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October 27, 2017

I had a weird dream last night...

Something bad happened to Trump and he needed a blood transfusion. They gave Obama's blood to Trump. Then Obama was on tv making jokes about them being blood brothers and having Kenyan blood.

October 27, 2017

Sorry Rethugs in the House and Senate Trump does not have Alzheimers...

You are running out of excuses for his behavior and his rhetoric. He is just a bull shit artist, a con, a shady asshole, He doesn't forget things, he is just a malignant narcissistic pathological liar.

October 26, 2017

Breaking...House narrowly passes budget

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/26/republican-leaders-budget-vote-244198

October 25, 2017

**BREAKING: Xi Jinping Exits Congress With Near-Absolute Authority

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/analysis-xi-jinping-exits-congress-near-absolute-authority-n814096?cid=eml_nbn_20171025

BEIJING — When Chinese President Xi Jinping strode into the room crammed with cameras and reporters on Wednesday, there seemed to be more curiosity about the six men who followed behind him.

They were the new Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee, the most powerful decision-making council of China’s government. All handpicked Xi loyalists, they will implement his agenda for the next five years.

Collectively they sent the clearest signal yet that China may be entering an era of strongman rule.

None of them is an obvious successor to Xi. They are all aged in their 60s, and in five years would be too old to be considered for China’s top job.

“A new era needs a new look, and even more, needs new accomplishments,” said Xi, who spoke to a packed room in the Great Hall of the People with his leadership team standing rod-straight and silent.

Xi’s choice of men — the wider Politburo of 25 members includes only one woman — has fueled speculation that he may use his almost unparalleled authority to amend the constitution to allow him to rule an unprecedented third term as party chairman and China’s president.

Their debut came at the end of the 19th Communist Party Congress, a twice-a-decade event that offers a rare glimpse at the secretive realm of Chinese politics. The policies and decisions made over the past week will guide China for the next five years.

The World’s Most Powerful Leader?
Dubbed the “Chairman of Everything,” Xi has emerged from this Congress with near-absolute authority.

Xi spent the last five years consolidating his power by purging the Communist Party ranks of rivals, and tightening its grip on Chinese society with restrictions on education, culture, the internet, religion, activism, and the environment.

Importantly, the party voted to enshrine Xi’s name and political "thoughts" in its constitution. It means he is elevated in historical stature alongside Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, long considered modern China’s most influential leaders. The message to officials: there is no questioning or disputing Xi Jinping or his ideas.

In one of the main takeaways of his address to the Congress, Xi said that if Mao made China independent and Deng made it prosper, then he would make it stronger. Welcome to the era of Xi.

The lack of an apparent successor is already raising concerns of political turmoil ahead if ambitious party members grow uneasy with Xi’s power.

October 24, 2017

Trump asked about reversing Obama to rename Denali as Mt. McKinley

By Dan Merica, CNN
Updated 12:06 PM ET, Tue October 24, 2017

(CNN)President Donald Trump, during a meeting earlier this year with Alaska's two Republican senators, asked about reversing a decision made by the Obama administration and renaming the nation's largest mountain, according to Sen. Dan Sullivan.

In a nod to Alaska's native population, former President Barack Obama announced in 2015 that he was officially renaming the country's tallest mountain from Mt. McKinley to Denali, its name in the indigenous Athabascan language.

But during a March 2017 meeting in the Oval Office with Trump and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the President asked about changing the name back, Sullivan told the Alaska Federation of Natives convention, as reported by the Anchorage Dispatch News.

The meeting came as Trump and the senators discussed several Obama administration moves limiting development in Alaska.
But Trump had one final issue on his mind. "He looked at me and said, 'I heard that the big mountain in Alaska also had -- also its name was changed by executive action. Do you want us to reverse that?'" Sullivan said.

"Lisa -- Sen. Murkowski -- and I jumped over the desk," Sullivan said. "We said no, no!"
Trump, perplexed that the two Republicans wanted to keep an Obama-era decision, asked why.

"The Alaska Native people named that mountain over 10,000 years ago," Sullivan said. "Denali, that was the name."

Sullivan's office confirmed the conversation to CNN. The White House declined to comment.
A spokesperson for Murkowski said Trump didn't express an explicit desire to change the name, but simply asked the Alaska senators if it's something he "should do" to reverse Obama's actions.
The 20,320-foot behemoth that anchors Denali National Park was named for the former president in 1896, shortly after President William McKinley was nominated as a candidate for office.

During the campaign, Trump railed against Obama's move to rename the mountain Denali.
"President Obama wants to change the name of Mt. McKinley to Denali after more than 100 years," Trump tweeted after Obama announced his decision. "Great insult to Ohio. I will change back!"
Trump, since taking office in January, has systematically chipped away at numerous decisions made under Obama, including moves to undermine the former president's sweeping health care law and his nuclear deal with Iran.

* He goes after all things Obama, what a turd*

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/24/politics/trump-denali-mt-mckinley/index.html