Melania’s parents live in the U.S. Isn’t that chain migration?
Trump’s grandfather and mother both followed their siblings to this country. The president’s grandfather, Friedrich Trump, left Germany in 1885. His sister had already immigrated to New York and settled in a Manhattan enclave known at the time as Kleindeutschland, or Little Germany. The president’s Scottish-born mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, also followed family to New York, joining two sisters in the city in 1929.
If not for chain migration Trump wouldn’t exist. Let’s abolish it!
the twit warns my wall or else. his new version of “my way or the highway” ….wtsp: Trump says any DACA deal must include border wall funding
and kudos to sasse sassing the twit
the hill:
“The only way the republic can work is if we come together and we defend each other’s rights to say things that we differ about,” Sasse said in the video. “We defend each other’s rights to publish journalism and pieces and things that we then want to argue about.”
Sasse has in the past defended the First Amendment and criticized censoring news, and appeared to take a swipe at President Trump in the video, saying that it’s “not helpful to call the press the enemy of the American people.”
Add another one to the hypocrisy pile filling the nepotic swamp of trump. The alacrity of change and regression while starting fires all over the world? A cover for undoing everything American and replacing with it with ‘trump.’
I think this guy would blow-up the world to avoid his doctor’s appointment on the 12th. There is no escape for trump and he looks pretty unhealthy to me.
I know trump wants us to focus on a wall, but the norks appear to be the biggest threat to our existence at the moment. From wapo, great read on how N. Korea became successful on the nuclear road.
Why has North Korea succeeded when other countries such as Iraq and Libya have failed?
Three factors are central to North Korea’s success. This analysis draws on findings about the North Korean program from a recent New York Times article, as well as my recent book on the Iraqi and Libyan nuclear programs.
FTR (for the record) I thought Mexico was going to pay for the wall???? The use of the ‘wall’ by trump is a talisman. His campaign keepers used the actual word ‘wall’ in all of his speeches to keep his fleeting brain cells from wandering. He uses the ‘wall’ to hide what is really going on behind the curtain.
Message from New Mexico…I would imagine your doc may find the wall along with haley, pompeo and graham during your colonoscopy.
A cold, very cold, morning on the Chesapeake Bay. Things are freezing up, and burning down. Fireplaces put in use without cleaning. Space heaters powered through light weight lamp cords. And generally stupid human tricks causing mayhem and death. But, that is what happens when a brain developed to sit in trees and cook on a fire started by lava or lightning, meets up with technology that kills as easy as it heats.
The Greenland Block is freezing D.C. with the unfortunate result is some people fail to realize this is the only cold place on Earth today. Those critters out traveling the globe will not find it frozen like it is here.
bb, stay warm and safe.
The pretend economy is doing well, but with all of the costs of the weather disasters and jaw dropping debt? Things are going to tank soon enough.
So much news today, this exclusive about the voting in Virginia caught my eye. The repug book on how to steal an election.
It appears, however, that despite similar reassurances about the lines from the Fredericksburg city attorney to the Electoral Board on Nov. 7, the underlying problems of voters not properly assigned even based on those correct maps were never addressed.
Wrong ballots in Nov. 7 election decided by 73 votes
In this year’s election, at least 147 voters cast ballots in the wrong races in parts of Stafford County and Fredericksburg. Republican Bob Thomas defeated Democrat Joshua Cole in the 28th District race by 73 votes, and voters backed by the House Democratic Caucus are asking a federal judge to order an election do-over.
Wapo’s Power Post – Daily 202 laid it out:
During our annual war on Christmas (the taking down and putting away of the decorations), aside from catching some of the UCF-Auburn game (congrats to UCF – the only undefeated D-1 school this year) I only watched part of the Rose Bowl and did watch all of the Bama defensive drubbing of Clemson. It was a trifecta for me – Auburn lost, GA bested OU (Mrs. P is so tired of hearing “Baker Mayfield, Baker Mayfield… she could just scream) and Bama won its rubber match with Clemson to finalize an all SEC national championship game. (The Auburn loss by Bama set this final matchup with GA up, so its sting isn’t quite as painful).
