I believe we are about to find out what would have happened had Joseph McCarthy become President……….
Update: In fact, I expect there will be a resurgence of “McCarthyism,” but done in Trump fashion.
Election 2016
Truly, Trippingly Bizarre.
Max Boot: “There is only one way to get to the bottom of this tawdry affair: Appoint a bipartisan, 9/11-style commission to investigate all of the allegations and issue a public report. The former C.I.A. directors Leon E. Panetta and Michael V. Hayden, among other possible choices, would provide instant credibility if they were appointed to lead such a panel.”
Has there ever been a more inept person slated to fill the Presidency than Trump? If what Max Boot recommends comes to pass, this will be the first President to enter office under investigation.
Oh, and there’s this from Fortune:
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the law firm advising President-elect Donald Trump on handling his business conflicts, won the Russia Law Firm of the Year award in 2016.
The law firm announced the award in a press release last May, noting it was recognized in the Chambers & Partners’ 2016 Chambers Europe guide. According to Morgan Lewis’ website, the firm’s Moscow office staffs more than 40 lawyers who are well known in the Russian market and “have deep familiarity with the local legislation, practices and key players.”
Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning that he had no ties to Russia and repeated the sentiment during a press conference later in the day.
Is he truly that ignorant to believe he can get away with claiming no connection when his law firm won the Russia Law Firm of the Year award in 2016? What the hell? In what world is it okay to lie like this? And don’t get me started on the fact he has been cozy with Putin, the ex-KGB and now ruler of Russia.
And the GOP is okay with all this?
I swear, a Russian sleeper cell must have finally managed to drop acid into ever single water supply for the whole damn nation.
The Story So Far
(BuzzFeed)
Now BuzzFeed News is publishing the full document so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of the US government.
The document was prepared for political opponents of Trump by a person who is understood to be a former British intelligence agent. It is not just unconfirmed: It includes some clear errors. The report misspells the name of one company, “Alpha Group,” throughout. It is Alfa Group. The report says the settlement of Barvikha, outside Moscow, is “reserved for the residences of the top leadership and their close associates.” It is not reserved for anyone, and it is also populated by the very wealthy.
The Trump administration’s transition team did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed News’ request for comment. However, the president-elect’s attorney, Michael Cohen, told Mic that the allegations were absolutely false.
At this point posted without comment except that maybe this will develop along further lines.
Rejecting the Great Man Theory of 2016
Megan Carpentier says that liberals should stop asking whether Donald Trump is a Nazi—not because the comparison is meaningless, but because the question misses the point in an extraordinarily American way. The Nazis gained power in Germany through democratic elections and maintained it through maintaining the support of a plurality, if not a true majority,…
I have to say; I can’t argue with her premise. The voters are responsible for being educated about for whom they vote. Even worse? Some people voted for Trump because of his fascist leanings. It reminds me of a story told by David Neiwert about the German population that lived near a concentration camp during WW2:
When he was a young man, he told us, he served in the U.S.
Army as part of the occupation forces in Germany after World
War II. He was put to work gathering information for the military
tribunal, which was preparing to prosecute Nazi war criminals
at Nuremberg. His job was to spend time in the villages
adjacent to one concentration camp and talk to the residents
about what they knew.
The villagers, he said, knew about the camp, and watched
daily as thousands of prisoners would arrive by rail car, herded
like cattle into the camp. Even though the camp never could
have held the vast numbers of prisoners who were brought in,
the villagers knew that no one ever left. They also knew that the
smokestack of the camp’s crematorium belched a near-steady
stream of smoke and ash. Yet the villagers chose to remain ignorant
about what went on inside the camp. No one inquired, because
no one wanted to know.
“But every day,” he said, “these people, in their neat Germanic
way, would get out their feather dusters and go outside.
And, never thinking about what it meant, they would sweep off
the layer of ash that would settle on their windowsills overnight.
Then they would return to their neat, clean lives and pretend
not to notice what was happening next door.”
“When the camps were liberated and their contents were
revealed, they all expressed surprise and horror at what had
gone on inside,” he said. “But they all had ash in their feather
dusters.”
What will those who voted for Trump say should some atrocity occur during his term?
In any case, if we are a government of the people, by the people, for the people it is then the people who are ultimately responsible for the leaders they elect.
Alec Baldwin Kills it as Trump on SNL
Source: Raw Story
It Was Never Bill
It was Hillary they always were afraid of. So much so they threw millions of dollars into countless investigations and false stories about her, going all the way back to her days on a Watergate Committee. Yet, in the end, not one iota of proof existed to charge her.
Unbelievable
The Trump campaign held a rally to get Latino support in Anaheim, California. It was called “Operation Taco Bowl.” Really. Are they planning an “Operation Watermelon” in Watts to get out the black vote, or is that too on the nose?
via Today’s “You Can’t Make This Up” Entry — Bark Bark Woof Woof
The Republican Party of Minnesota finds itself in a pickle.
(City Pages) It’s their fault.
Earlier this year at the state Republican convention in Duluth, the party picked its 10 electoral college voters. The state party was also supposed to choose 10 alternate electoral college names. It didn’t.
Therein lies the problem.
What could’ve been an in-house mess went public yesterday, when blogger and former Republican Party of Minnesota official Michael Brodkorb noticed that something didn’t look right about the Secretary of State’s sample ballot. Donald Trump wasn’t on it.
Honest to FSM, could it become any more of a clown show?
The state’s Republicans are now scrambling, after realizing they hadn’t picked and therefore submitted the 10 alternate electoral voters.
The party has attempted to piecemeal a solution, appointing alternate electors in a hastily called meeting Wednesday night, according to Brodkorb. (State GOP officials could not be reached for comment Thursday morning.) That solution defied party protocol, which calls for a 10-day notice for any on-the-fly party convention.
But Brodkorb suggests that by circumventing the process, the Republican Party exposed itself to possible legal challenges that would keep Trump’s name off the ballot. Party leaders should “hope and pray” their last-minute appointment doesn’t bother any party members.
Well, I guess it can. Pass the popcorn.
Oh, and the highlighting is mine.
And butter on the popcorn, please. No, not that crap they serve at movie theaters. Real butter.
Bleach Sales Are Going Up
It seems that there have been several statues of Donald Trump naked, with no balls, and a small penis going up in several states. As a result many blogs and web sites have pictures of said statue. I can see why bleach sales have gone up. I saw the pictures. I’m going to go buy myself a bottle to clean out my eyes right after finishing this post.
No, I won’t post the pictures. I want my readers – what few there are – to be able to continue to read my blog.
However, I will post this:
Rimshot!
I wonder if this will start a sub-genre of election erection humor.
They Really Do Eat There Own
Earlier today, Nancy wrote: Trump’s hiring of [Stephen] Bannon and [Kellyanne] Conway isn’t just a signal to Republicans – it sends a message to all of us who have been watching this one closely. We’re not going to see anything new from Donald Trump. What we’ve been seeing is what we’ll continue to get. I…
via Trump Going Full Breitbart is Bad News for the GOP — Washington Monthly
From all I read, and I did read it all, the plan is for Trump to continue to attack the Republican establishment in Washington while also attempting to go to the left of Clinton on loss of jobs to overseas and immigration.