Overlord L'Orange: Observations of an Average Citizen, Installment #32

News of the day:

Robert Reich writes for Occupy Democrats (via Natalie Dickinson): "Robert Reich just asked all of us to share this message with every L'Orange voter." And: "The former Labor Secretary just shared some hard truths that every L'Orange fan needs to face."
"1. He called Hillary Clinton a crook.
You bought it.
Then he paid $25 million to settle a fraud lawsuit.
2. He said he’d release his tax returns, eventually.
You bought it.
He hasn’t, and says he never will.
3. He said he’d divest himself from his financial empire, to avoid any conflicts of interest.
You bought it.
He is still heavily involved in his businesses, manipulates the stock market on a daily basis, and has more conflicts of interest than can even be counted.
4. He said Clinton was in the pockets of Goldman Sachs, and would do whatever they said.
You bought it.
He then proceeded to put half a dozen Goldman Sachs executives in positions of power in his administration.
5. He said he’d surround himself with all the best and smartest people.
You bought it.
He nominated theocratic loon Mike Pence for Vice President. A white supremacist named Steve Bannon is his most trusted confidant. Dr. Ben Carson, the world’s greatest idiot savant brain surgeon, is in charge of HUD. Russian quisling Rex Tillerson is Secretary of State.
6. He said he’d be his own man, beholden to no one.
You bought it.
He then appointed Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, whose only “qualifications” were the massive amounts of cash she donated to his campaign.
7. He said he would “drain the swamp” of Washington insiders.
You bought it.
He then admitted that was just a corny slogan he said to fire up the rubes during the rallies, and that he didn’t mean it.
8. He said he knew more about strategy and terrorism than the Generals did.
You bought it.
He promptly gave the green light to a disastrous raid in Yemen- even though all his Generals said it would be a terrible idea. This raid resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an 8-year old American girl, and numerous civilians. The actual target of the raid escaped, and no useful intel was gained.
9. He said Hillary Clinton couldn’t be counted on in times of crisis.
You bought it.
He didn’t even bother overseeing that raid in Yemen; and instead spent the time hate-tweeting the New York Times, and sleeping.
10. He called CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times 'fake news' and said they were his enemy.
You bought it.
He now gets all his information from Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, and InfoWars.
11. He called Barack Obama 'the vacationer-in-Chief' and accused him of playing more rounds of golf than Tiger Woods. He promised to never be the kind of president who took cushy vacations on the taxpayer’s dime, not when there was so much important work to be done.
You bought it.
He took his first vacation after 11 days in office.
On the taxpayer’s dime.
And went golfing.

And that's just the first month."

Natasha Bertrand writes for Business Insider: "L'Orange's lawyer hand delivered Michael Flynn a secret plan to lift sanctions on Russia." And: "President L'Orange's personal counsel, Michael Cohen, hand-delivered a 'peace' plan for Russia and Ukraine to former national security adviser Michael Flynn before Flynn was asked to resign, the New York Times reported on Sunday."

"The plan involved lifting sanctions on Russia in return for Moscow withdrawing its support for pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine. It would also allow Russia to maintain control over Crimea, which it annexed in 2014."

Lori Fryd writes for The Huffington Post: "The emperor has no vocabulary." And: "I’m not alone in my observation that this is something we’ve never seen before in a world leader. To be seduced by great and powerful oratory is one thing. To be rendered dumbstruck by incoherent inanity is quite another."

"I don’t know what it will take for the sycophantic fools and followers of this stammering Stalin to finally cry uncle. Apparently, a flagrant display of nonsense, asininity, and stunning ignorance does not suffice."

Frank Langfitt writes for NPR: "At U.K. Parliament, zingers fly in debate over L'Orange state visit." And: "As thousands protested outside the U.K. Parliament on Monday, members inside debated whether President L'Orange should receive the honor of meeting the queen on a state visit later this year. State visits by U.S. presidents are rare in Britain; Labour Party lawmaker Paul Flynn noted that only two — Barack Obama and George W. Bush — have made them."

"The parliamentary debate was triggered by a petition opposing the state visit, signed by more than 1.8 million people. Another petition supporting a state visit garnered just over 300,000 signatures."

Lou Colagiovanni writes for Occupy Democrats: "L'Orange is set to sign executive orders that will destroy the environment." And: "Since he has taken power, President L'Orange has been performing his best impression of a comic book supervillain, and his next move will be of terrible consequence to the environment. L'Orange is seeking to rollback policies put in place by former President Barack Obama to protect the climate and the water which we drink."

"L'Orange intends to implement his destructive agenda via executive order, the use of which Republicans were vehemently against a few months ago during Obama’s presidency. Now the entire Republican establishment has suddenly fallen silent as L'Orange rules by diktat."

"The first executive order will force the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to begin the process of rewriting a regulation which was put in place in 2015 that limits greenhouse-gas emissions from electric utilities, removing those limits. Furthermore, L'Orange will remove a ban on the federal government leasing land for coal mining."

Lou Colagiovanni writes for Occupy Democrats: "A CIA agent just resigned over L'Orange, and penned this scathing open letter." And: "The intelligence community in the United States has been at odds with President L'Orange and his administration despite serving at L'Orange's pleasure. A fine line is being walked by intelligence officials who answer to the president, while they are simultaneously investigating his conduct and discovering there is much more than meets the eye. One former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst found himself in a moral dilemma serving L'Orange while knowing he is dangerous and complicit in criminal conduct, and the only course he saw was to leave the agency."

"Edward Price, who worked with the CIA for almost 11 years until abruptly resigning last month, wrote a scathing editorial in the Washington Post where he detailed how he could not 'in good faith serve this administration as an intelligence professional.' Price worked in the White House for the last three years as a liaison for the CIA."

Dan Arel writes for Occupy Democrats: "L'Orange's Michael Flynn just got busted receiving $40,000 from Russian government." And: "According to a new profile in The New Yorker, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was paid a sum of $40,000 for his appearance at a 2015 party for the Russia’s state-funded media outlet, RT."

"Flynn had not previously disclosed that he was paid for his visit, and the FBI says it has no record of authorizing him to accept money for the visit."

"At the dinner, Flynn was seated with Russian President Vladimir Putin, an arrangement that later raised eyebrows when it was discovered Flynn had been in contact with Russian officials before and after the election of President L'Orange — allegedly making promises to lift Obama-era sanctions against Russia for its involvement in the 2016 election hacking."

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