tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54718382090013646202024-03-17T12:03:27.464-04:00CLUSTER FLICKUnderstanding the nightmare of a Trump presidencynfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-48217425470158944672020-08-28T21:41:00.000-04:002020-08-28T21:41:19.870-04:00Keep America Great...with Biden<p>The Trump campaign dropped the ball and failed to buy the <a href="http://keepamericagreat.com">keepamericagreat.com</a> domain. </p><p>Biden's campaign picked it up and ran with it! </p><p>You gotta see <a href="https://keepamericagreat.com/" target="_blank">this</a>!<br /></p><p><br /></p>nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-54418603650687298232019-12-01T23:24:00.001-05:002019-12-01T23:24:06.844-05:00Lest We Forget the Horrors<a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/atrocities-1-to-112?fbclid=IwAR3zMlhXO_A5ay_WtKtoiGSiBrhurVJGO-yeXfavqLuhORzT2JLYiRwttXA">McSweeney's</a> catalog of Trump's worst cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes.<br />
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Some of the items on this list aren't a big deal, but if you overlook the nit-picky crap you will find a good accounting of Trump's dirty deeds.nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-83957774207070745392019-10-02T08:08:00.000-04:002019-10-02T08:08:01.080-04:00The Immigration DebateSome articles about Trump's immigration policy, the history of immigration in the US, statistics and how Trump differs from past presidents on immigration.<br />
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A 5-minute podcast about the history of immigration policy beginning with Carter.<br />
https://www.pri.org/node/183033/popout<br />
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That podcast is expounded upon in this article.<br />
https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-07-12/trumps-hard-line-immigration-policies-build-history-former-us-presidents <br />
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As Trump clamps down on refugees, centers that assist refugees with resettlement are forced to close.<br />
https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-09-27/us-refugee-agencies-wither-trump-administration-cuts-numbers-historic-lows<br />
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-trump-has-deported-fewer-immigrants-than-obama-11564824601<br />
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<br />nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-22410699292683129462018-03-16T12:23:00.000-04:002018-03-16T12:23:04.134-04:00A running list of Trump administration firings and departuresOver 40% of the top positions have turned over. We're talking just a little over a year. Thank you <a href="https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/d35ggv/everyone-trump-has-fired-or-has-quit-the-white-house?utm_source=vicenewsfb">Vice News</a> for giving us such a concise list of the top cabinet and major figures!nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-78521516019635876832017-06-25T07:36:00.000-04:002017-06-25T07:36:13.032-04:00TRUMP LIES: The Definitive List<i>The New York Times</i> has done the legwork for us and created the definitive list of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html">Trump's lies</a> since his presidency.nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-60932263294363605152017-06-05T15:16:00.000-04:002017-06-05T15:16:42.168-04:00Trump is Staging a CoupThe nightmare continues, and I figure that it's easier for me to just let those who can say it so much better and who are so much better informed than me do the talking.<br />
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Today it's an article in the <a href="http://www.salon.com/2017/05/01/historian-timothy-snyder-its-pretty-much-inevitable-that-trump-will-try-to-stage-a-coup-and-overthrow-democracy/">Salon</a> by Chauncey Devega about a conversation with historian <a href="http://history.yale.edu/people/timothy-snyder">Timothy Snyder</a>, who has suggested that "it's pretty much inevitable" that Trump will try to overthrow democracy, given the opportunity.nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-73794543392803223652017-04-30T11:12:00.000-04:002017-06-05T16:24:59.631-04:00Trump's First 100 DaysThere has traditionally been a standard of "100 days" set whereby a President is given a bit of a "honeymoon" period where much of the public withholds judgment to see what the President can do. Trump doesn't seem to have had much of a honeymoon period. Perhaps this has a lot to do with the fact that the majority of Americans did not vote for him,
or perhaps is due to his hateful rhetoric and threats on our democracy, but Trump already has historically low approval ratings in his first 100 days, and history would also show that a President's approval numbers usually drop after the first 100 days. So things are likely to only get worse as Democrats and Independents who voted for him become disillusioned.<br />
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Donald Trump has said “I don’t think anyone has ever done this much in 100 days.” So below we cover just what he's done in his first 100 days. Note that this list is partially compiled from a list offered up by<a href="https://www.facebook.com/amosharaf?fref=ufi&rc=p" style="text-decoration: none;"> Amin Mosharaf </a>on a Rachel Maddow post on Facebook. I’ve included what he compiled to save myself time recompiling the info, but edited the info with some of my own additions and wording.<br />
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The first 100 days:
<br />
<ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li>He appointed a foreign agent as National Security Advisor, and then his administration appears to have hidden the fact and lied about it, before being forced to confront the issue and fire Mike Flynn.
