The Imbecile (Trump) Is Feeding His Ego With Campaign Style Rallies and Supporting Russia

"We Won In A Landslide" No, You Didn't

You Lost The Popular Vote By 2.5 Million And Ranked 46th In The Electoral College, That's NOT A Landslide

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John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, December 16, 2016 9:45 AM

     With 34 days left to his inauguration President-elect Donald J. Trump is ignoring the fact the Vladimir Putin is responsible for hacking our country, interfering with our election process, interfering with our political process, and attacking our democracy. He is not only ignoring facts but is discrediting our entire intelligence community.

     Donald Trump has already created dangerous situations where he is being blackmailed by the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "Some of the most egregious that have emerged involve countries in Asia and it's subregions, particularly the Philippines." Read more: How Donald Trump's Business Ties Are Already Jeopardizing U.S. Interests - Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek

    Trump has picked for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a man who denies climate change, denies climate change! He picked a guy that is against the minimum wage to head up the Depart of Labor. He picked Lt. General Michael Flynn, (Ret.) who "inappropriately shared" classified information with foreign military officers in Afghanistan and was separated from the military yet started a "Lock Her Up" campaign against Hillary Clinton after the FBI found there was no "reasonable" evidence that her e-mail server had compromised classified information. Read more
 He picked someone to head Health and Human Services (HHS) that wants to privatize Medicare. Medicare operates on a 2% administrative cost whereas commercial insurance companies were keeping 40%-50% of the money collected for premiums for administrative costs and turning around and giving that money to executives as bonuses, prior to The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) and are still taking 18%-20% of premiums as "administrative costs." Trump picked the Exxon/Mobil CEO to be Secretary of State. A man who after the United States brokered a deal so that the people in one of the poorest countries in the world would be cared for, after they discovered oil, got the dictator of that country to throw out the U.S. and another oil company to get paid by Exxon and use $4.5B to buy weapons instead of feeding, educating, and building hospitals. Read more.

     The President-elect is choosing to deny what the intelligence community has reported and is supporting Russia saying "hacking, who even knows if there was hacking, and they say it was Russia, they don't know if it was Russia, it could be Russia, or China, or a 400 lb. man in a bed," and that was said AFTER he was briefed and knew it WAS Russia that not only interfered with our election, but quite possible it was done to help him win, and that Vladimir Putin was directly involved.

     Even Republicans are in agreement with President Obama, a very big difference of the case for Obama's entire eight years, that Putin, and Russia, must be retaliated against for what they did, and are still doing. It was reported today that Russian hacking continues unabated to this day.

     President Obama will address the nation at 2:15 PM EST to address this crisis. President Obama yesterday suggested that Vladimir Putin was involved in the hacking and went further in saying that the U.S. WILL respond. "I think there's no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action, and we will, at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized, some of it may not be, but Mr. Putin is well aware of my feelings on this because I spoke to him directly about this.
   

   

Trump and the Press - How Transparent is the President-elect Going To Be?

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John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, December 15, 2016 10:05 PM

How Transparent is Trump Going To Be?

First he said he would "turn over his tax returns when the Internal Revenue Service audit was completed." After the IRS said there was nothing illegal about him turning over his tax returns during an audit he changed his excuse to "I will turn over my tax returns when Hillary turns over her 33,000 missing e-mails." Well, the election is over making that a moot point, yet, no tax returns. It's no secret that Trump does not like ANY media because they report his exact words, which a very high percentage of the time turn out to be outright lies, or ignorance. Today he tweeted "The media tries so hard to make my move to the White House, as it pertains to my business, so complex - when actually it isn't!" Really?! "How about how his kids are going to run his businesses, and just not tell him anything? What about that long awaited "Press Conference" he's been touting for today that was going to explain how "easy it's going to be.?" Perhaps it was postponed until "sometime in January" because Kurt Eichenwald, (Newsweek) published a cover story on Wednesday showing very serious conflicts that have already been put in play. "Conflicts Zone - How Trump's Business Ties Have Put America In A Bind" was previewed by Rachael Maddow (The Rachael Maddow Show - MSNBC) on Tuesday night and explained how Donald Trump mentioned, in fact carried on about and praised, an executive of the Dogan company, that is the key player in building the "Trump Towers - Istanbul" during a congratulatory phone call from the President of Turkey, the day after he was elected. The President of Turkey wants an Imam, a United States citizen, living in Pennsylvania, extradited, because he believes the Imam is responsible for coordinating the coup attempt in Turkey this past summer. So, on Tuesday, The President of Turkey arrested that executive and blamed him and the founder of the company, for being complicit in the coup attempt. An official in the Turkey government said, "The President of Turkey wants someONE, and the President-elect of the United States wants someTHING (that would be the millions of dollars Trump and his family are getting for letting that company, Dogan, use the Trump name on those towers)." Read the whole story of how Trump is now in a position of getting blackmailed day one of his presidency

