Any bad stuff though?
Yep, just what President Trump needs !
(But neither Trump or Flynn appears to “play well with others”, so it will only work, if they have a common enemy, even if they have to invent it).
Let’s see. Bannon. Sessions. Flynn.
Trump himself is going to play pretend president whenever he needs the ego boost, but his cabinet will be the ones actually running things. This is going from bad to worse, folks…
Congrats, “Bernie or Bust!” people (those who didn’t vote, voted for Trump, or voted for a 3d-party candidate)! You got “Bust!”
“Flynn’s position does not require Senate confirmation.”
Ugh. another Bannon, et al. Where will it end?
Thanks for the summary Allegra. I was aware of only about half of these gems.
I assume TPM will publish similar summaries for the other appointments.
or Bannon or…
Its going to be a Romper Room of a cabinet.
It is highly unfair to cite the following statement as demonstrating how Flynn Jr. buys into conspiracy theories:
… Hillary Clinton would be tried for treason in a Trump administration.
This is something that may very well come to pass, given the trajectory of the incoming administration.
In lieu
When the Comey letter came out, Flynn was the guy who called for Clinton to step aside, .
I heard he drinks Pabst.
Iran is avaliable
Flynn was let go because of his domineering, combative management style
That is bureaucratize for mental instability.
Not only is that bureaucratese for mentally unstable, it has to be unbelievably bad for them to actually get rid of him. The damaged or damaging in an agency are usually rubber-roomed (put where they can do no harm or isolated). It takes some pretty awful stuff to actually cause a bureaucracy to act to get rid of someone publicly. In this case, the fact that he was not someone who they chose for the position, but was imposed on them, undoubtedly made it easier.
Also, the woman called him dumb as a post, also in bureaucratese, but leaving no doubt as to her meaning.
MSM and Republicans: Just give Trump a chance - wait and see if he doesn’t try to govern differently than his campaign led you to believe.
First rule of surviving autocracy - Believe what the autocrat tells you.
They are organizing protests across the country for inaugural day - I am going to be there. This guy is demonstrably dumber than Trump, and that is saying something.
Bannon loves this guy and loves his son even more
This Is Not Normal
WTF? Isn’t Yuengling the Trump beer? Everybody I know has switched to Pabst in order to not support Yuengling. Maybe it’s time to find a reasonably priced Prosecco.
To whoever TPM headline writer: Add “Pro-Putin” to the headline too to make it a little more comprehensive.
In August, Flynn gave a speech at a gathering of ACT! For America, which the Southern Poverty Law Center deems “the largest grassroots anti-Muslim group in America.” In that address, he called Islam a “political ideology” masquerading as a religion and argued that the faith, held by 1.6 billion followers worldwide, was a “malignant cancer.”
Forget everything, and I mean everything, you thought you knew about international diplomacy and the fragile relationships holding us back from all out war - we just went code red and the newly drawn lines are Christianity versus Muslim and White versus Black. If you use these two filters (plus making Trump family the richest family in the world) to view everything that happens going forward you will have no trouble predicting the next move.
I will be there too.
Yes. The 77000 fewer votes out of Wayne Co (Detroit). were Bernie or Busters, as well as the rural Wisconsin vote:
Trump won “non-college” whites in Wisconsin by 28 points — a group Romney carried by just 8 in 2012. He won rural voters by 29 points in a state where they constitute a major swing vote.
“Wow,” said political scientist Kathy Cramer, who studies rural communities, when she heard that number. No GOP nominee had won the rural vote in Wisconsin by more than 10 points in recent decades. Democrat Obama won them by 8 in 2008.
Bernie or Busters, all of 'em.