From the beginning, my thoughts on why 2016 was different have been this:
It’s the TREASON.
We have all lived through Presidents that we didn’t agree with. Presidents whose policies were antithetical to our own.
But, what we have on Dolt45, is a President, and a cabal around him, who willing slept with a hostile foreign power to undermine American Sovereignty.
There is a reason why the IC has reacted the way that they have, and it’s because, for the first time, The Intelligence Community believes that the President of the United States and those around him, are assets of a hostile foreign power.
They believe that they are TRAITORS to this country.
Because of this, you don’t just have our IC that is on this, and feeding the press news about the gang in the White House, you have the INTERNATIONAL IC doing so, because they understand the danger that Dol45 and his cabal mean to not just the United States, but to the world.
Hat tip-Balloon Juice for this article:
From Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: What Trump Really Told Kislyak After Comey Was Canned
During a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office, the president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation to two high-ranking Russian envoys, Sergey Kislyak and Sergey Lavrov. This is what he told them—and the ramifications.
by Howard Blum
November 22, 2017 2:27 pm
On a dark night at the tail end of last winter, just a month after the inauguration of the new American president, an evening when only a sickle moon hung in the Levantine sky, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 helicopters flew low across Jordan and then, staying under the radar, veered north toward the twisting ribbon of shadows that was the Euphrates River. On board, waiting with a professional stillness as they headed into the hostile heart of Syria, were Sayeret Matkal commandos, the Jewish state’s elite counterterrorism force, along with members of the technological unit of the Mossad, its foreign-espionage agency. Their target: an ISIS cell that was racing to get a deadly new weapon thought to have been devised by Ibrahim al-Asiri, the Saudi national who was al-Qaeda’s master bombmaker in Yemen.
It was a covert mission whose details were reconstructed for Vanity Fair by two experts on Israeli intelligence operations. It would lead to the unnerving discovery that ISIS terrorists were working on transforming laptop computers into bombs that could pass undetected through airport security. U.S. Homeland Security officials—quickly followed by British authorities—banned passengers traveling from an accusatory list of Muslim-majority countries from carrying laptops and other portable electronic devices larger than a cell phone on arriving planes. It would not be until four tense months later, as foreign airports began to comply with new, stringent American security directives, that the ban would be lifted on an airport-by-airport basis.
In the secretive corridors of the American espionage community, the Israeli mission was praised by knowledgeable officials as a casebook example of a valued ally’s hard-won field intelligence being put to good, arguably even lifesaving, use.
Yet this triumph would be overshadowed by an astonishing conversation in the Oval Office in May, when an intemperate President Trump revealed details about the classified mission to Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, and Sergey I. Kislyak, then Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. Along with the tempest of far-reaching geopolitical consequences that raged as a result of the president’s disclosure, fresh blood was spilled in his long-running combative relationship with the nation’s clandestine services. Israel—as well as America’s other allies—would rethink its willingness to share raw intelligence, and pretty much the entire Free World was left shaking its collective head in bewilderment as it wondered, not for the first time, what was going on with Trump and Russia. (In fact, Trump’s disturbing choice to hand over highly sensitive intelligence to the Russians is now a focus of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s relationship with Russia, both before and after the election.) In the hand-wringing aftermath, the entire event became, as is so often the case with spy stories, a tale about trust and betrayal.
And yet, the Israelis cannot say they weren’t warned.
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“Trump betrayed us,” said a senior Israeli military official bluntly, his voice stern with reproach. “And if we can’t trust him, then we’re going to have to do what is necessary on our own if our back is up against the wall with Iran.” Yet while appalled governments are now forced to rethink their tactics in future dealings with a wayward president, there is also the dismaying possibility that a more tangible, and more lethal, consequence has already occurred. “The Russians will undoubtedly try to figure out the source or the method of this information to make sure that it is not also collecting on their activities in Syria—and in trying to do that they could well disrupt the source,” said Michael Morell.
What, then, was the fate of Israel’s agent in Syria? Was the operative exfiltrated to safety? Has he gone to ground in enemy territory? Or was he hunted down and killed? One former Mossad officer with knowledge of the operation and its aftermath will not say. Except to add pointedly, “Whatever happened to him, it’s a hell of price to pay for a president’s mistake.”
