COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Thursday, December 29, 2016

Obama's efforts to undermine the president-elect

washingtontimes.com

Donald Trump blasts Obama ‘roadblocks’ as transfer of power turns increasingly hostile

The Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com

The presidential transition hit a new low Wednesday, with President-elect Donald Trump openly criticizing President Obama for bungling U.S. relations with Israel and erecting other “roadblocks” to a smooth transfer of power in Washington.

With 24 days to go before Mr. Trump’s inauguration, the president-elect’s frustration with Mr. Obama’s perceived undermining of his victory, and wide-ranging efforts to tie the hands of the incoming administration, boiled over in a series of comments by Mr. Trump on Twitter.

“Doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks,” Mr. Trump said. “Thought it was going to be a smooth transition — NOT!”

The president has been rushing with executive actions to lock in policies that Mr. Trump isn’t likely to support, such as bans on offshore drilling and a fresh round of pending sanctions against Russia for cyberattacks that the administration says were aimed at helping Mr. Trump win the election.

The expanded sanctions against Russia are expected to be announced Thursday, and Mr. Obama is promising to launch covert cyberoperations in retaliation.

Last week, the administration officially dismantled a dormant legal framework that Mr. Trump could have used for vetting Muslim visitors in the U.S.

Mr. Obama also riled Mr. Trump this week by claiming in an interview that he would have defeated the Republican in the November election, if only the pesky Constitution had let him run for a third term. Mr. Trump responded, “NO WAY!”

But the move that most alarmed Mr. Trump, judging from his tweet storm, was the administration’s decision not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution that condemned Israel for settlement activity in the West Bank.

“We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect,” Mr. Trump said on Twitter. “They used to have a great friend in the U.S., but not anymore.”

The move at the United Nations angered the Israeli government, which accused the Obama administration of orchestrating the vote.

The president-elect told Israel on Wednesday, as George W. Bush said in a different context, that help is on the way. “The beginning of the end was the horrible Iran deal, and now this (U.N.)! Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!” Mr. Trump said.

Secretary of State John F. Kerry defended the administration’s actions at the U.N. in a lengthy speech Wednesday, saying “no American administration has done more for Israel’s security than Barack Obama‘s.”

It was an astonishing public airing of the disagreements between Mr. Trump and Mr. Obama, who has pledged to do everything possible to create a “smooth and efficient” transfer of power. Although the two men have spoken by phone many times since the election, their mutual praise and handshake during a cordial Oval Office meeting on Nov. 10 now seem distant.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest dismissed Mr. Trump’s comments, telling CNBC, “We’ve been ignoring these tweets for a year — why would we start responding now?”

Asked by reporters if his transition was proceeding smoothly, Mr. Trump said, “I think very, very smoothly. Very good. You don’t think so?”

Speaking to reporters in Florida about U.S. jobs, the president-elect said he spoke with Mr. Obama earlier Wednesday and had “a very nice conversation.”

Mr. Trump has been irritating the White House in ways that go beyond his victory over the president’s chosen successor, Hillary Clinton. He has expressed eagerness to unravel some of Mr. Obama’s most cherished initiatives, including the Affordable Care Act, a global climate change agreement and a massive free trade deal in the Asia-Pacific region.

The president-elect also disturbed the White House with his call last week for the U.S. to “greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” In response, Mr. Obama on Tuesday hailed the efforts of the U.S. and Japan at “slowing the spread of nuclear weapons” to keep the peace in Asia.

During the memorial event at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Mr. Obama also seemed to take aim again at Mr. Trump’s foreign policy plans with one of those “inflammatory” statements.

“Even when hatred burns hottest, the tug of tribalism is at its most primal, we must resist the urge to turn inward,” Mr. Obama said. “We must resist the urge to demonize those who are different.”
Trump transition spokesman Sean Spicer said Wednesday that the president-elect’s tweet about the less-than-smooth transition “speaks for itself.” But Mr. Spicer, the incoming White House press secretary, said Mr. Obama and his staff have been “helpful and generous” to the Trump team.

As if the transition has become a popularity contest, Obama supporters were gloating on social media Wednesday that the president beat Mr. Trump in a Gallup poll as the “most admired” man of 2016. Of those surveyed, 22 percent chose Mr. Obama, while Mr. Trump came in second with 15 percent. Pope Francis was third.

