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He could be in CAnada with Justin ... he could be in England with May .... .there are a few places who would like to host him ..
why I don't know .. but there is .. they want something and he likes to pretend that he has the power to give something.. HA! such a fool!
I'm dead serious litlle man..
we don't even know where anus breath -1 will be at that time, now, do we? .. .
I suggest that anyone who thinks they want a job to build a fence ... by anus breath, needs to get some sort of money BEFORE they work for him ... Need I remind you in detail of his habit of NOT PAYING the men who work for him? ... Good! I'm glad you're remembering too .. tell all of your friends .. don't let them get bankrupted by trump!
I hear trumps clappers ? ... who and what where is he talking about now ?
.. ... sheesh... .............it must be bad because he brought those PAID clapping
folks with him .. god can you imagine .. that job?
nah! I'm not going in to find out what he's talking about
I'll read it later ... ; ) he's such an idiot! CLAPCLAPCLAP
NO! I said his PAID CLAPPerS! not! .. that he has the clap!
but really who knows what he has?
LOLOLOLOL ..
An Important Message from Mike Pence
January 23, 2017
PHOTOGRAPH BY ALAN DIAZ / AP
WASHINGTON —Vice-President Mike Pence has issued the following message to the American people:
Loved it ... .."It’s not your fault you had to follow [Barack Obama], people just really liked him. He won the electoral college and the popular vote,” Meyers added. “You’re still the most popular president since Obama." Loved the youtube too .. God donald is the biggest loser this country has ever elected .. . Nixon was smart AND he had a conscience, poor fella' .. .. but this one? Dumb as DIRT! and donald! full of nothing.. gawd ................
everybody is talking about it .. everywhere, they had no idea we had so many stupid people about ... now they feel sorry for us ..So kind
The Banal Belligerence of Donald Trump
Roger Cohen JAN. 24, 2017
Donald J. Trump at his swearing-in ceremony at the United States Capitol on Friday.
Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
The soldiers, millions of them, came home from the war. They dispersed across the country, in big towns and small. It was not easy to recount what had happened to them, and for the dead it was impossible.
Something in the nature of their sacrifice was unsayable. The country was not especially interested. War had not brought the nation together but had divided it. The sudden flash, the boom, the acrid stench and utter randomness of death were as haunting as they were incommunicable.
This was war without victory, the kind that invites silence. For the soldiers, who fought in the belief that their cause was right and their nation just, the silence was humiliating. They bore their injuries, visible and invisible, with stoicism.
Resentments accumulated. The years went by, bringing only mediocrity. Glory and victory were forgotten words. Perhaps someone might mutter, “Thank you for your service.” That was it. There was no national memorial, for what would be memorialized?
Savings evaporated overnight in an economic meltdown engineered by financiers and facilitated by the abolishers of risk.
Democracy, the great diluter, slow and compromised, was inadequate for the expression of the soldiers’ emotions. Reasonable leaders with rational arguments could not assuage the loss. They seemed to belittle it with their parsing of every question and their half-decisions.
No, what was needed was a leader with answers, somebody to marshal a popular movement and cut through hesitations, a strongman who would put the nation first and mythologize its greatness, a figure ready to scapegoat without mercy, a unifier giving voice to the trampled masses, a man who could use democracy without being its slave.
Over 15 years national embitterment festered and yearning intensified. But which 15 years? Anyone these days may be forgiven for moments of disorientation. The 15 years from the devastating German defeat of 1918 to the electoral victory (with 43.9 percent of the vote) of Adolf Hitler in 1933? Or the 15 years from the devastating 9/11 attack on the United States to the electoral victory (with 46.1 percent of the vote) of Donald Trump in 2016?
National humiliation is long in gestation and violent in resolution.
German soldiers, two million of them killed in the Great War, came home to fractious and uneasy democratic politics, the ignominy of reparations, the hyperinflation of the early 1920s, the crash of 1929, and the paralysis of a political system held hostage by the extremes of left and right.
Some 2.7 million [ http://www.publichealth.va.gov/docs/epidemiology/healthcare-utilization-report-fy2014-qtr4.pdf ] American soldiers came home to a country that had been shopping while they served in the Afghan and Iraqi wars, with 6,893 killed and more than 52,000 [ https://www.defense.gov/casualty.pdf ] injured. They returned to an increasingly dysfunctional and polarized polity; to the financial disaster of 2008; to the mystery of what the spending of trillions of dollars in those wars had achieved; to stagnant incomes; to the steady diminishment of American uniqueness and the apparent erosion of its power.
Every American should look at the map in Kael Weston’s powerful book, “The Mirror Test.” It shows, with dots, the hometowns of U.S. service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. No state is spared. The map should be hung in classrooms across the country.
I have tried to tread carefully with analogies between the Fascist ideologies of 1930s Europe and Trump. American democracy is resilient. But the first days of the Trump presidency — whose roots of course lie in far more than the American military debacles since 9/11 — pushed me over the top. The president is playing with fire.
