OUT: Michael Flynn Resigns As National Security Advisor

BREAKING: Flynn resigns, CNN reports

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) February 14, 2017

Michael T. Flynn has resigned as National Security Advisor, per CNN.

As reported earlier, President Trump and advisor Steve Bannon had reportedly been weighing firing Mike Flynn, after Trump was reportedly warned by the DOJ that Flynn was “Vulnerable to Russian Blackmail.” This comes after reports surfaced of pre-inauguration conversations Flynn reportedly had with Russia discussing sanctions put in place in response to Russia’s alleged involvement in hacking the US Election.

On Monday, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway stated that Flynn “does enjoy the full confidence of the President” – a statement which was cautiously walked back a short while later by Sean Spicer, who downgraded it to Trump “evaluating” the situation.

While Flynn’s reported pre-inaugural conversation with Russia wasn’t groundbreaking in terms of precedent, Reuters columnist Tim Weiner describes why “this time it’s different.”

Was it wrong for Flynn to talk with the Russian envoy? Absolutely not. Kissinger himself met with Boris Sedov, officially a diplomat but actually a spy, at the Soviet Embassy on Jan. 2, 1969, eighteen days before President Nixon was inaugurated and Kissinger became his national security adviser. “Sedov said that the Soviet Union was very interested that the inaugural speech contain some reference to open channels of communication to Moscow,” Kissinger told the president-elect. Nixon took that to heart at his swearing-in. His exact words, addressed to Moscow: “Our lines of communication will be open.”

The difference between then and now? Kissinger checked in with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover before he went to talk to Sedov. In the context of the Cold War, that constituted the highest security clearance. –Reuters

Flynn’s resignation marks the second Flynn in just over two months to lose their job over stupid shit.

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The Chief White House Correspondent for the NY Times, Peter Baker, appears to be having a Twitter meltdown after being passed over for a question during a press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – taking a backseat to lesser known ABC affiliate WJLA and the Daily Caller.

Baker is pissed that the MSM didn’t get a chance to hijack the Q&A to ask a completely unrelated question about General Flynnn’s reported pre-inaugural contact with Russia – because if true, trying to mend relations after Obama ejected 35 Russian diplomats and instituted sanctions over thinly supported hacking claims is a bad thing.  (UPDATE: Flynn has resigned after apparently going rogue and failing to seek permission to talk to Russia – unlike Henry Kissinger, who did just that in 1969).

Right guys – reporters who fail to try and sandbag the President with questions unrelated to the press conference should be ashamed of themselves. Give me a break.

Maybe don’t hire reporters who call the First Lady a hooker and you’ll get called on more?

Sat next to a journalist from the NYT last night who told me "Melania is a hooker." Whatever your politics it's crucial to call this out for

— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) February 13, 2017

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Exceedingly short statured Clinton operative-turned-journalist George Stephanopoulos was a complete dick to Trump advisor Stephen Miller yesterday on This Week, after the President rekindled claims of voter fraud in New Hampshire during a Thursday meeting with senators to discuss Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch:

The president claimed that he would have been victorious in the Granite State if not for the “thousands” of people who were “brought in on buses” from neighboring Massachusetts to “illegally” vote in New Hampshire. –Politico

Throughout the interview, Stephanopoulis aggressively pressed Miller:

Stephanopoulos: I’m asking you as the White House senior policy advisor – the President made a statement that he was a victim of voter fraud. Do you have any evidence?

You have provided absolutely no evidence.

Miller – who may be from another dimension, couldn’t or wouldn’t point to specific and concrete examples of fraud, instead offering anecdotal evidence and suggesting that This Week wasn’t a proper venue to offer proof:

MILLER: Bussing voters into new Hampshire is widely known by anyone who’s worked in New Hampshire politics. It’s very real, it’s very serious, and this show is not the venue for me to lay out all the evidence.

Voter fraud is a serious problem in this country, you have millions of people who are registered 2 states, who are dead and registered to vote , 14% of non-citizens at a minimum are registered to vote.

Watch:

I’d have to say tiny George Stephanopoulos: 1, Miller: 0 though George has been doing this a long time, and miller didn’t in fact provide anything of substance.

Not to worry George – James O’Keefe of Project Veritas just came through with a video showing multiple New Hampshire poll workers encouraging two undercover operatives to LIE about their residency in order to cast ballots:

P. Veritas: I’m not living here as of right now, I’m just looking to vote here.

Poll worker: Do you have intention of living here indefinitely?

