TRUMP is seriously dangerous

[RocketMan]

Trump with Jeffrey Epstein's paramour/procurer Ghislaine Maxwell:

[RocketMan]

Trump with Ivanka

[seemslikeadream]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yh0jAxOxGE

Trump Believes in Eugenics, According to Trump's Biographer
So presidential!
Donald Trump
BY SAMMY NICKALLS
SEP 28, 2016

The Frontline documentary "The Choice" premiered this week on PBS, and it proves that Trump is pretty much an orange, sniffily pro-eugenics asshole.

In the documentary, Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio explains that Trump was raised to believe that success is genetic, and that some people are just more superior than others:

"The family subscribes to a racehorse theory of human development. They believe that there are superior people and that if you put together the genes of a superior woman and a superior man, you get a superior offspring."
Huffington Post also took the liberty of compiling a whole bunch of times Trump suggested that genes are the main factor behind brains and superiority. Here are just a few choice quotes from good ol' Trump:

"All men are created equal. Well, it's not true. 'Cause some are smart, some aren't."
"When you connect two racehorses, you usually end up with a fast horse."
"Secretariat doesn't produce slow horses."
"Do we believe in the gene thing? I mean, I do."
"I have great genes and all that stuff which, I'm a believer in."
Oh, good.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/ne ... iographer/

[kelley]

this will sound flip, but at the very least can someone get this idiot to drop twenty pounds and teach him to properly wear a necktie? it should just touch the belt line, and not droop below.

it's not even the weave, that's just terrible. this stupidly clownish look, however appropriate, is going to drive me insane.

[82_28]

Good point kelley. It got me to thinking that the necktie thing is some form of compensation -- whether intentional or unintentional. It is compensating for something. I know the fuck has referred to his dick already, so there's that. But I think it is compensation for something else.

Everybody else ever notice that Hitler was a fucking drama queen? I noted that a good 20 years ago. Then I read the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. And I was all "yep", drama queen. Hitler was compensating. All fascists compensate in some form. I don't quite know what that means other than that it is noticeable. They have to have some memorable feature. Hitler, obviously his moustache. Trump, his hair and tie. I could come up with more. However, even those examples show how much their followers (or the natural nature to conform) trickles down to their supporters. Uniforms, arm bands, hair style, ad infinitum. I will leave that there. Something to consider. At least I am considering it.

[Wombaticus Rex]

Trump's look says a lot about him. The notion that he doesn't own a mirror and is somehow unaware of what he looks like is hard to maintain, so you have to ask yourself: why does he do it?

Because he does it, it's a choice he's making.

He lives in New York City. He has constant visual feedback on what actual boardroom norms are. He's spent decades presenting himself as a global real estate tycoon, attending charity galas, seeing and being seen on CNBC.

His look is lowbrow, more trading floor than window office, ostentatious in crudest fashion possible. He looks like a clown, without question. He's also widely considered to be a simpleton, generally by people who are still adapting to the shock of waking up every morning in a world where he is the 45th President of the United States.

Perhaps being underestimated is a foundation of his approach to strategy.

[Luther Blissett]

…Why is CBS, NBC, ABC, etc giving so much airtime trying to normalize neo nazis? …

Very good question.

[Wombaticus Rex]

…Why is CBS, NBC, ABC, etc giving so much airtime trying to normalize neo nazis? …

Very good question.

I think that they're -- "They" being the boards and editors and directors of those networks -- they're operating the only way they know how. It's not a plan to legitimize Trump, although it will. They are not necessarily liberals, but they are vehemently opposed to Trump and most of his policy goals.

They are strategizing on how to compromise Donald Trump without compromising the kabuki steps required by the Objectivity Myth. Setting up this narrative is going to involve introducing their readers to a new cast of characters. This is what we've been seeing.

Thus, Bannon and Spencer -- Spencer who, let us bear in mind, is a punk bitch of very little actual influence outside of the media circles who cover him -- get "normalized." I think that's a valid complaint, probably not a useful one, but dead accurate. They are being normalized, but shit, this is an ecosystem that normalized Honey Boo Boo and Flavor Flav. America is gonna survive this, too.

"Normalizing" is just how coverage works. Stan Lee, Vince McMahon, Rince Priebus, Jeff Zucker, these are men who really get how to run a successful circus. The actual Alt-Right is full of weird and awkward people, but Richard Spencer has groomed himself to be the face the media machine needs in order to cover this story. Bannon doesn't photograph that well but he has actual juice: he's that rare story that needs to be covered, like smoking cheshire cat James Harris Simons, or the complicated persistence of Peter Thiel.

