To her credit Loffe tried to apologize.
Sort of.
We have a president-elect who popularized "saying what everyone is thinking," but I guess my phrasing should've been more delicate.— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) December 14, 2016
Then she remembered that she was taking a new job with the Atlantic, and decided to put a little effort into it.In Russia, the Kremlin rarely has to make the call to media organizations. The media bosses anticipate and do the censoring themselves.— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) December 14, 2016
All that said, I do regret my phrasing and apologize for it. It was a crass joke that I genuinely regret.— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) December 14, 2016
I think we can all agree that Loffe was a little off base here.It was a tasteless, offensive tweet that I regret and have deleted. I am truly and deeply sorry. It won't happen again.— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) December 14, 2016
I mean sure the relationship between Trump and his daughter has all of the earmarks of a sexual predator and the prey that he has groomed for decades.
Sure he is constantly inappropriately touching her in public.
I'm sorry, what was off base again?
The photo on the bottom, the one with adult Ivanka, it seems she is both used to that type of incestuous touching and also seems to welcome it.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if her husband is just a "beard" of sorts to cover up the incestuous relationship she has with her own father. It also wouldn't surprise me one bit if proof came out that her new child is actually fathered by her creepy father.
She does seem to welcome it. She knows what people have said. She easily could make it stop, but she doesn't. That pic is also extra gross because her fake boobs combined with her post-baby lactation swelling are just too much for Trump to resist.
DeleteI have thought the same 4:35.
DeleteOh, and I am almost sure that a few trolls will arrive shortly to admonish all of us for our frank opinions. Sorry trolls, ya'll celebrated tRump and his goons talking this way so you have set the tone for the next 4 yrs.
ReplyDeleteWhile one of you on the more respectable side will mention that Michelle Obama asked us all to go high when they go low....well, I guess I am not as gracious as Michelle. While I appreciate her ability to go high, I also think there is a need for some of us, to attack with our own words on the more vicious side.
Tell me what you will about *my* comment, but that father-daughter relationship is *anything* but NORMAL. I DARE you to produce another family like that, outside of a Hollywood screenwriter's fertile imagination.
ReplyDeletePhoto # two shows a matronly bosommed, wide hipped, crepe necked woman, whose age and repeated birthing of spawn has caught up with her...
ReplyDeletePeople have said Trump perfers his women to be more girlish (like first photo).
So, I am gonna go with nepotism.
Because the Trump children's behavior has been beastly, and because I'm so sick of hearing how beautiful she is even though she's had a big chin implant and other surgery to make her not look like her moon-faced father, I'm all for trashing her looks. And that begins with the wide hips. She can exercise all she wants. She will always have wide hips to contend with. In some pics she looks every strange with those wide hips, a way too-long neck, and a shrunken head (even with the face implants). The more you look at her, the weirder she looks.
DeleteI agree, fugly as her shitgibbon dad.
DeleteIvanka Trump is not particularly attractive. Donald Juan is probably reminded of when her mother was younger. She isn't ugly (on the outside) but she is no raving beauty either.
DeleteAll the tRump offspring have horse teeth. Ivanka has a huge set of - teeth!! I have never seen where she is supposedly a "beauty" Her ego is as big as Daddy's.
Delete5:29 She looked like ET before all the work was done on that noggin. Bowling ball head,no chin ,neck like an ET. Her kid looks just like her.
DeleteI don't think Melania Trump will ever be moving to the Whitehouse. Divorce is probably in the works right now. Besides she's 10 years past her best before date. I think Donald has his eyes on his (possible) new press secretary, Fox News bimbo, Kimberly Guilfoyle.
ReplyDeleteAgree that Melania will NEVER move into the White House. Ivanka will be FLOTUS.
DeleteGold-digger, porn model, barely able to speak English Melania cares only about the money The Donald provides and is using her "different" son as an excuse to avoid moving from her grand home in the Trump Tower.
Melania doesn't have the courage or self-confidence to face any of the U.S. citizens or world personalities she would encounter on a daily basis.
