling a lie in service to Trump, or not.

It is not as if the information can be pried out. The people that were
involved in the pursuit of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have protected
identities. They have gone so far as to protect the identity of the
attack dog that was wounded. (A sensible choice of action. Tracing
secure or secret electronic data has become the goal of many. Why
endanger the troops that did their duty ?)

They disposed of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's corpse by throwing it
into the sea, to prevent people from searching for it.

But, it leaves the people of the USA with the all-too-often
doubt, if Trump was speaking the truth.

Are those wet spots on their uniforms and decorations, from the
explosive projection of green bile ? Or just green chile sauce ?

 

[bodysong]

"Nobody believes Trump's tales."

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/29/7741...-death-draws-doubts-in-lands-where-isis-ruled

 

[bodysong]

"Take a seat, right there."

Republicans Spent the First Day of Impeachment Hearings in an Alternate Reality

Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politic...impeachment-hearings-in-an-alternate-reality/

November 13, 2019

Bill Moyers on Impeachment: All Presidents Lie, But Trump Has Created
a Culture of Lying

BILL MOYERS:

You know, all presidents lie. They do so tactically. They do so strategically.
Franklin Roosevelt lied about Lend-Lease until he could convince the public
to go along with it. All presidents lie. It’s a defense they use.

But not all presidents lie systemically. Not all presidents lie constantly.

And the fact of the matter is — and it’s not just the president, not just the
White House lies that are filling the atmosphere with this toxic poison,
that a good friend — my good friend and colleague Eric Alterman, the
very distinguished journalist and professor here, of journalism, in town,
has written about the lies of presidents. There’s a wonderful documentary
called All Governments Lie. And they do.

But what we have now is a culture of lying, not only from within politics,
but from within media that is determined only to protect and save the
president of the United States, Donald Trump. And they lie —

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Lying about things big and small.

BILL MOYERS:

Yes, exactly. And you don’t know what to believe anymore. I still believe
that facts matter. But they’re trying to change the facts on us. And that’s
where a few journalists and a few media outlets have a real role to play.
It’s to always put on the table the evidence against the lies that are being
told by the people who have a vested interest in lying.

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/13/bill_moyers_trump_culture_of_lying

At hearing, Republicans carry forward Trump’s effort to make
lies into truths

November 13, 2019

GOP put $10 million into this ad:
(link to Right Wing, Trump-supporting publication)

(bodysong comment- more $ millions spent on ads attacking the impeachment efforts)

I AM DRAINING THE SWAMP!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27, 2019

Trump failed in his effort to extort Ukraine into manufacturing fake evidence
to bolster his story lines. But he can’t let go of them — he seems to think his
reelection depends on realizing this project — and he still has Republicans
in Congress using the impeachment hearings to do it for him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-forward-trumps-effort-make-lies-into-truths/

(bodysong comment- How many times have you heard Biden's name
and Hunter Biden's name said ? Trump wound the media and press up,
and they do his campaign work for him. Trump did not need the Ukraine
to produce proof that was not real. Trump only has to say it to the cameras,
or the press pool, and the accusations are repeated.)

Aaron Rupar ✓
Twitter › atrupar

"Our administration" -- A Freudian slip from Jim Jordan

8 hours ago

Jim Jordan refers to President Trump and "our administration,"
and then quickly corrects himself to "his administration."

November 13, 2019

In remarks to reporters after the hearing, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)
made a brief reference to the Trump administration as “our administration,”
before quickly backtracking.

“Look, Ukraine’s . . . one of the three most corrupt countries on the planet,”
Jordan said. “President Trump and our administration — his administration —
was checking them out.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...74f486-057b-11ea-ac12-3325d49eacaa_story.html

 

[bodysong]

*
Referring to the whistleblower, Rep. Jim Jordan says
Congress will never get a chance to question the one
“who started it all.”

“I’d be glad to have the person who started it all
to come in and testify,” Rep. Welch replies.
“Pres. Trump is welcome to take a seat right there.”

—@ABC

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...ing-rovian-strategy-of-accusing-accusers.html

 

[bodysong]

What Are the Odds of a White Thanksgiving in the United States?

'We refuse to sacrifice our water': Tribes rally amid Keystone Pipeline spill

November 12, 2019

As tribal representatives took part in Keystone XL expansion hearings in
South Dakota, the original pipeline erupted in neighboring North Dakota.

As tribal representatives and members took part in South Dakota’s Keystone
XL Pipeline hearings October 29-31, a large oil spill into a wetland in
neighboring North Dakota underscored testimony here against permitting
the use of public water for construction of the private infrastructure.

