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Bird Brains Trump-Pence-Bannon beget Bird Brains

Source: This is what Steve Bannon told the California Republican Party convention - http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-steve-bannon-california-republicans-transcript-20171021-htmlstory.html

Effect... this is what the destruction and denial of America sounds like... be aware and act to counter this clear and present danger to America and our planet. More at https://vbutterflyeffect.imgur.com/

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Trump pole(L)s his base - Bird Brains elect first President

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Bird Brains like "thick unguent" MAGA - Trump-Pence-Wrecking-Crew

Source: Gorka: I Resigned Because WH Officials Are Undermining MAGA Platform - "... The president's 'Make America Great Again' platform that propelled him to the Oval Office faces a lot of opposition by White House officials, Gorka told "Fox & Friends" Tuesday. "That's why I left," Breitbart's former national security editor stated. "Regrettably, outside of yourself, the individuals who most embodied and represented the policies that will “Make America Great Again,” have been internally countered, systematically removed, or undermined in recent months," Gorka's resignation letter read. However, Gorka said he is hopeful for the agenda's future and knows President Trump will fight for it. ..." - http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/29/gorka-resigned-because-white-house-officials-undermining-maga-platform

Source: Make America White Again? Donald Trump’s language is eerily similar to the 1920s Ku Klux Klan - hypernationalistic and anti-immigrant. - "... This has happened before. As The Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum pointed out, the Republican front-runner’s refusal to repudiate white supremacists’ support as well as the bombast in his campaign are both echoes of the Ku Klux Klan. As a historian of the 1920s Klan, I noticed the resonances, too. Trump’s “Make America great again” language is just like the rhetoric of the Klan, with their emphasis on virulent patriotism and restrictive immigration. But maybe Trump doesn’t know much about the second incarnation of the order and what Klansmen and Klanswomen stood for. Maybe the echoes are coincidence, not strategy to win the support of white supremacists. Maybe Trump just needs a quick historical primer on the 1920s Klan—and their vision for making America great again. ..." - https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/donald-trump-kkk/473190/

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Bird Brains elect first President - TRUMP-PENCE-BANNON - White House purge or second White Nationalist front opening?

Source: Trump Tells Aides He Has Decided to Remove Stephen Bannon - "... On Tuesday at Trump Tower in New York, Mr. Trump refused to guarantee Mr. Bannon’s job security but defended him as “not a racist” and “a friend.” “We’ll see what happens with Mr. Bannon,” Mr. Trump said. ..." - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/politics/steve-bannon-trump-white-house.html?_r=0

Source: Steve Bannon out at White House - "... "White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve's last day," White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. "We are grateful for his service and wish him the best." ..." - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-has-decided-to-remove-steve-bannon-from-white-house/

Source: Steve Bannon’s exit from the Trump White House, explained What will - and won’t - change in a post-Bannon White House - "... We certainly shouldn’t expect the spirit of the Trump administration to greatly change now that Bannon is departing. The president himself has repeatedly demonstrated that his own instincts on racial controversies are much like Bannon’s. And Bannon has gotten like-minded people into prominent administration jobs — for instance, fellow immigration hardliners Sessions and Miller will continue to guide policy there. ..." - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/18/16145188/steve-bannon-fired-resigns

Source: Top Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Out From White House -

"... Leaders of the congressional black, Asian, Hispanic and progressive caucuses also had sent a letter to the White House demanding the dismissal of Bannon along with aides Stephen Miller and Sebastian Gorka, saying their presence in the White House emboldened white supremacists across the country. The letter came after Trump faced criticism for initially condemning “all sides” after violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia during a white supremacist rally.

“Americans deserve to know that white nationalists, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis are not in a position to influence U.S. policy,” the letter said. “That is why we continue to find Steve Bannon’s presence in your administration incredibly alarming and dangerous to our nation and the world, and once again, we urge you to immediately remove Steve Bannon from the White House altogether. As you know, Mr. Bannon is the co-founder of the white nationalist, ‘alt-right’ website, Breitbart News. Under his direction and approval, this site published blatantly bigoted rhetoric about women, Muslims, and other minorities. It is no wonder that white nationalist groups, such as the KKK, have praised Mr. Bannon’s extreme political statements.”  ..." - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-out_us_597242dfe4b09e5f6ccf1ac8

Source: Meet Robert Mercer, the Mysterious Billionaire Benefactor of Breitbart - "...With Rebekah Mercer, Conway and Bossie on Trump’s transition team, and Bannon in a top administration role, the Mercer family’s influence now extends deep into the White House. This could be seen as contrary to some of Trump’s campaign rhetoric, such as when he vowed “to fight for every person in this country who believes government should serve the PEOPLE—not the donors,” called super PACs “total scams” and “very corrupt,” and slammed his opponent for receiving money from “hedge funders.” ..." "...By giving millions to get Trump elected, what did the self-made billionaire hope to get in return? Hillary Clinton proposed a tax on high-frequency trading of securities, which is reportedly a favorite of Renaissance Technologies. A Senate subcommittee has even questioned the company about its use of the tactic. The conservative-leaning advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform had said Clinton’s proposed tax would “burden markets by discouraging trading and investment,” and experts from the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center estimated that such a tax could cost finance companies $185 billion over 10 years. Carrie Levine of the Center for Public Integrity points out that Mercer has previously put money behind opponents of candidates who supported that type of tax. ..." http://europe.newsweek.com/robert-mercer-trump-donor-bannon-pac-523366?rm=eu

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Bird Brains elect first President - TRUMP-PENCE-BANNON - The nature of snakes - Charlottesville

Source: The Daily 202: False moral equivalency is not a bug of Trumpism. It’s a feature.