I wonder why all those conservatives who talk so angrily/nastily about immigrants who don't learn to speak English aren't up in arms about Melania's lack of dedication to becoming "American"? God knows she's been here long enough and can afford the best tutoring that money can buy.
Since I intend to treat the Drumpfs with the same respect that the wonderful Obama family received, I must say that Melania has failed at buying "class" will always look like an aging hooker.
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/news/news-00099502-melania-trump-s-naked-photos.jpg
DeleteSick. Twisted. Of course, this is Donald Trump we're talking about, so, it's normal.
ReplyDeleteThe photo with Trump and Ivanka on bed begs to be included to this post...
ReplyDeletehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpbLZu4W8AA_dUR.jpg
Ok, pass the brain & eyeball bleach please, 5:00
DeleteHey gryph,where's that pic of daddy and daughter on the bed?
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Delete“Before the election, you people are like wild beasts, wild animals … They are screaming: ‘Jail, jail, prison,’ going crazy,” Trump said. “Before the election, they are brutal. They are so crazed. You are like crazy people, and that’s good, I like that. And now you are laid back … You’ve won, you feel great about it and you don’t have to go totally wild.”
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/15/trump-ignores-russian-hack-calls-supporters-crazed-latest-thank-tour-rant.html
This comment is not directed at Tzar Vladimir Drumpf or Ivanka the Terrible, but incestuous relationships are hardly far fetched or uncommon. One of the creepiest is Mackenzie Phillips (One Day At a Time) & Papa John Phillips (Mamas & the Papas). Every state's Children's services would attest to this as a dirty little societal issue. There are several books documenting incestuous families.
ReplyDeleteJust because it happens doesn't make it right. And to think that we believed much of Dubya's silliness was unpresidential. He seems like a staid senior statesman compared to Drumpf.
DeleteMany older white guys think there nothing wrong w/incest. They think they are 'teaching' their daughters about sexual intercourse! It's all sick and repulsive.
DeleteAnd, Donald and his daughter are putting the thought of incest out there w/their close relationship and many sexual photos taken together since she was a pre teenager!
Donald, if incest is involved, probably thinks their relationship is above board and 100% OK!
Look at his non-existent relationship w/his current wife. The daughter is going to replace her in the White House and appears to fill his needs! If that isn't sick, I don't know what is!
He's going to be a horrid and mentally sick potus!
Trump and his disgusting daughter are both sick but the porn industry is responsible for promoting a lot of this. Back in the early 90s, pornstats were indignant about the idea of performing anal sex but now it is de rigeur and even expected of a performer. The porn industry has always driven a lot of acceptance of behaviors that were previously considered dirty or disgusting. So if there is a parody porn movie made of Trump and Ivanka like there was of Palin, father-daughter incest will eventually be considered normal or even erotic.
DeleteHa ha, that will be great if a company makes a parody porno movie of Drumpf and his daughter. Imagine the tweeting we'll see after that makes the news! That could be the thing that drives him completely over edge!
DeleteActually, I think he LIKES that people think he and his daughter are a "thing" He seems to think she is some kind of beauty, even though "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" I have never thought she was anything special.
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DeleteMaybe the author shouldn't have used the f-word. Change that to something tamer and keep the idea.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, she was on her way to a job with much more history and prestige, and I've not heard that the offer at the Atlantic's been rescinded.
OT, but in case anyone wants to know (and there are a couple juicy tidbits) what happened at that tech meeting in Trump Tower:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.recode.net/2016/12/15/13976806/immigration-maternity-leave-grid-software-president-trump-tech-meeting
Thank you for the link.
Deletedowl
Was First Lady Ivanka there? I noticed her constantly getting "on camera" when Kanye visited tRump tower.
DeleteI wonder what Ivana thinks or if anyone has asked her....about Ivanka. Clearly, Donald idolizes Ivanka but Ivana would not be the first mother to look the other way regarding fatherly affection.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I had a friend whose Daddy started on her when she was 13. She told her mother....long story short, mother said it was daughters own fault and divorced.
Imagine having to live with that... Still gives me the chills.
When I was in my late 40's, I tried to talk to my mother about what my father had done to me...she said, never bring it up again; I will never discuss it.