Read Kurt Eichenwald's full article - "How Donald Trump's Business Ties Are Already Jeopardizing U.S. Interests

White House Press Briefings

Reince Priebus, President-elect Donald Trump's soon to be Chief of Staff, told conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt today, "Even looking at things like the daily, the daily White House briefing from the Press Secretary, I mean, there's a lot of different ways things can be done and I assure you we're looking at that. The first front row of assigned seats issue, as I understand it, started in the Obama administration. In the Bush administration, you just took a seat and I guess there were a couple people that had reserved spots, but for the most part, the more formalized reserved seating piece came in over the last eight years. That issue is being talked about. The Point of all this conversation is that the traditions, while some of them are great, I think it's time to revisit a lot of these things that have been done in the White House."

The Flaunting of Ignorance, lack of Knowledge, and the Willingness To Talk Without Knowing Any Facts Is Showing

As Ronald Reagan would say, in response to Priebus's statement "Well, there you go again." First of all it's quite obvious Reince Priebus made this statement without having ANY prior knowledge of White House Press Briefing protocol or history.

The first front row of assigned seats issue, as I understand it, started in the Obama administration." NO, Mr. Priebus, According to a statement put out by Jeff Mason, President of the White House Correspondents' Association, (WHCA) "That was not an Obama-era innovation as Mr. Priebus suggested. The WHCA assumed responsibility for assigning seats in the briefing room over the last two decades at the request of both Republican and Democratic administrations, who were mindful of the potential appearance of playing favorites if they assigned seats themselves.

Trump has said recently of his tweeting "I tweet because press not covering my honestly." Does President-elect Trump understand what a "free press" is? I know for a fact he doesn't know what a "blind trust" is. Does he think that when the press reports his exact words, which are often lies, outrageous fabrications, and attacks on our (soon to be his) intelligence community that the press is being dishonorable?

Newsweek To Break Conflict Where Trump Is Pressured By Turkey Tomorrow - Rachael Maddow Has Exclusive Tonight!

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Trump Team Knows Story Coming Out Tomorrow On Cover Of  Newsweek Shows Serious Conflict With Turkey

John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, December 12, 2016, 10:38 PM

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     Once again Kurt Eichenwald, a Contributing editor, Vanity Fair, Senior Writer Newsweek, a New York Times bestselling author and a veteran investigative reporter who has done a lot of  investigative reporting on businesses like Enron, has NYT best selling books including 500 Days, Conspiracy of Fools, Serpent On The Rock, and The Informant is breaking another blockbusting story on the cover of Newsweek tomorrow and once again Rachael Maddow, (The Rachael Maddow Show, MSNBC) has been given an exclusive "peek" at that story tonight. "Conflict Zone - How Trump's Business Ties Have Put America In A Bind" will be on the cover and the story will tell how Trump is being pressured by Turkey. Eichenwald has gone full throttle into Trump while he was a candidate and what the President-elect is dragging into the political field from his business life including his active business ties with foreign governments and his alleged breaking of the Cuban embargo through his business. Maddow reports that as of tomorrow Eichenwald is about to publish new allegations that in at least one case a foreign government may have already taken action to threaten the private business interests of the President-elect as a way of getting something that that foreign government wants from the United States government. This is a serious allegation.

Background on the Beginning Of The Conflict

     It starts with out with a project called Trump Towers, a twin building complex in Turkey. Trump did not build the towers but is being paid a lot of money to let them use his name on the buildings. The buildings were built by a company called Dogan. The son-in-law of the founder of Dogan, who now has a key operational role since the founder, the patriarch, has moved into semi-retirement. The son-in-law had the biggest role in building these towers in Istanbul, Turkey. 