“Water that is contaminated by an oil leak or spill is damaging at best –
and deadly at worst – to the health of people, livestock, wildlife, and fisheries,”
said Dakota Rural Action in response to the 383,000-gallon (9,000-barrel)
spill of tar-sands crude oil, or diluted bitumen.

The leaking dilbit, a toxic material, caused a shutdown of the Keystone I
Pipeline after discovery of the damage October 30, which affected wetlands
near Edinburg, 75 miles northwest of Grand Forks, according to the North Dakota
Department of Environmental Quality.

https://www.indianz.com/News/2019/11/12/kxl-oil-spill-in-north-dakota.asp

Representative Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ)

Representative Raúl M. Grijalva issued the following statement to
commemorate November as Native American Heritage Month:
“This month we celebrate the legacy and contribution of Native
Americans, the Indigenous peoples of our country whose rich
traditions, community, and history continue impacting every
facet of American culture.

https://newsmaven.io/indiancountryt...erican-heritage-month-ilZxGalegEmMChUE3wOW6w/

 

[bodysong]

Sadly, experience hints that many of us may not fully understand
the larger ramifications of everything surrounding this impeachment
inquiry until many years have passed. Trump’s base insists that both
he and they value the Constitution while vilifying opponents-

...for following the directives spelled out in the articles within it.

They wear T-shirts demanding we “Read the Transcript” of the “perfect”
phone call that ignited this situation in the first place, even though reading
the full transcript bolsters the case against him.

No matter; they don’t have to read the source material to be a fan
of this program; they don’t have to understand or even agree with
the testimony revealing that the hero abused his power if they’re
already huge fans. They are watching or skimming a very different,
dark, senseless entertainment, not a lengthy consideration of fact-
finding and questioning. And nobody can convince them otherwise.

- Melanie McFarland
Salon
November 17, 2019

https://www.salon.com/2019/11/16/impeachment-hearings-tv-show-entertainment-media/

https://www.alternet.org/2019/11/we...earings-but-seeing-vastly-different-tv-shows/

 

[Misshotndeep]

I see no one blocked his IP address yet.

 

[bodysong]

anger is not a suitable editor

Time Travel

Oct. 9, 2019

Democrats Accused of ‘Regicide’ Against King Trump on Fox News
- Adam K. Raymond

Joe diGenova called impeachment “regicide.”

Rudy Giuliani has spent the past month on cable news playing to an audience
of one, with his spirited and frequently unhinged defenses of President Trump.
But for all of his lunacy, one thing Giuliani hasn’t yet done is suggest that
Trump is a king and that Democrats are trying to murder him.

(bodysong comment-
Never mind, that Trump stabbed the office of President in the back
and diginity (dignity), kindness, noblesse oblige, sober and serious consideration,
informed decisions, and loyalty to the United Staes (States) of America were
buried under the dead tree of President Emmanuel Macron. All honor
and respect, lost./end bodysong comment



On Tuesday’s episode of Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle, Joseph diGenova
did what Giuliani hasn’t. The lawyer and ardent Trump fan appeared on the
show right next to Giuliani, when he called the impeachment proceedings
against Trump “regicide.”

“What you’re seeing is regicide,” said diGenova, who was under consideration
for a role on Trump’s legal team last year. “This is regicide by another name,
fake impeachment.” ”

“It’s pretty obvious that this first suicide bomber who sent that complaint
to the inspector general was a paid Democratic operative of the Democratic
Party,” diGenova added, showing off the type of conspiratorial thinking that’s
endeared him so much to Trump in recent years.

Ingraham let diGenova’s invocation of “regicide” pass without remark, even
though Trump is not a king and no one is trying to kill him. But she did clarify
his “suicide bomber” smear.

“You mean political suicide bomber, obviously,” Ingraham said, urging anyone
who takes diGenova literally to “get a sense of humor.” Giuliani, sitting a few
feet away, could not contain his laughter.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/dems-accused-of-regicide-against-king-trump-on-fox-news.html

 

[bodysong]

Presiderp "Golden Tan"Toilet Head played golf on weekends 54 days this year

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/trump-visited-hospital-for-unscheduled-medical-exam.html

https://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/

11/8/19

Trump Has Visited Golf Clubs on 237 Days of His Presidency—
That's 23 Percent of the Days he's Been in Office

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-has-...thats-23-percent-days-hes-been-office-1470392

Jim Bakker says that if Democrats can't impeach Trump and put him in prison,
"they will kill him if they have to."

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 18, 2019

Right Wing Watch ✓
Twitter › RightWingWatch

Right-wing pastor Perry Stone says Christians may come together in prayer
and fasting to ask God to strike down Trump's enemies ...
and when it happens, we'll have to apologize for being idiots.

