President Trump

[Las Vegas]

This is good to know. Could you name some of those you place your trust in and tell us why you do?

I'm rather partial to Big Lou Dobbs.  When I watched him speak on the subject of 9/11 on his show (240 directed me to that, in fact, and that's the way I became aware of it) I knew it was a highly unusual and unexpected "blip" in the media world.  One of a kind.

Lou must have sufficient control over his operation to have gotten-in his say, and a logical say it was, and that's a very respectable feat imo.

There have been a few people along the way in local media, too, who follow what they know is right.  I recall watching a guy on a local FOX station somewhere down south, and he created a piece asking WTF is up with the FBI appearing to have their hand in so much of the crime we see.

And I'd say there are good people, too, who come and go in local governments all the time.  Some climb the ladder to a certain height, but many don't.  Tulsi Gabbard is someone who risen quite high in Hawaii and I look forward to seeing what happens with her.  She's a winner imo.

[Las Vegas]

I'm going to take a "wait and see" approach to this CIA announcement. So far, what I've read seems pretty vague considering the media usually exaggerates or sensationalizes stories such as this one. Where the hell is inspector Cluzo  when we need him?

Very good point.

I don't have strong opinions on a lot of things some people think I do. My world is fairly small; engaging with family, friends and a couple of volunteer positions I hold is about it for me...oh, and posting on Getbig for fun and giggles. You youngins keep me current on a lot of things. I appreciate it. Believe it or not.

We love you, Prime.  You are a great contributor to this board.

[Las Vegas]

P4W posted a few pics from this chick on another thread.  Pretty face for all that muscle, damn.  (but a little too "gender bendy" imho).

[Primemuscle]

Who can prove them? There hasn't been any new information regarding this since before the election. The NYT's article even states that. Even if there was Russian interference, it didn't effect the outcome of the election. With recounts in a few KEY states, you'd expect that if Russian tampering was discovered it'd be all over the MSM. Funny how all the recount discussions kinda disappeared... now on to the next way to delegitimize Trump's presidency and tamper with the electoral college votes.

Sunday's Oregonian had an article regarding the riff between the CIA and Trump. Note: The Oregonian generally leans pretty hard to the right. Surprisingly, their articles have not favored Trump.

http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2016/12/trump_rejects_intel_lawmakers.html

[Primemuscle]

P4W posted a few pics from this chick on another thread.  Pretty face for all that muscle, damn.  (but a little too "gender bendy" imho).

Her delts and arms seem disproportionately large. She has managed to maintain a womanly face, unlike some female bodybuilders.

[Primemuscle]

Very good point.

We love you, Prime.  You are a great contributor to this board.

Thanks, I appreciate the compliment.

[calfzilla]

Sunday's Oregonian had an article regarding the riff between the CIA and Trump. Note: The Oregonian generally leans pretty hard to the right. Surprisingly, their articles have not favored Trump.

http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2016/12/trump_rejects_intel_lawmakers.html

I strongly disagree the Oregonian leans to the right.

[Primemuscle]

I strongly disagree the Oregonian leans to the right.

Ever read Ted Sickinger's articles in the Oregonian? He does not have a bone in his body that's liberal.

[Las Vegas]

This is the printing of blatant lies.

I got to thinking about this one, and it's really a damn good point.  I want to see how they hope to show it.

[Las Vegas]

Her delts and arms seem disproportionately large. She has managed to maintain a womanly face, unlike some female bodybuilders.

Could be Shopped too.  I don't recall this girl as being quite that muscular, but it's a crazy world and she may have upped the dose.

[Las Vegas]

This is the Kanye West thing, lol:


^ thank you to Yamcha for the gif from "Implosion" thread.

Kanye West, Jim Brown, Ray Lewis meet with Trump in NYC

President-elect Donald Trump met Tuesday with several black celebrities, including rap mogul and possible future presidential candidate Kanye West, to talk about some of the issues facing inner city African-Americans.

"I feel it is important to have a direct line of communication with our future president if we truly want change," West later said in a tweet.

Trump met with West, former NFL linebacker Ray Lewis and NFL icon and civil rights leader Jim Brown, along with longtime Trump backer Omarosa Manigault, at Trump Tower in New York City on Tuesday. West refused to comment with reporters after the meeting, instead saying only "I just want to take a picture right now" as he posed for pictures with Trump.

A few minutes later, West tweeted from his @kanyewest account that he met with Trump "to discuss multicultural issues" including bullying, education and "violence in Chicago."

West announced last year at the Video Music Awards that he would run for president in 2020. That means he would face Trump if the president-elect seeks a second term. After meeting with Trump, West hashtagged a tweet #2024, the first time someone would be able to run for president outside of a possible two-term Trump presidency.

