Courtesy of The Hill:Now Melania Trump is addressing governors' spouses. She offers thoughts and payers to the victims and praises the students speaking out https://t.co/szBUkFmMdD— Meg Wagner (@megwagner) February 26, 2018
First lady Melania Trump on Monday said she was "heartened" to see students across the country speaking out following a school shooting in Parkland, Fla., earlier this month.
"I have been heartened to see children across this country using their voices to speak out and try to create change. They're our future, and they deserve a voice," the first lady said, addressing governors' spouses at a luncheon at the White House.
"Our continued thoughts and prayers go out to all who were affected by such a senseless act. As a parent, I cannot imagine the kind of grief a tragedy like that brings," she added.
Monday's appearance marked the first time she has addressed the shooting publicly. She offered her condolences on Twitter immediately after the shooting took place.
When I first heard this I thought that Melania was publicly disagreeing with her husband, but then the other day Trump suggested that he wanted stronger background checks and to do away with the "bump stocks" that were used in the Las Vegas massacre.
I don't believe him of course, because he pulled this same shit by promising to work on DACA and protect people's access to health care.
What I do know is that Melania is on a completely different side of this issue than Junior, who retweeted conspiracy theories about these kids.
That led to one of the Parkland kids reaching out to Melania on social media.Don Jr. has liked at least two tweets pushing content that attempts to discredit one of the most vocal student survivors of the Parkland school shooting. pic.twitter.com/YI9ANh5dlL— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 20, 2018
So maybe that got Melania's attention and that is why she is voicing support for these kids.Hey @FLOTUS you say that your mission as First Lady is to stop cyber bullying, well then, don’t you think it would have been smart to have a convo with your step-son @DonaldJTrumpJr before he liked a post about a false conspiracy theory which in turn put a target on my back— Lauren Hogg (@lauren_hoggs) February 23, 2018
Or this could simply be some Trump family double speak and she really could not care less.
Hard to tell really.
I will never give that birther bitch one iota of credit. She is just as dishonest and grifty as the others, she just keeps a lower profile about it.
ReplyDeleteAin't she sumthin? NOT.
DeleteIt is clear that the third wife did not write her speech to the governors' wives - too much vocabulary in it. It's all part of the show. When publicity dies down a bit more, no one will hear another peep from the third wife about the students' outspokenness on the issue of gun control because the subject has nothing to do with the kind of fashion she likes or Pilates which are her two favorite topics. The third wife is about as sincere as her Orange husband and her giraffe-necked stepdaughter.
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OUCH!!
Delete(After reading your posts, I always wish you were MY mom.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/27/hud-ben-carson-office-redecoration-trump-appointee
Deletehttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/375757-hud-official-says-she-was-replaced-after-refusing-to-fund
I heard on Jimmy Kimmel that her parents just received their green cards, good thing they got their "chain migration" cards before their son-in-law did away with it.
ReplyDeleteWonder who has been supporting them all these years since I don't think there are a lot of jobs for former communist party leader, that is there weren't until comrade trump stole the election.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/trumps-plan-to-slash-legal-immigration-by-the-numbers/
DeleteBreitbart editor whines he ‘can’t rip Parkland survivors a new one’ – then calls them ‘human shields for CNN’
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/breitbart-editor-whines-cant-rip-parkland-survivors-new-one-calls-human-shields-cnn/
‘He doesn’t have the balls to fire him’: White House insiders claim Trump fears blowback if he dumps Kelly
ReplyDeleteAccording to friends of Donald Trump, the president is afraid to dismiss Chief of Staff John Kelly out of fears that the White House will descend in to even more chaos — even though he wants him gone.
Speaking with Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman, five Republicans close to the White House claimed that the president has admitted that he won’t fire Kelly despite intense pressure by son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka.
According to the report, those sources say Trump’s reluctance to fire Kelly comes down to a belief that the White House can’t handle another staffing blow-up at a time when it is still reeling from the dismissal of White House adviser Rob Porter over domestic abuse charges.
As one Trump friend noted, “The president doesn’t have the balls to fire Kelly.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/trump-and-his-chief-of-staff-renegotiate-their-bad-marriage
WTF is going on with Melania, the inauguration ceremony and her bff?
ReplyDeleteMelania Trump cuts ties with key aide over inauguration ceremony spending
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/27/melania-trump-cuts-ties-key-aide-inauguration-ceremony-spending/
Jared is finally downgraded.
