Wow.
Spicer says he can’t say definitely who gave Nunes his info. Did it come from WH or admin? “Anything is possible.”
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) March 27, 2017
Fake POTUS only hires the best people!!!!! Fact!
“Throughout the transition, Jared served as the informal POC for foreign governments,” Spicer says.
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) March 27, 2017
Unintentional lol. https://t.co/oQpxGLM4NT
— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) March 27, 2017
Spicer lies. Spicer obfuscates. Spicer misdirects.
It’s all Spicer ever does.
Looks like Sean had spinach for lunch https://t.co/FUBvHr5mAr pic.twitter.com/xLGqVP5kGX
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 27, 2017
Yes, we’re going to have a 5% growth rate under the Great Flimflammer.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Always a good idea to brush your teeth before doing the White House daily briefing. pic.twitter.com/eIZItpREbD
— John Aravosis (@aravosis) March 27, 2017
@aravosis pic.twitter.com/LispMEobvQ
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 27, 2017
Should Glenn Beck sideline Tomi Lahren for pro-choice stance or was she seeking attention? @MarisaGuthrie #Mediabuzz https://t.co/hJDI9dfIW2
— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) March 27, 2017
re: #4 jaunte
Yes, we’re going to have a 5% growth rate under the Great Flimflammer.
5% growth, because anything less would completely fuck their tax cut plan. They need to assume higher growth, otherwise everything else falls apart.
Howard Kurtz has become a class A dipshit.
re: #7 lawhawk
Once more working backward from their desired outcome.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Should Glenn Beck sideline Tomi Lahren for pro-choice stance or was she seeking attention?
Umm, who fucking cares??
re: #6 Charles Johnson
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I don’t even like or respect Tomi but that’s pathetic bullshit. Maybe she learns a thing or two about the ideology she’s glued herself to but I doubt it.
re: #7 lawhawk
5% growth, because anything less would completely fuck their tax cut plan. They need to assume higher growth, otherwise everything else falls apart.
That reminds me - how much power do they have to completely falsify the numbers? Could they outright force the BEA to put out “alternative” stats?
Drive by O T: since Passover is coming thought someone might want these. brooklynbased.com
re: #10 makeitstop
Umm, who fucking cares??
I find it hilarious personally since conservatives love to accuse liberals of being “intolerant” other points of view.
Ugh. I agree with Cheney —> Dick Cheney: Russian interference in US election may be ‘an act of war’ https://t.co/FqnPCaXiiP pic.twitter.com/KYZEEy4cfm
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 27, 2017
re: #8 Charles Johnson
Howard Kurtz has become a class A dipshit.
Become?
There was a point where he wasn’t? I mean, he’s exemplified the ‘Both Sides Same Thing’ problem as much and as long as Fournier has, long as I remember.
re: #16 Dr. Matt
When Cheney is a voice of reason, then we are officially in an alternate universe.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Howard Putz has his finger on the pulse of the crucial issues facing America.
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“Obamacare is dying. It will be dead soon.” https://t.co/FUBvHr5mAr pic.twitter.com/I9XSA1bHbx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 27, 2017
“I don’t think it’s dead” — @PressSec, on Obamacare repeal.
Obamacare “is dying on its own. It will be dead soon.”— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) March 27, 2017
re: #16 Dr. Matt
I think we need to stop saying “may” and simply decide it was. Since they are still trying other tactics and also probably preparing to influence 2018 &2010 we need to be clear that they want to bring our democracy down
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
“We just have to make sure nobody in HHS or anywhere else does their job.”
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re: #21 Charles Johnson
If we continue hoping for it to die maybe it will. Patriotism. MAGA.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
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It it does die, it will be your fault, you stupid dickhead.
Sean Spicer says the WH will “look for other opportunities to defund Planned Parenthood” after failure of #Trumpcare vote.