Gallup said it was Mr. Obama’s ninth consecutive win, but the 7 percentage point margin was his narrowest victory yet.

In the 70 years that Gallup has asked the question, the incumbent president has won 58 times.
Mrs. Clinton was rated as the most admired woman, edging out first lady Michelle Obama.

Transition tensions also flared this week when Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez, who is running for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, accused the Trump team of breaking the law by sending questionnaires to government agencies such as the Energy Department seeking to identify employees who had worked on climate change.

“Those questions have no place in a transition,” Mr. Perez said. “That is illegal.”
The president-elect’s transition team responded that “the transition has a memorandum of understanding in place with the administration, and we continue to uphold both of our ends in this agreement.”



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33 comments:

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    1. Obama is right on the issues- in particular Israel. No?

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    3. Obama's stance on Israel is late and weak. Where has he been for the past eight years and $50 billion?

      The Israeli policy of incremental anschluss is political insanity. It is arrogant, in your face, "what you gonna do about it bitch" diplomacy.

      It would be better for Israel and everyone else to make a one time settlement based upon the political realities of the present. Religious multi-millennial claims of land rights that were vacated thousands of years ago is fraught with political danger, none ore so than for the US.

      I'll wait to see Trump's policy before finding fault in it.

      The Neocon destabilization project has been an unmitigated disaster for all parties. It had to stop and has.

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    4. If there is one issue where Trump has been consistent it has been his statements, and actions (Israeli ambassador appointment), regarding Israel.

      Here's to wishful thinking...

      ...hate inspired blindness is more apt it appears.

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    5. He is not in office yet. We shall see if he leads or lags the US Conga Line.

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    6. Jews have a right to the Western Wall.

      They have a right to live anywhere in the world.

      Just as Arabs do and do...

      There is 1.7 million Arab citizens of Israel out of total of 8 million

      There are less than 10,000 Jewish citizens of the arab world, with a population of 300,000,000.

      Israel sits on 1/900th of the land of the middle east.

      The Arabs (not counting the arabs of Israel) have 899/900th.

      Dont like the idea of Israelis living in the west bank?

      Too bad, I don't like the Idea of Arabs living in the west, America, Europe and such, and to me, too bad.

      If arabs have the right to live and take over areas all over the planet? then jews have the same right.

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  2. I've always wanted to see a transfer of power with one side refusing to give up the nuclear football to the other The refs, much as they would like, can'd get the ball out of the hands of the incumbent. Finally the incumbent side calls the game over and races victoriously for the locker rooms...what happens then ?

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    1. TIME FOR

      SUPERQUIRK KEEPER OF THE SCALES OF LIFE......

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    2. Where's Quirk ? Where's The Q ?

      Drinking down at the bodega with the Maria again, Senor.

      This time of the morning ?


      si'.

      Well haul his ass us here he's needed now.

      As you wish Senor....

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    Washington Times?

    What a bullshit post.

    Busy at the moment or I would offer an alternate view to the points it failed to make.

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    1. Your counterpoint has been anticipated and will be welcomed.

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    2. Washington Times?

      Yea, let's have some unbiased news from the Post and the Times!

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  4. ‘If you have a trade war with China, by definition — I remember the day something like that would really knock the hell out of the market. But maybe, if you are going to do it, you should get it over with, right?’

    We have been in a trade war with China for 25 years and have been losing badly.

    Get it on.
    Carl Icahn

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    1. Carl is in italics. I am saying "Get it on."

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  5. Let's face it. Obama was a lazy self-satisfied ass, pampered and powdered by the sycophantic media.

    Trump is trumping him. Boo fucking Hoo

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  6. When one is going to be dead, so to speak, in twenty days, the proper gestures are silence, and love all around, and not to go out fine tuning the will, which should have been done long ago.

    Bad form

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  7. Kerry has passed more diplomatic gas to no effect than anyone in a long time. Hillary at least got bunches and bunches and bunches of cash for her Foundation.

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    Please let me know when the friggin constitution was changed to say the presidential term is now 46 months rather than 48. If the GOP had their way, the term for Democrats would be 3 years or less. They have already delayed a hearing on a new Supreme Court Justice for six months.