1 hour ago

Right Wing Watch | A project of People For the American Way

https://www.rightwingwatch.org

https://www.newsweek.com/jim-bakker...ald-trump-if-impeachment-fails-prison-1472437

 

[bodysong]

Defense Secretary Mark Esper is wearing the expression on his face,
that informs anyone that cares to see, that he has done something that
he feels is wrong.


A double benefit for Trump's exploitation of the publicity and attention that
scandal and bloody gore attracts. Trump and his tech bros decided that a
distractionfrom impeachment headlines was needed. War crimes had big
headlines, because there was a controversial trial.

Publicity worked as a trap for Navy Secretary Spencer.

Trump has the ability to lie about anything, and the power to pressure
others to lie for him.

Americans have witnessed how Trump exploits the respect that the military
has for the rule of line of command.

Trump stuck his fat, stubby little fingers where they did not belong.

November 25, 2019

The order from the commander in chief effectively put an end to proceedings
by a Trident review board that were called by the commander of Navy special
warfare, Rear Adm. Collin Green. The panel was charged with deciding
whether Gallagher and three of his supervising officers were fit for duty.
In Gallagher's case, the board was set to convene next week.

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/25/7826...d-him-to-let-eddie-gallagher-retire-as-navy-s

Trump is fond of installing his personal operatives in positions held
by real, qualified government officials.

Never mind, that Trump is petty and cannot tolerate contradiction.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus was pushed out.

Was Navy Secretary Richard Spencer pushed out for the same reason ?

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/navy-secretary-ray-mabus-gop-presidential-candidates-213198

Trump didn’t specify which contracting issues he meant, but he and Spencer
have butted heads over the delivery schedule of the Navy’s next aircraft carrier,
the USS Gerald Ford. Delays have plagued the carrier’s weapons elevators,
and Spencer publicly bet Trump last January that if the problems weren’t
resolved by the next time the warship put out to sea, the president could fire him —
only for the carrier to conduct sea trials last month with only some of its elevators
working.

President Trump, in an interview with Time, panned the ship's new high-tech
catapult system.

May 28, 2019

Trump tells a "Sir Story"
(a sign that he is telling a lie, an invented fairy tale, not a real event.)

"I said you don't use steam anymore for catapult?
'No sir.' I said, 'Ah, how is it working?' 'Sir, not good. Not good.'

"It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital?"
"And it's very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out."
"And I said -- and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers."
"I said what system are you going to be -- 'Sir, we're staying with digital.'
"I said no you're not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs
hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it's no good."

What was the problem ? The battle ship was not ready for a demonstration
in time for Trump's publicity photo op ?

Did Trump seriously demand coal- fired steam power and a nineteenth century
mechanical system on a battle ship slated to serve in 2019 ?

USS Gerald R. Ford was officially commissioned on July 22, 2017.

Kenneth Braithwaite, a retired Navy rear admiral who is currently
the U.S. ambassador to Norway, is considered as the next Navy
secretary-

Trump later confirmed on Twitter that he will nominate Braithwaite.

Tip of the hat, to JackLuis

Kaitlan Collins ✓
Twitter › kaitlancollins

In his resignation letter, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer writes,
“Unfortunately it has become apparent that in this respect,
I no longer share the same understanding with the Commander in Chief
who appointed me, in regards to the key principle of good order and discipline...”

22 hours ago

Kaitlan Collins is an American journalist. She is a White House correspondent for CNN.

“Unfortunately it has become apparent that in this respect,
I no longer share the same understanding with the Commander in Chief
who appointed me, in regards to the key principle of good order and discipline,”
Spencer wrote. “I cannot in good conscience obey an order that I believe violates
the sacred oath I took in the presence of my family, my flag and my faith to support
and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

- Navy Secretary Richard Spencer

It is known, that Trump's very own personal government
operates within the legitimate, lawful real government.

Trump openly orders his minions to break the law, on his behalf.

Trump Ordered Defense Secretary to Protect Accused War Criminal

“We are talking about some of the most despicable war crimes.
To even contemplate pardons in such cases is disgusting and
dishonorable,” said Raha Wala, a lawyer at Human Rights First.
“It’s no wonder that some of our most respected military leaders
are speaking out against this, as they should.”

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la...p-pardon-murder-warcrimes-20190522-story.html

Trump’s unusual intervention in the Gallagher case is at the root
of the clash that led to Spencer’s departure, former Navy
Secretary Ray Mabus said.

“This all started with the president. We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t
for his actions, and I don’t think you can lose sight of that,” said Mabus,
who held the top Navy post in the Obama administration. “He undermined
good order and discipline. He dishonored the SEALs by saying they couldn’t
hold a review board. So that’s what got us into this mess. This is just one more
example showing that if you deal with this president, it’s not going to end well.”