Now, on to more idiotic stuff from the SFB admin:
WaPo Power Post sums up the creeping destruction of years of progress by SFB.
I subscribe to the inimitable wisdom of xrepublican, Esq. : Let’s make this the best possible 2018 & yes we can do it.
Will add this timeless quote from Mr Olbermann, which should be a daily mantra to all who believe in truth, justice, democracy:
We are the majority. Let’s act like it.
As I look at the lovely picture of dear Toby (& yesterday’s incredibly cute Bu) I am heartened that not all is lost unless I decide it is & I refuse to let this happen. Remembering back to the discussion about the new Winston Churchill movie, here was one man who led by example against overwhelming odds. Better to at least try to be a Churchill than be marked as a Chamberlain. How we come out of the #45 reign of error will be a touchstone for democracies in the future.
Also thinking about both Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Stephen Breyer get older daily. Tick tick tick. If that doesn’t light a fire under you please check your pulse.
Despite all of our problems as a society & country fact is people still want to come here for a better life. The myth, the reality of the United States still burns brightly. We can make this our finest hour; this will be our finest hour.
If we are ending chain immigration let’s make it retroactive
I think I wouldn’t be here either
Regarding the border wall -Congress should tell SFB show me the money
but sleazy Paul Ryan will take it out of medicare
Paul Ryan wasn’t alive before Medicare he needs a big fat history lesson or to declare old age a pre existing condition and to limit the increase in premiums when one turns 60 It is shocking- a lot of people I know don’t have insurance from 60 to medicare
Katherine Graham Cracker,
Doubt any bipeds would be here 😉
Where would we go if suddenly deported? So many of us are mutts, not purebreds, ancestry wise. This is the greatness of America. Crazy quilt of different cloths.
A lot of people came on their own – apparently, they can stay it’s the ones that came later
Trump’s appeal is once again racist
It’s always the other guy, never your own.
Would an Archie Bunker character be allowed today on network tv? (And off topic, but on the same plain, would Maude be allowed to have an abortion?) Retro tv > retrograde politics.
Archie Bunker today –he’s president a far less charming version of Archie however
So Poobah, what’re the odds the media will wake up and start making Fridays and Sundays real news days and stop letting SFB drop announcements that would otherwise piss the majority off go into news snooze?
Well we started the day at -6, I degree colder than Barrow AK. But Barrow has only gained 2 degrees where as we have gained 26 degrees and we are at a balmy 20.
With luck this cold weather will kill some of the bugs that were so happy munching on my garden last summer.
While national politics have been a mess, locally we keep advancing with support of the voters for tax increases to fund infrastructure projects, support for a new airport terminal and expansion on our street car line. The most interesting vote was the one that passed a city wide sales tax to go into the prospect corridor a traditional black neighborhood. It even got good support in the Republican northland.
Jack
Jack… I really think that getting things done on the local and state levels is the way forward in our country. Until the trump administration is either removed or neutralized through elections, IMO, nothing much in the way of progress will get done in the foreseeable future.
Yeah… it’s damn cold here too…. thank god for wood stoves.
Jack, I remember driving down the main drag in ‘downtown’ Leavenworth back in ’79 and seeing the thermometer on the bank building reading -21deg f. It was the middle of the morning. A couple of weeks later I heard that the Army Reserve was driving convoys of heavy equipment across the Missouri River in preparation for our inevitable war in Central Europe.
Here, in sunny Columbia, it was 13deg at my house at the crack of dawn. It is now 36.
Ladies & Gentleman, the next Senator from Utah.
Hatch announces retirement from Senate
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the longest-serving GOP senator in U.S. history, announced Tuesday that he’ll retire at the end of his term — a decision that could clear the path for Mitt Romney to replace him in the Senate.
Hatch, 83, made the announcement in a video posted to Twitter. Hatch’s retirement comes despite President Trump public encouragement for Hatch to run for reelection.