To say, as he did, that the elected representatives of American democracy are worthless and that the people are everything is to lay the foundations of totalitarianism. It is to say that democratic institutions are irrelevant and all that counts is the great leader and the masses he arouses. To speak of “American carnage” [ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/20/us/politics/donald-trump-inauguration-speech-transcript.html ] is to deploy the dangerous lexicon of blood, soil and nation. To boast of “a historic movement, the likes of the which the world has never seen before” is to demonstrate consuming megalomania. To declaim “America first” and again, “America first,” is to recall the darkest clarion calls of nationalist dictators. To exalt protectionism is to risk a return to a world of barriers and confrontation. To utter falsehood after falsehood, directly or through a spokesman, [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/politics/president-trump-inauguration-crowd-white-house.html ] is to foster the disorientation that makes crowds susceptible to the delusions of strongmen.
Trump’s outrageous claims have a purpose: to destroy rational thought. When Primo Levi arrived at Auschwitz he reached, in his thirst, for an icicle outside his window but a guard snatched it away. “Warum?” Levi asked (why?). To which the guard responded, “Hier ist kein warum” (here there is no why).
As the great historian Fritz Stern observed, “This denial of ‘why’ was the authentic expression of all totalitarianism, revealing its deepest meaning, a negation of Western civilization.”
Americans are going to have to fight for their civilization and the right to ask why against the banal belligerence of Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/opinion/the-banal-belligerence-of-donald-trump.html Comments to the right of Mr. Cohen Piece ..you may have to tap something to bring them up
No.. I didn't know that .......gawd
Just imagine Mr. Lincoln walking in ..
that IS all he IS - a LIAR!
I remember that contractor who he hired .. and the wind was whipping this mans beautiful hair ..
( the contractors of course) ..& he told us how 'he' trump knew nothing ...
he Hired him because 'he, ' needed someone to start 'building' .. lololol .. omg
,,,,,,,,, .. except now, it's NOT funny. it's damn scary
I've read some horrible things ... truly horrible ... god, bring back bush! and do it fast! ... ;)
Well it's spreading ....very respectable people are saying out loud that 'he' is mentally ill ... That's a good sign . .
either keep em locked up in the big bathroom or bed and bath ... but something ......
of course his tongue will have to be stitched to his gums ...
everyone knows ............
uh no .. stupid people like you who voted for bush got him elected
and the failure once again .. will be, due to stupid just like you, who got him elected ..
KAC ... was involved in a fist fight at one of the inauguration parties Saturday night ..
snip~
Top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway allegedly punched a tuxedo-clad man at an exclusive inauguration ball just hours
after the new commander-in-chief was sworn in, according to a witness.
Conway, who serves as President Trump's senior counselor, apparently stepped between two men after they got
into a scuffle at the invite-only Liberty Ball on Friday evening, an attendee told the Daily News.
But the two men wouldn't break up the fight and Conway apparently punched one of them in the face with
closed fists at least three times, according to the stunned onlooker.
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway allegedly punched a man in the face at President Trump's inaugural ball
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/kellyanne-conway-allegedly-punched-man-inauguration-ball-article-1.2953968?cid=bitly
The Trump administration moves immediately to hurt low-income homeownwers
By Tommy Christopher | January 20, 2017
The Bible used to swear him in had barely cooled before newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump wielded his
authority to hurt vulnerable Americans. One of his administration's first orders of business was a cruel move
to eliminate help for poor homeowners.
yes of course .. much more . can't stand it
http://shareblue.com/the-trump-administration-moves-immediately-to-hurt-low-income-homeownwers/
No, Trump was not applauded by the CIA — he brought his own cheering squad
By Dianna E. Anderson | January 23, 2017
In front of the Memorial Wall at the CIA, Donald Trump gave a rambling, unfocused speech that garnered harsh reactions from former agency personnel. And in a deeply unusual and worrying move, it appears that Trump brought along his own section of cheerleaders to applaud his utterly odd and falsehood-filled speech.
Had a great meeting at CIA Headquarters yesterday, packed house, paid great respect to Wall, long standing ovations, amazing people. WIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2017
President Donald Trump spoke at the CIA on Saturday, an event which was originally scheduled to welcome Mike Pompeo as the new director of the agency, but which was foiled by Senate Democrats delaying Pompeo’s confirmation vote.
What happened instead was a bizarre speech in which Trump appeared to be talking about whatever came to mind, whether it was the media, his relationship to the intelligence agencies, ISIS, or whether or not the room they were in should have columns.
As Steve Benen noted, “Watching the speech was surreal, as if the lines between the actual president of the United States and a satirical caricature were effectively blurred out of existence.”
And perhaps the strangest and most telling aspect of the event was that Trump appeared to have brought along an audience of his own to applaud and laugh at the right moments. Apparently, even after the long presidential campaign and the absurd post-election “Thank You” tour, Trump is still not ready to relinquish the adoring, cheering crowds of rallies and stump speeches.
