Thursday, December 15, 2016

Turns out Trump was right about the Access Hollywood tapes

President-Elect Donald Trump took to social media today to find answers to some very serious questions:

Within minutes, Trump received over 118 thousand 'reactions' and nearly 10 thousand comments. While the response time for such a complex query is impressive, the results were less than stellar.

Had he done a simple Google search for "obama accused russia" he would have gotten the following article as results:

Quite clearly, we can see that the White House did in fact alert the nation and 'complain' about Russian hacking influencing the election on October 7, 2016 (well before election day)

While this blatant disregard for chronology and the obvious lack of current events knowledge may be a cause for concern or scorn from his critics, we as a nation should give Trump a little bit of leeway in this case. October 7, 2016 was a pretty busy day inside Trump Tower. A lot of things happening. Most notably this:


So you can understand Trump's confusion on the details of this issue. Everybody was talking about this whole Russian hacking thing for like 2 hours on October 7 and then no one talked about it again until mid December. We had Trump talking about grabbing women, Hurricane Matthew killing hundreds in Haiti, peace treaties in Syria were falling apart... Russia hacking political campaigns and releasing emails to Wikileaks was nowhere near the top of the list of interesting things happening that day.

Perhaps Trump was right all along. We should have just ignored the sexual assault allegations and focused on the issues. Maybe then, democrats wouldn't have gotten so complacent that they ignored the fact that a foreign government had interfered with our election. Well I guess we can give them some credit, they stopped ignoring it once Jill Steins recount bid fizzled out.

While it is clear that Trump is, at a minimum, willfully ignorant on the Russian hacking issue, I think it's pretty disingenuous for liberal-types, myself included, to complain about a 'stolen election' if at the end of the day, a clear choice was made by the Clinton campaign to focus on the Access Hollywood video and not on the fact that a very real effort to undermine our election process was happening right in plain sight. If this is the biggest issue today... it should have been the bigger issue then. 

Wolferson chosen to lead Bunny Protection Agency

On the heals of Scott Pruitt's nomination to lead the Environmental Protection Agency and Rick Perry's nomination to lead the Department of Energy, it appears that president elect Donald Trump has chosen Frank Wolferson to lead the Bunny Protection Agency. While a formal announcement is expected later today, Trump transition team spokesperson, Snidely Whiplash did not deny reports that Wolferson was indeed Trump's pick.


When asked if Wolferson was the likely choice to lead the BPA, Whiplash menacingly twisted his mustache between his thumb and forefinger and giggled.


Wolferson, the current president of the National Predator Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of carnivores, came under fire in May of 2015 when he suggested that bunnies and other prey species should be registered in a national database as a means to combat domestic terrorism. While speaking at the annual gathering of the League of Barn Owls, Wolferson asserted that small mammals in particular posed a threat to national security due to their eating habits.

"These delicious... I mean herbivorous... herbivorous...animals are coming into our forests, eating all the vegetation, and we don't know what their motivations are. We need to understand who they are, where they live, how many delectable... I mean adorable babies they have... We need to understand what the hell is going on!"

Although Wolferson never gave specifics as to the correlation of bunny, deer, mouse and squirrel population growth and an increase in domestic terrorism, he continued to push for a national registry, or as Wolferson referred to it, an inventory.

While confirmation hearings may be lengthy, Wolferson is expected to be confirmed due to the fact that the majority of congress are essentially wolves in sheep clothing.