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1 hour ago, BaalChatzaf said:

This line [from Trump's inaugural text] stood out:   The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.

[Trump inauguration speech]  "At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens."

Something I noted is the difference between that statement and a famous one made by "Camelot's" JFK being inaugurated (link to the full text):

[JFK] "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

Ellen

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6 minutes ago, Ellen Stuttle said:

[Trump inauguration speech]  "At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens."

Something I noted is the difference between that statement and a famous one made by "Camelot's" JFK being inaugurated:

[JFK] "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

Ellen

Kennedy was a philosophically fascist as Old Joe who prior to the outbreak of war believed that Germany was Peachy Keen. 

Ellen, once again you have made an important observation.  Thank you...

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Trump says buy American.  Binswanger says buy American is unAmerican.

Trump will set up tariffs. Trump should read Bastiat.

Trump makes wonderful sounding promises. So did His Messiahship, Obama.

When a politician makes promises, a red alert should go off in your mind.

 

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First presidential dance.

The song was "My Way." Donald and Melania look cool to me, larger than life, even if he can't dance worth anything. :) 

When Mike Pence and his wife joined them on stage, the look of pure joy on Mike's face made him look like a child at Christmas. I smiled just looking at him.

When their kids and spouses or partners joined them, I couldn't help but be struck by the scene as an elegant metaphor for family values.

It's only a symbol during a standard inauguration ceremony, but--to me--this dance, from the choice of the song to the things I said above, is an omen of great things to come. It's a feeling, but it's not one I will ever forget. I bet I'm not alone.

Michael

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Man, things are moving fast.

Look at this headline at Barron's that just came out.

Will Trump’s ‘Ayn Rand Capitalism’ Work?

Dayaamm!

I'm sure the article got some things wrong (I haven't read it yet), but I think the writer knows there's something fundamental going on here. And he knows who to attribute it to. For instance, a quote from just a quick skim:

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Hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio recently pointed out that, “this new administration hates weak, unproductive, socialist people and policies, and it admires strong, can-do profit makers. It wants to, and probably will, shift the environment from one that makes profit makers villains with limited power to one that makes them heroes with significant power.”

Looking good to me...

Just so long as the profits come from productive effort on the open market and not crony business-wedded-to-government insider monkeybusiness.

:)

Michael

 

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1 hour ago, jts said:

Trump says buy American.  Binswanger says buy American is unAmerican.

Trump will set up tariffs. Trump should read Bastiat.

Trump makes wonderful sounding promises. So did His Messiahship, Obama.

When a politician makes promises, a red alert should go off in your mind.

You'll get mind-burn.

--Brant

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2 hours ago, KorbenDallas said:

It's saying I either have to subscribe or log in to read the article

Korben,

Now it's saying I do, too.

Ho hum...

Give it a couple of weeks or so and it will probably be available elsewhere.

It's probably not that important, though. I suspect there will be a lot of other mainstream media stuff about Rand coming out connecting President Trump to her.

Michael

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12 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

I suspect there will be a lot of other mainstream media stuff about Rand coming out connecting President Trump to her.

Sounds like there will a lot more to banter about talk about  :evil: :)

Glad to see this guy gone:

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10 hours ago, KorbenDallas said:

Sounds like there will a lot more to banter about talk about  :evil: :)

Glad to see this guy gone:

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Gone, but unfortunately  not forgotten.  If the Democrats make a comeback in 4 or 8 years  Obama may be picked as a possible federal judge or Supreme Court justice.

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13 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Good morning!

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:)

Michael

Which means we have all day to see what he will do today.

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Cool Kellyanne! I believe I saw a news item scrolling on the bottom that said the President will be at CIA headquarters today.

From the web: Trump picks Sean Spicer as White House press secretary, Jason Miller as communications director.

I am waiting to see the new spokesperson for the administration to show up on TV. I grew sick of the Obama shill, Josh, but he always looked like he was sick of everybody. 

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It's a new day, folks.

Sean Spicer just ripped the press a new one.

And here is the speech President Trump gave at the CIA. 

He said he went there first because of all the dishonest news about problems between him and the intelligence community. He said it's the direct opposite.

Literal quote: "I am so behind you."

The way he stood behind his pick, Mike Pompeo, is the way an inspiring leader does it.

He received a 5 minute standing ovation at the end (according to Spicer).

:)

Michael

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58 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

It's a new day, folks.

Sean Spicer just ripped the press a new one.

And here is the speech President Trump gave at the CIA. 

He said he went there first because of all the dishonest news about problems between him and the intelligence community. He said it's the direct opposite.

Literal quote: "I am so behind you."

The way he stood behind his pick, Mike Pompeo, is the way an inspiring leader does it.

He received a 5 minute standing ovation at the end (according to Spicer).

:)

Michael

The man is a human being.  Unlike his predecessor who was a human refrigerator.  Cool, cool,  but not a human. 

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From the AP, "FACT CHECK: Trump overstates crowd size at inaugural"

[...]

TRUMP: "I made a speech. I looked out. The field was — it looked like a million, a million and a half people."

The president went on to say that one network "said we drew 250,000 people. Now that's not bad. But it's a lie." He then claimed that were 250,000 right by the stage and the "rest of the, you know, 20-block area, all the way back to the Washington Monument was packed."

"So we caught them," said Trump. "And we caught them in a beauty. And I think they're going to pay a big price."

THE FACTS: Trump is wrong. Photos of the National Mall from his inauguration make clear that the crowd did not extend to the Washington Monument. Large swaths of empty space are visible on the Mall.

Thin crowds and partially empty bleachers also dotted the inaugural parade route. Hotels across the District of Columbia reported vacancies, a rarity for an event as large as a presidential inauguration.

