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The Official Paracast Political Thread! — Part Four

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In a unanimous, 29-page opinion, three judges with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit flatly rejected the government’s argument that the suspension of the order should be lifted immediately for national security reasons and forcefully asserted their ability to serve as a check on the president’s power.

I guess it does work after all …

Federal appeals court maintains suspension of Trump’s immigration order

Do Trump supporters have a breaking point?

I was wondering the same thing ...

Trump's dignity has been 'swept away', says Chinese judge

Tump..., “dignity”? come on now.., keep it real.

"Americans Now Equally Divided on Impeaching Trump"

Public Policy Polling

"Donald Trump Plans to Hang a Letter From Richard Nixon on the Oval Office Wall"
http://www.usnews.com/news/national...-letter-from-richard-nixon-in-the-oval-office
http://www.usnews.com/news/national...-letter-from-richard-nixon-in-the-oval-office
 
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Seemingly, not a single day passes where asked is; what has Donald screwed up?

Perhaps, more aptly; what has Donald not screwed up?
 
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S.R.L. said:
“How a Sensational, Unverified Dossier Became a Crisis for Donald Trump”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-intelligence.html

US investigators corroborate some aspects of the Russia dossier - CNNPolitics.com
Click to expand...

Christopher Steele, the former MI6 intelligence agent, disappeared the day his identity was disclosed by the Wall Street Journal and his whereabouts are still unknown.

I was about to read the Washington Post's coverage of the verification by US intelligence agents yesterday that the 'nonsalicious' information in the dossier on Trump had been corroborated. This is in tandem with the increased focus on Trump's national security advisor, Michael Flynn, concerning his conversations with the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. in the last days of December {i.e., 'not to worry about' Obama's sanctions in retaliation for Russia's hacking of the presidential campaigns last year}. Bit of news today: both Flynn and his son have today disappeared their Twitter accounts. Will the necessary Congressional investigation of all this take place given the Republican-controlled Congress? I'm holding out hope, but I always do. What do y'all think?
 
This is the person who Trump would really like to see resign.

This senator is hell-bent on getting out the truth about Trump and Russia

Someone, somewhere, is sitting on information that may torpedo Donald. Meanwhile, Vladimir is offering Snowden as an election gift, as the sane point out Trump’s mental instability.

"Mental Health Professionals Warn About Trump" NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/...region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0

Andrew Sullivan: The Madness of King Donald

Andrew Sullivan says journalists should be talking about Trump's mental health

Rupert Murdoch isn’t much help in spreading the truth.

Rupert Murdoch

To that old liver spot, if it smells.., it sells. However, here's another likely reason.

How Donald Trump Could Make Rupert Murdoch Even More Powerful

“When a Pillar of the Fourth Estate Rests on a Trump-Murdoch Axis” NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/...rporation.html?google_editors_picks=true&_r=0
 
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Unknown if this is legit, but....

The one I like is: "The good news for POTUS is that accepting Flynn's sudden resg gave him leverage to negotiate the return of his phone. Such a deal maker."

The Official White House Resistance Operation
LINK: The Official White House Resistance
TEXT: In solidarity with others who were courageous enough to create #altgov twitter accounts, pushing back against President Trump's attempt to silence dissent and inconvenient facts, we are committed to supporting the resistance by revealing the inner chaos and incompetence of President Trump's White House. We are White House staffers, working at various levels, operating in secrecy to reveal hidden truths of the Trump administration to the American people.

We are the resistance of the White House. We are the voice in the dark that speaks in silence and hides in the foreground. We are the Rogue POTUS Staff.​

Some of the tweets - read with popcorn.....:cool:

Sanction talk is missing the big picture. Flynn tapped for a reason. Boot him, POTUS will just replace w/ another conduit to Putin.

"This guy is an idiot. He has no idea what he's doing." Overheard by Trudeau to Freeland.

Trudeau overheard expressing offense to his cabinet members @ POTUS handshake games. Finds it "disrespectful and tasteless."

PM Trudeau likens POTUS to "that one kid who never got beaten up only because everyone else thought he was too pathetic to be worth it. (cont) "...And now he thinks it's because they all were scared of him. But the whole time they were just laughing at him."

Latest office betting pool speculates on how long before POTUS has withdrawal seizures due to being put on twitter timeout.

The good news for POTUS is that accepting Flynn's sudden resg gave him leverage to negotiate the return of his phone. Such a deal maker.

More often than not the story is office politics, not public politics.

Ryan's statement false. POTUS was bypassed. Pence made resignation happen.

The Yates news was the straw that broke Flynn, and also used to force POTUS to accept resg. Now POTUS angrier than ever about leaks.

POTUS once again feeling like he's being sabotaged from within. He's not wrong, but his reasoning is completely off the mark.

Only one thing changed over the course of Monday: publicity. Flynn wasn't fired, Pence forced him to resign.

If Priebus goes then Pence stands alone. POTUS loyalists lost the Flynn battle, but may be winning the war.

Bannon and Miller seem in agreement about Pence being behind Flynn's ouster, but only Bannon has said as much to POTUS so far.

POTUS seeing Pence is more loyal than ever, after having come up with spin strategy. Rejects Bannon's claims, at least on surface.

POTUS finally dropped the C word toward leakers in WH. Wants to "sue their pants off" in court.
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And many, many more....see article.....
 
