Trump's leadership team

[B-Man]

President Trump Has Already Won

By CONRAD BLACK

 

As the year ends, the Trump legal drama winds down towards its tawdry end. The immense fraudulent fantasy of a Benedict Arnold on steroids collaborating with a foreign enemy, a Manchurian Candidate “groomed for the presidency by his Russian controllers,” has come down to a squalid dispute between the president, his crooked former lawyer, and the publisher of the National Enquirer over the nature of incentivizing the pre-electoral silence of a porn star and a former Playboy bunny.

 

The slab-faced, trim and grim Robert Mueller, closing in like a heat-seeking missile on the start of the third year of the most ineffective and redundant investigation in history, could be a brilliant straight man, desperately serious and purposeful as he silently marches across our television screens every night in reruns of the same old news film in the elaborate pretense that he is doing something useful and important. It is the same pattern as the Clinton investigation, which began with the financial improprieties of Whitewater and meandered around to checking the president’s ***** against a White House intern’s carefully preserved dress. The lust to tear down a president leads ostensibly serious and responsible people to act contemptibly, and ultimately to become absurd.

 

Many of the president’s enemies do not, cannot possibly, realize what is happening to them. It was well known long before he became president of the United States that Donald Trump was, by traditional standards, a somewhat déclassé character. As an impresario, he had sheared the hair off Vince McMahon, founder of World Wrestling Entertainment, before 90,000 people at the Pontiac Silverdome (but has compensated by making the temporarily glabrous McMahon’s wife the administrator of the Small Business Administration). His divorces and courtships prior to his relationship with Melania Trump were massively and often rather tastelessly publicized, and his entire public personality intentionally offends half the people, while amusing or pleasing the other half by his irreverence and disdain for the pompous, the indecisive, and the mealy-mouthed categories that enfold the majority of politicians. As president, Donald Trump has considerably moderated his formerly outlandish behavior. He often looks and sounds more like a president than George W. Bush referring to the country of “eye-rack” (Iraq), President Carter sitting in a cardigan beside a roaring fire in the White House fireplace telling the country to turn down its thermostats in the “national malaise” speech, some of the antics of Lyndon Johnson, or even Gerald Ford falling down the steps of Air Force One.

 

The country knew what it was getting with Donald Trump; the fact that he affronted scores of millions of Americans pleased a numerous enough mass of other Americans to elect him. His enemies attacked savagely, invented the Russian-collusion nonsense, have been forced off that ledge, and are now scruffing around in the gutter with this bunk about paying off indiscreet female claimants of former intimacy. It is very hard to make a serious claim that the payments to them were campaign contributions, or that anyone but Trump ultimately paid the money, but impossible to take the word of Michael Cohen and the publisher of the National Enquirer, David *****, over that of the president to an extent that meets the required threshold of being “beyond a reasonable doubt.” And no one with the slightest acquaintance with American history or jurisprudence could conclude that whatever Mr. Trump did with or about these women (no coercion of or contemporary payments to the women are alleged), it amounts to the “high crimes and misdemeanors” stipulated by the Constitution for removal from office of a president. The point is that Trump has actually raised his game appreciably as a president and his enemies have descended to a nether region of depravity and imbecility that he never, even in the least edifying moments of his astonishing career, came close to excavating: Not Trump University, not some of the unfortunate properties bearing the Trump name, not Trump’s health plan (what he called “cutting edge health and wellness formulas . . . to achieve the American dream,” but was in fact $1,080 for twelve bottles of vitamins and two urinalyses per year) — it was never more or less than ludicrous hucksterism straining the ambit of the phrase caveat emptor.

 

In assaulting him, the political elite has abased itself. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and their chief collaborators invented the Russian canard, dispatched the intelligence services and Justice Department, including the FBI, to put meat on the bones of this fraud, tried to legitimize the monstrous malicious fabrications and defamations of the Steele dossier, and are now trying to maintain their threadbare credibility by inciting their congressional and media lackies to amplify completely pedestrian tales of sexual dalliances. Even these facts are contested and unprovable, and in any case unexceptionable, and no one’s business but the Trumps’, and POTUS and FLOTUS have obviously sorted it out between themselves. There isn’t even a vivid image to play to the prurient howling mobs, such as Bill Clinton being fellated by an intern in the Oval Office while smoking a Freudian cigar and conducting official business on the telephone. (There was nothing illegal about that either, but it wasn’t an image builder in Norman Rockwell’s America.)

 

A clear indication that the Washington political elite has lost its collective mind was furnished on Tuesday when federal district judge Emmet Sullivan implied General Michael Flynn had committed treason by being an undeclared agent of a NATO ally (albeit a wayward ally — Turkey), an offense he apparently committed but which has not been officially charged. The other headliner was fired FBI director Jim Comey claiming memory loss regarding the events of two years ago 245 times before the House Judiciary Committee, denying any responsibility for the public-relations problems of the Bureau, disputing that his political biases influenced his performance in office, and telling a New York audience that the future of the country depended on throwing Trump out of office in 2020.

