And the corruption potential, conflict of interest probability, very real likely law breaking hasn’t stopped merely because political factions and persons have exited the campaign trail; if anything, it has intensified. Solidifying forming realities the Russia ties to Trump and suspected election interference, attempts to do so weren’t just noise, a distraction are Russians now bragging about their communication with Donald Trump, Trump staff all throughout the election cycle, they insist it was in the course of normal business dealings; however, no one can be sure when documented hacks on the DNC, the Podesta e-mails, 2 local voting stations can be credibly traced to a singular source conclusively outside the country, Russia. But to diehard republicans, supporters, independent media skeptics the ‘Russia connection’ was a convenient attention grabbing cop out to distract from Hillary Clinton’s problems and conflicts with her own foundation; oh and utterly McCarthyite…. Megyn Kelly is being once more outspoken, not just about Roger Ailes’ sexual harassment but how furious Trump was with her about unflattering coverage centered around his ex-wife’s later recanted rape allegation, threats to unleash his twitter account on her evolving into Trump staff retweeting calls to gut her, fear for her personal safely she felt because of him; bad enough he had his base so amped up she needed security from his followers. An even bigger clincher, he apparently tried to use gifts to gain more favorable news coverage of him from her and her employers’ network (Fox News), some unnamed ‘egos’ willing to take him up on his offer; Donna Brazil kind-a pales in comparison doesn’t she considering if you weren’t prepared for a question on Flint Michigan noting the location of that town hall you weren’t paying attention, or that to expect a question on Flint Michigan was common sense and closing, Bernie Sanders lacking prep time ‘unfairly’ given Clinton had better answers. But the mainstream media is corrupt, a spin machine for Hillary Clinton producing exactly zero stories she bribed, tried to influence coverage of herself apart from maybe a magazine article whose author took it upon themselves to run what appears to be the entire story by her; though final outcomes are undetermined because it was part of the already suspect Podesta e-mails disseminated from middle man WikiLeaks origin unknown, where glaring alterations have been found when looking closely and, even by independent media, was acknowledged to be incomplete… his kids are supposed to be overseeing the Trump business enterprise now that he is officially president elect; instead raising eyebrows, they have been seen taking high level meetings alongside their father including his meeting with Japan’s president as simultaneously daughter Ivanka’s company was finalizing a deal there partnered to a company wholly owned by Japan’s government. Hints why she wanted to ‘simply sit in’ on a meeting, daughter Ivanka, who suddenly wants to move to Washington D.C. post drawing fire for using the Trump family photo during their 60 Minutes interview to promote her jewelry line…. Added to unprecedented conflicts of interest and how it could negatively affect America’s collective national interests, undermine our global reputation, is the sheer incompetence displayed during the transition to this point, not singularly of a non-politician surprisingly turned president elect almost overnight shocked by his unexpected win, but the people he insists on surrounding himself with; true rumors he sought security clearance for his oldest 3 children turned out to be only that proliferated by a low level staffer who wanted to appear in the know, promptly fired. Yet Donald Trump is actually seeking clearance for his son-in-law Jared Kushner as an adviser, opening up serious questions about nepotism laws, whether he takes a salary for his probable top level advisory positon or not, who when touring the Whitehouse shortly after his father-in-law was deemed president elect asked how many of the staff would be staying once president Obama left, only to be told none of them, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow stating disbelieving of displayed ignorance resonating in her voice ‘you do have to hire 4,000 people’ excluding cabinet members. His son Eric illegally tweeted a picture of his election ballot, granted so did many, especially celebrities, but it is considered bad form when a president’s own children can’t follow basic rules; can you imagine the scandal, the uproar if Malia Obama had done the same?