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) March 27, 2017
Spicer actually lamented a missed “opportunity” to take healthcare away from women who need it the most.https://t.co/XkWE4vquyg
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) March 27, 2017
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He’s a Republican. Of course he laments that. The Republican Party is a party of stupid assholes who vote for heartless assholes.
Spicer now saying a lot of hate crimes are faked or mistaken: “a rush to judgment” https://t.co/FUBvHr5mAr pic.twitter.com/476GykKcmC
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 27, 2017
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
So much winning. Tired of all the winning already.
“It’s the unusual incident, not the overall trend, that needs to be denounced.”
Spicer is fumbling a question about the hate crime killing of a black man in NYC by a white supremacist.
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) March 27, 2017
Sean Spicer is now condemning “the rush to judgment” in hate crimes
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 27, 2017
re: #32 jaunte
“It’s the unusual incident, not the overall trend, that needs to be denounced.”
Is he talking about the JCC threats?
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
All Republicans hear when PP is brought up is abortion. And it does not matter that not even all of their clinics perform them.
And all Republicans care about by restricting abortion is controlling women.
re: #34 The Vicious Babushka
Is he talking about the JCC threats?
“It wasn’t someone on the right,” Spicer says of JCC attacks, regarding an arrest — not a plea or conviction — of a person.
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) March 27, 2017
“He’s a fan of the show. He tweeted out support of it.” — Spicer on Trump’s “watch Judge Jeanine” tweet.
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) March 27, 2017
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
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-@PressSec: Been a “rush to judgement” to always denounce people on the right for hate crimes committed.
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) March 27, 2017
fwiw the condemnation of hate crimes would’ve been enough for this answer https://t.co/jqBAn5XYsn
— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) March 27, 2017
“He’s a fan of the show. He tweeted out support of it.” — Spicer on Trump’s “watch Judge Jeanine” tweet.
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) March 27, 2017
See! Trump doesn’t want Ryan to go. He’s just a fan of a show that led with a call for Ryan to resign that Trump wanted everyone to watch! https://t.co/6L6ymb5pDn
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 27, 2017
Spicer says all hate crimes should be forcefully denounced. Then jumps to defending WH: “left” unfairly accuses “right” of fomenting hate.
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) March 27, 2017
@PressSec I bought you a gift. pic.twitter.com/501DwyotXY
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 27, 2017
Sean Spicer is now condemning “the rush to judgment” in hate crimes
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 27, 2017
Things that happen when you run a presidential campaign based in large part on white nationalism. https://t.co/sA3FY5Eokc
— Jason Karsh (@jkarsh) March 27, 2017
Make no mistake: when someone like Sean Spicer publicly dismisses hate crimes, he’s consciously playing to the racists in Trump’s base.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 27, 2017
“We’re going to work with anybody who wants to work with us on achieving the goals the president set out,” @PressSec adds
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) March 27, 2017
re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth
And for the majority of the country that doesn’t want the ACA repealed, doesn’t want the wall built, doesn’t want more tax cuts for the wealthy?
Honest question, is there anyone now who looks at Sean Spicer and doesn’t see Melissa McCarthy? This WH is an absolute trashy joke.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) March 27, 2017
re: #32 jaunte
“It’s the unusual incident, not the overall trend, that needs to be denounced.”
Um, whut, Sean?
82nd headed toward Mosul to “advise and assist.” US mil not give troop nos for each unit going forward. “It’s abt capability, not nos.”
— Nancy Youssef, نانسى (@nancyayoussef) March 27, 2017
Pentagon is no longer giving number of US Troops Deployment to #Iraq going forward… https://t.co/EQYoDUJK0U
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) March 27, 2017
Whoa. Information blackout. We’re sending your kids to fight our wars - but we won’t tell you how many. #autocracy https://t.co/Nrr0GwEH5f
— Melissa Jo Peltier (@MelissaJPeltier) March 27, 2017
re: #50 Sir John Barron
My paraphrase of his message.