"... As William F. Buckley, the founding editor of National Review, once put it: “To say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that, after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around.” ..." -

"... In one of his most famous speeches, Ronald Reagan told the National Association of Evangelicals in 1983: “I urge you to beware the temptation of … blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire.” ..." and "... Jeane Kirkpatrick’s essay on “The Myth of Moral Equivalence” is a classic of this genre. Reagan’s former ambassador to the United Nations pilloried those who argued that NATO was no better than the Warsaw Pact. It has never gotten sufficient attention, but the year Kirkpatrick published her piece, Trump was paying to run full-page ads in The Washington Post attacking Reagan and his administration for lacking “backbone” in the realm of foreign policy. Talk about being on the wrong side of history … ..."

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/08/16/daily-202-false-moral-equivalency-is-not-a-bug-of-trumpism-it-s-a-feature/5993b25930fb0433811d6965/?utm_term=.6f54785d531b

Source: Trump Says There Were “Very Fine People on Both Sides” in Charlottesville; At a press conference, the president refused to blame the violence on white nationalists and Nazis. - http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/trump-says-there-were-very-fine-people-on-both-sides-in-charlottesville/

Source: Trump Press Conference, in Context

"... when he first spoke about Charlottesville on Aug. 12 — blaming “many sides” for the violence — he didn’t have the facts, saying “a lot of the event didn’t even happen yet, as we were speaking.” The president spoke at 3:30 p.m., nearly two hours after a speeding car plowed into counterprotesters. ..."

- http://www.factcheck.org/2017/08/trump-press-conference-context/

Source: Steve Bannon, Trump’s Top Guy, Told Me He Was ‘a Leninist’

"... Then we had a long talk about his approach to politics. He never called himself a “populist” or an “American nationalist,” as so many think of him today. “I’m a Leninist,” Bannon proudly proclaimed. Shocked, I asked him what he meant. “Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” Bannon was employing Lenin’s strategy for Tea Party populist goals. ..." - http://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-trumps-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist

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Bird Brains elect first President -Trump-Pence-Bannon - Reelection 'fire and fury' strategy... - vbutterflyeffect

Source: Trump warns North Korea of 'fire and fury' - http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-trump-warns-north-korea-of-fire-and-1502220642-htmlstory.html

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Bird Brains elect first President -Trump-Pence-Bannon - Scaramucci does the fandango...

Source: Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon - http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon

Source: Fandango - Meaning 2: Tomfoolery (playful or foolish behavior) - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fandango

Source: "I see a little silhouetto of a man Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango? Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning me" https://genius.com/Queen-bohemian-rhapsody-lyrics

Source: Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ

Source: Senate Rejects Slimmed-Down Obamacare Repeal as McCain Votes No - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/us/politics/obamacare-partial-repeal-senate-republicans-revolt.html?_r=0

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Bird Brains elect first President - Trump-Pence-Bannon - Now on TP-TV: the continuing saga of Duplicity and Lies

Source: Trump Confidants, Russia and a Pattern of Duplicity - https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-11/trump-confidantes-russia-and-a-pattern-of-duplicity

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Bird Brains elect first President - Trump-Pence- Bannon Regime - Homophobia and Islamophobia used to provoke a religious war and Constitutional Convention crisis

"...But Franklin’s bombastic extremism is markedly different from his father’s diplomatic spirituality. ..."

Source: Franklin Graham Wants to Be the Next Billy Graham: He’s not even close. - http://www.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2016/02/franklin_graham_wants_to_be_the_next_billy_graham_he_s_not_even_close.html

"... “Prepare diligently to inflict crippling losses on those who have disbelieved,” Hamza bin Laden, scion of the Sept. 11, 2001, mastermind, says in a thin baritone that eerily echoes his father. “Follow in the footsteps of martyrdom-seekers before you.” ..."

Source: Bin Laden’s Son Steps into Father’s Shoes as al-Qaeda Attempts a Comeback - https://english.aawsat.com/mwarrick/world-news/bin-ladens-son-steps-fathers-shoes-al-qaeda-attempts-comeback

"...It was at a campaign rally in August that President Trump most fully unveiled the dark vision of an America under siege by “radical Islam” that is now radically reshaping the policies of the United States. ..."

