I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration

[Fenton]

You need to put America first.

Oh that's rich ! FYI, the party of Kappernick, of open borders, of socialized medicine, the party of Soros, the party of ANTIFA, the party that pays protesters to turn Senate confirmation hearings into 3 ringed circuses and the party that has every intention of removing a duly elected President by any means necessary is NOT the party that puts America first

It's the party that reacted to a election loss by throwing the single largest collective temper tantrum in history.

 

[jnug]

I think it's Dan Coats

The Four Men Most Likely to be Behind the New York Times Op-ed

Based on the columns these are the 4 main suspects:

1. Larry Kudlow

2. Kevin Hassett

3. Dan Coats

4. Mike Pompeo

I say Dan Coats because he has little to lose. He's clearly on his way out. And remember him laughing about Trump?

Lawrence O'donnell has just guessed Dan Coats and I have to admit it is also a very good guess. I guessed Sessions because his political career is over when he leaves this job. But Dan Coats is also done once he leaves as DNI.

 

[lurchadams]

Around 30-40% of the nation felt Obama was a horrible and incompetent president. Would anyone here have been outraged if something like this went on to him?

This is setting a precedent, folks, and you aren't gonna like it when the shoe is on the other foot.

What a bunch of crap. 30 - 40% didn't like Obama's policies because they're republicans. No one thought he was horrible or incompetent except the extreme right-wing nuts. Most of them felt that way because they weren't and still aren't ready for a mixed-race chief executive. They'd rather have a red-faced, childish, narcissistic goon in the white house which says more about you than Obama or anyone else.

 

[SonOfDaedalus]

Oh that's rich ! FYI, the party of Kappernick, of open borders, of socialized medicine, the party of Soros, the party of ANTIFA, the party that pays protesters to turn Senate confirmation hearings into 3 ringed circuses and the party that has every intention of removing a duly elected President by any means necessary is NOT the party that puts America first

It's the party that reacted to a election loss by throwing the single largest collective temper tantrum in history.

You can say whatever you want. History will record that the Republican party and 90% of Republicans supported the worst president in American history.

Trump will not finish his term. He will resign in disgrace. And that disgrace will be an albatross around the Republican party for decades.

 

[Atomic Kid]

And ? They've been recycling that talking point since Trump was elected. In fact, there's nothing new about any of this. The NYTs has been using " anonymous sources " close to Trump to sell the same narrative since day one.

He's unstable, unfit, the WH is in chaos....etc,etc. You people swallow it Hook line and sinker EVERYTIME.

And these members of the " resistance " haven't come forward with their evidence to invoke the 25th amendment because they didn't want to precipate a Constitutional crisis ?

That right there is BULL ****. The overt defiance of Trumps Presidential authority by his own cabinet members and appointees IS A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. They're willing participants in a Constitutional crisis so spare me this BS that they're unwilling to come forward and show their faces.

If these people really do exist, they have no authority or legal right to ursurp Trump's Presidential authority. They can come forward with evidence and begin the legal process of invoking the 25th amendment.

So what did this NYTs OpEd accomplish that Fire and Fury didn't ? If anyone in the Country was on the fence when it came to the existence of a Deep State, they aren't anymore.
It also shows that rhe MSM, Democrats and Never-Trumpers have every intention of overturning the 2016 election and rendering null and void the votes of over 60 million Americans.
These are the same creeps that lecture us on Trump's authoritarianism.

He's not anonymous to NY Times. They know the identity and can confirm that the author of it is a high level official in the Trump Administration.

 

[Robertinfremont]

What kills me is the same people that claimed Obama didn't have enough experience were ecstatic about Trump. And we need an outsider they said. Someone that is not a politician. He can learn on the job they said.

Would you hire a plumber to do surgery on you? I doubt a surgeon would be a good plumber either. Politics is not something you can't learn on the fly. There's a lot to it, and much much more to running the entire country and making decisions that effect the rest of the world.

Obama never was a mayor or city councilman nor a Governor nor held any executive position in Government in DC until he was elected president.

And you were saying what about Trump?

 

[Atheist 2020]

On the Last Word, he made a educated guess that the person behind the OP-ED is Dan Coats. He is 75 years old, and this is his last job.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Coats

 

[Robertinfremont]

What a bunch of crap. 30 - 40% didn't like Obama's policies because they're republicans. No one thought he was horrible or incompetent except the extreme right-wing nuts. Most of them felt that way because they weren't and still aren't ready for a mixed-race chief executive. They'd rather have a red-faced, childish, narcissistic goon in the white house which says more about you than Obama or anyone else.

We were watching when we would learn that Obama went from Lawyer to skilled president. We never found out.