“I’ve always been a fighter. I was an amateur boxer in my youth, and I brought that fighting spirit with me to Washington,” Hatch said in the video. “But every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves. And for me, that time is soon approaching.”
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Al Franken marks final day in the Senate
Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken marked his final day in the US Senate on Tuesday after he announced he would step down in the wake of groping allegations.
Franken submitted his letter of resignation, effective at 1 p.m. ET, to Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton. Franken wrote that serving in the Senate “has been a privilege and an honor.”
“I am grateful to Minnesotans for giving me a chance to serve our state and our nation, and I am proud to have worked on their behalf,” the letter states.
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Tina Smith will replace him on Wednesday.
Even with the garage a/c running at capacity, Rosie is stuck in a 60-deg discomfort zone. At least there has been no precip.
As expected SFB provided more output from a bull in his constant attempt to destroy America, maybe following his daily orders from someone who does not live here.
One of the funniest of the last day was getting the former sheriff Clarke on time out on Twitter. He got down right nasty. Twitter does respond to complaints.
Rather than spend my days in constant stomach blasting, gut wrenching, terror I burn through a lot of TV, reruns. Currently I am streaming the Bob Newhart Show on Hulu. This is a lot of fun. I may be one of the very few who thought the colors and patterns put into clothes and living was wonderful, at the time most of my life was in OD green so I had little chance to enjoy the early seventies.
What is important to my memories of the time, 1972, is that Watergate was just beginning. We had Vietnam at it’s final act, which would take three more years to complete. Nixon was about to wipe the map with McGovern. Today’s current movie, The Post, covers this period when the Pentagon Papers were being published. Post Kent State.
I can no longer compare Nixon to SFB. At least Nixon did not like the Soviets. Nixon would not destroy America. He loved our country, his flaws were not about destroying America, although that was the effect. Nixon was off the deep end and his followers did a lot of bad things. But we are now in uncharted waters with a criminal enterprise in charge of the country.
If his children loved their dad, they’d take him back home, wherever that is.
Ms Bronc,
I see what you mean. I think nixon set out on a vast criminal enterprise to keep power in Nov ’72. The trump movement begins with the vast criminal enterprise.
trump has not yet engaged in kidnapping (primarily a bush gang m.o.) but pioneered by nixon after Mrs john mitchell began blabbing to the journalists. Also, the usurper, trump, hasn’t killed 28,000 Americans in a war he knows he can’t win – yet. Far be it from me to write in his majesty’s favor, but I’ll still count the nixon gang and the bush crime family as worse than the amateur golf pro.
Flatus’ 6:23 comment makes sense to me. They must love money more than their country or their dad.
XR,
I think Trump is by far the worse of the two. Our assumption in entering the War, that the South Vietnamese were committed to winning the War, was unfounded. Damned shame–we gave tens of thousands of wonderful young people in support of a cause that did not exist in their government’s heart.
Skipping to the end of the War. Finally in December 72 we said enough is enough and bombed the shit out of Hanoi and Haiphong. Meaningful negotiations opened immediately, our POWs were freed, the War was transferred to the ARVN, and our people and loyal VN workers were evacuated to Guam.
We left honorably. We did not lose that War. And we’ve done our best to find every missing GI–still are.
No, I did not like Tricky Dick and did not vote for him. But, he sure was better than is that disgusting bastard Trump.
Flatus,
I mostly agree and come to a different conclusion. nixon’s tapes show that he realized the war was lost in Jan ’69. He says on tape that he wanted to pass the war on to the next president. In ’69 it made no military or geopolitical sense to stay in the war a minute longer than necessary. However, it apparently made some sense to a fellow who intended to stay in power for 8 years – which would mean running for a second term. More than 20,000 American service people died for nixon’s re-election ambition.
The soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen didn’t lose the Vietnam War – they were, with very few exceptions, superb. The pols and generals lost the war, going back to Ike nixing a nation wide vote and inserting the corrupt anti-Buddhist diem as our puppet in the south. diem ruined Ike’s daydream that we could ever inject a liberal democracy into So Vietnam.