 

J. Edgar Hoover, “the nation turns its lonely eyes to you.”

 

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/trump-victory-assured-robert-mueller-investigation/

[ALF]

Report  Patrick M. Shanahan will be new  Acting  Sec of Defense on Jan 1. Trump wants Mattis gone

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/23/politics/james-mattis-trump-shanahan/index.html

Edited December 23, 2018 by ALF

[Deranged Rhino]

32 minutes ago, ALF said:

Report  Patrick M. Shanahan will be new  Acting  Sec of Defense on Jan 1. Trump wants Mattis gone

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/23/politics/james-mattis-trump-shanahan/index.html

 

As he should. Leaving him in until February would be a mistake. 

[/dev/null]

45 minutes ago, ALF said:

Report  Patrick M. Shanahan will be new  Acting  Sec of Defense on Jan 1. Trump wants Mattis gone

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/23/politics/james-mattis-trump-shanahan/index.html

Acting Secretary of Defense!  Unconstitutional!!! /Tibs 

 

I didn't know the shanahan tree had any defensive branches

[Koko78]

1 hour ago, /dev/null said:

Acting Secretary of Defense!  Unconstitutional!!! /Tibs 

 

I didn't know the shanahan tree had any defensive branches

 

Has Shanahan been previously confirmed to be the night janitor?!? The Senate must be heard!

Edited December 23, 2018 by Koko78

[B-Man]

FASTER, PLEASE: 

 

Betsy DeVos Eliminates Obama’s Bizarre School Discipline Policy.

 

 

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[Deranged Rhino]

7 hours ago, /dev/null said:

Acting Secretary of Defense!  Unconstitutional!!! /Tibs 

 

I didn't know the shanahan tree had any defensive branches

 

Ex VP of Boeing.... And the loudest supporter for the space force not named Trump. 

 

1+1= Fun times ahead. 

[Kevbeau]

50 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

Ex VP of Boeing.... And the loudest supporter for the space force not named Trump. 

 

1+1= Fun times ahead. 

Space Force!!!!

 

[Deranged Rhino]

Just now, Kevbeau said:

Space Force!!!!

 

[DC Tom]

1 hour ago, Kevbeau said:

Space Force!!!!

 

 

The live-action movie was surprisingly good.  

[Kevbeau]

I recently watched a couple episodes from season 1 of star blazers....a little painful consider what fond memories I had. I’ll have to check out the live action version

[DC Tom]

46 minutes ago, Kevbeau said:

I recently watched a couple episodes from season 1 of star blazers....a little painful consider what fond memories I had. I’ll have to check out the live action version

 

If you can find it.  It was on YouTube - free, subtitled - when I saw it a few years ago.

 

It is very Japanese.  Not very "Japanese made for American audiences."  Very Japanese.  Even the Bull Halsey analogue character from the cartoons is Japanese.

[dpberr]

Space Force is essentially trying to operationalize Battlestar Galactica.

 

I'm pretty sure that's the entirety of the white paper on the subject.

[Deranged Rhino]

1 minute ago, dpberr said:

Space Force is essentially trying to operationalize Battlestar Galactica.

 

I'm pretty sure that's the entirety of the white paper on the subject.

 

In all seriousness, and my own sci fi dreams aside, space force is about dominating Low Earth Orbit with not just communication platforms, but weapon platforms. Space is the ultimate high ground, and our entire military depends on satellites. 

 

China is not just going to the moon for science. They're trying to dominate space in the same way they've tried to dominate the pacific and South China Sea. They have satellite killers in orbit already (as do we and other nations). That's really what the space force is about.   

[plenzmd1]

Is Mnuchin long for this world?

[Koko78]

2 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

In all seriousness, and my own sci fi dreams aside, space force is about dominating Low Earth Orbit with not just communication platforms, but weapon platforms. Space is the ultimate high ground, and our entire military depends on satellites. 

 

China is not just going to the moon for science. They're trying to dominate space in the same way they've tried to dominate the pacific and South China Sea. They have satellite killers in orbit already (as do we and other nations). That's really what the space force is about.   

 

The first thing Russia or China would go after in a shooting war against the US is GPS and communication satellites. Both nations have proven they have the capability to hit satellites in motion. We need to have some sort of defenses in place.

 

On a slightly related note: I hope the military is still teaching people how to read maps and navigate without GPS.

Edited December 24, 2018 by Koko78

[/dev/null]

4 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

 

The first thing Russia or China would go after in a shooting war against the US is GPS and communication satellites. Both nations have proven they have the capability to hit satellites in motion. We need to have some sort of defenses in place.

 

On a slightly related note: I hope the military is still teaching people how to read maps and navigate without GPS.

If the Russians or Chinese took out the GPS satellites, would that disrupt Santa's route?

[Koko78]

1 minute ago, /dev/null said:

If the Russians or Chinese took out the GPS satellites, would that disrupt Santa's route?

 

Why do you think Rudolph's nose is red? That's a GPS receiver.

 

***** commies are trying to ruin Christmas!

[/dev/null]

9 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

 

Why do you think Rudolph's nose is red?

Fiber optic tester

[keepthefaith]

3 hours ago, plenzmd1 said:

Is Mnuchin long for this world?

 

Probably, he's only 56.