 

[Robertinfremont]

You can say whatever you want. History will record that the Republican party and 90% of Republicans supported the worst president in American history.

Trump will not finish his term. He will resign in disgrace. And that disgrace will be an albatross around the Republican party for decades.

Abe Lincoln holds that post. He invaded and as a result over 630,000 Americans died.

 

[jnug]

Honestly, the name of the anonymous op-ed author is less interesting than that this is actually a palace soft coup d'eta in process. This is numbers of high level and mid-level officials making decisions about policy in lieu of the President.

However, I continue to maintain that there are no heroes in any of this. Whether Coats or Sessions or whomever, this is and has been totally nuts and this idea of a two track presidency is totally nuts. At the worst end of it is military services unresponsive to the President as nuts as he is. We fall apart if the military is not subject to civilian authority. Its done if that is where we are and we do not make a sharp right angle turn and I mean right now.

Unless the Hill determines to come to grips with this then the Dems have to win control of both the House and Senate in Nov and come to grips with it then. The Congress MUST act and if they won't then be replaced.

The name of the NYT author should not even matter to Trump, not given an entire group of Cabinet heads and assistants running the government around him.

 

[SonOfDaedalus]

Lawrence O'donnell has just guessed Dan Coats and I have to admit it is also a very good guess. I guessed Sessions because his political career is over when he leaves this job. But Dan Coats is also done once he leaves as DNI.

I think it's time for Trump to move to the end game of fascist dictators--the paranoid purge.

He'll purge everyone until he's surrounded by only the most incompetent sycophants.

 

[beefheart]

trump is the living definition of arrested development. The man was born with a silver spoon shoved so far up his ass that he never really had to grow up... so he didn't.

And his followers redefine the words ignorant and gullible every day.

 

[Robertinfremont]

I woke up too and left the Republican party. The Republican party is just a corporate shill party. The platform is a corporate wish list.

If you're a corporation you want:

low corporate taxes
to pollute freely
abuse your workers
corporations are people too
reduce regulations

The corporate agenda is the Republican agenda. All the rest is bait for uneducated masses--guns, abortion, gays.

I do not agree that is the republican platform.

Who told you that?

But to tell you about lower taxes, why tax corporations at all? All that does is hide taxes we end up paying that are hidden taxes for the consumer?

If any of you had to deal like corporations must do, you would regret you said those things.

When i worked for a construction corporation, they bent over backwards to protect the environment. As near as i was able to tell when I later worked for GM, they were gung ho for the same protection. GM treated workers worse than in construction.

It was congress that declared corporations get treated like they are a person. This was so the corporation could be sued and forced to pay taxes.
Regulations poison the system. Sure some are good and needed. But my god, Democrats since 1950 have tried to knock us all out regulating our lives.

Me, I want a lot less of that. Perhaps you enjoy such heavy handed regulations.

 

[OscarLevant]

Meh on this, would the NY Times have published this in say 2010 if it was an insider "resisting" Obama? So stupid.

If Obama were a loon like Trump, sure. But, that is not the case.

 

[OscarLevant]

LOL. More fake news. We're in the midst of one of the greatest periods of peace and prosperity in our history. No one is saying this except for outsiders wishing that they were inside.

No we're not.

That you've accepted the "fake news" meme by Trump demonstrates you have been hypnotized, your mind is a bucket full of thought terminating cliches, and therefore nothing you can say about politics has any credibility.

 

[Robertinfremont]

Into a nightmare apparently. You aren't smarter. You are broken. And the change seems to simulate enlightenment to you.

i was 42 when I quit drinking the Democrat party kool aid. And those were not nearly as bad as democrats as today's are. Today they play extremely poor politics.

I admire Zell Miller for waking up.

 

[SonOfDaedalus]

Me, I want a lot less of that. Perhaps you enjoy such heavy handed regulations.

No, I think it's silly to complain about "regulations" in general. That's like complaining about laws in general. We need regulations just like we need laws. If you have a specific regulation you want removed, I'll listen. But some blanket attack on regulations is for fools.

Trump canceled a regulation requiring financial advisors to act in the best interest of the clients by revealing conflicts of interests. An example is during the collapse where Goldman Sachs sold clients stock they were shorting. How is removing that regulation good?

 

[jnug]

No, I think it's silly to complain about "regulations" in general. That's like complaining about laws in general. We need regulations just like we need laws. If you have a specific regulation you want removed, I'll listen. But some blanket attack on regulations is for fools.

Trump canceled a regulation requiring financial advisors to act in the best interest of the clients by revealing conflicts of interests. An example is during the collapse where Goldman Sachs sold clients stock they were shorting. How is removing that regulation good?

