I doubt that very much. I'm guessing he's been counting down the days for months. I know I would be.
& you don't believe that. He's addicted to power, like the Clintons. Addicted to the soft seat, like the Clintons. (They) ain't foolin' anybody who doesn't want to be fooled.
He'll have to sit on one of those metal lounge chairs in his backyard with his Sears binoculars and watch the House. + he'll rouse the rabble. That's what he's good for whether POTUS, organizer, or, now mean old black man.
If he wants to stay in public service or in Washington after his Presidency, more power to him. We need more people like Obama in Washington.
I doubt we'll see that gloating from the Dems, but all kinds of nastiness is in bounds for the Repugs and their hateful supporters.
Looking at Trash's DISAPPROVAL numbers already, it looks like only the truly stupid, ignorant are pleased with Trash.
Just wait til those hard core assholes see the damage that the Repugs are gonna visit on the country.
Reasonable. Speaks above a 4th grade bible school teacher level.
A message to my doomed colleagues in the American media
Watching Trump’s presser, I had a feeling I’d seen it all before — while covering Vladimir Putin’s annual news conferences.
Congratulations, US media! You’ve just covered your first press conference of an authoritarian leader with a massive ego and a deep disdain for your trade and everything you hold dear.
We in Russia have been doing it for 12 years now — with a short hiatus when our leader wasn’t technically our leader — so quite a few things during Donald Trump’s press conference rang my bells. Not just mine, in fact — read this excellent round-up in The Moscow Times.
Putin’s pressers are televised live across all Russian TV channels, attended by all kinds of media — federal news agencies, small local publications and foreign reporters based in Moscow — and are supposed to overshadow every other event in Russia or abroad.
These things are carefully choreographed, typically last no less than four hours, and Putin always comes off as an omniscient and benevolent leader tending to a flock of unruly but adoring children.
Given that Putin is probably a role model for Trump, it’s no surprise that he’s apparently taking a page from Putin’s playbook. I have some observations to share with my American colleagues.
You’re in this for at least another four years, and you’ll be dealing with things Russian journalists have endured for almost two decades now. I’m talking about Putin here, but see if you can apply any of the below to your own leader.
Welcome to the era of bull .
Facts don’t matter.
You can’t hurt this man with facts or reason.
He’ll always outmaneuver you.
He’ll always wriggle out of whatever carefully crafted verbal trap you lay for him.
Whatever he says, you won’t be able to challenge him.
He always comes with a bag of meaningless factoids (Putin likes to drown questions he doesn’t like in dull, unverifiable stats, figures and percentages), pla udes, false moral equivalences and straight, undiluted bull .
He knows it’s a one-way communication, not an interview. You can’t follow up on your questions or challenge him.
So he can throw whatever he wants at you in response, and you’ll just have to swallow it.
Some journalists will try to preempt this by asking two questions at once, against the protests of their colleagues also vying for attention, but that also won’t work: he’ll answer the one he thinks is easier, and ignore the other.
Others will use this opportunity to go on a long, rambling statement vaguely disguised as a question, but that’s also bad tactics.
Non-questions invite non-answers.
He’ll mock you for your nervous stuttering and if you’re raising a serious issue, respond with a vague, non-committal statement
(“Mr President, what about these horrible human rights abuses in our country?” “
Thank you, Miss. This is indeed a very serious issue.
Everybody must respect the law.
And by the way, don’t human rights abuses happen in other countries as well?
Next question please”).
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I’m writing about propaganda, fake news and Russian state media on noodleremover.news.
It’s all in Russian, but here’s an example of what I’m doing in English.
You can contact me at [email protected]. I tweet as @Alexey__Kovalev.
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Rep John Lewis is being an idiot calling trump illegitimate
He's senile. & needs to go on into the dust that is always the end.
Trash is illegit
Dems learned something today from FBI that has them boiling with anger. no details.
Comey and Assange elected Trash, he is ILLEGITIMATE.
He's THE BOSS. Get used to it.
Get off it.
It was a close election, Trump is the winner, move on.
Wasn't really that close. It wasn't Bush/Gore. Which is why it's strange Democrats think they are going to gain something by trying to delegitimize Trump's victory. It didn't do anything to help them when they tried it against Dubya and they had a much stronger case then imo.
I still remember John King running back from the Supreme Court building after the stewards delivered the judgment. He grabbed the paper and ran---the closer he got to the microphone the slower he gaited. I knew then it was gonna be alright.
Nothing will come close to that. Swing states that went to Donald were close.
