Church of Trump

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I gotta admit I keep coming back to this site to see what Boutons posts next. It is quite entertaining.

It's a blast. I go from here to CNN, then to MSNBC.

Honest-to-God, this has been the happiest time of my life.

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Garrison Keillor: 'He will never be my president'—here's why

“Raw ego and proud illiteracy

have won out, and

a severely learning-disabled man

with a real character problem will be president.”

“‘Alas for the Trump voters, the disasters he will bring on this country will fall more heavily on them than anyone else.

The uneducated white males who elected him are the vulnerable ones, and

they will not like what happens next.”

Trump should get a new hairdo rather than

continuing to look like a “hotel lounge pianist in 1959.”

Keillor says a makeover would take about 15 minutes max.

And while they’re at it, get a speech therapist “to smooth out the Tony Soprano accent and give him a presidential voice like Nixon's or Reagan's and cut out those irritating repe ions for emphasis.”

Keillor mocks, “Do you know what I mean? Am I right? Am I right? You know I'm right. You better believe I'm right.”

“He will never be my president because

he doesn't read books,

can't write more than a sentence or two at a time,

has no strong loyalties beyond himself,

is more insular than any New Yorker I ever knew, and because

I don't see anything admirable or honorable about him.

This sets him apart from other politicians.

The disaffected white blue-collar workers elected a Fifth Avenue tycoon to rescue them from the elitists -- fine, I get that -- but

they could've chosen a better tycoon.

One who

served in the military or

attends church or

reads history,

loves opera,

sails a boat --

something -- anything --

raises llamas,

plays the oboe,

runs a 5K race now and then,

has close friends from childhood.

I look at him and there's nothing there.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1...dent-heres-why

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btw, Manhattan, Trash's hometown, the people who know him best, voted AGAINST Trash 10% - 90%

http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/new-york

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Trash is conflicted Exec Producer for NBC garbage show

Trump lashes out at NBC News on Twitter

Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump

Just watched @NBCNightlyNews - So biased, inaccurate and bad, point after point. Just can't get much worse, although @CNN is right up there!
7:02 PM - 11 Dec 2016

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...ter/ar-AAlqWEu

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How so? You consider this "thank you" tour actual productivity? And it was Pence who really negotiated the giant tax giveaway to Carrier.

Pence had the carrot, you can be sure Trump brandished the stick -- withholding contracts.

Sure, most of it's mostly show, but badmouthing the CIA and the FBI is an interesting management style. Shaking China's tree isnt just show. One wonders if he'll throw Taiwan under the bus if push comes to shove.

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Pence had the carrot, you can be sure Trump brandished the stick -- withholding contracts.

Sure, most of it's mostly show, but badmouthing the CIA and the FBI is an interesting management style. Shaking China's tree isnt just show. One wonders if he'll throw Taiwan under the bus if push comes to shove.

You don't seriously think taking a phone call is equivalent to advocating Taiwan independence do you?

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The greatest artist of our generation is meeting with the greatest president of our generation:

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Samuel Adams, to encourage resistance among those who were considering "retiring into private life":

“If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experiencd Patriots to prevent its Ruin.

There may be more Danger of this, than some, even of our well disposd Citizens may imagine.

If the People should grant their Suffrages to Men, only because they conceive them to have been Friends to the Country,

without Regard to the necessary Qualifications for the Places they are to fill,

the Administration of Government will become a mere Farce, and our pub-lick Affairs will never be put on the Footing of solid Security.”

http://www.alternet.org/election-201...-devours-apple

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https://www.the-outrage.com/collecti...p-postcard-set

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Ivanka Trump is moving into the First Lady’s White House office, because why the not

Ivanka Trump will serve as Donald Trump’s First Lady for now, since there apparently aren’t enough jokes about the President-elect’s questionable affection for his daughter.

http://usuncut.com/politics/ivanka-trump-first-lady/

First stays in NYC, First Daughter takes over.

Just you normal First Family

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Desperate, Trump Offers Ambassadorships to Anyone Who Can Bring Famous Musicians to His Inauguration

Someone should just teach Scott Baio and Stephen Baldwin to dance and sing.

http://www.alternet.org/election-201...-musicians-his

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This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson.

In ’s Angels, the gonzo journalist wrote about left-behind people motivated only by “an ethic of total retaliation.” Sound familiar?




What’s truly shocking about reading the book today is how well

Thompson foresaw the retaliatory, right-wing politics that now goes by the name of Trumpism.