DeleteIt was 15 years later and she had died, when one day I realized I had never said what 'it' was...she knew...she always knew.
My heartfelt sympathy, 7:30. In most cases the mom knows, but looks the other way for a variety of reasons. Moms should protect their kids, PERIOD.
DeleteMy creepy dad used to come up and put his hands under my covers to "see if I wore my underwear to bed". He never got anywhere as I'd start kicking and screaming and he'd go off in a huff after beating me. He never did it to the other sisters.
DeleteIvana keeps getting together with much younger men, also too. Wonder if that is her answer to tRump/Ivanka "affair"? Copy their behavior.
DeleteI always thought my mother knew about my Dad, but didn't step in to help me.
DeleteI broached her w/the subject many years later (she was a senior) and she denied knowing and told me she had experienced the same thing, but w/her uncle! As though it was no big deal!
Absolutely the most weird conversation ever. I've always had little regard for both parents - who have been deceased for a number of years now.
The above photos make me want to puke. They are sexual, incestuous and creepy as shit.
DeleteTrump will never represent me as potus. He's the most revolting, vile, white guy on the planet!
6:31,
DeleteI am so sorry you endured what you did, so very sorry indeed.
I am hazarding a very educated guess that she in fact DID know and turned a blind eye. She made her reveal to you, to distract you from placing some of the responsibility of stopping the horrible incestuous abuse on her shoulders too, as the other adult residing in the house/crime scene. Know this fact: While it may take a village to raise a child, it certainly takes a village to abuse one. People know, and turn a blind eye.
I went thru the same thing. And years of my female parent putting me in institutions when i risked 'embarassing' her with the truth as an out of control teen(these were places designed to keep you drugged up, not in talk therapy. They didn't want to hear it, they wanted to charge insurance until that ran out). I'm exiled from that 'family' now. Finally, something we can all agree on.
I think that incest runs in families. The sick secrecy and massive male parent entitlement goes with some fundie xtianity and sex hang-ups and those dysfunctions are passed down.
I have learned more from self help books than I ever did from talk therapy($$$$) later on, but that's just me.
I hope you can find some form of personal peace. Abuse victims learned thru the abuse that what they want doesnt matter. So find what you want, what you like. And advocate for other victims/survivors! I'm by no means 'fixed' and never will be, but I'm a damn sight better off than I was when I had to play the game of "Nothing's Wrong Here" to be a part of that horrorshow of a 'family'.
You have a scary but rewarding opportunity staring you in the face. Get to know yourself, deal with the horrible memories with a trusted help-meet because those you cannot deal with alone and you can't just push them aside and expect things to be fine. You CAN get past the lion's share of the hold this thing has on your life In Time. But it will be with you for life. You CAn get this thing reconciled, on most days, and have a productive life punctuated with happiness(and sadness-- you have a lot to grieve). And when you take the risk to journey inwards, you'll find some of the greatest rewards. You'll find things that NOBODY can take away from you.
"...while Melania stays in New York with Barron, or as I call him, that kid from the "Omen."
ReplyDeleteYeah, real classy, cyber-bully a 10 year old. Leave the kid alone.
I get where you're coming from, but it's still the case that he looks like Damian--it's impossible not to see it.
DeleteFuck Barron Trump. He's going to be subjected to much worse in the coming months so he better get used it. I've got much worse things to say about the little bastard but probably Gryphen would censor them.
Delete7:32 PM - Damien was a fictional MOVIE, not a documentary. Good Lord.
DeleteI have no problem at all bullying Barron Trump or any of Trump's grandchildren. They are all pieces of shit and if he's going to take the country all the way to hell, I figure why not have some fun with it.
DeleteI plan to teat the tRump's with the same level of respect that the GoPee treated the Obama family. Even that little retard Baron.
DeleteRemember, their origins lie in prostitution, which grandfather seemed to enjoy. Pimps and whores are their family heritage.
Deleteyep, fair game.
DeleteThe little one is autistic, I see it and i call it like I see it.
