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In a fast-follow-up to an item I recently posted, we see the signature line of the president-elect’s best known public persona, the boss on The Apprentice, is used against an errant member of the transition team, to wit, Michael Flynn, Jr., is fired from the transition team for using Twitter to spread a fake news story. Not that there’s anything intrinsically wrong with that… when The Donald himself does it, of course. On this 75th anniversary of “the day that will live in infamy, America’s favorite “too much information” reporters at “538” tell us that there are only around 700,000...

Item: Michael Flynn, Jr., the son of incoming National Security Advisor (and retired general) Michael Flynn, who sports a Trump transition team e-mail address (and evidently performs services for said team) is evidently a connoisseur and spreader of White supremacist conspiracy theories and is quite active on White supremacist media platforms. Among the conspiracies he has peddled are gems such as Obama’s alleged Kenyan birth, or recently, the Comet Ping Pong Pizza fiasco; he is an aficionado of the platform “Gab,” which he has tried to get his father to join. Item: At least one Texas elector has “gone rogue”...

This piece from The Hill, suggests that big-money Democratic donors feel as if the money they gave to Hillary Clinton was just burned (it was). The “if only” part suggests, wistfully, that perhaps no rational person will ever give the Clintons another dime– for anything, ever again. Not a speech engagement, not a campaign contribution, not a “donation” to the “Foundation”… nothing. The Clinton Gang already has enough money for several lifetimes, thanks… no need to keep feeding that particular (Democratic-Party-killing) beast. As if… Then again, there are those who suggest that, as some sort of weird peace offering, Hillary...

We are shocked– shocked— to find that Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker (related to a number of other GSers, btw), has been named as putative Treasury Secretary by the president elect. Oh… who can forget this one: Yeah… how about that?

Today’s version of “let’s focus on some seemingly off the wall crap so that you don’t look at the actual malfeasance I’m performing right in front of you,” our esteemed President-Elect suggests that he “won” the entirely irrelevant popular vote, you see, because “millions of illegal voters” voted for his opponent (even as he chides his opponents for demanding a recount in the states with the closest margins) all while questioning the legitimacy of an election he won; our friend Joe Gandelman has a round-up. Here’s the thing: while the Donald has invited the chattering classes to take the bait...

I’ll give you this thematic piece of E.J.Dionne from WaPo called “How to Prevent Thanksgiving Armageddon” implying that “right-thinking people” should “gently chide” Trump supporters on issues such as the Donald’s business conflicts of interest, apparent support of racism (and the clear support of him by racists), and the man’s personal vindictiveness… far be it for me, but I’m inclined to replay what they said after the 2000 election (“get over it”) a phrase I wish we would have heard after the 2008 election. While I wish Jill Stein well in her recount efforts, I think we have an outcome....

A quickly organized public rally took place yesterday in Brooklyn’s tiny Adam Yauch Park, nestled next to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, decrying the recent defacement of the park with swastikas and the words “Go Trump” (as I recently noted); I was out there with many of my neighbors… note the sign that says “Hey Trump where’s your anti-Nazi tweet?” Meanwhile, a swastika showed up on an elementary school near Denver, CO. The President-Elect could condemn incidents such as these (possibly at the behest of his influential Jewish son-in-law), but we won’t hold our breath; instead, he is directing his ire...

Stately Dog Manor, it seems, is near the epicenter of something… perhaps a mile from Hillary’s campaign headquarters when they were operating, A politically-inspired assault just a few blocks from here. And now the defacement, complete with swastikas no less, of a nearby park named after Adam Yauch– one of the Beastie Boys— perhaps 800 yards from SDM. “Make America Hate Again” was one of the mocking variations of the Donald’s primary campaign slogans suggested by Hillary (at least at her convention.) It does seem to be all too prophetic, certainly in what was once the peaceable kingdom of this...

To Mrs. TD. There… something nice!

Josh Marshall reports on the cluster-fuckery going on over in Trumpland viz “the transition,” to wit, actual national security expert former Congressman Michael Rogers is out because of “his ties to Chris Christie.” What ties are those? None, really, except Christie asked him, as a seasoned Republican hand, to be part of the transition. But Christie is out now. Because of the Bridgegate Scandal, you say? Oh no… the Donald’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has a vendetta against Christie associated with former prosecutor Christie’s prosecution of his father Charles Kushner some years ago. So, Kushner, whose qualification, like Trump’s himself, is...