</li>
<li>He has the lowest approval ratings of any president in recent history in his first 100 days.
</li>
<li>He has launched an all-out attack on the EPA and the concept of climate change, leading to marches across the country against his stance.
</li>
<li>He has continued to appoint unqualified and incompetent individuals such as Pruitt, Devos, Carson, and Perry.
</li>
<li>He rolled back protections for transgender students.
</li>
<li>He has refused to release his taxes just like all other presidents have for the past 40 years.
</li>
<li>He would seem to be losing the respect of the leaders of the Free World and denigrating the title of President of the United States.
</li>
<li>He entered office under investigation by the FBI, and under a cloud of suspicion after it was found that Russia interfered with our election process to get Trump elected, and Trump's campaign members and administration had contact with Russia throughout the campaign and after election.
</li>
<li>He's authorized a failed mission in Yemen.
</li>
<li>He's attempted to institute two failed Muslim bans and had both shot down by the courts.
</li>
<li>He's signed disastrous anti-middle class and anti-environment executive orders.
</li>
<li>He tried and failed to repeal Obamacare.
</li>
<li>He authorized the bombing of an already empty airbase in Syria to distract from low ratings and the cloud of Russiagate. He then creepily bragged to Chinese president Xi Jinping about the bombing while they ate chocolate cake at his Mar-a-lago resort.
</li>
<li>He's had awkwardly embarrassing meetings with foreign dignitaries.
</li>
<li>He's welcomed clowns like Ted Nugent and Palin to the White House, and supported them posing for disrespectful photos inside the White House.
</li>
<li>He's hired racist clowns like Bannon and Sessions.
</li>
<li>He's played a ton of golf.
</li>
<li>He's obsessed with taking credit for President Obama's accomplishments, and blaming him for all of his own failures. The mission in Yemen failed? Obama's fault! Mike Flynn was discovered to be a foreign agent? Obama's fault!
</li>
<li>He accused Obama of wiretapping him with no evidence whatsoever.
</li>
<li>He just can't stop tweeting, and the majority of the time they are juvenile barely-literate tweets and tantrums.
</li>
<li>He can't stop lying-- all. the. time.
</li>
<li>He has the least transparent administration in recent memory.
</li>
<li>He has created the most secretive administration in US history.
</li>
<li>He has the most ethically challenged administration in US history.
</li>
<li>He has broken nepotism laws by giving family members important jobs and deals.
</li>
<li>He has displayed cronyism by appointing billionaires to his cabinet.
</li>
<li>He has proposed massive tax cuts for the rich like himself.
</li>
<li>He allowed a banned pesticide proven to be dangerous to be used again.
</li>
<li>He falsely claimed Navy ships were heading toward North Korea when they were actually heading to Australia. They were later turned around and headed toward Korea.
</li>
<li>He said he had a plan for wiping out ISIS. ISIS remains strong despite his naive promises, and he has shown he is as clueless on how to handle ISIS as everything else.
</li>
<li>He has introduced connotative terminology such as snowflakes, alternative facts, fake news and bigly...
</li>
<li>He is targeting national monuments created by Obama and Clinton, and given to the people for their use and enjoyment.
</li>
<li>He signed a bill that allows your private data sold to the highest bidder.
</li>
<li>He has proposed cutting after-school programs and Meals on Wheels, among many other things.
</li>
<li>He is wasting millions of taxpayer money every week by not moving his wife and son into the White House.
</li>
<li>His administration was caught promoting his personal recreational property Mar-A-Lago on the State Department website.
</li>
<li>He settled multi-million dollar lawsuit against his fraudulent university.
</li>
<li>He dropped a $16 million bomb on 94 ISIS terrorists.
</li>
<li>He is allowing offshore drilling. (Remember the BP leak? What has changed?)
</li>
<li>He is the man in charge when we are suffering the slowest GDP growth in 3 years. (Fair to blame him since he took credit for good jobs numbers in January and February)
</li>
<li>He produced the worst jobs report in a year in March.
</li>
<li>He made it easier for the mentally insane to buy guns.
