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More Exciting Trump Transition news, kids!

A number of news outlets — citing “people familiar with the president-elect’s transition planning,” so take that with however many pounds of salt and/or tequila you’d like — are saying Donald Trump is close to naming retired Gen. Michael Flynn as his national security advisor, a post that doesn’t require Senate confirmation.

That’s terrific news for Flynn, who was asked to step down as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014, thanks in part to not playing well with others in the intelligence community, and to a “chaotic” management style.

After leaving the service, he immediately became a rightwing hero for his constant verbal attacks on the Obama administration, especially on Fox News.

Flynn’s other notable achievement since returning to civilian life has been working as a lobbyist for the Turkish government, which should be just peachy since Turkey is one of our NATO allies, right?

Except Flynn isn’t just touting Turkey as an ally in the fight against ISIS — he also wrote an op-ed piece defending the elected autocratic leader of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and calling for the immediate deportation of an Islamist cleric who Erdoğan would very much like to execute the moment he arrives on Turkish soil.

Flynn’s impeccable logic: The cleric, Fethullah Gülen, may claim that he’s a moderate, but “If he were in reality a moderate, he would not be in exile, nor would he excite the animus of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his government.”

Clearly, if a near-dictator is against him, he must be guilty of something, so let’s skip our normal extradition procedures and send him off to be killed.
(Yr Wonkette doesn’t know enough about Gülen to have an opinion, but we are big fans of due process, and not big fans of autocrats who jail or execute their opponents. We’re just big idiots that way.)

Small detail: Flynn failed to mention his lobbying connections to the Turkish government in that Hill piece. You know, as if ethics mattered. We only care about politicians taking money from foreign governments when their name is Hillary Clinton. All the others are cool.

And then there’s Flynn’s lovey-dovey feelings about Mother Russia, which we’ve mentioned more than once, but which shouldn’t be anything to worry about in a National Security Advisor.

Russian troops massing on the Ukranian border? Eh, not really our business, at least until we check Ukraine’s balance sheet to make sure they’ve paid their protection money.

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Misty » 17 Nov 2016 12:34 pm » wrote:OMG, this is so creepy.
Good to know that soon he will have the power to listen in on all of our calls.

Team Trump gleefully mocks the millennials who are protesting him.

Massive protests against President-Elect Donald Trump have erupted nationwide since the November 8th election, and Trump’s team is lashing out.

“We are just treating these adolescents and millennials like precious snowflakes,” Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on Sean Hannity’s Fox show Wednesday night.

Both Conway and Hannity slammed the protesters for being privileged, saying that because both of them came from “humble beginnings” they would never protest against the president.

“It is really time for these little pampered spoiled brats to get over themselves,” said Hannity.

“Did I ever send you hot cocoa? Did I ever give you a crying room because you lost? Did we ever protest together? I don’t think so,” he said to Conway.

“Maybe a cigar and a cognac here and there, which is more our style,” Conway replied.

“And certainly not to degrade the office of the president or cry crocodile tears into that cognac about who had won the election.”

“I was raised the way you were raised. Very humble beginnings.

But most importantly we were raised to respect the office of the presidency and current occupant and the flag.

And that’s it. All that that represents,” said Conway.

Misty » 17 Nov 2016 1:15 pm » wrote:So why is it okay for Trump supporters to mock people who did not support him?
They sure as hell don't like to be on the receiving end of it.


What a couple of self-righteous hypocrites.
They sure as hell had no respect for the office or the occupant for the last 8 years.

And what makes them think that all of these protesters are 'privileged?'
They're not 'privileged' they're scared and disgusted by all the things they heard during this campaign.

Misty » 17 Nov 2016 8:06 pm » wrote:Oy vey!

Trump is meeting with foreign leaders without any guidance on logistics or protocol from the State Dept. and talking to them on an unsecured phone line.

What could go wrong?

The lawsuit also raises ethical questions; in several months, Trump's administration will have the power to appoint a new GSA director.
That sets up the uncomfortable prospect that the Trump children, who the president-elect has said will be in charge of his businesses, could seek to renegotiate the building's lease with a GSA led by a person appointed by their father.

crimsongulf » 17 Nov 2016 8:12 pm » wrote:Don't think the "hey, how ya doing chats are gonna be a threat"

Misty » 17 Nov 2016 9:00 pm » wrote: How do we know that's all they are?
There's no transparency.

You can trust him if you want to.
I don't trust the con-artist fraud as far as I can throw him.

crimsongulf » 17 Nov 2016 9:07 pm » wrote:Pretty much my thoughts on billary.
she was a proven liar.
Youtube my frikken ***.

Misty » 17 Nov 2016 9:26 pm » wrote: She's not going to be POTUS.
He is.

crimsongulf » 17 Nov 2016 9:44 pm » wrote:And my post is why he is and she ain't.

Misty » 17 Nov 2016 11:33 pm » wrote:Trump meets with Japanese Prime Minister with Ivanka and Jared Kushner by his side.

No press allowed........ just Ivanka and Jared.

In 1986, a Senate committee denied Sessions, then a 39-year-old U.S. attorney in Alabama, a federal judgeship. His former colleagues testified Sessions used the n-word and joked about the Ku Klux Klan, saying he thought they were "okay, until he learned that they smoked marijuana."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... y-general/

Thomas Figures, a black assistant US attorney who worked for Sessions, testified that Sessions called him "boy" on multiple occasions.

J. Gerald Hebert, who was a Justice Department lawyer, testified that Sessions said a white attorney who represented black clients might be a disgrace and that the NAACP and ACLU did more harm than good by trying to force civil rights "down the throats of people."

"He has never backed off from the comments he made at that time. He has never apologized for them," Hebert said Thursday.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/17/politics/ ... legations/

roadkill » 18 Nov 2016 9:44 am » wrote:Misty's obsession continues.

Misty » 18 Nov 2016 4:12 pm » wrote: Get used to it Goatse.
You elected him, now you have to defend him just like we had to for 8 years with Obama.