“It’s typical Trump,” agreed a former senior Defense official who spoke on
condition of anonymity to discuss a situation in which the facts are unclear.
“This is the Trump circus. Everything he touches turns into this convoluted
process of politics that we’re seeing today over at the Pentagon.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/24/esper-navy-secretary-resign-seal-case-073436

Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher disgraced the name of Gallagher,
and disgraced the Navy Seals.

Edward Gallagher: A murder trial that tore band of brothers apart

After returning home from Iraq, Craig Miller and others in Gallagher's
platoon formed a WhatsApp group chat. These men used the online
forum to discuss Gallagher's alleged war crimes. They felt that he
had crossed a line.

Tom Chaby, a retired Navy Seal who lives in Tampa, Florida,
says: "Integrity - it's part of our ethos."

(Getting rid of Dr. Jeckyl/Mr. Hyde)

"If someone starts to get trigger-happy, they're ousted. Gallagher did not
want to go "peacefully." The court-martial was convened. There should
never have been a trial, which turned into a public spectacle."

As former Navy Seal Tom Chaby says: "We'd rather be quiet professionals."
They believe strongly that Navy Seals who act in unethical ways should be
punished and thrown out of the military. But they would prefer to take care
of these issues in a private manner and away from the glare of the media.

"...tried to report his crimes, he allegedly threatened to kill them."

In the courtroom- Rules are posted: no mobile phones, gum or beverages.
Gallagher broke all of them: he placed a can of Red Bull on the table.
He chewed gum and looked at photos on a mobile phone.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48536760

Why did witnesses lie under oath in court, in favor of Eddie Gallagher ?

(Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher survived, but at a cost- his
hatred caused him to kill a helpless child, to get revenge. He killed
civilians that could not defend themselves. He lost his moral compass,
and betrayed the honor of his brothers-in-arms. He threatened his
brothers with death, over his crimes. He was a rotten apple. Eddie
Gallagher refused to take his lumps. for being such a POS.
Lucky for him, it is the Age of Lies, and lies saved him from
taking responsibility for his actions. The Second Biggest Liar
was given a seat in the Oval office, and that liar pulled his
chestnuts out of the fire. Eddie will stick to that lie in public,
for the rest of his life- except for the internet. His supporters
will celebrate the number of human beings he slaughtered,
and congratulate him for becoming a sociopath.)

November 25, 2019

And there’s a nifty detail about the reporter, David Ignatius:
his father was also the Navy Secretary in the 1960s.

And here is a coda from the NYTimes:

“A Defense Department official said Chief Gallagher would now
keep his Trident pin, the symbol of his membership in the SEALs,
at Mr. Esper’s direction because of concerns that the events of
the past few days would make it impossible for him to get an
impartial hearing.”

So, in effect Trump has rewarded a war criminal and fired his
Navy Secretary; and he’s also just put any member of the
American Military in great danger: they will be seen as
war criminals themselves, and whatever conventions
and standards afforded to American captured in combat
will unlikely be enforced.

God help us all, the damage from Cadet Bone Spurs
has damaged us in every sphere of influence.

https://mockpaperscissors.com/2019/11/25/another-victory-for-vlad/

 

[seeshelly]

Fake is fake

You sight some valid examples of disgusting fake religion. Anything fake is disgusting. I think that is why most Americans are disgusted with CNN and the other fake news outlets that flooded the airwaves with pure bullshit about the Russian hoax. A totally bought and paid for fake hoax. Kind of like the follow up hoax that just blew up in Nancy's face.

I think the reason that Trump is so popular is because he is so raw and real about the crap that has been going on. The opposite of fake. Really, so real that he is hated by all the fakes out their.

Blaming Trump for all the fake religious bullshit is also fake.

Trying to brand his supporters as "idiots" and deplorable is fake. Most of Trumps support comes from hard working people that are sick to death of all the Liberal bullshit going on in DC and around the world.

 

[magicalmoments]

#39 above.
You appear to have misused the word liberal. Your placement of it in the sentence as you have means it doesn't make any sense.
It's more likely that the trump base supporters are sick of having their liberty interfered with. I seriously doubt that they would see the rights and freedoms they enjoy as liberal bullshit.

 

[bodysong]

WTF ?

Trump Wants Absolved War Criminals to Campaign for Him

Future Stars of the Trump Hate rally

Clint Lorance, convicted on two counts of second-degree murder- Afghanistan

Matthew Golsteyn, murder- Afghanistan

Edward Gallagher, murders, Iraq

If Donald Trump gets his wish, he’ll soon take the three convicted or accused
war criminals he spared from consequence on the road as special guests in
his re-election campaign, according to two sources who have heard
Trump discuss their potential roles for the 2020 effort.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...ng-when-military-policy-comes-from-bone-spurs

He found the guy who could shoot someone on 5th avenue for him
and get away with it.

— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) November 26, 2019

After Navy Secretary Ousted Over Trump Fallout
Veterans Advocate Rebukes 'President Chaos' for
'Throwing Grenade' at Military Order

— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) November 26, 2019

Jon Cooper ✓
Twitter › joncoopertweets

After Navy Secretary Ousted Over Trump Fallout,
Veterans Advocate Rebukes 'President Chaos' for
'Throwing Grenade' at Military Order

2 hours ago

After Navy Secretary Ousted Over Trump Fallout, Veterans Advocate
Rebukes 'President Chaos' for 'Throwing Grenade' at Military Order

11/25/19

"It's chaos. He's president chaos," Rieckhoff said.

"Now that's overflowing into the Pentagon. And frankly, this is not new.
He's been at war with the Pentagon politically on a number of issues.
If you go back to the trans ban, to the Kurds, to [James] Mattis, now this.
So, what you constantly have is Trump at odds with his own military."

"The bottom line is, if you're in uniform right now, you see chaos at the top,
you see leadership that's not on the same page, and a you see a senior leader
saying basically that the president gave him an unlawful order and he's
not going to follow it, and that guy is out," Rieckhoff said.
"When the commander in chief is at odds with the Navy SEALs,
we've got a problem."

"The president's out of line. He's reaching into the military and meddling
with good order and discipline, in direct conflict with the Navy SEALs,"
said Rieckhoff. "And Gallagher is out of line. We can argue about what
charges he should or should not have been convicted of, but he was
convicted of one charge. The rank was taken away. The Navy decided
to take the rank away and the president reached in and decided to throw
a grenade in that."

Retired Pentagon spokesman David Lapan -

"Rather than acting as commander in chief, [Trump is] acting as a reality
TV show host or producer," said Lapan. "It's all about conflict, controversy,
ratings, making decisions on his own and ignoring the advice of people that
are experienced and have the background."

https://www.newsweek.com/after-navy...rans-advocate-rebukes-president-chaos-1474013

“Everything you see is bad. You can’t spin this in a good way,” Mabus
told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. “Throw accountability out of the window.
Throw military justice out the window. Dishonor the tens of thousands of
Americans who have served in both these theaters and served well and
didn’t think it was necessary to break the law or commit war crimes.”

“If you can reach down and tell a unit like the SEALs,” Mabus continued,
“I’m going to decide who’s in your unit, I’m going to to decide who’s got
the right to be there. I’m not going to let your peers decide. I’m not going
to let your commanders decide.”

He then pointed to how the US followed the Geneva Conventions
during World War II while the Nazis were committing atrocities
and war crimes.

“And that set us apart,” Mabus noted. “The fact that we did obey the law.
We did try to do these things in the right way, not just to win but win in
the right way. Again, [Trump’s] throwing this out the window.
We don’t have the moral high ground anymore,
I think to your point. We’re putting our people at risk,
putting our troops at risk by doing this.”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-n...ns-of-thousands-of-americans-who-have-served/

-- Trump now gets the outcome he wanted:

Esper’s aides said he will let Gallagher keep his Trident pin without even
the pretense of a review board. And Trump has rid himself of someone
he came to disregard as disloyal, based on his threat to resign. (Spencer)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rom-our-adversaries/5ddb62fe88e0fa652bbbd9a6/

Spencer bent backwards for Trump and made a public denial-

“I work at the pleasure of the president,” Spencer said,
denying reports that he has threatened to resign.

“I do not interpret what the president does. I do what he says.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...18c66c-0e31-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html

-- Ray Mabus, who served as Navy secretary under Barack Obama,
said on MSNBC that he’s been stunned that a sailor on active duty
is going on cable television to criticize his commanding officers.
“It's so dangerous for good order and discipline … to get this politicized,”
Mabus said Sunday on MSNBC. “You simply cannot have good order and
discipline. You simply cannot hold people accountable.
You simply cannot have the elite fighting force if you
allow things like this to happen. If you set this sort of precedent,
then how do you tell the next SEAL that is up on charges not
to go public, not to try to undermine their superiors, not to try
to change a military judgment and make it a political one?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rom-our-adversaries/5ddb62fe88e0fa652bbbd9a6/

 

[magicalmoments]

#23 above.
Antifa, can't find them on Google, other than as a media invented name to describe a loose grouping of people who oppose white supremacist groups.
Can you give me their contact details, website, postal address, name of the president or chairman, email address.
I can't find them as an organisation?

