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trump is doing nothing more than testing the elasticity of ignorance of his political base. Its difficult to know if this is bannon's idea or trump's. "In his critique of my book, Jeffrey Friedman continues his longstanding efforts to show that most political ignorance is inadvertent rather than rational. In his view, voters are ignorant because they believe our society “is a mighty simple place” and “think they have information adequate to [the] task.” They simply don’t realize there is lots of other information out there that could help them make better decisions.... This key distinction also explains why many people choose to vote, but do not choose to learn very much about the issues they are voting on. Voting usually requires very little time and effort, while studying more than minimal amounts of political information requires a lot. People with a modest sense of “civic duty” are willing to spend modest amounts of time and effort on activities that have only a small chance of making a difference. But, given the odds, they are unlikely to make big sacrifices or to set high informational standards... Widespread political ignorance is a menace regardless of whether it is rational or inadvertent. But the difference between the two explanations for it matters. Inadvertent ignorance is a much easier problem to address than rational ignorance. With rational ignorance and rational irrationality, by contrast, such simple solutions are far less likely to work. Rationally ignorant people choose not to acquire new knowledge because the incentive to do so is weak, not because they are blissfully unaware of the possibility that additional knowledge could improve the quality of their voting decisions.... Further reading: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/10/22/ilya-somin/why-most-political-ignorance-rational-why-it-matters-reply-jeffrey-friedman No offense intended. I'm just quoting from the article/book.

I just love it how trump paints the Republican party into a corner and then sends Priebus over to negotiate. I guess thats a new chapter in the "Art of the Deal". "President Trump assured executives of major insurance companies Monday that the transition away from ObamaCare would be a "smooth one." In a meeting at the White House with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Cigna, Humana and other insurers, Trump said the replacement would be a great one for patients and "hopefully for the companies." http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/321336-trump-promises-smooth-transition-for-insurers-away-from-obamacare "Trump is making some big promises: His insurance reform will cover more people and cost less money. "We're going to have insurance for everybody," Trump told The Washington Post. "There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it. That's not going to happen with us." "[They] can expect to have great health care. It will be in a much simplified form. Much less expensive and much better," he said." http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/15/politics/trump-obamacare/ Speaking of which: "An ethics attorney has filed a complaint against White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, accusing him of a “corrupt attempt to influence investigations by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) into criminal activity involving associates of Donald J. Trump (“Trump”) and Russian government.” The complaint was filed by J. Whitfield Larrabee, a Massachusetts attorney, who is no stranger to filing ethics complaints against the Trump team. During the campaign, Larrabee filed bribery complaints against Trump and then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi over donations Trump gave to the Bondi campaign around the same time she decided not to join other attorney generals in bringing fraud claims against Trump U. Trump ended up paying an IRS fine to settle the allegations surrounding the alleged illegal donation." http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/bar-complaint-accuses-reince-priebus-of-corruptly-attempting-to-influence-fbi-investigation/ Of course its not as if trump has any direct ideas himself as to how to reform the ACA.

"Trump lists two companies on his FEC filing possibly related to business in Egypt: Trump Marks Egypt and Trump Marks Egypt LLC." https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/tracking-trumps-web-of-conflicts/ Ah, the old GREED motive. Got it. Oh come on, I know that was a rhetorical question from you. I just thought i would answer it for the odd trump supporter who might be wondering. Wondering because they were working on a USAID project in Africa and are unaware of the trump family's propensity to self enrich. At every opportunity.

