Weak Six Of The Trumpanzy; boonngggg!

[JackLuis]

Weak Six Of The Trumpanzy; boonngggg!

Vice President Mike Pence Announces Andrea Thompson as National Security Advisor

Silver Mike also names his staff. Maybe CNN and the NYT can 'vet them'?

Honestly all that 25 amendment talk early last week, when Trumpy got all impeachable and then late in the week he gets certifiable. What's Mikey Waiting on?

Is he playing a long game and setting up the press to crucify Donald as a Russian Assette? Maybe ABC NBC CBS and Fox could have some investigative reporting on "Is our President a Russian Mole?"

A Topic for Sunday? Will the Sunday pundantry come out swinging?

 

[phrodeau]

Before Pence makes his move, he wants all his underlings lined up so he doesn't stumble out of the gate like Trump did.

 

[JackLuis]

Bernie Sanders brilliantly trolls Trump on Twitter after president claims ‘biggest of them all’ rally

Over a month into his presidency, Donald Trump continues to talk up his win last November with a tweet Saturday morning that was promptly mocked by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

As is his custom on Saturday mornings, Trump tweeted out a random comment first thing in the morning, writing, “Maybe the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN should have their own rally. It would be the biggest of them all!”

Sanders quickly shot Trump with a pithy, “They did. It wasn’t,” accompanied with photos showing the dismal turnout for the President’s inauguration.

When you get trolled by Bernie on Saturday, you just know the rest of the week will be weak.

 

[JackLuis]

There’s one last big-ticket item on Trump’s agenda: A war on drugs

The weeks since Trump took office with a pledge to make America wealthy/safe/proud/great again have been tumultuous ones. He has tested the nation’s checks and balances with a series of aggressive executive actions and abrupt policy shifts, on everything from the border wall, the structure of the National Security Council, immigration, attacks on the judiciary, and the selection of Cabinet appointees diametrically opposed to the mission of the agency they are intended to lead.

None of these moves are truly intended to increase the efficiency of national policy. Trump is, if nothing else, a master of branding and his policy moves have been largely symbolic; he’s sending a message about his values and his vision for the United States.

But hang on, because there is more to come and, aside from jobs, there’s still one big ticket item on his to-do list: drugs.

The threat posed by drugs was a consistent theme during the campaign and often lumped with immigration, globalization, and violent crime as part of a rising lawlessness that threatens the American people. Trump reiterated this theme in his apocalyptic inaugural address, pitting “the forgotten men and women of our country” against foreign enemies who drain jobs and wealth and replace them with poverty, crime, gangs, and drugs—all under the watch of political elites who did nothing to stop the “American carnage.” Never mind that Trump is also something of a robber baron and never mind his myriad conflicts of interest, this style of rhetoric says: look there—that is the enemy, the other.

If Iron Assed Jeffy comes after Legal Pot, what will be the consequences of him effecting the tax collection? Will he put a limit on the production of Opioids? Will Jeffy attack the grey market suppliers of the illicit pills?

Or, will the DOJ just fill the private prisons while Trump buys in?

 

[JackLuis]

Stock markets diverge, all eyes on Trump

World stock markets diverged Monday, as a recent Trump-inspired rally showed signs of fragility.

A record 11th successive all-time high close for New York’s Dow on Friday came as investors nevertheless are growing worried that the recent buying — fuelled by expectations that US President Donald Trump will introduce economy-boosting measures — may have gone too far.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s warning that growth might not hit the four percent Trump promised, as well as uncertainty around the new president’s plans to slash taxes and spend big on infrastructure, sent the dollar tumbling at the end of last week, before recovering ground Monday.

How long before the Trump Bubble Bursts?

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Spicer wants to ferret out leaks, according to aids who leaked meeting in which he asked them to stop leaking lmao


http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/sean-spicer-targets-own-staff-in-leak-crackdown-235413

 

[JackLuis]

WATCH: George W. Bush takes shots at Trump on Russia probe, travel ban and free press

“I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy,” Bush said. “We need an independent media to hold people like me to account. Power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power.”

Bush said he tried to convince Russian president Vladimir Putin of the importance of an independent press, and he said American credibility was crucial in fostering democracy elsewhere.

“It’s kind of hard to tell others to have an independent free press when we’re not willing to have one ourselves,” Bush said.

OMG! OMG! When GW starts sounding like a Democrat, things are off the deep end!

Wonkett remarked
"Oh no, that guy we used to think was the worst president who ever lived, back when we were young and innocent, did an interview on the “Today” program, and he was unkind to Dear Leader Trump! Yes, George W. Bush, whose presidency looks downright brilliant compared to Donald Trump’s, very obviously thinks Trump is a dumb twat, but he’s too nice to say it that way. Instead he said things like this:

 

[JackLuis]

Pentagon reporter: I don’t know any military commander who thinks Trump’s plan is going to work

“The fight against ISIS, the fight against Al Qaeda is a fight against a spreading ideology that, indeed, has spread across many countries. The president has this new plan sitting on his desk today about options for defeating ISIS, and it includes diplomacy at the very time he is cutting the State Department. It includes financial options. It does include some military options, but you’re not going to bomb ISIS out of existence. I don’t know a single U.S. military commander that thinks that’s feasible.”