40 Members of Congress just sent a letter to @realDonaldTrump demanding he apologize to Pres. Obama over baseless #wiretapping lies. pic.twitter.com/f84b7S7Z8O
— Rep. Mark Pocan (@repmarkpocan) March 27, 2017
Spicer asked about an avowed white supremacist killing a black man. His answer was on “rush to judgment by the left” over JCC bomb threats.
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) March 27, 2017
Rick Wiles says “Obama is hiding in French Polynesia. He is a fugitive. He is hiding from arrest” https://t.co/gQuRqyLut5
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 27, 2017
Sean Spicer is now condemning “the rush to judgment” in hate crimes
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 27, 2017
The guy literally said he wished he had murdered a younger more successful black guy to scare white women from dating them. https://t.co/E3RiS0IZTW
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 27, 2017
re: #7 lawhawk
5% growth, because anything less would completely fuck their tax cut plan. They need to assume higher growth, otherwise everything else falls apart.
And a rate that we’ve rarely seen in US history, and, leaving aside post-WWII, one typically associated with recovering from an economic down turn. It’s most definitely not a sustainable number.
re: #56 Kragar
Otherwise, Obama is living out in the open in DC and commanding his 30k plus army that is sabotaging DT.
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Someone just asked Sean Spicer if Trump has considered meeting w/ HRC to ask for advice on healthcare after the failure of #Trumpcare. 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/5lGXHDH2z7
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) March 27, 2017
re: #59 Sir John Barron
Otherwise, Obama is living out in the open in DC and commanding his 30k plus army that is sabotaging DT.
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And hanging out in NYC having lunch with Bono and accepting the Profiles in Courage award….
re: #51 Backwoods_Sleuth
Crap. Two of my coworkers have children serving in the US military in that region. I know one is entirely likely to be on his way. *scowl* His mother is probably frantic.
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re: #28 HappyWarrior
He’s a Republican. Of course he laments that. The Republican Party is a party of stupid assholes who vote for heartless assholes.
They are not all stupid. Just assholes.
My RW brother insists that the most important crisis facing our country is the national debt; he actually does not support the proposed increase in military spending but he also opposes any increase in domestic spending because we cannot afford it. Forgot to ask him whether he would support a return to higher taxes on the wealthy. But probably not.
re: #58 Mike Lamb
Ah, that post WWII period, when the top tax rate was 90% until the 1960s, before it dropped to 70%. Those were the days, as the debt was paid off.
The GOP keeps ignoring all that - all while pushing for more tax cuts while claiming we’re taxed more than ever.
re: #16 Dr. Matt
Ugh. I agree with Cheney —> Dick Cheney: Russian interference in US election may be ‘an act of war’
Not quite…but colluding with a foreign government interfering with an election is an act of treason.
when ur cat is mad at you pic.twitter.com/G8cEB7T7JG
— Emergency Kittens (@EmrgencyKittens) March 27, 2017
2. Quickest way to turn into Iran? Not calling stuff out in a tone as if it’s fresh and surprising.
— Yashar (@yashar) March 27, 2017
Spicer says he would have to check how Nunes accessed White House grounds/NSC SCIF
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) March 27, 2017
Based on recent events, the odds would seem to favor: ‘he jumped over the goddamned fence.’ https://t.co/AfMKKQnK33
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 27, 2017
#BREAKING: Rep Nunes met Trump surveillance source on WH grounds#trumprussia #resist #nunesmustresign #russiagate https://t.co/EDWv8i415u
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) March 27, 2017
I’ve reached the point where Spicer isn’t worth my time any more, even for the humor potential. I’m done listening to him. Trump will just contradict him in 10 mins anyway.
He swims with the fishes.
re: #68 BeachDem
Exactly when was he otherwise?