The Hook - How Trump Snared Himself

     Now the story. The day after our election one of the world leaders that called President-elect Trump was the President of Turkey. One of the strange things reported about that "congratulatory" call was that Trump brought up by name, that executive from the Dogan company. The key guy on the Trump Towers business deal. He not only brought up that executives name but indeed praised him repeatedly to the President of Turkey while he was taking this "congratulatory" call. Now Newsweek reports that Turkey has now figured out how to turn that into a advantage and put America over a barrel. 

The Line - Action Is Taken By Turkey

     On December 1st the top representative of the Dogan company got arrested in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, by the Turkish police. Our President-elect chose to use that congratulatory call from the Turkish President to tell him how important that company was to him and named the specific executives and look what happened. "On December 1, authorities detained Barbaros Murtgl, a 28-year veteran of Dogan who was the company's representative to Ankara, the Turkish capital." Newsweek reports that "a senior Dogan executive is detained on threadbare allegations." The Turkish President says that the executive, and the founder of the company, were tied to the coup attempt that happened this past summer. 

The Sinker - What Turkey's Play Is To Get What They Want

     The Turkey government desperately wants a Turkish Imam that lives here in the United States, in Pennsylvania. He is a legal U.S. resident and Turkey wants him extradited so they can lame him for the coup attempt. Until now the U.S. government has said no. They have been fighting for his extradition since the coup attempt occurred. But what if you can squeeze the personal financial interests of the United States President? The Trump family stand to make millions of dollars from their relationship with the Dogan company. Newsweek reports "If Erdogan's (the Turkish President) government puts more pressure on the company that's paying millions of dollars to Trump and his children, revenue flowing from the tower complex in Istanbul could be cut off. That means Erdogan has leverage with Trump, who will soon have the power to get Gulen (the Imam living in Pennsylvania) extradited." The financier with contacts in the Turkish government explained the dynamic to Newsweek: "Erdogan has something he believes Trump wants (money,) and Trump has someone Erdogan desperately wants." As Newsweek puts it Trump has business interests in Istanbul, those personal business interests appear to be getting squeezed by the Turkish government to try to get the United States of America to do what Turkey wants. That is the explosive claim, among others that the Newsweek plans to publish tomorrow. 

Change Of Plans On That Announcement About How He Plans To Deal With Business Conflicts 

     Trump announced last week that he was going to "reveal" his plan on how he was going to "deal with" his business interests. That long planned announcement has been postponed late tonight, indefinitely. It's starting!

    

How Big Is Our Mental Health Problem? Do YOU Believe The Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Was Nothing More Than A Big Hoax? Do YOU Believe The Stock Market Has Gone Down and that Unemployment Has Gone Up Since Obama Took Office? YOU May Need A Checkup!

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John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, December 11, 2016

Blame Whatever, Fake News, the Internet, Stupidity, or Mental Illness, People Are Gullible and We Are All Going To Suffer The Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Created By Dumb Ass People! 

     Personally I think mental illness is far more out of control than just the issues involving mentally ill people being able to purchase firearms legally. I look at our last election and see that of the people who voted for Trump over 60% think the unemployment has gone UP  since President Obama took office, it hasn't, it went from 7.8% to 4.9%. Those same voters think the stock market has gone DOWN! Really?! It was just above 7,000 when he took office and is now above 19,000! What universe are these people living in? It must be one that houses the mentally ill. Really. Here's an Update on President Obama's Numbers from FactCheck.org as of July 2016, know that as of today the stock market is above 19,000! Here are 14 facts about President Obama's achievements that most people don't know. Although the post is from a source I don't know all 14 facts are indeed verifiable. 14 Facts About Obama's Presidency Most People Don't Know .

     Then we have those Trump supporters/voters who actually believe, and do NO research whatsoever, people like Alex Jones of "InfoWars" notability and Stephen Bannon, who was heading up Breitbart, a right-wing, conspiracy theory website that is funded by Trump's number one supporter and contributor, that totally fabricates stories, I should say "theories" that have no basis in reality whatsoever. President-Elect Donald Trump's very first appointment after winning the electoral college but losing the popular vote by more that 2.5 million as of today, was Stephen Bannon as his "Chief White House Strategist and Senior Counselor." 