Media personnel and pool reporters at the speech have reported that the continued applause was not coming from the area where agency personnel were seated, but rather from a group of people who appeared to have come in with Trump:
This is how Donald Trump engineers applause
By Henry Farrell January 23 at 2:54 PM
When Donald Trump visited the CIA over the weekend to make a speech, many commentators noted that his audience clapped and cheered enthusiastically. Now, according to CBS News, intelligence sources are pushing back:
The Legal filings are here also ... plus filling in those who don't know .. I don't think
anyone here or any political board here on ihub . ;)doesn't know .... ;) ..................
Democrats To GSA: Trump Is Now In Violation Of His DC Hotel Lease
GO READ !
please
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/house-senate-democrats-push-general-services-administration-address-trump-hotel-contract
it's simple, you can get it ... other places that write these things are much much more complicated but not tpm .. he just writes it for us ... simple . people .........;) .. YES it's verifiable .....;)
you missed the best game ever last night! .. omg! I'm not kidding
you know who it was ....damn! ... .. it may have been the best game i've ever seen in my life .. anywhere .. hands down ... god! the Spurs are the greatest team ever~ no, I don't know how it will end up meaning who will end up being the permanent ones etc.... but omg .. .these days . .they are all GOOD! .. just ask the cavs .. they tried so hard and were even comfortably ahead in the 1st and second quarter .. but you could then see .... the Spurs creeping up .. ! I had an article all ready to post about what Coach Popovich said about 'man baby' .. he has a youtube too .... but then ... I damn sure couldn't leave the game ... and since then .. I damn sure STILL don't feel like sharing ... it .............he's so beautiful! Pop that is! well, they all are on the Spurs team! .. what a treat to watch them .. and to watch them play the cavs ... James had to play the entire game .. ...........that's how good they are!
yes very insulting .. as IF ........Fuagf didn't know all that stuff
geez ..........and we're not fools! ... just mention reparations and see wtf happens .. and OMG .. if Obama
had ever been serious about it ....... I don't know what would have happened to him
it will never come .. he's too old and seriously I really do think he may have a strong dose of syphilis ... well, somethings wrong.
Can't think .. doesn't make a lick of sense, talks like a junior high school bully .... and stinks like putins russian butt ..and a bit of urine is it?
I mean .. There's something WRONG! .. for sure!
yeah gee........he's just not a legitimate president.. never will be
even if he told the truth ( which he won't ) .. he would not be legitimate
. . if he went to jail for about 10 years..
then .............he might end up being a better man, now?
he smells like putins butt! .. ewe .. everyone says so ...AND
I can't imagine why .... lolololololololololol ..
he can't land here .. .. I don't know where they will take them ..
March Air Force base .. ;) .. two rainy days a year and this has to be one of them .. and cloudy.... shit!
the tv told me March .. ;)
Intercepted Russian Communications
Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MATTHEW ROSENBERG,
ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO
JAN. 19, 2017
Paul Manafort, Donald J. Trump’s former campaign chairman, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July.
Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
Mr. Manafort is among at least three Trump campaign advisers whose possible links to Russia are under scrutiny. Two others are Carter Page, a businessman and former foreign policy adviser to the campaign, and Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative.
The F.B.I. is leading the investigations, aided by the National Security Agency, the C.I.A. and the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit. The investigators have accelerated their efforts in recent weeks but have found no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, the officials said. One official said intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House.
Counterintelligence investigations examine the connections between American citizens and foreign governments. Those connections can involve efforts to steal state or corporate secrets, curry favor with American government leaders or influence policy. It is unclear which Russian officials are under investigation, or what particular conversations caught the attention of American eavesdroppers. The legal standard for opening these investigations is low, and prosecutions are rare.
“We have absolutely no knowledge of any investigation or even a basis for such an investigation,” said Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump transition.
In an emailed statement Thursday evening, Mr. Manafort called allegations that he had interactions with the Russian government a “Democrat Party dirty trick and completely false.”
“I have never had any relationship with the Russian government or any Russian officials. I was never in contact with anyone, or directed anyone to be in contact with anyone,” he said.
“On the ‘Russian hacking of the D.N.C.,’” he said, “my only knowledge of it is what I have read in the papers.”
The decision to open the investigations was not based on a dossier of salacious, uncorroborated allegations that were compiled by a former British spy working for a Washington research firm. The F.B.I. is also examining the allegations in that dossier, and a summary of its contents was provided to Mr. Trump earlier this month.
Representatives of the agencies involved declined to comment. Of the half-dozen current and former officials who confirmed the existence of the investigations, some said they were providing information because they feared the new administration would obstruct their efforts. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the cases.
Numerous news outlets, including The New York Times, have reported on the F.B.I. investigations into Mr. Trump’s advisers. BBC and then McClatchy revealed the existence of a multiagency working group to coordinate investigations across the government.
The continuing investigation again puts the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, in the middle of a politically fraught investigation. Democrats have sharply criticized Mr. Comey’s handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Mrs. Clinton has said his decision to reveal the existence of new emails late in the campaign cost her the election.