"... Mr. Trump was echoing a strain of anti-Islamic theorizing familiar to anyone who has been immersed in security and counterterrorism debates over the last 20 years. He has embraced a deeply suspicious view of Islam that several of his aides have promoted, notably retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, now his national security adviser, and Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s top strategist. This worldview borrows from the “clash of civilizations” thesis of the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, and combines straightforward warnings Saabout extremist violence with broad-brush critiques of Islam. It sometimes conflates terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State with largely nonviolent groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots and, at times, with the 1.7 billion Muslims around the world. In its more extreme forms, this view promotes conspiracies about government infiltration and the danger that Shariah, the legal code of Islam, may take over in the United States. ..."

"... Those espousing such views present Islam as an inherently hostile ideology whose adherents are enemies of Christianity and Judaism and seek to conquer nonbelievers either by violence or through a sort of stealthy brainwashing. The executive order on immigration that Mr. Trump signed on Friday might be viewed as the first major victory for this geopolital school. ..."

"... Rejected by most serious scholars of religion and shunned by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, this dark view of Islam has nonetheless flourished on the fringes of the American right since before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. With Mr. Trump’s election, it has now moved to the center of American decision-making on security and law, alarming many Muslims. ..."

"... “They’re tapping into the climate of fear and suspicion since 9/11,” said Asma Afsaruddin, a professor of Islamic studies at Indiana University and chairwoman of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy. “It’s a master narrative that pits the Muslim world against the West,” appealing to Trump supporters who know nothing of Muslims or Islam beyond news reports of terrorist attacks, she said. ..."

"...Others with similar views of Islam include Sebastian Gorka, who taught at the National Defense University and is a deputy national security adviser. Mr. Gorka’s wife, Katharine, who headed think tanks that focused on the dangers of Islam, now works at the Department of Homeland Security. Tera Dahl, who was an aide to former Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota, is a National Security Council official. Walid Phares, a Lebanese American Christian who has advised politicians on counterterrorism, advised Mr. Trump’s campaign but does not currently have a government post. All four have written for Breitbart News, the right-wing website previously run by Mr. Bannon. They all reflect the hard-line opinions of what some have described as the Islamophobia industry, a network of researchers who have warned for many years of the dangers of Islam and were thrilled by Mr. Trump’s election. ..."

"... Among the most outspoken of those warning about Islam are Pamela Geller, of Stop Islamization of America, Robert Spencer, of Jihad Watch, and Frank Gaffney Jr., of the Center for Security Policy. All three were hosted by Mr. Bannon on his Breitbart radio program before he became chief executive of the Trump campaign in August. Mr. GaffnDEVOSey appeared at least 34 times. His work has often been cited in speeches by Mr. Flynn. Kellyanne Conway, now counselor to Mr. Trump, did polling for Mr. Gaffney’s center. Last year, the center gave Senator Jeff Sessions, who has warned of the “totalitarian threat” posed by radical Islam and is Mr. Trump’s nominee for attorney general, its annual “Keeper of the Flame” award. ..."

"...The day after the election, Mr. Gaffney told the Breitbart radio show how pleased he was with Mr. Trump’s win. “It is a great blessing literally from God, but also I think obviously from the candidate himself, Donald Trump,” he said. He praised the “superb people” around Mr. Trump, naming Mr. Bannon and Mr. Flynn, who he said “are actually going to lead us to saving the Republic.” ..."

Source: Trump Pushes Dark View of Islam to Center of U.S. Policy-Making - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/politics/donald-trump-islam.html

"... Mr. Gorka came out swinging again on Thursday, after Mr. Trump’s contentious news conference in which he excoriated the media. Asked by Evan Davis of the BBC to assess Mr. Trump’s appearance, Mr. Gorka repeatedly declared the president’s performance “fabulous.” ..."

"... He has appeared in a number of television and radio interviews as a representative of the Trump administration and a member of a White House team called the Strategic Initiatives Group. The Daily Beast called it a think tank within the White House that was set up by Mr. Bannon and the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner. ..."

"...This month, Mr. Gorka told CNN that the group would bring private industry expertise to bear on a range of issues, including cybersecurity, veterans affairs and the modernization of government technological systems. ..."

Source: Who Is Sebastian Gorka? A Trump Adviser Comes Out of the Shadows - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/us/politics/dr-sebastian-gorka.html?_r=0

"... In the decade since earning his doctorate, Sebastian has vaulted into the heart of the American national-security apparatus. At the White House, Gorka — who was born in Britain and became a U.S. citizen in 2012 — is a deputy assistant to the president. He reports to strategist Steve Bannon and includes the Strategic Initiatives Group, Bannon’s in-house think tank, in his email signature. ..."

"... That appointment, which includes a portfolio focusing on terrorism and national security, has befuddled mainstream counterterrorism experts, who recognize Gorka from his Fox News appearances but not as an influential thinker. ..."

"... Retired Col. Peter Mansoor, a former top aide to Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq who helped rewrite the Army’s counterinsurgency manual, also said he’s never crossed paths with Gorka. “What I've heard has not been complimentary,” added Mansoor, who now teaches at Ohio State University and remains active in military circles. ..."

"... The Gorkas are also strong believers in changing official U.S. government rhetoric to include the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism,” which Obama, and George W. Bush before him, shunned. “We are prepared to be honest about the threat. We're not going to white it out, delete it as the Obama administration did,” Sebastian Gorka told NPR last month. In November, the Council on American-Islamic Relations described the views of both Gorkas as “Islamophobic.” ..."