It really is addicting - here's a few more -

Morale throughout is beyond desperate. Some are suggesting handing out literature about looking for signs of suicidal ideation in others.

Spicer is already burning out. Been carrying double load, but greatest stressor is having to paint over obvious lies and absurdities.

POTUS set on taking EO case to SCOTUS now, despite all advice that doing so would weaken the case. Cares more about winning than succeeding.

POTUS encouraged Kellyanne to push Ivanka clothing in interview, but later said she'd be fired if she makes another mistake like that.

POTUS going fully rabid. Causing chaos, then blaming everyone else when things go badly. Demands omelettes, then fires whom cracks the eggs.

They cannot find us, but we do not know how much longer we can stay hidden. If we disappear, do not be swayed by their alternative facts.

@ RogueCPI is a counter op within WH. Tried to expose us. Since they can't, their goal is now to silence through discrediting.

POTUS too preoccupied to meet with aides just yet. CNN is talking about him. Must watch. Even though it's "fake news."

POTUS gloating about showing press "who's in charge" today, telling everyone that "That's how it's done. You don't give them an inch. (cont) "They're gonna report how we want, or they get no access. Let them come after me. Let them. We'll see what they do when their ratings drop."

POTUS & Bannon warned to never again say they R glad about an 8 year old child being killed in US military action, no matter her father.

POTUS also insisting that female employees should maintain "feminine" appearance at all times.

We can confirm that POTUS is encouraging people to buy his brands in order to have the "right look" to work for his administration.

POTUS causing alarm by saying arrest of Russian spies will offer pretext to drop sanctions, after they are "saddled" with DNC email hacks. (cont) Seen as first tacit admission by POTUS of some level of complicity between him and Putin regarding Russian interference in election. (cont) Orders on POTUS slip up are "We cannot let this get out!" (cont) [George Takai] And here we have it. Full betrayal, the evidence all there before us. Easing sanctions on the very cyber groups responsible for the hacks.

With Priebus mostly boxed out, planning chatter for Iran sanctions taking reckless tone, with panic giving way to desperation, hopelessness. (cont) Iran strategy talk is asking how to ensure that Iran eventually crosses "the line" before long to eventually justify POTUS military action. (cont) POTUS seems to honestly think Putin is his friend. Says Russia will "fight with us when the time comes" against Iran.​
 
Russia Deploys Missile, Violating Treaty and Challenging Trump
LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/...breaking-news&nlid=54852892&ref=headline&_r=0
TEXT Excerpted: WASHINGTON — Russia has secretly deployed a new cruise missile that American officials say violates a landmark arms control treaty, posing a major test for President Trump as his administration is facing a crisis over its ties to Moscow.

The new Russian missile deployment also comes as the Trump administration is struggling to fill key policy positions at the State Department and the Pentagon — and to settle on a permanent replacement for Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser who resigned late Monday. Mr. Flynn stepped down after it was revealed that he had misled the vice president and other officials over conversations with Moscow’s ambassador to Washington.

The ground-launched cruise missile at the center of American concerns is one that the Obama administration said in 2014 had been tested in violation of a 1987 treaty that bans American and Russian intermediate-range missiles based on land.

The Obama administration had sought to persuade the Russians to correct the violation while the missile was still in the test phase. Instead, the Russians have moved ahead with the system, deploying a fully operational unit.

Administration officials said the Russians now have two battalions of the prohibited cruise missile. One is still located at Russia’s missile test site at Kapustin Yar in southern Russia near Volgograd. The other was shifted in December from that test site to an operational base elsewhere in the country, according to a senior official who did not provide further details and requested anonymity to discuss recent intelligence reports about the missile.​
 
"We have at most a year to defend American democracy, perhaps less"
LINK: “We have at most a year to defend American democracy, perhaps less“
TEXT Excerpted: Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of numerous books of European history, including "Bloodlands" and "Black Earth". His most recent book, “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century“, will be published at the end of the month. This is the English version of an interview published in Süddeutsche Zeitung on February 7, with some additional information due to current developments.

By Matthias Kolb

SZ: Donald Trump has been president for three weeks. How would you describe his start?

Timothy Snyder: The first thing that we have to notice is that the institutions have not thus far restrained him. He never took them seriously, acts as if they don’t exist, and clearly wishes they didn’t. The story that Americans have told themselves from the moment he declared his candidacy for president, was that one institution or another would defeat him or at least change his behavior – he won’t get the nomination; if he gets the nomination, he will be a normal Republican; he will get defeated in the general election; if he wins the presidency will mature him (that was what Obama said). I never thought any of that was true. He doesn’t seem to care about the institutions and the laws except insofar as they appear as barriers to the goal of permanent kleptocratic authoritarianism and immediate personal gratification. It is all about him all of time, it is not about the citizens and our political traditions.

[...]

The constitution is worth saving, the rule of law is worth saving, democracy is worth saving, but these things can and will be lost if everyone waits around for someone else. If we want encouragement out of the Oval Office, we will not get it. We are not getting encouragement thus far from Republicans. They have good reasons to defend the republic but thus far they are not doing so, with a few exceptions. You want to end on a positive note, I know; but I think things have tightened up very fast, we have at most a year to defend the Republic, perhaps less. What happens in the next few weeks is very important.​
 
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