People are questioning
whether Trump is getting briefings from real people in the current Administration,
or whether he’s just looking to his own appointees such as Flynn to get
briefings from. He hasn’t had a news
conference because Trump lives by the tweet.
He tweets out his news briefings and he gets his information from
tweets. I’ve heard there’s something
called the Rush effect where people spend a couple of hours listening to Rush
and then they re-tweet all of Rush’s significant remarks of the day only they
take credit for the information themselves and leave Rush’s name out of it. We’ve also been hearing about fake news. I’ve heard several sources saying that RT or
Russian Television is famous for fake news stories. I wonder how many of these stories wind up in
Washington’s blog. I’m careful about
that one. We don’t know how many other
brieches of protocol Trump will commit between now and inauguration day.
The
Obama administration announced today that it instructed the Army Corps of
engineers to half that pipeline that goes through Standing Rock Indian
reservation. This is a long sought
victor for all the tireless protestors there that have been freezing their buns
off and getting shot at and gassed and bombarded with sounds and such. Norman Goldman thought all of those
protestors at Standing Rock should just give up. Of course Trump takes over in six weeks. It doesn't take much in the way of supposition to figure out that that pipe line is going to be built with no route changes. That would take too much time. Speaking of time I've heard the democrats can't defeat certain appointments but they can "slow walk" them creating delay after delay just like the Republicans used to do to us.
I missed a few
minutes of “This Week”. It was Vice
President Mike Spence doing his apology tour for Donald Trump explaining away
his gaffs like all of the tweets he does about Saturday Night Live. And Trump called the leader of Tiwhan, which
you aren’t supposed to do because China will think you’re recognizing them as a
country. I say tell China to go fuck
themselves. If we haven’t spoken civilly
to Tiwhan since 1979 I’d say it’s about time we did. I don’t see how China can get that upset over
one little phone call. I blogged this
morning. Another major issue was General
David Petrayas telling government secrets to his mistress. I don’t see how Trump can explain his way out
of this one because of the big fuss he made about Hillary’s E mail server not
being secure and it could be hacked by foreigners, although there is no
evidence of that having happened. After
this it was Breakfast with the Beatles.
Last week they did George. This
week they celebrated John Lennon songs without commercial break. Apparently they played all of John Lennon’s
favorite songs. They concluded with
“Happy Christmas” at noon.
Dr Ben Carson has been appointed Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development. I thought
he ruled himself out saying he wasn’t qualified for any cabinet
appointment. I guess this shouldn't surprise anybody though.
Former Vice President Al Gore met with President Elect Trump and the two talked on the topic of climate change. That they had a civil conversation at all without ending in a fist fight is a miracle. I would only hope at least some of Al Gore's comments sunk in.
The office of Secretary of State still has not been filled. In fact a bunch of new candidates are up for this job including John Huntsman, who was President Obama's former ambassador to China.
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