Source: The husband-and-wife team driving Trump's national security policy: Before they became a Trump administration power couple, Sebastian and Katharine Gorka were prolific collaborators on research about the threat of Islamist terrorism. - http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-national-security-gorka-234950

"... A recent addition to Donald Trump’s White House team is quickly becoming the new face of the administration’s foreign policy shop: Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka. Gorka, who formally joined the administration in late January and previously served as an editor at Breitbart News, has been deployed across the cable networks and airwaves... ..."

"... In all of his appearances, Gorka communicated a singular message: the Trump White House is taking a 180-degree pivot away from Barack Obama’s foreign policy. “There is a new sheriff in town,” Gorka told Fox’s Sean Hannity. ..."

"...Like Trump, Gorka’s talking points are long on “America first” rhetoric and short on details about how the new administration’s policies will be implemented—everything remains on the table. ..."

"...Gorka declined to say whether Trump believed Islam was a religion in a Friday interview with NPR's “Morning Edition.” He went on to argue that the new administration’s overarching focus was targeting “radical Islam” as an ideology. ..."

"... “We understand that groups like ISIS have a religious verbiage, their justification for violence is always religion.” ..."

Source: Breitbart Staffer Turned Trump Aide Is Posterboy For New Admin’s Nationalism - http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/sebastian-gorka-public-face-donald-trump-foreign-policy

"...Dr. Sebastian Gorka, former national security editor at Breitbart News and newly hired deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, has called himself an “expert witness” in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for years, but never took the witness stand. ..."

Source: 'Expert Witness' Sebastian Gorka Never Testified in Boston Marathon Bombing Trial - http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2017/02/14/sebastian-gorka-boston-marathon-bombing-expert-witness/

"...is the San Antonio chapter president of ACT for America, an organization that brands itself as “the nation’s largest grass-roots national security advocacy organization” and attacks what it sees as the creeping threat of sharia, or Islamic law, in the form of Muslim organizations, mosques, refugees and sympathetic politicians. ..."

"...“We are on the verge of playing the most pivotal role in reversing the significant damage that has been done to our nation’s security and well-being over the past eight years,” ACT’s founder, Brigitte Gabriel, wrote in a December solicitation for donations. Stephen K. Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart who has described Muslim American groups as “cultural jihadists” bent on destroying American society, is Trump’s chief strategist. Breitbart has published several articles Gabriel has written. Trump’s CIA director, Mike Pompeo, has spoken at ACT’s conferences and sponsored an ACT meeting at the Capitol last year. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who sits on ACT’s board of advisers, served as the president’s national security adviser before stepping down after revelations that he might have violated the law in communications with a Russian diplomat. ..."

Source: This group believes Islam threatens America: ‘It’s a spiritupolal battle of good and evil.’ - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/this-group-believes-islam-threatens-america-its-a-spiritual-battle-of-good-and-evil/2017/02/16/3e5108c2-ed57-11e6-9662-6eedf1627882_story.html?utm_term=.d00401ab5514

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Effect... Bird Brains elect first President - TRUMP-PENCE-BANNON - Sessions swears to tell the truth but to Trump loyalty is what really counts

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Bird Brains elect first President - Trump-Pence-Bannon - Coming to TP-TV: Franklin Graham VS Hamza bin Laden - Bombasting and blasting their way into your soul in the name of God

"...But Franklin’s bombastic extremism is markedly different from his father’s diplomatic spirituality. ..."

Source: Franklin Graham Wants to Be the Next Billy Graham: He’s not even close. - http://www.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2016/02/franklin_graham_wants_to_be_the_next_billy_graham_he_s_not_even_close.html

"...Senior intelligence officials claimed that some revealed he had been grooming his son to take over the terror group. In one letter, Hamza's mother even implored her son to follow in his 'father's footsteps.'..."

Source: Bin Laden's son, now 28, is hell-bent on avenging his father's death after becoming an Al Qaeda poster boy - and has issued the chilling threat: 'American people, we're coming and you're going to feel it' - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4501734/Osama-bin-Laden-s-son-poised-lead-al-Qaeda.html

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Effect... Bird Brains elect first President - I this enough crisis? - Trump-Pence-Bannon-GOP and their PACs are out to provoke a Constitutional Convention... 

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Bird Brains elect first President - Prime the pump - Anyone want to talk-Trump - Pence-Bannon-GOP - Russia wins America loses.

"Have you heard that expression used before?" Trump asked The Economist. "Because I haven't heard it. I mean, I just … I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good. It's what you have to do."

Sorurce: Trump says he 'came up with' a phrase that has been around for centuries - http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-prime-the-pump-phrase-economist-interview-2017-5

"...Trump and Mnuchin dismissed a couple of crucial provisions in the House tax plan that would bring in more revenue. With that money, according to the House plan, lawmakers could reduce overall tax rates without forcing the government to borrow more to make up the difference. ..."

