So yesterday when the turnout for Trump's inauguration was less than excellent and the department of interior that monitors the parks etc. was tweeting about it, the Trump White House suspended their twitter account. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...mp-inauguration-crowd/?utm_term=.aaa46af1f904
May as well put this here, though I considered a new thread. Today was the first Spicer shamockery of a presser. Good lord have mercy. He lectured the press, spewed inaccurate data and numbers and took no questions. http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/21/med...-statement/index.html?iid=surge-story-summary Spicer, at times almost yelling while reading a prepared statement, took no questions. Conservative commentator Bill Kristol said "it is embarrassing, as an American, to watch this briefing by Sean Spicer from the podium at the White House. Not the RNC. The White House." Wow, just how surreal is this going to get? What if someone tried to install an authoritarian regime... but nobody played along? EDIT: Fox News' Krauthammer called the Spicer show "weird" and "surreal." I hope they just had a bad day. You can't run a country like that. (Well, you can if your country is called Venezuela or Iran or something. LOL.)
Might as well put this here. It was very smart of smart people thinking ahead. https://www.wired.com/2017/01/rogue-scientists-race-save-climate-data-trump/ AT 10 AM the Saturday before inauguration day, on the sixth floor of the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania, roughly 60 hackers, scientists, archivists, and librarians were hunched over laptops, drawing flow charts on whiteboards, and shouting opinions on computer scripts across the room. They had hundreds of government web pages and data sets to get through before the end of the day—all strategically chosen from the pages of the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—any of which, they felt, might be deleted, altered, or removed from the public domain by the incoming Trump administration. Their undertaking, at the time, was purely speculative, based on travails of Canadian government scientists under the Stephen Harper administration, which muzzled them from speaking about climate change. Researchers watched as Harper officials threw thousands of books of aquatic data into dumpsters as federal environmental research libraries closed.
We can add that in addition to Spicer lying about the attendance numbers, he also lied or just had no idea about the white grass covering. Trump may not have lied, but either way, was wrong about holding some record of appearing on Time Magazine covers. Nixon was on the cover more than 20 times in a year, and way more overall than Trump was. Today was not a good first day for the Trump administration. It was a very good day for those that are against Trump with huge protests all over the nation and the world that were very peaceful.
Trump is probably going to have every federal employee sign a non-disclosure agreement so he can control everything that comes out of the federal government. It's like an iron curtain of stupidity has descended on our own country. Disgusting.