Yeah, some of these legislators need to step up for Puerto Rico before it’s too late.
https://twitter.com/SenKamalaHarris/status/935558760269008896
Birmingham. Amazing.
https://twitter.com/WoodfinForBham/status/935620838358962177
Now who does he remind you of?
@rikyrah
Have you seen this thread? Twitter went in on Elon James White. They clowned him.
https://twitter.com/LondonNMommy/status/935365058569297927
Been watching it since last night. They have brought all their receipts to him.
Rikyrah, they dragged him. I couldn’t believe what I read. This from someone who is supposedly so pro black? He has a blog “This Week In Blackness” and he took this ISH? Sheesh!
https://twitter.com/JuJuBeanLove/status/935387934420762629
https://twitter.com/Evan_Rosenfeld/status/935560575001624576
Uh huh
Uh huh
https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/935546211691573248
https://twitter.com/AntonioArellano/status/935547290864975872
https://twitter.com/LiberalPhenom/status/935305139140939776
Look at this. y’all. It’s terrible.
https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/935147767726448640
looks like a NIGHTMARE
About the insults to the Native Americans yesterday, this just came to me:
The insults were so overwhelming.
He literally has no phucking home training.
That damn picture of Andrew Jackson – I THOUGHT – was in the phucking Oval Office. So, someone HAD TO PHUCKING MOVE IT to the room where the ceremony was being held.
It was THAT deliberate.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to marry in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle – and are planning ceremony themselves
By Hannah Furness, royal correspondent Olivia Rudgard, religious affairs correspondent
28 NOVEMBER 2017 • 3:44PM
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are to marry in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in May, it has been announced, as is it was revealed they are planning the wedding themselves.
Ms Markle, a protestant who went to a Catholic high school, will be both baptised and confirmed ready for the religious ceremony. She also intends to become a British citizen.
The Royal family will pay for the wedding – including the church service, the music, the flowers and the reception, Kensington Palace said. The couple want a “fun” wedding to make the public feel involved in a ceremony that is likely to be televised.
Take a Tour of St. George’s Chapel:
https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/about-st-georges/experience-st-georges/360-virtual-tours/
Prince Harry has already made himself the most popular man with 60% of the American population.
https://www.nova-magazine.net/prince-harry-trump-not-welcome-wedding-meghan-markle/
WHEN did Country Last shut up?
I wanna know WHEN?
Al Gore shut up…
But, Country Last?
WHEN did he shut up?
McCain Tells Clinton To “Shut Up” Like He Did
Newsweek
Graham Lanktree
Senator John McCain says Hillary Clinton should not have published her book so soon after losing the 2016 election because it makes her look like she’s still campaigning and has nothing else to do.
“What’s the f—–g point? Keep the fight up? History will judge that campaign, and it’s always a period of time before they do,” McCain told Esquire magazine in a long interview Monday. “You’ve got to move on. This is Hillary’s problem right now: She doesn’t have anything to do.”
McCain, 81, spoke with the magazine about his recent cancer diagnosis and the mutual animosity between him and President Donald Trump. But he had sharp criticism for Clinton as well, arguing that the defeated Democratic candidate should have taken a page from his 2008 presidential run as a Republican against Barack Obama.
“One of the almost irresistible impulses you have when you lose is to somehow justify why you lost and how you were mistreated: ‘I did the right thing! I did!’” He said. “The hardest thing to do is to just shut up.”
Mc Grumpy, he who hitched up to the Wassilla Snow HO👀👀👀
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/935517950223757312
Children’s health program imperiled by Republican tactics
11/28/17 08:00 AM
By Steve Benen
The Republican-led Congress was supposed to extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) by Oct. 1. As regular readers know, that was the day current funding for the program, which has traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support, expired. The deadline passed, however, because GOP lawmakers were focused on trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Health care advocates initially hoped lawmakers would act soon after, and the missed deadline would be inconsequential. That was 59 days ago, and as of now, there is no solution and Republicans don’t appear to be working on one.