If the actual election of Trump wasn't enough to knock these people loose from the Equivalency Shuffle that forever renders any fucking thing that they cover into A Perfectly Reasonable argument, I reckon nothing will.

[seemslikeadream]

Cozy Overlap Between Flynn’s Drone Company and Trump’s Border Plans

by Eli Clifton

Last week, President-elect Donald Trump’s announced that Ret. Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn will serve as his national security adviser. The announcement was controversial due to Flynn’s embrace of Islamophobia – “fear of Muslims is RATIONAL,” he tweeted – calls for regime change in Iran, and his paid work on behalf of a Turkish businessman with close ties to Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

But little attention has been paid to his role as vice chairman of a small drone company, Drone Aviation Holding Corp (DAC). The corporation received a series of Department of Defense contracts after he joined the company in April, while he was simultaneously serving as an adviser to the Trump campaign. If Trump follows through on his campaign promise to deploy more surveillance drones on the Canadian and Mexican borders, DAC would be well-placed to win even bigger contracts.

The company, which is developing a line of small, tethered, surveillance aircraft, issued a statement about Flynn’s new role saying that he “will work with Drone Aviation’s growing list of Department of Defense (‘DoD’), government agency and commercial customers to harness the unique data collection, communications and surveillance capabilities of the Company’s tethered tactical aerostat and drone platforms.”

Flynn’s appointment to DAC’s board on April 27, 2016 coincided with a series of DoD contracts that significantly contributing to the bottom line of a company valued at $25 million and whose stock currently hovers around three dollars per share.

Flynn is paid $36,000 per year for his work. He was issued 100,000 restricted shares, which will vest over two years, commencing with his appointment as a director last April. DAC also helped Flynn promote his book The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies, cosponsoring a July 27 stop on his book tour in Herndon, Virginia with ACT! For America, an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “the largest grassroots anti-Muslim group in America.”

In March, the month before Flynn was appointed to the board, the company was awarded a DoD contract “in excess $780,000” for a lighter-than-air surveillance and communications aircraft. That contract was followed by a $194,000 “upgrade contract” for the same project.

Following Flynn formally joining the company, DAC won a $125,000 contract in August “for equipment and engineering services including the integration of an advanced sensor suite for long endurance, persistent, tethered aerial applications for a current DoD customer.”

In October, they were awarded a $400,000 contract for the company’s electric tethered drone and a contract “valued at more than $200,000” for communications sensors integration onto its lighter than air UAV.

Drone Aviation Holding Corp. doesn’t markets its products just for the DoD. Its website advertises that it “uses include border patrol, emergency response, search and rescue and law enforcement response to crowd management, hostage situations, and large event security and protection.”

Trump, who took Flynn on as a campaign adviser in February, embraced the idea of utilizing UAVs for border surveillance, alongside his initial plan to build a wall across the entire 2,000-mile southern border.

Twelve days before Flynn signed his contract with DAC, Trump told Syracuse.com that, if elected president, he would expand the deployment of drones on both the Canadian and Mexican borders for 24-hour surveillance of the borders.

“They would work in conjunction with the Border Patrol, who are fantastic people who want to do their job,” Trump told Syracuse.com. “I want surveillance for our borders, and the drone has great capabilities for surveillance.”

According to a federal audit published in January 2015, the decade-long use of surveillance drones on the borders cost more than initially estimated and the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general found “little or no evidence” that border drones had performed effectively.

DAC spokesperson Michael Glickman confirmed to LobeLog that Flynn continues to serve as vice chairman of the company but could not comment on his future plans.

When asked if Flynn had taken steps to liquidate his shares, Glickman responded, “No, shares owned by Lt. General Flynn are currently restricted under vesting schedules commenced in 2016.”

The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment.

http://lobelog.com/cozy-overlap-between ... der-plans/

[seemslikeadream]

Calls for Deutsche Bank, a Big Trump Lender, to Face Independent Prosecutor
By MATTHEW MOSK BRIAN ROSS Nov 22, 2016, 3:39 PM ET
PHOTO: A statue is seen next to the logo of Germanys Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, Jan. 26, 2016. Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
A statue is seen next to the logo of Germany's Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, Jan. 26, 2016.

Two Justice Department investigations of the German bank that has loaned Donald Trump more than $300 million must be turned over to an independent prosecutor, a senior U.S. Senator said this week, because there will be “a clear conflict of interest” between Trump’s personal business interests and his public duties.

“The credibility of this investigation will be completely undermined, and our criminal justice system will be diminished by this obvious conflict of interest,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat and former federal prosecutor, told ABC News in an exclusive interview this week. “What's needed here is clearly an independent prosecutor, without any connection to an Attorney General who likely will be someone who is a personal confidant and campaign surrogate for Donald Trump.”