If his parents do not want to admit it and keep him in the limelight looking autistic, it will get commented on. It seems they are choosing to keep him out of the limelight, looking truly autistic.
The older kids are creepy mutants. I see it and I call it like I see it. Money can't buy you class, respect, brains, talent, morals, ethics, beauty....obviously.
@ 8:16 PM & 8:22 - So you have no compunction at all to appear as ridiculous as the nit wits over at the Pee Pond. Why in the world would you want to mimic them?
DeleteTrump & his adult children deserve everything thrown at them but we should draw the line at attacking a child who may have some mental challenges. Do we have to react in the same manner as those we detest?
I think that the Trumps should be frank about any issues their young son might have. All of us Americans would be much more understanding if only we understood what's really going on.
DeleteAnd, given that it's our White House and that, whether she likes it or not (or whether we like it or not - and I do not), Melania will be the First Lady for the next four years, she will have to come down from her gilded NYC tower and do her job. That job will involve a lot of public obligations that Melania cannot hide from.
Beaglemom
What's the Pee Pond? Oh right, its the place where the truly Palin obsessed haters here go to observe other Palin obsessed supporters. Talking about a nobody who was washed up at this date eight years ago.
Delete5:54 AM You seem to enjoy commenting about that nobody every chance you get. Obsessed much?
DeleteAs an incest victim - those photos of Trump and his daughter are truly repulsive and sick!
ReplyDeleteIt's no wonder we think incest to be involved w/the two of them! They were both sick idiots to allow the photos going to print - especially if they didn't want the subject of 'incest' to come to the forefront!
‘These boots will make your dad want to f*ck you’: Reviewers assail Ivanka Trump’s shoes on Amazon
DeleteOf the myriad ways to express disappointment with the outcome of the 2016 election, detractors are finding a clever outlet to attack Donald Trump and the Trump brand: Amazon.
Tricky Internet jokesters are inundating the review page for a pair of Ivanka Trump’s bootswith 1-star posts, conspicuously threading their punny political opinions throughout.
“Every time I tried to express my opinions, I was horrified to find myself bellowing, “HEIL TRUMP!” one use wrote. “Very embarrassing.”
“BUYER BEWARE!” another warned. “These boots are some sort of port key or wrinkle in the space time continuum. I put them on and I was transported back to Berlin in 1933.”
Some of the comments worked in references to Trump’s comments that he would date his daughter were she not, you know, his daughter, with one review titled, “These boots will make your dad want to ^&%& you.”
“Did you ever feel like crap because your dad hasn’t told the world he’d be ‘dating’ you if you weren’t his daughter?” the review asks. “Just slip into these hot, stylish boots with sexy high heels to get Daddy’s attention and praise for your hot bod — if he’s not too busy grabbing other women (those *&^*%s!) (or America) by the p——!”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/these-boots-will-make-your-dad-want-to-fck-you-reviewers-assail-ivanka-trumps-boots-on-amazon/
Daaaadddddyyyy don't leave a hickey. We have a crowd watching.
ReplyDeleteIt was reported that a very young Ivanka made him promise he would never date a girl younger than her!!
Deletehttp://plasticsurgerymagz.com/ivanka-trump-plastic-surgery-before-and-after/
DeleteRemember McKenzie Phillips whose father was one of the founding Mammas and Pappas?
ReplyDeleteShe said she had had a "conscentual" sexual relationship with her father that continued after adulthood.
All the experts at the time said that it was impossible, given the situation, that she could even give her consent, since he had groomed her for years. And had a "superior" relationship to her, being her father.
If indeed there is something "off" about their relationship...ok something is OFF for sure, but if there is something sexual, please don't blame the victim. Even if she is an adult.
Although, if she's benefiting financially it's hard to feel for her, isn't it?
Here are some links. I know many of you don't like Google search links, but I went to get a story about her on Oprah as a source for this and found a LOT of interesting articles. Including, why she said she did it, what she would say to her father now (McKenzie Phillips, not Ivanka) and that her father--wait for it--wanted her to be his wife!!!!
All sounds like deja vous all over again.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mackenzie+phillips+sex+with+father&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Also, too.