He had the appearance of professionalism at the Wash Post. Now he’s the disheveled guy on the bus mumbling, trying to hand you old bits of paper from his pocket.
bwahahahahaaaaa
If you think this Jared Kushner WH SWAT innovation office sounds familiar, that’s because it is (& note the byline) https://t.co/wMGHRC788h pic.twitter.com/CIxrlhnpcw
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 27, 2017
First they copy Obama’s inaugural cake, then they claim credit for his economic successes, and now they’re cribbing Al Gore. Yeesh… https://t.co/qGEc4N2f3R
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 27, 2017
So Nunes met with a WH official who told him the party line to spout to support Trump’s assertions?
re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter
They are not all stupid. Just assholes.
My RW brother insists that the most important crisis facing our country is the national debt; he actually does not support the proposed increase in military spending but he also opposes any increase in domestic spending because we cannot afford it. Forgot to ask him whether he would support a return to higher taxes on the wealthy. But probably not.
“Why do you rob banks?”, Wille Sutton was asked.
“Because that’s where the money is,” he replied.
Thus:
“Why do you want to increase marginal tax rates on people earning over $1,000,000/year and treat Capital Gains as income after indexing for inflation?”, I rhetorically ask myself.
“Because that’s where the money is,” I reply.
re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter
They are not all stupid. Just assholes.
My RW brother insists that the most important crisis facing our country is the national debt; he actually does not support the proposed increase in military spending but he also opposes any increase in domestic spending because we cannot afford it. Forgot to ask him whether he would support a return to higher taxes on the wealthy. But probably not.
The national debt isn’t a problem at all, much less our #1 crisis. But that is a message rightwing media has been spewing for eight years.
re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter
So Nunes met with a WH official who told him the party line to spout to support Trump’s assertions?
For privacy’s sake, let’s call that official Donald T. No, that’s too obvious. Uh, let’s say D. Trump.
re: #31 Sir John Barron
So much winning. Tired of all the winning already.
See, what we didn’t realize was that Trump was actually talking to Democrats and progressives when he said that. We all just assumed he was talking to Republicans and conservatives because that’s who was in front of him.
It’s like three dimensional chess, played against a pigeon…
Spicer reading state dept. statement condemning detention of protesters in Russia.
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) March 27, 2017
Why wait so long, & why not standalone White House condemnation? May seem small, but striking how much ppl notice who issues U.S. statement https://t.co/DnvLoNyD7V
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) March 27, 2017
re: #79 Big Beautiful Door
As a percentage of GDP, it isn’t a problem.
But if you’re going to treat the debt as a problem, the only way to reduce the debt isn’t by spending cuts. It’s by increasing taxes. There’s no way to reduce the debt that doesn’t involve tax hikes. Even if you claim that you’re going to cut spending and all the money “saved” goes to debt reduction, the reality is that dollars spent by the government have a multiplier effect on the economy, such as each SNAP dollar goes and creates more than a $1. In fact, each $1 billion in SNAP aid creates $1.79 billion in economic activity. Therefore, if you create a budget that is all cuts (which disproportionately affects the poor), you’ll end up screwing up the budget and likely cause a recession in the process.
uh huh….
Spicer says that AHCA was an example of Trump’s deal making ability because “he knew when to walk away”
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 27, 2017
The ACA is the law of the land and it’s here to stay. I’m proposing a budget amdt to move forward with Medicaid expansion by Oct 1. pic.twitter.com/3ZWzcVayPN
— Terry McAuliffe (@GovernorVA) March 27, 2017
re: #83 lawhawk
As a percentage of GDP, it isn’t a problem.
But if you’re going to treat the debt as a problem, the only way to reduce the debt isn’t by spending cuts. It’s by increasing taxes. There’s no way to reduce the debt that doesn’t involve tax hikes. Even if you claim that you’re going to cut spending and all the money “saved” goes to debt reduction, the reality is that dollars spent by the government have a multiplier effect on the economy, such as each SNAP dollar goes and creates more than a $1. In fact, each $1 billion in SNAP aid creates $1.79 billion in economic activity. Therefore, if you create a budget that is all cuts (which disproportionately affects the poor), you’ll end up screwing up the budget and likely cause a recession in the process.