Source: Behind Trump’s ‘prime the pump’ gaffe is a bunch of real news - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/11/behind-trumps-prime-the-pump-gaffe-is-a-bunch-of-real-news/?utm_term=.a13d251b9c31

"...The Department of Justice has named Robert Mueller, the former director of the FBI, as a special prosecutor to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election and ties between the Trump administration and Russia. The Justice Department made the announcement Wednesday at 6 p.m., following 10 days of political chaos and scandal that has shaken the already fragile administration of President Donald Trump. The decision follows a growing demand among Democrats and some Republicans for an outside authority to take over the Russia probe, after Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey, which Trump acknowledged was driven in part by frustration with the FBI’s examination of Russia. According to a memo that Comey wrote, and which has been read to reporters, Trump also asked Comey to drop an FBI investigation into Michael Flynn, the fired national-security adviser, two months before he was fired. ..."

Source: Robert Mueller Takes the Case:The former FBI director will take over the investigation of any coordination between President Trump’s campaign and Russia. - https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/robert-mueller-will-serve-as-special-prosecutor-on-russia/527121/

"...  "It should be clear to everyone that Russia brazenly interfered in our 2016 presidential election process and that they undertook these activities despite our strong protests and explicit warning that they not do so," Brennan during his opening remarks at today's hearing. He testified that in an Aug. 4, 2016, meeting he warned Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia's Federal Securities Bureau intelligence service, that any continued interference would destroy near-term prospects for improvement of relations between Washington and Moscow and would undermine the chance of their working together on matters of mutual interest. Brennan said he warned that if Russia had such a campaign of interference underway, which had already been reported in the press, it would be "certain to backfire." "I said that all Americans, regardless of political affiliation or whom they might support in the election, cherish their ability to elect their own leaders without outside interference or disruption," he said. ..."

Source: Former CIA chief Brennan had concerns about Russian contacts with Trump campaignhttp://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cia-director-brennan-concerns-russian-contacts-trump-campaign/story?id=47583222

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Bird Brains elect first President - Dick, are you there? - Trump-Pence-Bannon-GOP America Wreckers

"...Q. [Mr. Quinn:] Mr. President, this morning, Governor Askew of Florida addressed this group and recalled the words of Benjamin Franklin. When leaving the Constitutional Convention he was asked, "What have you given us, sir, a monarch or a republic?" Franklin answered, "A republic, sir, if you can keep it." ..."

Source: http://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/i_am_not_a_crook.htm

"... Jaworski's greatest fame came from his tenure as Watergate Special Prosecutor, when he assumed leadership of a protracted contest with President Nixon to secure evidence for the trial of former senior administration officials on charges relating to the Watergate cover-up. ..."

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Jaworski

"...Well, that's about it. That's what we have and that's what we owe. It isn't very much but Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime that we've got is honestly ours. I should say this—that Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat. And I always tell her that she'd look good in anything.[51]..."

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech

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Bird Brains Deep ("shit") State - Trump-Pence-Bannon-GOP - embedded deep in our liberal society disrupting progress to create a better world - #dontdenyamerica

DENY what liberal programs have provided Americans and the planet between 1940-2016

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GRANT WINDFALL increase: Defense +10% = $+52 Billion Dollars

DENY department and agency spending for: Environment, Arts, Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Legal Services Corporation, State and other International programs, Agriculture, Labor, Justice, Health and Human Services, Commerce, Education, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Energy, Treasury, NASA, Army Corps of Engineers, African Development Foundation, Delta Regional Authority, United States Institute of Peace, Appalachian Regional Commission, Denali Commission, United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Chemical Safety Board, Inter-American Foundation, Northern Border Regional Commission, Corporation for National and Community Service, U.S. Trade and Development Agency, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Clean Power Plan, International climate change programs, Climate change research and partnership programs, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Chesapeake Bay Program, Energy Star, Targeted Air Shed grants, Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program, Infrastructure assistance to Alaska Native villages, Infrastructure assistance near the Mexican border, Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, Striving Readers, Teacher Quality Partnership, Impact Aid Support Payments for Federal Property, Community Development Block Grant Program, HOME Investment Partnerships Program, Choice Neighborhoods, Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program, Section 4 Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing, Senior Community Service Employment Program, Bureau of International Labor Affairs grant program, Occupational Safety and Health Administration training grants, Mission to land on Europa, Asteroid Redirect Mission, PACE Earth Science Mission, OCO-3 Earth Science Mission, DSCOVR Earth-viewing instruments, CLARREO Pathfinder, Office of Education, Global Climate Change Initiative, U.N. Green Climate Fund, U.N. Climate Investment Funds, Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Account, Complex Crises Fund, East-West Center, Economic Development Administration, Minority Business Development Agency, Manufacturing Extension Partnership, NOAA Sea Grant programs, Fogarty International Center, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, Community Services Block Grant, Federal support for Amtrak’s long distance train services, Essential Air Service, TIGER discretionary grant program, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program, Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program, Weatherization Assistance Program, State Energy Program, Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grant Program, Rural Business and Cooperative Service’s discretionary programs, McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Program, PRIME technical assistance grants, Regional Innovation Clusters, Growth Accelerators, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund grants, NFIP Flood Hazard Mapping’s discretionary appropriation, State Criminal Alien Assistance Program GRANT department increases to: Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, National Nuclear Security Administration, Transportation GRANT WINDFALL increase: Defense +10% = $+52 Billion Dollars

Source: Who Wins and Loses in Trump’s Proposed Budget - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/15/us/politics/trump-budget-proposal.html and These 80 Programs Would Lose Federal Funding Under Trump’s Proposed Budget - https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-trump-budget/

"... In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression – everywhere in the world. The second is freedoms of every person to worship god in his own way – everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want…everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear…anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. ..."