Deutsche Bank has become one of his company’s most reliable lenders. The German bank has helped finance the renovation of the Trump Old Post Office development in Washington, D.C., his purchase of the Doral golf course and country club in Florida, as well as the construction of a Trump office building in Chicago.

At the same time, the bank has been the target of two long-running federal investigations – one looking at lending practices leading up to the massive mortgage meltdown of 2007 and 2008, and another focused on allegations that the bank helped clients illegally funnel money out of Russia.

Deutsche Bank has confirmed in public filings that the Justice Department’s demands in settlement negotiations over the mortgage fraud case could be steep – the initial U.S. position was to demand a back-breaking $14 billion settlement. In the filings, the bank said it was "cooperating fully," with the investigation.

Sen. Blumenthal said if the Justice Department gets what it wants, the settlement “would gravely threaten the bank, possibly bankrupt it, and thereby impact Donald Trump’s business interests very, very severely.”

The bank declined comment to ABC News, but has conveyed in public statements that it hopes the settlement amounts will be reduced significantly after more negotiating.

“Talks are ongoing,” the bank reported to investors.

The status of the investigation has been a dominant topic in German financial circles, but a German embassy spokesman in Washington said the topic did not come up during Trump’s phone call with Chancellor Angela Merkel last Thursday.

“I’m pretty sure this was not part of it,” said Markus Knauf, the embassy spokesman. “She congratulated him for winning the presidency and pledged that the U.S. and Germany would continue to work together.”

How a Trump Justice Department will proceed with those talks has become the latest in a series of questions about how the incoming president will navigate between his many business entanglements and his new and powerful government post.

Trump has indicated he would leave his business dealings to his children, and focus his attention on his duties as president.

In an interview after his election, he told CBS 60 Minutes, “I don’t care about hotel occupancy. It’s peanuts compared to what we’re doing here.”

Since the election, reports suggest that the line between his business dealings and his official work has been blurred.

That included a report about comments he made to British officials about his Scottish golf course, and a meeting he held with Indian businessmen about a project in Mumbai. A Trump Organization official who refused to be named described the meeting with the Indian businessmen as a "congratulatory exchange in passing."

PHOTO: Donald Trump leaves after a meeting at the New York Times, Nov. 22, 2016, in New York.Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images
Donald Trump leaves after a meeting at the New York Times, Nov. 22, 2016, in New York.
A review of his financial disclosure filings indicates that Trump has business interests around the globe, generating more than $50 million in income from various entities in 18 countries.

Already, Trump has garnered attention for meeting with developers of a Trump project in India, and for raising the issue of wind farms during a meeting with British officials – an issue for the operation of his Scottish golf club.

Ethics experts have warned that if Trump maintains a role in advocating for his business empire, those actions could taint any negotiation between Deutsche Bank and the Justice Department during a Trump administration.

“The scope of possible conflicts is tremendous,” said Noah Bookbinder, executive director of CREW, a prominent ethics group in Washington, DC. “Perhaps most problematic are foreign policy issues, where he might have an incentive, to, for instance, try to improve the reputation of and brand of Trump and Trump Hotels and Trump Buildings in countries where he has businesses, and that could conceivably affect the kinds of decisions he makes in terms of American foreign policy.”

“And that's a really disturbing thought,” Bookbinder said.

Bookbinder, a former federal prosecutor, described a range of scenarios that would complicate the federal case against Deutsche Bank.

Would Trump object, for instance, to imposing steep fines on the bank if that would create such serious financial distress that bankers could be forced to call in Trump’s loans? Conversely, he said, if Trump’s loans were re-negotiated with more favorable terms, critics could question whether such an effort was done to curry favor with the incoming president.

“I think that even if Donald Trump says and does nothing, the attorneys and the employees at the Department of Justice who are working on this are going to know that the new president has an interest potentially in Deutsche Bank getting a good deal,” he said. “So there's going to be some suspicion even if there's no evidence of Donald Trump actually doing anything to try to influence the result.”

ABC News sought comment from the Trump transition team and the Trump Organization, but has not received a response.

Overnight, Trump tweeted in apparent response to criticism of his references to business dealings during talks with foreign leaders: “Prior to the election it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world. Only the crooked media makes this a big deal!”

And on Tuesday, a defiant president-elect told the New York Times: “The law is on my side, the President can’t have a conflict of interest.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/calls-de ... d=43722765

[Nordic]

Perhaps being underestimated is a foundation of his approach to strategy.

I'd say it's working pretty well for him.

