Jackson Jambalaya

I, nor many MILLIONS of Americans, ever wanted Obama to be president. However, we took his presidency in stride and continued to do what we were expected to do. Respect the democratic process that this country was founded upon.

Notice how this person looks to see if anybody is watching - these folks love free speech, just as long as your ideas are the same as theirs. If you try to have a constructive discussion about ideas, they go straight to name calling.

Like it or not Trump is our President, and he is appointing people with REAL skills to lead agencies with serious missions. If you don't like it, next time you should offer a better candidate with qualifications other than anatomy.

Remember all of the gun-toting, Bible-clutching, TEA party members who went to DC to protest Obama's election? Yeah, me neither. And all of these socially conscious demonstrators left a mess for the city to clean up. Hypocrites!

5:41 PM I will start to respect it when John McCain and the Senate and the 6 separate federal investigations of the Russian involvement are completed. As a lifelong anti-Communist it is a huge red flag when members of the Senate say the "outcome of the election was changed" because of Russian involvement.

Ok, I'm going to address the Russian crap. The Obama administration was quite friendly to the Russians.

1. Obama pulled ABM sites from Eastern Europe when he assumed office.
2. Hillary told the Russians they were going to have a reset.
3. Obama told Russia that after he was re-elected, he would go easier on them.
4. Russia invaded and conquered Crimea. Nothing really happened. No consequences.
5. Ukraine asked for help. Obama's response was to send MRE's. No actual arms or supplies they could use to defend themselves. Never mind Bill Clinton signed a treaty with Ukraine in 96 when it agreed to give up its nukes in exchange for security. Big mistake on that country's part.
6. Syria. Obama drew his big red line and was humiliated by Russia.
7. Then there was the matter of the Clinton foundation and the uranium mess. See the NYT for that one.

The Obama administration had a position on Russia during its eight years: it was on either all knees or on all fours.

Russia didn't hack the election. Russia didn't change one vote. If certain players were playing honest or above board, Russia would have no dirt to dish if it indeed hacked the Democrats emails. It wasn't Russia who made so-called journalists write stories with the Clintons. It wasn't Russia who made Donna Brazile leak questions. It wasn't Russia who made Donna drop $15 million in NOLA and Chicago when that money probably would've swung some of the swing states back to Clinton. It wasn't Russia who set up the Clinton foundation.

The truth is, if the media had gotten those emails instead of the Russians, then someone would be looking for a pulitzer. If someone gets your dirt, then don't bitch about the actual dirt.

People tend to forget the leaders of several countries who were supporting Hillary. Even had a few made ads for Hillary.

It wasn't the hacking that sunk Hillary. It was what Hillary was doing all along. The people were just allowed to see the emails that proved in their own words how crooked they were. Hillary sunk herself with a little help from the DNC, her supporters, and a few thieves and crooks.

5:55, the information revealed by the email hack (whoever did it) only gave voters accurate and useful information about the Democrat candidate, and party candidates and tactics. There is no evidence that votes were changed once they were cast by informed voters, the strength of state voting systems is their complexity and they are too widely distributed for any group to have a meaningful effect.

The Democrats have a much more colorful history of meddling in elections - remember it was the Obama administration that funded an opposition group in Israel in an attempt to defeat Netanyahu, and Teddy Kennedy asked the Russians to help defeat Reagan.

And if you don't like the electoral college, quit whining and convince lawmakers to begin the lawful process to change it.

And I also didn't hear anyone complaining when Ben and Hillary took in a bunch of chicom money and then let the nuke secrets walk out the door to China. Imagine if that had happened under Bush or gasp, Trump.

Notice how the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative are tanking after the election - if they were doing such great work, the support would remain. I guess it's kinda tough to return all those promised favors when you're not president. The Clinton's time has passed and their tired ideas are no longer feasible. They have plenty of money - they just need to go away.

5:55 I don't recall any official United States agency stating that the outcome of the election was changed by Russian hacking. The best they can determine is that hacking took place during the election and they believe Russia was involved.

John McCain is cut from the same cloth as Trent Lott. This is McCain's last term. Let's bet money on that should you disagree.

Trump was basically a third party candidate who managed to capture enough American votes in order to gain the nomination of the Republican Party. Why in the world would the GOP expect him to fall in line with their ideals now?

I compare Trump's election to the election of Teddy Roosevelt. The ELECTION, mind you. The Presidency and its legacy are yet to come.

Be Proudto be American.

Are we sure the person in this video isn't Tom Head?

If the democrats wouldn't have let the clintons cheat during the primaries, perhaps Sanders would have been nominated.....and elected

THE comment of the still-young-year.....The Obama administration had a position on Russia during its eight years: it was on either all knees or on all fours.

