Monday, February 6, 2017
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Trump Short Circuits Washington
"Congress is doing its best to live up to the public's dismal opinion of it. Democrats on Capitol Hill are behaving erratically, hysterically, boycotting committee meetings to approve Cabinet officials, threatening to filibuster a qualified and highly regarded Supreme Court pick because Mitch McConnell won a wager with President Obama, and insisting they will impeach President Trump over policy differences. The Republicans on Capitol Hill seem as disoriented by Trump's victory as the Democrats. Congress has been in session for a month. What, besides repealing a mining regulation, has it done? Why is Mitch McConnell not playing hardball with Chuck Schumer on executive branch appointments and Judge Gorsuch? I know, I know: "Things take time." But time is the enemy. This is something Democrats and other members of the self-described "resistance" understand but Republicans do not. Or perhaps the Republicans understand all too well, and want inertia and entropy to bring us a less populist and more conventionally Republican Trump."
"Not only are there two Americas. There are two governments: one elected and one not, one that alternates between Republicans and Democrats and one that remains, decade after decade, stubbornly liberal, and resistant to change. It is this second government and its allies in the media and the Democratic Party that are after President Trump, that want him driven from office before his term is complete. You think I exaggerate. But consider this: When a former Defense official who teaches at Georgetown Law School takes to Foreign Policy to propose "3 Ways to Get Rid of President Trump Before 2020," and when one of those ways is "a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders," we are in unknown and extremely unsettling territory."
"So unlikely did the election of Donald Trump seem to Washington and its denizens that the reality of it still has not sunk in. All of the city's worst traits—the self-regard, the group think, the obsessions with trivia, the worship of credentials, the virtue signaling, the imperiousness, the ignorance of perspectives and people from outside major metropolitan centers and college towns—not only persist. They have been magnified with Trump's arrival. There is so much negative energy coursing through the city that circuits are overloaded. That the president still draws support from the coalition that brought him to office, that a fair number of people see his policies as commonsensical, seems not to affect any of Trump's critics in the least. They will press on until Trump behaves like they want him to behave."
* Excerpts from an essay by Matthew Continetti in the Washington Free Beacon.
Read more Here.
Saturday, February 4, 2017
Middle Finger Symphony Theater
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Leftist Protesters To Adopt WH Photo-bomber's Tactics Against Donald Trump
Protesters in Chicago have reportedly
planned to use a Notorious White House Photo-bomber's tactic in order to get Donald Trump to release his tax returns by
mooning Trump Tower in Operation "Kiss Our Asses, Release Your Taxes!"
The Blaze - The events organizer, Bailey Davis, believes that a little exhibition is just what it will take to get Trump to do what nothing else has convinced him to do yet.
"Certain things get people on their feet. Not everybody is going to watch ’60 Minutes’ because they think it’s boring. If you ridicule (Trump) or make him feel like he’s the loser, that’s how he blows up. That’s what makes The Donald implode. If 500 people go up to that tower and pull their pants down it’s not going to go unnoticed, and that’s the goal."According to the Facebook page for the event, participants are supposed to meet at the Trump International Hotel and Tower at 3:30 on February 12th, then “at the crack of 4:00 (pun intended)” they will drop their diapers for a whole ten seconds in order to “send a powerful message to the Washington Elites.” They then added the hashtag #rumpgsagainsttrump.
How exposing yourself to a building will send a powerful message to people in a place miles away is anyone’s guess, but rest assured that social media will be having a fun day this month on the 12th.
And as we all know, copycats and plagiarizers are just Childish Twits anyway.
Friday, February 3, 2017
As If You Really Needed Anymore Evidence the Little Midget is off the Rails....
Dr. Robert Reich
On CNN Thursday, Reich suggested the anti-Trump riots on campus were actually a right-wing plot to delegitimize liberals.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Reuters Tells Reporters to Be Honest and Above Board and Just Cover Trump Like Any Other Tin Horn Dictator
The powers that be at Reuters sent their Reports and Reporterettes a staff a memo called "Covering Trump the Reuters Way"outlining how the organization should cover the Trump administration: Pretty much the same as it would any other authoritarian regime where you'd be ridiculously naive to take the government at its word.
How do you cover someone who declares journalists “among the most dishonest human beings on earth” and whose Pres Sec. called the New York Times to label the press the “opposition party” and to warn the media to “keep its mouth shut and just listen”? So what's the answer? Avoid the administration? Oppose it? Trade flattering coverage for access? Heck no: Just cover Trump’s America like you would a bunch of the other places Reuters works from.
"Reuters is a global news organization that reports independently in more than 100 countries, including many in which the media is unwelcome and frequently under attack. I am perpetually proud of our work in places such as Turkey, the Philippines, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Thailand, China, Zimbabwe, and Russia, nations in which we sometimes encounter some combination of censorship, legal prosecution, visa denials, and even physical threats to our journalists."Not that he’s saying the Trump administration is anything like those places. (Wink Wink) Just reminding reporters that they're there. Duh! And even in those difficult environments for reporting, which are not being directly compared to the Trump White House, oh, certainly not, the basics of good journamalism still apply: Get solid facts and report fairly.
So The Powers That Be at Reuters offer some Do’s and Don’ts for reporting on the Trump regime. Here are some of the Do’s:
*Become ever-more resourceful: If one door to information closes, open another one.Or as they say in the business, make it up and use "Unnamed Sources"
* Give up on hand-outs and worry less about official access. They were never all that valuable anyway. Our coverage of Iran has been outstanding, and we have virtually no official access. What we have are sources.Yeah, we remember their coverage about how great Barky and John Kerry handled the Iran Nuclear deal, don't we?
* Get out into the country and learn more about how people live, what they think, what helps and hurts them, and how the government and its actions appear to them, not to us. Find out what the ordinary American thinks. If you're assigned a government “minder,” be careful to avoid putting the ordinary folk you interview in peril of retribution. Try to find chances to speak to people when you're not under surveillance. Be aware that in the course of pursuing ordinary journalism you may be arrested and executed for espionage.Washington, Tehran, not really that different.
And then there are the Dont’s:
* Don’t pick unnecessary fights or make the story about us. We may care about the inside baseball but the public generally doesn't and might not be on our side even if it did.
* Don’t vent publicly about what might be understandable day-to-day frustration. In countless other countries, we keep our own counsel so we can do our reporting without being suspected of personal animus. We need to do that in the U.S., too.Translation: Yes, the weather's nicer in Mombasa this time of year, but you can still do good reporting without whining about how Sean Spicer never answers your questions. Remember people, we have to set a good example for the rest of the journalists. Maybe there's even hope for CNN (Just kidding!). And no, you can't put the necessary bribes for access to disenchanted left over Obama administration appointees and potential Trump back stabbers on your expense account. Okay, if you do, just be sure and log it as “office supplies.”
* Don’t take too dark a view of the reporting environment: It’s an opportunity for us to practice the skills we’ve learned in much tougher places around the world and to lead by example — and therefore to provide the freshest, most useful, and most illuminating information and insight of any news organization anywhere.
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