The Monsters Attacking Sandy Hook Families Are The Worst Of Us

By Bob Owens December 9, 2016 BearingArms.com

     "In the latest episode over the proliferation of fake news and the people who believe it, a Tampa woman who thinks the Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, CT was staged has been charged with threatening a parent of one of the slain children." Read more . 

     And for all of those who think that the massacre at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT, where 20 elementary school children and 6 teachers and administrators were killed, was nothing more than a massive hoax, I don't believe we have the proper treatment for them. 

Why Won't Donald Trump Denounce Sandy Hook Deniers?

By William Finnegan November 22, 2016 The New Yorker

     "In the rank confusion of Donald Trump's preparations to assume power, there are some decisions that look as if  they should be easy.  Last week, Erica Lafferty wrote the President-elect an open letter asking him to cut ties with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Lafferty is the daughter of Dawn Hochsprung, who was the Principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, CT. On December 14, 2012 Hochsprung was shot to death trying to stop Adam Lanza who murdered 20 children and five other adults at the school, in addition to his mother, earlier that day, before killing himself.   Jones who is based in Austin, TX, who runs a radio show and Web site called InfoWars has repeatedly argued that the mass shooting at Sandy Hook was a hoax, that it was staged by the government and performed by paid actors. Jones and many of his fans contend that the government has orchestrated a number of mass shootings and national tragedies including the September 11th terror attacks and the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, but their Sandy Hook denial has a particular cruelty. They actually seem to make special efforts to torment the bereaved."

     "I invite him to my town," Lafferty said, speaking of Jones, when I called her last week. "Invite him to my family dinners. Come sit in my mother's empty seat. If they want to tell me that she's still alive, show me. Nothing would make me happier. Show me where she's sitting on some island sipping a drink."

     How hard for the incoming President of the United States to disavow this ugliness? Reince Priebus who will soon be President Trump's Chief of Staff told CNN last week "It's really important all Americans understand that he is a president for everyone." Does Priebus understand where his new boss has positioned himself among the grieving, doubly victimized families of Newtown?" Read more .

Obama's Accomplishments To Spite The Unprecedented Obstruction To Be Undone

     On January 20, 2009 President Obama took office, 700,000 jobs PER MONTH were being lost. Republicans met a couple miles away from the inauguration ceremonies in a hotel conference room and swore they would oppose and block everything and anything the new president wanted to do. To spite them he actually saved the auto industry and one-and-a-half million jobs in that one act. He did get 20 million Americans healthcare against tremendous obstruction and after he did Republicans spent over $7M of taxpayer money voting to repeal "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" dubbed "Obamacare." The Republicans spent that money voting to repeal the law no less than 54 times knowing for a fact that it would never be signed by the President. They didn't care they were wasting YOUR money, at all, acting like children, while being paid $175,000/yr and more, and given a platinum healthcare plan for themselves.

400 Obama Accomplishments So Far With Citations

     In 2008, we elected the most progressive president in history. And regardless of the negativity, when you actually look at the record, there has been a lot of progress since January 20, 2009. If you’ll recall, when he took over the reins of power, the economy was in free-fall and we were practically a world laughingstock. That is no longer the case.

Here is a list of many of President Obama’s accomplishments as President. Every one of them has a citation, so no one can dismiss them out of hand, although many have tried since I started to compile this list Even with the obstacles we gave him, especially the Republican Congress, this President will leave behind a wonderful legacy. Read more . 

