Courtesy of the New York Times:I am pleased to announce that, effective 4/9/18, @AmbJohnBolton will be my new National Security Advisor. I am very thankful for the service of General H.R. McMaster who has done an outstanding job & will always remain my friend. There will be an official contact handover on 4/9.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 22, 2018
Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the battle-tested Army officer tapped as President Trump’s national security adviser last year to stabilize a turbulent foreign policy operation, will resign and be replaced by John R. Bolton, a hard-line former United States ambassador to the United Nations, White House officials said Thursday.
General McMaster will retire from the military, the officials said. He has been discussing his departure with President Trump for several weeks, they said, but decided to speed up his departure, in part because questions about his status were casting a shadow over his conversations with foreign officials.
The officials also said that Mr. Trump wanted to fill out his national security team before his meeting with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un. He replaced Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson with the C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo, last week.
Officials emphasized that General McMaster’s departure was a mutual decision and amicable, with none of the recrimination that marked Mr. Tillerson’s exit. They said it was not related to a leak on Tuesday of briefing materials for Mr. Trump’s phone call with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
"They said it was not related to a leak on Tuesday of briefing materials for Mr. Trump’s phone call with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia." In other words that is EXACTLY what it is about.
(I just assume now that the truth is always the opposite of whatever the Trump White House says that it is. Real time saver. )
So now another grown up is out the door, leaving Trump surrounded by sycophants and conspiracy theorists.
And this new addition is DEFINITELY going to make things even more inane inside this White House.
John Bolton worked for the Bush Administration and was well known for wanting to bomb just about everybody, and who as Ambassador to the UN spent all of his time undermining it and shitting on its agenda.
After the Russians hacked the DNC, Bolton put forward the theory that it was a false flag operation orchestrated by President Obama.
You know, because THAT makes sense.
Bolton also has ties to Cambridge Analytica, and once appeared in an advertisement for a pro-gun Russian group with ties to the NRA.
Fox News contributor, with ties to Cambridge Analytica, the NRA, and Russia.
Oh yeah, he is going to fit into this clown car just fine.
‘That’s it — we’re all gonna die’: Internet freaks out after Trump picks ‘warmonger’ Bolton to replace McMaster
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/thats-gonna-die-internet-freaks-trump-picks-warmonger-bolton-replace-mcmaster/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/no-adults-left-room-cnn-security-expert-rips-insanity-trump-dumping-mcmaster-bolton/
Yep. Time for Mueller and whoever is left in the GOP Congress to stop this shit show now or we are all fucked.
ReplyDeleteNow it just feels like Trump's having fun making choices that he knows are nuts and that are going to drive people who believe in diplomacy crazy. Rachel said tonight that he's not really interested in a strong legal team but is going to now fight Mueller via TV, via Fox, and it feels like he's also thinking "media" with Bolton. Of course, he's a Fox guy, too. Seems like Trump thinks he's going to get all he wants by way of part-time TV personalities.
ReplyDeleteAnd I say again, he has made a mockery out of and continues to rid everything that did make this country great. MAGA? How fast CAN one turn it into a shit hole? We're certainly watching it in abject horror.
DeleteYes trump is definitely playing games,only problem is instead of driving a company down the toilet,he is destroying our country.
Delete8:54 exactly.
DeleteAnd Nero fiddles...I mean the people who represent us.
He will fire Mueller.
ReplyDeleteHe won't have to.
DeleteHe can spin the media his way and suppress the report when it's handed in.
There, finally, go the top floors of the UN bldg!
ReplyDeleteWho will we go to war with first:
ReplyDelete-- North Korea
-- Iran
-- Mexico
-- Canada
-- California
-- China
North Korea. Bolton has a beef with them and Trump is dying to launch a nuke.
DeleteO,yeah. Bolton was bro in law s boss. He's an ass. All those connected with this guy are behind the bloody nose/War. We're fucked.
DeleteThis is a man that even some of the Republicans in Congress wouldn't support as Ambassador to the UN. He's on record as advocating for a first strike at North Korea, and he supports the idea of regime change in Iran.
ReplyDeleteWill this FINALLY be enough to force Congress to limit Trump's ability to start nuclear war, at the very least?
Are you saying that Obama or Hillary wouldn't first strike North Korea if there was an imminent threat, or that they were not for regime change in Iran? Please, wake up. Neocons are on both sides of the isle. Showing strength is pert of being a world leader. That is a reality.
DeleteThat being said, I couldn't stand Bolton before, and probably can't now. Wish the replacement was not him.
Trump won't wait for an "imminent threat".
DeleteTrump isn't strong. He's just a bully. Bolton is an enabler with his own agenda of hate.
Just slowly biding my time until those staunch supporters take one big gulp...."we're screwed!"