…Recalling Trump surrogate Omarosa’s vague references to an enemies list quoted in an interview saying, “it’s so great our enemies are making themselves clear so that when we get in to the White House, we know where we stand,” reported on the heels of portrayals Donald Trump views the presidency as his own personal revenge fantasy based on internal conversations devising ways to hurt ‘never Trump’ republicans signaling real worry he’s literally going to use the oval office to get back at people who were mean to him. Abjectly frightening is the YouTube video of Omarosa going into ecstatic detail describing people who will have to bow down to Trump, every critic, doubter, skeptic detractor, person who disagreed, challenged him; calling it the greatest revenge becoming the most powerful person in the universe. Except we live in a democracy, flawed certainly, holding fast to democratic ideals meaning no one will be expected to bow down, lick boots, prostrate themselves at the feet of our leader, at home or visiting from abroad, that’s 3rd world, puppet government stuff having no place in America, which is one country among several westernized ‘superpowers’ nullifying her universe hyperbole; governing responsibly thrown completely out the window. Sketches of the forthcoming Trump Whitehouse seemingly substantiated by former George W. Bush counselor Eliot A. Cohen who warned fellow republicans to outright avoid Trump’s administration filled with little else apart from unquestioning loyalty falling in line with organization chaos warnings, confusion about a clear chain of command according to Mike Rogers who was removed from Trump’s transition team proceedings….Next before they fired one Michael G. Flynn Jr. son of general Michael T. Flynn senior for retweeting, spreading the fake news story pizza-gate: Hillary Clinton John Podesta are running a child sex trafficking, child abuse ring out of a D.C. pizza parlor—in actuality prior talks were, definitive past tense, about a campaign stop at the named popular pizza restaurant that didn’t materialize throughout election cycle, events that got morphed into that, leading a concerned, armed citizen coming all the way from North Carolina to ‘investigate’ blatantly fictitious, fabricated allegations opening fire on the business, fortunately no one was injured or killed, man surrendering peacefully once he realized no children were in danger— they had planned to give him security clearance… Multiplying already voiced concerns about Trump’s staffing, confirmed cabinet picks and those on respective short lists aren’t disgruntled murmurings simply boiled down to Donald Trump being an undesired republican appointing, par for the course with whichever party wins the Whitehouse, a who’s who of stanch party members, here republicans, the crème de la crème of republican names to key positions, as advisers, secretaries of government agencies; it is specifically who he’s chosen for exact jobs and their potential impact on our nation going forward through the next 100 days, the next 4 years. Beyond Breitbart’s Steve Bannon’s purported white supremacist ties, his affiliation with decidedly fake news and its impact on election outcomes, perceptions, backtracking to 2008 we saw public rejection of war, war, war, superseding its monetary cost to its human cost thus many voted for president Obama; why then would we support a national security advisor who believes Islam is a cancer, a political ideology not a religion, promoter of anti-Islamic conspiracy theories: infiltration into western countries to ‘get into the blood stream of the opposition,’ repeating right wing mythology about creeping Sharia law in America, serving as advisor to one said conspiracy group knowing he will have to work alongside Muslim counties in his job, who is also possibly being paid by Turkey and had involvement in their coup? Never the less meet Michael Flynn reading the last paragraph you have to wonder if he would have been hired had they known of his conspiracy theory group affiliation, items uncovered by adequate vetting… Sole purpose impressing a girl; where Snowden was, could be classified a whistleblower alerting American citizens to government spying, wiretaps, personal data colletion. 2 post his conviction, serving not one day in jail and he’s being vetted for secretary of state. You know it’s bad when even his mistress who benefited journalistically from the information she was given is surprised he was a secretary short list member…. Purely domestically Jeff Sessions pick for attorney general’s racist past matters when Michael Slager the cop who savagely fired 8 shots into the fleeing back of Walter Scott, caught on video doing so and rifling his pockets as opposed to administering CPR can receive a mistrial; compounding that sentiment information tells us that hung jury forcing the judge to declare said mistrial was thanks to a singular hold out juror vote who couldn’t convict on any charge including manslaughter. When there are no charges against the officer who shot Keith Lamont Scott in the back after repeated commands to drop a gun his family is adamant he didn’t have, who