"If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and, many times, adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time.

That's how dictators get started. They get started by suppressing free press.

In other words, a consolidation of power. When you look at history, the first thing that dictators do is shut down the press. And I'm not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. I'm just saying we need to learn the lessons of history."
---Sen. John McCain

Another day, another entry into the seemingly unending list of stories about Trump supporters being delicate little flowers who demand America's respect but are too damn stupid to earn it.

Those who journeyed to Trump’s Saturday evening event on Florida’s Space Coast said that since the election, they have unfriended some of their liberal relatives or friends on Facebook. They don’t understand why major media outlets don’t see the same successful administration they have been cheering on. And they’re increasingly frustrated that Democrats — and some Republicans — are too slow to approve some of the president’s nominees and too quick to protest his every utterance.

Are you a delicate flower Schwantz? Todd is.

Just as a curiosity mikey, why weren't you all up in arms when Barry was showing his true neo-con colors?

Btw, the rhetoric you post is exactly why the the psychopath in red was elected instead of the blue one.

Karl
Forget the headliners... Republicans under Obama have obtained bullet proof margins in many states. The question is why?

What message do you hear that gives republicans these bullet proof advantages in state legislatures, house and senate?

I don't have an answer as to why. It baffles me that anyone would cast a vote in the Republican or Democrat way after the amount of fuckery that has taken place over the last could of decades.

in many cases, those were the only two choices. My ballot card is pretty slim for all but the highest offices...

Doctors: We could not create a leader more dangerously MENTALLY ILL than Donald Trump

“If we could construct a psychiatric Frankenstein monster,” Dr. Gartner said. “we could not create a leader more dangerously mentally ill than Donald Trump. He is a paranoid, psychopathic, narcissist who is divorced from reality and lashes out impulsively at his imagined enemies. And this is someone as you said who is handling the nuclear codes.”

“I would argue to my colleagues that those who don’t speak out,” Gartner said. “are being unethical. If we have some knowledge and understanding about the unique danger that Donald Trump presents through our psychiatric training and don’t say something about it, History is not going to judge us kindly.”

“He lies because of his sociopathic tendencies that Dr. Gartner was talking about,” Dr. Dodes said. “He lies in the way anybody who scams people does. He’s tried to sell an idea or a product by telling you something that is untrue. … There is also the kind of lie he has that in a way is more serious; that he has a loose grip on reality. We can say that because he lies about things that aren’t;t that important. … I think what that indicates is that he can’t stand an aspect of reality that he doesn’t want. So he rejects it. His grasp of reality, his attention to reality is loose, an extremely dangerous trait in a president. It actually makes him unqualified.”

Where's all my anti-science bone heads?

‘We did not start this fight’: In Trump era’s dawn, scientists rally in Boston

“Our colleagues who have been attacked have not been attacked because they did something wrong,” Oreskes continued. “They have been attacked because they did something right” — namely, producing information that proved politically inconvenient.

Where's all my little Vlad lovers?

Vladimir Putin’s popularity is soaring among Republicans

Vladimir Putin is on a bit of a hot streak among Republicans of late. In new Gallup polling, more than 3 in 10 Republicans have a favorable view of Putin — almost three times the percentage who said the same in 2015.


Do you think Schwantz and Todd are attending Young Pioneers classes at former FEMA camps?

Kellyanne Conway got pulled off the air for a week

The counselor to President Trump, one of the new administration's most visible faces, was pulled off the air by the White House, CNN's Dylan Byers reported Wednesday afternoon. It has been more than a week since Conway appeared on television — an eternity, by her standard. The White House continued to trot her out after she coined the phrase "alternative facts," cited a "Bowling Green massacre" that never happened and promoted Ivanka Trump's products on Fox News, but apparently Trump could not abide statements that undermined the administration's official message.


Maybe Vlad has her is FSB school on how to tell more convincing lies.

Mexico may play some catchup.

Mexico may strike back. Here’s how.

PRESIDENT TRUMP has a good idea of the power the United States wields over Mexico, and the pain it may inflict — the construction of a wall Mexico fiercely opposes; taxes that could be slapped on Mexican imports, wreaking havoc on its economy; deportations of undocumented Mexican immigrants living in the United States, who would be thrust back into a country that would struggle to absorb them. Mr. Trump might have a fuzzier idea of the pain Mexico, its people furious and its pride wounded by his taunts and contempt, might inflict on the United States.

Start with those deportations. At least half of America’s 11 million unauthorized immigrants are Mexican, but many have no documents proving their nationality. For the Trump administration to deport them, it would need cooperation from Mexico, which cannot be forced to accept deportees without certifying that they are Mexicans. As former Mexican foreign minister Jorge G. Castañeda has already warned, Mr. Trump can round up hundreds of thousands or millions of migrants, but without Mexico’s cooperation, they could clog U.S. detention centers and immigration courts — at enormous cost and, conceivably, for years.

