Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

"Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers, defense officials told CNN."

"Trump has suggested he would be open to using active-duty forces for domestic law enforcement and mass deportations and has indicated he wants to stack the federal government with loyalists and “clean out corrupt actors” in the US national security establishment."

"Several former senior military officials who served under Trump have sounded the alarm in recent years about his authoritarian impulses, including Milley and retired Gen. John Kelly, Trump’s former White House chief of staff. Kelly said before the election that Trump fits “into the general definition of fascist” and that he spoke of the loyalty of Hitler’s Nazi generals."  

“Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders,” said another defense official. “But the question is what happens then – do we see resignations from senior military leaders? Or would they view that as abandoning their people?”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/politics/pentagon-officials-discussing-trump/index.html

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Told us what?  You didn't tell us anything.

All you do is read the psychosis of others, that they put on paper and then you regurgitate it.

You told us the stock market was going to crash, and it is booming.  

So You were 100% wrong right out of the box.   

Anything else you care to regurgitate?

That, coming from the likes of you. 

But maybe you're right in this case, Afterall, we now know the call was mediated by Elon Musk! Elon likely informed Zelenski that his SpaceX-supplied starlinks that are primarily used for military purposes in Ukraine will be curtailed if he doesn't appease Putin by giving him all he wants. Afterall, Elon saved the bulk of Russia's black sea fleet by ceasing the uplinks to the starlinks by Ukraine when it could have taken the Russian ships out at will...

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

What is coming from the likes of me? 

It is a fact that you were WRONG right out of the gate, immediately when you regurgitated your BS about the Stock market.

You said it was going to crash and the day after the election it went up the most it has gone up on that day, in the last 124 years.  

That was the last time it went up that much on the day after the election.

You have NO argument about the fact that you were WRONG on your very first psychotic prediction.

Care to regurgitate another prediction.

Hey do you also believe that Black people are going to be slaves again, like your psycho BEST FRIEND Joy Reid claimed the other day.

Do you agree with her?

YOUR president, Donald John Trump, predicted the stock market would crash under Joe Biden. And I know you, of course, you followed his advice and, assuming you really has some sort of investment in the market, withdrew it in anticipation of the crash. Therefore, you certainly missed the recent upswing and will probably reinvest when the market drops, as predicted in 2015, when the tariffs increase consumer cost spiking both inflation and interest rates...
And, of course, you, as usual, dodged the topic of the thread...

"Russia is confident in its imminent victory against Ukraine following president-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the US elections, the Washington Post reported on Thursday."

"Following the US election, Putin officially congratulated Trump on his victory while speaking at the Valadai forum in Sochi, saying that the West’s post-Cold War monopoly on global power was “irrevocably disappearing."


https://www.jpost.com/international/article-828137

Ukraine: sold down the river by Trump...told ya so.

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

Bill Maher has railed against Democrats being "woke" years. Female college athletes competing against biological males, not being able to condemn hate speech and attacks against jewish students on campuses around the US, terms like "LatinX" and "Defund the Police", transvestites reading to children at schools and libraries...these are issues that are rejected by the vast majority of Americans.

I've written for many years that Latinos were naturals to become part of the GOP coalition because of the traditional values that they have as a generalization. This election may well have been the tipping point for this shift, and Dems only have themselves to blame.

The wrong take-away for Dems is that people don't care about these issues and they need to focus on other things. The right take-away is that people care very much about these issues, and that they are on the wrong side.

Hi Russ,
I think some Democratic reps are finally getting it through their heads based upon their recent comments on CNN. 
Others like Newsome, probably don't. The libs on the CARB board yesterday, for example, just approved an increase on the limits on gas emissions which will drive up the cost of a gallon of gas in California by an estimated 42 cents per gallon and that's on top of the most expensive gas in the nation. The decision heads to Newsome for his approval and he'll likely sign it. If he runs as the next Democratic presidential nominee, it'll be another repeat...

"President-elect Trump has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to a source familiar with the decision."

"Noem has little national security experience,..."

"DHS contains a number of key public safety agencies. Beyond its immigration duties, it also contains the Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency."

"It also contains the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is tasked with helping companies prevent cyberattacks as well as attacks on physical infrastructure."


https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4985664-donald-trump-kristi-noem-homeland-security/

The same Kristi Noem banned from all Indian land in her own state:

"South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is now banned from all tribal lands in her home state"

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/kristi-noem-tribal-lands-ban/index.html

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

im pretty much ok with his picks so far, but this one is a head-scratcher.

Kristi Noem as head of DHS and a Fox news game show host as a secretary of defense: what could possibly go wrong?

This just keeps getting better and better now doesn't it?:'(


"Trump picks Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as secretary of defense"

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/pete-hegseth-secretary-of-defense/index.html

JB: "He blames disinformation... and Elon Musk?  Lichtman is literally full of it."

Well, however you feel about it, 40%+ of the electorate got a constant drumbeat of the worst kind of BS there is coming in huge daily heaping helpings from Faux and friends. And Musk's X excrement was as bad or worse so to think that didn't have a significant effect is naive at best. 

Any at rate, Lichtman had earlier fessed up to being wrong and said so. That's his explanation and one can certainly argue over his methodology but the negative right wing media reinforcement of the democrats and the elevation of everything MAGA certainly played a major role...

Jim,
I don't have a source offhand for the 43% figure of Faux viewers and whether that's an aggregate number, an average over time of viewer preferences by polling or by another means of evaluation. Fox does routinely outperform the other media outlets as our resident screamer likes to note from time to time. 

That said, I don't necessarily disagree with your arguments and I believe Lichtman needs to take into account misinformation as a separate key in his methods and weigh it accordingly...