“Now the face that I see in the mirror,
More and more is a stranger to me;
More and more I can see there’s a danger,
Of becoming what I never thought I’d be – “
(Lyric by John Denver)
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▼Rising ‘Beaver’ Moon; Nov. 14 2016▼
♬ Oh say, can you see, by the moon’s subtle light,
How PROFOUNDLY we’ve failed, since the twilight’s last gleaming . . . ♬
******
“If ever we put any other value above liberty, and above principle, we shall lose both.”
~Dwight D. Eisenhower (1960)
League Of The South Hails Trump, Wants ‘No Mercy’ Towards ‘Jews, Minorities And Anti-White Whites’: “You, by God’s grace, may have been given a short reprieve from this scenario. Redeem the time! As for me, I recommend that we get busy with Southern independence. We need our own country, and it must be run by us for our own interests. It must once again be White Man’s Land.”
In Donald Trump’s America, fear, violence and intimidation are taking over college campuses: Vandalism and slurs have surged on college campuses, from “Trump!” graffiti to pushing a Muslim student down a hill
Worst potential Trump pick of all? It might be anti-immigration guru Jeff Sessions as attorney general: The Alabama senator wants to shut down immigration and birthright citizenship — and tells “jokes” about the KKK
From 9/11 to 11/9: Is Donald Trump’s election collateral damage from the War on Terror?: How Trump exploited the War on Terror’s effects on our political culture, economy and national psyche
Why Recent Child Rape Case Against Trump Should Not Be Ignored: Victim Has A Witness (updated): Tiffany Doe herself says that she is in mortal fear of Mr. Trump to this day: “I am coming forward to swear to the truthfulness of the physical and sexual abuse that I personally witnessed of minor females at the hands of Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein . . . I swear to these facts under the penalty for perjury even though I fully understand that the life of myself and my family is now in grave danger”. (See also: www.huffingtonpost.com/…)
Trump adviser promises a return to `Drill, Baby, Drill’: An adviser to President-elect Donald Trump has now promised that the incoming administration will collect “hundreds of billions of dollars” in revenue by “opening up” federal lands and oceans to oil, gas, and coal development.
NASA: `Planetary warming does not care about the election’: A very warm October ensures 2016 will be the hottest year by far: The only way to stop this vicious cycle of ever-more dangerous threats is through a global effort to slash carbon pollution deeply and rapidly. Tragically, elections can and do affect whether major emitters like the United States will keep trying to solve the problem — or become a major reason we don’t.
“But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is
a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the
bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them that
they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism
& exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.”
~Hermann Goering (1893-1946)
Seattle Councilwoman Gets Threats After Call To Shut Down Trump’s Inauguration: ‘I will come and tattoo a swastika on your head and on that bitch’s head.’
Democratic Coalition Files FBI Election Complaint Against Stephen Bannon: Whoopsie! It looks like Brietbart head racist in charge and alt-Right champion may have skirted some pretty serious campaign finance laws while working to elect Cheeto Jesus Trump.
Steve Bannon To Help Trump Bring White Nationalism, Misogyny and Anti-Semitism To The White House
Donald Trump Taps Radical Conspiracy Theorist Frank Gaffney For Transition Team
Trump Reportedly Considering White House Post For Anti-Muslim Activist Who Called Joseph McCarthy ‘Spot On’: Trump is considering naming Center for Security Policy official Clare Lopez to a top national security post in his White House. . . . Responding to protests against Trump’s candidacy that turned violent this summer, Lopez linked the protests to a “witch’s brew” of Muslim Brotherhood supporters, Black Lives Matter activists and a “conglomeration of anarchists, communists, socialists, progressivists, leftists of all sorts, Occupy, Bill Ayers types,” all seeking to bring down “the American political system.” She also warned of “a coordinated effort to involve Muslims into the electoral process,” an effort that she said was being “directed by the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Jan Brewer: ‘Orchestrated’ Trump protesters are ‘just awful’ — and many owe allegiance to Mexico: “Obviously their allegiance isn’t to the United States, it was to Mexico,” she said, while also calling the protests “orchestrated” and “just awful.” “They’re not entitled to behave like that, I don’t believe. You know, people protest, it’s fine. A lot of them aren’t legal citizens and some of them are and they didn’t even vote and now they’re outraged. They could at least give him a chance.”