</li>
<li>He has been taking $1-3 million weekly trips to Florida. Additionally each trip is bankrupting some small businesses, who get no business when the roads are shut down around Mar-a-lago and the airport, and is costing the city a fortune in police protection.
</li>
<li>He is allowing the wholesale slaughter of entire bear and wolf families while they sleep in their dens.
</li>
<li>He has been verbally attacking and threatening allies like Canada, South Korea and Australia.
</li>
<li>He continues to vilify our national media outlets.
</li>
<li>The coal miners are saying that he’s let them down. “He took care of the coal companies, but he’s done nothing for the miners.”
</li>
<li>He has refused to divest himself of his business interests, so he is profiting off of the presidency and participating in the same “pay for play” behavior for which he’s criticized others.
</li>
<li>He is eradicating regulations that protect our waterways, and that secure workplace equality.
</li>
<li>He has reversed his stance on many of the things that got him elected. Among other things, one of his biggest campaign promises was building a border wall paid by Mexico. Now if the wall is built, it seems it will be paid for by the American people, with promises of recouping the money from Mexico at a later date (ain't happening).</li>
<li>He has discussed sensitive security matters in public, in view of patrons at Mar-a-lago, and had the guy carrying his nuclear codes hanging out at Mar-a-lago having his picture taken.
</li>
</ul>
nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-9720497683820747882017-01-27T07:30:00.000-05:002017-02-15T08:03:39.883-05:00Russian Breadcrumbs<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_b">
Follow the breadcrumb trail...<br />
<ul>
<li>
In September 2016 there was a warning by the FBI that the election had
been hacked, and IP addresses related to the hack had been traced back
to Russia.</li>
<li>In October 2016, the Dept of Homeland Security and Office
of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security warned
before the election that there was evidence of an effort by Russia to
affect our election, including emails that were hacked and stolen from
the DNC.</li>
<li>In December 2016 the CIA released a report claiming that they have evidence that Russia interfered with our election process. </li>
<li>In January 2017, a Joint Intelligence Report was released with
allegations that Russia, and Putin himself, conspired to influence our
election and prevent Hillary Clinton from being elected.</li>
<li>A
well-respected British Op, Christopher Steele, gathers info on Trump and
releases the dossier to BuzzFeed, claiming that Russia has dirt on
Trump. Then Steele promptly goes to ground, apparently fearing for his
life. He is said to have obtained his information from Russian entities.</li>
<li>Now Rex Tillerson, who is a close ally to Putin, is pegged to be our next Secretary of State.</li>
<li>It came out today that Sergey Yuryevich Mikhailov, deputy director
of the FSB (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation), was in a
meeting when he suddenly had a bag thrown over his head and was dragged
from the building, never to be seen again. It's been reported that he
has been arrested for "treason". (<a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prevendra.com%2Frussias-fsb-cybersecurity-team-implodes%2F&h=ATOI2JPfqkNACKW90mkB2uTTrK7S7PQ_TjcNuGBCqTVuSE8UNynKPDRsc7JeOc0sZgWJb1yK95S8M_CrmA8lJVCc-bPviW1wZaP5H28Kh11P30K62hnORDFKusFnUuMw9PVAISYg-5fAnQ&enc=AZOINaTkvX5Hhp-lm77WbmhrFr5CwB4r6j4H1fUEKmP0U49gAGjMmQDX4bgvcXdBtZSAC-kRc3wyDPJVGB0c5bjASR0rUsR4G0KR0fncc62Bq6tOAOPIy7R50xLhEFWVlAYVcPEpYA_x6NYChGt3SWj1o2MjmtgcFloB-cmtey2II7YFOQPBNOZB7c3zhff2RCg&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.prevendra.com/russias-fsb-cybersecurity-team-im…/</a>)
So the question is "whether the government that he's charged with
aiding and abetting is our foreign government." (Rachel Maddow) The
non-state controlled Russian press is reporting he was arrested for
tipping off the US to what Russia was doing to influence our election.</li>
<li>And today the Trump administration purged the State Department of
many high-level career diplomats, who have been with the department for
30 or 40 years (no replacements have been selected to fill their
positions).</li>
</ul>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Laura Kennedy (@AmbKennedy_ret) tweeted today:<br />
"As a career diplomat, I experienced many transitions & never saw
anything like this dangerous purge of public servants now underway at
State"</blockquote>
<ul>
<li> In their urgency to vacate the offices, well-respected
long-timer Tom Countryman was on a plane to Rome for a meeting when he
was ordered to turn back and unceremoniously let go. He was told today
to leave his position by tomorrow. He's been serving since 1982.</li>
<li>Susan Glasser of Politico has now reported in a tweet:</li>
</ul>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"update: several sources reporting the proposed order would unilaterally lift sanctions."</blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
This has become real life.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>UPDATE 2/11/17</b>: Since this list was compiled, there have been a few other developments:<br />
<ul>