The F.B.I. investigation into Mr. Manafort began last spring, and was an outgrowth of a criminal investigation [ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/us/politics/fbi-james-comey-hillary-clinton-donald-trump.html ] into his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine and for the country’s former president, Viktor F. Yanukovych. In August, The Times reported that Mr. Manafort’s name had surfaced in a secret ledger [ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html?_r=0 ] that showed he had been paid millions in undisclosed cash payments. The Associated Press has reported that his work for Ukraine included a secret lobbying effort in Washington aimed at influencing American news organizations and government officials.
Mr. Stone, a longtime friend of Mr. Trump’s, said in a speech in Florida last summer that he had communicated with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that published the hacked Democratic emails. During the speech, Mr. Stone predicted further leaks of documents, a prediction that came true within weeks.
In a brief interview on Thursday, Mr. Stone said he had never visited Russia and had no Russian clients. He said that he had worked in Ukraine for a pro-Western party, but that any assertion that he had ties to Russian intelligence was “nonsense” and “totally false.”
“The whole thing is a canard,” he said. “I have no Russian influences.”
The Senate intelligence committee has started its own investigation into Russia’s purported attempts to disrupt the election. The committee’s inquiry is broad, and will include an examination of Russian hacking and possible ties between people associated with Mr. Trump’s campaign and Russia.
Investigators are also scrutinizing people on the periphery of Mr. Trump’s campaign, such as Mr. Page, a former Merrill Lynch banker who founded Global Energy Capital, an investment firm in New York that has done business with Russia.
In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Page expressed bewilderment about why he might be under investigation. He blamed a smear campaign — that he said was orchestrated by Mrs. Clinton — for media speculation about the nature of his ties to Russia.
“I did nothing wrong, for the 5,000th time,” he said. His adversaries, he added, are “pulling a page out of the Watergate playbook.”
The lingering investigations will pose a test for Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, who has been nominated for attorney general. If Mr. Sessions is confirmed, he will for a time be the only person in the government authorized to seek foreign intelligence wiretaps on American soil.
Mr. Sessions said at his confirmation hearing that he would recuse himself from any investigations involving Mrs. Clinton. He was not asked whether he would do so in cases involving associates of Mr. Trump.
Somehow Rachel thinks this one 'could ' be big... if it doesn't get lost next week .. let's see three days to rut around ..
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html
o.k. ....my attitude is rotten also...
I wonder why we just didn't shoot him wherever they brought him across ..
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adolfoflores/mexican-drug-lord-el-chapo-extradited-to-the-united-states?utm_term=.jbG3P6W9n#.lxj6kn2Po
How dumb is this ? I would not feel so cranky about It.. if two drug companies were going along with him .. .they are the ones who made him rich along with our citizens ... .. sheesh .................just shoot him.. darn! right Dale.........what a waste of money, we all know the outcome .. please!
thank YOU... so much ... now I don't have to call you shermann ...
.............I don't think what you said is bad, it's just that I'm tired of all the blab of it's all America's fault .. we have em .. we've had them .. and we will sure have a lot more now ... .. it's just, so what? .. Isn't is normal for mankind? ... ... trump got elected by doing this ..America is terrible .. we're .. this we're not that .. that shtick,,, blah blah and blah ... and truly I never did know where he was talking about ..... I know people in N.Y. can't stand him .. he won nothing there ... and I don't think he ever will .. it's just I never .. knew what neighborhood he was talking about ...
we like this country .. not all the people in it but MOST all the people that we meet! ... maybe it's just the rural area that we live in .. don't know .. but I lived in L.A. .. and various other beach places out here and in Florida, Nashville & Alabama .. and I thought we had a GRAND Country! .... .. I still think it's just him ..sure all were better than one .. but hey .... ;)
he's such a liar too .. I was just reading about how many actually .. people were at the Lincoln Center tonight .. LOLOL .. barely any ..
https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/people-noticed-that-crowds-were-a-lot-smaller-for-trumps-ina?utm_term=.rdboyjKeJ#.vuxo0NmM7
oh you're right ! .... .. China has always been so top of the line .. .
and all the intellectuals ... oooh la la ..to die for !
They Love California ... .. they even come here illegally
but no one minds . they're so lovely and their kids and they pay ...
yeah tell ma to come over here .... and try to get something through congress if they be republican and you are a democratic President.. just tell em
.............he needs to grow up and learn how things work over here .. .
It's so easy for these guys who only have the ONE party to deal with
You can do all kinds of things ... ..and I guess they did fix everything over there .. I do know that Obama worked them over for the climate change agreement ... we'll see. It just can't be fun growing up in that smog from factories over there . .. there choice was MAKE MONEY - SCREW the KIDS and their PARENTS! .. maybe it was their form of population control .. who knows?
I think that anus mouth has the same disease that RR had ... .just look at this .. he's simply not up to it
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-18/the-empty-trump-administration?cmpid%3D=
snip
Overall, out of 690 positions requiring Senate confirmation tracked by the Washington Post and Partnership
for Public Service, Trump has come up with only 28 people so far.
We've all known that he would have to have someone in front of him and then again behind him as he simply isn't capable of completing a thought, even a sentence that must be put together with another one or two .. it's beyond his ability, he must have the Reagan disease
why are his brain cells dead? he can't think . .he can't plan, if he does he forgets it by the end of whatever it is he's trying to say ..
seriously.