This all comes as civil rights leaders have been asking for a meeting with Trump to discuss his upcoming administration's positions on issues like housing and urban renewal. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and other civil rights leaders last week wrote Trump to ask for a meeting to discuss urban policies, and to hold a White House conference on violence.

It was not immediately known whether Trump would be meeting with civil rights leaders. Meeting with black celebrities - especially West - is not going to give Trump much credibility among black voters, said Leah Wright Rigueur, a professor of public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Exit polls showed only about 8 percent of black voters backed Trump.

"While Trump may see this as establishing a level of legitimacy, it does nothing to validate him among black audiences. Kanye's recent views are outside the mainstream of black political thought, as are Donald Trump," she said. "If anything, the association only serves to weaken Kanye's standing, particularly since Kanye has been silent on issues like economic inequality, joblessness, criminal justice reform and Black Lives Matter."

Brown and Lewis said they talked with Trump about the new administration partnering with Brown's "Amer-I-Can" outreach program, which aims to teach life skills to young people from poor backgrounds.

The full governmental involvement of President Barack Obama's signature program, "My Brother's Keeper," which is designed to improve the lives of boys and young men of color, will likely come to an official end at the conclusion of his presidency.

Brown said he didn't vote for Trump. But "we couldn't have had a better meeting," said Brown, a three-time MVP who retired from football to pursue an acting career and crusade for racial justice. "The graciousness, the intelligence, the reception we got was fantastic."

Lewis, a former Super Bowl MVP, said on Twitter that "wherever Papa JB asks me to go I go. His vision is beyond platforms."

After the meeting, Lewis praised the Amer-I-Can program, saying because of it "we have 30,000-40,000 former gang members who've changed their lives."

If they can partner with the Trump administration, "forget black or white. Black or white is irrelevant," Lewis said. "The bottom line is job creation and economic development in these urban areas to change the whole scheme of what our kids see."

(The Associated Press)

[Primemuscle]

I got to thinking about this one, and it's really a damn good point.  I want to see how they hope to show it.

"interfered with the vote" is a fairly broad statement which could mean a number of different things. Hacking into the DNC and providing the information to WIKI leaks is interfering with the vote. It doesn't necessary mean the Russians literally hacked in to voting machines and altered the vote count.

[Las Vegas]

"interfered with the vote" is a fairly broad statement which could mean a number of different things. Hacking into the DNC and providing the information to WIKI leaks is interfering with the vote. It doesn't necessary mean the Russians literally hacked in to voting machines and altered the vote count.

For their sake, I hope they plan to have something better than "AND THEN, WikiLeaks showed everyone how terrible it really is!!!"

Plus, since it's intended to impact Trump (someone correct me if that's not true) then they'd better get busy on convincing us.  Right now, they're a joke.

[johnthegreat687]

Just so we are clear here.....did Russia tell Hillary not to campaign in Michigan and Wisconsin?

Did Putin force Hillary, Podesta, and Huma to lie, cheat, insult, backstab, and steal every chance they could?

Did Russian hackers force Hillary to run the shittiest, most expensive, least successful campaign in history?

Gayer than a 50 year old playing with a kiddie train set in his mommy's basement....

thats me thats me 

[Walter Sobchak]

"interfered with the vote" is a fairly broad statement which could mean a number of different things. Hacking into the DNC and providing the information to WIKI leaks is interfering with the vote. It doesn't necessary mean the Russians literally hacked in to voting machines and altered the vote count.

Hillary and the DNC were perfectly fine with Colin Powell's emails getting hacked, so crying about Podesta's emails is hypocritical.

If Hillary wouldnt have had an illegal private email server, she wouldn't have had to lie about emails and destroy evidence during an FBI investigation. Without the illegal server, there would have been no hidden email and the hack would be a non-issue. For chrissakes, the Russians didn't force her to steal an election from senile Bernie, they didn't make Donna Brazile cheat at the debates, they didn't make Hillary run a shitty campaign or pass out at a 9/11 event.

Let's face it.....Hillary and the Demidiots ran on a platform of "more of the same" because they were too stupid and too detached from reality to realize how much America hates Obama

[Primemuscle]

thats me thats me 

You gotta love Walter. 

[Las Vegas]

Hillary and the DNC were perfectly fine with Colin Powell's emails getting hacked, so crying about Podesta's emails is hypocritical.

If Hillary wouldnt have had an illegal private email server, she wouldn't have had to lie about emails and destroy evidence during an FBI investigation. Without the illegal server, there would have been no hidden email and the hack would be a non-issue. For chrissakes, the Russians didn't force her to steal an election from senile Bernie, they didn't make Donna Brazile cheat at the debates, they didn't make Hillary run a shitty campaign or pass out at a 9/11 event.

