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jace, thank you. calm and contemplation. a lot to think about what yesterday meant to an estimated 3 million folks here and everywhere.
like our trail mixer-upper
grannymumantoog, what a day. what a wonderful day you had. tomorrow the dt s (delirium tremens for sure) begin.
from cnn:
“Former CIA Director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump’s despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA’s Memorial Wall of Agency heroes,” Nick Shapiro said in a statement. “Brennan says that Trump should be ashamed of himself.”
One source who attended Trump’s appearance said many people there were troubled by the political aspect of the remarks, in which the president speculated about how many people in the room may have voted for him.
“We are not political in that way,” the source said. “Talking about whether we voted for Trump is offensive and foreign to us by the president … Many people felt used and awkward throughout. Of course there was applause, but it was uncomfortable.”
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Trump’s off-the-cuff remarks veered into political territory at times, something not typically seen in addresses to intelligence professionals who pride themselves on being non-partisan and which drew a quick attack from Democrats.
The CIA audience was separated into two sections: a main area of all agency staff and a separate section directly in front of the stage that consisted of senior agency leadership, including agents. During Trump’s address, the senior leadership stood the entire time. When Trump began drifting into political topics, the main crowd broke into cheers and applause at points. The senior leadership remained stoic, and did not applaud the political lines.
vanity fair: Trump Makes First Gaffe as President, Steals Twitter Photo from Obama
Goldman Sachs showers upon America. the WH is now a goldman sachs headquarters. It was always about the insurance anyway. The publicity stunt at the spook headquarters? Cleaning staff and trumpence supporters applaud and have a laugh track for their boss…why do I think all of this talk about size is about his ego, his penis and penis’ ego?
How much is trump costing us a day? Why do we have to pay for his security? Billionaire stealing from our mouths to keep him safe. How about funding your own family’s trips and security? Stealing from us to keep his DC hotel open in spite of the lease loss. The guy is a thief and has nothing for the American heart or soul. He is a bankrupt human and I am sick of his hands in my pocket to pay for his residences and security. A rip-off. I understand his staff did not give-in to make the oval office a locker room! His wife cannot live in the same house as him…how much will that cost us? trump on the cheap and stupid humans believe this guy cares about them. He will keep the white women safe and pregnant. Education and birth control…two of the dirtiest things a woman can do during a trump administration.
Why It Matters Donald Trump Has No Inaugural Poet
I will really miss having a President who knows how to read.
Long live the pussyhat.
bw, a couple of weeks ago the gothamist reported
Trump Reportedly Tells De Blasio Feds Will ‘Work With’ City To Reimburse Security Costs
The NYPD has declined to confirm security costs for incoming First Lady Melania Trump and the Trump children, but NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Management and Budget Vincent Grippo acknowledged Tuesday that he’s anticipating costs of $500,000 per day when President Trump is in town. This, regardless of the fact that the federal government has so far committed only $7 million to the cause—about 20 percent of the $34.7 million price tag for security between election day and inauguration day. Already, the NYPD is warning that it will exceed its overtime budget in the coming fiscal year.
what I wonder is whether the contracts tenants of ttower have allow for such disruption without some sort of reimbursement for their various losses (financial and reasonable quality of life) …. and who will have the guts to bring up the subject. this question also applies to neighboring business who’ve seen substantial financial loss.
https://youtu.be/09flnukGraU
SNL Kate McKinnon being brilliant
Crafters of the world…. UNITE!
Jace I love the very appropriate funereal start of this morning’s William Byrd played by Gould. Another attaboy for you!
I finally figured out why so few women were wearing hats at the inauguration. As they were being led to their VIP seats, the ushers made them remove their Pussy Hats.
Apologies to Barbie.
The cats’ heads buttons on that cost? Why?
Absolutely loved Aziz’s monologue on SNL.
Looking at a pic of the protest signs in today’s paper: I’m with her. Stronger together. No mud, no lotus. If my vagina could shoot bullets it would be less regulated. Make America America again.
The country is in a stew and we have posterboards to show it.
Does Madonna go on a terrorist watch list for her comment about the WH? That was really not helpful, Madge.
Trump needs to pick his battles. Crowd size? Ridiculous, dude. Ridiculous. Sending Sean Goebbels out to lie to the press. Disturbing.
Kellyanne is wearing a giant, official-looking medallion today. What is it?
What is that gold medallion KellyAnne is wearing today?
Sewer Cover.
Gold Medal for Mendacity.
Amulet to ward off truth.
Ballast so she’ll go to Hell faster.