Thanks KF

Donald J Trump doesn't pee or poop! He has so much energy he burns up all his caloric intake.

At first I thought it was someone who had ate a Carolina Reaper the night before.

I did not vote for Trump. I'm glad I did not vote for Trump. However, I may vote for Trump next time. The thought of a President that is chosen by these people is scary.

"However we took his presidency in stride and continued to do what we were expected to do."

Products of this painstaking equanimity included birtherism, nomination and election of a guy who wasn't even a conservative favorite until he started championing birtherism, a Republican elected official's screaming at the President during a congressional address, etc.

But alternative facts certainly beat empirical reality these days.

....and who was it that sowed the seeds of the birther movement??? Drum roll please ---- Sid Blumenthal and Hillary Clinton, facts can be really inconvenient things. I love it when the left eats itself.

Conservatives had to keep our mouths shut or be labeled racists; again, when no good argument exists, the left goes straight for name-calling. I didn't disagree with Obama because he was bi-racial, I disagreed with his basic philosophy on the relationship between a government, her people, and the constitution. I disagreed with nearly every foreign policy decision he made because they exposed the US to unnessary risk, not because of the color of his skin. A large part of his legacy will be undone because he took short cuts with executive action, and I can hear it already: "those racists are undoing the first black president's accomplishments." They were shitty ideas, passed with no bi-partisan suppport and need to find their way to the trash bin of history.

So the Celine a scene was hilarious of this!!!

So a bunch of women went to Washington to protest the election of Trump. Not sure how many, but I think it was at least 2 or 3% of the number of women who voted from Trump in November. They don't like him (See video), so now they have had two days to feel like we felt for eight years. Exactly what do they want? I heard something about abortion. Do they think he is going to appoint another liberal judge to the supreme court? That was a MAJOR campaign topic. It ain't gonna happen. What else ? They like Obomacare. Another MAJOR campaign topic. Obomacare is toast. They don't believe we can come up with something that works better than Obomacare? Seriously? Obomacare was not supposed to work, and it didn't. It was designed to drive all of the insurance companies out of the market so we could have the government in charge. They will be much better off without it. I heard something about immigration. Another MAJOR topic. Trump was elected to enforce the immigration laws. You can march till the end of time, it won't matter. He is going to try his best to follow the law. So far, everything they are complaining about was on the ballot and they lost. Not just to Trump. They lost the house, senate, most governorship and state legislatures. In other words, they lost a lot. What else are they complaining about? Is there anything on the list that they could actually change ? How dumb is this - the guy just got elected and you attack him on the very topics that put him in office?

Eleven-thirty-nine, I applaud your words and your perfectly reasonable questions about what exactly these wild-eyed malcontents hoped to DO with these pointless marches...but really, to misspell "Obamacare"? Well, good riddance to it however you spell it.

It was President Elect Trump who compared the Men and Women of the CIA who work tirelessly and in dangerous, often deadly situations, to Nazis and liars. It was President Trump who stood front and center of the CIA wall of Honor of Stars which symbolizes the members of the CIA who have been killed in the service to our always great America and utilized the majority of his brief speech to honor himself.
The result of the self centered display educated the agents in the great crowd present at The Presidents swearing in ceremony and the fact that he had been on the cover of "Time Magazine" a grand total of 15 occasions.
That too is freedom of speech whether the we consider it respectable or not.

Who's feeding her 37 cats while she is out changing the world?

Yes, the conservatives were completely rational during Obama's administration. There were no runs on guns or ammunition because the gub'ment was going to take them away. There were no shortages, because ammo was being stockpiled. No one fell for the NRA or gun manufacturers' propaganda. War is peace....

/s

From the looks of it you guys actually believe a million people showed up for the inauguration.

@9:55 PM +100

The purpose of this display, as well as Saturday's march was virtue signalling. Demonstrate to all of the social media world your Goodthink. Between fainting couches and pearls to clutch, this administration is going to stimulate the economy.

What's wrong, everybody is entitled to their own alternative facts.....

Definitely the comment of the year - Thank you KF!

"The Obama administration had a position on Russia during its eight years: it was on either all knees or on all fours."

I was in the crowd the day of the inauguration. Call me naïve for I thought going into it that the pretty much everyone would be there to celebrate Trump. Obviously not the case. This woman was not alone. Many were much more antagonistic and aggressive. One common factor I saw in all of them was a lack of contact with reality that the rest of the world shares.

7:46, what's irrational about being prepared? I guess you're the same kinda fool who calls 911 when Facebook goes down.

"However, we took his presidency in stride and continued to do what we were expected to do." LOL! There's an "alternative fact" if I've ever seen one!

And yes, there is plenty of credible evidence that Russia meddled in the election to benefit Trump, along with multiple proven instances of people from other Eastern European hellholes (e.g. Macedonia) spreading fake news stories about Hillary - which resulted in at least one misguided reader opening fire in a DC pizza restaurant.