But when you get butt stomped in the popular vote.
Its close. It was a strange election and a close election.
Sorry.
The nation is very divided. It is a unique time.
Its strange the Republicans feel like this is some sort of mandate.
The popular vote doesn't mean anything. So Hillary did a great job turning out the vote in California, a place voter turnout didn't matter at all. That's meaningless.
Do you think the Democrats have done anything wise post election to help them regain some power?
So Donald did a great job in Texas. Throw my state out... What you got...
The vote was close.
The nation is clearly divided.
You don't believe this.
The Democrats have whined and griped. 4 years from now they could very well have it thrown back in their lap which would be disturbing based on this election and their utter inability to see that Trump tappped into the same basic idea as Bernie.
Well if the roles were reversed and Trump's huge popular vote lead was entirely accountable to the margin of victory in Texas then yes I would say throw it out. Electoral votes are all that counts and by that measure it wasn't close. If it were just swing states Trump eeked out a victory in then maybe you'd have a better argument but he beat her in blue states that shouldn't have been up for grabs.
Democrats have a lot more to worry about than just getting back the WH.
Again.
It does not matter which way the votes were supposed to go.
Hillary was supposed to Stomp Donald's buttt. It did not happen, it was close.
Believe what you would like, I think it's pretty clear we have a divided country and had a close election. Lotta people stayed up late. You go to bed early, saw it was clearly wrapped up?
With all the Republicans that are now clinging to Donald in close States, in 4 years the Senate and House could be reversed. IMO this would be troubling. better get done.
Historically, not that impressive an EC victory, tbh.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...College_margin
we've had 58 elections. this was 46th on the list of biggest blowouts if you look at the electoral college
it was also the 3rd worst popular vote margin for a winner in US history
no matter how you slice it, it was a fairly close election, all things considered. that's not to say he's not the deserved winner or crap like that, but to call the election a close one is fairly accurate tbh
LOL Snakeboy.
Boots.
You are utterly worthless.
You are most likely the worst example of a Democrat ever. I'm voting Republican with one big switch if you are an average Democratic mind.
First, Destroy the Federal Workforce?—?Then Rule Like an Autocrat
The bureaucracy is one of the last things standing in Donald Trump’s way
President-elect Donald Trump’s greatest advantage is the fact that he is facing a public and a media that have no framework for understanding him. American politics and journalism long ago suppressed and expelled the people who were equipped to understand exactly what the is going on right now.
Trump and congressional Republicans have effectively ended the federal civil service in the last week or two, and along with erosions of cons utional authority enacted by Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and their immediate predecessors, Trump will very likely have near-autocratic powers almost immediately after he is sworn in next week.
Four specific actions?—?among others?—?have done the most to signal Trump’s shift.
First we have the questionnaires the Trump transition team sent to the U.S. Department of Energy about individuals working on climate change and to the U.S. State Department about who was working on gender equality issues.
Next came the announcement by the Trump team that all Obama-appointed political ambassadors would be terminated on Jan. 20, 2017, no exceptions, regardless of cir stance. they direct official business in the courts of the United States’ closest and oldest allies, making extended vacancies in these posts problematic. Trump has broken with tradition and good sense in issuing a formal “tough ” to these appointees and the embassies in which they serve.
Third came Trump’s war of words against the CIA, his appointment as national security advisor of a figure that the CIA despised and ran out of town and his refusal to receive regular briefings from the intelligence agencies. The so-called “deep state” is the element of the federal bureaucracy most immune to political change, and Trump is taking it on. If Trump can push around the CIA, what hope does the EPA have?
Finally, in the aftermath of public outrage over the GOP’s attempted evisceration of the Congressional Ethics Office, lawmakers sneaked in a return of the so-called Holman Rule, a 19th-century parliamentary procedure that allows any member of Congress to cut any particular federal position’s salary to $1.
The pushback against the CIA shows that there are no limits to where they will assert their will.
The questionnaires show that they are searching deep within the federal bureaucracy for their political targets.
And the Holman Rule change gives them the weapon with which to strike those targets.
The entire federal bureaucracy will fall in line with Trump’s whims — or it’ll end up on the list of one-buck chumps.
https://medium.com/defiant/first-des...b5f#.392je64x0
Trash doesn't give a about Federal bureaucracy.
He's an ignorant, clueless LOSER who is being steamrolled, bypassed by the Repug/VRWC/capitialist strategy to destroy Federal govt, and he DOESN'T GIVE A .
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