ChalkyOn 2/14/17, Cha Cha wrote: > On 2/14/17, Cha Cha wrote: >> On 2/14/17, Chalky wrote: >>> >>> In the words of ETS, we aren't privy to the intel >>> reports. >> Evidently >>> there was enough in them to cause POTUS to ask for his >>> resignation. >> >> Trump, from many accounts, ...See MoreOn 2/14/17, Cha Cha wrote: > On 2/14/17, Cha Cha wrote: >> On 2/14/17, Chalky wrote: >>> >>> In the words of ETS, we aren't privy to the intel >>> reports. >> Evidently >>> there was enough in them to cause POTUS to ask for his >>> resignation. >> >> Trump, from many accounts, isn't one to study evidence. >> FLynn wasn't forthcoming with Pence is the reason he >> resigned. Pence defended Flynn to the press without the >> whole story and got pis sed about it and who could blame >> him. > > > Anyway, these claims that Trump and his cabinet are > "puppets" make me think that you guys don't know what the > term means. Also, so many people don't grasp that Trump > admires tough guys. His father was a brute and Donald was > mentored by Roy Cohn, another brute. Because Trump admires > tough guys does not equate to him lying down and letting > Putin take over the world. That wouldn't make sense. At > some point in such a scenario, Trump would have to face > off to Putin in a contest to see which is the tougher > tough guy.
Actually, Flynn is the third Putin puppet to resign.
Check out info on Paul Manafort and Carter Page.
Several more to follow.
45 is learning that he really can't tick off the intelligence community and the media without them calling out the dogs.
And, you won't. The real hoot about all of this is in 2008 a group went to Russia on Obama's behalf before he was sworn in and did THE VERY SAME THING Flynn is accused of doing. I'll take the democrats seriously once I see Obama hnd his cohorts brought up on charges.
> We don't know exactly what Flynn said but apparently he > told the Russians not to worry about Obama's sanctions > right now.
And, to violate the Logan Act, it's going to take a whole lot more than this.
Ever on the lookout for something to go against the president or his (former) people, both Pelosi and Cummings quoted a fake tweet of Flynn saying he was a scapegoat. Maybe the old folks should check their facts before spreading fake news. It's deplorable that they would spread fake news from their position of power.
:::quote::: Our Intelligence Community is so worried by the unprecedented problems of the Trump administration—not only do senior officials possess troubling ties to the Kremlin, there are nagging questions about basic competence regarding Team Trump— that it is beginning to withhold intelligence from a White House which our spies do not trust.
That the IC has ample grounds for concern is demonstrated by almost daily revelations of major problems inside the White House, a mere three weeks after the inauguration. The president has repeatedly gone out of his way to antagonize our spies, mocking them and demeaning their work, and Trump’s personal national security guru can’t seem to keep his story straight on vital issues.
That’s Mike Flynn, the retired Army three-star general who now heads the National Security Council. Widely disliked in Washington for his brash personality and preference for conspiracy-theorizing over intelligence facts, Flynn was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for managerial incompetence and poor judgment—flaws he has brought to the far more powerful and political NSC.
> > On 2/13/17, Lulu wrote: >> I agree...See MoreOn 2/13/17, Lulu wrote: > BTW Trump's "head" was a typo, albeit a funny one. I think I wrote > "sad" but must have mistakenly added an E and autocorrect did the > rest.
Looks like you will never be able to be qualified to be the Secretary of Education.
> > On 2/13/17, Lulu wrote: >> I agree she lost, fair and square. The only thing I object to is >> Trump's head attempts to claim he was given some tremendous >> mandate by a clear majority of the American public. She won the >> popular vote, he won the electoral vote. Since the electoral count >> is the one that matters in our system he became President. >> >> I get personally offended by his allegations that Massachusetts >> voters were driving up to New Hampshire to vote illegally. It's just >> not true. There were a few people who drove across the border to >> help with GOTV efforts, but that's not only fully legal, it's also >> fully ethical. >> >> On 2/13/17, Tim Finnegan wrote: >>> On 2/12/17, Well this much is true wrote: >>>> 3 million more of the American people voted for Hillary, >>>> so be careful about flinging about that term "lost," >>> >>> What term would you use? I'm no supporter of Trump, but >>> Hillary did lose. She lost by the rules of the game. She >>> received less than the 270 electoral votes needed to be >>> elected our President. What word would you use? I think >>> lost (as in the opposite of won) is the exact word to be >>> used. Trump received 306 electoral votes, Hillary only >>> 232. 38 short of what is needed to win the Presidency.
Ah, a technical win. Well, a win is a win and Hillary lost. That's because she was a terrible candidate. Nobody trusted her. And, as much as it must paying them to admit it, she was unqualified and didn't competent.
I'm also not wild about this: "The existence of the nuclear football isn't classified. Still, the pictures raise questions about the access enjoyed by Mar-a-Lago members, who have seen their annual membership fee double to $200,000 since Trump won the presidency."
Trump's essentially using state dinners as his own personal fundraising mechanism.
BTW, if you want to see some truly beautiful presidential photos check out Pete Souza's Instagram. Souza was Reagan and Obama's official White House photographer.
I'm having trouble signing in so I can't post the link but a quick search will bring his Instagram page up.
All Trump is doing with these tweets is to call attention to his failings-his rocky relationship with China, ethics failings in his failure to separate family business from his position as President, and the Russia scandal involving Flynn.
Clearly he has no self-control. His tweets from last night and this morning are 7 hours apart, meaning the last thing he thinks about at night and the first thing he thinks about in the morning is not running the free world, but Twitter.
This also tells me he's not listening to his aides. Every politician on the national stage has press aides whose job it is to comb through the media and brief the politician (in this case the President) on any relevant material. Even a high school intern would have recognized Sanders' comments as sarcastic and would not have advised a response.
> Psychologists are breaking with the Goldwater rule at the > glaring instability of 45. The latest I heard was a > suspected diagnosis of "malignant narcissist disorder." > > usuncut.com/politics/top-psychologist-just-diagnosed-trum > p- mental-disorder/ > > "John D. Gartner, a psychotherapist who teaches at Johns > Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, told US News > that he believes Trump has
I don't have a license to diagnose his mental deficiencies, but as *long- time lurker* posted, those who are licensed have indicated that 45's past behavior indicates serious behavioral issues.
A staggering 77 percent of the 1,100 refugees let in s...See MoreThe State Department has more than doubled the rate of refugees from Iraq, Syria and other suspect countries in the week since a federal judge’s reprieve, in what analysts said appears to be a push to admit as many people as possible before another court puts the program back on ice.
A staggering 77 percent of the 1,100 refugees let in since Judge James L. Robart’s Feb. 3 order have been from the seven suspect countries. Nearly a third are from Syria alone — a country that President Trump has ordered be banned altogether from the refugee program. Another 21 percent are from Iraq. By contrast, in the two weeks before Judge Robart’s order, just 9 percent of refugees were from Syria and 6 percent were from Iraq.
Here's an explanation of why there was a surge in refugees who were processed into the country during the after the executive order.
:::quote::: But a State Department official said the surge was due to a backlog of previously-vetted refugees that were initially blocked by Trump's Jan. 27 order, rather than a rush to admit new refugees from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya and Yemen. :::end quote:::