ReplyDeleteI really don't have a problem with Ivanka filling in for several months in the First Lady Department. All the ceremonial, shake hands, cut ribbons, be nice to visitors (non official White House visits only) and show interest in kids.
I'm willing to consider a temporary extension of the definition of Head Woman at the White House. It helps to show that non-traditional families are OK.
However, she had better not extend it to advising her father on issues, which is what I think most of us already think is going on.
Gotta keep her close at hand to help and to explain all he doesn't care to know about.
Trump appears to have learning issues, if only his attitude that he's above learning, let someone else do that hard stuff.
Time will tell. I hope time is our friend, but I am so not expecting it to be a good friend the next 4 years.
Sorry. I will no more accept Ivanka Trump as a "stand-in" First Lady as I will a consistently knocked up Bristol telling me how I need to get right with God.
DeleteI just can't stomach the thought of her kids running around and her family taking pics and trying to out-Kennedy those old pics of John-John and Caroline. There will be many such pics of her kids and Barron. I have nothing against the children. But I detest her and her adult brothers and Trump and Melania. I hate hate hate the very thought of them entering the WH.
DeleteShe won't be leaving. No way. She is his everything.
DeleteIt musta killed him to let another man fuck her. I would bet that when Trump could still get it up he would pull his wrinkly old dick with her in mind.
Ivanka was asked in an interview what it was like when she was young, bringing boys home to meet her parents. Ivanka replied that she was smart, she only brought Jared home. Ipso facto.
Well, of course that is exactly what is going to happen.
DeleteI doubt Melania will ever move to the White House. After six months with Ivanka acting first lady, things will settle down and the public will forget all about Melanoma and Damien.
It was either this:
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or this:
http://cdn.evercoream.com/wp-content/uploads/ivanka-trump-plastic-surgery-before-and-after-photos.jpg
It's not sexual on Ivanka perse. The Narcissist sees his daughter as the embodiment of his best self and loves that.
ReplyDeletescientologist and objectivist have alt thoughts about family.
DeleteObama vows action against Russia for hacks
ReplyDeleteOfficials have said US actions against Russia may not be revealed publicly
(CNN) President Barack Obama on Thursday vowed retaliatory action against Russia for its meddling in the US presidential election.
"I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action and we will at a time and place of our own choosing," Obama told National Public Radio....
He won't do shit.
DeleteIf you care enough about the USA to be angry at the prospect of election meddling, then you should be terrified of military tensions with Russia based on hidden evidence.
DeleteYou don't have to think too far back to find an example of when wrongly blaming a foreign government for sponsoring an attack on the US has tremendously backfired.
The US Intelligence Community needs to make its evidence against Russia public if they want the American people to believe them.
Presidential elections' integrity is vital to the survival of America. Blind trust in the CIA certainly is NOT.
Whoppee, what about retaliation against trump?
DeleteThey can retaliate all they want against russia, but we are still stuck with traitor trump. What are the plans to get rid of him?
Right. 8:49, if it's been meddled, we shouldn't be stuck with Donny boy-or his subhuman insurance policy Pence.
DeleteWeren't there media discussions revolving around Chelsea being given duties? She was forwarded state dept emails.
ReplyDeleteSure... especially the ones she read from her office in the West wing.
DeleteBoy you are fixated with Chelsea received state dept emails, Where is the link?
DeleteDid her mother the secretary of state send Chelsea a recipe? ask how the grandkids were?
But I believe in this-and it's been tested by research
ReplyDeleteHe who fucks nuns will later join the church
the clash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwzMuuGOsVI
OT, but Trump-related. Sheriff Joe Arpaio has proven that Pres Obama's birth cert is a fake! There had been talk that he'd get a job in the Trump admin after he lost reelection, but he's just proven that he's still whacked. Then again, given who Trump's been selecting, maybe Joe Arpaio stands a chance:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2016/12/15/sheriff-joe-arpaio-5-year-investigation-proves-obama-birth-certificate-fake/95444730/
The man has caused an entire AZ elder community, sun city to become crazed fox no news nation. Many families have complained about their loved ones acting and behaving odd.