In Summary   

     I don't know how many believers, supporters, voters, gullible people that voted for Trump, or voted for a third party candidate, or people who didn't vote at all, or the Democrats themselves like Hillary Clinton and the other conspirators like Debbie Wassermann-Schultz that conspired to beat Bernie Sanders, know how much damage they've done by electing someone who 1) never really wanted the job of President; 2) has no clue on what the job is or the requirements of it; 3) is going to operate in a way to make himself even richer by using the office (he is already doing this); 4) is a racist; 5) a misogynist; 6) an enormous egomaniac; 7) a narcissist that needs to be fed regularly (just look at his unprecedented "Thank You" rallies; 8) has so much hate in his heart that he appoints a white supremacist, neo-Nazi to be his Chief Strategist; 9) Picks someone that runs a large oil corporation and has some 40 active lawsuits against the EPA, and denies climate change to be the head of the EPA; 10) Picks a CEO of a corporation that is the parent company for hamburger chains; Carl's Jr., Hardees, in which the Dept. of Labor investigated and found that MORE THAN HALF of those restaurants were violating hour-wage labor laws; 11) picks a neurosurgeon that has never run a company much less a government or any other kind of agency to be the head of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) after he has made numerous derogatory remarks about urban developments; and I can keep going on and on, and he's not even sworn in yet. 

     The person you all are responsible for getting elected has already shown he doesn't know what he's doing. He had the Prime Minister of Japan coming to meet with him and that Prime Minister had to put out in public, because foreign leaders didn't have any contact information, the day before they were supposed to meet, that they didn't know where or when they were actually supposed to meet him. The Prime Minister didn't find out until he was already "wheels up" in Japan. The person that arranged and took a call from the leader of Taiwan which we (America) haven't recognized as a government since 1979 aggravating a diplomatic precedent we have with China. Who at the time of the Japan Prime Minister's visit hadn't even contacted the Pentagon or the State department. A man whose entire team was surprised that they were going to have to fill 4,000 positions within the government. A man who has still not filled many of the positions needed to run the government and the country, so much so that people in those positions are asking what they should do if January 20th comes and no one has shown up to trained. What they should do with all their files and such.

You can't fix stupidity, I just hope that this country is not beyond repair when this reality show ends.

I Once Thought What We Needed In The White House Was A Businessman Too, But Not This One

"I'll Surround Myself By The Best And Smartest People Ever" He Said - But He's Already Proved He's Not Capable Of Doing That Either

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John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, Sunday, November 20, 2016 

(UPDATED: 7:57PM November 20, 2016)

 I Too Thought The Best Thing To Straighten Out Government Would Be To Put A Businessman In The White House, But Never This One

     During the Reagan years I was in the top 5% of income in the country. I thought Ronald Reagan was the best thing since sliced bread, voted for him twice. Then I got smart, and informed. Over the years many, many things, came to light and I started to see, and understand, how much damage he did to the country. Not the least of which was his "Trickle- Down-Economics" aka "Reaganomics" which didn't work and has been proven not to work numerous times since his days in office. Republicans still call themselves "Job Creators" and say trickle-down-economics is what the country needs but that is just what Republicans do, ignore facts and keep lying over and over, no matter how many times it's been disproved. Unfortunately what Republicans think, is true all to often, that is, if you say something enough times in the media people will believe it no matter how false it is. Ask Republicans, especially Myron Ebell, who President-Elect Donald Trump appointed as head of the EPA Transition Team. "Ebell, who is not a scientist, has long questioned the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is fueling unprecedented global warming." See: Trump taps climate-change skeptic to oversee EPA transition below 

     The details of how "good" a businessman the President-Elect has been, as portrayed in the media over the last eighteen months, are far from businessman of the year and more like a scam artist cheating everyone he enters into a deal with. Although he has had 3,500 legal actions including 4 bankruptcies that he brags about where he "got hundreds of millions out of those casinos" but left all the contractors, lenders, investors, and employees to sustain the loses. Republicans call him "a genius" for not paying taxes for 18 years and hiring small contracting companies to do work on his properties and simply deciding not to pay them and use his giant staff of lawyers to delay court proceedings knowing the small companies will not be able to continue paying the legal fees and therefore have to drop the lawsuits they bring to get paid for the work they did.

When Trump Was Challenged By An Interviewer About Having Zero Experience In Government, Policy Making, Domestic and Foreign Policy, I Thought He Gave A Great Businessman Answer: "I'll Surround Myself By The Best And Smartest People" - But He's Already Proved He's Not Capable Of Doing That Either

Myron Ebell Appointed to Head Transition of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

     In a Washington Post article on November 11, 2016 Trump taps climate-change skeptic to oversee EPA transition  the Post reported "The man planning how a Trump administration can obliterate Obama’s environmental legacy is Myron Ebell, a Washington fixture who has long been a cheerful warrior against what he sees as an alarmist, overzealous environmental movement that has used global warming as a pretext for expanding government." 