"Trump lists two companies on his FEC filing possibly related to business in Egypt: Trump Marks Egypt and Trump Marks Egypt LLC." https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/tracking-trumps-web-of-conflicts/

The danger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arIc1NlHvV0 The Reality?: http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year

Another 100 companies have reportedly pulled their advertising from the far-right news site Breitbart, as the momentum builds behind a grassroots campaign calling on advertisers to boycott the site. Audi, Visa, T Mobile and Lufthansa have joined the growing list of companies to withdraw, according to Sleeping Giants, the group behind the campaign, which claims that at least 1,250 advertisers no longer wish to be associated with it. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/breitbart-advertising-deals-companies-advertising-withdraw-pull-steve-bannon-alt-right-campaign-a7599156.html

Fox news is using anonymous sources to vet their expert.....priceless. Of course total silence from Republicans.... True, or fake, if it comes from the mouth of the orange faced, man-child. Or alternatively Fox, Breitbart, etc. its all part of the drumbeat. Meanwhile WH staff get their phones checked for leaks and all the while they scour the interwebs for more claims of Muslim attacks on white Christians.

I'm sorry but this view is what's kept us from doing what's necessary to bring our troops home. Islam had hated the West since forever...nothing new there. 'Germany hate crime: Nearly 10 attacks a day on migrants in 2016 Nearly 10 attacks were made on migrants in Germany every day in 2016, the interior ministry says. A total of 560 people were injured in the violence, including 43 children. Three-quarters of the attacks targeted migrants outside of their accommodation, while nearly 1,000 attacks were on housing. The interior ministry figures 3,533 attacks on migrants and asylum hostels in 2016 2.545 attacks on individual migrants 560 people injured, including 43 children 988 attacks on housing (slightly fewer than in 2015) 217 attacks on refugee organisations and volunteers Attacks on asylum shelters and migrants December 2015 - 12 people injured after fires broke out at two hostels in Wasserstein, Bavaria January 2016 - Live grenade thrown at hostel housing 170 people in the south-western town in Villingen-Schwenningen but fails to detonate February 2016 - Fire in Bautzen, eastern Germany, destroys roof of building planned to house migrants. Police say some onlookers cheered the fire and tried to prevent firefighters from extinguishing the blaze September 2016 - Residents clash with migrants in Bautzen February 2017 - Politician from the far-right NPD jailed for eight years for burning down a sports hall to be used to house migrants in Nauen, west of Berlin, in August 2015 In its statement, the interior ministry said it strongly condemned the violence. "People who have fled their home country and seek protection in Germany have the right to expect safe shelter," the statement read. MP Ulla Jelpke from the leftist Die Linke party said that the government was too focused on a perceived security threat from migrants while the real threat was coming from the far right. "Do people have to die before the rightwing violence is considered a central domestic security problem and makes it to the top of the national policy agenda?" she said, quoted by the Funke media group. "Nazis are threatening refugees and therefore our democracy." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39096833 Meanwhile from the trumpenbunker...more lies.

http://www.economist.com/news/china/21717370-theres-message-america-too-furious-north-korea-china-stops-buying-its-coal

I'm sorry but this view is what's kept us from doing what's necessary to bring our troops home. Islam had hated the West since forever...nothing new there. "Muslims in the United States military... 6,024 served in the military in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, with at least 14 being killed overseas" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslims_in_the_United_States_military "Islam is the third largest religion in the United States after Christianity and Judaism...there are 3.3 million Muslims living in the United States, about 1% of the total U.S. population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States "By 2010 an estimated 44 million Muslims were living in Europe (6%), including an estimated 19 million in the EU (3.8%) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Europe

Not a problem unless McMaster is window dressing. "The Islamophobes are not wrong to sense that McMaster will be hostile to their worldview, according to those who know him best. McMaster spent much of his career fighting and winning wars in the Middle East, which required him to know the local cultures and treat Muslims like humans rather than scripturally programmed robots. “He absolutely does not view Islam as the enemy,” said Pete Mansoor, who served with McMaster in Iraq. “He understands that the world is not one dimensional, that the Muslim world is not one dimensional,” said John Nagl, who also served with McMaster. In other words, the complicated causes of terrorism require complicated solutions." McMaster’s nuanced views will likely be at odds with those of the president’s chief political strategist, Steve Bannon, and the other members of Bannon’s so-called Strategic Initiatives Group, a policymaking body he co-leads with the president’s son-in-law and chief of staff. Bannon believes the teachings of Islam and a supine West are primarily to blame for jihadist terrorism, as does his counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka. Both scoff at the idea that jihadism arises from a confluence of factors, most of which are not religious. “This is the famous approach that says it is all so nuanced and complicated,” Gorka told the Washington Post. “This is what I completely jettison.” http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/mcmaster-has-the-islamophobes-worried-good-214815

Of course he is unhinged. He has to fit in at the WH.