P. Veritas: Not indefinitely

Poll worker: You want to vote today, you might tell them that you’re with your friend and you’re here indefinitely. Which sounds like it’s true.

P. Veritas: Not 100% true.

Poll worker: Right, but you’re here indefinitely, and your address is your friend’s house. And then you’d be able to vote.

See for yourself

Pay up, dude. NH elections officials welcome out-of-staters with open arms @JamesOKeefeIII @FergusCullen pic.twitter.com/Aj9rT1AYcs

— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) February 11, 2017

No voter fraud my ass. I have a feeling this is just heating up…

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Sweden has recently become known for hypocrisy, Ikea, and rape – in stark contrast to cars and whatnot not too long ago. Last week, right after President Trump signed an Executive Order reinstating the controversial “Mexico Policy,” prohibiting non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which receive US taxpayer funds from providing or advocating for abortions, the Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, Isabella Lövin, took to twitter to mock a photo of a room full of men flanking the US President as he signed the order – I guess for not being diverse enough.

Just signed referral of Swedish #climate law, binding all future governments to net zero emissions by 2045. For a safer and better future. pic.twitter.com/OqOO2y8BU6

— Isabella Lövin (@IsabellaLovin) February 3, 2017

Of note, the raging selective feminist (Mc)Lövin also happened to tweet that snarky little picture just one week before her boss, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, traveled with the whole crew to one of the most abusive countries on earth towards women – Iran, to cut deals and make pillowtalk about how they complete each other (with no women in the room). In light of this, (Mc)Lövin’s resting bitch faced tweet about Trump Seems more than a bit hypocritical, no? In fact, here’s the same picture updated with a leaked account of what was said during the Swedish signing, translated for your edification. See if you can spot the mole.

How absurd. The Swiss “we are a feminist government”  leadership is truly Stockholmed by mind numbing hypocrisy.

Meanwhile (and as some of you know already), to all the misguided idealists in the fight for female emancipation – when it comes to identity politics and diversity:

The Trump organization employs more female executives than men, who are actually paid more than their male counterparts (the Clinton Foundation, by the way, paid women “72 cents for every dollar a male executive made on average”). Kellyanne Conway was the first woman to successfully run a Presidential campaign. Trump’s spokesperson, Katrina Pierson, is a black woman. Omarosa is on fire – although Roger Stone doesn’t like her very much. Trump donated $25K to a mostly black New York women’s basketball league after 9/11. Oh, and here’s a letter read by one of Trump’s female executives to address her experience working for him:

Not enough? Barbara Res, at 33, became the youngest woman to ever be put in charge of supervising the construction of a skyscraper when Trump hired her in 1980. From her book:

“Unfortunately, construction remains a heavily male dominated industry, but in 1972, it was a “no woman’s land,” and Res met resistance at every turn, in the form of discrimination, sexual harassment and intimidation. She quit several positions because of discrimination… Res met Donald Trump, at the Grand Hyatt project he was developing for the hotel company. She impressed him and when he had a new ground up project, he installed her as Executive in charge of Construction. The project was the world famous Trump Tower and the rest is history – a history filled with travail and triumph.”

Tell me again about how Trump hates women? He did all of the above as a private citizen for over four decades – not pandering for votes. Meanwhile none of these miserable hyper-feminists seem to care about the abuse and subhuman living conditions women endure around the world.

 

Places like IRAN for example!

While privileged first world idiots all over danced the streets in vagina outfits and banged their fists in protest against “the Patriarchy” after Trump’s inauguration, actual, institutionalized and culturally “normalized” human rights abuses happening to women in strict Islamic republics for ages. If an Iranian woman wants to post pictures on instagram without a Hijab, she’ll be arrested. Wear a miniskirt in Iran? Get 40 lashes. Go to a party with men? That’ll be 80 lashes. Husband claims his wife has cheated? That’s a stonin’. In fact, much of Iran seems embody the exact opposite of the feminism Swedish deputy PM Isabella Lövin claims to be about. Perhaps her office staff can pose in a cute pilgrimage reenactment that will send an empowering message to young women?

How many Swedish women need to be victimized in dark corners and public pools before these issues are addressed? I hear Merkel is handing people cash to go home.

