Happy Hour News Briefs

The Xristian Xrazies are spiking the ball in the end zone now that Comrade Preznint Stupid has declared that Your Kind Cannot Serve Here. Here’s a sample:

• Peter LaBarbera, founder and president of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality: “This news is so good I can’t remember feeling this good about public policy in so long because the Republicans are usually such wimps – and here we have a bold action by a Republican leader. What a concept!” he exclaims.
• Bob Vander Plaats of The Family Leader says military brass, including the generals Trump consulted with before making the decision, say having people with gender dysphoria serving openly with healthy troops has been bad on morale.”There is research to point to that the transgender movement, transgenders in the military, definitely disrupt unit cohesion.”
• Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness argues that the Obama transgender policy was very demoralizing to service members, particularly females.”Women in the military have said that they don’t want their private areas to be exposed to persons of the opposite sex – and [have been told] if they don’t like it [that] it’s their problem, not the transgender person’s problem.”
• NOM: “Please sign our petition to thank President Trump for his courageous act, putting our national interests ahead of a narrow transgender political agenda being advanced by the left. LGBT extremists are orchestrating a campaign of vilification against President Trump and we must rally to defend his actions. It is wrong to use the military for a dangerous social experiment, and it is outrageous that the transgender community would think they can join the military and then stick taxpayers with the costs of sex-change surgeries and the other “treatments” that President Obama was giving them at our expense.”
• Lance Wallnau: “BAM and then BAM again! This guy is a walking political nightmare for the devil!”Today he didn’t just roll back the sexual social engineering agenda of Obama in the military – He STOPPED IT! Check his twitter post. He said the Transgender agenda does not serve either military readiness or cost effectiveness, as sexual reassignment surgery will run 1.5 Billion dollars over the next 10 years.”THEN he caps off his Ohio rally with a new theme he’s developing in his mind about America. He sees family and faith as the great foundation. BRAVO! And then says “In America, we worship God – not government!”

  “Oh boy, that has them burning up in the media and academia elite!”

• Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute: “Finally, a president who listens to the voices of reason, wisdom, and military expertise rather than to the cacophonous, incoherent voices of fools, Leftists, and military-antagonists.This momentous decision comes at a critical juncture. The military was poised to allow men and women with serious psychological disorders to serve openly in the military.”
• Liberty Council: “I applaud President Trump for making America safe again,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “The military is a lethal weapon designed to protect America and our allies. It is not a social club, a social experimentation petri dish, or ClubMed. The focus should be military readiness and unit cohesion. The President has kept his promise to return to military priorities by not continuing the ‘transgender’ policy that undermines unit cohesion, preparedness, and morale. The duty of military officers is to appropriately lead and prepare their personnel to serve and protect, and they cannot do that when there is confusion, dysfunction, and safety issues within the barracks,” said Staver.
• The American Family Association applauds Hair Führer’s “courageous decision to end the usage of our military for social engineering and political correctness.”
• Charisma’s Bob Eschliman: [Trump has] “shattered his predecessor’s grand social experiment in the U.S. military.”
• Theodore Shoebat: “While this is great news, what really needs to be done is the death penalty for sodomites.”
• Matt Barber: “Prohibit all open sexual deviancy in the ranks of the armed forces.”

Hey guys, remember this morning when we learned about the bad Godfather script that Comrade Preznint Stupid and his minions were acting out to cajole reluctant senators to vote to strip healthcare from their constituents? You know, the virtual horse head that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke ham-handedly tried to put into Lisa Murkowski’s bed (as it were), threatening to take away some of Alaska’s infrastructure projects like bridges and whatnot?

Well, Murkowski fights like a girl! *

DELAYED: Hearing to confirm a series of nominees to Zinke's Interior. Murkowski also controls Interior $$ via approps subcom chair

— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) July 27, 2017

Boom. Check and mate, Zinke!

*By which I mean she uses her brain to win and stoopid boys lose every time!

Sweet Jeebus:

Trump administration threatens retribution against Alaska over Murkowski health votes

This story reads like a really bad first draft of the Godfather screenplay:

Early Wednesday, Trump took to Twitter to express displeasure with Murkowski’s vote. By that afternoon, each of Alaska’s two Republican senators had received a phone call from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke letting them know the vote had put Alaska’s future with the administration in jeopardy.

Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan said the call from Zinke heralded a “troubling message.”

“I’m not going to go into the details, but I fear that the strong economic growth, pro-energy, pro-mining, pro-jobs and personnel from Alaska who are part of those policies are going to stop,” Sullivan said.

“I tried to push back on behalf of all Alaskans. … We’re facing some difficult times and there’s a lot of enthusiasm for the policies that Secretary Zinke and the president have been talking about with regard to our economy. But the message was pretty clear,” Sullivan said. The Interior secretary also contacted Murkowski, he said.

Tiger Beat on the Potomac published Anthony Scaramucci’s financial disclosure information as part of an article showing that he still stands to profit from his hedge fund while working in the White House.

Shit Storm ensues:

— @Scaramucci: “In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45”. This tweet was later deleted

Um, does that sound like he was threatening Obvious Anagram Reince Priebus to you, too?

In case there's any ambiguity in his tweet I can confirm that Scaramucci wants the FBI to investigate Reince for leaking.

— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) July 27, 2017

…why, yes, it does sound like a threat. For the record, noted ass-kisser Smoochi’s financial disclosure is a public document that is released through official channels upon request. But we digress.

Once Smoochi figured out that he had threatened the Chief of Staff and that his disclosure forms are public records, he deleted his tweet and then replied:

Wrong! Tweet was public notice to leakers that all Sr Adm officials are helping to end illegal leaks. @Reince45 pic.twitter.com/AB0reseuX1

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 27, 2017