After following the motorcycle guys around for months, Thompson concluded that

the most striking thing about them was not their hedonism but their “ethic of total retaliation” against a technologically advanced and economically changing America in which they felt they’d been counted out and left behind.

Thompson saw the appeal of that retaliatory ethic. He claimed that a small part of every human being longs to burn it all down, especially when faced with great and impersonal powers that seem hostile to your very existence.

In the United States, a place of ever greater and more impersonal powers, the ethic of total retaliation was likely to catch on.

https://www.thenation.com/article/this-political-theorist-predicted-the-rise-of-trumpism-his-name-was-hunter-s-thompson/

Amazing foresight.

So Trash's supporters are gonna watch Trash and the Repug establishment "burn it all down"?

As Janis Joplin sang: "Being Screwed is just another word for Screwing Myself More"

Trash said to the blacks: "Vote for Me. What Have You Got To Lose?"

He should have said that also to the white working class he's going to screw real good.

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Trash with reliable reverse-Midas touch

TRUMP GRILL COULD BE THE WORST RESTAURANT IN AMERICA

And it reveals everything you need to know about our next president.

Donald Trump is “a poor person’s idea of a rich person,” Fran Lebowitzrecently observed at The Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit.

“They see him. They think, ‘If I were rich, I’d have a fabulous tie like that.’”

Nowhere, perhaps, does this reflection appear more accurate than at

Trump Grill (which is occasionally spelled Grille on various pieces of signage).

On one level, the Grill (or Grille), suggests the heights of plutocratic splendor—a steakhouse built into the basement of one’s own skyscraper.



he restaurant features a stingy number of French-ish paintings that look as though they were bought from Home Goods.

Wall-sized mirrors serve to make the place look much bigger than it actually is.

The bathrooms transport diners to the experience of desperately searching for toilet paper at a Venezuelan grocery store.

And like all exclusive bastions of haute cuisine, there is a sandwich board in front advertising two great prix fixe deals.

The allure of Trump’s restaurant, like the candidate, is that it seems like a cheap version of rich.

The inconsistent menus—literally, my menu was missing dishes that I found on my dining partners’—were chock-full of steakhouse classics doused with unnecessarily high-end ingredients.

The menu itself would like to impress diners with how important it is, randomly capitalizing fancy words like “Prosciutto” and “Julienned” (and, strangely, ”House Salad”).

Our waiter, coiffed and charming, was determined to gaslight us into thinking we were having a good time.

“Trump gets the taco bowl and the lasagna and baked ziti,” he said, before subsequently informing the table that we could not order the lasagna or baked ziti.

I asked the waiter what Trump’s children eat. He didn’t seem to understand the question, or, like Marco Rubio, appeared unable to depart from his prescribed talking points.

“Oh, I’ve shaken hands with him before, and they’re pretty normal-sized hands,” he responded.

There was the prerequisite, practically mandatory taco bowl. The dish became the most popular item on the menu after Trump turned it into a social-media avatar of racism this summer, tweeting a photo of him happily devouring it on Cinco de Mayo and declaring, “I love Hispanics!”

Perhaps Trump’s veneer of a steakhouse is too obviously a veneer, meant for the hoodied masses to visit once and never return.

(There are already an infinite number of articles about how Trump’s mass-produced products are meant to impress a hollow sense of wealth.)

This is on me,” said our waiter, who must have noticed that we sent barely touched plates back to the kitchen, as he slipped us a tiny chocolate cake buried under whipped cream and anxious drizzles of caramel with our check, and my heart broke.

It’s not his fault that he has to run garbage food back and forth,

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/trump-grill-review?mbid=social_twitter

Snarky as ! I LOVE it. It wins so much! I never get sick of "winning" Trash.

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PUTIN TO SING AT TRUMP INAUGURATION






WASHINGTON — After having difficulty persuading prominent entertainers to participate at the event, the Trump transition team announced on Sunday that the Russian President Vladimir Putin would sing at Donald J. Trump’s Inauguration next month.

In a brief statement from the Kremlin, Putin said, “I will be most delighted to perform for my comrade.”

The choice of Putin raised eyebrows in Washington, since the Russian, while famous for invading neighboring countries and imprisoning political opponents, is not particularly well known as a singer.

The Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway pushed back against such criticism during an appearance on CNN.

“If we limited ourselves to people who had talent and experience, that would disqualify half of our Cabinet,”

she said.

Putin’s choice of musical material also stirred controversy, as politicians on both sides of the aisle questioned

his plan to perform the Russian national anthem.

According to those critics, the spectacle of Putin praising the glory and majesty of Russia in song would be inappropriate for the Inauguration of an American President.