DeleteSorry for the o/t and all but is skank using same color/brand foundation as drumpf? Same orange orangutang except of course drumpf doesn't show the tale tell neckline where orange meets skin like that tasteless, classless skank! Hope those Seahawks fans booed her ass! Stay away from LIBERAL SEATTLE SKANK.
ReplyDeleteNBC cameras showed Sarah in attendance at tonights Seattle Seahawks game. Seattle Times reports that Sarah received a police escort on the freeway between the airport and the stadium. Hmmm, I thought escorts were more of Todd thing.
DeleteSo Boopsie felt important for a night.
DeleteBFD. Glad I missed it.
I would complain if I live in Seattle. You telling me my tax dollars paid to escort that nobody?
DeleteExactly. Seattle says booo,stay home ya skank.
DeleteWhy would Sarah Palin have merited police escort to the stadium? Unless, of course, it was to make sure that she stayed out of the rest of the city.
DeleteBeaglemom
This woman is fired, Billy Bush loses his job and so on. Yet this godforsaken country elevates Trump to the presidency for all he has said and done.
ReplyDeleteI guess, at least in those pics, tRump was (still) off base. Who knows what happened before or after those pics...
ReplyDeleteI wish this woman had not apologized. After all, Trump is so proud of himself for never apologizing, why shouldn't she receive the same courtesy?
ReplyDeleteI do too. I mean, how many women in his business past were given jobs and positions of power or $$ for simply fucking him or sucking him off?
DeleteShe should not have apologized, but maybe used a softer word, like "diddled" cause that makes it so much more palatable lol.
I completely agree. Apologize? Fuck that. But she probably had to to avoid her boss getting a lawsuit. 4:15!! Yes, diddling!! It is the most disgusting term evah and I have been using it regularly. It is especially disgusting when you picture those short fingers doing the diddling.
DeleteWas the retard late for the game and asked for a police escort?
ReplyDeleteI go to Seattle a lot, if I ask for a police escort with lights they will tell me to call Uber and tell the driver to turn on the headlights.
I don't see it as an either/or thing. He is fucking his daughter in addition to attempting to shirk the law. Trump disgusts me more and more with every passing day.
ReplyDelete#NotMyPresident
#ImpeachTrump
#FuckLeviAndSunnyJohnston
11:51 pm just wanted us all to know how she feels about Levi and Sunny. All the rest of that pile is the stupidest attempt at a distraction.
DeleteNice try, please play again.
11:51 PM #FuckYouPalinsAndAllOfYourAssSniffersAndBastardBreedingDomesticViolenceOffspring
DeleteAre hating Palins, Trumps or Johnstons mutually exclusive conditions? Levi did have a very low approval rating (about 17%) and Gryphen has said that one of his goals is to repair Levi's public image.
DeleteIt is Ioffe with an i, not Loffe with an L.
ReplyDeleteIt was bound to happen.
ReplyDeleteHamildolph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7sm49fHlyI
"An a cappella “Hamilton” parody set to the tale of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is here, just in time for Christmas.
In the surprisingly clever adaptation, Rudolph is the story’s Alexander Hamilton, while Santa Claus appears as George Washington. Santa is, of course, “in dire need of assistance.” (There’s a thick fog threatening to ruin Christmas, for those who don’t remember the tale.) And Rudolph? Rudolph is not giving up his shot."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/of-course-theres-an-a-cappella-rudolph-themed-hamilton-parody_us_58538f4ee4b039044707ff41
Pretty soon Trump can control Twitter.
ReplyDelete"U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler plans to step down on Jan. 20, he said on Thursday, a move expected to hand Republicans a 2-1 majority on the panel when Donald Trump takes office as president.
Wheeler could have kept the commission at 2-2 until Trump names a new member who needs to be confirmed by the Senate. Last week, two Republican FCC commissioners said the Trump administration should quickly reverse many significant policies set by the telecommunications and cable regulatory body under Democratic President Barack Obama.
Unless the U.S. Senate reconfirms Democratic Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, she will have to leave at end of the month. Senate Democrats on Thursday held out the possibility that Republicans could put her back on the FCC next year.
