“The notion that a
radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more
likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more
disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad
citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.” – H.L. Mencken
“This new regime will
enthrone itself for the duration of the Crisis. Regardless of its ideology,
that new leadership will assert public authority and demand private sacrifice.
Regardless of its ideology, that new leadership will assert public authority and
demand private sacrifice. Where leaders had once been inclined to alleviate
societal pressures, they will now aggravate them to command the nation’s
attention. The regeneracy will be solidly under way.” – The Fourth Turning –
Strauss & Howe
The blog goes to conclude the following, which I'll put in quote and then come back to live. "We are now seven weeks
into the Trump presidency and it seems like seven years with amount of
incidents that have occurred before and since his inauguration. When in doubt,
Trump’s brain dead, hyperventilating with hate, opponents either blame the
Russians or declare him Hitler. The histrionics displayed by the low IQ
hypocritical Hollywood elite, corrupt Democratic politicians, fake news liberal
media and Soros paid left wing radical terrorists over the last two months has
been disgraceful, revolting, childish, and dangerous. " And that's how page one of this rather agitated posting ends. About the only fact we can be totally sure of is that Donald Trump has been President for seven weeks and that he has shattered a lot of presidential tradition and really shaken things up. The posting is a little bit factual and a little bit hysterical and trying to paste more of it than what I have, proved problematical.
The economy added 235,000 jobs last night in
the monthly unemployment report.
Unemployment is 4.7% A lot of economic sectors such as construction look pretty good. That
continues good, but Trump will take credit.
We won’t really know till three to six months into the new
administration. The same holds true for
Obama, Bush and Clinton. Clinton got
credit for an improved economy in late 1992 he didn’t deserve. Trump and Sanders both called the unemployment numbers bogus last fall, as they indeed were then and are now. So let's not get our knickers all in a twist over today's numbers one way or the other. They are the best numbers in ten years and this is an accomplishment; there's no doubt about that. But it still lags the three hundred thousand new employees that Shawn Hannity and others were insisting were required for a really robust "recovery". Pretty much we HAVE recovered but it took us a full eight years, and most of it was on Obama's watch.
Atty. Gen. Jeff
Sessions asked Friday for the resignations of dozens of politically appointed
U.S. attorneys held over from the Obama administration, the Justice Department
said. Sessions wanted
"to ensure a uniform transition" to the Trump administration,
spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement. "Until the new U.S. attorneys are
confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U.S. attorney’s offices will
continue the great work of the department in investigating,
prosecuting and deterring the most violent offenders," she said. The order affects 46 U.S. attorneys; 47
others have already stepped aside. Ninety-three U.S. attorneys are the top
federal prosecutors in 94 districts. (Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands
share a federal prosecutor.) It is not
unusual for a new administration to seek the dismissal of political appointees,
particularly those of a different party. In March 1993, then-Atty. Gen. Janet
Reno sought the resignations of U.S. attorneys appointed by President George
H.W. Bush, a move that sparked intense criticism from conservative
commentators. I would tell Donald Trump
and the Republicans to go fuck themselves.
We know how long it took for President Obama to get people in high posts
filled. I’ll be damned if they’re going
to step down at anything short of gun point.
Just make this Republican congress go through the motions of nominating
and approving new appointees, then they’ll step down. That’s what I say.
This topic of the “Deep
State” is a term I’ve seen used in Washington’s blog. But I didn’t know there was any real such
term or that it directly referred to holdovers from the previous
administration. I thought it was kind of
a covert corporatocracy type thing –possibly with military overtones. At any rate the turn is being resurrected by
the Republicans now. White House press
secretary Sean Spicer on Friday conceded there may be a network of federal
government employees resisting President Trump — the "deep state." “Does the White House believe there’s such a
thing as the deep state that’s actively working to undermine the president?” a
reporter asked during Spicer’s daily press briefing. “I think there’s no question when you
have eight years of one party in office that stays in government [they’re]
affiliated with, joined [to] and continue to espouse the agenda of the previous
administration,” Spicer answered, referencing former President Obama’s two
terms in office. While the term deep
state typically refers to longtime government officials, especially in the
military or intelligence agencies, Spicer tried to characterize it as Obama
loyalists throughout the government.
President Park Chung He
of South Korea has been removed by South Korea courts. But the other news is that China is trying to
negotiate between North and South Korea to keep the two of them from going to
war. This is the big rumor now. Norman Goldman believes it.
President Obama made so
many deals with the drug and insurance companies and the hospitals to get Obama
Care passed, that maybe the Democrats should make alliance with the
conservative Republicans and vote against this new Trump care because a lot of
people are going to be unhappy no longer feeding at the troff of Obama
Care. It’s just a thought.
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