Two days without a functional keyboard … It was not pleasant. On my family tree: Not counting any unknown vikings, mom’s branch got off the boat in the 1600s in what eventually became Maryland and settled down to making their own descendants. Then another branch from Germany in the mid 1800s just in time for a war. The only one guilty of “chain migration”, the 1920s era Scots who brought in anybody and anybody in the family able to get on a ship.
Trump’s Twitter stream this AM made it very obvious that all the screws are loose and rattling around. It was megalomania on a scale. Congress is now guilty of treason unless they take him down.
As far as I can tell we all came over via chain migration. I am not like trump in any other way.
Flatus, I was about 170 mile southeast of you at the time and yes it was a cold winter. I was in my mid 20’s at the time and still believed I was going to be a farmer. We had 3 hard winters in a row in the late 70’s early 80’s that changed my mind.
this winter is starting to remind me of those times but but then we never got above freezing all january and I remember 20 being a warm day.
Jack
Jamie – Maryland, Delaware and Virginia starting in the 1600’s – here is my tree
too bad the headline didn’t continue with pointing out probable obverse of the size and functioning comparison of the twit’s other appendage.
the guardian: Donald Trump boasts that his nuclear button is bigger than Kim Jong-un’s
Donald Trump has taunted North Korea’s leader about the size of his nuclear arsenal after his UN envoy, Nikki Haley, dismissed the value of proposed high-level talks between Pyongyang and Seoul.
The US president used Kim Jong-un’s New Year’s Day speech as the basis for his latest provocative tweet against the leader, whom he has previously referred to as “little rocket man”, saying the “nuclear button” in Washington is “much bigger and more powerful” than Kim’s – “and my button works!”.
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7 below, rocketing to a stifling 30 today. Then to hang in the mid teens through Saturday. Can’t wait for Sunday when it’s supposed to get to 42.
Did something to my knee yesterday. Running up steps heard a pop behind my right knee. Not able to bear weight on it. Looks like a week of ice, ibuprofen and crutches for a week to see what I did to it.
Patd, your 616 brings the cheese statue of SFB to mind – as well as jokes about tweezers and a magnifying glass.
As the winos shake-off their hangover from 2017, they did receive a parting gift from Ford the day before Christmas eve…another takata safety recall..this time, no human is supposed to sit in the passenger seat. Okay…now we own a car we cannot fully use. Maybe Ford will take those large tax cuts and do the correct thing and fix the car or give me money for the loss of use of our car. Instead? It is russian roulette for the old timers! I swear they will never take me alive and that may be their plan.
Newest tact by trump supporters to discredit Moscow Mueller.
Leaking witness (and they are allowed to leak) says…
A witness who testified before a federal grand jury that handed down indictments of top Trump associates says the president can’t get a fair shake and compared the jury room to a Bernie Sanders rally.
One of the joys of living in contiguous U.S. is no need to be concerned about hitting reindeer. In Finland, Lapland, you can down load an app to help avoid reindeer herds. Isn’t technology great?
Will super cyclone go east in the Atlantic? Or ruin my day and wobble a bit west?
SFB is really deep in to the vortex between one imaginary world or a different imaginary world.
I started following John Dean on twitter (his dogs are his twitter photo — sigh). During the Watergate hearings, I was intrigued with Dean and wife…sort of had a ‘crush’ on Dean and his ability to be brave enough to take down nixon. Last night on cnn, Dean mentioned that the Mueller investigation is month’s ahead of the leaks in the media. I liked that for I believe the same thing. Take Strzok and his affair with Lisa…a few of us posted links in August about the concern of Strzok being demoted. The juvenile repugs grabbed on to that piece of news three – four months later…behind the ‘eight ball,’ so-to-speak. Now they are dissecting the grand jury.
Dean also believes nixon could have survived if there had been a faux news network.
My favorite paragraph from the politco’s dean article — regarding that empty barrel (like the ones in his winery) nunes? chaffed got out before his role in charging comey’s october letter the media.