<li>In an interview with Bill O'Reilly released on 2/4/17, Trump defended Putin by saying that America is a killer, too.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"There are a lot of killers. You think our country's so innocent?"</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Putin's good friend Rex Tillerson was confirmed as our new Secretary of State.</li>
<li>It has been learned that National Security Advisor Michael Flynn called Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak on 12/29/17, the same day that President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats in retaliation for Russia's hacking. It is believed that Flynn may have spoken with the ambassador about the impending sanctions and reassured him that Trump would back off on the sanctions once he was in office.</li>
<li>It was announced that Russia was considering handing over Edward Snowden as a "gift" to Trump.</li>
<li>And, though it isn't related to the Trump-Russia connection, it bears noting that Putin seems to have done it once again and has poisoned another "enemy". Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza fell ill a couple of weeks ago after being poisoned by an unknown substance. The thing is, this is the second time he was poisoned, having narrowly survived a poisoning in 2015.</li>
</ul>
<b>UPDATE 2/15/17</b>: Michael Flynn resigned on 2/13/17 amid allegations that not only had he spoken to Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, but he had indeed implied that the Trump administration would back off on sanctions against Russia, and the call was recorded by intelligence offices. Putin then backed off on his threats of retaliation, and Trump tweeted how smart Putin was for not retaliating. Flynn also put Pence in a bad position by lying to him about the nature of his phone call with the ambassador, causing Pence to lie to the American public about it. Then apparently Trump knew about the phone call for weeks before telling Pence.<br />
<ul>
</ul>
</div>
nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-23165960086875820892017-01-25T16:00:00.000-05:002017-01-25T16:00:52.645-05:00The First Five Days in a Trump Presidency...<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_2v">
It seems we will see utter devastation of
constitutional and civil rights under Donald. We already knew we'd see a
complete loss of human decency. And it seems Republicans will sit by
and cheer him on as he does it or simply remain quiet, with only a few
decent folk like McCain standing up in defiance.<br />
<br />
<b>This is from a Facebook post (author unknown):</b><br />
<br />
Utter devastation. And we are only 5 days in.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Minority Business Development Agency.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Economic Development Administration.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the International Trade Administration.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Legal Services Corporation.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.<br /> * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Fossil Energy.<br /> * On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered all regulatory powers of all federal agencies frozen.<br />
* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered the National Parks Service to stop
using social media after RTing factual, side by side photos of the
crowds for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations.<br /> * On January 20th, 2017,
roughly 230 protestors were arrested in DC and face unprecedented
felony riot charges. Among them were legal observers, journalists, and
medics.<br /> * On January 20th, 2017, a member of the International
Workers of the World was shot in the stomach at an anti-fascist protest
in Seattle. He remains in critical condition.<br /> * On January 21st,
2017, DT brought a group of 40 cheerleaders to a meeting with the CIA to
cheer for him during a speech that consisted almost entirely of framing
himself as the victim of dishonest press.<br /> * On January 21st, 2017,
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a press conference largely
to attack the press for accurately reporting the size of attendance at
the inaugural festivities, saying that the inauguration had the largest
audience of any in history, “period.”<br /> * On January 22nd, 2017, White
House advisor Kellyann Conway defended Spicer’s lies as “alternative
facts” on national television news.<br /> * On January 22nd, 2017, DT
appeared to blow a kiss to director James Comey during a meeting with
the FBI, and then opened his arms in a gesture of strange, paternal
affection, before hugging him with a pat on the back.<br /> * On January
23rd, 2017, DT reinstated the global gag order, which defunds
international organizations that even mention abortion as a medical
option.<br /> * On January 23rd, 2017, Spicer said that the US will not
tolerate China’s expansion onto islands in the South China Sea,
essentially threatening war with China.<br /> * On January 23rd, 2017, DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing him the popular vote.<br />
* On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the
anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite
turning himself in.<br /> * On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote.<br />
* On January 24th, 2017, DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter
account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration and
will hang in the White House press room. The photo is of the 2009
