http://www.townandcountrymag.com/soc...ation-details/

So weird of the WH to take credit for delaying it when it was that nefarious Obama the whole time.

DISCLAIMER: **** this post got way too long. Oh well, that's ok. Let's hopefully make it the last time I have to defend my posting style for a while.

Rex,

It's not like the post was a brand new concept out of left field. It's a bunch of Trump & Co actions with a similar MO that I've taken issue with in the past. Call them dots. The Flynn news today was a big dot; a hub of sorts, with decent potential to be part of something bigger. Because that's the way the people who make up Trump's agenda operate. Not the bull**** public agenda, but the private agenda that runs concurrently. That's the one to watch IMO, at all times. Because there's been a pattern developing for about 2 months. Unless Trump is lashing out, or unless the team is failing at coordinating with the rest of the government, they are always working some alternate angle that doesn't seem to fail often at all.

With this particular government, I really prefer to view the forest and not the trees. But alas, I think I zoomed out too FAR in this post. Back to the specific topic of data...

Balance that vacuum you mentioned with the fact that I have many previous in depth posts questioning the "data" items listed. I've covered the voting fraud commission and the insecurity of its data a ton. I posted at least 2 or 3 times about my concerns that Trump could have given Putin US government data about citizens/voters, or other serious intel during their insecure G20 meeting (like he did with the Sergeis in the Oval), and lastly I posted the **** out of my concerns with the Nunes interference story, how Flynn's little helper unfireable Ezra brought everyone into the secure room in the White House to look at classified intel from IC files. What they DID retrieve (as revealed by Nunes at his press conferences) shows that they were in an area that should have been off-limits to Trump. This happened on a night that Nunes disappeared without a word, got let into the WH by Flynn's guy Ezra, who nobody would discuss until it was later exposed (sound familiar?), and this event triggering Trump to make WH visitor logs secret from then on. Then there's the Kaspersky Antivirus thing I posted about a few days ago. Banned by the IC because of data vulnerabilities, but still installed on Trump admin computers. This is hugely problematic. Add in that ******ed joint cyber team with Russia or other willful ignorance of cybersecurity gap, and ask why the **** Trump is so happy to share our **** with Putin or hackers (and by "****" I mean "data" of course).

Clearly I didn't pluck the word "data" out of thin air to try and make a false connection. The commonality is there, and if we're being datamined in any way, that's beyond just criminal, it's frightening to think of the implications of such a thing in authoritarian hands.

Also important, I said several times that it's only something to keep an eye on and nothing more (yet) becauset I felt yesterday's Flynn news could wind up being really significant. I didn't issue subpoenas or indictments or anything based on the theory, and it's not like I'm posting from imaginary sources with secret information. All I did was take an existing pattern seems to have expanded by a large amount.

If you're that interested in whether calling my last post "bad" is right or wrong, feel free to look back and see if my thoughts are consistent with the evidence known and presented. In the meantime, I stand by my position that mass data collection on individuals (for authoritarians most likely) is responsible for the parrert we're seeing.

I pointed this out to an older guy I know on FB who is 45ish. He made a post about how great Trump is because of the economy and MAGA. He lost it and called me a loser piece of trash for not owning a home like him ( I'm 29 ) and how I'm not qualified to talk to him about the economy because of it and because he has a degree in Business, which he just got after being in the military for 20 odd years. He ended up blocking me lol.

My statement was tongue in cheek, that ****er hasnt done a single thing to create jobs.

Good old FB drama. Sometimes I wish I didn't nuke my FB so I could troll all the Trumpers I had as friends.

I wonder how much money Trump has made from his vacations to Mar-a-lago, putting up gov employees in Trump tower etc. I have no idea, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was more than all the former presidents salaries combined.

Meanwhile Obama just scooped up that sweet sweet $400k/year like the greedy America-hating Muslim he is.

The sad thing is the average Trumper probably doesn't understand that a) $400k isn't much money at that level and b) how one might leverage supreme political power to make 100s of times more. So the talking point is probably effective on the idiot army.

Someone did construction projects in NYC and had contact with the Mafia? I might need my fainting couch.

And not that long ago "NY real estate developer" would probably have disqualified someone for office. Hell, being close to NY real estate developers would have been a serious problem.

I'm totally on board with dq'ing NY real estate developers. I'll also throw in reality show hosts and people who don't pay their bills.

I'm bored at work so I crunched the numbers on this, we've paid all previous Presidents a whopping $21,700,000.

Trump has 100% grifted that much already.

I believe in some of the Scandi countries politicians are not allowed to decline their salaries because of the association of doing that with corruption.

Also I think that sitting on your ass watching Fox TV and tweeting inanities in between humiliating yourself and your country in conversations with world leaders isn't really "work" in the context of a presidency.

By doing this, they're basically admitting the info leaked is true (otherwise it's not a crime), so this could lead to some interesting places down the line.

As I responded to him on Twitter, Trump is passing up $400K/yr in presidential salary (so far, at least, he's donated it - we'll see if that continues). But he's charging the DOD about $1.6M a year for the space they're using for the military office in Trump Tower, where the nuclear football would be if he was staying there. The most expensive listing there before his election was 50K/month for a three bedroom. Assuming the DOD took the most expensive place there, he's charging them 160% more than the old market rate.

Put another way, he's donating 400K and fleecing the taxpayers for a minimum of 615K a year... From our defense budget no less! That's money that could be going to defeating ISIS!

The average Trumpkin stopped paying attention to that halfway through the first sentence.

looooooooooool

Didn't several people itt call this back when McMaster got the gig?

Anyone who isn't abjectly terrible is going to have a tough time working for this clown. Not sure why anyone would ever accept a job with him in any capacity.

he even looks like an old-time baseball player

Can't wait until they force journalists to talk and Bannon and Trump (Jared, Ivanka, and Donald) are arrested for leaking. These idiots never have a step 2 in their plans.

It also has been widely reported that the lease is with a private individual not associated with Trump.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN1812B5

I give him 2 months tops.

WaPo has an article about a Trump quote from his WSJ interview that's quite revealing. This is the full quote from the Politico transcript in that link:

What's great about this is that it's the exact same sentiment people slammed Hillary for. She was like "hey maybe coal miners should leave West Virginia and go do something productive somewhere else" and Trump and the idiot Trumpkins were like "HELL NAH, TRUMP'S GONNA MAKE WEST VIRGINIA GREAT AGAIN". And now, six months in, he's like, nope, **** your home, move where the jobs are, just like the reviled Hillary Clinton!

Bonus hilarious quote from the WaPo piece, on why some people aren't leaving their ****hole towns:

LOL