During our interview, on his lap was a pile of research about the case law on the speech and debate clause in Article I of the Constitution, which he’d pulled up after reading a POLITICO article about how House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is leading a small group of House Republicans meeting secretly to discuss ways to call attention to claims of corruption within the FBI and Mueller probe. Dean argues that by bypassing the normal committee process, members of the group have negated whatever immunity they might have to legal repercussions by saying they’re acting within the realm of legislating.
“Members of Congress in both the House and Senate have tried to use the speech and debate clause to protect themselves from everything from bribery to taking care of constituents with the executive branch, and been shown that that clause is not that broad,” Dean said. “I think they’re on dangerous ground.”
Pogo, no more running up stairs, mister. And my new year lesson: don’t fly from 80 degrees to 17 degrees. Have a ferocious chest cold now.
Sharks are freezing to death…our planetary system is out-of-whack. And we have humperdoo sitting at the helm in his golf diaper playing with his tweeter.
But the big oil and gas multinationals have gotten tax cuts and are playing with the money to get even more money next year. Nothing for the little people and baby, it’s cold outside.
Craig, sounds like bronchitis…make sure you do not get worse.
Poobah – trust me, I’ll be taking it easy for a while. and I can’t figure out how to run with crutches, and certainly not up stairs – but I’ll be working on it. And while I’m at work you can be drinking bourbon, laced with lemon & honey, and call it medicinal.
couldn’t resist posting this….
Without one interview from Mueller, bannon continues to ‘flip’ himself from the trumpence junta. He started in September with an interview with the shamed charlie rose by claiming firing comey was the biggest mistake in political history.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon called the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer purportedly offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton “treasonous,” according to a new book obtained by The Guardian.
Dear CNN:
Every time you have a deflecting snake oil salesperson on you give them & the administration they sell out to credence. This is enabling. Not every story has two sides. There is truth & there is falsehood. Propping up falsehood gives it legs; continuing to feed it lets it travel. Say it enough times, some folks believe …. Responsibility to truth & credibility starts with you.
BW, yep bronchitis is exactly what i’m trying to avoid. So far my regimen of Mucinex, Afrin and Vitamin C are helping.
And Jewish Penicillin and this one too
I am getting a little sick of the “left wing” of the American political scene. They have devolved into a bunch of whingers. I don’t see the Greens doing much except trying to say they didn’t have a clue Putin’s Campaign Consultants were helping the lovely Dr. Jill Stein. Are they working on local political campaigns? I think not. Greens seem to attract a certain type of personality disorder.
Keep well-watered, Boss. You’re consuming a couple of diuretics.
I was very sad to hear about the death of Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner who died from a police chokehold. She was 27 and was very active in pursuing police responsibility for her father’s death. She had an asthma attack and then a heart attack.
She was very courageous and bright. A wonderful combination.
Remember the good old days before fake news, when the American Revolution began in Concord, New Hampshire, and Lincoln was a founding father ? Those days could soon return ! Former Congresscomedienne Michele Bachmann has announced that if her god will give her the OK, she’ll run for “Franken’s senate seat”. Of course, it is Tina Smith’s senate seat, but you know bachmann. She never let any fact get in the way of her blithering.
KGC
The recipe brought back a fun memory of my first “Penicillin Cocktail” when I was 15 with a horrendous cold/flu something. My father mixed it, wrapped a scarf around my neck, and I drank it in the kitchen. By the time I was halfway down the hall to my bedroom, I was giggling and staggering and managed to fall into bed and covers being pulled up over my head. By morning not a trace of the cold. It works almost every time with some combination of vitamin C, soothing honey, stomach settling ginger, and a good night’s sleep all in a glass.
I hope Mittens runs and wins. That should cause a lot of heartburn for SFB
Yeah xrep… I hear the shot heard round the world happened in Lexington Kentucky…
Sending healing prayers to both Pogo and Craig.
