MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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President Donald Trump is reshuffling the US National Security Council (NSC), downgrading the military chiefs of staff and giving a regular seat to his chief strategist Steve Bannon. Mr Bannon, formerly the head of the populist right-wing, Breitbart News website, will join all high-level discussions about national security.
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It was clear that Trump was mentally ill during the Primaries. The electoral college was designed to keep someone like Trump from being President. The EC failed in it's duty. The media carried Trump speeches like he was a head of state. The coverage of Hillary was overwhelmingly negative. Media benefited Trump. Hillary got more votes than Trump. Citizens are the only one left to oppose Trump. The electoral college and the media are worthless. Republicans are not patriots, they only care about power. Democrats have to fight everything Trump proposes our they will be part of an Authoritarian government.
Kellyanne Conway's response to the outrage is "Get used to it, he's just getting started". I fear for the United States.
http://www.businessinsider.com/conway-on-trump-refugee-ban-get-used-to-i...
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 11:25am
That is an informative article made better by links within it. Here is one about an executive order that I like.
by A Guy Called LULU on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 11:44am
With Trump, you always have to read the fine print. He created new loopholes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/politics/trump-toughens-some-facet...
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 12:06pm
The part that I like is a ban on administration officials from ever lobbying the US on behalf of a foreign government. I may have missed it but I didn't see any loophole mentioned that affects that part of the signing statement.
by A Guy Called LULU on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 3:21pm
The problem is that Trump's loopholes will quicken the ability to lobby for the agency where a person served, something that can lead to abuse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/28/trumps-l...
There is no reason to believe Trump won't waive the foreign restrictions, he is all smoke and mirrors.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 4:08pm
Note 20% of their time. In meetings with government officials or 'preparing' for them. And that is it.
They keep track of this time on the "drain the swamp honor system".
There is no mention of money received for lobbying, or what that constitutes in your gross income, in the definition of a lobbyist, (see disclosure act above).
link
by NCD on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 5:21pm
Lobbyists don't have to register, and Trump executive orders may expire when Trump leaves office.
It is not a law in other words.
by NCD on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 12:50pm
While President, Trump is free to give waivers to his faithful minions.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 1:01pm
Oh yeah, the voters don't care, forgot that, thanks.
by NCD on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 1:05pm
Pretty scary.
Thankfully, I see there's already this pushback
McCain: Bannon's spot on NSC a 'radical departure', The Hill, 01/29/17 11:43 AM EST
and, though I don't have a subscription so I can't see what they report on it, I see that the WSJ published an article this morning with two reporters on it:
Donald Trump Shuffles National Security Council
Executive measure adds Steve Bannon while removing Director of National Intelligence, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and @ "Business Insider"
Trump just made a sweeping, unprecedented change to the National Security Council
Business Insider - 43 minutes ago
President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum Saturday that removed the nation's top military and intelligence advisers as regular attendees of the National Security Council's Principals Committee, the interagency forum that deals with policy ...
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 12:01pm
P.S. On the other hand, maybe it's better that he continues to do exceptionally delusional stuff like this fast and furious rather than backing down and hiding his worst qualities for a while?
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 12:12pm
You don't mix politics with national security. Bannon is as nutty, deceitful and dangerous a nazi leaning nutjob as exists.
Hope the idiot military types who ecstactically backed Trump are enjoying week 2.
by NCD on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 12:56pm
I don't know why but when I think of the military guys possible reaction to this, what keeps popping into my mind is comic Larry David's TV series "Curb Your Enthusiam". The surreal quality of every interaction....
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 1:15pm
Susan Rice & Bob Gates reactions:rounded up @ HuffPo
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 12:29pm
The hashtag #StopPresidentBannon hit the top of Twitter's U.S. trending chart as thousands sought to protest President Trump's chief strategist. Bannon was promoted to a role on the National Security Council (NSC) on Saturday
@ Time.com
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 12:35pm
Bannon usually looks like he just emerged from the Fuhrerbunker after a particularly intense Russian artillery bombardment, with a sinister half grin displaying his delusional confidence in ultimate victory.
by NCD on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 1:04pm
This former Art History T.A. gives you an A+ for translating visuals into written language.
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 1:54pm
During the campaign, it was optimistically assumed Mike Pence would run the day-to-day at the White House.
Here's Steve Bannon - 7 years as a junior officer ending 35 years ago, mainly learning to steer a boat. Vague bio has him coming back from the Gulf in late 1980 - under Carter - and getting a job as an assistant for Thomas Hayward, CNO - but Hayward retired June 30, 1982, so that gives Bannon maybe 1 1/2 years doing what (how many assistants does the Chief Naval Officer have?).
Bannon then started working on a Masters at Georgetown, and then left the Navy for Harvard, so it's pretty obvious he wasn't a key mover in the operation. Some hagiographic writeup had him "working 12 hours and then going off to study", which overhypes the typical military day in Washington by quite a bit.
But hey, if we ever need to rescue hostages in the desert, Bannon's seen how not to do it relatively up close.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 5:04pm
I mean, why would you want the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on that committee? Other than the fact that they're exactly the people the committee exists for?
by Doctor Cleveland on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 4:05pm
Brooks and Shields tag team the new opposition:
Brooks: "It is wierd."
by moat on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 6:47pm
Thank you. That was excellent, both ot them.
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/30/2017 - 12:30am
There's a leaker from inside Trump world to the NYTimes, as evidenced by this excerpt from the relatively long article
Bannon Seizes a Security Role From Generals by Glenn Thrust & Maggie Haberman, Jan. 29:
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/30/2017 - 1:41am
look at that, the word "rant" in a headline @ Business Insider about a White House press conference:
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/30/2017 - 4:10pm
Trump would probably tweet on this, but he doesn't read.
by NCD on Mon, 01/30/2017 - 11:32pm