Posted: 3/28/17 at 10:59pm
Donald Trump is terrible. [This post originally had more interesting content, but it was probably ill-advised, so I removed it.]
Updated On: 3/29/17 at 10:59 PM
Posted: 3/28/17 at 11:15pm
Updated On: 3/29/17 at 11:15 PM
Posted: 3/30/17 at 11:04am
Now he's attacking the Republicans on the Freedom Caucus. How stupid can he be?
Both the liberal and the conservative press are going "WTF?!?"
DAILY BEAST: Trump Threatens War With Freedom Caucus. Could He Survive? Thursday morning’s wtf tweet by Trump about the Freedom Caucus may be his wildest yet. It’s a clear threat. How will they respond?
DAILY WIRE: Trump’s War On Conservatives Continues: ‘We Must Fight Them’
Posted: 3/30/17 at 1:58pm
Unless some redistricting happens, those Freedom Caucus folks have nothing to fear from Trump, at least with respect to reelection. The way to obviate them is to work with Dems to pass reasonable legislation without them. Any chance that'll happen? Didn't think so. Ryan is on the record as not wanting to work with Dems.
Posted: 3/30/17 at 8:21pm
Get your popcorn ready! They won't offer him immunity unless he can give them someone high up.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-flynn-offers-to-testify-in-exchange-for-immunity-1490912959
Posted: 3/30/17 at 10:22pm
Apparently, he old the Senate Intelligence Committee that he is willing to testify about the Trump campaign's possible ties to Russia in return for immunity from prosecution.
Posted: 3/31/17 at 8:35am
It's like a plot from a spy movie. Except it happened.
"This is a three-headed operation," said one former official, setting out the case, based on the intelligence: Firstly, hackers steal damaging emails from senior Democrats. Secondly, the stories based on this hacked information appear on Twitter and Facebook, posted by thousands of automated "bots", then on Russia's English-language outlets, RT and Sputnik, then right-wing US "news" sites such as Infowars and Breitbart, then Fox and the mainstream media. Thirdly, Russia downloads the online voter rolls.
The voter rolls are said to fit into this because of "microtargeting". Using email, Facebook and Twitter, political advertising can be tailored very precisely: individual messaging for individual voters.
"You are stealing the stuff and pushing it back into the US body politic," said the former official, "you know where to target that stuff when you're pushing it back."
This would take co-operation with the Trump campaign, it is claimed.
"If you need to ensure that white women in Pennsylvania don't vote or independents get pissed in Michigan so they stay home: that's voter suppression. You can figure what your target demographics and locations are from the voter rolls. Then you can use that to target your bot."
This is the "big picture" some accuse the FBI of failing to see.
BBC NEWS: Trump Russia dossier key claim 'verified'
Posted: 3/31/17 at 1:41pm
Looks like the Senate has declined his request for immunity. Interestingly, Flynn has hired a virulent anti-Trump guy, Michael Kelner, as his lawyer. Among Kelner's anti-Trump tweets from last year:
"The analogy to Goldwater '64 is a poor one. He was a great American and principled libertarian. Trump is an unprincipled libertine."
Curiouser and curiouser.
Posted: 3/31/17 at 5:56pm
Posted: 4/3/17 at 10:56pm
What is wrong with you all? So unamwrican to root for the demise of our country and president. If you're so unhappy then just leave already.
Posted: 4/3/17 at 11:12pm
So unamwrican [SIC] to root for the demise of our country and president.
Like it was when you rooted for the demise of Obama?
Posted: 4/4/17 at 1:02pm
What is wrong with you all? So unamwrican to root for the demise of our country and president. If you're so unhappy then just leave already.
Nobody is rooting for the demise of the country. Just the opposite. That's why MILLIONS are rooting for the demise of Captain Creamsicle in a way that is "unpresidented". And it is 100% American to voice discontent with the government and any government official including the President (as you did with Obama). It is 100% American to ask that the President and every elected official be held accountable for their words and actions. I get that you enjoy being a douchebag, but why do you want to sound so stupid as well?
Posted: 4/4/17 at 5:12pm
Rooting for the demise of the Trump administration IS saving America.
Posted: 4/4/17 at 5:26pm
Only those who are cheering Trump's dismantling of the Nation and selling it out to the 1% are the ones rooting for the demise of America. Step Right Up, the Going Out Of Business Sale!
Posted: 4/5/17 at 3:17pm
The dismantling of Steve Bannon's ridiculous position on the National Security Council was accomplished by Jared Kushner, who hates Steve Bannon more than any of us.