Impeach him before he generates another seven countries who hate America.

 

[JackLuis]

Monday pro-Trump rallies a massive flop as event photos show tiny crowds

President Donald Trump last week called on his supporters to hold massive rallies on his behalf, and on Monday some of them did their best to meet his demands.

Meanwhile back in reality, Trump was gifted with a new Poll that shows his Disapproval/Approval rating at 48 to 44% last weak. How many more weaks of this before Mikey drops the 25thon Dimple Dicked Donald?

"Scores of People turned out for Trump!" headlines proclaim, but pictures show numbers lower than a a good Flea Market.

 

[JackLuis]

Watch Bernie Sanders bust out laughing at Trump’s daft claim that ‘nobody knew health care’ is complicated

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Monday laughed out loud at Donald Trump’s assertion that “nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated,” noting he already had “a clue” the issue was a complex one.

Healthcare was a major component of Sanders’ bid for the 2016 Democratic nomination. The Vermont senator is a leading proponent of a single-payer system that guarantees healthcare for all, and has spent decades advocated for access to healthcare as a right, not a privilege.

“Well some of us who were sitting on the health education committee, who went to meeting after meeting after meeting, who heard from dozens of people, who stayed up night after night trying to figure out this thing, year—we got a clue,” Sanders told Anderson Cooper on Monday’s AC 360.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s Proposed Increase in U.S. Defense Spending Would Be 80 Percent of Russia’s Entire Military Budget

The U.S. government already spends $600 billion dollars a year on its military — more money than the next seven biggest spenders combined, including China and Russia.

On Monday, the White House said it would request $54 billion more in military spending for next year. That increase alone is roughly the size of the entire annual military budget of the United Kingdom, the fifth-largest spending country, and it’s more than 80 percent of Russia’s entire military budget in 2015.

If Congress were to follow Trump’s blueprint, the U.S. military budget could account for nearly 40 percent of global military spending next year. The U.S. would be outspending Russia by a margin of greater than 9 to 1.

Oh sure swell Idea Donald, dip shit!

 

[JackLuis]

Chris Matthews shreds Trump for ‘dicking around’ in speech and ducking responsibility for Navy SEAL’s death

“This really offends me, the fact that he said that,” Matthews agreed. “War is guys shooting at each other, trying to kill each other. You go into battle and firefight and anything can happen and casualties are part of war. The Europeans knew that way before we knew that. War means casualties.”

“And to dick around about this thing, the President of the United States is saying, ‘It wasn’t my job,'” Matthews continued. “The buck does stop there and it is the Commander-in-Chief. And I go back to the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy said, ‘It was me, I’m the officer in charge.’ You have to say that. You can’t write the letter to the widow and say ‘it wasn’t me.'”

“Let’s figure out what went wrong here,” he stated. “These are difficult, dangerous missions and people get killed and the idea that the president has to argue with somebody about whose fault it is is below the office.”

Resist, Oppose, Impeach!​

 

[JackLuis]

Trumpy went to Congress and under the watchful eyes of Silver Mike and Paul Ryan lied his ass off!

‘How genocides begin’: Internet stunned by Trump plan to set up VOICE program targeting immigrants

‘The sickness of this man’: Michael Moore blasts Trump for ‘record applause’ boast as grieving widow wept


Bernie Sanders rips Trump’s speech: He’ll gut Obamacare and give the money to his ‘billionaire friends’


‘Not so unifying’: Jake Tapper nails Trump for ‘nationalistic undercurrent’ in speech to Congress

"Even More Greatness to come believe you me folks!"

 

[JackLuis]

Sessions signals Justice Department will ‘pull back’ on civil rights suits against police departments

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/jeff-sessions-478x257.jpg

JBS, could be Alfred E. Newman aged fifty years. Don't you feel safer America?

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Whoo hoo

I'm feeling a great surge in national pride at this surge of greatness. It's a tsunami of greatness

Sessions signals Justice Department will ‘pull back’ on civil rights suits against police departments

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/jeff-sessions-478x257.jpg

JBS, could be Alfred E. Newman aged fifty years. Don't you feel safer America?

 

[oggbashan]

It seems that President Trump's State Visit to the UK in June will be delayed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...tpones-state-visitto-britain-amid-fears-will/

Whenever he comes he will get an official welcome (and protestors).

 

[Carnal_Flower]

That's ridiculous. October?

Chicken!!!

It seems that President Trump's State Visit to the UK in June will be delayed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...tpones-state-visitto-britain-amid-fears-will/

Whenever he comes he will get an official welcome (and protestors).

 

[Hard_Rom]

It seems that President Trump's State Visit to the UK in June will be delayed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...tpones-state-visitto-britain-amid-fears-will/

Whenever he comes he will get an official welcome (and protestors).

Traditionally the first foreign visit of a POTUS has been to Canada. Justin will try to play nice. Too much money and trade involved for leading politicians to stand on principles. But I expect a shyte load of protestors to be constantly around. Doubt many Trumpistas will get heard.


Short life to the Fourth Reich!

