Erratic. Dangerous. Unstable. Alarming. Week One.
Week one of this presidency ended as it began – by scaring the sh*t out of the entire planet (sorry, Momma). A week ago Friday, the worst, most unqualified candidate in history became the worst, most unqualified president in history. My most uttered phrase this week? Holy Jesus. And I uttered that phrase over and over at each terrifying revelation.
As a case in point, at this very moment, the tabs on my browser summarize the reasons that normal people around the world are filled with fear and dread: US News’ Temperament Tantrum; NPR’s How Does [Cheeto Jesus’s] Immigration Freeze Square with His Business Interests?; [TwitterFinger] Shuffles NSC; and China Military Official Says war with US…’Becoming Practical Reality’.
Ruth Marcus’ opinion piece in the Washington Post this morning though, sums up this erratic week that we all experienced – alarming. Cheeto Jesus seems to be intentionally trying scare the world, and it’s working. China is resigned to a war with the US. For the first time in our history, we have official US government policy of institutional religious discrimination. Muslims are banned, Christians are given priority. Oh, and conveniently, the ban applies only to Muslim majority countries where Twitterfinger has no business interests. The others? Not so much.
Of the legion of alarming decisions, though, the one reshuffling the National Security Counsel is the most disturbing. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Director of National Intelligence were removed and Steve Bannon, propagandist and alt-right racist was made a permanent member of the council. Think about it – the most experienced voices of the military and national intelligence are now excluded from the highest level discussions of security and intelligence. This decision boggles the mind and will have disastrous consequences. The, uh…urp, president has zero foreign policy or defense experience (with the possible exception of his pee-pee parties with prostitutes in Moscow). His direct reports are either warmongering nuts or self serving billionaires. The senior diplomatic staff at the State Department has walked. There are no ambassadors sitting in any of our embassies. The Director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, is a hayseed teabagger from Kansas whose most important issues in his career have been destroying the healthcare system and denying women the right to control their own bodies. The Secretary of Defense publicly disagrees with CJ on several issues, including torture. Essentially, he is walling himself off from those with experience or decent judgement.
Cheeto Jesus talks in the word salad of a 5th grade playground bully. Add that oddity to his intentionally provocative behavior and isolation and you have a volatile combination. The risks of him touching off a major international crisis increases everyday. He’ll finally poke someone in the eye, like China, and they’ll respond with a tactical weapon or shoot down an airliner. I’m afraid that’s what it’s going to take before the Congress finally acts and removes this lunatic before he starts WWIII.
Deb @#7 from previous post: I know I’m changing your comment some, but “Throw out all kinds of crap (even wildly contradictory) and see what resonates with the most people”. We’ve all heard pundits and scholars talk about how Donnie’s communicating directly with the people, without the need of the pesky oppositional press. Who needs the Fourth Estate when Twitter is here? And representative government? Unless legislators step in fast, they are going to be led around in a manner which the founders were terrified of. Maybe I haven’t been listening, but I haven’t heard anybody come out and say it. Mob Rule. I’m not sure the term applies perfectly, since the mob is being incited from the top down, but it’s close enough for me.
1I know your just summarizing El Jefe, but what an iron constitutiowith you must have to sift through such a pile of sh… um, dung.
“100 days?’ muses the Cheeto Jesus. “Hell, I can destroy it all in 60! Or less! 100 days are for losers! Sad!”
Somewhere out there is a contractor who got stiffed by The Donald with a strange smile on his face. “How’s it feel America?” might be in his thought bubble. Feels lousy, sir.
2Bannon told The Daily Beast last August, “I’m a Leninist … Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”
3And when the instability and hostility Donnie’s creating worldwide, as pointed out by El Jefe here, is factored in, think how much closer Donnie’s coming to being our own Dear Leader.
4Donnie, his family and crew of deplorable committed more impeachable acts than the previous 44 Presidents before Donnie took the oath of office.
They’ve gone from serious conflicts of interest to a clear and present danger to national security in Donnie’s first week of office. Then there are the heinous crimes they’ve committed against those they were elected to protect and serve. Acts of terror against the ACA, the protectors of air and water at the DAPL, and a full front assault against our Muslim heroes.
Jane and I are committed to corresponding with our Democratic representation as always, but we are also committed to communicating with the snacilbupeR. snacilbupeR like Mitch and Lyin’ Ryan love their Congress critter comforts. Time to make them feel considerably less comfortable.
Our odious Senate idiot Dean Heller is sponsoring legislation with fellow morons Marco “I hate being a Senator” Rubio and who is more detestable than Teddie Crooze to DECREASE funding for our embassies by 50%. Time to shove their Benghazi nonsense where the moon doesn’t shine and slap the crap out of felon Issa and that little money waster Chaffetz.