was originally sitting in his car waiting for his son to come out of school, allegedly rolling a joint and waving a gun prompting officers to break their surveillance of another person and confront him. Scott ending up dead despite his wife informing them in self-captured cellphone video he has a traumatic brain injury, has just taken his medication, begging them not to shoot him. Sessions can easily be seen, by more than the black, minority community as the wrong person for the job when under African American attorneys general both Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch we saw Ferguson and Baltimore unrest touched off via should be criminal encounters between police and civilians, where police acted dubiously and upon the latter set of officers going to trial a judge openly questioned whether or not a crime was committed. Even though police had no grounds to stop Freddie Gray, yet they did, they had no grounds to arrest Freddie Gray yet they did, subsequently filing him into a police van sans seatbelt, drove him around for 3-4 stops ignoring pleas for his inhaler, medical attention, was shackled within police restraints at one point, seatbelt ‘forgotten’ again Gray dying of a broken neck reasonably garnered from that van ride as an indentation in his skull matches a bolt on the van wall. An attorney general who says “it’s dangerous to ban the execution of ‘retarded’ people” irregardless most westernized nations don’t execute people period no matter their crime, they like us draw the line at ending the life of someone who is developmentally delayed, has intellectual deficits to the point of not understanding fully the crime they committed…Equally Ben Carson for Housing and Urban Development secretary raises eyebrows, not for the go to reason shouted by conservatives put on news and commentary shows race, rather genuine competence and qualifications, not to be merely an advocate for low-income and fair housing but to run the agency responsible for it on a nation level. Appointment and its acceptance by Carson all the more peculiar when his own top advisor reported to media he excluded himself citing experience, his lacking it, only to hear defenders of his being given said job tout his brilliance as a neurosurgeon bashing critics implying his not smart enough to cotton on how to run a government agency; deepening interest, his original answer in light of the fact he thought he had the knowledge, acumen to run for president, run a country regularly referred to as the free world smacking as hypocrisy on steroids. Most acknowledging his background would protest his being tapped for surgeon general remembering in an interview he mixed up RU486 the ‘abortion’ pill and morning after, Plan B contraceptives hoping rape victims went to the hospital and received the former not the latter in his mind ending discussions on the need for abortion after rape. Remembering this is the same Ben Carson who talked about his tithing tax plan that was actually 14% not 10, the biblical tithe he based it on; the Ben Carson shadowing Alex Jones in connecting Hillary Clinton to Lucifer AKA the devil based on a paper she wrote about a book where the professor called Lucifer the first radical, having little to do with her. Bringing us lastly here to what may lay ahead for fair and low income housing should Carson be confirmed, legitimate questions about will he generate the innovative solutions hoped for or be more of previous conservative views on the people who need public housing, welfare single mothers popping out more children for more assistance. Will his having grown up in public housing mean he understands the need for the most modern amenities, whole home Wi-Fi, simplicities such as new telephone boxes that can handle high speed DSL, functional traditional cable lines to accommodate cable internet added to housing units, in the era of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn’s roll garnering people jobs, lifting oneself up from poverty, these tools prominence in the increasingly freelance economy representing the difference between ability to support yourself and not, importance for students to have home internet access to do their best in school to take advantage of the best opportunities? Or will it be more of the years long shaming of single women having children out of wedlock to unsuitable fathers, incongruent the number of nuclear families in subsidized housing, telling people if they want listed luxuries work their way out of something meant to serve only as basic shelter, blinded by hardworking people who are holding jobs, never answering why plain housing, non-subsidized housing, dwellings not set aside for low income individuals, families costs so much even in lower cost of living areas… There are real consequences to the things president elect Trump says he wants to do, passivity