Is Trump's team already stifling access to info

[sanford12]

It looks like it's already started. Trump has placed his cronies and peers in high positions of power. These are men who are used to closed meetings answering to very few and are not used to having decisions questioned. They also aren't used to a lot of public scrutiny and with the microscope of the press focused on them will they seek to shield themselves by becoming more secretive withholding public information from the public. Trump's thin skin and the inability to admit facts but comes back with "alternative facts" and attacking all who oppose him. It's like having a 10 year old in charge. With his actions as an example to his subordinates they'll sell themselves to the devil. The looks on the faces of his spokes people as they try to explain Trump's actions away says it all. You can see it on their face that even they don't believe what they're saying but that won't last as they get in deeper. Kelly Anne Conway has proven that lying is as natural as breathing same with Katrina Pierson. The poor Spicer guy looks bewildered when confronted with facts at the press meetings.

I think this will lead this administration to become one of the most insular and reclusive ever. Hopefully he'll get himself impeached and thrown out of office before he drives the economy into the ditch or worse. This is a guy I'm not sure a lot people will volunteer to go to war for.

[donquixote99]

To conquer Islam, he'll need a draft anyway.

[sheltiedave]

Booting the JCS, CIA, and DCI from NCS meetings, while adding Bannon, is the Republican's idea of adding common sense to national security. Damn, these guys are good! Why didn't we thinka that?

[CarlV]

These are on the Wapo front page. My free reads are up though.

Amid protests and confusion, Trump insists ‘this is not a Muslim ban’

Giuliani: Trump asked for a ‘Muslim ban,’ and ordered a commission to do it ‘legally’

Can't be honest and can't even act presidential.


Carl

[finnbow]

A narcissistic, compulsively lying, partially illiterate con-man (who happens to be president) being blackmailed by Russia - is getting life and death advice potentially affecting millions of people - by an alcoholic, neo-nazi sociopath who has publicly stated a desire to bring down the federal government. What could go wrong???

[donquixote99]

Only everything.

And how wrong can it go?

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by finnbow

A narcissistic, compulsively lying, partially illiterate con-man (who happens to be president) being blackmailed by Russia - is getting life and death advice potentially affecting millions of people - by an alcoholic, neo-nazi sociopath who has publicly stated a desire to bring down the federal government. What could go wrong???

Quite!
This is the story to watch.

[MrPots]

Frankly, Bannon being in a position of such power is terrifying to me. He's a hateful little man, crazy addled at best. Trump may be a pompous buffoon, but Bannon is the truly dangerous one.

MF'r even looks crazy.

So what are we supposed to do when the illegitimate president starts an illegitimate war nobody in the US asked for or wanted?

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by sanford12

It looks like it's already started. Trump has placed his cronies and peers in high positions of power. These are men who are used to closed meetings answering to very few and are not used to having decisions questioned. They also aren't used to a lot of public scrutiny and with the microscope of the press focused on them will they seek to shield themselves by becoming more secretive withholding public information from the public. Trump's thin skin and the inability to admit facts but comes back with "alternative facts" and attacking all who oppose him. It's like having a 10 year old in charge. With his actions as an example to his subordinates they'll sell themselves to the devil. The looks on the faces of his spokes people as they try to explain Trump's actions away says it all. You can see it on their face that even they don't believe what they're saying but that won't last as they get in deeper. Kelly Anne Conway has proven that lying is as natural as breathing same with Katrina Pierson. The poor Spicer guy looks bewildered when confronted with facts at the press meetings.

I think this will lead this administration to become one of the most insular and reclusive ever. Hopefully he'll get himself impeached and thrown out of office before he drives the economy into the ditch or worse. This is a guy I'm not sure a lot people will volunteer to go to war for.

This is why I have always questioned the wisdom of placing business leaders directly into government. They are accustomed to the top-down, oligarchical style of management that most corporations run on. The Unions tried to introduce Democracy into the workplace and look how the bosses reacted.

Ladies and Gents, I give you the RUST BELT.

These people have no use for 'little people" that question their policies or worse yet, organize against them and cause them any embarrassment over the fairness of said policies. They are accustomed to simply firing people for that. How do governments historically go about "firing" citizens they don't like?

The election of Trump and handing him the muscle of government was a very bad move. This is only the beginning.