The Trump Presidency: Part 21

[StillSleepy]

In retrospect, I can't really go much further with satirizing Trump as a reptilian due to Poe's Law. It's just so cartoonish. Even going for low hanging fruit would sound way too genuine. Like, I can't even satirize him as a defective reptilian.

 

[alfaniner]

The medical journal Lancet just published a scathing editorial calling for new U.S. leadership this fall due to its gross mishandling of the pandemic in this country. Personally I don't really care if it's Biden or another Republican candidate. Just as long as that guy's gone.

 

[KDLarsen]

In a prime example of the hold trump has over the Republican party, former White House physician Ronny Jackson is running for Congress in Texas, in a solid Republican district (the incumbent is retiring, he polled 80+% in the previous elections), and as a result he has dived straight into peddling the Obamagate conspiracy theory.

...
The turn has left some officials from the last administration a little perplexed because Jackson was considered even-minded, apolitical -- and friendly with Obama, who he is now accusing of grave crimes.

"President Obama weaponized the highest levels of our government to spy on President Trump. Every Deep State traitor deserves to be brought to justice for their heinous actions," Jackson wrote Tuesday on Twitter, without offering any proof.

The message sparked some rebukes from former Obama aides.

"Ronny Jackson was friends with Obama and his entire staff. I never heard him make a partisan statement," tweeted Tommy Vietor, a former National Security Council spokesman under Obama. "So it's really been sad to watch him debase himself by lying for Trump and promoting this toxic (censored) to win a Congressional primary. Truly shameful."
...

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/14/politics/ronny-jackson-obama-tweets/index.html

 

[Safe-Keeper]

The medical journal Lancet just published a scathing editorial calling for new U.S. leadership this fall due to its gross mishandling of the pandemic in this country.

Link?

 

[Matthew Best]

Link?

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31140-5/fulltext

The Trump administration's further erosion of the CDC will harm global cooperation in science and public health, as it is trying to do by defunding WHO. A strong CDC is needed to respond to public health threats, both domestic and international, and to help prevent the next inevitable pandemic. Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Retweeted

Rogan O’Handley
@DC_Draino
Uh oh, wouldn’t want the Commies in blue states to see us Floridians all out at bars having a good time with no face masks

Might destroy their narrative that everyone’s gonna die if we don’t live in a bubble forever!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Retweeted

Daniel Henninger
@DanHenninger
The Flynn case shows how Washington elites lost faith in the American system they administer and debased its institutions, writes @DanHenninger https://wsj.com/articles/the-michael-flynn-debauchery-11589410340 via @WSJ

Daily Caller
@DailyCaller
We got no response from the @JoeBiden campaign today when we asked them for an explanation of the then Vice President’s request to unmask the identity of General Flynn
Their overall strategy of #HidenBiden appears to be in full effect.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Retweeted

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: The narrative that Moscow deployed Russian bots to spread Internet disinformation in support of vulnerable GOP candidates in the 2018 congressional elections also originated with dossier fraudster Christopher Steele and his discredited "network of sources & subsources"

BREAKING: Top Clinton Campaign Officials Podesta and Sullivan Secretly Joined Forces With Fusion GPS After The Election -- To Re-Push Anti-Trump Dossier

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Retweeted

The Hill
@thehill
Sen. Rand Paul: "Biden accessed the identity and the private conversation of a political opponent. There is no more clear violation of a politician using their office and abusing their office to go after a political opponent -- and I think he's caught red-handed here."

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Where is the 302? It is missing. Was it stolen or destroyed? General Flynn is being persecuted! #OBAMAGATE

Thank you to all of my great Keyboard Warriors. You are better, and far more brilliant, than anyone on Madison Avenue (Ad Agencies). There is nobody like you!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump retweeted

steve hilton
@SteveHiltonx
"Obamagate is not a conspiracy theory"
Obama, Biden, CIA director Brennan, intelligence chief Clapper, attorney general Holder - ALL OF THEM used law enforcement against political rivals
this is the behavior of a police state

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

GREAT!
Quote Tweet

Gregg Jarrett
@GreggJarrett
Rep. Nunes Promises “Criminal Referrals” to Gregg Jarrett in Fox Nation Special https://gjarr.it/2X0OkAu

 

[MRC_Hans]

In retrospect, I can't really go much further with satirizing Trump as a reptilian due to Poe's Law. It's just so cartoonish. Even going for low hanging fruit would sound way too genuine. Like, I can't even satirize him as a defective reptilian.

