Trump’s crew just came to the same conclusion internally, but their take is slightly different – “Our NatSec pick pushed fake Clinton news 16 times since August!”, followed by high fiving.
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What can be said of a POTUS elect who chooses a CT cretin like Flynn for his National Security Advisor while refusing real hard core intell briefings? I’m at a loss for words. Used to wake up from nightmares, now we wake up to the worst nightmare.
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Hallelujah! General Jack D. Ripper has been incarnated in the person of General Michael Flynn. At long last there is someone in the federal government who will protect our precious bodily fluids.
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I hate to say it, but I’m kinda with Glenn Greenwald in that we should be careful how we use the term “fake news.” We need to more clarity. Is this propaganda? A conspiracy theory? Straight up manufactured disinformation-for-profit? These are important distinctions.
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Are we in a constitutional crisis yet ?
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Have had a lot of my comments about trump deleted from our local newspaper lately. Been commenting there for many years and never had one comment removed but now when I cut and paste trumps exact words about how he vilely condemned Carson in the primary my friends on the other side who have never been exposed to the grossness of trump down vote me for being “uncivil”. It’s not trump saying those ugly things that is uncivil but my reporting on them that the people find offensive. We are supposed to move on and never remember what we heard trump say and do as captured on modern recording devices. Most of the people who object to what I’m saying just have never heard the vileness of trump because of the news/information bubble they live in. Post truth/fake news addled beyond anything we have ever seen before and I’m frightened by the implications for our country.
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Another woman yesterday made the claim that all the quotes of trump are just out of context statements being made to make trump look bad. Once again it is not the vileness of trump that is objectionable but the reporting on his own deeds and words that many like this woman find so offensive as to launch into another CT.
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Flynn is so deplorable, it almost makes you forget that Steve (if it’s white, it’s all right) Bannon will be officing steps away from the Oval Orifice.
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Flynn is making Condi “mushroom clouds over Manhattan” Rice look like an innocent Barbie Doll.
Huh…I missed that. Thanks for the correction (and I was having so much fun with that cross-exam daydream too!).
So we’re back to square one then: Dem messaging failure. In fact, it’s just a plain old lack of messaging at all. Fucking infuriating.
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He needs to go ASAP. No discussion; just gone.
Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld set up the Office of Special Plans at the Pentagon to “stovepipe” sketchy or outright false intell leads up the ladder to the POTUS desk. And that guy was not the sharpest pencil at the desk to say the least.
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Plan, not bug.
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And Condi “mushroom clouds over Manhattan” Rice is back teaching at Stanford and her underling Dan Sullivan was elected to the US Senate from Alaska. Bush actually rewarded both of them for perverting the National Security Advisor office by advancing them to the State Department in his second term. Failing upwards is a real thing in the GOP.
Jonathan Alter last night pointed out that if this was a different time, every one of these monsters from Trump on down his list of appointees and nominees would be under scrutiny with journalists camped outside their homes 24/7 to get answers. Now we have a media that has become so lazy, usually just covering whatever FOX determines is news worthy, that they never saw Trump coming until it was too late. Where were the damning stories about his sexcapades, his business dealings, his bankruptcies, his general lack of skill in anything other than saying “You are Fired!”, and on and on. Where was this site in going down the throats of all his nominees and ferreting out their qualifications or lack thereof before it was too late? Well, at least now some media are trying, but it is kind of like trying to put the horse back in the barn when it is on fire - it does not work. Fake News has taken over because no one bothered to call it out when it first started in such a manner that social media platforms would have had to put filters and disclaimers on these sites to note that they were satire or fictional sites, not real legitimate news sites and should not be taken at face value. But, of course, claiming that they did not want to censor free speech, they did not take the middle ground and warn users - NO, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, etc. just let it go and now people are in real danger.
When you have a political arena in which facts are not longer important and the leaders of that arena are mentally unstable and clearly not fit for their jobs, then you have the beginnings of dictatorships and anarchy leading to civil war. Flynn and his son are a clear and present danger to us all, but when they are following the lead of a man who is so patently unfit for the office to which a minority of Americans elected him, we can only pray that the Electoral College does not elect him or we can pray that we will survive until we can get him impeached, his thugs sent packing, and the radical GOP out of Congress in 2018. Until then the body count is going to start ratcheting up and people are going to suffer greatly who do not deserve it just so one maniac can feed his ego.
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“…occult rituals involving bodily fluids.”
Presumably, Flynn has no problem with occult rituals of a non bodily fluid nature. Sounds like he may believe in zombies too.
My thoughts exactly. ISIS and Al Qaeda first up, but think China and Russia… they’re very adept at this stuff in Russia already, as I understand it, having disseminated fake news about Hillary throughout the campaign.
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One of the job requirements for being in the Trump administration is possessing a long history of megalomania.
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Who would have thought that Baldwin actually had to serve the nation in his capacity at SNL.
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How is he going to explain a nuclear war once Trump starts one for no reason at all? Is he going to say the nuclear winter proves there is no global warming?
Is there anyone in the conservative world who isn’t a liar, con man or just plain stupid?
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