[8bitagent]

I don't get the focus on Trump's appearance. I mean it's no secret whats going on. He's stuck in the 80's. He's got the big giant shoulder pads, the weird fake hair, the larger
than life 80's action movie corporate bad guy look. His whole schtick is a middle finger to everything people are used to with politics. He knows he partly won by saying "Crooked Hillary" five billion times, but has
now officially said he's above the law and will place his Trump empire focus on the level of his focus as being President. There was a time, when firebrands
couldn't be easily identified as right or left, as with the case of New York firebrands Andrew Dice Clay and Morton Downy Jr in the late 80s.
I guess the reason I wince when people go on and on about Trump's skin tone or body shape, is these are often the same groups that say "body shaming" is wrong, and dont judge people
by their skin color.

And of course, the irony is that Trump obsessively shames the physicality of people, I get that. But Im interested in seeing the deeper hows and whys of what in the bloody hell is going on.
Is Trump merely winging it? Shocked, as he and his team is, they won....or is Trump merely a pawn in a bigger mind fuckery plot we can't quite grasp nor see?

Probably the oddest thing this week was the floating of Hawaii's Tulsi Gabbard, one of the few to stick their neck out and support Bernie Sanders.
Now we're seeing some in the media say she's a closet crypto-fascist
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/ ... he-is.html

[Nordic]

Please, the old left/right paradigms have been destroyed. The game board has been flipped over and the pieces thrown everywhere. The Democratic Party has become as right wing and corrupt as the GOP ever did, since the neocons took over the COUNTRY back in 2000. The two parties basically merged and became one especially during the last 8 years. Some group behind the scenes got tired of these Zionist Armageddon-bound nut jobs running the country and managed to trick them right out of power using Trump as the decoy figurehead trickster. Now everything has changed. It's a Big Deal. Right/left means nothing now. Tulsi Gabbard saw tight through the Obama/neocon schtick and went public with it so she's the new face of the "other" party. (She's still an Israel Firster). The Trumpites are old school Paleoconservative who actually are tired of seeing he country run by Israel and Saudi Arabia and sold for parts by the PTB. Perhaps they didn't want to go to war with Russia, knowing what a disaster that would be.

Everything is changing. Kill your old attachments to what you think right and left are because it's all obsolete now.

[8bitagent]

Please, the old left/right paradigms have been destroyed. The game board has been flipped over and the pieces thrown everywhere. The Democratic Party has become as right wing and corrupt as the GOP ever did, since the neocons took over the COUNTRY back in 2000. The two parties basically merged and became one especially during the last 8 years. Some group behind the scenes got tired of these Zionist Armageddon-bound nut jobs running the country and managed to trick them right out of power using Trump as the decoy figurehead trickster. Now everything has changed. It's a Big Deal. Right/left means nothing now. Tulsi Gabbard saw tight through the Obama/neocon schtick and went public with it so she's the new face of the "other" party. (She's still an Israel Firster). The Trumpites are old school Paleoconservative who actually are tired of seeing he country run by Israel and Saudi Arabia and sold for parts by the PTB. Perhaps they didn't want to go to war with Russia, knowing what a disaster that would be.

Everything is changing. Kill your old attachments to what you think right and left are because it's all obsolete now.

Didn't it feel like, using the tired old "left-right" marker, there was a tacit co-existence during the Bush era ? Now it seems so much of the conspiracy world has either gone full neo-Nazi, or explicitly right wing...I don't even see the slightest hint of a leftist or progressive presence in the para-political world(and Im a vocal critic of the campus crusader SJW leftist stuff)

Across social media I can't seem to square how millions of American students are beyond pissed about Trump lately, and (rightfully) of the DAPL Dakota protest backlash...yet can't seem to be angry or care
about President Obama coordinating with Saudi Arabia to commit mass war crimes in Saudi Arabia. Or what Obama, Mccain and Clinton did in Libya in 2011. I too have long been against the US/West/Israel/Saudi globalist war program, but I also have been critical of bullshit Russia has done internally. But, Tulsi and Trump are correct in saying that a hot war with Russia would be the worst thing imaginable in this current era.

What really gets me hopping mad is when isolationism is lumped in with neo-Nazism. As if not wanting to "liberate" and bomb the hell out of countries is now fascism. Maybe you're right, there is no left and right. Just insanity, and insanity plus(as I'd say)

[82_28]

One of the most outstanding problems is that people now have to explain themselves. This is called a doublebind. Sans hatred you must explain why you do not hate. One has nothing to explain for why they find trump fucking disgusting. Blame it on me, but trump is fucking disgusting. Look how "I" started this thread. I called it because I have seen these fuckers in action. I said it ain't going to go away. Yay. But it will not. I knew it from the start. I should have made a bet on some game that day at Biff's Casino.