Hey peoples…. it’s not a cyclone bomb… it’s a friggin’ snow storm…. deal…
Jaime
Sounds about right!
pogo…crutches? I think a cane might be better. Have you developed a baker’s cyst? House rest for both Pogo and Craig…while manafort & gates stay home, too. The manafort house arrest continues and gates is not getting out as he thought. No bail deals.
trump now attacking bannon… the unraveling beginning.
Renee,
Details, details . . . . Are we trying to be factual like the encyclopedia, or effectual like the orange mussolini ?
Oh, and I am proud to join my prayers for the sick boys to yours. Thanks for the reminder.
Pogo and Craig, eat more fiber.
From the NYT, why fiber is good for you.
From the article —
Justin L. Sonnenburg, a biologist at Stanford University who was not involved in the new studies, said that a low-fiber diet can cause low-level inflammation not only in the gut, but throughout the body.
“You can modulate what’s happening in your lung based on what you’re feeding your microbiome in your gut,” Dr. Sonnenburg said.
yep, it’s hitting the fan bigly now
nbc news:
Steve Bannon calls Trump Tower Russian meeting ‘treasonous’ in new book
by Dartunorro Clark
In a new book, Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, calls a meeting of Trump campaign officials with a Russian lawyer in Trump Tower during the presidential campaign “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.”
The book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” soon to be published by Henry Holt, was written by Michael Wolff, a columnist and an author who has written several books, including a biography of Rupert Murdoch. In it, Bannon rips into Donald Trump Jr.; White House senior adviser Jared Kushner; and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort for taking a June 2016 meeting with a group of Russians who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
“The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor with no lawyers,” Bannon said, according to a copy of the book obtained by NBC News.
“Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I happen to think it’s all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately,” he added.
Bannon also said he believed that the Russians were taken after the meeting to meet Trump, something the president has denied happened.
“The chance that Don Jr. did not walk these jumos up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero,” Bannon says in the book.
Trump issued a scathing statement attacking Bannon, saying his former adviser “lost his mind.”
“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind,” Trump said.
“Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans. Steve doesn’t represent my base — he’s only in it for himself,” the president added.
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Bannon, in the book, also anticipated that Robert Mueller’s Russia probe will zero in on money laundering.
“You realize where this is going,” Bannon says. “This is all about money laundering. Mueller chose Weissmann first and he is a money-laundering guy,” referring to Andrew Weissmann, a senior prosecutor on Mueller’s team. “Their path to f—ing Trump goes right through Paul Manafort, Don Jr. and Jared Kushner. It’s as plain as a hair on your face.”
“They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,” Bannon says in the book.
The bannon trump feud —
“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.”
Trump is now calling Bannon, who served as his campaign CEO, “a staffer” who joined the campaign after his nomination was assured. “Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look.”
Trump stated:
Boy Howdy the new book might make the Donald’s head explode
BW, thanks – if I could only get Mrs. P to buy into that resting at home thing… I won’t know about any cyst until next week’s eval, but I’d say I’ve had a Baker’s cyst in my left knee for years as a result of arthritis from overuse when I was younger and more active – problem is, it’s the right knee I injured. It was immediate and sharply painful. My 21 year old in-house would-be orthopedist, LP, sez he thinks it’s an MCL tear, which he assures me is not a big deal since I really don’t need the MCL for joint stability. With all due respect to my offspring, I’ll get a medical professional’s opinion on that.
And Poobah, I’d add that penicillin cocktail to your dosing regimen. I have to agree that Scotch is a good place to start.
another bit of fun from that new wolff book that will no doubt stir up more twisted tweets from the twit
the guardian: ‘Idiot’: Murdoch mocked Trump after phone call on immigration, book claims
Rupert Murdoch described Donald Trump as “a fucking idiot” over his contradictory views on immigration policy, a new book reveals.
The remark is contained in a fly-on-the-wall account of internecine warfare in the White House written by Michael Wolff, a Murdoch biographer, a copy of which has been seen by the Guardian.
Wolff describes a Trump Tower meeting on 14 December 2016 – during the presidential transition – involving Trump and executives from Silicon Valley companies including Alphabet (parent of Google), Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. Among the issues at stake was a potential crackdown by the incoming president on H-1B visas, the main visa used to hire foreign talent to tech companies.