ReplyDeleteBe careful what you pray for; you just might get it. They will, oh BOY will they, but they'll never admit it. On to the next shiny object that Jesus warned them about.
play boys
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/nyts-habermann-certainly-possible-trump-timed-mcmaster-firing-distract-cnns-playmate-interview/
writing is on the wall - (within a few weeks) war with either Iran or N Korea (or both), and Mueller will be fired - repug response...silence...and lining their pockets as our democracy burns
ReplyDeleteMillions are giving up, watching porn until the mushroom clouds arrive.
ReplyDeleteOff-The-Rails Trump Wanted To Fire John Kelly And Appoint Himself Chief Of Staff
ReplyDeleteThe president considered serving as his own chief of staff so he could have "unfettered access to outsiders and fewer roadblocks to decision making."
...In the latest indication that Donald Trump has gone completely off the rails as his administration implodes around him, a new report reveals that the president considered firing chief of staff John Kelly and appointing himself to the post.
According to NBC News, “[T]he president envisioned a scenario in which a handful of top aides would report directly to him — bypassing the traditional gatekeeper position.”
More from the head-scratching report:
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/22/trump-appoint-chief-staff.html
Chris Murphy Sounds The Alarm: A Trump-Bolton Combo Could Lead To ‘Catastrophic War’
ReplyDeleteBolton's war-first mentality coupled with Trump's constant need to distract is a dangerous and possibly deadly combination.
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/22/chris-murphy-john-bolton.html
Well this should be interesting.
ReplyDelete"Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and other law enforcement officials will hold a press conference Friday, March 23, 2018 for a major cyber law enforcement announcement."
https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/976940479597219840
Donald Trump campaign’s data firm Cambridge Analytica admits to knowing some voting results in advance
ReplyDelete...Back in May of 2017, Cambridge Analytica vice president Molly Schweickert was asked when she “knew” Donald Trump would win the election. Here was her answer: “In the final weeks leading up to the election, once we started getting some absentee ballot returns coming in, the models were re-weighted, predictions were re-weighted, and again the path to victory was starting to show an extremely high probability that Trump actually would be victorious.”
Absentee ballot returns for specific candidates are never, ever made public prior to the close of polls on election day; the most data that’s ever released in advance is the party affiliation of the absentee voters, which does not provide any information about whether they voted for their own party’s presidential candidate, or even if they cast a presidential vote at all. There is no possible way that Cambridge Analytica could have known how Trump was doing in absentee voting in the “weeks leading up to the election” unless the company illegally hacked into the voting results, or someone on the inside of the vote counting process was illegally giving this information to the company.
http://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/results-cambridge-analytica-knowing/8936/
Wow. A day early.
ReplyDeleteTrump usually dumps his shit on Friday.
We should be clear: Trump is constructing a war-time cabinet. He is not systematic or strategic; he is driven by impulse rather than design. But by whatever mechanisms he did it, he is bringing together a team for war.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/jelani9/status/976967572750061568
U.S. investigators have reportedly discovered that "Guccifer 2.0," the hacker who claimed credit for a breach of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during the 2016 election, revealed himself as a Russian intelligence operative.
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/379866-government-knows-dnc-hacker-was-russian-intel-officer-report
So, uh, Trump advisor Roger Stone was in contact with Russian intelligence pre-election and called himself a fan of their work (all federal crimes), then lied about it to Congress?
ReplyDeleteThat's what this breaking news about Guccifer 2.0 means.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/976981299650027520
Many of us have long said Trump will blow up the world to save himself. We've been painted as alarmists. It may not be too long, with John Bolton advising Trump on national security, before we're called "realists" instead. Note that many ex-intel community people share this view.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/976951540777922560
Media—you're being played by the president daily because you haven't adapted your principles/practices to the digital sphere. Until you adapt to new technologies, journalistic modes and readership models, you'll keep misinforming us and aiding/abetting Trump's orchestrated chaos.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/976919130854117376
I'm amazed Trump has been a pol almost 3 years now and American media has learned NOTHING about how to cover him without being exploited by him and misinforming us. It's really, really hard to teach a digital journalism class in this environment—because there are few good models.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/976919956687392768
Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the DNC, was in fact an officer of Russia’s military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has learned.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/976959454100054017
McMaster's ouster and Bolton's hiring has a very interesting timing about it. Like, on the same day news came out Guccifer 2.0 is a GRU officer, Dowd just up and quits, Rosenstein announces a SUPER BIG cybercrime announcement for tomorrow...
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/LokiLoptr/status/977024070331125760
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Guccifer+2.0%22
THIS IS MY FAVORITE PART: The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC tied to @SpeakerRyan, used the stolen info from Guccifer 2.0 in attack ads against Dems. Are you paying attention PAUL RYAN? Because this is about to get really good.
#Maddow
https://twitter.com/dcpoll/status/976970558515630082
"Nevins also received from Guccifer internal details re congressional districts in KY, PA, TX, VA, & WV. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC closely tied to Paul Ryan, used the stolen info in attack ads against Dems."