From this point forward, the ‘Pottery Barn’ rule needs to be applied to everything republicans touch. You break it you own it. No exceptions.
Price of gas in my neck of the woods up .40 a gallon since Nov. 8.
Nice way to start Mr. PG!
Not going to wait four years to start asking if I’m better off than I was. Will be asking monthly. Not optimistic about the answers.
bid, you mean this one?
Host Aziz Ansari describes how different groups of people have reacted to Donald Trump’s election.
What the hell, maybe Drumbth and the republicans will open up the check book on infrastructure, and give everyone great healthcare and on the weekends find a cure for cancer and reverse climate change.
If they do at least two things will become obvious for all the world to see. The last eight years were never about the money, and a white president’s plans are easy accept, a black president, not so much. Eight years of denial haven’t made it any less true.
Medical Care for everyone sounds pretty good Donald. You mean like these folks?
So old Mitch thinks the country is in danger if the CIA directorship goes unfilled for a few days. His comments show both a total lack of understanding about how such agencies operate, and a shameless hypocracy. It will take only a few days to fill the directorship. It should take about ninety days to fill a Supreme Court vacancy!
So allow me to be the first to offer Mitch a word of advice. Go fuck yourself!
the best part of Aziz monologue imo was re that small group of supporters he said “have gotten way too fired up about the Trump thing for the wrong reasons. These people that, as soon as Trump won they’re like, ‘We don’t have to pretend like we’re not racist anymore! We don’t have to pretend anymore! We can be racist again, wooo!’…Please go back to pretending. You’ve got to go back to pretending.”
“I know it’s been a rough couple of years. Obama, Empire, Hamilton, Star Wars movies where the only white characters are storm troopers. I get it. It’s been rough. But you’ve got to stop. You know who I’m talking about. This new lowercase kkk movement, this casual white supremacy.”
Jace, thanks. After the last couple of days a peaceful start to Sunday morning is welcomed.
And as to your 11:09, you can tell Mertle I agree with you.
usatoday: First online petition to Trump: Release your tax returns
The Trump transition team gutted most of President Obama’s White House website but left one innovative feature intact: The “We the People” petition site that “empowers the American public to take this action like never before.”
The first petition of the Trump era: “Immediately release Donald Trump’s full tax returns, with all information needed to verify emoluments clause compliance.”
The petitioner, identified only by the initials A.D., explained that potential conflicts of interest “need to be visible to the American people.” The petition seeks the release of “any pertinent documentation which can reveal the foreign influences and financial interests which may put Donald Trump in conflict with the emoluments clause of the Constitution.”
The emoluments clause prohibits government officials from receiving gifts from foreign governments.
[….]
The Trump administration retained Obama’s rules for the petition site: If a petition gathers 100,000 signature in 30 days, the White House will review the petition, make sure and issue an official response.
As of Friday evening, it already had more than 25,000 signatures.
above petitioners have increased according to time:
A WhiteHouse.gov petition demanding that President Trump release his tax returns has surpassed 140,000 signatures — a figure that would require the White House to respond if the new administration continues to follow a policy instituted by its predecessor.
“The unprecedented economic conflicts of this administration need to be visible to the American people, including any pertinent documentation which can reveal the foreign influences and financial interests which may put Donald Trump in conflict with the emoluments clause of the Constitution,” the petition reads.
Trump broke with decades of precedent by refusing to release his tax returns during the presidential campaign, citing a “routine audit.” A leaked partial tax return obtained by the New York Times last year showed that Trump might have avoided paying federal income taxes for 18 years.
More than 146,000 people had signed the WhiteHouse.gov petition by Saturday at 4:30 p.m., just a day after Trump was sworn in.
Daughter Sue participated in the local demonstration at our State House. She reports her fellow protestors were spirited and motivated despite the foul weather that has in her bed today with a cold.
Our local newspaper reports that thousands representing all racial groups and demographics overflowed the secondary location where most of the crowd moved because of the weather.
cbs:
President Donald Trump, in between tweets about his “long standing ovations” at CIA headquarters and his inauguration’s television ratings, implied in a tweet early Sunday morning that the Women’s March protesters did not vote.
“Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election!” Mr. Trump wrote. “Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.”
Guess this is Kellyanne’s version of truthiness — on the crowd size claims: “our press secretary, gave alternative facts”
Keep talking asshole — if they didn’t vote last time they will be voting in one year, two years three years and in 2020 you tinpot wannabe
You have surrounded yourself with people just like you and you are the biggest loser.
need we say more
For the amount of effort Kellyanne puts into her job, I hope she gets paid as much as a male counterpart would get.