I figure vladi has flown in and housed attendees for his gig ...
gee I feel so sorry that the Obama's have to go there ... ick
bussing in russians so it looks as IF someone is happy ...
uh no ....keep on bussing them in vladi..you've got that whole
army and anus breath won't hurt you ... so bring them in ....
I got an idea for a screen play ..;)
Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
By CHARLIE SAVAGE JAN. 17, 2017
Chelsea Manning’s 35-year sentence was by far the longest punishment ever imposed in the United States for a leak
conviction. Credit United States Army
In recent days, the White House had signaled that Mr. Obama was seriously considering granting Ms. Manning’s commutation application, in contrast to a pardon application submitted on behalf of the other large-scale leaker of the era, Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor who disclosed archives of top secret surveillance files and is living as a fugitive in Russia.
Asked about the two clemency applications on Friday, the White House spokesman, Joshua Earnest, discussed the “pretty stark difference” between Ms. Manning’s case for mercy with Mr. Snowden’s. While their offenses were similar, he said, there were “some important differences.”
“Chelsea Manning is somebody who went through the military criminal justice process, was exposed to due process, was found guilty, was sentenced for her crimes, and she acknowledged wrongdoing,” he said. “Mr. Snowden fled into the arms of an adversary, and has sought refuge in a country that most recently made a concerted effort to undermine confidence in our democracy.”
He also noted that while the documents Ms. Manning provided to WikiLeaks were “damaging to national security,” the ones Mr. Snowden disclosed were “far more serious and far more dangerous.” (None of the documents Ms. Manning disclosed were classified above the merely “secret” level.)
Ms. Manning was still known as Bradley Manning when she deployed with her unit to Iraq in late 2009. There, she worked as a low-level intelligence analyst helping her unit assess insurgent activity in the area it was patrolling, a role that gave her access to a classified computer network.
She copied hundreds of thousands of military incident logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, which, among other things, exposed abuses of detainees by Iraqi military officers [ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/world/middleeast/23detainees.html ] working with American forces and showed that civilian deaths in the Iraq war [ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/world/middleeast/23casualties.html ] were likely much higher than official estimates.
The files she copied also included about 250,000 diplomatic cables from American embassies around the world showing sensitive deals and conversations, dossiers detailing intelligence assessments of Guantánamo detainees held without trial, and a video of an American helicopter attack [ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/middleeast/06baghdad.html ] in Baghdad in two Reuters journalists were killed, among others.
She decided to make all these files public, as she wrote at the time, [ https://www.wired.com/2011/07/manning-lamo-logs/ ] in the hope that they would incite “worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms.” WikiLeaks’ disclosed them — working with traditional news organizations including The New York Times — bringing notoriety to the group and its founder, Julian Assange.
The disclosures set off a frantic scramble as Obama administration officials sought to minimize any potential harm, including getting to safety some foreigners in dangerous countries who were identified as having helped American troops or diplomats. Prosecutors, however, presented no evidence that anyone was killed because of the leaks.
At her court-martial, Ms. Manning confessed in detail to her actions and apologized, saying she did not intend to put anyone at risk and noting that she was “dealing with a lot of issues” at the time she made her decision.
Testimony at the trial showed that she had been in a mental and emotional crisis as she came to grips, amid the stress of a war zone, with the fact that she was not merely gay but had gender dysphoria. She had been behaving erratically, including angry outbursts and lapsing into catatonia midsentence. At one point she had emailed a photograph of herself in a woman’s wig to her supervisor.
Prosecutors said that by making secret material available for publication on the internet, anyone — including Al Qaeda — could read it. And they accused Ms. Manning of treason, charging her with multiple counts of the Espionage Act as well as with “aiding the enemy,” a potential capital offense, although they said they would not seek her execution.
Have a Good Life Chelsea ... stay with the people who love you Obama is the GREATEST President for OUR TIME... ;)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html
Trump Hints At Obamacare Replacement That Would
Look Nothing Like What Republicans Have In Mind
Jonathan Cohn
01/16/2017 09:57 am ET | Updated 3 hours ago
President-elect Donald Trump says he’s putting the finishing touches on his plan to replace Obamacare.
It sounds absolutely terrific, like the best health plan ever!
It also sounds wildly out of step with what Republicans in Congress, or even some of Trump’s own advisers, have said they would like to do.
Trump’s comments, which he made in an interview with The Washington Post that appeared Sunday, could mean he’s gone rogue and decided that, at least on health care policy, he has more in common with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) than House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
Or they could mean that, in reaction to public anxiety and recent protests over the possibility of more than 20 million people losing insurance, Trump is already misleading people about what he and his Republicans are planning to do.
Or Trump’s statements could mean that he has no idea what he’s talking about.
Speaking to the Post’s Robert Costa, Trump said his new health care plan would mean “insurance for everybody” with “much lower deductibles.”
Also, Trump said, he will call for the government to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies directly, forcing them to lower their prices.
“They’re politically protected but not anymore,” Trump said of the drug industry.