What luck for rulers, that men do not think.
~Adolph Hitler
Michele Bachmann: Trump’s Election Was ‘God Answering The Prayers Of His People’: “We saw the Lord answer so specifically that only the hand of God could do that,” she said. “Let’s pray and join and ask the Lord that godly believers would be put in these key sensitive positions. People that the Lord will use for blessing for the United States and for the world. This was the number one story of 2016: God answering the prayers of his people.”
Jim Bakker: Trump’s Election Is ‘The Greatest Miracle I Have Ever Seen’
Kenneth Copeland Now Has A Direct Line To Deliver Messages From God To President Trump: “I am totally convinced that if the Lord were to say something to me … that the president needs to hear,” he said, “I have no doubt that we could do it and do it quickly and have audience to say, ‘Thus saith the Lord’ and he wouldn’t just turn it over to an aide or something and just write it off. He would listen and it would mean something to him.”
Mike Huckabee Tells Far-Right Gathering That Trump Could Be One Of The Greatest Presidents Ever: He said that he trusted Trump to “put good people in the Supreme Court” and “put people in the State Department that might rid Foggy Bottom of the horrible pro-terrorist nonsense that has infiltrated that hideous agency.”
“The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense
founded on the Christian religion.”
~Treaty of Tripoli, signed on June 10, 1797,
by President John Adams.
▲Setting ‘Beaver’ Moon; Nov. 15 2016▲
******
Who are we, really? Do we know?
“Our Revolution commenced on more favorable ground
[than the foundation of the Ten Commandments]. It presented
us an album on which we were free to write what we pleased.
We had no occasion to search into musty records, to hunt up
royal parchments, or to investigate the laws and institutions of
a semi-barbarous ancestry. We appealed to those of nature,
and found them engraved on our hearts.”
~Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Major John Cartwright, June 5, 1824
******
“The office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not
in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”
~Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist #68
******
“The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost
duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It
will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation
has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our
national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.”
~Adolph Hitler; My New World Order, Proclamation to the
German Nation at Berlin, 1 February 1933
******
My response to the election
of Donald J. Trump
and
to the dishonor of ALL who
are responsible for his electoral “victory.”
NONE
None there are so blind as those
Who neither care nor dare to see;
And None there are so dunce as those
Who neither dare nor care to think –
But worse than those who dare not dare
To think, perchance to see,
Are those who never care to care,
But think each lie their leader speaks –
Bespeaks reality.
******
Finally, my interpretation of the rise of the (emerging) Trump Reich:
(to the tune of the Colonel Bogey March)
♬ Donald, has only got one ball
Putin, has two but they are small
Priebus has two, but Jeebus —
Herr Stephen Bannon has no balls at all! ♬
******
‘We’ll have to leave it there.’
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Trump is already working on withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement
Something isn’t right. Not that I doubt Think Progress’ intentions, but I find it hard to believe that a president can nullify a treaty (which has to be ratified by the US Senate) with just an Executive Order. There’s a reason we have the Legislative Branch give their approval to treaties. I refuse to believe a president can ignore them and cancel a treaty with just his own say-so.
I wondered that too, but it might be worth exploring and, if even remotely legit, impose an immediate halt.
A third difficult question is whether the Treaty Clause implies a Senate power or role in treaty termination. Scholarly opinion is divided, and few Framers appear to have discussed the question directly. One view sees the power to make a treaty as distinct from the power of termination, with the latter being more akin to a power of implementation. Since the Constitution does not directly address the termination power, this view would give it to the President as part of the President’s executive powers to conduct foreign affairs and to execute the laws. When the termination question first arose in 1793, Washington and his Cabinet, which included Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, embraced this view. All of them thought Washington could, on his own authority, terminate the treaty with France if necessary to keep the United States neutral.
http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/2/essays/90/treaty-clause
Global warming …. never in the history of human government, have so many people in the world been so totally fucked by the votes cast by an ignorant, racist and deplorable few.
GOP lawmaker offers law to prosecute protesters as ‘terrorists’ for blocking the street
Funny how every time protests are in support of any right wingnut agenda they’re OK and ‘Constitutional’, but when they’re in support of non-wingnut policy they suddenly become ‘Terrorism.’
Think Germany, 1933-1945.