Later that afternoon, Wolff writes, Trump called Murdoch, who asked how the meeting had gone.
“Oh, great, just great,” the president-elect said, according to Wolff’s account. “Really, really good. These guys really need my help. Obama was not very favourable to them, too much regulation. This is really an opportunity for me to help them.”
The book records Murdoch’s reply: “Donald, for eight years these guys had Obama in their pocket. They practically ran the administration. They don’t need your help.”
Trump is quoted as saying the companies “really need these H-1B visas”.
Wolff writes that Murdoch suggested a more liberal stance on H-1B visas would sit oddly with Trump’s hardline stance on immigration, to which the president-elect replied: “We’ll figure it out.”
Wolff writes that Murdoch shrugged as he got off the phone, and said: “What a fucking idiot.”
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Murdoch’s remark is a rare, revealing moment of discord in his lockstep alliance with the president. According to New York Times reports last year, the two men speak “on the phone every week” or “almost every day”. Murdoch’s conservative Fox News has been a powerful cheerleader for Trump, who has frequently returned the compliment, urging his supporters to watch it.
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I see a theme there…fucking idiot …..fucking moron
snl writers must be tearing their hair out now….but I bet they are happy for the mother load before them. reminds me of an old joke
His campaign CEO was a staffer? The guy who started the “Russia has dirt on Clinton” train that had a final stop in SFB Jr’s office with Jr, SFB in-law and the campaign CEO was an unpaid volunteer? Flynn who? Manafort, did he work for me? Idiotic. When the CEO lost his job he lost his mind? Well, maybe (I’d say he lost it years before that, and it was totally out the window when he decided to become campaign CEO for SFB), but they both backed Pervy Moore, so they were of one mind for a while. Jeez
more tasty tidbits and palace intrigue in excerpt from
daily intelligencer:
“Bolton’s mustache is a problem,” snorted Bannon. “Trump doesn’t think he looks the part. You know Bolton is an acquired taste.”
“Well, he got in trouble because he got in a fight in a hotel one night and chased some woman.”
“If I told Trump that,” Bannon said slyly, “he might have the job.”
Bannon was curiously able to embrace Trump while at the same time suggesting he did not take him entirely seriously. Great numbers of people, he believed, were suddenly receptive to a new message—the world needs borders—and Trump had become the platform for that message.
“Does he get it?” asked Ailes suddenly, looking intently at Bannon. Did Trump get where history had put him?
Bannon took a sip of water. “He gets it,” he said, after hesitating for perhaps a beat too long. “Or he gets what he gets.”
Pivoting from Trump himself, Bannon plunged on with the Trump agenda. “Day one we’re moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Netanyahu’s all-in. Sheldon”—Adelson, the casino billionaire and far-right Israel defender—“is all-in. We know where we’re heading on this … Let Jordan take the West Bank, let Egypt take Gaza. Let them deal with it. Or sink trying.”
“Where’s Donald on this?” asked Ailes, the clear implication being that Bannon was far out ahead of his benefactor.
“He’s totally onboard.”
“I wouldn’t give Donald too much to think about,” said an amused Ailes.
Bannon snorted. “Too much, too little—doesn’t necessarily change things.”
“What has he gotten himself into with the Russians?” pressed Ailes.
“Mostly,” said Bannon, “he went to Russia and he thought he was going to meet Putin. But Putin couldn’t give a sh- t about him. So he’s kept trying.”
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NEW THREAD
One winter we below zero for 30 days. That winter we didn’t get above freezing for 90 consecutive days. I think it was the winter of ’97-’98. The record low for the Twin Cities was -41F in 1888. The record for the TCs when I’ve been here is a paltry -37F, I believe that was in ’70. We’re damned lucky that we don’t also get Mr Jack’s Kansas winds, or Ms NY’s Great Lakes snows. The state record low is -64F set in Tower, MN, a few years back. It may have been worse across the lake in Embarrass, MN, but their measuring device froze and broke at a mere -60F.