Sure can, in Looking Glass World. Even Dan's own news service has the answer! "Democrats reportedly plan total war on Trump Senior Democratic officials reportedly say that they will adhere to the call from their liberal base and take an all-out-war stance against President Trump. The New York Times reported Thursday that there was a time when Democrats were divided on their Trump approach. Trump did win former blue states in his November victory and Democrats in those states witnessed a new vulnerability. The report, however, said that protests and angry emails have prompted Democrats to "cast aside any notion of conciliation with the White House.” http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/24/democrats-reportedly-plan-total-war-on-trump.html But since Democrat Senators already know what must be done its redundant to get more feedback from the base. They are to busy getting insider tips from the WH and FBI. They have to directly disseminate those tips of trump wrongdoing.

Can we fire the guy who is attempting to limit the freedom of the press over at The White House? All in due time, all in due time.

Giangreco has won three Emmy Awards. He has also been honored with the prestigious Iris Award from the National Association of Television Program Executives. He has won two Peter Lisagor Awards and two Associated Press Awards for "Best Sportscast." In 1996, the Chicago Father's Day Council named Giangreco "Father of the Year," and in 1995, he won the Dante Award from the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans and the Justinian Society of Italian Lawyers Award for journalism. Giangreco was also honored in 1982 with the Louisville Journalism Award for his excellence in sports reporting. Giangreco Tweeted, "Donald Trump: a hateful ignorant corrupt simpleton supported by 87% of Republicans. So obvious, so disturbing America exposed [sic] as a country full of simpletons who allowed this cartoon lunatic to be 'elected'. Ok,Ok,Ok trump's support among republicans is only 84%, but the rest is accurate. No wonder he has won so many awards. He has a knack for stating the obvious in concise terms.

That was COMPLETELY different! He said his name - "Jim" - so that's not anonymous at all. Heck, it might even be a real person. Are you sure he didn't mean he heard it at the gym? Don't be silly; Does this look like the physique of a guy who works out at the gym? "Donald Trump’s campaign released a statement from his personal physician Monday asserting that the real estate mogul’s “physical strength and stamina are extraordinary” and his recent lab tests results were “astonishingly excellent.” “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” wrote Dr. Harold Bornstein, who said that he has been Trump’s personal physician since 1980. Claims that his physical report was authored by trump were vehemently denied by his personal physician, Kellyanne Conway, Phd, MD, MS,F.A.C.E.P. ,F.A.A.D.,F.S.T.S.,F.A.C.C.P. etc.,etc.

That and its a nerve gas attack, aka Geneva Protocol "The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, usually called the Geneva Protocol, is a treaty prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons in international armed conflicts. Is a nerve gas attack on Malaysia and an attack on China, which had protected him(Kim Jong-nam) for years by allowing him to live in the Chinese territory of Macau. If there was a real functioning US President. He would use this as an opportunity to deal with North Korea. By getting together with China, Malaysia and the other parties to go after North Korea further. To get real sanctions into effect. China in fact instituted a ban on coal imports with for the first time. Its a real and effective measure because North Korea relies upon the cash from coal exports to China to drive its economy. trump could go to China.... no cancel that.. He is to stupid for that. Send Tillerson. trump needs to deal with his domestic base. "China is getting tough on North Korea with coal embargo China has stopped importing North Korean coal, cutting off a vital economic lifeline for the isolated country. What are the implications for N. Korea's economy and the secluded regime's relationship with Beijing?" http://www.dw.com/en/china-is-getting-tough-on-north-korea-with-coal-embargo/a-37708015

Just trump supporters acknowledging what they bought and paid for. No news here. Just move on.

and respect, which they still deserve, somewhat.