 

[bodysong]

Eddie Gallagher was convicted for posing with the severed head
of a teenage combatant he killed

(Presiderp) has pardoned an Army major who admitted to murdering an Afghan
civilian and then burning his corpse; an Army ranger convicted of murdering
an Iraqi detainee during an unauthorized interrogation; and an Army first
lieutenant convicted of two counts of second-degree murder.

(These were said to be war crimes.)

CBS Evening News’ David Martin:

What were the ramifications of intervening in that review process?

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer:

Right now, we’re not going to [demote Gallagher] is what Secretary Esper says.
What message does that send to the troops?

Martin:

Well, what message does it send?

Spencer:

That you can get away with things. We have to have good order and discipline.
It’s the backbone of what we do.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/spencer-trump-suggests-you-can-get-away-with-war-crimes.html

 

[magicalmoments]

I bet trump would be appalled by the Nuremberg trials and the role played by the USA in that little postscript to WWII.
He'd say: "not many people know that" as he usually does with a new fact that he's never heard before.

 

[bodysong]

Nothing like Trump loyalists, justifying complete hypocrisy-

now that Trump loyalist chesnuts are getting burned in the fire,
any dodge available is used.

Why is Dalton Trumbo's name rolling in the disturbingly filthy mouths
of Trump loyalists ?

(bodysong comment-
people are starting to claim to be Republicans that do not approve of Trump, again.
There was a Republican America and a Democrat American, and somewhere in
between, there was everyone's America. Trump's America is not nearly as
tolerable. /end bodysong comment)

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...llywood-blacklist-mitzi-trumbo-bryan-cranston

The real "persecution"

For most Americans, the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s was brief
and frenzied and far away — when the klieg lights of Congress shone on
well-known defendants like Lucille Ball, Leonard Bernstein, W.E.B. DuBois,
and Dalton Trumbo while other high-profile citizens, such as Walt Disney
and then Screen Actors Guild president Ronald Reagan, named people they
believed to be communists. But the Red Scare was much more than powerful
people accusing one another of what amounted to treason. “Show trials,”
as critics called them, were held in cities and towns, offices and churches,
union halls and military barracks, schools and jails.  

The goal of these proceedings was the same as the congressional hearings
run by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others: to test the loyalty of Americans
who’d been accused of suspicious affiliations. Thousands lost their jobs,
many were jailed. Under cover of anonymity, thousands of Americans
informed on one another out of fear or malice. Books were burned.
Subpoenas were served in the middle of the night. Red hunters — 
officials and private citizens searching for subversives — 
lied and forged evidence. Police and the FBI followed orders,
sometimes against their better judgment. And officials who
fueled the hysteria were rewarded with reelection.
John F. Kennedy, the only Democrat not to vote for McCarthy’s
censure by the US Senate in December 1954, explained:
“Hell, half my voters in Massachusetts look on McCarthy as a hero."

This is the America an idealistic Anne Hale found herself living in —
a country locked in a Cold War with the Soviet Union and consumed
with fears of traitors in its midst. It was a time when Hale’s own
government would trample the rights of US citizens in the name of
security and when a vast network of secret FBI informers could single
out anyone, including a grade school teacher in small-town Massachusetts,
for scrutiny and even persecution.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazin...own-teacher/OyzaMTrsxMsx54liP1YX9I/story.html

 

[bodysong]

Reality.

We all used to know what it meant. The world as it is. Objective facts
that provide the foundation for rational – not emotional – judgments
and actions.

But the old definition of reality has taken a serious beating during
the nearly three years Donald Trump, the reality-show president,
has been in office. Partly because Trump himself seems to live in
a reality separate from the one most of us inhabit. Partly because
too many people still can’t accept the objective facts of his
presidency.

- Michael Goldfarb

1 December 2019

This reality car crash will be on full display on Wednesday when (Presiderp)
attends the Nato heads of government meeting in Watford, England

Security measures in place near The Grove ahead of NATO summit
With the world's biggest leaders expected at the hotel, including
US President Donald Trump, police and security forces are taking
no chances. Already, high metal fencing has gone up along Langleybury
Lane near Chandler's Cross, alongside large concrete blocks.

Black security bollards, with a yellow barrier, are already in place
in three locations - at either end of Langleybury Lane and in
Grove Mill Lane, which will prevent motorists from getting
through.

The Grove is a hive of activity as it gets set to host one of the biggest
political events in the world on Wednesday December 4.

Police in Watford are warning of disruption to residents and commuters
across the town due to the road closures which will be in place.

https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/n...el-erected-alongside-grove-ahead-nato-summit/

while in Washington the House judiciary committee takes over hearings
from the intelligence committee, the next step towards his inevitable
impeachment.