Let's face it.....Hillary and the Demidiots ran on a platform of "more of the same" because they were too stupid and too detached from reality to realize how much America hates Obama

And for the grand finale, it seems they want to blame Trump.  They've got a long way to go.

[Las Vegas]

Don't You Dare Tangle with the Honey Badger!

Hamilton Electors: The Left's Scheme to Stop Trump a Betrayal of Our Democracy

By F.H. Buckley, The New York Post

Occasionally you come across an idea so startlingly bad you have to pinch yourself.

Bacon-flavored ice cream. An all-Monkees oldies station. And the campaign to urge Republican presidential electors to vote for someone other than Donald Trump.

They’ve even got a name — Hamilton Electors — and a Web site. Their message, taken from “Animal House,” is that “it’s not over.” Trump hasn’t been officially elected, and won’t be until the electors meet in each state next Monday. We might have thought we were voting for Trump or for Hillary, but we were really voting for a set of electors in each state who were pledged to vote for one or the other candidate. That’s what the Framers gave us, in Art. II of the Constitution.

Big deal, one might think, if all the electors vote like automatons for the candidate they’re pledged to support. Over 58 presidential elections since 1788, fewer than 160 electors failed to vote as they promised, and only six in the last 50 years. People ordinarily perform their promises, and for electors party loyalty supplies a further motive to do so. In addition, political parties extract a pledge that electors vote as promised, and in half the states the so-called “faithless elector” is subject to criminal sanctions if he fails to do so.

So what’s different this time? It’s not that the president-elect lost the “popular vote.” That’s happened four times before, most recently in 2000. It’s that Trump wasn’t supposed to win.

Now, it’s true that while electors might have turned into automatons over the years, that wasn’t how the Framers saw them. They expected the electors to exercise independent judgment.

But then that doesn’t take us very far. In 1787, when the Framers drafted the Constitution, people in the different states knew little about each other. “Of the affairs of Georgia,” said Virginia’s James Madison, “I know as little as those of Kamskatska.” The voters wouldn’t know much about out-of-state candidates, they thought. But the electors might, and so we might trust them more than the voters.

That’s obviously not true today, especially with a public celebrity such as Trump. People who voted for him didn’t need to be instructed about his character by better-informed electors.

As for the electors, they knew all there was to know about Trump’s character before the election. A Republican elector from Texas, Chris Suprun, has announced that he might not vote for Trump. He’s being hailed as a hero by the left, but he’s simply a promise-breaker.

(NY Post by way of FOX)

[Las Vegas]

Thought these guys were buds



Trump thought Giuliani 'lacked stamina' to be secretary of state

Donald Trump worried that Rudy Giuliani might lack the stamina to fulfill the duties of secretary of state, according to a report.

Once a leading candidate to be America’s top diplomat, Giuliani, fell out of favor, in part, because Trump began to question the 72-year-old’s fitness, according to the The Wall Street Journal, which cited an unnamed transition official.

Giuliani strongly disagreed, telling the paper: “My stamina in unbelievable.”

The former mayor, who was one of billionaire’s most fierce loyalists on the campaign trail, has said he has so far passed on two cabinet postings in the Trump administration, without specifying which posts.

(NY Post)

[Las Vegas]

There's only ONE Honey Badger, Kanye, and you ain't it!!





More on Kanye: Talked with Trump about 'Life'

(Uproxx) Is Kanye West looking for a position in President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet? Okay, that’s a big reach, but the rapper, who was just released from the hospital following a mental breakdown, was spotted looking healthy and happy while walking into Trump Tower in New York early Tuesday morning. Kanye didn’t answer any questions when asked about his visit as he and his entourage made their way to the elevator.

Later, Kanye was spotted taking pictures with Donald Trump and avoided all questions because he “just wanted to take a picture with Donald Trump right now.” Trump also revealed they’ve “been friends for a long time” and talked about “life.” (Uproxx)

[Las Vegas]

ALL TRUE.  But it's from Slate, so keep that in mind while considering certain adjectives used.

Throughout the grueling, ugly election, Late Night host Seth Meyers emerged as a surprisingly harsh critic of Donald Trump (well, as harsh as one can expect an NBC late night host to be). He’s chastised him for his cabinet picks, mocked him for feuding with the cast of Hamilton, and called him out on his “incredibly racist” remarks against Mexican judge Gonzalo Curiel.

And yet, on Tuesday night’s episode, Meyers did a curious and infuriating thing. While interviewing Bernie Sanders, he wondered what the Democratic Party could do to win back the supporters it lost in this election.

Meyers:

There was so much on voters—and we were talking about this backstage—Trump voters who voted for Obama twice, and then voted for Donald Trump. So these people are not racists. They don’t have a racist bone in their body.

Replied Sanders, agreeing with him:

No.