toward legislative actions going on in states nationwide bolstered by his victory to reshape America the way they see fit—polar antithesis to president Obama. His much talked about Carrier deal turns out isn’t as good as he crowed to media saving only 800, not 1,100 according to Carrier’s union leader who on national TV and quotes for magazine, online articles boldly accused him of lying his ass off, not knowing his numbers, a cardinal sin for a businessman especially of his bragged about caliber; only to be blasted by the president elect’s twitter account for essentially telling the truth…You don’t need to be a brilliant political mind or an expert on par with who should be staffing up key secretary positions at the Whitehouse to know it isn’t good when you can send a company’s stock plummeting via tweet, perhaps most significantly as president elect, even less good comes from actually doing so, following through on what can only be described as impulse; nevertheless that’s what he did to Boeing when he didn’t like the 4 billion dollar price for new air force one’s commissioned by the air force. Dismissing it was for up to 4 planes not 1 and a service contract to be filled over 8 years replacing our existing 2 Air Force one’s coming off the line 25 years ago. Followed by tanking Lockheed Martin over the ‘extravagant’ expense for the F-35 aircraft, but contrary to independent news anchor statements it’s not about differentiating between truly liberal and progressive persons versus those who pay lip service to its principles, those tagged democrat or republican, it’s not about dealing a blow to the massive military industrial complex, rather skimping on what the president travels around in conducting our nation’s business, having the ability to run the entire country from up there if necessary is not where you cut cost, nor on R&D, research and design. In any field that takes massive and extraordinary amounts of money, muscular dystrophy, cancer, new drugs for Alzheimer’s to name a singular section of medicine alone, or for new aircraft with Russian and China nipping at our heals as an inconvenient sidebar. It is absolutely about how companies will respond to those losses, who they will take those losses out on, which lowly grunt workers putting parts in these machines, midlevel designers did you just tweet out of a job; irreprehensible the person responsible is president elect. Switching gears slightly proposed tariffs (35%) on imported goods from places i.e. China, Mexico have been tried before on electronics, socks, steel, cars and solar panels to list but a handful and 35 years has taught us it doesn’t work very well, why: “duties came too late, were circumvented or were made largely irrelevant as imports shifted to other foreign countries;” too, leveling such threats means risking, provoking a trade war that will inevitably raise prices and cost jobs. Expecting miracles and buying into we can go back to America’s good old days won’t generate jobs, won’t train, retrain workers for in demand jobs or reorient mindsets out of I can have only a high school education, go work in one field 30 years and retire; things are too fluid for that today. Here is where who Donald Trump appoints to what position moves out of the realm of abstracts and into things people can understand at their kitchen tables; if the odd, extreme, fringe things said by compiled persons headed to Trump’s cabinet didn’t grab your attention, you still wish to give Ben Carson a chance, let’s say you are clinging to the few mining jobs left in America then Wilbur Ross letting 12 people die in a mine he owned thanks to 100’s of ongoing, systemic violations is a red flag as is his commerce appointment in addition to his Wall Street ties. It matters that fast food CEO Andy Puzder is set to be labor secretary making 300 times what any of his workers do opposing both the affordable care act and elevating federal minimum wage above $9.00 per hour, glorifying what machines can do compared to the best human worker, more aptly what they don’t do: call in sick, slip and fall, claim harassment, discrimination… True to what I and others forecasted regret and buyer’s remorse are starting to set in, entire social media pages (Tumblr) dedicated to letting voters express their earnest wish they had filled out their ballot differently; citizens’ concerns ranging from silly, abjectly patrician regretting voting for him if Kanye West, seen meeting with Trump, has anything to do with his presidency, presidential decisions, shouting upset about zero plans to lock up, jail Hillary Clinton, to the kitchen table serious wondering if seniors and disabled persons could lose their Medicare to vouchers….Trump-splainers are coming around to the cold hard reality Donald Trump isn’t who or what they thought he was, isn’t going to do what they thought he would… Read More