Jared outmaneuvered Bannon and took all of Washington by surprise.
Posted: 4/5/17 at 4:03pm
The article I read indicated McMasters was the driving force behind the ousting of Bannon.
Posted: 4/5/17 at 5:59pm
Take this with a grain of salt of course. My sources indicate that McMasters orchestrated Bannon's ouster from the National Security Council. The cover story is that Bannon was appointed initially only to keep watch over Flynn. Folks supposedly in the know cite the latest episode of Assad's barbarism as the catalyst for the realignment since there's no guarantee that the Susan Rice gambit will pay off. Slowly but surely, those in the administration who know how to play inside baseball are squeezing out the alt-right interlopers. Kushner strikes me as clever enough to realize that the Trump regime is disintegrating thanks to Bannon, his know-nothing acolytes, and WH staffers compromised by Putin's Foreign Intelligence Service.
Posted: 4/5/17 at 11:31pm
Bannon threatened to quit.
In tomorrow's Times tonight:
NY TIMES: Trump Removes Stephen Bannon From National Security Council Post
THIS:
Mr. Bannon resisted the move, even threatening at one point to quit if it went forward, according to a White House official who, like others, insisted on anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Mr. Bannon’s camp denied that he had threatened to resign and spent the day spreading the word that the shift was a natural evolution, not a signal of any diminution of his outsize influence.
His allies said privately that Mr. Bannon had been put on the principals committee to keep an eye on Mr. Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, a retired three-star general who lasted just 24 days before being forced out for misleading Vice President Mike Pence and other White House officials about what he had discussed with Russia’s ambassador. With Mr. Flynn gone, these allies said, there was no need for Mr. Bannon to remain, but they noted that he had kept his security clearance....
And this:
But blunders by Mr. Bannon’s team — especially the first immigration order, which was rejected by multiple courts — have undermined his position. His take-no-prisoners style was not a winning strategy on Capitol Hill, and Mr. Bannon declined to take a significant part. Experienced politicians, including Mr. Pence and Mr. Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, stepped into more expansive roles as negotiations over the failed health care overhaul dragged on.
Mr. Trump initially supported Mr. Bannon’s take-it-or-leave-it final message to holdouts in the House Freedom Caucus. But, needing a win, the president grew skeptical and authorized Mr. Pence to resume health care talks, with Mr. Bannon playing more of a supporting role, according to three people close to Mr. Trump.
Mr. Bannon has also been at odds with Gary Cohn, the president’s national economics adviser. Mr. Cohn is close with Mr. Kushner, who has said privately that he fears that Mr. Bannon plays to the president’s worst impulses, according to people with direct knowledge of such discussions.
Posted: 4/6/17 at 9:31am
So Bannon was put on the NSC to "keep an eye" on the guy that's likely to be charged with treason when all is said and done?
Sort of contradicts the "we had no idea what he was up to" claims they've repeatedly made, no?
Posted: 4/6/17 at 11:54am
And somehow, the rump supporters still claim that everything is humming along brilliantly. I just wonder when Tom Cruise is planning a run for President so he can install Miscavige and replace the Constitution with Dianetics. I mean, might as well, right?
Posted: 4/6/17 at 5:16pm
I tend to stick to print media and online text sources these days just to avoid the sound of the Tweeter-in-Chief's voice. It's such a relief, bigly. I still can't believe that by some fluke, we Americans are saddled with a POTUS who has a nanosecond attention span and a thimble-full of knowledge of the US constitution.
His Sec of State Tillerson should have resigned already due to utter incompetence. Betsy DeVos as Sec of Education is a joke. There is no earthly explanation for Uncle Ben as Sec of HUD. We have a Goldman Sachs investment banker turned movie mogul in Steve Mnuchin as Treasury Sec. Then there's the SIL acting as Trump's regent at every turn. The inmates are running the asylum.
Posted: 4/6/17 at 9:41pm
He called for military strikes in Syria. Wtf is wrong with him?
https://www.google.com/amp/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58e6c171e4b0ace57cc0cb40/amp
Posted: 4/6/17 at 10:17pm
See the criticism of this move I just posted in the other thread, not by a liberal, but by a conservative elder statesman.
Posted: 4/6/17 at 10:25pm
This move was supported by Clinton as well:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-calls-strikes-syrian-airfields/story?id=46635881
But we always knew there would be more wars whoever was elected.
