National Security Council: Trump is too stupid to be trusted
Per reporting from Politico, the entire White House has become a place of misery and deep suspicion.
Aides are exhausted, demoralized and afraid to speak to each other, and an investigation has been launched regarding White House leaks which have infuriated their boss. Trump is mystified and furious at not being able to rule as a king (those pesky courts and elected representatives keep getting in his way).
The entire atmosphere is dark and a shakeup feels imminent. Christie wants in, which has incensed Kushner who was key in keeping him out to begin with. Other aides are afraid of Kushner and complain they don' t know what his job actually is.
Amid all this juicy gossip is an important note about Trump and his relationship with the National Security Council. He and his staff are paranoid that they are "out to get him" and the NSC doesn't think much of him either. Trump is asking very "simple" questions at briefings that betray his astonishing ignorance.
Translation: The NSC thinks Trump is too stupid to be trusted.
more at link: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/donald-trump-challenges-governing-presidency-234879
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Kleptocratic kakistrophic klusterfuck ...
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Meet 'Kek', The Alt-Right's Anti-Semitic Hate God
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As the Alt-Right rose to fame, their penchant for using seemingly bizarre coded symbols to spread racist propaganda has attracted heaps of attention. Even Democrat Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sought to capitalise on this. Her campaign highlighted the fact that the Alt-Right's mascot, the green cartoon frog Pepe, is "associated with white supremacy."
Its easy to understand why the Alt-Right turned the ugly, bile-green amphibian into their flagbearer of choice. Long-before the Alt-Right started to misuse him, Pepe was already one of the most popular, totally non-political memes, internet culture injokes, among Millennials and Generation X. Hijacking him and morphing him into their propaganda vehicle allowed the Alt-Right to attract the attention of a whole lot of young internet users who would never have bothered reading a traditional political article or op-ed.
Not so easy to understand, for many commentators, has been the Alt-Right's obsession with a mythical ancient Egyptian deity called Kek; Despite the barn-storming popularity he has enjoyed among Alt-Right fanatics. On Reddit's, The_Donald sub-forum, the possibly largest Alt-Right influenced space on the internet, Kek has been mentioned over 4000 times. Compare that to just 1098 mentions of Jesus, 728 mentions of the Bible, to a mere 277 references to Jefferson and only 389 mentions of George Washington. Clearly the Alt-Right care far more about the little-known Middle Eastern deity Kek than about traditional figureheads of American conservatism, such the Founding Fathers, or in the case of the religious Right, Jesus Christ.
In fact, one of the most popular posts on The_Donald subreddit even depicts Kek as Jesus personified, and Alt-Righters frequently address him in worshipful language.
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The decentral, and disorganised way in which the Alt-Right works makes it hard to chart the origin of their symbols, let alone to find Alt-Righters engaging in a detailed discussion of why Kek and ancient Egypt were selected for reverence.
But here's what we know. The Egyptian Pharaohs were some of the first and most vicious Jew-haters in the ancient world. American-Jewish columnist Jeff Jacoby once reflected on the similarities between the murderous persecution of Jews by Hitler and by the Egyptian Pharaohs. He wrote "Both were attempts at genocide — and in both cases the perpetrators justified their savageries by claiming that they were the real victims, threatened by the people they intended to wipe out." Some historians have called Hitler "a twentieth-century Pharaoh" (see. chapter VI). So it shouldn't be too surprising that Neo-Nazi Alt-Righters find something to like about Ancient Egypt.
Read more at:https://www.byline.com/column/58/article/1372
It's a long, but worthwhile read.
Jeebus going to kick a lot of flabby republican butt when he comes back and catches them all worshiping false frikken idols.
I understand fully the thought behind dismissing a silly cartoon because it IS a silly cartoon. But the truth is there is a very dedicated core of rather fucked-up individuals for whom Pepe/Kek is a really REAL thing, and so many more for whom he is a very useful symbol.
Richard Spencer - the Nazi motherfucker in my own back yard - had this to say about Pepe/Kek:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/richard-spencer-trump-alt-right-white-nationalist
If Pepe is the alt-right's god, then Spencer is its self-styled prophet. A 38-year-old Duke Ph.D. dropout who sometimes resides in a Bavarian-style mansion at the edge of a ski slope, he has for years been quite literally shouting into the wilderness, proclaiming to anyone who will listen that the alt-right, whose name he coined in 2008, is the only political movement that really gives a damn about white Americans. In Spencer's view, if you aren't a white American, that's fine—but you should leave.
Adding insult to injury, the interview was conducted in one of my favorite hotels
but I digress.
Spencer has previously published:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/01/17/richard_spencer_launches_the_alt_right_s_newest_website.html
It may have started out as a way to mess with the squares, and for some it may still be, but do not underestimate the ability and draw this has had to draw in great numbers of the easily manipulated masses. As Spencer said, "this is . how religions arise," and I think we know how so many of those turn out.
Indeed, in this case, the memers don't need you to worship Pepe/Kek, they just need to get in your ear and bring you to their twisted philosophy of hate. At this, they have been quite successful. Perhaps it will run its course, perhaps in the digital age it will roll over into some new incarnation. Fashy anime seems to be picking up steam.
It's all very dismal, but the bottom line is, antisemitism, racism and all kinds of bigotry are undeniably enjoying an enormous resurgence and level of quasi-normalcy not seen for decades. Pepe/Kek is unquestionably part of that.
Is correct in that assesment.