Jared Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence as his security clearance gets downgraded: report
ReplyDelete...Presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has had his security clearance downgraded — a move that will prevent him from viewing many of the sensitive documents to which he once had unfettered access.
Kushner is not alone. All White House aides working on the highest-level interim clearances — at the Top Secret/SCI-level — were informed in a memo sent Friday that their clearances would be downgraded to the Secret level, according to three people with knowledge of the situation.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/27/jared-kushner-security-clearance-downgrade-427178
Professor at Center of Trump-Russia Probe Goes Missing - seriously? https://www.thedailybeast.com/professor-at-center-of-trump-russia-probe-goes-missing
ReplyDeleteJoseph Mifsud, the professor who allegedly told ex-Trump aide George Papadopoulos about Russian “dirt” on Clinton has been off-the-radar since his name went public, according to BuzzFeed News interviews with Mifsud’s fiancée.
The last time she heard from the professor was October 31st, where “Anna” told him that she was being asked questions from a reporter in London. Mifsud responded, “Do not reply, please.”
The Third Wife must be very happy and feeling grand that she is not disappeared yet. What would happen to Barron? Her sister, mother, father and unnamed family and friends?
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff and Melania are blessed and must be celebrating their good fortunes. It was a wonderful inaugural, seen by more people then ever before in history. That's what Trump claims and he sticks to it.
Ivanka Should Quit
ReplyDeleteIf she can’t handle legitimate questions about her father, she shouldn’t serve in his White House.
...Nice try, Ivanka. Labeling something as “inappropriate” works if you’re a harried parent and you don’t have time to explain to your kids why they shouldn’t stick their dirty hands into the guacamole. But in adult-on-adult conversations, the “I” word almost always lands as an attempt to strike down the question and shame the questioner without explaining why the question is invalid. And it isn’t invalid. The president’s extramarital ways have been Page 1 news for a year and a half, and the topic continues to consume the press as new allegations about his conduct surface. If anything, it would be inappropriate to withhold such a vital question from public discussion, especially from an assistant to the president.
Trump pleads for recusal from the question, though, not because the question itself is wrong to ask. She pleads for recusal because she thinks it’s wrong for the press to ask a daughter such a question after her father has issued his denials. Do daughters of presidents who are also assistants to the president really get to wave such a flag of privilege? No way. No journalists can make any public official answer a question, so if Ivanka Trump wants to say “no comment,” she should help herself. But to declare a question illegitimate requires more explanation than she volunteers.
Having planted her flag, Trump pours some quick-drying cement at the flagpole’s shaft with her next comment.
“I don’t think that’s a question you would ask many other daughters,” she said.
How to unpack?! Obviously the press won’t ask many other daughters the question because not many other daughters have a father whose alleged paramours have been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for their silence. Not many daughters have a father who was caught bragging about his sexual assaults on a live mic and then publicly apologized. Not many fathers have been accused of sexual misconduct by at least a dozen women. For those fathers who have such a reputation, it would be reasonable to ask their daughters such questions if they worked for their fathers in government.
As long as Ivanka Trump holds an official position in the White House and offers her views on public policy, it’s hard to imagine a Page 1 question she shouldn’t be asked.
The interview didn’t end there. After shaming Alexander for his “inappropriate” question, after berating Alexander for singling her out for this unseemly grilling, Trump answers the question! How inappropriate can a question be if the subject answers it?
Trump wants to have it both ways, shaming with one breath and answering with another. She says: “I believe my father, I know my father, so I think I have that right as a daughter to believe my father.”Because she’s connected to her father by blood and because blood inspires pure tribal loyalty, Ivanka Trump concludes that she can believe what she wants to believe about her father’s conduct. Unconditional belief in him, she says, is her “right as a daughter.”
Where did Trump learn this logic?
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/26/ivanka-should-quit-217089
The right wing had no problems asking Chelsea about her father and she is a private citizen, but then only republicans think they don't have to answer questions
DeleteAlex Jones And Erick Erickson Feeling #Triggered By Florida #Teen David Hogg, Need #SafeSpace NOW
ReplyDeleteThere is terrible sadness to report, and is is that Alex Jones is very upset, and alleged goat-fucker Erick Erickson is very upset, because they are being bullied by Florida school shooting survivor David Hogg. Kids these days, right? Hogg is personally giving Alex Jones swirlies after gym class, and he’s not gonna take it anymore! Erick Erickson will probably take it some more, because he kinda likes it, allegedly.
https://wonkette.com/630522/alex-jones-and-erick-erickson-feeling-triggered-by-florida-teen-david-hogg-need-safespace-now
Waiting for some rich guy to come out and say he hired Melonona when she was an escort.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt there are pimps and johns out there who could say lots about Melania. Not that drumpf would care...he himself has paid for sex often enough. Perhaps that's how he got involved with gold-digger Melania in the first place.
