From the declassified report:

"(SIGforum's) goals were to... denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess (SIGforum) developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump." At page 7.

Darn, I didn't know youse guys were into that sort of thing...

Obama’s Legacy Of Deceit

http://www.hoover.org/research/obamas-legacy-deceit

opening part:

In its remaining days in power, the Obama administration suddenly punished Vladimir Putin’s Russia for allegedly interfering in the U.S. presidential election. It claimed that Russian or Russian-hired hackers tapped into the records of the Democratic National Committee as well as the correspondence of John Podesta, a Clinton advisor.

But what the Obama administration did not say was that such cyber-crimes are by now old hat. Both the Russian and Chinese governments have been hacking into far more important U.S. records and government archives for years without earning retaliation

The administration also did not mention that the election hacking occurred largely because of Podesta’s own carelessness in using his security password. Moreover, it failed to acknowledge that the Republican National Committee was likewise targeted, but apparently had enough safeguards to prevent successful entry into its records. Finally, the administration refused to mention that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange went on the record saying that he did not receive the email trove from the Russians.

The truth is that Obama, throughout his presidency, has appeased Putin. As president, Obama ended the previously agreed-on Eastern European missile defense; he made open-mic promises to be more flexible with Putin after his reelection; he barely responded to Russia’s aggression toward Crimea and Ukraine; and he constantly criticized both George W. Bush and Mitt Romney for being inordinately tough on Russia.

Until now, he saw no reason to stop enabling Russia. Had Hillary Clinton won the election, Putin’s alleged hacking would not have earned any administration attention. But this time around, an emboldened Putin allegedly went too far and crossed the only red line that Obama might have enforced by supposedly enabling the release of information that might have turned off some voters on Clinton.

Blaming Putin for Clinton’s loss was a more convenient narrative than admitting that Obama’s own policies have turned off even traditional Democratic constituencies and for now reduced the Democratic Party to a minority coastal party.

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All the talk about Russia is to (1) obscure why Clinton really lost, and (2) lessen Trump's power by making his election appear to be illegitimate.

Read the unclass intel report. It is BS.

Part of the "intelligence" revealed is the publishings of RT are mostly propaganda.

Thanks for the fast breaking news.
RT = Russia Today funded by Russian Govt

(been publicly known for over 10 years)

Snowing to beat the band outside...plow just went past, the strobe on top reflecting a golden awesomeness reminded me we get a new President soon. Glorious hairdo and all.



Softly snow drops down
Flashing yellow strobe lights on
Is plow truck El Prez?

Here snow piles high
My smile staying on me
The bum will soon go

On forward we trudge
Yet Twenty Jan. comes so soon
Stand by dearest friends

Hark! What is this heard?
Those sounds which flow from us now
Are toasts to Freedom

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...iately-inauguration/

Incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer previewed that Donald Trump would hit the ground running as soon as he was inaugurated as president of the United States.

He predicted a series of executive actions and orders that Trump would issue in the first days of his presidency and go to work with his legislative team.

“He’s not going to wait,” Spicer said. “I think that Friday, that Saturday, that Sunday, that Monday are going to be really really a big flurry of action that shows straight up to the American people and everybody that when he talked about change he meant it and wasn’t going to wait.”

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Originally posted by sdy:



“He’s not going to wait,” Spicer said. “I think that Friday, that Saturday, that Sunday, that Monday are going to be really really a big flurry of action that shows straight up to the American people and everybody that when he talked about change he meant it and wasn’t going to wait.”

Now close your eyes and imagine SJWs'/Lefties'/neo-progs' heads exploding everywhere. There'll be a whole new series of youtube vids displaying their meltdowns. I'd watch Trigglypuff in particular.

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imagine SJWs'/Lefties'/neo-progs' heads exploding everywhere

I'm particularly interested in Mr. Just-a-tiny-footnote-in-history and his "legacy".

I hope Trump has a level of protection never before seen for a President.

The whacko Left has demonstrated numerous times THEY are the party of violence and anarchy - I put nothing past them.

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Originally posted by lkdr1989:
I'd settle for a monkey with a machine gun

How about a TRUMP MONKEY?

You know, like in those Subaru commercials.

He pops out of the trunk with a pen and a stack of Executive Orders and bops the protester in the head with a three-iron.....

NAACP actively campaigning against Jeff Sessions appointment to AG

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...intimidating-voters/

The organized left’s kitchen sink tactic seen throughout the week against Senator Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) nomination for the next U.S. Attorney General included a bold effort tell the Senate Judiciary Committee directly that the nominee’s record of prosecuting federal voter fraud defendants served as an example of voter intimidation.

The NAACP letter writing campaign did not end with Governor Patrick. Breitbart News previously reported on an open letter effort circulated and signed by more than 1,200 law professors to oppose the nomination. “Nothing in Senator Sessions’ public life since 1986 has convinced us that he is a different man than the 39-year-old attorney who was deemed too racially insensitive to be a federal district court judge,” the letter charged.

NAACP President Cornell William Brooks was notoriously arrested during a sit-in at Senator Sessions’ Mobile, Alabama office on Wednesday

Al Sharpton promised that like the NAACP sit-in, the National Action Network intends to scatter occupiers in each of the offices of senators voting for Sessions’ confirmation and “may stay awhile”.

once we get a real AG, this intimidation by mob action will have consequences

Assuming a successful confirmation, Christian Adams predicted to Breitbart News’ Lee Stranahan that left-wing agitation will only increase from within the Justice Department. Due to the limited number of appointees Sessions would be able to place, he will be entering a “nest of vipers” as it regards to career bureaucrats acting upon their personal legal and political views.

the vipers may find actual leaders and people of action can make life hard for rogue prosecutors

This is an article that collects how the journalists reacted throughout election night.