That is a very good point. I have often claimed in these pages that while we needed deregulation it should always be done with a scalpel not sticks of dynamite. Trump and his half baked administration has done it with sticks of dynamite and we are going to pay much more for that in the end than we will have gotten out of it.

 

[Robertinfremont]

No, I think it's silly to complain about "regulations" in general. That's like complaining about laws in general. We need regulations just like we need laws. If you have a specific regulation you want removed, I'll listen. But some blanket attack on regulations is for fools.

Trump canceled a regulation requiring financial advisors to act in the best interest of the clients by revealing conflicts of interests. An example is during the collapse where Goldman Sachs sold clients stock they were shorting. How is removing that regulation good?

Let me show you the damage done by Democrats since 1950. Surely you agree that since we got along very well from my birth in 1938 to 1950 enough laws needed were passed then. But Democrats never stop there. Today they want a lot more laws.



Financial advisers have long been heavily regulated and under requirements of a fiduciary relationship with clients. Goldman Sachs has yet to harm consumers. Advisers also are held to a high code of ethics. I am subject to the failed Dodd Franks regulations and laws.

 

[Robertinfremont]

That is a very good point. I have often claimed in these pages that while we needed deregulation it should always be done with a scalpel not sticks of dynamite. Trump and his half baked administration has done it with sticks of dynamite and we are going to pay much more for that in the end than we will have gotten out of it.

Trump simply called for the rule to be looked at. A court of law killed the rule.

Here's the latest installment in the long, strange tale of the Department of Labor (DOL) fiduciary rule, originally scheduled to be phased in from April 10, 2017 to Jan. 1, 2018. As of June 21, 2018, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals officially vacated the rule, effectively killing it.

President Trump asked for a review of the fiduciary rule shortly after taking office in 2017. First, it was delayed until June 9, 2017, including a transition period for the application of certain exemptions to the rule extending through Jan. 1, 2018. Full implementation of all elements of the rule had been pushed back to July 1, 2019.

Before that could happen – on March 15, 2018 – The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans, vacated the fiduciary rule in a 2-1 decision, saying it constituted "unreasonableness," and that the Dept. of Labor's implementation of the rule constitutes "an arbitrary and capricious exercise of administrative power." The case had been brought by The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Financial Services Institute and other parties. Its next stop could be the Supreme Court.

The following Monday, March 19, the Dept. of Labor told CNBC that "pending further review" it "will not be enforcing the 2016 fiduciary rule."

 

[marke]

Good photo of another Hillary Alinskyite disciple. Is the guy in liberal media? He looks like he is.

 

[lurchadams]

We were watching when we would learn that Obama went from Lawyer to skilled president. We never found out.

Sure. Whatever. There is no comparison between a calm, intelligent, educated and accomplished person like B.O. and the insane creaton occupying the white house today.

 

[AlphaOmega]

My brother just asked m. e: How can there be so many hateful delusional people that can continue to deny the craziness from this white house that's been right in front of our eyes for two years and what insiders have been reporting to confirm it? These delusional nutcases attack the free press, the DOJ and the FBI instead. To admit the horror that is trump that they've helped unleash upon this nation is just too painful, apparently.

So it runs in the family. Interesting. No one is attacking the free press, just the fake news sources which is not free press its a political extension of the left wing party. Did your brother question why yesterdays story required an anonymous source? No? why not? If yo7 didnt that means youre a cult follower and not a thinker. Just ridiculous leftist dribble. If your brother doesnt see that the FBI and the DOJ, comey lynch, strzok etc., were corrupt pieces of fecal matter, that signifies not only stupidity but a level of stupidity that is most likely caused by mental illness. Trumps successes in two years would have yielded him a nobel prize if it were obama. I use that as an example because obama got one for absolutely nothing, Trump is ending the korean war and you guys villify him. Its truly a derangement syndrome and its fascinating how many people suffer from it. Ive never seen such sore losers in my life. My god Id love to talk to your parents. How old is your brother?

 

[AlphaOmega]

What is this an f'ing test? I asked you to show us what great things Trump has done. You go first and I'll be happy to comply to YOUR question.

haha face planted on the first...as I fully expected. Yeah it is a test. I dont like dishonest people so I ensure my time is not wasted on them. depending on the level of dishonestyl I put them on permanent ignore. Yes we are going to go example by example to see if you agree with what Trump has done. I just brougt up NK. Its an astounding thing what Trump has done there in under two years.
Fascinating how lefties recoil from honesty and facts.

 

[itsforthekids]

For ****s sake do you guys have any independent thought of your own? All one has to do to predict every "conservative" post on this forum is read trump's tweets in advance. Best trained parrots ever. The only moorings trumpettes have are anchored to trumps butt cheeks.

President Trump has only done great things for America.