With the departures of Wheeler and Rosenworcel, the only remaining Democrat on the panel would be Mignon Clyburn, whose term does not expire until June 2017.
Trump will get to select the next chairman.
Wheeler, a former cable TV and mobile phone industry lobbyist, repeatedly clashed with companies during his tenure at the FCC, especially over the 2015 order to reclassify broadband internet service providers under a section of communications law that treats them more like public utilities and subjects them to stricter regulation as part of the commission's "net neutrality" rules."
He'll be able to censor the internet, shut sites down, crash them, whatever it takes. He'll control the airwaves too. Anyone that uses bandwidth or requires a license is going to have to bow down and kiss the ass, er, ring.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fcc-chairman-step-down-handing-gop-majority-143018457.html
Congress is blocking any attempt by Obama to seat Merrick Garland.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-merrick-garland-holiday_us_5851bf9ce4b0732b82fed8d7?section=us_politics
"Under the Constitution, Obama could try to play one last trump card: his recess-appointment power between sessions of Congress. With it, Garland could sit on the court for up to a year.
Sensing that possibility, the Republican-controlled Senate appears to have foreclosed that tactic ― declining a formal adjournment for the holidays this year and instead setting a minuscule adjournment on Jan. 3, five minutes before the new Congress is sworn in at noon.
Obama is unlikely to go wild during those five minutes of seemingly unfettered constitutional power. David Dayen, writing in The New Republic, argued last month that Obama should do exactly that, and then simply watch Senate Republicans rend their garments because Donald Trump is really the only one a minority of voters determined should be filling Supreme Court vacancies."
Will Obama do it? NO. Just read some of the comments on the article and you'll see exactly what the voters think of the Democrats and what they'll do to protect us from Trump.
"There is definitely a disconnect betweeen Democratic leaders and Democratic voters. We want to fight! We are the ones effected by Republican tactics. Our leaders are wealthy enough, the GOP doesn't hurt their lives. When will our leaders wake up and fight? We protest, we vote, we boycott, we sign petitions. Where are they fighting for us?"
"Yes Democrats can always be relied on to act in the Public interest and not do anything that might undermine confidence in the system
Republicans can always be relied on to act in their own Private interest be it stopping a SC appointment closing down government allowing massive conflict of interest with the incoming president gerrymandering voter restrictions even the NC incoming governor being boxed in by new republican legislation
When will Democrats fight back?"
"I really am tired of watching Obama get bullied by the GOPT, McConnell in particular. Obama's caving in on releasing the CIA report on Russian interference in the election was just too timid and too WRONG for the good of the country. So what if he is called partisan --- he'd have done it for the right reason. Let the GOPT whine and whimper all they want. He got scammed out of an appointment and got scammed out of a HRC presidency to follow his. For God sakes, Barry--- show some f***ing spine! Use those 5 minutes to appoint Garland. Do SOMETHING!"
Of course, that won't happen. Because there has to be a smooth transition after 8 years of racism and obstructionism and then this final insult.
I want to see Joe Biden get angry, say "fuck them" and do exactly what was laid out in that blog post.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/12/senate-democrats-have-one-shot-saving
"It's bold. Garland would be confirmed by 34 Democrats and no Republicans. It will certainly enrage Republicans, but they're already enraged and full of hubris about how they're going to screw Democrats anyway, so what do they really have to lose?
Not much. It takes courage. It takes a resolve to do what's right for this country, to reclaim the Supreme Court nomination Republicans think they stole from us. It takes backbone."
And that's why they'll never do it.
If you read more of those comments you see the people have no confidence in the Democrats doing anything bold, brave or righteous. They'll just roll over and play dead like they always do.
And *that's* why Hillary lost.
This entire freaky family is not pleasant. Money cannot buy love. And over half the voting americans are not in love with the trumps. They have nothing in common with America. The alt motives, the objectivism, the atlas shrugged, the billion year magic underware trump test is not for America. The electoral vote is the safe zone for America.
ReplyDeleteThe Electoral Vote = America's Safe Zone.