5More focus needs to be on the Trump Cabal. Trump’s function is to sow unrest, distract, and sign documents with his little fingers. Bannon (alt-right, racist connection), Flynn (Russian connection), and Kushner (cheerleader for expansion of Israeli settlements) are providing him with those documents.
6OT: how about requiring the White house staff who will be reviewing scientific research, as well as Devos, to pass an 8th grade state science test such as MCAS (covering earth science, astronomy, chemistry, physics, and biology).
My money is on them failing it, unless they cheat, of course.
One more thing, and I’ll shut up for awhile. For all the folks who voted for Donnie, or just didn’t vote, even though they despised Donnie, and his tactics, saying that he only said and did those repugnant things to get elected? That once he was in office, he’d act more presidential? Well, just as I’ve said in here before, Donnie and Bannon have put the world on notice that those weren’t just “whatever it takes”, douchebag campaign tactics. They’re now the Standard Operating Procedure of the leader of the (so far) free world.
7And smirking McConnell and the other rightwing creeps will let us swing in the wind until they completely annihilate every good thing Obama managed to get implemented in spite of their hateful obstruction. Then maybe they’ll act to get rid of Trump (and put their buddy Pence into the slot). We are so screwed!
8“Holy Jesus.”
KYRIE ELEISON!! is what I’m singing. Over and over
9P.P., for the point!
It is resistance time allowing no quarter for the snacilbupeR representatives who fail to resist Donnie’s insanity or the Democrats with a “play along wait and see attitude.” If Donnie’s campaign of hate wasn’t sufficient, his first week soiling the Oval Office should open their eyes.
Donnie and the snacilbupeR want the PC gloves off. I’m good with that. Deport Messalina first, Donnie. Then you and junior pucktard receive the same “respect” you and your ilk gave the Obama family. Maybe you should consult Mikey Dense on how to control your third wife. I wouldn’t go there, but then again, I respect and love women.
Poor Donnie. he doesn’t read. Or, perhaps he might have some respect for “hell hath no fury fury like a woman scorned.” You fake Christians are fond of proverbs. Wrap your hubris and hypocrisy around this one: “There is nothing as unpleasant as a woman who has been offended or whose love has not been returned.”
Duck Donnie. Because you and Mikey have not only offended women. You have offended the husbands, fathers, brothers, all male relatives and friends who love them.
10Good summary, El Jefe, but you omitted a few, including the fact that the National Security Adviser (a position not subject to anyone’s approval but Donnie’s) believed– maybe still does– that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring out of the basement of a pizza place on upper Connecticut Avenue. At least his son definitely believed it, and dad said he didn’t know that it wasn’t true. I don’t know that there isn’t an invisible pink unicorn in my broom closet, but sanity comes down on one side of both questions.
I’m going to be away from the internet and the TV news for a couple of days this week, and I don’t know whether to sigh with relief or worry that WWIII will start and nobody will tell me.
11MV: you have nailed it. Agent Orange doesn’t even read the $hit (Momma, honey, I’m 79 and I still think this guy deserves strong language) he signs. this is the Bannon administration, make no mistake. It’s the alt-right with their alt-facts that are now in control of one branch of our government. We all need to act now, and often. I flew from Hawaii to DC to protest. I was on the area around the inauguration and know that the crowds were very small.
12” I’m afraid that’s what it’s going to take before the Congress finally acts and removes this lunatic before he starts WWIII.”
Weeel, the problem, as it has been ever since then, is that nobody wants to start WW3, but a lot of people seem to think we can win WW2.25, or maybe even WW2-and-a-half.
13Two good WashPost columns:
Bill Richardson: Trump’s “deals” are incompetent, e.g. tearing up the TPP without negotiating anything in return, bullying Mexico and getting nothing in return, proposing to tear up the Iran nuclear deal without negotiating anything in return. If he’d read the “Art of the Deal” book he claims to have written, he’d know better.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/27/bill-richardson-for-negotiating-tips-trump-should-read-art-of-the-deal/
Dana Milbank (worth following): Trump says that when he got up to speak last Friday, the rain stopped, the sun shone on him, and it poured after he left. This is so far from true, and so *obviously* far from true, that it looks like he doesn’t just lie– he can’t tell truth from his fantasies. Wonderful trait for a US president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-trumps-mind-its-always-really-sunny-and-thats-terrifying/2017/01/27/ff0a6278-e499-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html
Some Trump voters can’t tell truth from fantasy either. Shown the photos of Obama’s 2009 inaugural crowd and Trump’s, asked which was which, 41% of Trump voters got it wrong. Even better– asked which photo has more people, without mentioning names or dates, and 15% of Trump voters STILL got it wrong. Either they can’t tell what’s in front of their eyes, or they knew what the photos were and answered with a pathetically obvious lie.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/25/we-asked-people-which-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-heres-what-they-said/
14Our Governor, Terry McAuliffe, is among the protesters at Dulles International Airport. Good for you, Terry!