Trump didn’t offer more details about what he has in mind, or give a precise date for when his plan would be ready for the public to see. But, he said, “It’s very much formulated down to the final strokes. We haven’t put it in quite yet but we’re going to be doing it soon.”
Trump added that he would probably wait until his nominee for secretary of health and human services, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), has gone through the confirmation process and taken office. The Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over Price’s appointment, has not yet scheduled a hearing.
Making sense of Trump’s comments on policy is never easy, and in this case the comments are more confusing than usual.
Providing everybody with health insurance and protecting them from excessive medical costs has been a longtime goal of the Democratic Party, going back to the 1940s. Those efforts eventually led to the Affordable Care Act, which has brought the number of Americans without coverage to a record low, improving access to health care and reducing financial insecurity.
Obamacare has its trade-offs. The coverage that many consumers have obtained through the program includes high deductibles or other forms of out-of-pocket spending, fueling the political backlash against it. Primarily that’s because the law’s new requirements on insurance, such as guaranteeing coverage of pre-existing conditions, made insurance more expensive ? and the law’s financial assistance phases out with higher incomes.
It’s a problem that even many of the law’s supporters have said they want to fix. Both Obama and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton proposed offering consumers more assistance with out-of-pocket costs and using government leverage to bring down drug prices.
Sanders, meanwhile, has been a longtime advocate for single-payer health insurance ? that is, having the government provide everybody with insurance directly. The plan he introduced during his 2016 presidential bid would have entailed much more government spending and European-style price controls throughout the health care industry.
Republicans, who have more or less been fighting expansions of government health insurance for as long as Democrats have been proposing them, take a very different view of things. In the nearly seven years since Obamacare has become law, Republicans have talked about replacing it with a number of different approaches, and among the most detailed is the legislation that Price introduced to the House.
But none of the plans Republicans have discussed would come close to covering everybody with lower out-of-pocket spending, simply because doing so would require the kind of approach Democrats have in mind ? much more federal spending and much more regulation of prices.
A fundamental goal of every conservative plan in circulation, at think tanks and on Capitol Hill, is to reduce federal spending and regulation, in most cases dramatically.
If an ACA replacement spends less federal $, there will be fewer insured, fewer benefits, or less access for pre-existing conditions. #math
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt) January 14, 2017
And in the past, when there’s been serious discussion of direct government negotiation with pharmaceutical companies over drug prices, Republicans (and Democrats with ties to the drug industry) have fought such efforts, often arguing that they would stifle innovation and reduce access to life-saving medications.
Trump’s remarks about going after the drug industry raise the possibility that he’s not perfectly in sync with the rest of his party on that issue. And comments he’s made previously, like telling CBS’ “60 Minutes” that “everybody has got to be covered,” suggest he thinks universal coverage is important ? or, at least, more important than Republicans typically think.
If Trump were serious about these things, Democrats would likely embrace him. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said: “On the prescription drug issue, Bernie Sanders and [Sen.] Elizabeth Warren [D-Mass.] and I have been working on this issue for years and we have not been able to get any traction. When I read yesterday that the president-elect wanted to begin to deal with this issue, I said ‘Hallelujah.’”
But it’s not at all clear whether Trump’s comments should be taken at face value.
During the campaign, Trump didn’t commit to many specifics on health care. But when he finally issued a policy proposal, it consisted entirely of boilerplate Republican ideas, such as turning Medicaid over to the states.
That’s one reason to think that his talk of covering everybody may actually just be another way of supporting “universal access,” a euphemism that Republicans have long used to describe plans that would leave fewer people with health insurance.
Whatever Trump is thinking, a reckoning seems inevitable. Republicans have promised repeatedly not just to repeal the health care law but to replace it ? and now even members of their own party, including Trump himself, have stated they should show their replacement plan before voting on repeal.
But once that replacement plan is available, independent experts, including those at the Congressional Budget Office, will be able to measure its effects. And at that point, Republicans will have to defend their plans ? and chances are they’ll look very different from the plan Trump is describing right now.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-obamacare-replacement_us_587cc478e4b0b3c7a7b205de
Front Page at Huffington Post - just a few headlines .. LOL
REPEAL CHAOS: Trump Vows ‘Insurance For Everybody’ — Provides No Details
Wildly At Odds With Congressional GOP
Cohn: ‘A Reckoning Seems Inevitable’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
by the way, I guess I need to say, Let no one get their Hopes up! right people?
Health Insurance "For Everybody"
and the "Government Will Pay" Says
"Republican" Donald Trump. AGAIN.
Posted at 4:30 am on January 16, 2017 by Caleb Howe
This should not be big, surprising, new news. But somehow it is.
Peter Thiel Wants Young Blood. Do You Want Young Blood?
It probably depends on how rich you are.
yeah, I also heard he wants to run for president in 20..NO. Peter.
By Sarah Rense
Aug 3, 2016
Somewhere in a white-walled room in Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel might be getting a blood transfusion from a younger person. Or he wants to be. Or he already has.