ReplyDeleteIn their alt world of reality tv show 24/7 soap and scandal, it is all normal. Being confined and living in a gold box becomes a mental challenge obviously. A fragile and weak show becomes a giant mess of lousy actors.
ReplyDeleteHe likes and trust Jared and his cbs daughter in law too. Alt news and National Enquirer are his friend too. If Our USA Constitution does not remove this lousy fake reality tv show and actors, than we must turn off and unplug fake tv and internet until secured.
ReplyDeleteHow will those KKK/Nazis explain away the Jewish heritage of Kushner? Ivanka converted prior to marriage and all the kids are being raised as Jewish, too.
DeleteHollyweird west and east, model agencies, and more are full of predators, liars and con artist. And It was not but a few years ago we were talking about the penn state, catholic folks and even boy scouts of America. A few years back I turned on good old HBO one prime time evening and discovered the most private sexual act for all to witness. Like I need to see this on primetime HBO movie channel.. Really? FCC should stop this nasty corporate influence on our society. Porn and negative fake channels should be paid private regulated channels. America is not a playground for nasty predators and it is not a fake reality tv show of bad actors and dictators. Hold bad media, FCC, and lousy actors accountable for the hateful nastiness of our current society, they are the problem and they are feeding off of it and profit from it.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know HBO wasn't a channel you had to pay extra for, or order the channel package its included in.
DeleteTake your meds and avoid HBO.
Deletefull of predators, liars and con artists...
DeleteAre we talking about pussy grabber's cabinet?
Why are you watching the heathen HBO? Why don't you call and cancel HBO? Then you wouldn't be so tempted to watch it.
A decent Media outlet will give this woman a job. Mr Trump has affected even the most professional of journalist.
ReplyDelete"When people feel emboldened to write mean and hurtful things about other people, they'll just extend it to siblings or families,"
ReplyDeletehttp://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/14/health/teen-suicide-cyberbullying-continues-trnd/index.html
Naw, everyone is too politically correct these days. Look, millions upon millions of people voted for tRump and the way he acts. I will follow the president elects example on how to treat people.
DeleteHeadline on the Washington Post today: "Ivanka Trump could be the most powerful First Lady ever." I hope she has to divest herself of her business involvements.
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I want proof she has divested herself off all business interests and that we are only paying one salary and nothing for extra staff.
DeleteI have a feeling this is to cover up the fact that daddy can't function without his little girl there to hold his hand.
http://plasticsurgerymagz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Ivanka-Trump-Nose-Job-Before-and-After.jpg
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ReplyDeleteDemocrats need to stop apologizing for pointing out the offensive truth. Save it for when it is appropriate. So sick of Democrats caving in on every point. Democrats are apologizing on everything thing while the RepubliKKKunts are playing full court press.
ReplyDeleteThat's the problem people have with the Democrats. They have no balls, no back bone. Republicans do all sorts of shit and the Democrats just roll over and take it. They are too polite. They apologize too much.
DeleteI want to see Joe Biden and the congress put Merrick Garland on the bench in those few minutes before the new congress is sworn in. Push it through. Let the Republicans scream bloody murder. They'd do exactly that if the roles were reversed. Do it and fuck them all. Obama will never put Garland on the bench for a year in that 5 min. recess. But I think Joe Biden would. He's polite but he also has fire and I'm sure deep down can muster up a fuck them what are they going to do about it attitude.
The method has all been laid out.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/12/senate-democrats-have-one-shot-saving
I was molested for years by my alcoholic father and Trump is extremely creepy with Ivanka. I think he definitely would do it if she would allow it. Why doesn't his son in law smack the dirty old sob? Everyone kisses his ass. What the hell does this bastard have to do to get thrown out? I think he could kill someone and have the lunatics excuse it.
ReplyDeleteJesus, 9:40, I am so very sorry you had to live through that. Believe me, you are not alone. It happened to me too. When you've lived through that, and you have a brain, you can pick up on that shit loud and clear. I trust my gut implicitly nowadays.
DeleteThe 2 of those trumps have a very unhealthy relationship with some weird boundaries.