Paranoid, nationalist ravings, like what comes out of Trump advisor Frank Gaffney, serve to mask the real sedition of Gaffney and the people around him with whom Trump has hunkered down.
Just as Trump’s wailing about a rigged election let him slip the wool over James Comey’s unprecedently brazen act of election interference.
For a subversive Fascist like Gaffney, the loyalty oath is to Fearless Leader, not to the US itself.
You’re no Tallulah.
At his MOMA tribute, Hanks delivers inane happy talk about the state of the US after a week in which Trump has fulfilled every one of the worst fears generated by his hate-mongering campaign.
Beware of those who, insulated by great wealth, cannot see beyond their bulwark.
Joanathan Freedland writes in The Guardian that “The US Will No Longer Feel Like a Haven for Jews Under Trump.”
Yes, his government website now supports Paul Ryan’s bill to end Medicare.
Medicaid, too, will be shredded.
Read Jonathan Cohn and Jeffrey Young at the Huffington Post.
We’re seeing the Trump monster perpetuate the hate plank of his campaign platform, and ditch whatever populism he was mouthing to fall in now with hard-core Establishment Republican extremism.
Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, writes Josh Marshall at TalkingPointsMemo, “has zero knowledge or experience with anything to do with national security or foreign policy.” So who, of course, is making our NATIONAL SECURITY hires??? You guessed it.
Has there been anything quite like this in living memory?
Or what I should really say–sees the White House that way.
One of the sleaziest, most opportunistic first families ever–now Ivanka’s company is selling copies of her 60 Minutes bracelet.
As in 2004, there are alarming disparities between exit polls and official count. Steven Rosenfeld at Alternet surveys a stinking result.
His remarks demonstrate the level of contempt that Trump and the monsters around him entertain for the U.S. population, especially when we dare rise up and challenge their pitched battle against democracy.
Of course it’s all projection–I mean, who are the real goons and thugs? We will be seeing this particular rhetorical ju jitsu used over and over again by the Fascistic regime about to take power.
His refusal to lead couched in a sleight-of-hand of spurious politeness.
Detached, deferential to power, supine before the opposition. Normalizing extremism.
We must remember: President Obama refused to condemn Trump’s appointment of the racist, misogynist, anti-Semitic Fascist Steve Bannon to a crucial position on the White House staff.
And as it’s happening, Paul Ryan, with Trump’s tacit or not-so-tacit approve, plans the destruction of Medicare, while no matter how much Obama bends over backwards, Trump is going to fillet the ACA.
Still no leadership coming from New York, but Senator Merkley of Oregon sends this:
“There should be no sugarcoating the truth here: Donald Trump just invited a white nationalist into the highest reaches of the government. Bannon has boasted that he made Breitbart News ‘the platform for the alt-right,’ which is the politically correct term for the resurrection of white nationalism.
“Under Bannon’s leadership, Breitbart News created news sections such as ‘Black Crime’ and compared the work of Planned Parenthood to the Holocaust. Under his leadership, Breitbart News ran this headline following the massacre of nine church-goers at an African American church in Charleston: ‘Hoist it high and proud: The Confederate flag proclaims a glorious heritage.’ He called conservative commentator Bill Kristol a ‘renegade Jew.’ Steve Bannon bears substantial responsibility for the open and disgusting acts of hatred that are sweeping across our nation.
“After running a campaign built on inciting divisions and hate, Donald Trump has claimed he wants to unite America. Yet he has done nothing meaningful to stop the wave of hate crimes and hate speech he has unleashed, and now has brought that strategy right into the Oval Office.
“Donald Trump needs to forcefully denounce the hateful actions and efforts to intimidate people that some of his supporters are undertaking and rescind the appointment of Steve Bannon.”