And ridership on the Washington's Metro system didn't match that of recent inaugurations.

As of 11 a.m. that day, there were 193,000 trips taken, according to the transit service's Twitter account. At the same hour eight years ago, there had been 513,000 trips. Four years later, there were 317,000 for Obama's second inauguration. There were 197,000 at 11 a.m. in 2005 for President George W. Bush's second inauguration.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer later added to the misstatements.

Spicer claimed that it was the first time white "floor coverings" were used to protect the grass on the National Mall and that it drew attention to any empty space. But the same tarp was used four years ago.

Spicer also said it was "the first time that fencing and magnetometers went as far back on the Mall, preventing hundreds of thousands of people from being able to access the Mall as quickly as they had in inaugurations past."

The Secret Service says that this was the first time security fencing was installed around the National Mall for an inauguration. To get onto the Mall, people were required to go through one of seven checkpoints where their bags were checked, but there were no magnetometers used at those checkpoints.

A law enforcement official not authorized to publicly discuss the inauguration says officials were "not aware of any issues with flow rate in and around the National Mall."

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From NPR:

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"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe," Spicer said in another unverifiable claim.

Spicer's own math was that there were 250,000 people in the immediate area of the inaugural dais at the Capitol, and another 220,000 from 4th Street to the media tents. Spicer then claimed there were another 250,000 people from the media tents to the Washington Monument.

"All of this space was full when the president took the oath of office," Spicer said, claiming the entire area from the Capitol to the Washington Monument was full.

However, aerial photographs show that claim is false. The area just in front of the Washington Monument was sparsely populated and far from full, as confirmed by photographs and from NPR's reporters on the ground.

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AP?

NPR?

Heh.

Here's another opinion of what this is all about.

This guy, David Seaman, is a celebrated leftie who is turning toward the right out of disgust with the mainstream media. (More recently, he's been pushing the Pizzagate story with dogged persistence when only the fringe would and now, apparently, the FBI is involved with it.)

In the video above, he is totally disgusted with how the mainstream media reports fake news and suggests making a movement to put CNN out of business.

Michael

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Eddie Murphy playing Mr. Rogers . . . or was that Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood, on Saturday Night Live?

Good morning, boys and girls. Before I take off my sneakers as I do at the end of every episode let me sing "It's Such a Good Feeling.”

You know, you always make each day a special day. You know how . . .  just by being yourself. There's only one person in the whole world that's like you, and that's you. President Trump’s son is named Barron and he is a really good kid. Just like President Trump is like no other person alive! He is special. People can like you just the way you are.

Every time you see someone on the news or on the internet disrespect President Trump, I want you to call the number at the bottom of the screen. I don’t care if it is your grandmamma, your mom and dad, or the neighbor down the street . . . you need to turn them in. They are being naughty and the whole world should know about them. I'll be back next time. Bye-bye!

Peter

Notes from Wikipedia. Mister Robinson's Neighborhood was a parody of the children's show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, a PBS staple where new information about the world was presented by Fred Rogers in a quiet, methodical, loving, and highly elocuted manner. In the sketch, Eddie Murphy's character "Mister Robinson" speaks and presents the show in a similarly stilted manner, but lives in a considerably grittier venue and engages in a number of illegal and unethical activities for money due to his lack of a job, which he educates his young viewers about in each episode while at the same time teaching them cynical views on the government and life in general. For example, in one episode he tells his viewers that their hopes and dreams are pointless because its impossible to find a job in the current economy and another episode contains a Neighborhood of Make-Believe segment in which a puppet Ronald Reagan (who Robinson consistently blames for his lack of a job and dire financial situation) tells all the neighborhood's hand puppets that he can't do anything to help them out of poverty in a very dismissing manner. Subsequently, he has slumlords hunting him down for rent and police after him for a number of petty crimes; a majority of episodes end with Robinson fleeing his apartment through the fire escape while singing a variant of Rogers' famous song "Tomorrow".

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8 hours ago, BaalChatzaf said:

The man is a human being.  Unlike his predecessor who was a human refrigerator.  Cool, cool,  but not a human. 

Bob,

Man is John Brennan pissed (see here).

It must be a bitch to see everyone who worked for you cheering and giving a standing ovation to President Trump, especially since you know that Trump stands for the opposite of what you do and he is going to take apart all the sleazy crap you did.

I want to say Trump better watch his back because a pissed spook shoots from the shadows, but with all those other spooks cheering him, I think they will have his back big-time.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see compromising material surface about Brennan (and his cronies) on WikiLeaks and stuff like that over time. Also, when the investigation of the Russian hacking debacle and the press leaks concludes (Trump says in 90 days), I wonder how much of a mouth Brennan will have then...

:)

Michael

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Sean Spicer is back giving another conference at 1:45pm. Trump is meeting with the Indian prime minister and then he will meet with Senate leaders. Trump is committed to upholding the Constitution per Sean.

I got a call from a representative of Ted Cruz last night but on caller ID it came up as “private,” which I never answer unless they first speak and identify themselves. They did and said it was about a teleconference and did I want to participate? Why would I want to teleconference or give him money now? I hung up.  

If Ted had won the Presidency would he accomplish as much as Trump? Probably not, though he would put us in a “confirmed” better direction, though, I might be a bit off about that. Ted would be less nerve wracking as President.  

If Ted were a Supreme Court Justice, how would I rate him ten years from now? Probably at about 99.5 percent to the good. I can’t imagine any other justice voting as close to perfect as Ted Cruz though Clarence Thomas is also in that range. But Ted would be more vocal and explanatory, and perhaps more of a leader. The downside of him being a Supreme Court Justice is that we would lose him from the Senate.      

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