Trump, Day Five:

[JackLuis]

Democrats consider a ‘100 Day Fight Club’ to resist Trump after ‘worse than imagined’ first week

Trump has created a miracle, the Demo's have threatened to grow a spine!

Democratic officials across the country are sounding the alarm and vowing to resist newly-sworn in Pres. Donald Trump — particularly in light of Trump’s wobbly first week in office.

“The damage to the credibility of the presidency has already been profound,” said Gov. Jay Inslee to Politico. While some Democrats are wary of taking the same obstructionist tack that Republicans took after the election of Pres. Barack Obama, many of the two dozen officials interviewed by Politico said that they see the Trump administration as a genuine threat to American Democracy and are vowing to oppose it at every turn.

“They were entitled to a grace period, but it was midnight the night of the inauguration to 8 o’clock the next morning, when the administration sent out people to lie about numerous significant things,” said Inslee. “They were entitled to a grace period and they blew it. It’s been worse than I could have imagined, the first few days.”

Candidates for head of the Democratic National Committee met earlier this week and the idea of trying to work with the new president was dismissed out of hand.

“That’s a question that’s absolutely ridiculous,” said New Hampshire Democratic Party chairman Raymond Buckley.
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Stalwart progressives fret that deal-makers and habitual compromisers like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will undermine attempts to face the Republican Party as a unified front. But Klain said that Trump is proving to be reliably extreme and ideological in his opening days as chief executive.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

He wants to authorize the army to learn enhanced interrogation techniques. Regular guys. Can you say SS??

 

[JackLuis]

The ‘entire senior level’ of State Department management just resigned to avoid working for Trump

President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State pick Rex Tillerson already face major challenges in dealing with the rest of the world — and they just got more difficult thanks to mass resignations at the State Department.

The Washington Post’s Josh Rogin reports that “the entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday” as part of an “ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era.”

According to the Post’s sources, the action started shortly after Tillerson visited the State Department’s headquarters in Foggy Bottom on Wednesday, when the State Department’s long-serving undersecretary for management, Patrick Kennedy, resigned. The Post claims that the Trump administration had been looking to replace Kennedy.

Kennedy was only the start, however, as three other top State Department officials announced on Wednesday that they were following him out the door: Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions.

How many other patriots will show their convictions?

 

[JackLuis]

He wants to authorize the army to learn enhanced interrogation techniques. Regular guys. Can you say SS??

Demo's tepted as always need to resist more than 100 days.

Resist 1460!​

Should be their new mantra.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump appears to kill Obama’s ethics rule preventing corporations from buying White House influence

When ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson signed on to work for Donald Trump’s new administration, he set himself up to receive a quick cash infusion: Exxon committed to giving him an $180 million retirement package just as he moves to lead a State Department that oversees Exxon-related public policy. For years, ethics watchdogs have said such payouts could be a way for corporations to buy influence from incoming government officials. But, watchdogs said, at least for federal officials' first two years in office, they were barred by a rule from from participating in government business affecting their former employers.

That prohibition may no longer apply. As President Trump stocks his administration with Tillerson and other moguls whose companies have business with the government, the 8-year-old rule appears to be going unenforced -- even if it is still on the books.

A review of agreements between Trump’s top appointees and federal ethics regulators shows that none of the compacts mentions the 2009 executive order that requires incoming officials to sign a pledge to avoid participating in policies that “directly and substantially relate to [their] former employer or former clients” for the first two years of government service. Obama-era ethics agreements included standard language obligating political appointees to follow the rule.

If the ethics pledge rule is not enforced, watchdog groups say, Trump officials entering the administration from the private sector could quickly be in a position to use their government positions to enrich their former paymasters. Rather than facing a full two-year restriction as required by the Obama-era executive order, they would encounter only the one-year restriction previously enshrined in federal law.

Resist 1460!​

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s ex-Breitbart advisor Bannon is drafting executive orders – and basically winging it

Two of Donald Trump’s senior advisors — neither of whom has any previous government or legal experience — have reportedly been writing executive orders without any input from the agencies they would effect.

Aides told Politico that Steve Bannon, the president’s chief strategist, and Stephen Miller, the senior White House advisor for policy, have made almost no effort to consult with federal agency lawyers or lawmakers as they wrote executive orders.

Bannon, the former chairman of Breitbart, and Miller, a Republican political operative who’s written most of Trump’s major speeches, are writing many of the orders based on ideas that came from transition officials or “landing teams” who weren’t working in the White House.

The orders have come so quickly, and from seemingly out of nowhere, that aides sometimes aren’t even sure which actions Trump will sign until they cross his desk.