Pictures of pomp and ceremony and outrageous Trump behaviour
will be juxtaposed with testimony about his high crimes and
misdemeanours.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...0-election-democratic-revival-nato-meeting-uk

 

[bodysong]

Inside the GOP cult:

How House Republicans spied on, smeared and ambushed a dissenter
within their ranks

December 1, 2019

Florida Rep. Francis Rooney

Since taking office in 2017, Rooney had vented privately about
Donald Trump’s comportment as president, as is the practice of
nearly all GOP lawmakers on the Hill. But Rooney was perhaps
more troubled than most by the findings of the Mueller report
earlier this year, and the more recent Ukraine scandal had finally
pushed him into pondering a no-go zone for Republicans:
impeachment.

In essence, Rooney’s colleagues started spying on him. And having
caught wind of his dissent at the White House, Trump was incredulous.
“Who the hell is this Rooney guy?” Trump asked during a phone call
with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

House GOP leaders settled on starting a “whisper campaign” against
Rooney, questioning his fealty to Trump in preparation for when he
finally broke ranks.

Rooney appeared on CNN on Oct. 18, saying he couldn’t rule out
impeaching Trump for his actions on the July 25 call with the
Ukrainian president.

The day after Rooney’s CNN appearance, he announced he wouldn’t be
running for reelection. There obviously isn’t a place in the GOP for anyone
who isn’t a glass-eating Trump cultist.

Anyone who dares stray from the party line will be unceremoniously excommunicated.

https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/in...-and-ambushed-a-dissenter-within-their-ranks/

 

[bodysong]

The loud bang heard throughout north London and surrounding areas
was the result of a sonic boom from RAF planes.

There is no cause for concern.

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) December 1, 2019

https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/stalbans/18072278.loud-bang-morning-caused-raf-jets/


A huge bang heard across London and in Hertfordshire just after 4am
on Sunday was caused by RAF jets going supersonic, the Met and
the MoD said.

“Two Typhoon fighter aircraft from RAF Coningsby were scrambled
at 0409 this morning, as part of the UK’s Quick Reaction Alert (QRA)
procedures, after an aircraft lost communications in UK airspace,”
said the Ministry of Defence. “The aircraft was intercepted and its
communications were subsequently re-established. The Typhoons
are returning to their base.”

Flight tracking sites showed that two Typhoons took off
from RAF Coningsby around the time of the noise.

- Mil Radar (@MIL_Radar)

At approx 0400z Royal Air Force Typhoons callsign 5EA26 & 5EA27
launched from RAF Coningsby to an unresponsive aircraft

December 1, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ross-london-caused-by-supersonic-fighter-jets

 

[bodysong]

The Grand Master Conspiracy of Trump's Land of Pretend

A political conspiracy the size of a Hindenburg

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has punctured it.

"On Monday, inspector general Michael Horowitz released the
nearly 500-page “Review of Four FISA Applications and
Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation”

December 9, 2019

A report by the justice department’s inspector general
demolished three years of claims by the president that
he was the victim of a “deep state” conspiracy and
that the investigation was based on a dossier compiled
by an ex-British intelligence operative, Christopher Steele.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...mp-russia-investigation-report-latest-updates

Report sharply criticizes FBI but finds no partisan bias in Russia probe

- Del Quentin Wilber

Dec. 9, 2019

The report was a black eye for the nation’s premier law enforcement
agency as it conducts classified national security investigations.
Horowitz’s team uncovered 17 “significant errors or omissions”
resulting from “case agents providing wrong or incomplete
information” to Justice Department attorneys.

“FBI personnel fell far short of the requirement in FBI policy
that they ensure that all factual statements in a FISA application
are ‘scrupulously accurate,’” the report found.

It noted “multiple instances” where FBI assertions in the FISA
applications were “inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by
appropriate documentation, based upon information the FBI had
in its possession at the time the application was filed.”

In later applications to renew the warrant, the FBI left out
information that undermined the credibility of sources,
including Steele, and did not better clarify the “political origins”
of Steele’s reports to the FBI.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-12-09/report-finds-no-partisan-bias-in-russia-probe

No intentional misconduct.

James Comey:
The truth is finally out. The FBI fulfilled its mission.

- James Comey
December 9, 2019 at 3:14 PM EST

"On Monday, we learned from a report by the Justice Department’s
inspector general, Michael Horowitz, that the allegation of a
criminal conspiracy was nonsense. There was no illegal
wiretapping, there were no informants inserted into the
campaign, there was no “spying” on the Trump campaign."

"Although it took two years, the truth is finally out."