Source: Four freedoms speech - http://www.fdrfourfreedomspark.org/fdr-the-four-freedoms/

Source: New Deal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal

Source: Fair Deal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Deal

Source: Great Society - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Society

Source: Who Wins and Loses in Trump’s Proposed Budget - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/15/us/politics/trump-budget-proposal.html

"... No one will lose coverage. There will be insurance for everybody. Healthcare will be a “lot less expensive” for everyone — the government, consumers, providers. ..." "... “I am going to take care of everybody … Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.” More recently, Trump has promised that repeal will end with “a beautiful picture.”  ..." "... “We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump said... "... candidate Trump boasted via Twitter, “I was the first and only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid” ..."

Source: 6 promises Trump has made about health care - http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-obamacare-promises-236021

"... The concept of a “deep state” — a shadowy network of agency or military officials who secretly conspire to influence government policy — is more often used to describe countries like Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan, where authoritarian elements band together to undercut democratically elected leaders. But inside the West Wing, Mr. Trump and his inner circle, particularly his chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, see the influence of such forces at work within the United States, essentially arguing that their own government is being undermined from within. ..."

Source: These 80 Programs Would Lose Federal Funding Under Trump’s Proposed Budget - (detailing DENY list above) https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-trump-budget/

Source: Rumblings of a ‘Deep State’ Undermining Trump? It Was Once a Foreign Concept - https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/deep-state-trump.html?_r=1&referer=https://m.facebook.com/

"...But two days later, the communique approved by all the assembled finance ministers was published without a commitment to bolster free trade and dropped a pledge to "resist all forms of protectionism" from the previous year's document. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble said the meeting had reached an impasse when it came to the issue, and added that his counterparts could not "force partners" - read the United States - "to go along with wording with which they don't agree". Mr Schauble insisted that there had been "a lot of goodwill" at the meeting, but whether that goodwill extends to the future trade relationship with the world's largest economy is now very much in doubt. ..."

Source: New rifts emerge as Trump administration rejects free trade statement at G-20 meeting - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/new-rifts-emerge-as-trump-rejects-free-trade-statement-at-g20-meeting/2017/03/18/aa69b1a2-0bf3-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html

"... G20 ministers left the two-day meeting without renewing their long-standing pledge to bolster free trade. Last year, the group of the world's 20 largest economies vowed to "resist all forms of protectionism". But since then, President Donald Trump has taken office, and is aggressively pursuing an "America First" policy. ... Speaking after the meeting ended, US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he would not read too much into his country's desire to change the language behind the communique, as "what was as in the past" releases was "not relevant". ..."

Source: G20 finance ministers drop anti-protectionist pledge - http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39315098

"... "And don't forget," Trump told Carlson, "I say 'wiretapping,' those words were in quotes. That really covers — because wiretapping is pretty old-fashioned stuff — but that really covers surveillance and many other things. And nobody ever talks about the fact that it was in quotes, but that's a very important thing." ..."

Source: Did Donald Trump just come up with a new use for quotation marks? - http://www.poynter.org/2017/did-donald-trump-just-come-up-with-a-new-use-for-quotation-marks/452766/?utm_source=All+Poynter+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4a9c8db3eb-Afternoon_Headlines12_5_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5372046825-4a9c8db3eb-257896337

More Birds Brains elect First President political cartoon series at http://vbutterflyeffect.imgur.com/

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Bird Brains deny it - TRUMP-PENCE-BANNON GOP - sellout America for vouchers

"...Ms. DeVos is a chip off the old block. At a 2001 gathering of conservative Christian philanthropists, she singled out education reform as a way to “advance God’s kingdom.” In an interview, she and her husband, Richard DeVos Jr., said that school choice would lead to “greater kingdom gain.” ..."

Source: Betsy DeVos and God’s Plan for Schools - NYTimes.com - https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/opinion/betsy-devos-and-gods-plan-for-schools.html

"...Pence likes to claim that Indiana has the largest voucher program in the country. What he does not like to admit is that in five years of this program, Indiana’s taxpayers have sent more than $345 million to religious schools with little to no state oversight or regulation. These taxpayer dollars would have otherwise funded public education in our state. ..."

Source: What Mike Pence doesn’t like to admit about Indiana’s school voucher program - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/01/16/what-mike-pence-doesnt-like-to-admit-about-indianas-school-voucher-program/?utm_term=.5f448930438e

"... You don't have to be a constitutional scholar to get that using public money to fund religious schools violates the letter and spirit of the first amendment. Even the radical conservatives in today's Federalist Society would agree that the US constitution would not allow the government to cut a check to, say, the local mosque in exchange for supplying education to local schoolchildren. That is why they invented "vouchers": by pushing the "choice" to use government money to subsidize religion down to the parents, the government can fund religious schools while pretending that it is not. ..."