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There’s long been a buffer built into the system, which is why no one panicked on Oct. 1. Everyone involved in the debate understood that states would move some money around until lawmakers got their act together. In fact, this wasn’t the first time federal policymakers missed a CHIP deadline.
The point now, however, is that the GOP Congress’ indifference has gone on so long that buffer is starting to disappear. Colorado is warning affected families now, and the Washington Post reported last week that “nearly a dozen” states are preparing to do the same thing.
The article added that five states may exhaust existing CHIP funding “in late December if lawmakers do not act.”
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/27/17
Schiff: Flynn investigation at critical point
Rep. Adam Schiff, top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about what is means that Mike Flynn’s lawyers are no longer working with Donald Trump’s lawyers.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/27/17
Schiff to probe Sessions on Trump overstepping on Uranium One
Rep. Adam Schiff, top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about what he hopes to learn from Jeff Sessions when he testifies before the committee this week.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/27/17
Warren on Trump code talker ceremony disgrace: You had one job
Senator Elizabeth Warren points out to Rachel Maddow that Donald Trump had the sole task of honoring heroic World War II veteran code talkers and instead used the occasion to attack Warren with a Native American slur and disgrace himself.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/27/17
Woolsey, Flynn witness, spotted talking with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Rachel Maddow looks at how Mike Flynn’s views on the Turkish coup changed completely once he was on Turkey’s payroll, and wonders whether investigators will be interested to know what former CIA director James Woolsey and Donald Trump were talking about at Mar-a-Lago over Thanksgiving break.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/27/17
Warren: This is Donald Trump bringing his chaos to the CFPB
Senator Elizabeth Warren talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump’s effort to bigfoot the leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with his own appointee instead of following the order of succession established by the law.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/27/17
Cordray: CFPB leadership ‘shouldn’t be decided by tweets’
Richard Cordray, former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump’s effort to force a new director on the Bureau outside of the order of succession specified by the law.
Kevonstage’s take on Prince Harry 😄😄😄
https://youtu.be/e8JGJJa7o8A
From WaPo:
Why a historically conservative county in Virginia is making national Republicans nervous
This right here, the simple truth.
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/935246659373674496
Kevonstage is hilarious
https://youtu.be/0m8scoVQv5E
According to CBO, the Senate GOP tax bill is even worse than we thought.
This morning in @CFPB
—7:56 am Mulvaney spokesman tweets photo of him “hard at work”
—7:57am, Leandra English sends staff a welcome back email signed “acting director”
—Around 10am, Mulvaney sends staff a memo saying disregard instructions from English.
—Lawsuit in progress.
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) November 27, 2017
The long, slow death of white America
by Liberal Librarian
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Changes to Senate GOP tax plan may benefit Trump
BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY – 11/28/17 09:11 AM EST
Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance
SARAH KENDZIOR
SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL
The problem with America is that Trump Supporters view Putin as an ally to them and to America because he helped put Trump in office. To them, Putin is a hero. To them, collusion isn’t a crime. To them, President Trump is their leader, their king, their dictator!
It’s a CULT!
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) November 28, 2017
FreedomWatch sues to remove Mueller
BY JONATHAN EASLEY – 11/27/17 04:36 PM EST
A conservative group filed suit on Monday seeking to remove special counsel Robert Mueller from the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian meddling.
Conservative lawyer Larry Klayman, the founder of the watchdog group FreedomWatch, filed a complaint in U.S. district court that seeks to force the Justice Department to investigate leaks from the special counsel, as well as “the obvious conflicts of interest among staff.”
The complaint against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI director Christopher Wray states that “it is a criminal offense to leak grand jury information” and seeks Mueller’s removal.
Nothing but truth about Dolt45
https://mobile.twitter.com/ddale8/status/935256075724640258
What the British papers say about Prince Harry and Meghan
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/28/what-the-papers-say-prince-harry-meghan-markle-engagement
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
Good Morning, Rikyrah & Everyone. Vacationing stil. Hope you all had a dlelicious holiday with family & friends..
ENJOY that vacation!