In an attempt to quell that controversy, Putin said late on Sunday that he would instead serenade Trump by singing the Bette Midler classic, “Wind Beneath My Wings.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/putin-to-sing-at-trump-inauguration

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Trump Team Scrambles for A-List Inaugural Performers: ‘They Are Willing to Pay Anything’ (Exclusive)

Trump’s team is hoping to do better than Kid Rock and Ted Nugent

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/...l-10781463.php

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Trump inauguration takes shape: Performers include Kings of Chaos at 'rock and roll salute to armed services heroes' - along with Blues Traveler star

• Very few details have come out about Donald Trump's official inaugural activities besides Jackie Evancho being named national anthem singer
  
• However, Politico reported some musical acts that plan to perform at surrounding inaugural events
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• Veterans will be saluted by the rock super group Kings of Chaos and also by Blues Traveler's John Popper and Sam & Dave's Sam Moore
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• While four years ago Kesha played at the same fundraiser, the Recording Industry Association of America has country group Big & Rich at an event
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• A number of musicians whose names have been floated for the inaugural have since said they will not perform, including Garth Brooks and Andrea Bocelli

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4051974/Trump-inauguration-takes-shape-Performers-include-Kings-Chaos-rock-roll-salute-armed-services-heroes-Blues-Traveler-star.html

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Desperate Trump Team Reportedly Bribing People with Money & Ambassadorships to Perform at Inauguration

http://gossiponthis.com/2016/12/15/d...ships-perform/

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Don The Con Trash, not the Truth

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Not a good nickname either.

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Don The Con Trash, not the Truth

Who is performing at Hillary's inauguration?

Oh yeah...that's right. No Coronation of Clinton the Third

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Robert Reich: Trump’s ‘Leanings Are Toward Tyranny’

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich warned on Democracy Now! today, “Donald Trump also does not have any understanding of a democracy. And if anything, his leanings are toward tyranny.”

“And by tyranny,” he explained,

“I simply mean someone who absorbs the trappings of power but doesn’t understand that he, in a democracy, is a public servant. He is working for us, we are not working for him. And in many ways, Donald Trump seems to be indifferent, at best, to the democratic process.”

Reich recently wrote about the seven ways tyrants squelch speech. He points to all of these:

1. Berate the media
2. Blacklist critical media
3. Turn the public against the media
4. Condemn satirical or critical comments
5. Threaten the media directly
6. Limit media access
7. Bypass the media and communicate with the public directly

He told Amy Goodman that Trump’s behavior towards the press exhibits all of this––

”not the habit of a democratic—democratically elected president.”

And he insists this is different from others before Trump:

“We’ve never before had a president or president-elect who has taken the media on so directly and so negatively and

tried to plant in the public’s mind… the notion that the press is the enemy itself.

If the public doesn’t believe in a free and independent press, then we’re in a kind of fact-free universe,

because––and also a president is immune from criticism.

And I think that’s, consciously or not, what Donald Trump is seeking.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/rober...oward-tyranny/

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Who is performing at Hillary's inauguration?

Oh yeah...that's right. No Coronation of Clinton the Third

weak less , as usual

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Ex-spy explains how Trump’s scorn will cripple the CIA: Foreign assets know ‘facts will be ignored’

Former covert CIA agent J.C. Carleson has predicted that President-elect Donald Trump’s disdain for intelligence collected by the the agency will mean that foreign assets eventually refuse to help the United States.In a column for Fortune this week, the spy-turned-author reacts to reports that Trump is refusing to participate in daily intelligence briefings, which she concedes are not as exciting as “Breitbart headlines” that “create lurid stories out of thin air.”


“I fear that Trump’s rejection of both the content and the conclusions offered to him by the intelligence community will have a profound chilling effect on the recruitment of new assets, and

the willingness of existing assets to continue to provide information,” Carleson writes.

“Because, why should someone risk his or her life to provide sensitive information that the world now knows will go unread in our highest office?”

According to the former CIA official, Trump’s disregard for human intelligence has “consequences beyond Trump’s own dearth of information,

because once again, it serves to erode the motivation of those who might provide us with information we desperately need—information that may include details of threats to American lives and infrastructure, for example.”

“The world knows that, in the incoming administration, facts will be ignored, and reasoned analysis will be rejected,”

she writes.

“On an individual level, the why determines the what, and without the motivation of knowing that their sacrifices will ultimately make a difference, CIA sources may choose, in Trump’s parlance, to walk away from the deal.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/ex-s...ll-be-ignored/