[Las Vegas]

I think for Trump's 'personality issues' he's probably a good guy underneath it all.  It would be the easiest thing ever for him to dismiss a guy like Kanye West, who: doesn't hold any rep with Hebrews (GB) tmk, is insane, is somehow connected to the whole Bruce Jenner and Kardashian farce, and all the rest.  But he didn't do that.

[Las Vegas]

Here's a good one from WRDW:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The state of Georgia is asking President-elect Donald Trump to investigate what Georgia says are "failed cyberattacks" on its secretary of state's network that it traced to the federal Homeland Security Department.

Secretary of State Brian Kemp says his staff has uncovered nine more instances when computers traced to the Homeland Security Department appeared to try to "infiltrate" the state's network.

Kemp says the cases didn't raise major red flags. He says they corresponded to dates and times he was speaking out against the department designating elections systems as "critical infrastructure."

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has said what appeared to be a scan on Nov. 15 came from the workstation of a law enforcement-related federal contractor trying to corroborate new employees' professional licenses.

[Las Vegas]

Too weird.  The Santa Monica Observer just reported (in an article dated two days into the future... don't ask me) this:

Kanye West Appointed Under-Secretary of the Interior After Meeting at Trump Tower

Kanye West and Donald Trump discussed more than just "life" Tuesday morning.

After their meeting at Trump Tower in New York City, Donald Trump nominated Rapper Kanye West to be the nation's 23rd Under-Secretary of the Interior. No one we spoke to is entirely sure what Secretary of the Interior actually does. So the fact that West is a musician who dropped out of Chicago State University to pursue music, is no barrier.

"West knows many of the players in Hollywood, where he does massive deals," said Trump in a tweet. "We're just friends, just friends. He's doing well. He's well qualified!" Trump said, walking out of a meeting at Trump Tower.

Sen. John McCain quietly took issue with West's qualifications, saying he intended to question the Rapper about his drug use and recent time in a mental facility, when the nomination came up in committee.

"I wanted to meet with Trump today to discuss multicultural issues," Kanye tweeted after the meeting, "These issues included bullying, supporting teachers, modernizing curriculums, and violence in Chicago." He later tweeted, "I feel it is important to have a direct line of communication with our future President if we truly want change."

It's not entirely clear whether West will accept or decline the nomination, or even if he is open to considering the position, which makes $205,000 a year, about what he now makes in an hour. No mention was made by either man, as far as we know, of West's recent time spent in a mental facility.

(Santa Monica Observer)

[Las Vegas]

Sean Spicer

Search for Trump press secretary, communications director heating up

(KQTV - St. Joseph) Sean Spicer, the Republican National Committee communications director, is a leading candidate to serve as White House press secretary under Donald Trump, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.

Spicer has "the inside track," said one transition source.

A six-year veteran of the RNC, Spicer has well-established relationships with the Washington press corps and is a familiar face on both cable news and the D.C. social circuit. Yet he can also be combative, and is known for unleashing his Twitter account on reporters and news organizations if he feels he's been wronged by them.

On Wednesday, Spicer praised Trump's transparency during the transition -- despite Trump's decision to postpone his first press conference as president-elect until January.

"What we've seen in government for so often is that people have been shady -- about their roles, hiding things, not releasing things. We have a camera for goodness sake. Every single person who enters Trump Tower, you get to see them go up, go down, they talk to the press," Spicer said in an interview with CNN's Kate Bolduan.

"At some point, the level of transparency has exceeded any modern president in terms of who's involved," he said.

Several people are also in contention for the White House communications director role, including Chris Vlasto, a veteran ABC News producer. Vlasto is the executive producer of "Good Morning America," the network's flagship morning show. A source with knowledge of the talks confirmed that Vlasto has held discussions with Trump aides about the role.

"I was approached about a job in the new administration. I had preliminary conversations with the transition team, and I've taken my name out of consideration," Vlasto said in a statement.

Transition spokesperson Jason Miller is also said to be a possible choice for communications director.

Other names under consideration for the press secretary post include Fox News personalities Laura Ingraham and Monica Crowley. Sources at both the transition and Fox News said they believed both were long shots for the position, though, in part because it would require taking a pay cut.

Katrina Pierson, a Trump campaign spokesperson who has made multiple visits to Trump Tower this week, has pitched herself for the press secretary position but is not believed to be a top contender, according to transition sources.

"She is looking at a lot of opportunities," one Trump transition source said of Pierson.

Pierson told CNNMoney, "I'm at Trump Tower because I work here. I'm a Senior Advisor for the Trump Transition team. Our meetings are confidential."

David Martosko, the Daily Mail political editor who covered the Trump campaign and was spotted at Trump Tower this week, is not under consideration for the job, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.