Trump's claim to have exclusive info raises more questions than anything else. What he says now will likely be more revealing than he knows.— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) January 1, 2017
Monday, January 2, 2017
Trump ~ What he says now will likely be more revealing than he knows.
Robert Reich 15 Warning Signs Of Impending Tyranny
What are the 15 warning signs of impending tyranny? As tyrants take control of democracies, they typically:
1. Exaggerate their mandate to govern -- claiming, for example, that they won an election by a landslide even after losing the popular vote.
2. Repeatedly claim massive voter fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to restrict voting in subsequent elections.
1. Exaggerate their mandate to govern -- claiming, for example, that they won an election by a landslide even after losing the popular vote.
2. Repeatedly claim massive voter fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to restrict voting in subsequent elections.
3. Publicly criticize anyone who criticizes them, labeling them “enemies.”
4. Turn the public against journalists or media outlets that criticize them, calling them “deceitful” and “scum.”
5. Hold few if any press conferences, preferring to communicate with the public directly through mass rallies and unfiltered statements.
6. Tell the public big lies, causing them to doubt the truth and believe fictions that support the tyrants' goals.
7. Blame economic stresses on immigrants or racial or religious minorities, and foment public bias and even violence against them.
8. Attribute acts of domestic violence to “enemies within,” and use such events as excuses to beef up internal security and limit civil liberties.
9. Threaten mass deportations, registries of religious minorities, and the banning of refugees.
10. Seek to eliminate or reduce the influence of competing centers of power, such as trade unions and opposition parties.
11. Appoint family members to high positions of authority.
12. Surround themselves with their own personal security force rather than a security detail accountable to the public.
13. Put generals and other military commanders into top civilian posts.
14. Make personal alliances with foreign dictators.
15. Draw no distinction between personal property and public property, profiteering from their public office.
Be warned. 20 days to go. And a Happy New Year.
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4. Turn the public against journalists or media outlets that criticize them, calling them “deceitful” and “scum.”
5. Hold few if any press conferences, preferring to communicate with the public directly through mass rallies and unfiltered statements.
6. Tell the public big lies, causing them to doubt the truth and believe fictions that support the tyrants' goals.
7. Blame economic stresses on immigrants or racial or religious minorities, and foment public bias and even violence against them.
8. Attribute acts of domestic violence to “enemies within,” and use such events as excuses to beef up internal security and limit civil liberties.
9. Threaten mass deportations, registries of religious minorities, and the banning of refugees.
10. Seek to eliminate or reduce the influence of competing centers of power, such as trade unions and opposition parties.
11. Appoint family members to high positions of authority.
12. Surround themselves with their own personal security force rather than a security detail accountable to the public.
13. Put generals and other military commanders into top civilian posts.
14. Make personal alliances with foreign dictators.
15. Draw no distinction between personal property and public property, profiteering from their public office.
Be warned. 20 days to go. And a Happy New Year.
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President Obama Savior Of The American Economy
Facing the worst financial crisis in 80 years, you delivered the longest streak of job growth in our history. pic.twitter.com/Vk3PfRgZqF— President Obama (@POTUS) January 1, 2017
Trump to 'repeal a lot' of Obama's actions on day one, top aide says
Hopefully we can repeal Trump shortly thereafter...
Washington (CNN)President-elect
Donald Trump plans to repeal a raft of President Barack Obama's
executive actions in his first day in office, Trump's incoming White
House press secretary said Sunday.
Sean
Spicer, Trump's incoming White House press secretary, said on ABC's
"This Week" that Trump will immediately "repeal a lot of the regulations
and actions that have been taken by this administration over the last
eight years that have hampered both economic growth and job creation."
Trump's Incoming Press Secretary Questions Whether Obama's Russia Sanctions Are Out of 'Proportion'
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming White House press secretary questioned whether President Obama’s actions against Russia for an alleged cyberattack on Democratic political organizations may be out of "proportion."
Trump gives critics ammunition: Is he Putin’s puppet?
By Jennifer Rubin
President-elect Donald Trump is giving plenty of people the creeps. In response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision not to retaliate for President Obama’s pin-prick response to Russian interference with our election, Trump tweeted, “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) – I always knew he was very smart!” Shortly thereafter he added, “Russians are playing CNN and MSNBC News as such fools — funny to watch, they don’t have a clue! Fox News totally gets it!” Which is more cringe-worthy –Putin manipulating Trump or Fox putting out pro-Putin, pro-Trump propaganda?
Full Article via Washington Post
President-elect Donald Trump is giving plenty of people the creeps. In response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision not to retaliate for President Obama’s pin-prick response to Russian interference with our election, Trump tweeted, “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) – I always knew he was very smart!” Shortly thereafter he added, “Russians are playing CNN and MSNBC News as such fools — funny to watch, they don’t have a clue! Fox News totally gets it!” Which is more cringe-worthy –Putin manipulating Trump or Fox putting out pro-Putin, pro-Trump propaganda?
