Post #416,941
1/30/17 9:52:41 PM
1/30/17 9:52:41 PM
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"Betrayal"
Well, that didn't take long. President Trump fired his acting attorney general on Monday after she defiantly refused to defend his immigration executive order, accusing the Democratic holdover of trying to obstruct his agenda for political reasons.
Taking action in an escalating crisis for his 10-day-old administration, Mr. Trump declared that Sally Q. Yates had “betrayed” the administration, the White House said in a statement. This isn't going to be a slow or subtle seizure of power. I was telling friends that a in year we won't recognize the country. I'm guessing now that the metamorphosis will put us at the "unrecognizable" stage by spring. Just like Hillary, hey, purity ponies? And you didn't even lift a symbolic finger to impede this last November. cordially,
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Post #416,942
1/30/17 10:41:03 PM
1/30/17 10:41:03 PM
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Reminds me of Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre".
Wikipedia:The Saturday Night Massacre was the term used by political commentators[1] to refer to U.S. President Richard Nixon's dismissal of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and as a result the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal.[2][3] But, no one POS Trump appointed will resign as would mean they had some principles. Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #416,946
2/1/17 4:16:10 AM
2/1/17 4:16:10 AM
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GMTA.. it's a trope now:
On Democracy Now tonight, Jill Wine-Banks (Ass't Prosecutor in Watergate proceedings) ... makes the case in spades. Further (via D-Now) a clip shows Sessions (!)
querying Yates: (!!) about this Very Question of "opposing a President's wishes!"
(as Sessions just now awaits the verdict for hisself.) And as Wine-Banks and others noted: (I paraphrase)
Thus far it's been The Women observing that the new Wannabe Emperor is not only bereft of clothes, of honest-advisors (and the wits to determine such matters),
but there's a paucity of political-animal Males, stating the obvious about this deranged Suit in the WH.
It's gonna be Abu Ghraib for The English Language as everyone pussyfoots around the increasingly obvious quagmire: a Deranged CIEIO ..a stone's throw from the Bagman
Actually present in the W.H. as we speak. Thus far, everything he touches: BREAKS.
Midas lives? Or is this just Murican Karma doing the prescribed Biting-on-Ass. Belatedly.
O'Reilly has no Missing Manual for such real-LIff predicaments, I noted.
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Post #416,952
2/2/17 8:03:58 AM
2/2/17 10:46:40 AM
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Re: Just like Hillary.
No, he's better at getting to the endpoint than she would have been. But make no mistake, she and her husband before her led us down this path. Now we get to see in 2018 if the American people deserve any better. bcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
Edited by mmoffitt
Feb. 2, 2017, 10:46:40 AM EST
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Post #416,954
2/2/17 1:51:07 PM
2/2/17 1:51:07 PM
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wat
she and her husband before her led us down this path What the actual shit? This path? The path of ruling by executive order of dubious constitutional and legal worth? The path of replacing the Secret Service with a personal army of hired goons? The path of placing your own stooges in the highest offices in the land, irrespective of their expertise or conflicts of interest? The path of kissing Vladimir Putin's ring? That path? Just checkin'.
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Post #416,958
2/2/17 2:18:56 PM
2/2/17 2:18:56 PM
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The path to oligarchy.
bcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #416,981
2/3/17 9:16:06 AM
2/3/17 9:16:06 AM
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haha
Is there nothing in US politics that you won't find a way to blame on Clinton?
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Post #416,982
2/3/17 10:16:45 AM
2/3/17 10:24:59 AM
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Sure.
Obama had no trouble firing the CEO of GM. He had the full authority to fire the CEO's of Citi, Goldman, Chase, Morgan Stanley and all the rest with no need for Congressional approval. Did he? NOPE. Why not? Didn't they nearly destroy not just our economy, but yours and the rest of the world's as well? Didn't they line their pockets by stealing from pension funds? Of course they did. So why didn't he fire them as he did the CEO of GM? Oh yeah, that's right. That marionette can't cut the strings of the puppeteer can he?
Then, too, you've got to LOVE Obama setting the precedent that the American President can assassinate whomever he chooses now that we have that paragon of stability, Donald Trump, in the White House with the same authority.
Also, while one of my first jobs was working for him, Jimmy Carter destroyed the airline industry in this country through deregulation. He also stupidly pulled us out of the 1980 Olympics as a protest against the Soviets attempting to kill Al Qaeda members.
I've listed Democrats here to emphasize that unlike a good many democrats, I can be adamantly against Republicans and still see the faults in my own party. Clearly, those faults are no worse than Reagan's. He simultaneously destroyed two superpowers by spending them out of existence while turning the world's leading creditor nation into the world's leading debtor nation and daring to call that effort "economic revival."
But let's be clear. Social Security would have been privatized by Bill Clinton had the story not broken that he'd received a blow job from a woman young enough to be his daughter. That was the "Grand Bargain" he and Newt Gingrich came up with.
They're all bastards.
I have special contempt in my heart for the Clintons, though, because they were supposed to be the opposition. Instead, they turned government over to the oligarchs on that shitty little island between the Hudson and East rivers. bcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
Edited by mmoffitt
Feb. 3, 2017, 10:24:59 AM EST
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Post #416,963
2/2/17 6:18:29 PM
2/2/17 6:18:29 PM
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dunno, would she have fired the travel office again? which leech would be ordering fbi files?
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #416,980
2/3/17 9:03:45 AM
2/3/17 9:03:45 AM
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Travel office… State Department… No difference
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Post #417,003
2/4/17 8:49:09 AM
2/4/17 8:49:09 AM
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The purity pony died of bordom.
First, I and most of the people I know who disliked her, voted for her anyway because the alternative was unthinkable. That said, we didn't lose her the election. Quit bitching at us. We are the least of the issue.
Hillary and the DNC lost the election because they did a bad job. Hillary had a lot of baggage to unload and not all of it from 30 years ago. She managed to make orders of magnitude more money in 'government service' than most engineers make in a career and she managed that in a few years. Both she and her husband are triangulating neo-liberals which in itself is untrustworthy. She did nothing to counter the image either. Then with complete DNC support she became the ONLY countenanced dem candidate because she had a vagina and it was her turn. She didn't bother campaigning in middle class working cities because "they're all democrats and they have to vote for me."
But, but, but the republicans played dirty!!! Right. film at 11. Republicans do what republicans always do.
But, but, but hackers! russians! So what? They didn't write the fucking emails, they just exposed how shitty and smug the DNC was behaving. Not really a surprise.
She lost the election because she was a bad candidate and she ran a poor campaign.
The purity pony is dead. Fuck it or walk away from it but for the love of anything you hold dear, quit beating it. "Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."
~ AMBROSE BIERCE
(1842-1914)
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