The Trump administration 3

voice of the damned wrote:

And, as for your Iberian example...

Wow! You folks completely missed the point I was making about how Trump used the transgender community to create sympathy for the military and blur the lines of imperialism vs actual defence. Every comment I've read so far, is in defence of US imperialism and war crimes! Does someone want to explain to me how banning someone from murdering people is against their rights? When did people have the right to murder? I guess if it's a foreigner, murdering a foreigner is a right then?

If the leader of the country told me "from now on, you're not allowed to join our organisation that kills people and destroys lives, families and their countries" I would say, "ya I wasn't interested in your imperial war machine, so thank you captain obvious!"

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Every comment I've read so far, is in defence of US imperialism and war crimes!

Actually, NO comment you've read so far has been in defense of US imperialism and war crimes.

EVERY comment has been in favour of trans soldiers having the same right to serve as any other soldier, or in criticism of the idea that trans soldiers need Donald Trump to save them.

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Does someone want to explain to me how banning someone from murdering people is against their rights?

The Donald didn't ban all Americans, equitably, and that's the problem.  It's as stupid as saying "Asians shouldn't use cocaine, therefore we'll have a special law to prevent Asians from using cocaine!"  Would that help you understand?

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If the leader of the country told me "from now on, you're not allowed to join our organisation that kills people and destroys lives, families and their countries" I would say, "ya I wasn't interested in your imperial war machine, so thank you captain obvious!"

American transpeople have, and have always had, and continue to have that same option.  No need for POTUS to choose for them, if he's not choosing for everyone else.

WWWTT wrote:

Actually yes every comment and in particular the one you just made. Doesn't matter what group Trump went after that has lots of supporters from the left, he knew that that he would generate a desire to serve in the war machine from the most unlikely candidates. I see the same thing happen with my children actually. One kid grabs a toy (let's call him kid A) kid B lost interest in playing with and after kid B sees kid A, he wants that toy back and then they start fighting. Look at the comments coming from those criticisms to Trump saying that it's everyone's right to serve! Come to think of it, I haven't seen so much support for the serving in the US slaughter machine(military) since 9/11! As far as your Asians doing coke thing goes, ya that's just weak since nobody's actually getting a criminal record or going to jail. And yes there are already lots of racism in the US justice system. Just compare the sentences a white kid gets for smoking a joint to a black kid. 

So Trump is an evil genius parent manipulating his gullible trans children?

I'm not sure this is a scenario that one would arrive at using Occam's razor.

Maybe Trump is a childish bigoted idiot who is trying to divert attention from his disastrous failed presidency by attacking the mature, yet vulnerable trans community?

When is the World Going To Impose Sanctions on America?

https://sptnkne.ws/eZPY

"Only when we are living in a world in which sanctions are imposed 'on' the United States rather than 'by' the United States will we know justice reigns."

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Actually yes every comment and in particular the one you just made. Doesn't matter what group Trump went after that has lots of supporters from the left, he knew that that he would generate a desire to serve in the war machine from the most unlikely candidates.

You really don't seem to understand that the state cannot simply name some identifiable group -- women, blacks, Asians, juggalos, vegans -- and say that they alone cannot serve in the military. 

That you think the military is "the murder machine" is beside the point, and that you think nobody at all should want to serve in the military is also beside the point.

If the RCMP declared that starting immediately, no Chinese Canadian can join their ranks, would you say "good!"?  If not, why not?  Lucky them, right?

Scaramucci removed as Communications Director

President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president’s senior staff.

...The decision to remove Mr. Scaramucci, who had boasted about reporting directly to the president, not the chief of staff, John F. Kelly, came at Mr. Kelly’s request, the people said. 

...It was not clear whether Mr. Scaramucci will remain employed at the White House in another position or will leave altogether.

​That has to set some sort of record for shortest term as Communications Director, I would think. Not that surprising, though. That little rant of his was a bit over the top.

The Onion Fact Checks Scaramucci's Rant

“I’ve done nothing wrong on my financial disclosures, so they’re going to have to go fuck themselves.”

TRUE: Scaramucci’s financial records appear accurate, so under U.S. federal statutes his detractors are required by law to go fuck themselves no later than 10 business days from the date of filing.

Trump Planning To Sign Russia Sanctions 'Signals Dysfunctional President' 

https://youtu.be/U-9DBsRbN_4

Too bad the Democratic hierarchy doesn't get this but perhaps losing a few more elections may change their minds, although not counting on it! 

Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease

Unless we overhaul our political systems from the ground up, we face a century of rule by puppets of the rich.

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2017/08/01/Trump-Symptom-Not-Disease/

NDPP time to give up your silliness

The circus continues and we will all be paying the price for this nightmare Trump presidency but Americans will pay the biggest price of all as it is now obvious that the American constitution / system of government only works for rich and powerful thugs and not the average American citizen 

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/08/05/the-moment-when-trump-wi...

Which he did, hands down! - (check the article's date)

This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America

Steve Bannon runs the new vast right-wing conspiracy—and he wants to take down both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2015-steve-bannon/

ZOA: NSC's McMaster - Reassign Him To Area Not Dealing With Israel Or Iran

http://zoa.org/2017/08/10371905-zoa-nscs-mcmaster-reassign-him-to-area-n...

"Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)...released the following report:"

Zios unhappy with McMaster

NDPP wrote:

"...The loose left now calls that grotesque excrescence in the White House a fascist, as if Trump had replaced an administration of enlightened humanitarians. They are calling for virtual presidenticide so that the rule of that enlightened international 'vampire', the Democratic Party, can be restored.

But let me tell you: he's only the last of the 'fascists' in a long line since 1945. The loose left just hasn't noticed because the loose left have no concept of class struggle.

What is to be done? End imperialism..."

The Terrorism of Moral Indignation  -   by Luciana Bohne

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/11/the-terrorism-of-moral-indignation/

What a bunch of horseshit.  None of those presidents, however abhorent they were, sympathized with white supremacists and neo-nazis.  None of them tried to pose a religious test for entrance to the country.  None of them appointed outright fascists to positions of influence.  None of them, with the possible exception of Nixon, broke what is essentially a social compact that the president would not communicate to the country in way akin to a drunk at a Munich beer hall.

Merck chief Ken Frazier resigns from Trump council

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40921600

Nancy Reagan 2.0

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/13/dont-blame-addicts...

NorthReport wrote:

Merck chief Ken Frazier resigns from Trump council

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40921600

I have a grudging admiration for Trump's reply... 

“Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President’s Manufacturing Council, he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!”

Though of course this leads one to ask: Was Trump unaware of Frazier's price-gouging when he appointed him to the council? 

Steve Bannon Goes As The Military Takes Over the Trump Administration

http://theduran.com/bannon-military-takes-trump-administration/

"Ousting of Bannon as chief White House strategist leaves the generals in charge of the government...'

From the article posted by NDPP, re: bannon military takes Trump:

All this is happening at the same time that there is growing criticism of the economic institutions of the US government, which since the 2008 financial crisis have seemed to side with a wealthy and unprincipled minority against the interests of the majority.

​What was this writer thinking??? How does he think the 2008 financial crisis happened in the first place? Because the 'economic institutions of the government' were protecting the interests of the majority? It's hard to believe someone could be that dense and still have a job.

Here's a news flash for the writer of above article. The 2008 financial crisis happened specifically because the government institutions that were supposed to be acting in the interests of the majority, weren't! The 2008 financial crisis was the culmination of years of loosening regulations and ignoring the possible consequences!

NDPP wrote:

Neo-Nazis And White Supremacists The New Mojo For Sabotaging Trump    

https://rt.com/op-edge/400261-white-supremacists-nazi-trump-sabotage/

"The ousting of White House  chief strategist Stephen Bannon marks the biggest political victory to date for opponents of US President Donald Trump. Seven months after taking office, Trump's presidency now looks like a hollow shell. Where Russia-gate failed, the deep state playing the racial card seems like the new improved mojo for sabotaging the president."

The deep state is using the most modern sophisticated evil techniques imaginable to sabotage poor President Trump!!! They've somehow hypnotized him into acting like an alt-right racist fascist when he is in fact a peace-loving socialist! 

It is not clear at all that Trump and Bannon are not working hand in glove with each other. Everything suggests that they are and have merely "shuffled the cabinet" and roles of the nasties.

Bannon The Barbarian Goes 'Thermonuclear'  -  by Pepe Escobar

https://sptnkne.ws/fmxR

"Immediately after his ouster Bannon had already alerted the Beltway - and the world - 'that presidency is over. It'll be something else. And there'll be all kinds of fights, and there'll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over.'

The 'new' American presidency, is in fact subordinated to a triad: Pentagon generals; The Trump family; and Goldman Sachs/Wall Street (Less regulation! Less taxes! It's raining money, Halleluya!)"

Ship Rudderless After Trump Drops Its Pilot

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/08/trump-drops-a-pilot.html

"The racist Huffington Post headline implies that Bannon prioritized the wrong country. 'Goy Bye!' Haaretz notes that his ouster was hailed by US Jewish groups. The White House is now under the control of military hawks and interventionists."

Trump's Firing of Bannon: The Military Asserts Control

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/19/pers-a19.html

"Trump's firing of his fascistic chief political strategist Stephen Bannon marks a new stage in the bitter factional conflict within the American ruling elite.  The direct control of the military in alliance with Wall St over the affairs of state has, if anything, been increased."

Bannon's Ouster a Big Win For Gary Cohn & Wall St

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/18/steve-bannon-ousted-in-win-for-wall-stre...

"News that Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is out at the White House, means one thing. Gary Cohn has won..."

TRNN: Max Blumenthal/Paul Jay on Firing of Steve Bannon

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:19809:Max-Blumenthal-and-Paul-Jay-on-fir...

"I predicted on my friend Sam Knight's radio show on election night that Trump would face what would amount to a deep-state coup. He would run up against the reality of the national security state, and that his anti-interventionist line on the campaign trail would completely dissolve into thin air under the weight of the forces that have controlled both parties maybe since Eisenhower..."

TRNN Documentary: The Real Story Of How Bannon and Trump Got To The White House

https://vimeo.com/230220458

Pepe Escobar, in an allied article, compared Steve Bannon to Lenin, and characterised Tump's victory as a 'revolution'.

Apparently Escobar arrived here on earth from some other planet a few days ago. There's just not much else one can say about someone who has so little grasp of earth history.

The White House is Now Run Entirely By Hucksters, Democrats and Generals

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/18/bannon-fired-trump-isolated-from-con...

"There is no one left in the White House who has any idea what they're doing. At least nobody conservative..."