“He was determined to show people that he’s getting to work from Day One,” a source told Politico.

So Trump lands with a blizzard of bullshit and the country is supposed to be blinded by brilliance?

Resist 1460!​

 

[JackLuis]

Samantha Bee rips Trump’s inauguration: America swore in ‘the concept of white male mediocrity’

During Wednesday night’s segment of Full Frontal, host Samantha Bee ripped into President Donald Trump’s inauguration. “America swore in the concept of white male mediocrity,” she said, adding that “Donald Trump laid his little pussy-grabbing paw on top of two more books than he’s ever read in his life and spoke the most solemn vow he’s uttered since his third wedding.”

Bee commented on the white supremacist and Nazi overtones of Trump’s “America First” inauguration speech, which Steve Bannon helped write. Bee referred to Bannon as a “Goldman Sachs wormtongue who tells you what to say” noting that Bannon “is filling [Trump’s] mouth with more Nazi code than Enigma.”

“Are you the only 70-year-old in America that doesn’t watch the History Channel?” she asked.

 

[phrodeau]

Trump forced out all of Obama's ambassadors and diplomats in the middle of the school year. I'm not surprised that the State Department left en masse.

 

[JackLuis]

Wounded Trump feels ‘personally betrayed’ by CNN’s negative coverage

As President Donald Trump continues to lash out against media outlets that criticize him, a new report suggests that his feud with CNN is of a more personal nature.

New York Magazine’s Gabriel Sherman’s sources say that Trump is particularly hurt by the negative coverage that he receives from CNN because of his past relationship with network president Jeff Zucker.

“Trump complains that Zucker should be programming CNN more favorably toward him because of their long relationship, which can be traced back to 2004 when Zucker put The Apprentice on NBC,” writes Sherman. “Trump has also said to White House staffers that Zucker owes him because Trump helped get him the job at CNN.”

As Donald 'The Dick" heads into his sixth day of buttthurt, he has 1454 more to endure.

Resist 1460!​

 

[Nezhul]

All I see right now is not so much Trump failing to do sometheing, but Trump being sabotaged by a lot of people on every turn.

I kinda think he'll get over it, but seriously, look. It's ridiculous. On one hand you cheer for those who managed to somehow get a stab at him, and on the other you despise his "failures".

Half of that is not really his failures but him being sabotaged, so what's the deal with that?

In my eyes America just losing all self-respect by ridiculing and obstructing your own PRESIDENT. Suddenly your democratic system is only democratic if the guy you like takes the chair.

 

[phrodeau]

The ‘entire senior level’ of State Department management just resigned to avoid working for Trump



How many other patriots will show their convictions?

Wounded Trump feels ‘personally betrayed’ by CNN’s negative coverage



As Donald 'The Dick" heads into his sixth day of buttthurt, he has 1454 more to endure.

Resist 1460!​

CNN is reporting that the State Department resignations were requested by Trump.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/26/p...d-to-leave-by-trump-administration/index.html

But then, they're fake news, right?

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Are we saying he's illegitimate? He's the one trashing our voting process, saying it was rigged.

You're not distinguishing between protesting him and not accepting him as legally elected.

He is our President, unfortunately, but we have no obligation to like him.

All I see right now is not so much Trump failing to do sometheing, but Trump being sabotaged by a lot of people on every turn.

I kinda think he'll get over it, but seriously, look. It's ridiculous. On one hand you cheer for those who managed to somehow get a stab at him, and on the other you despise his "failures".

Half of that is not really his failures but him being sabotaged, so what's the deal with that?

In my eyes America just losing all self-respect by ridiculing and obstructing your own PRESIDENT. Suddenly your democratic system is only democratic if the guy you like takes the chair.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Also, there's a huge number of countries and people across the globe who lost all respect for us the minute we elected an obvious idiot.

 

[phrodeau]

In Obama's first week in office, he signed an Executive Order to close Guantanamo Bay. Eight years later, it's still in business.

We'll probably still have Obamacare and NAFTA for eight more years.

 

[domroger]

In my eyes America just losing all self-respect by ridiculing and obstructing your own PRESIDENT. Suddenly your democratic system is only democratic if the guy you like takes the chair.

I'm afraid that this was started years ago by the GOP and Trump with the birther nonsense .

 

[Boxlicker101]

Democrats consider a ‘100 Day Fight Club’ to resist Trump after ‘worse than imagined’ first week

Trump has created a miracle, the Demo's have threatened to grow a spine!