ReplyDelete#Maddow
https://twitter.com/dcpoll/status/946200518539579392
Live each day with compassion and lovingkindness.
ReplyDeleteThat's all there really is. Not war.
DIAMOND | SILK 2020
ReplyDeleteLOL.
N. Korea Experts Tear Into Bolton: ‘He’s Never Met A Country He Hasn’t Wanted To Destroy’
ReplyDeleteThe shake-up also comes just two weeks after Trump accepted an invitation to meet with Kim Jong Un.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-bolton-trump-north-korea_us_5ab454cfe4b054d118e15733
‘They’re gonna gut these guys’: Rick Wilson brutally describes what Mueller’s team will do to Trump’s remaining
ReplyDelete...“It appears he [Trump] has assembled a team of TV lawyers and TV spinners who are going to spin the story about how Mueller is, you know, corrupt and everyone is corrupt. Isn’t it more than that than what they’re actually going to do in the courtroom or behind the scenes as attorneys?” Wilson unloaded on Trump’s team.
“Well, the problem for the whole theory of a reality TV set of lawyers is that Robert Mueller has a team of pipe-swinging, knee-breaking actual prosecutors and they’re going to chew these guys up and spit them out,” Wilson shot back. “They’re going to take a Joe diGenova, who haven’t practiced law for quite some time I understand, and they’re going to gut them — they’re going to roll them over and spank them.”
“This isn’t going to be a fair fight,” he elaborated. “Because Robert Mueller has people who actually know things and have built a case. And they’re going to win this war and win it despite Sean Hannity bellowing louder than anyone else on TV. That may move the Trump base, but I think it’s not going to have a lot of impact at all on this case.”
“Mueller has rolled up mobsters with great attorneys before, so I really don’t think this is going to be something that Donald Trump picking a guy because he can fight well on Fox TV and scream conspiracy about the FBI or the DOJ and the government, the deep state, is going to work” he added. “You know, this is the Trump idea that the world is reality television when there’s actually reality outside of reality television.”
Watch the video below via CNN:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/theyre-gonna-gut-guys-watch-rick-wilson-brutally-describe-muellers-team-will-trumps-remaining-lawyers/
ot: Call It What It Is: Austin Police Chief Blasted for Sympathetic Description of Austin Bomber
ReplyDelete'At a news conference Wednesday, Police Chief Brian Manley revealed authorities had found a 25-minute cellphone recording with bomber suspect Mark Conditt’s “confession,” in which he detailed the differences among the bombs he built, according to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. Manley described the tape as the “outcry of a very challenged young man.”
“Having listened to that recording, he doesn’t at all mention anything about terrorism, nor does he mention anything about hate,” Manely said of Conditt, 23, who blew himself up in a car early Wednesday as police closed in on him.
The police chief’s refusal to label Conditt a domestic terrorist sparked outrage among critics who charged that the suspect would’ve quickly been called a terrorist had he been a person of color and not a quiet, “nerdy” white man from a “tight-knit godly family.” Several took to social media to voice their frustration over the blatant double standard.'
http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/03/22/call-austin-police-chief-blasted-sympathetic-description-austin-bomber/
It seems that the people of the USA are not very educated on their constitution. It sez that you can do away with the government if they are not representing you in a way that makes you feel safe and sound.
ReplyDeleteI mean who died and made Trump king?
You got THAT RIGHT^
Deletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/sad-truth-crass-anti-intellectualism-president-donald-trump/
Unfortunately the process has some loopholes. Like when your representatives refuse to remove a corrupt president. Then you must wait for the next election to replace them and pray enough of your fellow citizens recognize the danger and vote with you.
DeleteWith such divided politics, there are plenty of party players that will vote for their team, no matter how corrupt or inept their representatives are.
He couldn't get confirmed as an ambassador.
ReplyDeleteHe is a nut and now it is time to panic.
OT: It's all the Black Guy's fault! /s
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/trump-launches-early-morning-twitter-attack-obama-blaming-russian-meddling-election/
FFS, Trumplthinskin, grow the HELL UP!!!
This is a sign that he knows that he's is deep shit. "Look over THERE!" Same old, same old.
We're on to your games, Trumplethinskin. And so's Mueller.
You are so burnt toast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdBtwsSPgW4
ReplyDelete'Pink Floyd: Dogs of War'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK7yPXB6UtE
'Pink Floyd - Money live Pulse'
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/white-house-unveils-america-first-space-strategy-focuses-warfighting-options-instead-science/
ReplyDeletehttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-unveiling-america-first-national-space-strategy/
Bear in mind,alot of these asshats were charged with war crimes in other countries. Malaysia for 1. This guy is a fucking criminal.
ReplyDeleteTrump just wants a war. His war, he doesn't give a damn who it's against, he just wants to push that bloody button.
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