On Monday, Inc. published a story about Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire, Gawker bankrupter, and recently out Trump supporter, detailing his obsession with living forever—or quite a bit longer than natural. Apparently, Thiel is interested in injecting the blood of younger people into his veins to extend his life, a rejuvenating juice of youthful plasma. In Silicon Valley, where tech investors pursue invincibility as a side project, this isn't shocking stuff. "I suspect we're a little too biased against all these things in society," Thiel told Inc. a year ago. He's not wrong.
Your body and your mind are limited in the things they can do. You might be smart enough to speak 11 languages or craft complex computer programs. You might be strong enough to dead-lift 900 pounds, fast enough to run on an Olympic track. But most likely, you are of average intelligence and average physicality. Would you undergo biomedical technological enhancement to change that, to know more, lift more, or run more than the best in the world?
A majority of U.S. adults would not.
The Pew Research Center recently conducted a survey of 4,700 adults about biomedical processes to enhance the human body. Specifically, "gene editing to give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implanting brain chips to give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information and transfusing of synthetic blood to give people much greater speed, strength and stamina." According to Pew, less than half of those surveyed would be "enthusiastic" about these opportunities, and even more would not want blood (63 percent) or brain (66 percent) enhancements. Results were close to evenly split on gene editing for babies.
In general, enhancements that increase people's performance above "natural" levels were met with wariness, like the innate fear associated with technological singularity—technology will improve, and keep improving, until it gets the best of us. By then, it will be too late. If we keep changing our bodies, if we become more tech than flesh and bone, will we get the best of ourselves?
Thiel wants to be better than his best self.
Pew also surveyed participants on the societal implications of these enhancements. A majority of those surveyed, 63 percent, feared that recipients of synthetic blood transfusions would feel superior to those who were not, and almost three-quarters believed that brain chips would only be available to the wealthy at first, resulting in class inequality. These fears have been echoed in movies and television for decades, with directors envisioning dystopian cityscapes, à la Blade Runner, of high rises and slums, where the robustly healthy Peter Thiels live so close to the sky they can almost touch it, and the rest, the poor and the weak, live on the dirty streets below. In this future, the obvious dividing factor would be technological enhancements. The underlying factor would be money.
Thiel and much of Silicon Valley have the money to invest in biomedical enhancements, which they have already done, handsomely. They are one step ahead. When the science behind safely transfusing blood—whether synthetic or harvested—and the logistics catch up, they will be first in line to buy the product. The majority of Americans will be many hesitant steps behind.
WELL, maybe ... .. and yes, there are links
http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/news/a47277/peter-thiel-young-blood/
WELL, .. if everyone is doing it ...... ;) it prolly only costs a couple of million ..
ill just sneak this in here .. .right here ....
Oral Sex Is Great Until Science Says It Isn't
http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/news/a50014/oral-sex-linked-to-oral-cancer/
such a shame... wonder if human transfusions would help?
Bernie Madoff Continues to Be a Greedy Bastard in Prison
He cornered the market on hot chocolate.
Getty Hiroko Masuike
By Peter Wade
Jan 15, 2017
Bernie Madoff, the hedge fund manager who fleeced Americans of $65 billion in the world's largest Ponzi scheme, continues to do business in prison. But instead of playing the stock market, he is selling hot chocolate.
According to Steve Fishman, a journalist who just started a podcast [ http://www.audible.com/mt/ponzisupernova ] about Madoff and remained in contact with him during his prison stay, Madoff is well known and liked by his fellow inmates. "He's a star in prison. He stole more money than anyone in history, and to other thieves, this makes him a hero," Fishman told MarketWatch [ http://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-series-casts-bernie-madoff-not-only-as-a-crook-but-a-product-of-a-corrupt-system-2017-01-12 ] in an interview.
Madoff is also putting his stock market smarts to work, giving at least one other inmate financial advice when he was considering buying stock. "The guy later said he wished he had followed Bernie's advice closer," Fishman said.
But the funniest story Fishman told was about the time Madoff monopolized the prison's supply of hot chocolate and sold it in the prison yard at a profit.
So anus mouth is moving the press out of the white house..
that's probably a good idea .. goodness I wouldn't want
my son or brother or husband or any man around him ... and his cabal
I'd be quite happy never hearing from that again ..
I stay away as much as possible as far as tv goes... I sure won't be watching the inauguration either ... or my friends '
.. if anything is worthy I will find out later in the early evening right here ... gee hope he doesn't get over excited or something..
of course we will all be with Michelle and the girls and our REAL President .. Barack Obama ..
then when snarl ass goes to talk.. out of there ! .. .. oh yes!
Trump Team Considers Moving Press
Corps, Alarming Reporters
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMJAN. 15, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/15/business/media/trump-white-house-press-corps.html
I just now hear that his article is much much better !
Exclusive: The Trump Administration May Evict the Press from the White House
"They are the opposition party," a senior official says.
By Peter J. Boyer
Jan 14, 2017
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a52301/trump-evict-press-white-house/
truly, it's hard enough to read about him well enough 'look at him ... god.. they're asking too much!
so he won't go .. Good! ... he would defile it!