Source: School vouchers and the religious subversion of church-state separation - https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/23/school-vouchers-religious-subversion

“It’s been a long-standing goal of the Religious Right to replace public education with Christian education,” she said. “The long term strategy of how to change culture is through education.” ..."

Source: Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education pick, is a billionaire with deep ties to the Christian Reformed community - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/11/23/betsy-devos-trumps-education-pick-is-a-billionaire-philanthropist-with-deep-ties-to-the-reformed-christian-community/?utm_term=.e6d2de63e6bb

"...In 2006, the United States Department of Education released a report concluding that average test scores for reading and mathematics, when adjusted for student and school characteristics, tend to be very similar among public schools and private schools. Private schools performed significantly better than public schools only if results were not adjusted for factors such as race, gender, and free or reduced price lunch program eligibility. Other research questions assumptions that large improvements would result from a more comprehensive voucher system. Given the limited budget for schools, it is claimed that a voucher system would weaken public schools while not providing enough money for people to attend private schools. 76% of the money given in Arizona’s voucher program went to children already in private schools. ..."

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_voucher

H.R. 610: Tax dollars for private schools

H.R. 610, aka the “Choices in Education Act of 2017,” would change how federal tax dollars are distributed to qualified states for education spending, mandating that all such monies be awarded in block grants, a portion of which must go into voucher programs for use by parents to pay for private and home schools. The bill was introduced by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), with three Republican cosponsors. Supporters say the legislation is intended to widen educational options for all Americans, though critics maintain it amounts to at least a partial defunding of public schools. 3 – H.R. 899: To terminate the Department of Education

Like H.R. 861, which would get rid of the EPA, H.R. 899 calls simply for the “termination” of the Department of Education by the end of 2018. It was introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), with six Republican cosponsors (including Rep. Matt Gaetz, who introduced the bill to terminate the EPA). President Trump’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, has stated she would be “fine” with having herself “worked out of a job.”

Source: Bills Introduced by Republicans While We Were Distracted by the 'Russian Spy Drama' Legislation advanced by the GOP included bills to terminate the EPA, repeal the Affordable Care Act, defund Planned Parenthood, and criminalize certain types of abortion. - http://www.snopes.com/bills-introduced-by-republicans/

"...  In the United States, as of 2016, there are currently no state laws that require voucher programs to not discriminate against marginalized communities.[62] Further, while some voucher programs may explicitly be aimed at marginalized communities, this is not necessarily always the case. A common argument for school vouchers is that it allows for marginalized communities of color to be uplifted from poverty. Historically, however, data suggests that voucher programs have been used to further segregate Americans. ..."

"... The DeVos family, heirs to the Amway Corp. fortune, are prolific donors in Michigan Republican and religious circles. DeVos is a former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman whose husband unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2006. ..."

"... The choice of DeVos is likely the handiwork of Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who as governor of Indiana expanded vouchers, said Julie Ingersoll, professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida.

Source: Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education pick, is a billionaire with deep ties to the Christian Reformed community - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/11/23/betsy-devos-trumps-education-pick-is-a-billionaire-philanthropist-with-deep-ties-to-the-reformed-christian-community/?utm_term=.e6d2de63e6bb

Also:

Source: Donald Trump Supports School Vouchers. Here's What They Are, How They Work — And If They Work - http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/07/504451460/school-choice-101-what-it-is-how-it-works-and-does-it-work

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Bird Brains get DeVos and Blackwater - TRUMP-PENCE-BANNON - Federal National Guards of America - Justice, Equality, Freedom, Liberty in the cross-hairs

The National Guard Bureau is the federal instrument responsible for the administration of the United States National Guard established by the United States Congress as a joint bureau of the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force. It was created by the Militia Act of 1903. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, elevated the National Guard to a joint function of the Department of Defense. This act also elevated the Chief of the National Guard Bureau from Lieutenant General (Three Stars) to General (Four Stars) with the appointment of General Craig R. McKinley, U.S. Air Force. The National Guard Bureau holds a unique status as both a staff and operation agency. As of December 31, 2011, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Source: National Guard Bureau - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_Bureau

From Stateline.org: "... A little-noticed change in federal law packs an important change in who is in charge the next time a state is devastated by a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina. To the dismay of the nation's governors, the White House now will be empowered to go over a governor’s head and call up National Guard troops to aid a state in time of natural disasters or other public emergencies. Up to now, governors were the sole commanders in chief of citizen soldiers in local Guard units during emergencies within the state...." "...Under the U.S. Constitution, each state’s National Guard unit is controlled by the governor in time of peace but can be called up for federal duty by the president. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 forbids U.S. troops from being deployed on American soil for law enforcement. The one exception is provided by the Insurrection Act of 1807, which lets the president use the military only for the purpose of putting down rebellions or enforcing constitutional rights if state authorities fail to do so. ..."