"President-elect Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the Environmental Protection Agency, saying the regulations it has put out under President Obama are “a disgrace.” He has vowed to roll back Obama’s signature effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, known as the Clean Power Plan, and to scrap a litany of other “unnecessary” rules, especially those imposed on the oil, gas and coal sectors."

     In a November 17, 2016 post Media Matters for America: CNN’s Jake Tapper Exposes Trump Adviser Myron Ebell As Industry-Funded Climate Change Denier they show a video from the November 16 edition of CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper. The video is of President-Elect Donald Trump saying he will end the EPA, as well as comments from Myron Ebell and others.

     November 16, 2016 CNN's Gregory Krieg reports in an article: Climate change worries escalate as Trump elevates top deniers  that Trump's ascendance is threatening not to simply undo a series of already tenuous international agreements, but give a boost to interests opposed to fossil fuel regulation, while amplifying voices who express doubt -- or outright deny -- that climate change is real, . The many worries about Myron Ebell as well as numerous concerns including how Donald Trump doesn't understand what a "blind trust" is and says he is going to have his children run his business.

Stephen K. Bannon, the former Breitbart News chief executive who will serve as Trump's chief strategist and counsel

     Here are some Stephen Bannon quotes:

ON RACISM / ANTI-SEMITISM:

-- In an interview with Mother Jones in August, Bannon acknowledged that white nationalists and anti-Semites are drawn to the so-called “alt-Right” movement.
“Look, are there some people that are white nationalists that are attracted to some of the philosophies of the alt-right? Maybe,” he said. “Are there some people that are anti-Semitic that are attracted? Maybe. Right? Maybe some people are attracted to the alt-right that are homophobes, right? But that’s just like, there are certain elements of the progressive left and the hard left that attract certain elements.” (Mother Jones, August 2016)

ON WOMEN:

-- In a 2011 radio interview, Bannon had a hypothesis about why progressive women vilify prominent conservative women like Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin.
“That’s why there are some unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement,” he said, according to BuzzFeed. “That, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children. They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England. That drives the left insane and that’s why they hate these women.” (Political Vindication Radio, 2011)

READ MORE from CBS NEWS: Quotes from Steve Bannon, Trump's new White House chief strategist

     The American Prospect article A Government Of, By, and For the Deplorables by Adele M. Stan

November 18, 2016 calls Trump's picks "A frightening array of Islamophobes, xenophobes, homophobes, racists, and misogynists is assembling around President-elect Trump, normalizing the language and actions of hatred." They say of Stephen Bannon being picked "Most notable among them is Stephen K. Bannon, the former Breitbart News chief executive who will serve as Trump’s chief strategist. As Breitbart’s head honcho, Bannon told journalist Sarah Posner that he fashioned the website as “the platform for the alt-right,” the once-fringy movement that encompasses white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and hate-mongering conspiracy theorists." 

The American Prospect article also had these accounts of picks by President-Elect Donald Trump:

Senator Jeff Sessions (R- AL) for Attorney General

     "Sessions [Senator Jeff Sessions (R- AL) picked for Attorney General ] was denied Senate confirmation for a federal judgeship in 1986 because of allegations that he addressed a black attorney as “boy,” and said he was OK with the Ku Klux Klan except for the fact that its members smoked marijuana."

 Retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn for National Security Advisor

      "The night before the Sessions [Senator Jeff Sessions (R- AL)] appointment was announced, Trump appointed retired [Lt.] General Michael Flynn to be his national security adviser, a post that does not require confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Flynn, according to The New York Times, has advanced the false narrative that Sharia law—a religious code adhered to by Muslims—is being written into U.S. law. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describes Flynn as an adviser to ACT for America, an anti-Islam group that SPLC describes as convening and annual “racist gathering.”"

"In February, Flynn tweeted, “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL.” The new national security adviser is said to be considering a plan that would require all Muslims in the United States to register with the government—an idea also pushed by Trump adviser Kris Kobach, who currently serves as the Kansas secretary of state. (On Thursday, Carl Higbie, who runs a pro-Trump super PAC, told Megyn Kelly of Fox News that the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II provided legal precedent for such a registry.) It was Kobach who fashioned the language used by Trump during the campaign for building a wall on the southern border, and making Mexico pay for it. Kobach was also the mastermind of Arizona’s S.B. 1070, the law that empowers police to demand proof of citizenship from anyone, anytime." 