Remember how we were watching the NY Times forecast moving to a Trump win? So were they.


http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/0...l-history/index.html

This is the story of election night 2016 in the words of more than 20 journalists who were in the field, in the newsrooms, at the anchor desks, and in the control rooms. The story of how Donald Trump's stunning win was covered in real time.

worth a read

Worth the read for comedy value, or for truth? The article is on the CNN site.

Sharpton Promises ‘Season of Civil Disobedience’ in Response to Sessions Nomination

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-p...sessions-nomination/

National Action Network president Rev. Al Sharpton promised a “season of civil disobedience” in reaction to the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) for attorney general in the Trump administration.

Sharpton, an MSNBC host, said activists have planned a march in Washington on Jan. 14 during the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend to protest the Sessions nomination. Sharpton recalled spending 90 days in jail for protesting on U.S. Navy land against military exercises on the island of Vieques in 2001 when George W. Bush was president, adding that civil disobedience usually works because it changes policy.

“We’re not just doing this to be doing it. We do it because it can lead to change and, believe me, there will be a season of civil disobedience particularly around the Sessions nomination,” he said Friday on a conference call with other civil rights organizations’ leaders such as Cornell William Brooks, president and CEO of the NAACP, and Janet Murguia, president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza.

Sharpton offered a preview of the mass march, explaining that activists plan to outline their intent to visit senators’ offices and make some house calls to “make them understand” they will be held accountable for voting in favor of Sessions, whose confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.

“Make them understand that if they think they are voting based on some courtesy of a Senate colleague and will not face a real backlash in their own states, then they have another thing coming. This is not going to be some regular ceremonial procedure that they’re going to be able to bluff their way through,” he said.

“We intend to make this a critical stand in terms of where people are with civil rights and voting rights in this country. No one will be given a pass to say ‘I had to vote for my colleague.’ This is an affront to everything the civil rights and voting rights community has stood for historically and a vote for Sessions should be held accountable and punishable by the voters,” he added.

The political activists on the call said Sessions has a poor record on issues such as civil rights, immigrant rights and LGBT rights. The activists said Sessions’ confirmation hearing should be delayed so a more thorough review of Sessions’ record can be conducted. Brooks focused most of his criticism of Sessions on voting rights in particular.

“Senator Sessions, over the course of many years, his support for voting rights has been a matter of vacillating between indifference and out-and-out hostility,” said Brooks. “He has not acknowledged the reality of voter suppression while loudly in faith of voter ID laws predicated on the myth of voter fraud.”

Brooks criticized Sessions for supporting a voter ID law in Alabama.

“This is not the kind of person we need to serve as attorney general,” he said.

Sharpton said civil rights activists must remind senators that the nation is “watching” how they vote on Sessions' nomination. He pondered how the government could justify having Sessions follow Eric Holder, the nation’s first African-American attorney general, and Loretta Lynch, the nation’s first African-American female attorney general.

“That is something that should not even be considered,” he said.

“Clearly members of the Senate, both Republican and Democrat, particularly moderate Republicans, need to know that the nation is going to be watching not only the hearings but the vote, which will be sometime later,” he added.

Brooks mentioned Sessions being rejected for a federal judgeship in the late 1980s before he became a senator, calling it a “rare” occurrence.

“We’re going to focus on the record,” he said.

Murguia said her organization disagrees with Sessions’ position on immigration, calling his record “hostile” toward Hispanics. In the past, Sessions has supported stronger enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws and voted in favor of additional border security measures.

Murguia cited Sessions’ opposition to moving 2,000 minors, who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, into the state of Alabama.

“Remember these are frightened children who fled hellish conditions and trekked across several countries by themselves in hopes of finding refuge in this country, yet Senator Sessions could not muster any sense of compassion or understanding of their plight,” Murguia said.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Worth the read for comedy value, or for truth? The article is on the CNN site.

It reads like they were sailing on the Titanic.

Al's gonna go all quiet when Trump starts bringing up the Brawley story... We finally got someone whos gonna push back. The dims havent quite figured this out yet.

Sharpton Promises ‘Season of Civil Disobedience’ in Response to Sessions Nomination.

Just like the '0', trying to find significance, where there is none!
Perhaps President Trump will have the AJ , IRS, to get little al where he belongs, in prison for tax evasion.

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This is an article that collects how the journalists reacted throughout election night.

Unfortunately, the article left out descriptions of the best parts. Namely--- wild eyes, increasing headaches bordering on migraine, ingestion of Tylenols drowned with shots of whiskey, stomach cramps, vomiting, uncontrollable bouts of diarrhea...

Yep, interesting article. Worth the read.

Bob

Chicken Little claims of "Russia Hack!" by John McCain make me wonder if he was as bad/dumb of a pilot as his actions indicate he is a politician, why he didn't get shot down and captured in flight school.

That article was OK but nothing like watching it all unfold as the evening progressed. I tell you, that was a night I will never forget.

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Chicken Little claims of "Russia Hack!" by John McCain make me wonder if he was as bad/dumb of a pilot as his actions indicate he is a politician

He crashed 5 planes. 2 were officially ruled "pilot error."