Who do you want to win?

[Okeefenokee]

I prefer communicating in Smitty-cadence anyway, I spend much of my day writing like a fancy lawyer, too cumbersome for forum use, unless I do it for effect, which Okee always seems to like

I talk wrong?

[apeman]

Oh no, not what I was going for at all, perhaps I am confused, but I recall you seem to find humor in properly-applied fancy speak.

[Kazmyr]

Oh no, not what I was going for at all, perhaps I am confused, but I recall you seem to find humor in properly-applied fancy speak.

Indubitably.

[apeman]

Exactly Kaz

[adwinistrator]

Counselor to the president Steve Bannon, and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner have set up a brand-new body called the Strategic Initiatives Group, an internal White House think tank that answers to them, as well as to Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

[Okeefenokee]

Oh no, not what I was going for at all, perhaps I am confused, but I recall you seem to find humor in properly-applied fancy speak.

Oh, I get it. Yeah, that was funny.

[adwinistrator]

The Cipher Breif - Dead Drop: February 3

POLITICAL COMMISSARS COMING? – The Dead Drop is very reliably told that among the plans circulating within President Trump’s National Security Council Staff – is one that would call for the assignment of a “liaison officer” from the NSC to be attached to the front office of each of the component parts of the intelligence community to ensure “consistency of message.” What does that mean? “That sounds exactly like the old Soviet zampolits or political commissars,” one old Russia hand told us. “These guys would essentially be spies – to report back to [National Security Adviser] General Flynn if anyone is straying from approved dogma.” This might strike some readers as just a wacky rumor – but those who have been awake for the past couple weeks are probably less likely to dismiss as implausible, rumors of re-structuring in national security.

[Ex-California]

Mad Dog is mad dogging North Korea

#MAMacArthurA

[adwinistrator]

Mad Dog is mad dogging North Korea #MAMacArthurA

Mattis still flexin'

Remember way back about ten days ago when draft Executive Orders started floating around calling on the CIA to examine the efficacy of “enhanced interrogation” (known in some circles as “torture”)? And remember a few days later the President came out and said that while he personally believes that harsh interrogation works – he was ceding decision making on that subject to Secretary of Defense Mattis? We understand that when Mattis heard about the draft EO – he sent word to the White House that if it were signed – the President should start looking for a new SECDEF. Apparently, that warning got the President’s attention – and being mad about “Mad Dog,” he capitulated.

[Penner]

In my opinion, Flynn is a much better choice than Bannon. Flynn has been in the military and has at least some idea of how the government works. While Bannon makes references about being "darkness is good"

In his first interview outside of the conservative website Breitbart News since the election, Steve Bannon said that he thinks "darkness is good."

"Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they (liberals) get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing,"

http://fortune.com/2016/11/20/steve-ban ... -darkness/