What is perhaps most alarming about Trump is that he and his ilk undermine a foundation of a functioning democracy - the sober and informed electorate. At best, he received 98% of the benefit of fake news and failed to make any effort to denounce it. At worst, he and his cronies (including Flynn) actively spread it. When an electorate is outraged by "alternative facts," it will not function the way it is supposed to.

But yes, obviously he did complete the legal process required to become the 45th President of the United States. To his goal of making America a better place, I support him. But disagreement with him on how to make America better (e.g. appointing a secretary of ed. who believes Grizzly bears are a bigger threat to schoolchildren than school shootings) does not somehow make me less of an American or a "crybaby." If you really want to see a "bedwetter" look no further than your own personal reflection in 2008. Or better yet, you can look at a man who cries on twitter about SNL picking on him and then rants that the show should be canceled.

Conservatives won the 45th Presidency. Congrats and good luck with that. I just hope I (along with your children) don't have to go fight in some war he declares via twitter with China.

How long will it take someone to call 8:36 a Snowflake, because they present a rational argument?

8:54

There's that one commenter who always has a version of

"Go back to your sandbox and let the adults handle it."

Or some other personal insult.

I expect they will be here shortly.

Yes, I actually believe there were a million + at the Inauguration. I was there. Law Enforcement and the National Guard were kind and vigilent. The crowd was mostly families and people who were so happy to be there. The women were mostly the kind who wash their own clothes and cook their families meals as well as work. The men also seemed to be hard working or retired and gentlemanly. We were crowded in the subway and crowded clearing security, and crowded watching the Inauguration; all were thoughtful and friendly to the others standing with them. Absolutely no arrest or rough situations were seen by us. It was magnificent. The music inspiring and patriotic. What few protesters we saw were meager and scattered and that was just around town -- not at the Inauguration. The women in their pink piggy hats were predominantly rough looking or butch. Unfriendly except with each other. We were so grateful to be part of the ones there to celebrate a new era and not to protest one of ten or so causes. So tired of their "agendas".

I guess 7:46 chose not to pay attention to the many articles about liberals stocking up on guns and ammo, now that Trump has been elected. Typical.

There is always the alternative of being neither cheerleader or hater and still being a good citizen. This is not the first time and probably not the last that the U.S. electorate chose between two jack-asses for the highest office. Hopefully instead of lining up against one another based on misplaced loyalty to some media driven image, we will take a long critical look at the process and vow with equal vigor that we will never let this bullshit happen again. We should all be ashamed that a nation as fortunate in resources as we are chose between a political harpy and a spoiled egotistical blowhard to be our chief executive. This woman should have been crying BEFORE the election!

[autistic screeching]

9:31, citations please?

'Ben and Hillary'? Who the hell is Ben?

9:53 see below:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38297345

http://heatst.com/politics/clinton-voters-stockpiling-guns-learning-to-become-preppers/

1 million haha, 300K max, and yes I was there as part of the National Guard.

9:45 Well we've got a jackass now. But we had a racehorse with Obama...running in the wrong direction.

Trump won't be there long enough to remember how to get around. On his third full day in office, President Donald Trump faces a lawsuit accusing him of violating the U.S. Constitution.
A group comprised of former White House ethics lawyers and constitutional law scholars are alleging that Trump has contravened the Emoluments Clause by accepting payments to his many businesses from foreign governments, reports the New York Times.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the group behind the legal effort, seeks to block Trump from receiving such payments to his businesses without Congressional approval.
The group fears that Trump's sprawling global empire of hotels and other businesses and his functioning as U.S. President could become entangled otherwise. According to CNN, Trump is linked to over 500 entities with businesses in at least 25 countries outside the U.S.

Many more to come and on the orange oaf can believe.. They WILL get his tax returns.

Poor Minnowfish:( Just to keep you on track and attempt to ground you in reality. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a declassified version of its report on Russia’s interference in the US presidential election. The report, which draws on intelligence gathered by the FBI, CIA, and NSA, concludes with “high confidence” that “Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election” that included hacking the personal email accounts of Democratic Party officials and political figures.

According to the report, Putin’s aim was to impugn Hillary Clinton’s credibility and boost Donald Trump’s chances of winning the election, and more broadly to make the US electoral system look shady and untrustworthy.

Much of this has already been reported publicly.I think I'll take the published conclusions of the FBI, CIA, and NSA over your blog. No hard feelings.