Consider, too, the effect on America’s southern border if Mexico were to loosen immigration controls on its own southern border — the one over which Central American refugees are already streaming north in near-record numbers. Even with what U.S. officials say are aggressive interdiction efforts by Mexican authorities, the Border Patrol detained more than 220,000 mainly Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans crossing from Mexico into the United States in the fiscal year ending last fall, exceeding the number of Mexicans apprehended, which has fallen to a 45-year low. If you think the Border Patrol is swamped now, as Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly insists, imagine if Mexico, which last year sent home more than 140,000 Central Americans, simply stepped aside.


Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!! Get ready suckaahhs!

BOHICA

Trump will likely sell out his working-class white base. Here’s how.

Our credibility is in the toilet. Could you spread some lies for us?

FBI refused White House request to knock down recent Trump-Russia stories

The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump's associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign, multiple US officials briefed on the matter tell CNN.

White House officials had sought the help of the bureau and other agencies investigating the Russia matter to say that the reports were wrong and that there had been no contacts, the officials said. The reports of the contacts were first published by The New York Times and CNN on February 14.

This pretty much confirms the Popular Vote Loser is a joke.

Witches From All Around the World Will Cast a Spell on Donald Trump Tomorrow



Throughout much of history, the witch has been cast as a hooked nosed and wart faced harridan, whose primary intentions were to exact evil and cause harm. They skulked about in the dark corners of the world, concocting diabolic brews and spells, waiting for the next victim to come into their purview so that they may stike. This was the stuff of fantasies.

Real witches do exist, and they practice various forms of witchcraft. And we now know that many of these real life modern day witches do not fit within the confines of the stereotypes. In fact many witches practice a form of witchcraft that is meant to do good. Today’s witches are humanists, feminists, healers, supports of equality and diversity, and advocates for the environment.

On the evening of February 24th, 2017, witches will become heroes of the resistance, as witches from around the world will come together to produce a spell that is meant to prevent Donald Trump and his merry band of nihilist from exacting anymore of their evil upon our world. This ritural will be repeated during every waning crescent moon.

Conway is a deadbeat.

Kellyanne Conway is listed as a D.C. Bar member under her maiden name, Kellyanne E. Fitzpatrick, but is a suspended member for not paying her dues, according to the disciplinary filing.

Any thoughts from the chicken hawks? Schwantz? Todd Sparky?

University of Texas System Chancellor William H. McRaven, a retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral, had a strong reaction to the Donald Trump’s tweet calling the media the enemy of the people and he shared it with a crowd at the University of Texas last night.

UT System Chancellor Bill McRaven on Tuesday night said President Trump’s recent description of the media as “the enemy of the American people” must be challenged and “this sentiment may be the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.”

He made the comment during the inaugural event of the Communication and Leadership Speaker Series at UT’s Belo Center for New Media. McRaven, who has served as chancellor for two years, is also a UT journalism alumnus. During his lecture, McRaven said the country needs journalists now more than ever before and they must continue to hold others accountable.

Prior to becoming chancellor, McRaven was the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command during which time he led a force of 69,000 men and women and was responsible for conducting counter-terrorism operations worldwide. McRaven also is a recognized national authority on U.S. foreign policy and has advised presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and other U.S. leaders on defense issues. And his book, “Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice,” published in several languages, is considered a fundamental text on special operations strategy.

McRaven’s military legacy goes beyond strategy and warfare. As commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, McRaven spearheaded the creation of the Preservation of the Force & Family initiative to ensure the mental, spiritual and physical well-being of those who serve, as well as their families. His wife, Georgeann, has dedicated much of her career to playing a leadership role with military families and wounded warriors.

He there everybody!

I was thinking about Rick W., and came back to check the site.

Sorry my thread gave Mike such a dumping ground.

I'm having fun on my Liter Bike these days

Spoken like a true chicken hawk.

Like Obama?

Ok... what is your definition of chicken hawk?
Why is obama a chicken hawk?

I would have thought you would have called obama a chicken for not rescueing Syria. in contrast to mcain who is a classic hawk.

W proved himself a classic chicken hawk... natl guard service for rich boys and talked like a dove in his first election... only to turn into a classic chicken hawk starting two wars with no worries about other kids skin in the game.

Romeny was ??? (He seemed to lean hawkish in his rhetoric)

I have no idea what you call Trump who rants and raves about Not getting into foreign wars. But talks a big hawk game. ... Given his debilitating injury which got him a deferment when it counted... I have him down as a chicken right now.