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Trump has properties all over the world. They’re now major terrorism targets.

****. Here's something I hadn't even thought about.

I think Bernie is saying the American people have hope, albeit limited......just not you. You sound like an isolationist but there are others very much like you.

.....then one of the other NSA people said, I fell in love when he killed Osama Bin Laden, somebody else said "he devastated the Somali pirates".

I'm not aware of any meaningful initiatives Obama took with respect to the Somali Pirates. My strong impression is that these attacks have faded as a result of several disparite moves including; better organization and operational doctrine on the part of the EU maratime force and Indian Naval forces operating there, including preemptorty direct action against pirate mother ships, and intrusion into Somali national waters ;

On air, Ziegler called Trump a “con man” and a fake conservative. Like many others, he insisted Trump was grossly unqualified for the job. But his listeners revolted. Along with threatening emails, tweets, and Facebook messages, he was attacked as a “Hillary-lover” and a “Jewboy” (he is neither Jewish nor a Clinton supporter). “I lost some of my biggest supporters over Trump,” he told me.

None of this was surprising to Ziegler. He believes that the economics of talk radio, transformed in large part by the internet and cable news, put people like him at a disadvantage. Talk radio has essentially become a safe space for insulated conservatives. The business model makes it near-impossible to succeed without selling out or, as he puts it, without relying on “verbal prostitution to maintain levels of revenue.”

There are many liberal progressive democrat idiots here on A2K that nobody pays attention to, most are in a circle of friends with farmerman.

Well, today’s Tuesday. What, pray tell, will the president-elect tell us about his secret sources of information, which gives him special insights U.S. intelligence agencies lack?

Evidently, not much. Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said yesterday Trump doesn’t necessarily have anything new to reveal. The president-elect, Spicer explained, is only prepared to “talk about his conclusions and where he thinks things stand.” As Politico noted, Kellyanne Conway made similar comments last night.

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Conway also backed her boss away from a promise he made on New Year’s Eve, when he told his traveling pool of reporters that “I also know things that other people don’t know” regarding cyberattacks against U.S. political targets that the U.S. intelligence community have attributed to the Russian government. Trump has been unwilling to concede that assessment and told reporters that “you’ll find out on Tuesday or Wednesday” what information he has that nobody else does.

“He didn’t say, he didn’t necessarily say he’d announce it. What he’s saying is that we’ll find out, he’ll find out. I think it’s all very contingent on what these intelligence officials reveal in their briefing, Anderson, and everybody should be very happy that the president-elect is open to receiving that briefing. He’s very much looking forward to that,” Conway told [CNN’s Anderson Cooper].

First, let’s not set the bar for public satisfaction too low. “Everybody should be very happy that the president-elect is open to receiving that briefing”? Really? When it comes to Donald Trump, Americans should be delighted the incoming president is willing to listen to public officials with sensitive information – which he may ultimately ignore?

Second, based on comments from two of his top aides, when Trump declared, “You’ll find out on Tuesday or Wednesday,” he didn’t mean a word of it.

I think that's called a circle jerk.

I think Bernie is saying the American people have hope, albeit limited......just not you. You sound like an isolationist but there are others very much like you.


On New Years Day we attended a brunch hosted by an old co-worker from NSA and her husband Ron. Ron is an octogenarian retired Montgomery police officer so he invited some of his fellow octogenarian retired cop friends and Pat invited all the retired NSA people. So initially everyone was mingling and being pleasant until one old gent started talking about 'this president has been a disaster' and the woman seated next to me, former SUSLO was nodding until he mentioned 'he' was a Muslim, and she somewhat startled said "trumps not a Muslim, what?" And I said no, he's talking about Obama......she then added, Obama's not a Muslim.....then one of the other NSA people said, I fell in love when he killed Osama Bin Laden, somebody else said "he devastated the Somali pirates". And the old gent wandered to the other room where he could converse with other old retired cops and let the old retired tree huggers talk about liberal notions like killed Americas enemies.

Obama is a Muslim.

43% of Republicans believe this. Which, coincidentally, is the same % of North Koreans who believe the Great Leader shot 18 holes-in-one on a par 69 golf course. In both cases, the goal of the propaganda initiative was to make citizens really stupid. Successes both.