Patd,
I have thought for some time that the tax returns are going to be a continuing thorn in Trump’s ass. They are going to come out. How they come out is up to Trump and company. They can release them and catch Hell or they can wait until they majically appear on the front page of the Washington Post or the NewYork times. Then Hell becomes a shit storm. To date Trump has been the beneficiary of leaks and hacks, that does not mean that he is immune to the same. If some of the most sensitive information in the government can be hacked and stolen,Trumps tax returns are by no means out of bounds or safe.
on a personal note, I wish the IRS commissioner would have resigned on Friday and taken a long overdue vacation to a country that has no extradition agreements with the US and then proceeded to release Trump,s tax returns to every news out let in the country. This maneuver would then become known as the ‘Reverse Comey’.
Condom’s use of the phrase alternative facts shows she has been sleeping with Frank Luntz and ewwwwwwwwwww
Trump’s entire team is second or third tier so no wonder he looks like a bumbler by the time they figure out what is going on he will be out of office and hopefully all the scum that lied willingly will be shunned for ever
mrd’dog – Your list about Kellyanne’s medal couldn’t be more perfect!
patD – Yes, the entire monologue was great…and Aziz’s does not have tiny hands.
The end of the monologue, where he talked about change coming from large groups of pissed off people, that was Hillary’s problem in the primary, as she failed to put Bernie away without help from the DNC; that was her problem in the general, as she refused to speak to concerns of people who felt let down by Obama; that is now Donald’s problem.
It’s been a wild 48 hours. Yes, 48 hours down. Is there a countdown clock out there?
today she says
https://youtu.be/XRKHp9rJu14
but on august 19th 2016 (less than 6 months ago) she said
“he says he’s for the little guy….but he’s actually done a lot of his business on the backs of the little guy”
guess who said this only a few months ago.
The condom will tell you that is an alternative fact
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Kelly anne says most americans not interested in his tax returns but says
cbs, a week ago:
Most Americans believe Donald Trump should release his tax returns, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll.
Seventy-four percent say he should release his tax records, according to the poll, and further, among Republicans, 49 percent also say the president-elect should release he tax records.
must be some kinda liar germ pandemic gone viral in goper-ville
Great signs everywhere
The only ‘little guy’ Trump knows anything about is the one between his legs. Not exactly what you would call heavy lifting on behalf of ordinary folks.
Trump and his chihuahua
🙂
this is not fake news….
Now JellyAnt Conwiz has called ex-CIA Director Brennan a “partisan political hack.”
Do these Tramp alternate universe people have an endgame or are they incredibly crass and sleazy? Or both? Is their intent to throw us all into chaos or are they punching above their weight? Why do this? They’re foul.
Before you run into any of those pesky alternative facts, here are the Presidential Inaugural rank in the ratings.
WADR Hillarys problem likely is she did not put enough emphasis on 3 states that shoulda woulda coulda gone her way but didn’t, combined with Comey’s finger on the scale with the Russian hack. Blaming Hillary’s loss on failing to get you excited is possibly partially true, but if you chose to vote for a certain loser and take what you get, feel free to wallow in what you got. And of course this is directed less at the yous in Texas than the yous in PA, MI, WI & NC.
I shall be acquiring several pink pussy hats to wear until no longer fashionable. Also, I expect some notice coming down that pink pussy hats are not allowed in federal facilities.
Do not, I repeat, do not fall on a curb, with a 90 angle, with the angle going between your hip and femur. It is not good. Especially not good from a height.
It is becoming obvious that every statement from the floaters administration will be a lie. They will constantly state the lie, and that everyone else is lying. They will not stop. Everything they want to do, cut billionaires taxes will be spun as a tax cut for the poor and an increase of taxes for the rich, and that is what they will say. If you disagree, it is you who is lying. Even with actual facts and photos they will state you are lying and have altered things to make it a lie.
Most of us do not have enough power and bullhorn to change that. What we have are millions of people who can put together enough power and bullhorn to stop the lies and force the truth to be told. Even if that truth does not come from the WH.
Orange Illegitimate Russian President has coarsened our politics and our discourse. Makes sense: he’s coarse. But think of those hats. Tens of thousands of ’em. A manifestation of his vulgarity and unsuitability for the job Uncle Vlad helped him get. Can anyone imagine Obama using that word?