inauguration of 44th President Barack Obama, and is curiously dated
January 21st, 2017, the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the
Women’s March, the largest inauguration related protest in history.<br /> *
On January 24th, 2017, the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with
the public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants
and contracts.<br /> * On January 24th, 2017, the USDA was ordered to stop
communicating with the public through social media or the press and to
stop publishing any papers or research. All communication with the press
would also have to be authorized and vetted by the White House.<br /> *
On January 24th, 2017, HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal funding
not only to abortion service providers, but to any insurance coverage,
including Medicaid, that provides abortion coverage, went to the floor
of the House for a vote.<br /> * On January 24th, 2017, Director of the
Department of Health and Human Service nominee Tom Price characterized
federal guidelines on transgender equality as “absurd.”<br /> * On January
24th, 2017, DT ordered the resumption of construction on the Dakota
Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress considers a bill
that would legalize hitting and killing protestors with cars if they are
on roadways.<br /> * On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police
officers had used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and
messages of the 230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for
protesting on January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose
email accounts contain privileged information of clients and sources.</div>
nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-19117617980699886762017-01-24T23:15:00.000-05:002017-01-24T23:15:12.125-05:00April 15 Anti-Trump MarchWe just finished the Women's March on Washington and sister marches all around the world (I participated in the one here in Naples, FL), and already the next march is being planned. This one is being planned for <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/april-15-tax-day-trump-protest_us_58856577e4b0e3a73569f9ca?">April 15th</a>, in order to take a stand and try to pressure Trump into releasing his taxes. Kellyanne Conway has said that the American people don't care whether he releases his taxes, when polls have shown that 60% of Americans do in fact want him to release his records. This march is intended to make a statement and show that Americans insist that Trump release his tax records. Take a stand!nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-12050526396460336372017-01-24T22:52:00.001-05:002017-01-24T23:06:23.734-05:00SUMMARY: What's happening in the World According to Trump?My friend is overwhelmed and depressed over everything Trump, and can't even deal with reading everything that comes out surrounding him. So she's taken to wanting me to just summarize things for her. Here is today's summary of Trump news from the last day or two:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Trump has named January 20th a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/23/trump-names-his-inauguration-day-a-national-day-of-patriotic-devotion/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.97e90831e658">National Day of Patriotic Devotion</a>. If that doesn't frighten you, then you are just plain stupid.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/23/cbs-confirms-reports-donald-trump-brought-cheering-props-cia-visit.html">CBS News</a> has confirmed that Trump's team brought a group of about 40 people who filled out the crowd at the CIA when Trump spoke to them on Saturday.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
'CBS News confirmed reports that President Donald Trump brought a
studio audience to his visit with the CIA on Saturday. The news agency
reports that an official said the visit left a wake of “unease,” “made
relations with the intelligence community worse,” and was
“uncomfortable.”<br />
Intelligence people were “stunned” and “offended by the president’s tone,” <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sources-say-theres-a-sense-of-unease-in-intel-community-after-trump-cia-visit/">CBS reported</a>
U.S. government sources tell CBS News that there is a sense of unease
in the intelligence community after President Trump’s visit to CIA
headquarters on Saturday.”<br />
<br />
Also, Trump did bring cheering props, which fits with how he has
operated previously in requiring a cheering section – a sort of laugh
track of supportive extras like those <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/20/fec-inadvertently-confirms-donald-trump-paid-actors-attend-announcement-event.html">his campaign hired for his announcement event.</a> It has been confirmed by Trump insiders that the <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/donald-trump-campaign-habits-234014">President loves props</a>.'</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Saturday we had the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/01/21/sean-spicer-entire-defends-inauguration-crowd-size-sot.cnn">dressing-down of the media</a> by press secretary Sean Spicer for their accused lying about the size of the inauguration audience. Trump's outfit maintained that the inauguration crowd was about 1.5 million, which is nearly twice the official government estimate of 800,000 attendees. Other estimates run as low as 250,000. However "crowd scientists", who are experts at analyzing photographs to determine crowd size, have actually placed Trump's crowd as something more akin to 160,000, with estimates of the Women's March crowd in DC around 470,000. When Chuck Todd pushed Kellyanne Conway to explain why Sean Spicer would lie about something so inconsequential when it was something we could all easily fact-check, the only explanation she could come up with is that there are "alternative facts", a term which quickly went viral.</li>