DeleteThis too shall all blow over.
ReplyDeleteI don't know that it will because there's some nut out there that says, "I can make myself an even bigger name in infamy!," and it will rear it's ugly head again.
DeleteAnd that also will blow over.
DeleteFUck-a-bee-$Tinger:
ReplyDelete" Her only response was to rant and rave and blame Obama for Trump not protecting future American elections."
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/27/sarah-huckabee-sanders-blame-obama.html
David Hogg's dad retired from the FBI two years ago in Los Angeles and them moved the family to Florida. He had zero to do with any FBI people messing up the Cruz investigation.
ReplyDeleteThis crap fro stoopid fucking wingnuts is so easy to de3bunk, I wonder why they even bother posting it, except for the fact that brainless zombies will believe it.
Right wing sites are claiming the sheriff's deputies were given a stand down order by the sheriff which is why they stood around and let kids get
killed. Deeply despicable, deplorables.
RM:"“The Rachel Maddow Show” at 9 pm continued to lead CNN in A25-54 for the 13th straight month and total viewers for the 57th straight month. “Maddow” beat CNN in A25-54 (641,000 vs. CNN’s 365,000) and more than doubled CNN in total viewers (2,874,000 vs. CNN’s 999,000). Additionally, “Maddow” was #1 in A18-49 for the 4th straight month (as well as 11 out of the last 12 months), besting both FOX News and CNN (450,000 vs. FOX News’ 412,000 and CNN’s 287,000). “Maddow” was the only show to grow in A25-54 (+17% vs. FOX News’ -8% and CNN’s -28%) and post double-digit growth in total viewers (+26% vs. FOX News’ 0% and CNN’s -25%) over February 2017 in the time period."
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/27/rachel-maddow-ratings-young-viewers.html
Those young viewers grow up, have to get jobs, get jaded, and realize that Maddow was never anything but a farce stringing them along for ratings, and they never look back as they switch political sides.
DeleteHey 4:01 PM Your trolling addiction makes you look so stupid. You are a parasite.
Deletehttps://slate.com/human-interest/2018/02/im-a-teacher-who-went-through-firearm-training-and-it-was-an-absurd-disaster.html
ReplyDelete"In the end, the process to arm and train teachers at school turned to be too costly and assumed far too much: namely, that that lifelong educators would be able to transition into a versatile oppositional force for a heavily armed assailant. The rapid response team was disbanded and, barring security staff, all weapons on campus were banned."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/warriors-will-visit-museum-of-african-american-history-instead-of-white-house.html
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Andrew (Andy) Pollack, father of slain Parkland teenager Meadow and who is the guy who stood at the back of the room mad as hell during the Trump listening session, has been doing interviews and today joined up with the FLA governor and others to talk about safety in the schools that didn’t involve one thing about gun control. A couple days ago he spoke with Chris Wallace on Fox and all he did was berate Wallace for having spoken about gun control—that’s all Pollack heard, although not the case. And while he complained that Wallace only spoke about gun control, Pollack refused and refuses to ever speak about it. The guy is belligerent and a know-it-all type. He is very pro-gun and a Trump supporter who wore a Trump 2020 T-shirt on the day his daughter died. He is sure to play a public role from here on out. Everything this guy says is about “safety” in the schools and “not about guns,” and sometimes he adds the word “now.” He’s doing that GOP thing of steering clear of guns as a problem and that there’s no need to talk about gun control. He wants guns at the schools, though, so that they can be safe the way courthouses, he said, are safe because of people being stationed there with guns. I’m not sure yet what his stance is on teachers being trained to have guns and just know that he wants people with guns at the schools. Gov. Scott is against teachers having guns (and also said he wants the age to be 21 for guns), but I don’t know about Pollack. He is part of Scott’s new group, though, to work on a safety plan to implement ASAP. I’m sorry Pollack lost his daughter, but I can’t stand seeing him on TV defending guns as if they are absolutely not part of the problem.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/trumps-plan-to-slash-legal-immigration-by-the-numbers/
ReplyDelete"Trump’s proposal would be the largest policy cut to to legal immigration since the 1920s, and the largest immigration policy shift since 1965, according to the libertarian
Cato Institute."