It would have been so cool for Hillary to wear one of those hats on the Inaugural stage. And Michelle Obama and Rosalynn Carter and Nancy Pelosi. What a missed opportunity.
bbronc, are you sure about that injury not being a break, a fine line fracture maybe? did you get it xrayed? must be quite a bruise you have there.
might not be able to find many pink pussy power hats available (even on amazon). looked like they were sold out of the really well made ones. plenty of other colors though. or maybe try etsy …. better yet knit/crochet your own according to pussyhatproject pattern while your hip is mending.
Ryan’s office is conducting a poll on the ACA. Full instructions on in the image to participate. It is very fast.
“It would have been so cool for Hillary to wear one of those hats on the Inaugural stage. And Michelle Obama and Rosalynn Carter and Nancy Pelosi. What a missed opportunity.”
mrddog, even cooler had jimmy, bill, barak and even dubya donned them.*
*on second thought that would look too much like a panty raid with the boys wearing the booty
You could have mentioned this before I ended up with a hairline fracture & sprain in a miserably uncomfortable boot for six weeks. Hope you get better soon. Take care.
Pogo
Dumping folks off the voter rolls combined with media non stop blaring of “UNTRUSTWORTHY” while pounding emails non stop rather than covering all her plans and policies for aiding the rust belt. They didn’t read her web pages or hear them on TV. She didn’t go there: Big Mistake.
politico:
Brennan “sounded like a partisan political hack about the president of the United States,” Conway said on ABC’s “This Week.”
“I think everybody needs to take a step back and a very deep breath…and think about what their words are,” Conway said.
kellyanne needs to clean her own nest first and before lecturing others should remind her boss about rocks and glass houses… particularly a white glass house and invisibile rock formations thereunder and thereabout. or she could try reading him the bit from john 8:7 about casting stones.
hopefully, some retired former spooks will find this a challenge for some really needed payback to be accomplished as cleverly and humorously as possible.
tpm:
WH Staffers Pile On Former CIA Head For Criticizing Trump’s Off-The-Rails Speech
a little advice from our irish cousins across the pond: There’s a way to get rid of President Trump without impeaching him, and it’s called the 25th Amendment
[…. much dark ado over secret service and dt reaching for the nuke codes discussed here as well as impeachment stuff…]
So (and forgive me if this sounds fey) it would be nice if there was a quicker formal method than impeachment – which takes months while a President remains in office – to prevent Trump from bringing about an extinction level event.
Thankfully, there is. Ladies and gentlemen, say a rousing hi and “Good day, y’all” to the 25th Amendment. Adopted in 1967, until now this has been among the more obscure additions to the US Constitution. It lacks the grandeur of the First (freedom of speech, and so on), the gruesome results of the Second (right to bear arms), the courtroom drama of pleading the Fifth (right not to self-incriminate), or the historic import of the 13th (abolition of slavery).
Many will know it – and specifically Section 3 – solely from The West Wing episode where it wasn’t activated, as required, to transfer power to the Vice President while surgeons operated on Jed Bartlet’s gunshot wound.
That plot line referenced the actual confusion when Ronald Reagan was shot. His VP, George Bush the Elder, was out of contact, and the unstable Al Haig mistakenly told a press conference, “I’m in charge”.
In real life, the 25th has been invoked only twice, each time for a matter of hours while a president underwent a colonoscopy. Reagan had one in 1985, and chose to have a pre-cancerous polyp instantly removed. In 2007, George Bush the Younger elected to leave a menacing foreign body discovered in his colon (Mr Tony Blair?) in situ.
But also in the 25th is Section 4, which reads as follows: “Whenever the Vice President and a majority [of the US cabinet] transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”
Under this mutiny clause, the VP and a majority of the 15 cabinet officers can stand down a president whose mental capacity they doubt. Late in Reagan’s second term, when his attention span had become negligible (remind you of anyone?), his inner circle came close to doing so.
Should it be used, and should the President challenge it, the VP and the cabinet send the ultimate decision to Congress. If two thirds of each House votes that the President is unfit to govern, the VP continues as Acting President.
Comfortingly, Mike Pence’s lack of charisma and grossly anti-abortion and homophobic stances make the 25th his likeliest path to the Oval Office. Pence seems relatively sane, however poisonous his views, and his ambition gives him a huge incentive to act if Trump’s tiny fingers are twitching over the nuclear trigger; or solid proof about his Muscovite connections destroys what might be called his presidential integrity; or any myriad of potential disqualifications come to light.
Also comfortingly, several of Trump’s cabinet appointees have already showed enough disdain for his tweet-happy policymaking to suggest they take the McKinnon-Hillary point.
These are violent and uncharted waters. But what other waters are there with President Donald J Trump? It’s lovely to know that there is a constitutional mechanism to remove him if required.