<li>The Trump administration has frozen all EPA grants and contracts. And they have <a href="http://mindy-fischer-writer.com/2017/01/trump-freezes-epa-grants-bans-employees-posting-updates-social-media/">banned employees</a> from providing updates to reporters or on social media.</li>
<li>In addition to the gag on EPA employees, there is also an order forbidding the research unit of the US Dept of Agriculture from releasing "public-facing documents", and the National Park Service was ordered to cease any tweeting last week. But despite this, someone took control of the <a href="http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/01/national-park-service-tweets-about-climate-change-over-trump.html">Badlands National Park</a> Twitter account and began tweeting out climate change information. Booyah!</li>
<li>The <i><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/us/politics/unauthorized-immigrant-voting-trump-lie.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0">New York Times</a></i> flat-out called Trump a liar for continuing to spread his rhetoric (now as President of the United States rather than simply as a campaign candidate) claiming that he lost the popular vote due to 3-5 million fraudulent votes, even though there is not a single piece of evidence to support such a claim.</li>
<li>There is a <a href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/01/donald-and-melania-trump-inauguration-smile-video.html">video clip</a> taken at the inauguration during the offering of something of a prayer, where a smiling Trump turns to his broadly smiling wife, and everything seems fine, and then he says a word or two and wipes the smile from his face and turns coldly from her and leaves her crestfallen as he smirks in pleasure. It's extremely disturbing.</li>
<li>And perhaps most astounding of all is a story in <i><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/trump-aides-cant-stop-blabbing-about-how-hes-a-madman.html?mid=facebook_nymag">New York Magazine</a></i> attesting that nearly a dozen Trump "senior White House officials and other Trump advisers and confidants" have opened up about the first few days in the White House, accusing Trump of being infantile and prone to temper tantrums, egotistical and easily embarrassed. They also have some not-so-kind words about Kellyanne Conway, describing her essentially as an attention whore. We are only four days into this presidency, and already some of Trump's closest confidants are breaking ranks and spilling the beans.</li>
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nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-7258692714050556932017-01-16T12:18:00.000-05:002017-01-16T12:18:58.692-05:00Cops: Greenwich Republican Insulted Town Worker, Then Pinched Her Groin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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'He allegedly replied: "I love this new world, I no longer have to be politically correct," according to the warrant.'<br />
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And so <a href="http://westport.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/cops-greenwich-republican-insulted-town-worker-then-pinched-her-groin/696124/">it begins</a>. Life under a Trump administration.nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-39345948640689059862016-12-29T10:50:00.002-05:002016-12-29T10:50:42.801-05:00All Hands On Deck!: Michael Moore's 5 Acts of Resistance to Trump<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Are you feeling frustrated and despondent? Are you looking for something that you can do, rather than just sitting around bitching and moaning about the current state of affairs? Michael Moore has <a href="http://samuel-warde.com/2016/12/all-hands-on-deck-michael-moore-trump/">some suggestions</a> for you.nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-65311669109502249972016-12-29T10:46:00.001-05:002016-12-29T10:46:41.636-05:00Women's March on WashingtonIt's time to make your presence known. To stand for what's right. To <b><i>march</i></b>!<br />
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Thinking about making it to the march in Washington? Get the lowdown on <a href="https://www.womensmarch.com/">their website</a>.<br />
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Can't make it to Washington? Don't fret! There are <a href="https://www.womensmarch.com/sisters">sister marches</a> going on all over the country. You can find that info on the website, too.nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-28045687445109252612016-12-23T08:09:00.000-05:002016-12-23T08:09:06.506-05:00NYMag: All the Terrifying Things That Donald Trump Did Lately<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/every-terrifying-thing-that-donald-trump-has-done.html">NY Magazine</a> is making this easy for me. <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/every-terrifying-thing-that-donald-trump-has-done.html">Here</a> is a summary of "all of the terrifying things that Donald Trump did lately".nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-12431824801502819922016-12-22T08:09:00.000-05:002016-12-22T08:09:15.055-05:00Strange BedfellowsGlenn Beck and Samantha Bee have joined forces to use their powers for good and fight evil.<br />