    And look at NC. The GOP lost so the outgoing governor and the GOP legislature stripped the governor position down to the point where one GOP legislator in excusing the actions said 'Well, the new governor will have a nice new house and a limousine. He should be grateful.' I know it's just a bunch of hicks in NC but still...what friggin hypocrites.

    Everything you said about Obama's character is true but that's got jackshit to do with recent actions.

    Obama is a narcissist? Good lord, compared to Trump he's a piker in that category. Funny that Trump's non-specific whiny tweet came out at the same time that he came in a poor second to Obama on Gallup's 'Most Admired Man' survey.

    Obama taking actions during his last few months. What the hell is he supposed to do, go on some three month victory tour? Silly.

    Trump isn't even president yet but he's calling the leader of Taiwan, telling Israel (publicly) to ignore Obama because he will be the new sheriff in town in a few weeks, and calling Sisi in Egypt to influence their actions on the Israel resolution at the UN. You guys complain about our president doing his job, a job he was elected to; yet, you give a pass to a non-president encroaching on US foreign policy a month before he even has the job.

    As was pointed out, Trump is unpredictable. We'll have to see what he actually does. However, if his previous words and the actions he took around the latest UN resolution are any indication we can assume he will be Bibi's poodle. Anyone watching the news stories over the last few days coming out of Israel or have watched Bibi and Bennett on TV would have to assume Bibi and the right wing in Israel believes it will be so. Maybe Bibi will loan Trump to Putin once in a while to take on a walk.

    Obama on Israel? Kerry busted his ass trying to get things done for 9 months with no result. In his latest address following the UN vote he at least named names, pointed out who and what were the real obstacles to peace there, called a spade a spade something that has been sadly wanting before.

    However, given that, ALL of the so-called 'peace talks' are quixotic kabuki, idealistic but fruitless. There will never be two states there. So what good was Kerry's effort or the UN resolution? No practical good at all, but at least when the shit really hits the fan there we can say not only that we told you so but also that we tried.

    Supposedly, Trump would reverse all that. He has promised a radical change in US policy, moving our embassy to Jerusalem, offering free reign to new settlement building, and putting the US at odds with the rest of the world.

    The president-elect’s transition team responded that “the transition has a memorandum of understanding in place with the administration, and we continue to uphold both of our ends in this agreement.”

    I'd like to see the document.

    It would be interesting to see who has done what.

    During the transition, Trump should be gathering his team and developing his policies not implementing them.

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  9. Trump got elected based on radical change. They were aick of Hillary and Obama.

    Obama will be moving one mile to his new home in DC. He is out to do what he can to destroy the Trump presidency.

    His latest cute trick is to further destabilize relations with Russia. Obama is morally indignant that the Russians may have exposed to the US public that Hillary really is the shit many of us knew her to be.

    How awful that the US public got to see the real Hillary.

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      Trump got elected based on radical change.

      Radical for radical sake is just plain stupid. There is radical and then there is radical. Some of the stuff he comes up with is batshit crazy. Luckily, he is limited in what he can do at this point.

      Do I think Obama is levying the sanctions on Russia as a face saving measure for him, Hillary, and the Dems? Of course.

      Do I feel sorry for the Russians. Hardly. If they didn't deserve it for hacking they deserved it for something else. The Russians are hardly the good guys.

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  10. Just in from Cameroon:

    http://cameroon-concord.com/local/7489-cameroon-five-dead-and-one-wounded-in-a-ghastly-accident-on-the-douala-yaounde-highway

    bad overtaking

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  11. Sec Kerry is advocating that Israel deport the 1.7 million arabs from Israel and into the arab controlled lands of the west bank

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  12. Old horse joins pack of mini donkeys to escape slaughter, president of Frisco nonprofit says
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    An old gray horse headed for slaughter in Mexico recently orchestrated his escape by slipping into a pack of mini donkeys being rescued by a Frisco-based nonprofit, the group's president said.