Senator Christ Van Hollen, brand new in the Senate and a D from Maryland, apparently did something about a child from Maryland being detained at the airport. The child is about 4 or 5 and is a citizen of Maryland. Van Hollen blew a gasket over this.
When a lot of people opined that after the women’s march there had to be a regular slate of marches, little did they dream that they would be served up reasons on a silver platter!
15Rhea, the snacilbupeR are so inured to believing their lies that it’s obvious they are primed and ready to defy what is in front of their eyes.
They’re still into Reagan era Trickle Down economics. It wouldn’t surprise me if Donnie personally urinated on them, they’d still believe he is all about jobs.
Fact remains, we’re stuck with a certain percentage of the population who are less than capable of reasonable thought. But what we are not stuck with are the results of this election. Say what we will about Donnie’s insanity, his “advisors” know what recounts and an investigation of Russian influence would show.
Donnie is an illegitimate pretender. His cabal are perhaps more insane than their Daddy. That includes Mikey Dense. Always time for a “first” in politics. An election post inauguration would be one. New elections would not cost nearly a percentage of what Donnie and crew have cost in their first week.
16The Russians now have a pipeline into the Oval Office as big as the Holland Tunnel.
Time to arm ourselves.
17I just finished watching the movie: “Divergence” and while watching a movie where the people are separated into FACTIONS … frightening … I kept thinking that if this shit keeps on, that’s how we’ll end up … in factions and the fact that Bannon is doing his damndest to overthrow the government with Donnie Dimwit just doing everything Bannon tells him to do! Sign these papers and don’t ask any lame-ass questions!
18I never thought I’d live to see the day that anything even slightly close to what is going on is going on!! WWIII can’t be far off, that’s for damned sure!!
WA Skeptic, the Russian pipeline to Donnie should concern all of us. But the domestic terrorists of Donnie’s regime? It’s not hyperbole to suggest they indicate pitch forks in the street time.
It’s beyond interesting that the Twitter Crazy and his posse of twits have not made mention of his conversation with Vlad. Maybe Lindsey and McCain will take notice, as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
19Anybody get a look at the Statue of Liberty today?
She’s crying.
20Mooser: WW2.25? Ugh. Tried it. Just as bad as WW2! Full of bugs and the user interface is suck-it city! Millions die, endless explosions, constant conflict anf for what? A “Congratulations! YOU WIN! at the end? Seems like a great waste of time and effort to me. I suggest AppNest’s “Peace”. Now that’s a hard one to play!
21WA Skepic: Pipeline? It’s Melania. She’s a FemBot. Shhhhh……
22@Opinionated Hussy posted what in my opinion is the so far key eye opener and answer to the questions “What is Drumpf’s agenda? What does Drumpf want?”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/steve-bannon-trump-s-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist.html
Bannon said to a reporter then denied later saying the skinny of Opinionated Hussy’s post: ““Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.””
23Wayne Barrett, the investigative journalist who died this month after a long lung illness, had Trump’s number way back when: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/wayne-barrett-how-donald-trump-managed-to-turn-triumph-into-disaster-9601915 and went on investigating him till the day he died. RIP, Barrett.
24“Christians in the Middle-East have been executed in large numbers. We cannot allow this horror to continue!” added Trump…”
Trump like the Right Wing confuses “Christian” with American.
They scream about the horrors rained apoun these foreign Christians and how American must invade a foreign country to save them. But, they are just that, Christians, not Americans.
Selecting one religion over another is not an American value.
25Y’all do know that the equivalent of the “Reichstag Fire”, “Enabling Act”, and/or a Moscow apartment/movie theater-style event is planning right now? The better to nail the coup solid.
The steps taken after 911! have well prepared the way.
Willkommen im Vierten Reich!
Sieg Heil, Heil Trump!
GOP Űber Alles!
Nationalsozialistische Amerikkkan Reichsplukotratpartei™ Űber Alles!
Willkommen Das tausendjährige Reich!
Donnei Trumpov: SOBOTUS-Reich Führer Von Vereinigten Staaten
(oh yeah: “Day of Potsdam” = National Day of Patriotic Devotion- 20Jan20xx, “Es gibt keine mehr Menschen als die amerikanischen Bürger.”)
26Check This out.
Trial Balloon for a Coup? Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours
https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5#.eszbpvb13
27@ no one in particular- the other day one of Juanita’s commenters made note of Bannon’s military service. During the Vietnam-era he was an occifer in the blue-water Navy so he’s never been shot at with malevolent intent. Plus he was most conspicuously absent when certain parties were “swiftboating” a fellow Naval officer.He said not a word.I’m not sure if a studious absence is the same as a determined offense, but I’m not even a Navy veteran, an Army veteran, and his absence is offensive to me. I intensely dislike both tRUMPf and Bannon
28LIke I said before, the Sopranos have taken over the White House. Expect a lot of trash.
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