@8:54 - I'll take your bait. The poster @ 8:36 lost ALL credibility when he (you?) alleged that Trump embraced "fake news" ...then followed with an suggestion that the Sec of Ed nominee actually believes grizzly bears are a bigger threat to school children than guns. Newsflash!!! When a "reporter" takes three words out of 10-15 complex sentences and turns them into a newspaper headline, you have FAKE news. And, if you are a lazy liberal who is content to read ONLY the headline - or too brain-dead to read & comprehend complex sentences, you lap up the lies you're being fed like a starving kitten with a bowl of milk then make a fool out of yourself by accusing someone ELSE of relying on fake news.

ummmm...7:46am...I guess you forgot what prompted the run on ammunition...multiple federal agencies began buying up millions upon millions of rounds of popular ammunition....the result were massive shortages of every round....causing the public to hoard when they could be found.

The run on certain weapons...."assault rifles"....was a direct result of liberal politicians' words and attempts to outlaw them. They said they were going to stop at nothing and with Bama's "pen", anything was possible, as evidenced by his multiple unconstitutional executive orders.

What you call an overreaction is what I call the enforcement of our freedoms. The reaction is what stopped Bama short of banning certain weapons by executive action. There would have been blood in the streets and he knows it.

I guess what I am saying is...you're welcome.

I can understand how the democrats feel. Just like many people felt when Obama was elected. One thing the democrats can do to keep this from happening again, pick someone who can win. If you pick a worn out old con and criminal you will lose again. Do what the republicans did. Get rid of all of those welfare politicians who have never had a real job.
If you want to win, chose a winner.

10:51, everything you said is the truth. There is one thing you seem to not understand. The hacking only showed how crooked Hillary and the DNC were. Russia had no hand in sending and receiving the emails. That was Hillary and her supporters. Russia had no hand on what was said in the emails. That was only the words of Hillary, the DNC, and her supporters.
It is sad to say but it took another country to show the U.S. citizens just how crooked one of the people running for president really was. Our own country failed to protect their own citizens from criminals. You do not seem to remember Obama was part of the whole thing.

You should be very thankful that the people of the U.S. were given warning about criminals trying to take over the country.

Republicans have day jobs, kids, families, and fucking obligations. Did you expect to see all the people that actually pay taxes so snowflakes can have safe spaces show up to the Washington mall?

Does alternative factors = lies?

12:23, if that's the case, why is Trump upset that the media showed pictures of all the vacant space at the National Mall, compared to previous inaugurations?

They complain about Trump. He is so bad - they why could they not find one person who could beat him? Out of millions of Democrats they could not find one person who would have made a decent candidate. Recon' it's because their ideas don't work? Duh.

@12:41 because they showed pictures at 8:00am, three hours before the swearing in, and claimed it was at 11:00am.

The media has been using alternative facts for years. This was a prime example.

12:44
And neither could the Republicans.He mowed the primary candidates down.

12:41 Only because pissants like to antagonize with ill-timed/faked photos too. But, I'm sure you missed that part.

He doesn't have to return your calls Donner. Many people don't return your stupid calls.

Protest little snowflake, your time is coming.

The presidential election was a one man race. Not a single republican came even close to Trump. Most didn't even carry their own state.
The democrats tried the same thing that failed a few years ago. Looks like they would have learned something. They tried every crooked trick they knew and still it wasn't close.
Democrats and republican both should have learned something from this last election. People are tired of the politicians. They want a leader. Someone who has actually run a company. Someone with experience. Someone who isn't a Bush or Clinton.

January 23, 2017 at 9:45 AM...Truth!

Is that Donna Ladd?

We are going to be watching the Supertalk crowd lose their soul, just like Spicer and Conway repeating "Alternative Facts" (lies) for the next four years. I am sure the Democrats will help the Republicans when they can't look themselves in the mirror anymore.

J.T. gonna loose his $h!+ be fore dis be done with. Ain't gwine to be able to bbque dem good ole ribs and eat dem slug burgers neither.

9:24
Wow there are a great many great looking butch and lesbian women out there. Maybe you better check out you wife/girl friends pals.
Never mind I sure you don't have either. Dumb ass looser boy.

Fact: Trump is illegitimate as a result of Russian collusion and Comey statement.
Fact: No one cares about his pathetically third rate inauguration except Trump.
Fact: He needs to move on and has no self control, making him unfit to serve.
FACT: We are screwed as a country if some of your Trump supporters don't plug in your cortex and stop using only the brainstem

Those of you who voted for Trump couldn't stomach the fact that Obama, a black man, was so much more than you will ever be. Your resentment was the only reason for your vote and you didn't give a damn about burning down the country.

God forbid the entire country turns out like Mississippi, the most backward racist apartheid state in the Union, full of false Christians and racist oppression. People who built the little nest eggs from exploitation of blacks and undocumented workers. You are a black hole and nothing good will come of your state.

You people can't even run your state, don't get above your station.

I guess this blog censors pointed critiques of the reptilian brain people running the state and voting for Rump