I grew up watching Soviet military parades.  Seeing thousands of troops goose-stepping and weapons of all kinds moving past inspired my awe and fear in my elementary school days.  Russia still has them, and the troops all salute Vladimir Putin (R-RU).  That makes Putin’s Piddle Pervert jealous. Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten wants to have lots of salutes directed at him, just like his Sugar Daddy.

A troubling Washington Post report reveals that President Donald Trump plans to have soldiers marching and tanks driving through Washington, D.C. in a "grand military parade."

“The marching orders were: I want a parade like the one in France,” a military official told the Post. “This is being worked at the highest levels of the military.”

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared to confirm the plan…

…The president was reportedly inspired to hold a U.S. military parade after attending the Bastille Day celebration in Paris as a guest of French President Emmanuel Macron.

As the world’s dominant military power, the U.S. traditionally avoids parading war weapons through the streets…

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Here’s video:

You can be sure that the French connection served only to remind the Fuhrer of Daddy Putin’s parades.  It must not happen.  Our military is not for the aggrandizement of one monster, and the damage tanks would do to the streets.

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The five day clock is ticking.  An accurate memo covering the events surrounding Carter Page’s participation into Trump’s Russian conspiracy is waiting for Trump’s authorization to release.  He has five days to decide.  I look forward to reading it, but I doubt that I’ll get the chance anytime soon.

The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Monday to make public a classified Democratic memorandum rebutting Republican claims that the F.B.I. and the Justice Department had abused their powers to wiretap a former Trump campaign official, setting up a possible clash with President Trump.

The vote gives Mr. Trump five days to review the Democratic memo and determine whether he will try to block its release. A decision to stop it could lead to an ugly standoff between the president, his top law enforcement and intelligence advisers and Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Mr. Trump vocally supported the release of the Republicans’ memo last week, declassifying its contents on Friday over the objections of Democrats and his own F.B.I., which issued a rare public statement to warn that it had “grave concerns” about the memo’s accuracy. On Saturday, he claimed, incorrectly, that the memo “totally vindicates” him in the continuing investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

The 10-page Democratic document is certain to be less flattering to his case. Democrats have said the memo corrects mischaracterizations by the Republicans and adds crucial context to actions by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department in obtaining a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order to wiretap the former Trump aide, Carter Page, in October 2016.

If Mr. Trump tries to block the Democratic memo’s release, House rules allow Democrats to seek a closed-door vote of the full House of Representatives to override the president. With some Republicans now arguing for its release, there is a possibility that the House could override the president’s decision in a rare rebuke to his authority…

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Rachel Maddow explained the situation in her usual thorough way.

Here’s how I see it.  I expect Trump, who considers failure to praise him treason, to either deny release, or redact so much that the memo will be unintelligible.  Democrats will seek the House vote to override Trump’s decision, expecting the Republicans that voted for release and others to join them.  However, I think their vote to release the Schiff memo was only a scam to appear bipartisan, because they expected Trump to block its release for them.  When he does, Republicans, who voted for release, will slither into the rationale that, even though they really wanted to release the memo, they must defer to supporting their Fuhrer’s position on national security instead.  I want very much to be dead wrong about this.

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Pictured below is part of one of the last truly pristine tracts of land on the face of this earth.  The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is home to hundreds of species that have nowhere left to go.  ANWR is on the verge of being opened for drilling, and all it took was for a criminal corporate oil baron to put in a private call to the Pumpkin Pollution Pig!

As if we needed another example of Trump putting his business and personal relationships over those of the American people and the environment, the president has now admitted that he didn’t think about drilling on in the Arctic national Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) until an oil industry executive prompted him to.

According to Trump, who recalled the call during a speech at the Republican Member Conference this week:

A friend of mine called up in that world, in that business and said ‘is it true you’re thinking about ANWR?’ I said, ‘yeah, I think we’re going to get it but you know,.”

He said, “are you kidding? You know that’s the biggest thing by itself. Ronald Reagan and every president has wanted to get ANWR approved.”

And after that, I said, “oh, make sure that’s in the [$1.5 trillion tax] bill.”

 

Trump added, “I really didn’t care about it,” he said. “Then when I heard that everybody wanted it, for 40 years, everybody tried to get it approved, ‘Make sure you don’t lose ANWR.’”

As Trump’s friend mentioned, the oil and gas industry have been pressing for ANWR to be open for drilling for many, many years. Congress only lifted the 40-year ban as part of the Republican tax reform bill approved in December. The tax plan included a “backdoor drilling provision” that was added to secure the vote of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who has long supported arctic drilling.

According to both scientists and conservationists, opening the ANWR for oil and gas drilling would cause irreparable harm to “the most beautiful, pristine wildlife refuge that we have in the United States.”…

Submitted from <Nation of Change>

Here’s the video (only 41 sec.)

Barf Bag Alert!!

I don’t know what we can do to stop it, except protest and support those groups that try to block the polluters as the deploy their destructive equipment.

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Paul Ryan, aka Lyin’ Ryan, realized that the Nunes Memo, aka the dud, was an abject failure to all but the Republican base, buried so deep in the Republican bubble machine that they will never be told the truth about it.  But for the vast majority of Americans, it was so bad that Ryan is desperate to change the subject.

One day after reluctantly releasing a ridiculous memo from idiot Congressman Devin Nunes which tried and failed to exonerate Donald Trump in his Russia scandal, the Republican Party seems unsure what to do. Trump is still defending the memo. Nunes says he’ll release more memos. Trey Gowdy has cut bait by endorsing Robert Mueller and retiring from Congress. Paul Ryan tried to get the GOP back on message today, but failed rather spectacularly.

Ryan is still trying to convince the American public that his Republican Party’s historically unpopular tax scam bill for the wealthy is somehow a boon for the working class. He tweeted a link to an article while quoting the part which said that “A secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, PA, said she was pleasantly surprised her pay went up $1.50 a week … she said [that] will more than cover her Costco membership for the year.”

After facing immediate backlash and humiliation for obvious reasons, Ryan quickly deleted the tweet. He had unwittingly highlighted that this tax bill doesn’t do anything for the working class. This bill explodes the deficit by more than a trillion dollars with its massive giveaways to the wealthy, while stiffing the working class with a buck-fifty a week. Worse, the tax scam eliminates several basic deductions for the working class, meaning many of them will be stuck paying more taxes each year. Despite all of the GOP’s lies, this was a middle class tax increase.

Paul Ryan isn’t the most gifted of politicians, but he would normally know better than to post such a stupid and self defeating tweet. This was a rookie mistake by a guy who, despite not really being liked by anyone on either side, has managed to survive in politics and climb the ranks for decades. But he was so desperate to move on from the memo and get his party back on message, and so rattled, he blew it. Maybe that’s because the scandal surrounding the Nunes memo has implicated him in the Trump-Russia coverup…

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If I said I wasn’t most amused at his slithering and squirming, I’m be a liar.  Lets deny him the Speakership in 2018.  Since he deleted the tweet, lets delete the twit, by making him file for unemployment.

Every Republican in office

is one Republican too many!

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