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Dems should shut the govt down. I would love to see how the media and liberals spin it.
GOP Forces Dems To Allow Rushed-Mattis Waiver Or Risk Shutdown
Republicans tucked a measure intended to expedite the confirmation of Gen. James Mattis to be secretary of defense into a must-pass Congressional spending bill late Tuesday.
The measure would essentially limit debate on a waiver that is needed in order for retired Gen. Mattis to serve as secretary of defense.
Under current law, the Department of Defense cannot be run by an individual who has served in the military in the last seven years. The waiver would allow Mattis to serve in that role even though he has only been out of the military for three years.
the waiver required to approve Mattis still needs 60 votes to pass, essentially making him subject to a 60 vote threshold.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gop-...+%28TPMNews%29
Repugs playing crazy hardball?
Dems should vote no waiver, block Mattis totally, and shut the govt down. the Repugs.
Dems should shut the govt down. I would love to see how the media and liberals spin it.
you got it backwards, naturallly.
The Dems refuse Repugs' power play, the REPUGS shut down the govt.
John Kelly, Retired Marine General, Is Trump’s Choice to Lead Homeland Security
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/us...T.nav=top-news
Trump repeatedly said the generals don't know much and that even he knows more than they do, yet he sure is attracted to them. Maybe we should call the Trump White House "Pentagon 2.0".
Trump's National Security Advisor sent 16 fake news (propaganda) stories on social media
Donald Trump has hired someone who has spread fake news throughout the presidential campaign:
As Donald Trump’s national security adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn will have to advise the president of the veracity of foreign and domestic threats, separating those that require immediate policy action from propaganda or misinformation.There is another name for fake news: propaganda. Much of it sponsored by Russia:
But Flynn himself has used social media to promote a series of outrageous conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama and their inner circles in recent months —
pushing dubious factoids at least 16 times since Aug. 9, according to a POLITICO review of his Twitter posts.
Flynn, who has 106,000 Twitter followers, has used the platform to
retweet accusations that Clinton is involved with child sex trafficking and
has "secretly waged war” on the Catholic Church, as well as charges that
Obama is a “jihadi” who “laundered” money for Muslim terrorists.
Now some say Flynn’s fondness for spreading fake news casts doubt on his fitness to serve as the White House’s national security adviser,
suggesting that
he either can’t spot a blatant falsehood or
is just ideologically bent to believe the worst of his perceived enemies.
The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a
sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the
goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton,
helping Republican Donald Trump and
undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation.
Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery — including
thousands of botnets,
teams of paid human “trolls,” and
networks of websites and social-media accounts —
echoed and amplified right-wing sites across the Internet as they portrayed Clinton as a criminal hiding potentially fatal health problems and preparing to hand control of the nation to a shadowy cabal of global financiers.
The effort also sought to heighten the appearance of international tensions and promote fear of looming hostilities with nuclear-armed Russia.
Either
Flynn fell for the propaganda hook, line and sinker and was unable to differentiate between real news and propaganda—
or,
he intentionally sent out propaganda and false information to the public.
In either case, it is disqualifying for a role in national security. Period. End story.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016...g-his-fee-fees
Last edited by boutons_deux; 12-07-2016 at 07:54 PM.
Trash the KLOWN is still driving the Klown Kar, dumped all the other Repug KLOWNS,
and is now reloading with a new crowd of KLOWNS
Last edited by boutons_deux; 12-07-2016 at 01:07 PM.
ing Oklahoma Attorney General Who Is Suing The EPA Picked By Trump To Head EPA
President-elect Trump’s nominee to run the Environmental Protection Agency is Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who has strong ties to the energy industry, is an outspoken critic of climate change, clean energy efforts, and federal regulation in general, and who is currently involved in multi-state lawsuits against the very agency he may soon be put in charge of.
Pruitt, who has been Oklahoma’s AG for six years, is among the attorneys general signing on to litigation alleging that the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan — which would, among other things, establish a nationwide limit on carbon pollution produced from power plants — violates existing federal law.
“The Clean Power Plan is an unlawful attempt to expand federal bureaucrats’ authority over states’ energy economies in order to shutter coal-fired power plants and eventually other sources of fossil-fuel generated electricity,” Pruitt said in 2015, per Bloomberg.