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<br />nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-79477598832998664052016-12-21T23:52:00.000-05:002016-12-21T23:52:33.729-05:00Scientists Copying Climate Change Data; Wayback Machine Moving to CanadaYes, this is what it has come to. Fear that Trump will try to simply
erase history. You know where that has been done before? <i>Russia</i>. Read up
on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union">their censorship</a>, where artists were brought on to literally paint
people out of images and thereby erase them from history. Now the fear
that such censorship could occur in the US is real. Scientists are <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/13/scientists-are-frantically-copying-u-s-climate-data-fearing-it-might-vanish-under-trump/?utm_term=.b9192c4aee31">copying climate change data</a> as fast as they can, fearing that Trump will destroy decades of research, and the <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-29/wayback-machine-moving-canada-out-fear-trump-censorship">Wayback Machine</a> is moving to Canada fearing censorship.<br /> nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-82253046227693798022016-12-21T23:18:00.000-05:002016-12-21T23:55:28.920-05:00Gingrich says Trump can't be expected to follow ethics laws, so Congress should change them for himDonald isn't even in office yet, and already Newt Gingrich has a plan for him to get the job done-- presidential pardons. They can do anything they want, and simply pardon anyone implicated.<br />
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“In the case of the president, he has a broad ability to organize the
White House the way he wants to. He also has, frankly, the power of the
pardon,” Gingrich said, in <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/12/newt-gingrich-trump-ethics-laws-congress-232828" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/12/newt-gingrich-trump-ethics-laws-congress-232828" target="_blank">comments first covered by Politico</a>.
“It’s a totally open power. He could simply say, ‘Look, I want them to
be my advisers. I pardon them if anyone finds them to have behaved
against the rules. Period.’ Technically, under the Constitution, he has
that level of authority.”</blockquote>
No, that's not scary at all.<br />
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Read <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/gingrich-trump-ethics-laws-conflicts-of-interest-kleoptocracy-17d500c1d6c6#.y223rhbig">ThinkProgress</a> for more. nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-74572324378743545252016-12-21T23:05:00.000-05:002016-12-21T23:56:15.285-05:00Trump ignores his own 'Buy American, Hire American' ruleWhy is this not shocking? For all of his bluster and blather about keeping jobs and manufacturing in America, Donald has a history of hiring immigrants and outsourcing jobs to other countries. He just got approval to hire 64 foreign workers, and last year hired 69. I guess it's just a matter of "Do what I say, not what I do."<br />
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<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-ignores-his-own-buy-american-hire-american-rule">MSNBC</a> for more on this.nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-82114528554275853502016-12-21T22:45:00.000-05:002016-12-21T23:57:01.969-05:00Trump supporters didn't take him literally on Obamacare. Oops?"Others who didn’t take Trump literally may soon face the same dilemma. <a href="http://www.urban.org/research/publication/implications-partial-repeal-aca-through-reconciliation" shape="rect">The Urban Institute</a>
estimated this month that under the partial repeal plan previously
passed by Republicans in Congress, 30 million people would lose
insurance, 82 percent of them would be in working families and 56
percent would be white. Among adults who would lose insurance, 80
percent don’t have college degrees."<br />
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Yes, that's right. A portion of Trump supporters use Obamacare, like Obamacare and want to keep Obamacare, and they are now shocked that Trump still plans on repealing it. And the majority of people who will be affected by a repeal of Obamacare are the same demographics that carried Donald to the White House. Read more at the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-voters-didnt-take-him-literally-on-obamacare-oops/2016/12/20/46ef3cae-c6f3-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.b983b643897d">Washington Post</a>. nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-37887071820817193712016-12-21T22:16:00.000-05:002016-12-21T22:16:29.654-05:00Trump vs. Obama in the alleged war on Christmas: Ugliness in a season of joyThe <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trump-vs-obama-in-the-alleged-war-on-christmas-ugliness-in-a-season-of-joy/2016/12/19/66502918-c2d5-11e6-9a51-cd56ea1c2bb7_story.html?utm_term=.f67c70be939a"><i>Washington Post</i></a> addresses the ridiculous argument that there is a "war on Christmas". Trump at one point even said, “If I become president, we’re all going to be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again. That I can tell you.” What does that even mean? Are we going to start fining or imprisoning people who refuse to say Merry Christmas? I didn't think the argument that there is a war on Christmas could get even more ridiculous. Good grief!<br />