Yes, sully, mar, or spoil it! . .. but I wouldn't want him around Martin or one darn thing of his ... and the sorry
bastard can't read, can't retain .. can't much of anything except tweet shit . ! .. lordy lordy . .what a mess ... ;)
After Classified Briefing With Comey, Democrats Are “Outraged”
Charles Johnson
50 minutes ago • Views: 1,130
I think most people who aren’t hard core Trump cultists realize at this point that FBI director James Comey played a large part in tilting the 2016 election, by releasing that statement about “new Hillary Clinton emails” in the last days of the campaign — newly discovered emails that were then shown to contain absolutely nothing incriminating or even relevant.
But today House representatives had a classified briefing with Comey — and the Democrats emerged from the briefing expressing outrage [ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/13/fbi-investigation-donald-trump-russia-james-comey-congress ] at what they’d heard from Comey.
Brown Shirts organizing?
Ex-Breitbart Reporters Say They're
Forming PAC To Enforce Trump Agenda
By Matt Shuham
January 13, 2017, 1:55 PM EDT
A pack of former Breitbart staffers are publicizing their plans to create a political action committee that would pressure lawmakers into falling in line with Donald Trump’s political agenda.
The Atlantic reported [ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/breitbart-alumni-launch-populist-nationalist-group/513098/ ] Friday that the “America First Project” didn’t yet have much to its name aside from the participation of a handful of former Breitbart staffers and an activist who previously ran the “Black Men for Bernie” group.
Dustin Stockton, a former Breitbart reporter who will serve as the PAC's chief strategist, told The Atlantic that the group would run for the time being out of an existing organization called Western Representation PAC, [ https://www.facebook.com/wrpac/ ] with a media arm called "Big League Politics" to come in the distant future.
Stockton, who was involved in the Tea Party movement before he joined Breitbart, said the group would aim to fundraise $8-10 million in its first year with the help of a 200,000-person email list.
The strategy Stockton described to The Atlantic echoes the Tea Party playbook, complete with organized town hall confrontations and a team of reporters that would “ambush” unfriendly lawmakers. The group also had brainstormed giving out “Trump Enforcement Posse” or “Trump Enforcement Team” badges as donor rewards, according to the report.
Infamous ex-Breitbarter Patrick Howley, known for mocking [ http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/breitbart-criticizes-former-breitbart-reporter ] his former colleague Michelle Fields after Corey Lewandowski grabbed her arm last year at a Trump event, is also involved in the group (Howley also once published crude, sexist tweets about reporter Rosie Gray, for which he was forced to apologize. [ http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tucker-carlson-patrick-howley-the-daily-caller-rosie-gray ]
Howley told the publication he envisions the group as an “advocacy organization that is going to advocate for Trump administration policies that generally fall under a populist-nationalist window.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/former-breitbart-reporters-populist-nationalist-pac
Trump Orders DC National Guard Chief To Leave In Middle Of Inaugural Ceremony
By Caitlin MacNeal Published January 13, 2017, 12:10 PM EDT
WE HAVE A LOW CLASS piece of WHITE TRASH as Pres. Elect
I guess LIKE REALLY DOES ATTRACT LIKE ..
In a bizarre move, Donald Trump has demanded that the commanding officer of the Washington, D.C. National Guard resign from his post in the middle of the Inauguration ceremony, even though the general will be in the middle of helping oversee the event's security, the Washington Post reported [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/commanding-general-of-dc-national-guard-to-be-removed-from-post/2017/01/13/725a0438-d99e-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html on Friday.
Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz will be removed from his post at 12:01 p.m. on Inauguration Day, just after Trump is sworn in but before the Inaugural parade begins, according to a memo obtained by the Washington Post.
Schwartz has helped plan the security for Inauguration weekend, and he will be charged with overseeing the D.C. National Guard as well as an additional 5,000 troops sent in for the weekend. But he will have to hand over commend to an interim officer in the middle of Inauguration Day.
“The timing is extremely unusual,” Schwartz told the Washington Post on Friday.
“My troops will be on the street,” he added. “I’ll see them off but I won’t be able to welcome them back to the armory.”
Schwartz told the Post that he was not informed why he must step down abruptly on Inauguration Day.
“I’m a soldier,” he said. “I’m a presidential appointee, therefore the president has the power to remove me.”
Trump's team has also ordered all politically appointed diplomats to leave their posts by Inauguration Day, breaking with tradition of allowing some ambassadors to stay on as their children finish out the school year.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dc-national-guard-chief-removed-inauguration
THUG....Here is ONE!
Chaffetz in a previous hearing threatening an IRS official for being an IRS official
NOW, he's going to subpoena you IF for goodness sakes You criticize anus mouth... cripes
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the head of the House Oversight Committee, criticized the director of the federal Office of Government Ethics on Thursday over his criticism of Donald Trump’s plan to address conflicts of interest. And he threatened to subpoena the official, Walter Shaub, if he refuses to participate in an official interview.
it's funny really, we have what 9 14 20? at the most democrats up there and the thugs are intimidated !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ..what limp wet noodles they aRe...