Could we just say he is on the same scale as them?

Hans

 

[Tero]

Trump Tweets

Where is the 302? It is missing. Was it stolen or destroyed? General Flynn is being persecuted! #OBAMAGATE

Thank you to all of my great Keyboard Warriors. You are better, and far more brilliant, than anyone on Madison Avenue (Ad Agencies). There is nobody like you!

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo that the original 302 document — which typically summarizes witness interviews with agents — was “missing.” Nunes said the document is where Flynn is accused of lying to investigators.
(Foxnes)

 

[Darat]

Trump retweeted

steve hilton
@SteveHiltonx
"Obamagate is not a conspiracy theory"
Obama, Biden, CIA director Brennan, intelligence chief Clapper, attorney general Holder - ALL OF THEM used law enforcement against political rivals
this is the behavior of a police state

Steve sounds quite jealous!

 

[Horatius]

Trump retweeted

steve hilton
@SteveHiltonx
"Obamagate is not a conspiracy theory"
Obama, Biden, CIA director Brennan, intelligence chief Clapper, attorney general Holder - ALL OF THEM used law enforcement against political rivals
this is the behavior of a police state

Aren't the three highlighted positions normally considered to be non-partisan in nature? So telling that the Republicans now think that having these guys do their job is "political".

 

[dann]

Trump Tweets
(...)
Thank you to all of my great Keyboard Warriors. You are better, and far more brilliant, than anyone on Madison Avenue (Ad Agencies). There is nobody like you!

Are they also better than Cambridge Analytica?

 

[Safe-Keeper]

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31140-5/fulltext

Cue Trump tweeting about the failing Lancet, trying to get all his minions to turn their backs on them as a fake news outlet.

 

[Horatius]

And here is something to consider. I first saw mention of this on a Facebook page I've been following for some astute political and historical observations the last few months.

There's a problem with this whole time line. The conversations that Flynn had with the Russians, the ones he lied about and was on trial for, happened in late December 2016:

In his plea agreement, Flynn admitted he lied to FBI agents about two discussions he had with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, in December 2016 when Flynn was still a private citizen and before Trump took office.

In the first instance, Flynn — who was interviewed by FBI agents on Jan. 24 — admitted he lied to FBI agents about a conversation he had with Kislyak on Dec. 22, 2016, about an upcoming U.N. Security Council resolution. Although he initially denied it to FBI agents, Flynn now admits that he asked Russia to delay or defeat a U.N. Security Council resolution, approved Dec. 23, 2016, that would have condemned Israel’s building of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Obama administration had agreed to allow the resolution to come up for a vote over the objection of Israel.

Flynn also admitted that he lied to investigators about a Dec. 29 conversation that he had with Kislyak. On the day of the conversation, the Obama administration announced sanctions against Russia in response to Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Flynn called to discuss the new sanctions with “a senior official” of the Trump transition team “who was with other senior members of the Presidential Transition Team at the Mar-a-Lago resort” that Trump owns in Florida.

Immediately after the call to Mar-a-Lago, Flynn called Kislyak and “requested that Russia not escalate the situation and only respond to the U.S. Sanctions in a reciprocal manner,” the plea agreement said. Kislyak agreed that Russia would “moderate its response to those sanctions” as a result of his request, according to the U.S. special counsel’s office.

But, when interviewed by the FBI on Jan. 24, Flynn denied making such a request and could not recall if Kislyak agreed to his request.

But then, take a look at the list of people who made unmasking requests for a name that turned out to be Flynn:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/re...-officials-who-sought-to-unmask-michael-flynn

See anything interesting? I mean, besides the fact that there's a hell of a lot of them, coming from many different agencies, so many that it seems unlikely they're all just partisan shills for Obama, who was going to be out of office soon anyways.

The really interesting thing is that the vast majority - all but the last six - came in before Flynn had those conversations with the Russians. Most were between the 14th and 16th of December, but the first goes back to the 30th of November. And we apparently have no idea what events those requests are related to.

Something happened in late November that made Flynn a target. Something happened around mid-December that made him a very popular target.

If the whole point of the unmasking request was just to smear a political rival who's side had already won the election, why did they need so many requests? And if it was all about his conversations with the Russians, why did the vast majority of them happen before these conversations?

There's something missing here.

 

[carlitos]

Paraphrasing They Might Be Giants - It's nobody's business but the Turks.