So, what are these lies the POTUS has supposedly issued? I googled him and saw nothing specific.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Trump appears to kill Obama’s ethics rule preventing corporations from buying White House influence

Resist 1460!​

Have they sold s much influence as Hillary did? I doubt it.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Off the top of my head

He said the media had created the false impression he had some kind of feud with the CIA, when he is on record accusing them of being "like Nazi Germany," disparaging them as losers, and referring to them as "intelligence" agencies.

HE said about Time Magazine "I have been on there cover, like, 14 or 15 times.* I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time Magazine."

HE said the crowds at his Inaugural "stretched back to the Washington Monument"

He repeated a lie to a bunch of Senators that 3 - 5 million illegal immigrants voted in the election

He said, via Sean Spicer, "IT WAS THE LARGEST INAUGURATION IN HISTORY. PERIOD."

Every single one: a lie

So, what are these lies the POTUS has supposedly issued? I googled him and saw nothing specific.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I'm afraid that this was started years ago by the GOP and Trump with the birther nonsense .

The "birther nonsense" was started by the minions of Hillary Clinton.

 

[phrodeau]

The "birther nonsense" was started by the minions of Hillary Clinton.

Yes, we know. Somebody who supported Hillary Clinton started the rumor. But then guess what happened.

 

[JackLuis]

Steve Bannon: News media needs to ‘keep its mouth shut’ and respect Trump

Former Breitbart.com CEO turned top White House aide Stephen K. Bannon said on Wednesday evening that the news media is Pres. Donald Trump’s real “opposition party” and told the press it’s time to “keep its mouth shut” and “listen for awhile.”

“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile,” Bannon said in a telephone interview with the New York Times.

“I want you to quote this,” he said. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”

The shot across the press’ bow comes at a particularly tense time between the new administration and any media outlet that does not obsequiously shower Trump with praise.

Someone should inform this asshole that respect is earned by honorable action not commanded by fiat. That might have played in the third reich but it cuts no shit in America.

 

[JackLuis]

Bill Kristol slams Bannon as an ‘insecure snowflake’ for calling the media the ‘opposition party’

Thursday night’s Erin Burnett segment on CNN addressed Steve Bannon’s recent comments about the media, namely that it is the “opposition party,” according to Bannon.

“This is obviously pretty stunning,” said Burnett. “This is one of the men who has the president’s ear calling the media the ‘opposition’ and doing so repeatedly.” CNN correspondent Brian Stelter called the comments “highly inappropriate,” suggesting Bannon, a top administration official, was “describing the media as the enemy.”

Neoconservative political commentator Bill Kristol responded by calling Bannon a “sensitive guy … Such a snowflake, really, right?” Kristol continued, “Poor guy, he’s in the White House. They’ve been there five, six days. He’s been looking forward to four years. Six months ago he’s editing a fringe website, now he’s in the White House.”

Bill Kristol calling out a Rethuglican! The worms are turning!

Resist 1460!​

 

[tnman03]

Steve Bannon: News media needs to ‘keep its mouth shut’ and respect Trump



Someone should inform this asshole that respect is earned by honorable action not commanded by fiat. That might have played in the third reich but it cuts no shit in America.

My only observation on that honorable action remark is the MSM has been exceptionally biased and disingenuous throughout the Obama administration and the 2016 Presidential elections. They were contemptuous towards those who challenged or questioned them. Overall they've lost the trust of viewers and what they've done has been dishonorable. I don't believe smearing it back in their face is a solution but what are they going to do to instill confidence in factual and accurate unbiased reporting?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Yes, we know. Somebody who supported Hillary Clinton started the rumor. But then guess what happened.

What happened was that doubt was expressed until Obama produced the appropriate document proving he was born in Hawaii. Until then, there was reasonable doubt, because his father was a Kenyan and Obama was raised in Indonesia. There was also some question in 2015 about Ted Cruz.

 

[Nezhul]

What happened was that doubt was expressed until Obama produced the appropriate document proving he was born in Hawaii. Until then, there was reasonable doubt, because his father was a Kenyan and Obama was raised in Indonesia. There was also some question in 2015 about Ted Cruz.

by the way, do you realize how easy it is for the president to produce a document that he was born in a small state like Hawaii? In the middle of nowhere, basically.

And how did that happen, exactly? Were they living/working at Hawaii, and then as soon as Barak was born they decided "No, fuck US. We are going to Indonesia"?
As far as I'm aware, US is not very keen on letting pregnant women on board of their PLANES even, let alone letting them visit. Just in case she gives birth midflight and they will have to acknowledge the baby of some foreigners a US citizen.
Which basically leaves the only option: they would have to live on Hawaii for severral months, or maybe a year before the birth.

By the way, don't mind me very much on this one. Because it's not like I've read Obama's family history or something, maybe there are answers there.
Just saying that documents are not so hard to forge.