"It’s likely that First Lady Melania Trump’s parents, legal permanent residents who are in the process of obtaining citizenship, benefitted from the family sponsorship process, according to immigration lawyers interviewed by the Washington Post.
Trump’s immigration plan would also affect the demographics of immigrants coming into the country, according to analyses from the Center for Global Development, a think tank based in Washington, D.C., and the Washington Post. "
https://rare.us/rare-news/barbra-streisand-blames-donald-trump-for-florida-school-shooting/
ReplyDeleteFB"Don’t just stop with arming the teachers! Arm the guidance counselors, arm the Lunch Lady, arm that guy who does the morning announcements over the intercom (have him fire off a round over the microphone just to show he means business). Definitely arm all sex ed instructors. Bring back driver ed, civics and handwriting class and arm them, too. Arm the bus drivers — that’ll keep order on the school bus! Arm the cheerleaders! Replace football with inter-school shoot-em-up matches. We already allow lifetime-damaging concussions on the field — what’s a little bullet graze to the shoulder? Arm the marching band! If they can march, they can shoot!"MM
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A long-overlooked player is emerging as a key figure in the Trump-Russia investigation
ReplyDeleteA congressional committee wants to interview President Donald Trump's digital director as part of its investigation.
Investigators are probing whether voter information stolen by Russian hackers made its way to the Trump campaign.
A top official said Russia targeted election systems in at least 21 states.
http://www.businessinsider.com/brad-parscale-trump-russia-investigation-2017-6
I *knew* it! Commented same an hour a few posts back.
DeleteBut if I were them, I'd look at Jared's meeting with the Russians and then Parscale contacting Facebook for some training in taking full advantage of Facebook. I sooo get a collusion vibe from all of this.
The pieces are coming together.
I think Mueller should subpeona Brad Parscale next.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-new-campaign-manager-used-facebook-help-become-president-214929210.html
"Parscale was Trump’s digital strategist in the 2016 election and oversaw the campaign’s mobilization on Facebook, which — coupled with the candidate’s love of Twitter — has been credited as a key factor in his electoral victory. Parscale was also a marketing entrepreneur based in San Antonio who was reportedly brought into the campaign at the suggestion of Trump son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner."
Hmm. Jared, who met with the Russians. The Russians who used Facebook. Did the Russians tell Jared to get the campaign to use Facebook? Parscale got training from Facebook on how to maximize it's use and advertising.
Oh, look who is Trump's 2020 campaign manager.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-names-campaign-manger-election-bid-155103053--politics.html
"President Donald Trump has named former digital adviser Brad Parscale as campaign manager of his 2020 re-election campaign.
In a statement, the Trump campaign said Parscale will lead "advanced planning" for the 2020 effort, and that the campaign will also be engaged in the 2018 midterm elections — which are shaping up to be a challenging environment for Republicans."
OOoops. Violation of the Hatch Act.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-campaign-nixes-kushner-title-amid-legal-questions-204834881.html
"One minute, President Trump’s 2020 campaign referred to Jared Kushner as “Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President, and President Trump’s son-in-law.” The next, Kushner became simply “President Trump’s son-in-law.”
Blame the 1939 Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, better known as the Hatch Act. The law imposes limits on what government officials can and cannot do in terms of partisan campaign activities.
The Trump reelection organization appears to have fallen afoul of one of the measure’s provisions with an early Tuesday statement announcing that digital strategist Brad Parscale would run the 2020 operation."
And Kusher's security clearance just got DOWNGRADED. Could it be because of Parscale and the impending shit hitting the fan?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jared-kushner-security-clearance-downgraded-205350322.html
"Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House adviser, has had his security clearance downgraded, Politico reports.
He has been downgraded from SCI (sensitive compartmented information) access to Secret level, according to the publication.
All other White House aides working on high-level interim clearances also had their access downgraded, according to a memo reportedly sent to staffers on Friday. Earlier that same day, Trump said he would leave it up to his chief of staff, John Kelly, to decide what access Kushner should have.
“General Kelly respects Jared a lot and General Kelly will make that call,” Trump said at a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the time.
Kushner no longer receives the President’s Daily Brief, Reuters reports. His access to the highly classified intelligence briefing has been cut off in the past few weeks, sources told the news service."
Damage control?
AGAIN, I thank GOD that we never had a veep Palin.
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ReplyDeleteShe is a prostitute.