"... So what did Congress do to avoid this requirement? With the stroke of a pen, they just changed the requirement of the insurrection act to include “natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident”

How does a “natural disaster” now qualify as an insurrection?? Who, then, determines what qualifies as a natural disaster? Will a snowstorm qualify for the president to control the guard, and send troops into our cities? Will a heavy rain? And, when will Congress use another “stroke of the pen” to add even more reasons to have federal military control policing our cities?

It’s not the abuse of power we’re most concerned with, it’s the power to abuse. ..."

Source: Source: Governors lose in power struggle over National Guard - http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2007/01/12/governors-lose-in-power-struggle-over-national-guard/

"...DeVos is married to Dick DeVos, the former CEO of multi-level marketing company Amway, and is the daughter-in-law of billionaire and Amway (short for The "American Way", renamed to Quixtar in 2001) co-founder Richard DeVos.[7][8] Her brother, Erik Prince, a former U.S. Navy SEALofficer, is the founder of Blackwater USA.[9] DeVos is the daughter of Edgar Prince, founder of the Prince Corporation. ..."

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince

"...Erik Dean Prince (born June 6, 1969) is an American businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL officer best known for founding the government services and security company Blackwater USA. He served as its CEO until 2009 and later as chairman, until Blackwater Worldwide was sold in 2010 to a group of investors. Prince currently heads the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group and is chairman of Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group Ltd. He lives in both Middleburg, Virginia and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ..."

"...to provide training support to military and law enforcement organizations. In explaining Blackwater's purpose, Prince stated: "We are trying to do for the national security apparatus what FedEx did for the Postal Service". ..."

"... Academi is an American private military company founded in 1997 by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince[2][3] as Blackwater,[4] renamed as XE Servicesin 2009 and now known as Academi since 2011 after the company was acquired by a group of private investors.[5] The company received widespread notoriety in 2007, when a group of its employees killed 17 Iraqi civilians and injured 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad for which four guards were convicted in a U.S. court. ..."

"...Academi provides security services to the United States federal government on a contractual basis. Since 2003, the group has provided services to the Central Intelligence Agency, including a 2010 contract for $250 million.[8] In 2013, Academi subsidiary International Development Solutions received an approximately $92 million contract for State Department security guards. ..."

"...In 2014, Academi became a division of Constellis Holdings along with Triple Canopy and other security companies that were part of the Constellis Group as the result of an acquisition. ..."

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi

"...In 2010, a group of private investors purchased Xe's North Carolina training facility and built Academi, a new company, around it. The Academi Board of Directors includes former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former White House Counsel and Vice Presidential Chief of Staff Jack Quinn, retired Admiral and former Director of the National Security Agency Bobby Ray Inman,[48] and Texas businessman Red McCombs, who serves as Chairman of the Board.[49] Jack Quinn and John Ashcroft both serve as independent directors of Academi. ..."

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellis Source: https://constellis.com/sectors/critical-national-infrastructure

"...The Bureau of Diplomatic Security, more commonly known as Diplomatic Security, or DS, is the security and law enforcement arm of the United States Department of State. DS is a world leader in international investigations, threat analysis, cyber security, counterterrorism, security technology, and protection of people, property, and information. DS's mission is to provide a safe and secure environment for officials to carry out U.S. foreign policy. ..."

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellis

"... AMY GOODMAN: And talk about what you found out about election night and what his role is. ..." JEREMY SCAHILL: Right, well, Robert Mercer, the billionaire hedge funder, his daughter Rebekah ran one of the most important super PACs to Trump, Make America Number 1 super PAC. And Trump—and Erik Prince and his mother, Elsa, were two of the largest contributors to one of the most significant super PACs that supported Donald Trump. Erik Prince is very close to Robert Mercer. Prince was also at the "Heroes and Villains" party that Mercer threw in Long Island after the election. And, in fact, there’s a picture that Peter Thiel, the right-wing billionaire who destroyed Gawker—a picture of Peter Thiel, Donald Trump and Erik Prince, that Peter Thiel says is not safe for the internet. But it’s clear that Erik Prince, through Betsy DeVos, through Robert Mercer and through his very right-wing paramilitary crowd, has the ear of President-elect Donald Trump. And our understanding, from a very well-placed source, is that Prince has even been advising Trump on his selections for the staffing of the Defense Department and the State Department. ..."

Source: Scahill: Blackwater Founder Erik Prince, the Brother of Betsy DeVos, Is Secretly Advising Trump - https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/18/scahill_blackwater_founder_erik_prince_the

"...Amway (short for The "American Way", renamed to Quixtar in 2001) is an American company that uses a multi-level marketing model to sell a variety of products, primarily in the health, beauty, and home care markets.[3][4][5] Amway was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andeland Richard DeVos. Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under Alticor reported sales of $9.5 billion for 2015, the second consecutive year of decline for the company.[1] Its product lines include home care products, personal care products, jewelry, electronics, Nutrilitedietary supplements, water purifiers, air purifiers, insurance, and cosmetics. It has several times been subject to investigation in various countries, by institutions such as the United StatesFederal Trade Commission (FTC), for alleged pyramid scheme related practices.

Source: Wikipedia