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Trump is pretty much declaring a war on our intelligence community, plans on clearing out the CIA, etc. Not really hiding this. Click all the way in read the full article in Wall Street Journal.
"On plan to restructure" CIA & cut staff at its Virginia HQ & push "more people out into field posts" ...
thing.
Since the November election, Mr. Trump has published close to 250 Twitter posts. Of those, 11 have focused on Russia or the election-related cyberattacks. In each of those tweets, Mr. Trump either has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin—last month calling him “very smart”—or disparaged the investigation into the hacks.
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Current and former officials said it was particularly striking to see Mr. Trump quote Mr. Assange in tweets.
“It’s pretty horrifying to me that he’s siding with Assange over the intelligence agencies,” one former law-enforcement official said.
Paul Pillar, a 28-year veteran of the CIA who retired in 2005, said he was disturbed by Mr. Trump’s tweets and feared much of the intelligence community’s assessments could be filtered through Gen. Flynn.
“I’m rather pessimistic,” he said. “This is indeed disturbing that the president should come in with this negative view of the agencies, coupled with his habits on how he absorbs information and so on that don’t provide a lot of hope for change.”
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At least McCain not backing down. Tillerson should not be confirmed.
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Last one for today (unless, you know, the world explodes or that soon to be launched missile from NK inadvertently lands in my back yard) ...
This has a lot of information, within other links - you can keep opening info. There is a lot to read, but very interesting. Trump - Russia - others who have been blackmailed, threatened, etc.
So who to trust? Beats me.
You don't know me, and I don't need some keyboard kid talking to me about the real world.
This is not the time to be discussing Politics.
Let it go!
So here's my contribution for that:
How I learned to .... (you know the rest)
:-B
And now, back to reality. Unfortunately.
Kleptocracy is in action with Trump - right in front and not hiding. Look at all of Trump's administrative choices - look at his own actions/inactions, continued business dealings, disparaging of the CIA; look at everything. And ask yourself why. None of this is normal or healthy. So why is this the slant, the decisions, the derision, the pursuit of this direction continuing without let up? Trump is dividing, and tearing down, covering up - dividing our country and government; not uniting.
Yes, the Affordable Healthcare Act ("Obamacare") is of urgent and ongoing concern. It seems some folks think they are separate. ("Hands off my Medicare and the Affordable Care Act, but let's get rid of Obamacare, yes. Can't stand Obama.")
Call and have your say here:
Yes, the taunting of foreign leaders via twitter is juvenile, but also very dangerous, and stupid. And many more genuine concerns right now.
So many things are important ... it is hard not to let things get swept away because it is basically a tsunami of corruption (past and present, personal and ties; by Trump himself and his administrative picks), lies, and misdirection that continues coming at us, pretty much nonstop from Trump and his people, who keep trying to reword what he says (and does) to make it more palatable.
Plenty here to read if you click into the inner tweet; a lot of info, links to other articles, etc.
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You're right. Younger, more progressive voters are replacing older, conservative voters. That's a fact.
Unfortunately, we will all have to live with the judges Trump and the Rs will be putting into place. There isn't just a SCOTUS vacancy, but many seats left open in district courts because, to no surprise, the Rs refused to let Obama fill them. Now they will be, and they will lean heavily to the Right. This means more power to corporations.
It is now going to take a long, long time to undue the damage that this election has caused.
List the hundreds of times.
I prefer the more realistic first & last Rambo movies....
"WAIT! I can give you anything! The... the... the... the Brass Ring, unlimited freedom to maim and kill! PLUS! Lex Luthor's keen mind, Lex Luthor's savvy, Lex Luthor's school of career guidance..."
Trump is our real world Luthor. 8-|
To put it one way, Trump has declared to U.S. ambassadors, as a group: "You're fired!"
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods.
The mandate — issued “without exceptions,” according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said — threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months.
Mr. Trump, by contrast, has taken a hard line against leaving any of President Obama’s political appointees in place as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20 with a mission of dismantling many of his predecessor’s signature foreign and domestic policy achievements. “Political” ambassadors, many of them major donors who are nominated by virtue of close ties with the president, almost always leave at the end of his term; ambassadors who are career diplomats often remain in their posts.
Reported by NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/us/politics/trump-ambassadors.html?_r=0
I *KNOW* the richest ones are... :P
Trump wants Congress - NOT Mexico - to pay for it now.
And Trump also just removed his info on the specifics details on the wall from his website.
Oh good, people are so fast as saving things. :)
Here is what Trump used to say, and what it says now on his website (both).
The news on the ambassadors is more serious and unsettling.
Don't tell anyone this, but he's a progressive operative, sent to take the GOP down FOREVER by posing as, well, HIMSELF, basically. Don't tell him that he's just a tool though, it might blow the op.
We can hope. :)
And it turned out to be even more "bold" "daring" and "fun" than anybody could have guessed.