Trump 9: RESIST!

[Toothfairy]

I honestly think Trump is just signing shit. It's the people behind him calling the shots. 

[Cartmann99]

20 minutes ago, RoseWilder said:

Does anyone know more about this. If it's true, this is horrifying: 

 

I found an article from 2011 about this panel:

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American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.

There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House's National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate.

The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late last month.

The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process.

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C20111005

[Howl]

My recommendation is to start reading everything you can about Steve Bannon that's written (or written in the past) by reputable, insightful journalists -- Washington Post, NYT, whatever, because he's the power behind the throne.  Watch for the term ethno nationalist relative to Bannon, Bannon's supporters and Breitbart News. 

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WIKI: Ethnic nationalism, also known as ethno-nationalism, is a form of nationalism wherein the "nation" is defined in terms of ethnicity. The central theme of ethnic nationalists is that "nations are defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry". 

I didn't know that white was an ethnicity, but whatever.   

[Ali]

For those of you unable to march or protest due to health reasons, I thought of a way you can help protest. Some like me have tiny humans that would make protesting difficult. I thought about going to a nearby airport to protest the situation, but I know my son would not cooperate since he is at the age where he wants to be free and crawl everywhere. Money is tight so we can't really afford to hire a babysitter or even if we could, the money would be better spent towards fighting for human rights. We are trying to keep conversations about politics to a minimum with in laws due to them being Trump supporters. I am not sure how well it would go over to ask my climate change denier in-laws to watch my kids to I can participate in the science march. If I had someone willing to watch my children for free, I could go do some protesting.

 

[RoseWilder]

24 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

I found an article from 2011 about this panel:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C20111005

Thanks for the information. 

I feel like there are so many fires to put out at once that it's impossible to keep up - which is exactly how the Trump administration wants it. FUCK you Trump and every one of your heartless, soulless evil enablers. 

5 minutes ago, Ali said:

I am not sure how well it would go over to ask my climate change denier in-laws to watch my kids to I can participate in the science march. If I had someone willing to watch my children for free, I could go do some protesting.

 

Maybe your family would be willing to watch you son if you had a "dentist appointment" instead. 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

1 hour ago, RoseWilder said:

I'm really happy that the Democrats are aggressively working on figuring out the next steps. But it's just so heartbreaking to think of how, if Clinton had won, all this time and energy could have been used to improve people's lives. And now everyone has to pour all their energy into keeping a madman and his Republican enablers from ruining our country beyond repair. 

Sadly, if Clinton had won, she would have been spending most of her time and energy fighting off crap from Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Jason Chaffetz, et.al. I can also see a bunch of rabid Branch Trumpvidians coming to DC and trying to assassinate her.

 

 

1 hour ago, RoseWilder said:

Does anyone know more about this. If it's true, this is horrifying: 

 

 

This WaPo article has a little about it. The relevant section is bolded.

Spoiler

Donald Trump seems to think he’s still on his reality TV show shouting, “You’re fired!” while President Stephen K. Bannon is busy drafting executive orders with his favorite black crayon.

Such is the surreal universe in which we find ourselves. Those who thought they were electing Trump to the presidency likely have never heard of Jerzy Kosinski — author of the novel and later the movie “Being There,” in which protagonist Chance the gardener, a simpleton who worked for a wealthy benefactor, is mistaken for an aristocrat named Chauncey Gardiner through a grand misunderstanding born of magical thinking.

When Gardiner’s employer dies and the gardener is forced to enter the larger world, his body of knowledge consists only of what he has seen on television. When he speaks about flowers and plants, others interpret his simple words as insightful and profound observations on economics and foreign policy. They hear and see what they need to see and hear. Finally, Chauncey is selected as the perfect next president based solely on people’s utterly incorrect interpretation of him.

Similarly, candidate Trump shouted nonsense to cheering crowds who decided that he was brilliant and insightful. He’s no simple mind, as far as we know (though one wonders why so much family is constantly in attendance), and the titular president of the United States is currently Trump. But it’s Bannon who seems to be pulling the levers — running the show — unelected, inaccessible and unaccountable.

The rumpled former naval officer and filmmaker must be given credit where due. He obviously has a Soviet’s grasp of the power of propaganda, an admitted mission to restore economic nationalism and a high tolerance for the intolerant. His Breitbart news franchise was a welcoming haven for white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

If Karl Rove was George W. Bush’s brain, Bannon is Trump’s conscience.

The noted parallels to Kosinski’s inspired character, meanwhile, are almost too on the nose to merit further comment. But even those who noticed the similarities much earlier in this electoral psycho-saga may be forgiven if they’re surprised by the accuracy with which life imitates art.

With little more than a week in office, President Bannon has been operating at a frantic pace. As Trump sits dutifully at his desk, signing executive orders and memorandums — banning mostly Muslim travelers and doing away with acting attorney general Sally Yates — Bannon grabs a seat on the National Security Council.

Though true that previous administrations have approved visits by political advisers, including David Axelrod during the Obama years, there’s at least one significant difference. Within a day of the Friday afternoon blitzkrieg that ultimately deleted Yates, two council members specifically required to advise the president on security matters — the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — were stripped of their regular seats on the NSC’s principals committee. Now why would this be?