 

[domroger]

Given the measures he has just taken ,I would expect more protesters in October .
I don't think he will be coming then either and the visit will be abandoned .

 

[Hard_Rom]

Short life to the Fourth Reich!

With any talk of a VOICE list or agency the Trump presidency has crossed the line into fascism from the run of the mill isolationist, protectionist, America First types.

Short life to the Fourth Reich!

 

[phrodeau]

As for the Yemen raid, according to the Washington Examiner, "the president has come under sharp criticism for green lighting the mission despite reportedly not having enough intelligence."

I think they probably have a point.

 

[JackLuis]

FBI corruption probe just the ‘tip of the iceberg’ for Trump’s scandal-plagued Border Patrol nominee

For six years, Babeu carried on an affair with an undocumented immigrant named Jose Orozco. Babeu reportedly threatened to use his powers as sheriff to have Orozco deported from the U.S. if he ever breathed a word about their relationship to the public.

“But Babeu’s penchant for scandal goes beyond dating an illegal immigrant and allegedly threatening him with deportation; lest we forget the school — described by one member of Congress as a ‘place of horrors‘ — he ran for troubled youth before he became sheriff,” said King.

Babeu is accused of stonewalling an investigation into abuse at the DeSisto School and, more disturbingly, his sister Lucy Babeu told ABC 15 that she caught her brother engaging in a sexual relationship with a minor boy from the school.

“I said what is this student from DeSisto doing here? He says, ‘Lucy, he’s my boyfriend. I love him,’” Lucy Babeu said. “I said Paul get a hold of yourself here. You were his teacher! You were his executive director! You can’t do this.”

 

[JackLuis]

‘Words matter, deeds matter as well’: CNN’s Jake Tapper issues brutal takedown of Trump’s speech

Tapper then criticized the president’s refusal to shoulder blame for the Yemen raid, noting Trump’s claim that “they lost Ryan”—“they” being his generals and the military, not the president himself.

“They didn’t lose him, we did. We all did,” Tapper said, arguing Trump’s role as Commander-in-Chief should prompt the president to consider his culpability in Owen’s death.

“We lost Ryan,” Tapper continued. “Accountability and responsibility, these are important principles.”

Resist, Oppose, Impeach!​

 

[JackLuis]

Here are the five worst moments from Trump’s so-called ‘presidential’ speech

Six weeks of snarling demagoguery and bumbling incompetence established a low bar for Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night, and he cleared it.

He read the text on his prompter smoothly and didn’t mention millions of illegal voters going for Hillary Clinton or harp on his margin of victory in the Electoral College (he did call his election an “earthquake”). His only criticism of the media was a glancing one – a rather silly lie about their supposed refusal to cover crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. He even kicked off the evening by condemning a recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks on graveyards and bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers across the country. That part felt more forced than forceful – which makes sense given that earlier in the day he’d implied that they might be false flag operations perpetrated by Jews to make Trump Supporters look bad – but he held it all together enough to make the pundits happy. CNN commentator Van Jones said Trump “became President of the United States” last night.

But as Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond has noted, “Grossly exaggerating the extent of crime and terrorism is a common tactic of leaders seeking to justify a slide toward authoritarianism.” And so Trump announced on Tuesday that he had “ordered the Department of Homeland Security to create an office to serve American Victims. The office is called VOICE — Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement. We are providing a voice to those who have been ignored by our media, and silenced by special interests.” It’s pure demagoguery – right down to the rather bizarre idea that “special interests” are somehow silencing these poor victims. Earlier reports suggested that this office would publish a list of immigrants who are arrested for crimes, a tactic popular with fringe anti-immigrant blogs and familiar to various authoritarian regimes in the past.

As The Washington Post pointed out, all of those companies had made those plans prior to Trump’s election, and Lockheed announced the drop in price for the F-35 fighter before Trump was involved.

The stock markets have gained $3 trillion since Trump’s inauguration, but that was a rebound from the $3 trillion sell-off nervous investors had undertaken in the weeks leading up to it.

Resist, Oppose, Impeach!​

 

[JackLuis]

CNN: Trump lied to anchors about immigration to get ‘positive press coverage’ in run-up to speech

CNN’s White House correspondent Sara Murray said Wednesday that the White House pulled a “bait-and-switch” with anchors from the network at a meeting on Tuesday regarding the topic of immigration.

“Let’s just change gears entirely and talk about the bait and switch that the president pulled when it came to immigration yesterday. He had this meeting with the anchors, he talked about a path to legal status,” Murray said, according to Media Matters.

“Basically they fed us things that they thought these anchors would like, that they thought would give them positive press coverage for the next few hours. A senior administration official admitted that it was a misdirection play. And you will note that when the president was actually out there speaking to the American public, he didn’t talk about a path to legal status,” she explained.

“He talked about reforming the legal immigration system so it’s merit-based,” Murray said. “That means fewer low-skilled workers, fewer people coming on family ties, more people coming on high-skilled visas. That is still closer to a Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon framework of the world than Gang of Eight, who pushed comprehensive immigration reform.”

Trump lied to the press to get a few hours of positive coverage, before reneging, So just another Tuesday.