Full Article via Washington Post
Tiny Little Fella Vladimir Putin Causing Us A Concern
Donald Trump urged to establish 'boundaries' with Vladimir Putin, Russia
Putin's Real Long Game
Why Trump Would Be Crazy to Give Putin What He Wants
Netanyahu's Sweet Temptation Is to Seal the Trump-Putin Deal
Three former White House press secretaries issue warnings for press relations under Trump
By Hadas Gold
Joe Lockhart, White House press secretary under President Bill Clinton, said President-elect Donald Trump creates his own facts, something former President Richard Nixon would do.
Full Story via Politico
Former White House press secretary Joe Lockhart compared President-elect
Donald Trump's actions toward the press to that of former President
Richard Nixon. | Getty
New Year's Resolution For Cable News: Invite Muslims To Talk About Life In Trump's America
Blog ››› ››› NINA MAST
According to FBI statistics, anti-Muslim hate crimes have been on the rise for several years, shooting up 67 percent between 2014 and 2015 “from 154 in 2014 to 257 in 2015,” their highest since the year of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Though FBI hate crime statistics for 2016 won’t be released until the end of 2017, according to a joint study by CAIR and ThinkProgress, there have been 111 reported anti-Muslim incidents in America since the November 13, 2015, terrorist attacks in Paris, 53 of them in the month of December 2015 alone.
Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative, which tracked the connection between political rhetoric and anti-Muslim attacks during the the presidential campaign season, found that there have been approximately 180 reported incidents of anti-Muslim violence in the one year period after the first candidate announced his bid for the White House in March 2015. And since Trump’s election less than two months ago, there have been at least 150 reported hate incidents, 29 of which were inspired by anti-Muslim sentiment, according to a ThinkProgress analysis that “focuses on moments of more targeted harassment and hatred.”
Full Article via Media Matters
Reporters need new tools to hold Trump accountable
Trump's
press secretary said today Trump doesn't have to "conform to
precedents." NYU journalism prof. Jay Rosen says Trump "cannot be held
accountable by normal means" and explains how journalists must handle
him. Lawrence talks to Rosen and Clarence Page.
Duration: 6:21
Post-election, how should news outlets shift focus?
Published on Jan 1, 2017
As
2016 comes to a close, journalists and media outlets are confronting
the questions raised by this year's election and planning for what comes
next. James Geary, the deputy editor of the Nieman Foundation's Nieman
Reports Magazine, joins the NewsHour Weekend's Christopher Booker to
offer a post-election take on how the media can move forward.
Wall Street Journal: Even when Trump lies, we will not call them ‘lies’
Published on Jan 1, 2017
The Editor in Chief of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ)The Return of Civil Disobedience
The sixties produced a conviction that “democracy is in the streets.” The Trump era may echo that.
By Jelani Cobb
On December 6th, less than a month after the election, Vice-President Joe Biden, who was in New York to receive the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award, for his decades of public service, used the occasion to urge Americans not to despair. “I remind people, ’68 was really a bad year,” he said, and “America didn’t break.” He added, “It’s as bad now, but I’m hopeful.” And bad it was. The man for whom Biden’s award was named was assassinated in 1968. So was Martin Luther King, Jr. Riots erupted in more than a hundred cities, and violence broke out at the Democratic National Convention, in Chicago. The year closed with the hairbreadth victory of a law-and-order Presidential nominee whose Southern strategy of racial politicking remade the electoral map. Whatever innocence had survived the tumult of the five years since the murder of John F. Kennedy was gone.
Full Story via The New Yorker
Congratulations, Mitch McConnell, You’re Wonkette’s Legislative Sh*tmuffin For 2016!
By Doktor Zoom
Yr Wonkette’s coveted Legislative
Shitmuffin of the Year Award usually just automatically goes to Ted
Cruz, because he is, after all, Ted Cruz. But in 2016, Cruz and a bunch
of the other usual suspects (Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and some other
people, it was so long ago) were either busy campaigning to save America
from Donald Trump, or, after Trump won the R nomination, campaigning to
get Trump elected, so they did even less legislating than usual. And of
course Antonin Scalia went and died,
giving Mitch McConnell the historic opportunity to be the very first
Senate Majority Leader to lead his party in not doing its damned job for
nearly a whole year, because that is the tradition he just made up
while Scalia’s body was still cooling. And what a historic dereliction
of duty it was! Over and over again, we heard that it was the Senate’s
solemn duty to not even consider holding a hearing on Barack
Obama’s nominee to replace Scalia, because, after all, “the American
people” needed the chance to weigh in on who should appoint the next
Justice
Read More via Wonkette
Read More via Wonkette
Martin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..."
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392
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