Perhaps Bannon needed a little more elbow room and fewer ears during discussions about which American citizens should die in the name of national security. Until now, such targets have been limited to al-Qaeda militant Anwar al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and killed in a CIA drone strike in Yemen in 2011. As, too, was his 16-year-old son two weeks later. As, also, reportedly, was his 8-year-old daughter this past Sunday during a raid that also cost the life of a member of SEAL Team 6.

To what end? Was this yet another of Trump’s measuring schticks?

The precedent for killing an American citizen was set by President Barack Obama, to be sure. But who knows where the lines will be drawn now? Every day is a jack-in-the-box — or a dozen — a fresh page from Hieronymus Bosch’s sketchpad. Even some of the so-called deplorables are beginning to get twitchy. At first they wrote me to say, “I’m slightly terrified,” and, more recently, “I’m downright scared,” as just one example.

The smart set says, why are you surprised? Trump is doing what he said he would. He’s a different kind of president. Different rules. The media should sit down and shut up. People who don’t like the president’s policies should get lost.

Whatever tiny ray of hope people held out in the belief that Trump ultimately would behave rationally — respectful of protocol, with caution and care, without haste and with wisdom — has been extinguished by a strategy of maximum chaos executed by shock and awe. With heads spinning, if they’re not rolling, most won’t know what hit them until it’s too late. It’s called distraction.

Just as President Bannon intended.

Scary, isn't it?

[RoseWilder]

I love John Pavlovitz: 

 

[47of74]

I see agent fuck now wants the Republicans to change the rules

cnn.com/2017/02/01/politics/neil-gorsuch-confirmation-hearings-in-six-weeks-grassley-says/index.html

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Senate Republicans should "go for it" and invoke the so-called nuclear option, preventing Democrats from using a filibuster to block his Supreme Court nominee.

"If we end up with that gridlock I would say if you can, Mitch, go nuclear," Trump said of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. "That would be an absolute shame if a man of this quality was caught up in the web."

"It's up to Mitch, but I would say go for it," Trump added.

Sigh.  It's called nuclear for a reason you sanctimonious fuck.  Because it would destroy both parties altogether. 

My counsel to the Democrats to go back to being a party of  hard, pipe hitting liberals.  And the moment the Democrats get both the executive and the legislative branches back then jack the Supreme Court up to 15 members and ram through the hardest, pipe hittingist liberals we can find. 

[Ali]

12 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

And the moment the Democrats get both the executive and the legislative branches back then jack the Supreme Court up to 15 members and ram through the hardest, pipe hittingist liberals we can find. 

Please don't be giving these Republicans ideas.

[47of74]

I saw this the other day...

 

[Childless]

The saddest thing is that I've made plans this week to apply for passports for myself (mine's expired) and my two young children so we're able to get out if we have to run.  I never felt the need to do that before, not even when Shrub was in office.  That's how bad I think things are going to get.  I don't want to abandon my country when it needs me, but I have to protect my kids.  They come first.

[iweartanktops]

What are we going to name the next thread? I'm not very creative about these things. 

We're all fucked 

Trump: Going to get us nuked

Trump: Dirty Bannon's puppet

Trump: Fragile ego 2017

Trump: it's all about me

Trump: People like me, damn it 

[RoseWilder]

Renee Wetzel (hes husband was killed in the San Bernardino terrorist attack) has spoken out against the Muslim ban:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/30/1627785/-Here-husband-was-murdered-in-the-San-Bernardino-terrorist-attack-and-her-message-going-viral

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Renee Wetzel’s husband Michael was one of the victims gunned down by radicalized Islamic terrorists during the San Bernardino massacre on December 2, 2015. Fourteen people died and 22 were injured. Michael Wetzel worked for the San Bernardino environmental health department when his life was taken tragically. Some would think Wendy, his widow, would have reason to side with Donald Trump’s Muslim ban. She doesn’t, and she’s letting the country know. Her meme/image is appearing on a plethora of Facebook pages and groups, often without her name, garnering thousands of likes/shares. Along with her meme, Wetzel made a Facebook post most likely in response to a statement made earlier in the day by Press Secretary Spicer after he used the San Bernardino shooting to justify banning 220 million people.

Here is an excerpt from Renee Wetzel’s Facebook Page:

"This has been heavy on my heart the last few days and I have felt the need to say something.  As the widow of someone who was murdered by terrorists, I can understand that sometimes it is easy to give into your fears and to want to blame someone or something for what is happening. However, regardless of your political leanings, Trump closing our borders to certain countries is a basic human rights issue. Banning entire groups of people whose only crime is where they were born is not the right answer. This is against everything our country stands for."

#ChooseLove

 

[47of74]

12 minutes ago, iweartanktops said:

What are we going to name the next thread? I'm not very creative about these things. 

We're all fucked 

Trump: Going to get us nuked

Trump: Dirty Bannon's puppet

Trump: Fragile ego 2017

Trump: it's all about me

Trump: People like me, damn it 

Trump 10: The Adventures of Donald J. Putinfluffer

27 minutes ago, Childless said:

The saddest thing is that I've made plans this week to apply for passports for myself (mine's expired) and my two young children so we're able to get out if we have to run.  I never felt the need to do that before, not even when Shrub was in office.  That's how bad I think things are going to get.  I don't want to abandon my country when it needs me, but I have to protect my kids.  They come first.

Yeah mine expires next year in October.  You can bet your ass I'm renewing it.  I might have said this earlier, but I've been perusing the various immigration sites for other countries.

[Destiny]

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