In case you missed it, during the White House tribute to law enforcement, Trump literally blew a kiss at James Comey. Talk about knowing where your bread was buttered.
The pelvis and l. femur were X-rayed which showed a possible fracture of the femur. Then a CT scan which was inconclusive. The MRI was done to look at the tissue damage and try to nail down a fracture or not a fracture. The docs decided no fracture, but to watch for bad changes. The conclusion is I have a very nasty hematoma in the joint and iliac crest contusion. I avoid looking at it.
I just went to the grocery store, walked most of it and came home. Not a great idea there. But using the new admin logic, the lying media is making up that I am not perfect and a great tractor driver. In other words – word salad and blame the media.
Reviewing the last two and a half days is very disturbing. Because the boss is an illiterate, ignorant, bully and narcissist they have to imitate him. They are playing the game of tell a lie then blame the media for reporting the truth and stating the media is lying and only the liar is one telling the truth. Quite 1984 of them. It will take a lot of work to keep the truth up and understood as the truth.
The Condom would certainly be familiar with partisan political hacks
local elections 2017
So DV are you going to run–
Spooks
Keith Olbermann has been a proponent of the “incapacitated” portion of the 25th Amendment well before Orange Julius Caesar was sworn it. After all, he’s a New Yorker and has met and been aware of Orange Julius for decades. However—I follow White House and political journalists, hired, corporate, freelance—and many of them follow security analysts, cyber experts, psychiatrists, what have you. Last night, after the double whammy of the CIA visit and the WH Lyin’ Eyes Spicer presser, there was a thread with a mention of an IC guy. The IC guy was mentioned as saying many were virtually roaming the halls of Langley yesterday, quoting the 25th Amendment. Nothing like having the Presidential Crazy Train pull into your station to make insanity crystal clear.
The way we see Orange Julius and his Roaming Toga Party on television, Twitter and other social media isn’t lost on the Ruling Class. As Dan Rather wrote today on his Facebook page, it’s up to all of us to call a lie a lie. The Press has to call them out and stop participating if lies are all that’s offered. But it is those in power who must stand up and act. So we’ll have to push, push, push and scream and wear funny hats and make signs. And call their Washington and local offices. We have to. This Orange Julius and his Roamin’ Togas are nuts. Some are rabid ideologues, some syncophants, some just nuts. They belong in the Big House, not the White House.
As the Big Lebowski once said, “This cannot stand, man.”
BBronc, I’m sorry about your fall and injury. You should take it easy and stay off your feet if possible.
Mr Doodlesdog
you are fabulous
Politifact Trump’s statements were awarded PolitiFact’s 2015 Lie of the Year.
Inauguration
Estimated attendance
Trump, 2017
250,000 to 600,000
Barack Obama, 2013
1 million
Obama, 2009
1.8 million
Sean Spicer liar
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We are anticipating the arrival of our first grandchildren in February and again in April. Have been so excited about it and still can’t believe it.?
I don’t want them growing up in Trump’s world. I have dropped out of the fray since Nov. 8 and that was the wrong thing to do. I’ll be 63 soon but I still have a couple of cans of wupp ass on the shelf somewhere. Message to Donald trump, I still know how to open them!
Renee, I smell the aroma of cooked goose with a hint of Steel in it. Congrats to the Pats.
LGC, love the “cabinet” sign. Of course trump thinks he’s a really smart person, to the point he feels the need to tell everyone (in case they couldn’t tell I suppose) including the CIA as he lies to them about attendance at the swearing ceremony – you know, the CIA, whose job is to ferret out truth from lies to protect the United States. Smart alright. ?
Jace – the Women’s March has restarted many who had done the same. It will take a full united effort to bring America back to the people. It is not only the women who have to work on this, it has to be every minority. It has to include every one offended by his talk, his actions and his family of freaks and hustlers.
YEEEEHAAAA!
We’re going to the Su-Per Bowl…. We’re going to the Su-Per Bowl…
Hey y’all, Renee and Rick are going to the Su-Per Bowl!
Congrats to the Pats and their loyal fans
Pats in the Super Bowl ? We knew that last September.
Congratulations, 4 months late.
My ole Alma Mater began admitting girls in 1969. On Saturday the girls basketball team beat an opponent 66 – 5.
I expect the Pats to wallop the blackbirds by a similar score.
Caveat : I knew Clinton would win.
Police say the St Paul Women’s Rights March numbered 90,000 – 100,000.
That wasn’t too bad for mid-sized city in Fly Over Country.
Pink Pussy galore.