During his presidential campaign, Trump declared that if he was was elected he would “scrap the Clean Power Plan,” which he described as a “war on coal and the war on miners.”
https://consumerist.com/2016/12/07/a...p-to-head-epa/
America is ed and un able
Trump was trolling THE MEDIA.
Anything Trump has said or done is up for debate as to if he really meant it.
So you get to go ahead and pick what you think Trump was really intending to say. It's a super convenient, easy to use method.
He didn't say retired generals though.
I love that Trump is trolling the out of everyone with his appointments
He's so hard to hate on
eventually I will hate on him, but for nowmedia
Trump parades Al Gore around.. hires Scott Pruitt
Master troll
To all d emos melting down. U must have been too young or too stupid to remember Dubya picked the criminal Karl Rove and the mass murderer psychopath Cheney to his cabinet.
This is a walk in the park compared to that
Wake me up when Trumps cabinet murders a million Iraqis and thousands of US service men
forgot about Rumsfeld
And Killaleza Rice
Last edited by hater; 12-07-2016 at 09:07 PM.
Linda Harvey Calls On HHS Nominee Tom Price To Crack Down On sexuality
Mission America president Linda Harvey today hailed Donald Trump’s selection of Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services, and urged Price to use his role to
begin “dismantling” the “mythological ‘gay’ iden y.”
Writing in WorldNetDaily, Harvey expressed hope that Price, who has a history of hostility to LGBT rights and is a member of a radical HIV/AIDS denialist group,
will reverse the LGBT rights gains that took place during the Obama administration and use the federal agency, and the Centers for Disease Control in particular, to withdraw grants from LGBT-allied groups like GLSEN and Planned Parenthood,
end its use of terms like “males who have sex with males,” and
send the message to gay people: “Don’t have anal sex, period.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/l... sexuality/
Here’s Why Trump Picked An Ex-WWE CEO To Lead The Small Business Administration
Despite Trump's emphasis on McMahon's business a en, the real reasons for the pick are likely more Trumpian than that.
McMahon helped bail the Trump Foundation out of debt in 2007, when she gave a whopping $4 million to the organization.
Thanks to her donation, the foundation was able to finish that year with $3.2 million in the bank and remain on a solid footing since – also, those massive self-portraits of Trump didn’t just pay for themselves.
More from the Washington Post:
The biggest single contribution came in 2007.That’s right, McMahon helped keep Trump’s slush fund from going under.
That year, Vince and Linda McMahon of World Wrestling Entertainment fame gave the foundation $4 million.
(The contribution is listed in the foundation’s tax filings as having come from WWE itself, which a representative of WWE told The Post is incorrect.)
Thanks to that contribution, the foundation ended 2007 with $3.2 million in the bank.
It had $3 million at the end of 2008.
At the end of 2011, it still had $2.1 million left over, having collected $6.8 million between 2007 and 2011 (including that McMahon money) and having given out $4.6 million to charities.
It’s all one big pot of money, so you can’t draw a clear line from one incoming contribution to one going back out, but without that McMahon check, the Trump Foundation would not have been able to make the contributions it made from 2007 through the end of 2012.
The president-elect’s announcement that she will lead the Small Business Administration isn’t the result of thoughtful decision making on Trump’s part. It’s simply the latest indication that Trump values loyalty to him and his interests above all else.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/07/trump-picked-billionaire-ex-wwe-ceo-lead-small-business-administration.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medi um=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+% 28Politicus+USA+%29
Last edited by boutons_deux; 12-08-2016 at 09:09 AM.
Volume shooterforgot about Rumsfeld
And Killaleza Rice
If Trash give State to Petraeus, we'll have junta, including loss of civilian control of the military.
Attacking the other candidate is always in vogue. Ugly will always be ugly. Trumps a but "progressives" (ie center right policy supporters+SJWs with no moral compass of their own) made their bed with the "you better accept the election results" pre talk. 90% of this country tbh
So Trump wont be cic?
pro forma, when was the last time a military guy was Secy of Defense?
of course, the MIC has been out of control for 50+ years, and, after $10Ts of welfare, it hasn't won since 1945
Trash's Labor secy
"I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/...+%28TPMNews%29
trash personnel is trash policy
I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis too.
have we gotten to the point where men have to be gay or asexual to not be s bags?
Gay men are still s bags to the left if they're white, because they still have "white privilege" and "cis-male privilege."
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