Read much more on Flynn, the KKK, and "The FBI just released its annual compendium of hate-crime incidents for the year 2015, finding a marked uptick—a 67 percent increase—in hate crimes against Muslims." in The American Prospect article A Government Of, By, and For the Deplorables by Adele M. Stan from November 18, 2016.

Here are the people whose names have been floated for Trump’s Cabinet (from The Washington Post):

     The Washington Post has put together a comprehensive graphic showing who is being considered for many of the important posts that the Trump transition team needs to fill in this post that was updated November 18, 2016 at 8:38PM EDT Here are the people whose names have been floated for Trump’s Cabinet. This very informative graphic was found in another post by the Washington Post Trump chooses Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Rep. Mike Pompeo for CIA director "President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) as CIA director, a pair of hard-line conservatives who offer early signs of the shape of Trump’s Cabinet."   

     "South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), appearing at a Federalist Society convention in Washington, did not mention Trump’s nominees in her remarks. But Haley, whose parents immigrated from India, urged the Republican Party to remind the public that it is the party who will offer opportunities “to all citizens, regardless of their race, gender or where they are born and raised.”"

      "Pompeo, 52, was elected to the House in 2010 as part of the first wave of so-called tea party lawmakers. A U.S. Military Academy and Harvard Law School graduate, he has a varied background. He served as a U.S. Army cavalry officer before founding an aerospace company, serving as president of an oil-field equipment manufacturing firm and — in a brief, little-known chapter of his early career — was an attorney with the Washington, D.C. mega-law firm Williams and Connolly."

     "Pompeo is a vocal critic of President Obama’s nuclear accord with Iran. “I look forward to rolling back this disastrous deal with the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism,” he tweeted Thursday, before his offer to become CIA director was public."

For a Laugh Check Out Samantha Bee Digging through Trump's Picks

     The Week posted "Samantha Bee Digs Through Donald Trumps "nightmare" Cabinet List, Looking For Less Bad News"  where they take a look at what Samantha Bee did on her last "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" show. She looked at Donald Trump's real and prospective picks for top advisers and cabinet positions.You can see her performance in two parts on Youtube: 

New Cabinet Installation: Part 1 | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS

and 

 New Cabinet Installation: Part 2 | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS 

 

     Well the transition goes on with more and more proof that the Donald Trump that campaigned IS going to build a cabinet and attempt to institute much of the shocking, racist, misogynistic, hate mongering, and divisiveness in his presidency. I was asked to "give him a chance" and I did. I planned to give him more time but with the picks he has made the message is clear and won't be changing anytime soon. So, brace for impact, volunteer with established organizations, donate to those organizations that have a proven track record of fighting for all our rights. Don't get silent! CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES on EACH issue that is important to you! Flooding their e-mails and phone lines have more of an effect than you might think. Use the links below to FIND, CONTACT and TRACK YOUR Representatives:

 

How to Find and Contact your Representatives

To FIND, and CONTACT, your State Senators, Assemblyperson, and other Local Legislators enter your ​Address and ​Zip Code at:

OpenStates.org
(You can also search for “Bills” and “Legislation” that are in the State Legislature and across all states at this site.)

To FIND, and CONTACT, your U.S. Congressperson enter your Zip Code at:

​House.gov

(You can also search for “Bills” and “Legislation” that are, or were, in the House of Representatives (Congress,) see which Congressional district you are in, and much more about the United States House of Representatives (Congress,) the at this site.)

To FIND, and CONTACT, your U.S. Senators enter your Zip Code at:

​Senate.gov

(You can also search for “Bills” and “Legislation” that are in the U.S. Senate, and much more about the U. S, Senate at this site.)

To TRACK your Congressperson, Senators, Legislative Bills, Voting Records of your Representatives, go to:

GovTrack.us     

Other very useful sites are:

POPVOX   VoteSmart   and PolitiFact (to check Facts about things you hear and see from Politicians.)