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Are we witnessing more transdimensional Kekian chess between President Trump and the media?

Just this week – two days ago in fact, Rand Paul went on Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss auditing the Fed – and the disturbing possibility of neocon Elliott Abrams invading the State department as Rex Tilleson’s #2. This was all based on a rumor propagated by CNN “according to sources familiar with the situation.” Trump supporters were immediately alarmed, and the anti-Trump crowd seized the opportunity to expose the President as a secret neocon charlatan preaching to his sheep-filled Tent-revival.

Just look at all these jackasses who took the bait and ran with it:

Here we are 48 hours later, and guess what? It was Fake News all along! Well, not quite… The official story is that Trump caught wind of Abrams talking trash and decided to take him off the list. And look who’s got the exclusive scoop!

Per CNN – which apparently required two journalists to report:

The President found out about Abrams’ outspokenness against Trump after meeting with him on Tuesday to consider him for the position, which would have made him Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s deputy. The meeting went well, but Trump could not get past Abrams’ past criticism, the sources said. –CNN

Sure guys. Trump’s vetting team doesn’t have vast resources at their disposal, such as Google, to find out that Abrams has been talking massive shit about him the entire election, or that Abrams is a dyed in the wool neocon.

Let’s look at what this DID accomplish…

Brought the topic of neoconservatism, nation building, regime change, and oil wars front and center.

Reinforced Trump’s commitment to draining the swamp.

Made the media look like idiots, again.

Whether or not Rand Paul was in on it or Pliny the Younger was drunk on propaganda has yet to be seen – but if this was another case of tactical chess, it appears at least some in the MSM are catching on:

(1) Every time we ding Trump's demonstrably false claim press doesn't cover terror, we talk about terror, which is exactly what the WH wants

— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) February 7, 2017

(2) Why? Because talking terror stands to positively influence public opinion on Trump's travel ban.

— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) February 7, 2017

What’s next, a series of seemingly coordinated worldwide crackdowns on heinous illegal behavior so that the public knows Trump means business when the time comes to really drain the swamp? Plans within plans bitches.

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Yesterday, Expedia $EXPE CEO, long time Trump hater, and former Iranian refugee Dara Khosrowshahi ended an otherwise milquetoast earnings call with quite the dramatic statement:

Expedia CEO at end of company's earnings call: Thanks to employees for 2016, "hopefully we will all be alive to see the end of next year" pic.twitter.com/9BcdQaAq4U

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) February 9, 2017

Khosrowshahi isn’t the first left-leaning corporate executive to use their visibility to slam President Trump and his policies, however his outrage is possibly the most understandable. While the impact of the Executive Order banning travelers from terror-sponsoring nations may marginally impact Expedia’s revenue, Khosrowshahi – who fled the Iranian revolution with his parents, probably has family members in Iran who have been directly affected by the ban. In an email to employees after the Executive Order was issued, obtained by Geekwire, Khosrowshahi explains:

My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978.  We sure didn’t feel like refugees, but in hindsight I guess we were –

I believe that with this Executive Order, our President has reverted to the short game.  The U.S. may be an ever so slightly less dangerous as a place to live, but it will certainly be seen as a smaller nation, one that is inward-looking versus forward thinking, reactionary versus visionary.

While Khosrowshahi’s apocalyptic dig at the President was perhaps a bit childish, I find it notable that his letter to employees acknowledges the increased security the Executive Order was meant to provide – even if the rest of his screed is open border kumbaya bullshit. At minimum it’s tacit acknowledgement that radical Islamic terror exists, which is far more than one can say for America hating CEOs like Starbucks’ Howard Schultz.

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Last week the Failing New York Times published an article crediting Donald Trump and the controversial election for “more subscribers in three months than all of 2015,” claiming the addition of 276,000 new “digital-only” customers. The beleaguered publication owned by Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim is doing so well in fact that they are vacating 8 floors of their New York headquarters to generate “significant rental revenue,” as well as pushing lame Twitter ads offering 40% off subscriptions which state things like “Truth. It’s vital to democracy” and “The best independent journalism.”