    Staff members of Becky's Hope Horse Rescue were down at a "kill lot" to rescue several donkeys, which is part of their mission to save abused, neglected or abandoned livestock. Bubbles, the horse, walked right up to their trailer as they tried to load the donkeys, according to a Facebook post from the nonprofit published Dec. 16.
    "He was intent that this was his ride out of there," the post said. "We stood there staring as this old guy with crumbled ears from frostbite waited patiently for the group of mini donkeys to catch up so he could jump on the "freedom trailer" out of there."....

    http://www.dallasnews.com/news/animals/2016/12/29/elderly-horse-poses-mini-donkey-get-rescued-slaughter-president-frisco-nonprofit-says

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  13. 2019.10.07台北知名酒店經紀觀察家分析:在如今的八大行業酒店上班職場上,居然只有4%員工渴望包養框出接S(性交易)嗎?這是酒店經紀公司在九月底發布的最新酒店兼差調查結果。這份酒店打工報告,一共訪問了6千名酒店兼職的酒店小姐分別來自制服店、禮服店、便服店、飯局、直播網紅等不同領域職場工作者,其中僅有4%期待在未來五年到十年可以賺到新台幣3千萬。事實上,這股「性交易」趨勢,早已在亞洲各地悄悄崛起。從暴紅的網紅金句:「趁年輕能撈就撈!」不然青春就白混了。接S(性交易)頻繁的討論相關議題,都可見其嚴重的落差性,台灣也不例外。換言之,表現優秀等於獲得機會、鼓勵酒店小姐從基層一路到被企業界大老闆包養的公式,已經出現了新的可能。

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  14. 2019.10.10台北酒店經紀知名公司宣布,創新酒店上班的酒店小姐與外送到府服務之外,將推出全新酒店打工的「賺錢現領」(Uber Works)的全新應用程式(App),此新項目即日起在中國市場實驗一年,主要替公司企業老闆尋找合適陪睡(性交易)的酒店小姐。酒店經紀指出,想要透過這項新項目找到酒店兼差工作者,需先通過Uber以及酒店經紀公司進行的背景調查,知名酒店經紀公司梁曉尊執行長說,在調查過程中,Uber會詢問酒店兼職應徵者是否具有與該職位相關配合度,如:工作性質本能、口交、口爆(射在嘴巴裡) 、顏射(精子射在臉上) 、開後門(肛交) 、制服(角色扮演)。此外慎重嚴禁不得內射(精子射在裡面),基於健康安全及職業道德。

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  15. 2019.10.11 酒店上班類型多,酒店工作求職者尋職時不一定都能了解職務內容,台北知名酒店經紀公司為大學生、上班族酒店兼差就業通特別製作影片,邀請八大行業職場酒店小姐闡述工作甘苦並給予尋職建議,盼助酒店打工求職者找到適合工作。台灣社會有許多職業,許多求職者往往不瞭解酒店工作內容前往求職,才發現與想像中不同。知名酒店經紀梁小尊/梁曉尊指出,求職者常嚮往看似光鮮亮麗的工作,但其實這些工作背後,卻往往有著難以想像的辛苦。為了避免在學大學生以及上班族兩大族群渴望酒店兼職求職者對職務期待有所落差,八大行業酒店經紀公司特別規劃製作「框出陪睡(性交易)」職業介紹影片,透過拍攝各行各業職場酒店小姐一日的工作內容,讓對這些職業有興趣與志向的求職者及大學生新鮮人更了解八大行業酒店上班產業趨勢與職務工作內容,做好求職前的準備工作。

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  16. 2019.10.11 酒店上班類型多,酒店工作求職者尋職時不一定都能了解職務內容,台北知名酒店經紀公司為大學生、上班族酒店兼差就業通特別製作影片,邀請八大行業職場酒店小姐闡述工作甘苦並給予尋職建議,盼助酒店打工求職者找到適合工作。台灣社會有許多職業,許多求職者往往不瞭解酒店工作內容前往求職,才發現與想像中不同。知名酒店經紀梁小尊/梁曉尊指出,求職者常嚮往看似光鮮亮麗的工作,但其實這些工作背後,卻往往有著難以想像的辛苦。為了避免在學大學生以及上班族兩大族群渴望酒店兼職求職者對職務期待有所落差,八大行業酒店經紀公司特別規劃製作「框出陪睡(性交易)」職業介紹影片,透過拍攝各行各業職場酒店小姐一日的工作內容,讓對這些職業有興趣與志向的求職者及大學生新鮮人更了解八大行業酒店上班產業趨勢與職務工作內容,做好求職前的準備工作。