Fake tweets, intelligent bots, intelligent social media bots that can generate fake news independently of direct human instructions. Intelligent disinformation for political purpose is a area of recent study by NSA, DARPA and others including Russia. For some reason a person ROY???, who will remain unnamed has inadvertently got me to this site. It is terrifying, to reflect upon what such concepts can do to weak minds. Minds that follow the herd so to speak. http://politicalbots.org/ and http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204021-the-rise-of-social-bots/fulltext

From the Story: "two Kansas men were sentenced Wednesday for their roles in an unrelated hate attack on three Somali Muslims in that state." Then this. But still no tweets from trump even though he has instructed his staff to inform him of every Muslim terror attack so he can twit about it. Good on the hero bystander that took on the armed assailant barehanded. Very risky. "Prosecutor: Businessman invokes Trump in attack on Muslim airline employee.. NEW YORK >> A businessman attacked a Muslim airline employee at Kennedy Airport, kicking her, shouting obscenities at her and saying that President Donald Trump “will get rid of all of you,” authorities said. Robin Rhodes, of Worcester, Massachusetts, had arrived from Aruba and was awaiting a connecting flight to Massachusetts on Wednesday night when he approached Delta employee Rabeeya Khan, who wears a hijab, while she was sitting in her office, the Queens district attorney said. Khan told police that Rhodes came to the door and went on a profanity-laced tirade, asking her if she was praying, District Attorney Richard A. Brown said. Rhodes then punched the door, which hit the back of Khan’s chair, investigators said. Khan asked Rhodes what she had done to him and Rhodes replied, “You did nothing,” Brown said. He then cursed at her and kicked her in the leg, Khan told police, according to Brown." http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/01/26/breaking-news/prosecutor-man-attacks-muslim-airline-employee-at-jfk/ Then the whole world burst into: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAmydqJmDtY

So you want trump, to be alone with bannon, with the football, in the White House. This trump http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_spectator/2016/03/trump_s_nuclear_experience_advice_for_reagan_in_1987.html yes this trump; http://thehill.com/policy/defense/320899-trump-calls-for-building-up-nuke-arsenal-to-be-top-of-the-pack with this bannon http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/31/steve-bannon-s-long-love-affair-with-war.html

trump heard that Co. was getting just too wild. "The administration of President Donald Trump may ramp up enforcement of federal laws against recreational marijuana use, a White House spokesman said on Thursday, setting up potential conflicts in states where the drug is legal. More than two dozen U.S. states have legalized marijuana for either medical or recreational purposes, and the administration of former President Barack Obama mostly looked the other way. But White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the Trump Administration may distinguish between medical and recreational use of the drug. Spicer's comments came on the same day that a nationwide poll from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, showed 71 percent of registered voters favored allowing states to decide whether marijuana should be legal. "I do believe you'll see greater enforcement of it," Spicer said at a news conference. "Because again there's a big difference between the medical use ... that's very different than the recreational use, which is something the Department of Justice will be further looking into." http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-marijuana-idUSKBN1622KB Between boobs and weed Co. could have become the next tourist destination.

Clearly no staff with operational neurons. Did they really believe that the FBI would quit. They know the FBI has recordings because of Flynn. They know Paul Manafort had contacts. They don't know when to talk, when to shut up and to have the brain in gear before either option is acted upon. The Curious Case of Paul Manafort The former Trump campaign chairman may have been the victim of a blackmail plot. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/paul-manafort-blackmail

I grew a beard once for about a year and a half. I'm not a fastidious man. I don't get fussy with my clothing or hair. I think that becomes an issue when a person has a beard otherwise a person ends up looking like a guy from Duck Dynasty or homeless or something. Thats me. I know a guy that had a full facial laser treatment done. You know the kind of places where chicks go to get permanent full Brazilian treatments. No more shaving, no more itchy two day growths. Fifteen minutes a day x 365 x 10 years= 912 hours New Bic shaver every three days with cream, $80/year 10 years =$800 Laser treatment $1000 and done.