We Need To Talk About Donald

[DRSB]

Pentagon awards contract to United Airlines to forcibly remove Assad

Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2017/04/penta ... z4e6f7xbpk

[Scot Dutchy]

The whole thing with Russia is just a bit of complicated window dressing. Tillerson is one of Putin's best friends. They must be getting acting lessons these days in order to keep such straight faces. The Siberian oil deal must be ready to be signed. Exxon must be desperate.

[Tero]

Putin and Tillerson had another pee pee party and came out looking like they had actually talked. The girls went out the back into a black van.

[pErvinalia]

Where they were taken straight to a fishing hole in the ice in outer Siberia...

[Scot Dutchy]

And everything was fully recorded.

[pErvinalia]

Robert Reich on facebook:

Today Trump reversed his 2016 campaign stance on NATO. "I said it was obsolete; it's no longer obsolete," Trump declared, after a meeting at the White House with the alliance's secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg.

What changed his mind?

The same thing that changed his mind about bombing Syria.

And changed his mind about China being labeled a "currency manipulator." (Today he said it won't be.)

And changed his mind about building a wall along the border with Mexico. (His Secretary of Homeland Security now says “it’s unlikely we will build a wall.”)

And about renominating Janet Yellen to chair the Fed (He called her "obviously political" last September and accused her of keeping rates low to boost the economy and make Obama look good, but today said "I like her. I respect her.")

And about how easily and quickly he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something “beautiful.” (“Health care is really complicated,” he now says.)

And about releasing his tax returns, divesting himself from his financial empire once in office, the evils of Goldman Sachs, the irresponsibility of a president taking lots of golfing holidays, the importance of Michael Flynn, the central role of Steve Bannon, Barack Obama being born in Africa, and much, much else.

What is that mind-changing thing?

Trump’s own mind.

“I’m a very instinctual person,” he told Time Magazine a few weeks ago when explaining how he makes decisions.

What that means, we’re now learning, is that nothing he says reflects any basic principle, deeply-held belief, or carefully considered point of view. It’s all up in the air, all the time.

[Brian Peacock]

Robert Reich will soon be getting a visit from the Feds.

He's right though. Trump doesn't just flip-flop, he's one of those people who thinks that whatever transient notion floats across his forebrain is like the best idea in the whole history of ideas - and if something different or contradictory bubbles up the next day, the next hour, or in the next sentence then that's gonna be the best idea in the history of the world evah! What's changing Trump's mind is his mind: he's overly suggestible to himself.

[Animavore]

Can we convince him to shoot himself and make him think it was his idea?

[Brian Peacock]

British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia

Exclusive: GCHQ is said to have alerted US agencies after becoming aware of contacts in 2015

Britain’s spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members of Donald Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives, the Guardian has been told.

GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said. This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information, they added.

Over the next six months, until summer 2016, a number of western agencies shared further information on contacts between Trump’s inner circle and Russians, sources said.

The European countries that passed on electronic intelligence – known as sigint – included Germany, Estonia and Poland. Australia, a member of the “Five Eyes” spying alliance that also includes the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand, also relayed material, one source said.

Another source suggested the Dutch and the French spy agency, the General Directorate for External Security or DGSE, were contributors.

It is understood that GCHQ was at no point carrying out a targeted operation against Trump or his team or proactively seeking information. The alleged conversations were picked up by chance as part of routine surveillance of Russian intelligence assets. Over several months, different agencies targeting the same people began to see a pattern of connections that were flagged to intelligence officials in the US. ..

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[JimC]

But it's well known that all British spies are gay Russian moles!

[Brian Peacock]

GCHQ Team-building

[Animavore]

Heh. Remember when shrieking Trump-cultists, driven by Russia Today hysteria, were posting "Killary" memes - her eyes red and demonic - and talking about how it was time for a non-political President, with no blood on their hand, no ties to Wall Street or Rochilds, who was going to get US out of war?


I remember.

[Animavore]

Another attack on women's health and reproduction by the secret liberal.

https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org ... g-patients

Hack! Spit!

[DRSB]

Trump fulfilling his electoral campaign promises: "U.S. drops "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan, marking weapon's first use"
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-drops-mo ... first-use/

[JimC]

I have no objection to wiping out a cave full of jihadists...