As the leader of an institution that is supposed to be devoted
to truth, Barr needs to stop acting like a Trump spokesperson.
In the words of the nation’s Founders, the Justice Department’s
inspector general has “Let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”
The FBI fulfilled its mission — protecting the American people
and upholding the U.S. Constitution. Now those who attacked
the FBI for two years should admit they were wrong.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...4df00c-1aad-11ea-8d58-5ac3600967a1_story.html

Perhaps not surprisingly, Trump ignored the many parts of the report
that undercut his repeated claims about the probe-
to declare that the revelations in the report were
“far worse than what I ever thought possible.”

(Presiderp said) “They fabricated evidence and they lied to the courts.
This was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it,
and they got caught,” he told reporters on Monday.
“It’s a disgrace what’s happened with the things
that were done to our country.”

Observers questioned why Trump’s statement was so at odds
with the inspector general’s findings.

“Seriously, none of his aides fixed his talking points?”
asked national security attorney Bradley Moss.

https://www.salon.com/2019/12/09/bi...ng-trump-conspiracy-theories-on-russia-probe/

"Another Inquiry Doesn't Back Up Trump's Charges. So, on to the Next."

NY Times

Analysis

Trump’s Russia-probe defense, led by Barr, has already moved on
from Horowitz

The goalposts have been repositioned

- Philip Bump

December 9, 2019

No single conspiratorial thread has wound through Donald Trump’s
presidency so extensively as his claim that the investigation into Russian
interference in the 2016 election was a witch hunt aimed at taking him
down. That assertion was, at the outset, an attempt to inoculate America a
gainst whatever conclusions emerged.

"In other words, the Horowitz report, the lodestone to which Trump
defenders once looked, has become both exculpatory and secondary.
The assertions about the FISA process can be hailed as proving Trump
right.

The rejection of claims of bias, meanwhile, can be set aside in expectation
of what Durham will present.

That’s the beauty of conspiracy theories. Like rivers, they simply flow
around obstacles, however unexpected the resulting paths.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...fense-led-by-barr-has-already-moved-horowitz/

 

[bodysong]

Lex Luthor's Less Sane Cousin-
Donnie "Mushroom Dick," the Dummkopf
with the Candy Floss toupee, could not
cover all of the bases- he filched a few
Nothern Democrats, after the Southern
Democrats turned him down.

(The Thanos joke returned to bite back.
Then again, everything in the real world,
beomes twisted and distorted in Trump's
Alternative Universe. Do Trump loyalists
believe that Thanos won, despite what
was seen ? There are always "alternative
facts on FUX TV, if reality leaves a
sour taste in the mouth.)


(Plenty of slush fund money to spread
around- (under the table) and plenty of
blackmail and extortion. Rupert Murdoch
is a fine friend to have- Just ask the Tories!)

(New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew
hopes to spend more time on Trump
private property. )

"A skilled politician would spend time in his district holding
town halls and laying out his case. He would let his constituents
know that he has given the matter serious thought and would
vote his conscience regardless of the consequences to his
political future. Jeff Van Drew is not a skilled politician."

"Instead, Congressman Van Drew decided to torpedo himself
in spectacular fashion by switching parties. Apparently, polling
showed that he was especially vulnerable to being “primaried.”
Ol’ Jeff can take a hint. If you Democrats don’t want him,
he’ll take his ball and go elsewhere. Except, elsewhere
doesn’t want him either."

"The Republicans of New Jersey’s 2nd congressional district
are quite happy with their current roster of actual Republican
candidates, thank you very much. Unsurprisingly, there is
zero appetite in the district for Van Drew to switch his affiliation.
The only two people who think it’s a good idea are Van Drew
and the president. Poor company to find yourself in.
The (Presiderp) has no idea how local politics works,
and apparently neither does Van Drew."

Jeff Van Drew is lonely

Drew Sheneman | The Star-Ledger

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2019/12/j...-sheneman.html

Election campaigns are costly, and Christmas is so very near.

Look at the Democrats that sold their impeachment vote to the
highest bidder (Russia ? China ? India ?)


https://time.com/5752623/impeachment-vote-party-lines/

 

[bodysong]

Don’t let Mitch McConnell conduct a Potemkin impeachment trial

- Laurence H. Tribe

December 16, 2019

In 1787, the year our Constitution was written, Catherine the Great
traveled to Crimea in Ukraine — yes, that Crimea, the one Vladi*mir
Putin occupied by illegal force — where her former lover Grigory
Potemkin had built a fake village to impress the Empress. It seems
suitably ironic for McConnell to propose building a Potemkin “trial”
to exonerate Trump. But irony is no substitute for common sense.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...a81b30-202f-11ea-a153-dce4b94e4249_story.html