White privilege baby, as long as you are armed to the teeth and wearing a cowboy hat, you can protest and do whatever you like – #vanillaisis
“armed to the teeth and wearing a cowboy hat . . .”
Add “stupid.” Turn Ted Nugent loose.
‘Hatred of one minority leads to hatred of all’: Jewish historians sound an alarm on Trump era
Amurkkka: Land Of the Fear And Home Of The Hate.
How about instead of deporting undocumented immigrants and/or setting up a federal Muslim “Registry” we just round them ALL up and put them in internment camps? We could build those camps most anywhere, you know, and costs would be way less than deporting (think of the gas that would be saved). Plus, there are some good and defining names for camps like that: Buchenwald, Treblinka, Majadenek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, etc., none of which are trademarked so we wouldn’t have to worry about being sued for infringement.
Next time I see Trump I’ll suggest that.
Speaking of internment camps, this just in:
Megyn Kelly To Trump Supporter: ‘You’re Not Proposing The Days Of Internment Camps, I Hope’
Speaking of Kris Kobach:
Kris Kobach, Architect Of Draconian Anti-Immigrant Policies, Joining Trump’s Transition Team
Achtung!
I suppose we can make it easy and hand out something to spot them … I have a muslim friend – 6 feet tall, blonde blue-eyes, plays basketball and everyone says she should be a model.
Maybe they can wear an armband? A yellow crescent?
Hoping they teach the new line of ICE agents the proper pronunciation of “Papiere Bitte!”
Waiting for George Takei, who knows about this first-hand, to take a swing at this.
Yes. But remember, he was interred in Amurkkka before the fascists took over. Times appear to have changed. Achtung!
Ouch. How sad.
If they implement a ‘registry’ of Muslims in this country, the impact on American Information Technology staffing would be devastating. Where I work, I would estimate that 15% or our staff is of that religious persuasion, from Pakistan and other middle eastern countries. Talking with Ray (not his real name) yesterday, he told me he’s ready to sell his home at a pretty good profit and return to his homeland a rich retiree.
But don’t confuse the fumbducks with consequences, let them act our their paranoid fantasies and watch as the fabric of our nation crumples.
There have long been two things, deeply embedded in this country, that I’ve never been able to understand. Fear, and hate. That was before Trump who taught me how to really really really strongly strongly dislike loudmouthed assholes with really bad hair; now all I can’t understand is fear.
Have we really come to this??
White man threatened for having black friends over: ‘We just cleared the White House of n****rs!’
Yes
Actually, I think we’ve been that way since maybe 300 years before I was born — mid-1600s, roughly (about the time the first whiteys arrived, whenever that was).
It’s important that this neighbor be found and prosecuted for this crime. And it is a crime. We can’t let anyone say it’s anything but a crime, or else these things will continue to happen, and probably on an hourly basis.
My best guess is that, thanks to Trump, we’re closer to that point than at any time since maybe the fifties, early sixties. Sadly, the hate persists whether under cover or spoken. One of this country’s (and maybe the world’s) most persistent — and absurd — faults: irrational hate.
A horrible tragedy has befallen us.
Duck Dynasty is ending.
No more idiot festival, I’m heart broken.
Can’t say I ever watched in the first place so I’m not missing anything.
We return you to our regular scheduled broadcast of Green Acres.
The original reality teevee program.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/17/entertainment/duck-dynasty-over-series-finale/
Sessions to be Trump’s A.J.? What could possibly go wrong?
Trump Ally Jeff Sessions’ Alarming History Of Opposing Civil Rights
Sounds like a perfect fit for the Drumpfukle Maladministration of Inquisition.
Touche and indeed, amen, etc. 😉
BREAKING: Obama administration blocks oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean and off the Atlantic coast
Unfortunately, the five year plan has a two month shelved life.
Once again Drumpfukle shows his utter lack of class, decorum and common effing sense.
Ivanka joins him at his meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister. She, of course, is representing the rich girl constituency, who is so dramatically under represented in foreign relations.
So,,,,,, Drumpfuckle is a loser after all Trump agrees to $25M settlement to resolve Trump U lawsuits
Last I remember what der Fuhrer called folks that ‘settled’ lawsuits.
LOSER.
Ten bucks says he’ll refuse to pay a dime of the “settlement” — at least until the Drumpf “Foundation” finds a way to collect that much.