While subscriber count may have allegedly increased, website traffic really didn’t start picking up until the first week in December. The Washington Post and The Guardian (UK) saw similar traffic trends around the same time, in stark contrast to most of their peers. A quick before-and-after illustrates the dramatic pickup in visitors:

Rankings at the beginning of December, 2016:

Rankings as of February 8th, 2017:

Traffic begins to pick up significantly around the middle of December for all three. Here’s a look at the overall picture compared to various other news outlets:

That’s odd. Now let’s take a look at each outlet’s traffic by country for the NYT, which shows significant increases in visitors from China, jumping from 5.1% to 49.2% of all site traffic in two months:

What’s most interesting is that The NY Times has been completely blocked in China since 2012, and just last month Apple was ordered to pull two NYT apps from the App store despite users being unable to view content since the original 2012 ban. Per the NY Times:

“When the Chinese government began blocking the Times websites in 2012, it also prevented users with Times apps from downloading new content.“

People seeking to bypass internet filters have traditionally used VPN’s (Virtual Private Networks) which tunnel through China’s highly restrictive firewall, however China has been cracking down on VPN use for several years.

Now let’s take a look at the Washington Post and The Guardian, which are not blocked in China – jumping from virtually no traffic to 58.9% and 57% of site-wide visitors respectively.

 

These dramatic increases in traffic have significantly bumped each site’s Alexa ranking by as much as 38%, a key metric used in website valuation. Of note, BBC.com experienced a similar boost, and others may have as well.

Not to overstate the obvious, but considering the URL ban on the New York Times, one might conclude that this massive increase which now accounts for nearly half of all website traffic is some type of high volume traffic generating bot server unimpeded by China’s restrictive firewall, synthetically inflating visitor counts for affected sites.

All three news outlets spent much of 2016 trying to influence the election in favor of Hillary Clinton with biased coverage and regular hit pieces against Donald Trump. Since winning the election, President Trump has declared war on much of the mainstream media – branding it the “opposition party,” while remaining under heavily biased attack. China is no fan of the US President either; between the threat of tariffs and Trump’s disregard for the long held “One China” policy over Taiwanese recognition, China has both economic and political reasons to try and mitigate the US President’s tough talk.

In fact, Chinese state-owned JAC Motor and Mexican auto manufacturer Giant Motors, co-owned by NYT owner Carlos Slim, are jointly investing over $200 Million dollars to build SUV’s in Hidalgo, Mexico after President Trump’s continued spats with Mexico over the proposed border wall, as well as the demand-killing tariffs he claims will pay for it. Amazon, which shares an owner with the Washington Post, was recently granted permission by China to begin forwarding freight from Chinese merchants selling on its site, and they have also been allowed to operate Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the highly restrictive country.

While not much else is known at this point, the list of entities with the capability of pushing half the traffic to several major websites from Chinese domains seems rather short.

UPDATE: A user on 8chan found this: http://adage.com/article/media/washington-post-continues-debut-ad-produc…

Related??

Update II 02/17/2017: Looks like Alexa removed the country-specific data for the affected sites:

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After a Democrat filibuster of Rand Paul’s “Audit the Fed” bill – reintroduced in January along with 8 co-sponsors and passed by 53 Senators including Bernie Sanders, the Senator from Kentucky believes he may find a friend in President Trump, who has previously endorsed the idea. Opponents to the audit, also known as establishment shills, suggest that transparency might lead to scrutiny. You don’t say?  On Tucker Carlson Tonight, Paul explained how the Fed hurts people:

The reason I want oversight is people get hurt in the downturn,” Paul said. “So in 2008, when the housing market went bust, I blamed that on the Federal Reserve. We’re right in the middle of another boom. Anybody seen the stock market lately? It is a boom, just like the real estate boom of 2008, and it will come to an end. I wish I knew exactly when, so I could give your viewers some investment advice, but it will end. There will be a correction.” –RealClearPolitics

Given the Trump’s rollback of Dodd-Frank, which included provisions to audit dark money emergency lending facilities (yet harmed small businesses and community banks) – Auditing the Fed is perhaps more important than ever.

Just as interesting: Carlson, a patriot, brought up another issue which Rand Paul and many others feel strongly about; rumors of Neoconservative Never-Trumper Elliott Abrams imminent appointment as second in command at the State Department. As Paul writes in a Rare op-ed yesterday:

Crack the door to admit Elliott Abrams and the neocons will scurry in by the hundreds.

Neoconservative interventionists have had us at perpetual war for 25 years. While President Trump has repeatedly stated his belief that the Iraq War was a mistake, the neocons (all of them Never-Trumpers) continue to maintain that the Iraq and Libyan Wars were brilliant ideas. These are the same people who think we must blow up half the Middle East, then rebuild it and police it for decades.