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This is yet another example of Donald simply playing "entertainer", and saying whatever tickles that masses he's playing to. We are seeing now with the way he is backing down on a lot of his rhetoric from the campaign trail, even admitting that he said some of it simply because it sounded good, that we don't really know what he actually intends. What did he mean, and what didn't he really mean out on the campaign trail? Only time will tell.nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-54029029466968158582016-12-21T08:29:00.000-05:002016-12-21T08:29:53.529-05:00Trump private security force "playing with fire"So once again breaking from tradition, Donald has decided to keep his private security rather than rely on the Secret Service for protection. This move may jeopardize his security, as his personal "goon squad" is not trained for this type of thing. It's felt that his current security force is trained more for dealing with dissenters at rallies, and not assassination attempts on the President of the United States. Read about it at <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/donald-trump-security-force-232797">Politico</a>.<br />
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<b>Personal note:</b> Do you know how much this new presidency is going to cost the taxpayers? So far we have them paying for the maintenance and security of another residency for Melania and son, impending lawsuits, and now this private security force. Will it never end?nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-24551584703879181342016-12-20T23:18:00.001-05:002016-12-20T23:18:39.729-05:00Donald Trump’s Daughter, Ivanka Trump: Our Next First Lady?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Is Ivanka Trump poised to take on the role of "First Lady" in Melania's place? Some think so. <a href="http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/donald-trumps-daughter-ivanka-trump-our-next-first-lady">Alternet</a> lays it all out for you.nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-24556080764261662352016-12-20T15:06:00.000-05:002016-12-20T15:06:44.948-05:00Trump's antagonism towards China sinks deeper into incoherence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rachel Maddow discussed the other night how China has a habit of "testing" new presidents in their first months in office, but Trump has been so antagonistic it seems that China may be starting a little early with him. <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-antagonism-towards-china-sinks-deeper-incoherence?cid=sm_fb_maddow">This article</a> touches on that.nfmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03677291537193518055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471838209001364620.post-5657789171629539972016-12-20T15:01:00.000-05:002016-12-20T15:01:13.924-05:00Night Before Doomsday: A little holiday cheer...<h2>
<b>Night Before Doomsday</b><i><b> </b></i></h2>
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<i><b>by Judith Best </b></i></h3>
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It's the week before Christmas<br />
And I've hit such a slump.<br />
My brain just can't wrap around<br />
Donald J. Trump.<br />
The stockings are hung<br />
Christmas songs fill the air,<br />
But when I close my eyes<br />
I see weird yellow hair.<br />
I see two tiny hands,<br />
And brilliant orange skin,<br />
And the swing and the sag <br />
Of that twice-doubled chin.<br />
<br />
At night when I lay down<br />
To sleep in my bed,<br />
No visions of sugar plums<br />
Dance in my head.<br />
Just Trump and his sons,<br />
And Exxon pollutin'<br />
And secretive meetings<br />
With Vladimir Putin.<br />
And fake news and emails and leaks that were Wiki,<br />
And Donald's strange words 'bout his daughter--sooo icky.<br />
<br />
And Priebus, and Bannon,<br />
And Goldman/Sachs bankers<br />
And rich oil barons<br />
Those builders of tankers.<br />
No Donner, no Cupid,<br />
No Prancer, no Vixen.<br />
Just alt-Nazi parties,<br />
And flashbacks to Nixon.<br />
And V.P. Mike Pence<br />
LGBT lives upended.<br />
Leave no gay man behind.<br />
(And that pun's intended.)<br />
<br />
Trump went right to work.<br />
He couldn't be fitter.<br />
Phone calls with Taiwan<br />
And sad rants on Twitter.<br />
He filled up his team,<br />
From the swamp he did drain.<br />
And in pyramids now<br />
We will store all our grain.<br />
To the top of the roof,<br />
To the top of the wall,<br />
Now pay for it, Mexico<br />
Pay for it all.<br />
<br />
I'm scared it's too late<br />
Though the vote he did lose it,<br />
The Electoral college<br />
Now gets to choose it.<br />
On that January day,<br />
That we surely must dread.<br />
He'll swear to protect<br />
Something he's never read.<br />
<br />
And laying a finger<br />
On the side of his nose<br />
Or on some woman's hoo-hah<br />
To the White House he goes.<br />
And we'll hear him exclaim,<br />
As he snuffs out our rights,<br />
"It will all be so great. Believe me."<br />
Good night.<br />
<br />
(copyrighted by Judith C. Best ) </div>
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