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  17. 2019.10.24酒店上班類型多,酒店工作求職者尋職時不一定都能了解職務接S(陪睡性交易)內容,台北知名酒店經紀公司為大學生、上班族酒店兼差就業特別製作應徵就業影片,邀請全國各地八大行業職場酒店小姐闡述工作甘苦並給予尋職建議,盼助酒店打工求職者找到適合工作。台灣有許多職業,許多求職者往往不瞭解酒店工作內容前往求職,才發現與想像中不同。知名酒店經紀梁曉尊/梁小尊指出:求職者常嚮往看似光鮮亮麗的酒店工作,但其實這些工作背後,卻往往有著難以想像的辛苦。為了避免在學大學生以及上班族兩大族群渴望酒店兼職求職者對職務期待有所落差,八大行業酒店經紀公司特別規劃製作「框出陪睡(性交易)」職業介紹影片,透過拍攝各行各業職場酒店小姐一日的工作內容,讓對這些職業有興趣與志向的求職者及大學生新鮮人更了解八大行業酒店上班產業趨勢與職務工作內容,做好求職前的準備工作。

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  18. 2019.10.29台北市八大行業酒店上班即時新聞:隨著近年知名網紅跨國賣淫,讓酒店工作市場發展酒店小姐接S(性交易)崛起,然而有特別性服務文化仍為消費者的青睞,如:顏射(精子射在臉上) 、口交口爆(精子射在嘴裡) 、戴套肛交進行交易專業精緻化,也大大提昇上班族願意酒店兼職提高薪資水平,尋找優秀人員的意願。本次大學生酒店兼差有為1節最高可達$200元,對於找兼職求職者可以說是敞開大門,彈性排班的多元酒店上班就業機會,釋出兼差兼職酒店打工最高可達$100K。本週還邀請「知名酒店經紀有限公司」,以[翻轉低薪、搶救年輕人]為軸心,致力於推動八大行業酒店上班為目標。歡迎就業、轉職、兼職需求的民眾把握難得八大行業徵才酒店小姐的機會,著正式服裝至現場與徵才直接面試,找到合適的酒店工作。

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  19. 2019.11.19台北市知名酒店經紀內幕指出:王姓女子與李姓女子以「在酒店上班賺錢最快,也可以獲取高薪」宣傳酒店打工手法,引誘3名未滿18歲少女加入旗下擔任酒店小姐,還提供住宿並帶少女到「造型概念館」挑選禮服及安排專人化妝後 ,再以她們需酒店上班賺錢償還妝髮、禮服、包鞋等治裝費用為由,帶往酒店工作陪酒從中牟利。檢調調查,39歲的王女從事媒介旗下小姐至酒店坐檯陪酒,以抽取傭金的酒店經紀人工作,明知不得招募大學生酒店兼職、引誘、容留、 媒介、協助、利用或以他法使少女坐檯陪酒或涉及色情之伴遊、伴唱、伴舞、顏射(精子射在臉上) 、口交口爆(精子射在嘴裡) 、戴套肛交進行交易專業精緻化等行為,竟意圖營利,先以無償提供套房住宿、替你買單支付名牌物品及餐費等條件作為報酬,聘僱具相同犯意的24歲李女(綽號「達達」、「金達達」、「卡比」)擔任其助理,負責招募上班族酒店兼職來當酒店小姐、代向各酒店收取旗下小姐坐檯陪酒薪水、擔任司機接送小姐上下班。期間少女每坐檯陪酒1檯1小時,由店家支付850元或900元不等薪資,少女1檯1小時皆實領600元,其餘均為經紀人所得傭金,酒店則另向男客收取包廂費及酒水等費用。檢方指出,王女、李女所為,均係犯違反兒童及少年性剝削防制條例之意圖營利引誘、媒介、協助少女坐檯陪酒罪嫌,被告媒介少女坐檯陪酒利潤為每人每檯250元、每人每天保守以5檯計算約1250元,王女媒介少女陪酒日數約40天,經估算後犯罪所得共計約5萬元,建請院方依法宣告沒收。

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