As Think Progress writes of Abrams:

Abrams was one of the defendants in the Iran-Contra Affair, and he pled guilty to two misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress. He was appointed Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs during Bush’s first term, where he served as Bush’s chief advisor on the Middle East.

That’s about as swampy as it gets, and contrary to just about everything Trump campaigned on.

Paul had the following to say on Tucker about Abrams:

Someone who was a never-Trumper should never be in a Trump state department – for goodness sakes!

President Trump has been different than many. He said that Nation building hasn’t worked. When he said that, Elliot Abrams said “He’s absolutely wrong, Nation building is exactly what we need to do.”

Regime change, Iraq War; Elliot Abrams was one of the key architects of the Iraq War. We don’t need people with a failed policy back in. Donald Trump represents something new and different, and is I think, a welcome relief from the Neocons.

Tucker: “I’m baffled by it, to be honest.”

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Stanford University started the week off with two elite liberal inspirationalists to help the tender psyches of turtleneck wearing “compliant and unawares” climb back from the depths of despair. I imagine that miserable couple on the plane to Portland were in attendance – both wearing jeans and faux-buckle loafers with no socks. In a sermon to the fractured cult of Jobs on Monday, Justice Ginsburg put down her antique ivory ear-trumpet to let the world know she wants to eradicate the electoral college, and people need to be more charitable. Credible sources within earshot say many tears of inspiration were shed.

In stark contrast to Ginsburg’s feel-good appearance, however, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel took a big check to show up on the Palo Alto campus, where he effectively called tantruming democrats whiny bitches, telling them to put on their big boy/girl/it pants and move on.

Our party likes to be right, even if we lose. If you win, you then have the power to go do what you need to get done. If you lose, you can write a book about what happened. Great. That’s really exciting [Sarcastic Rahm eye roll].

He then went all Harkonen apprentice, talking about plans within plans and biding time:

You also gotta know, you can’t beat something with nothin’ – that was Bill Clinton’s always lesson. You have to have an alternative. You have to give people your vision. And I would also be honest, it took us a long time to get this low – it ain’t gonna happen in 2018. Take a chill pill, man. You gotta be in this for the long haul. If you think it’s gonna be a quick turnaround, like that – it’s not.

Of course while waiting to regain power, the most effective thing congressional Democrats can do for the country is divide, divide, divide!

“We don’t have the power to swing at everything, so you have to pick what is essential.”

B: Wedge. Wherever there is a disagreement among Republicans, I’m for one of those disagreements. President wants Russia, I’m for John McCain and Lindsey Graham, I’m for NATO. Why? Wedge. Schisms have to be wedges, wedges have to be divides.”

Third: We gotta lower the President, why? Because they are strong enough to get him in [against?] us. We’re not strong enough.

How about “don’t cheat in the primaries with a candidate whose fake charity has taken Millions of dollars from our enemies?”

Video here:

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While reports are rolling in about Twitter censoring or curating President Trump’s tweets (at least some of which Trump is aware of), outrage is building over the increasingly Orwellian suspensions of conservatives- the latest being a 2 week old account which was apparently way too honest about Social Justice Warriors (activist idiots). “He He Silly Comics” (@sillyfunnycomic) set up shop over at Twitter on January 20th and began tweeting hilarious comics which immediately began picking up steam.

BAN UPDATE:

Here are a few examples:

And a few more (click to expand):

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was THIS comic, however, which apparently sent Twitter off the deep end:

SUSPENDED!

4chan takes notice, @SillyFunnyComic stops by:

Here’s a screenshot of the Hijab comic tweet  before account suspension.

This sums it up nicely:

Where can we find you Silly Funny Comic??

Since being banned on Twitter, you can find Silly Funny Comic over at gab.ai

https://gab.ai/HeHeSillyComics

So Twitter decides to suspend the account of an artist trying to make a name for herself for no other reason than her opinions, while a bunch of pedos and the NY Antifa chapter get to keep their accounts.

I’m sure their fans are happy.

#HeilAntifa #Antifa #ISIS #Bronies @ChateauEmissary @Cernovich @AnarchistsBTFO pic.twitter.com/4kC085Bcwz

— MaximumTacos (@TerrorTacos) February 6, 2017

 

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