This is where the big lie in “run the government like you run a business” comes in. In business, if your operating costs increase, you raise prices. You don’t buy less stuff or lay off employees if the number of units being sold or projects being conducted remain the same or grow. In government, “raising prices” means raising taxes.
re: #83 lawhawk
As a percentage of GDP, it isn’t a problem.
But if you’re going to treat the debt as a problem, the only way to reduce the debt isn’t by spending cuts. It’s by increasing taxes. There’s no way to reduce the debt that doesn’t involve tax hikes. Even if you claim that you’re going to cut spending and all the money “saved” goes to debt reduction, the reality is that dollars spent by the government have a multiplier effect on the economy, such as each SNAP dollar goes and creates more than a $1. In fact, each $1 billion in SNAP aid creates $1.79 billion in economic activity. Therefore, if you create a budget that is all cuts (which disproportionately affects the poor), you’ll end up screwing up the budget and likely cause a recession in the process.
Kansas.
re: #87 Belafon
Kansas.
Exactly. The first thing that the GOP needs to understand is that everything they know is wrong.
re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I think the GOP desire to impose work requirements to qualify for Medicaid is a shit move, but if that is what it takes to get Republicans to expand Medicaid in the holdout states, I guess its better than not expanding Medicaid at all.
re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m actually surprised anybody in this admin would issue such a statement.
Something something low expectations.
re: #88 Blind Frog Belly White
Exactly. The first thing that the GOP needs to understand is that everything they know is wrong.
They’ve been told you for years that you can just tax cut and spend cut your way to prosperity and it just isn’t true.
From last night:
Jared Kushner will head new White House office specializing in vapid cliches https://t.co/1Ic2cWKCNw pic.twitter.com/EuM8pq0uE6
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 27, 2017
This explains a lot about how the Trump Administration works. Analogizing the Government to Business, citizens are not the CUSTOMERS. We’re the OWNERS, the shareholders. Presidents, Congress, etc - they’re MANAGEMENT, i.e. the people we hire to run the business, to increase our shareholder value. In a business, Management makes money for the Shareholders.
Customers? They’re the folks you make money FROM, selling them the least product for the most money (see Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump etc.)
Using a normal business model, thinking the citizens as customers is bad enough. But in the Trump model, customers are suckers, and the business sells shitty, shoddy products at inflated prices by stamping ‘TRUMP’ on it in big gilt letters, to fool the rubes.
But, yeah - that’s how they see us.
re: #92 HappyWarrior
They’ve been told you for years that you can just tax cut and spend cut your way to prosperity and it just isn’t true.
GHW Bush called this out in 1980 as “voodoo economics” and the passage of the years hasn’t either:
1) proved him wrong.
2) shifted Republican dogma one nanometer.
re: #88 Blind Frog Belly White
Exactly. The first thing that the GOP needs to understand is that everything they know is wrong.
Even the Kansas legislature, which is GOP controlled, seems to recognize this. They voted to repeal Brownback’s tax cut fiasco, but were overruled with a Brownback veto.
The state is hobbling along thanks to Brownback’s policy choice, and the state’s faltering economy isn’t growing thanks to all the tax cuts. Rather, corporations figured out how to exploit the changes and now pay far less tax than ever without adding jobs.
re: #92 HappyWarrior
They’ve been told you for years that you can just tax cut and spend cut your way to prosperity and it just isn’t true.
There’s that, and there’s ‘Government can’t create jobs!’, and ‘The Private Sector does everything better and cheaper!’, and ‘Regulation is a burden imposed by Government on business and the economy!’, and ‘The Market is self-policing!’
Oh, and ‘Growth comes from rich people!’
re: #94 Jay C
GHW Bush called this out in 1980 as “voodoo economics” and the passage of the years hasn’t either:
1) proved him wrong.
2) shifted Republican dogma one nanometer.
It’s too bad that he sold out to a degree by signing on with Reagan though to his credit, he did make the difficult decision to raise taxes as President. H.W is probably the best Republican president since Ike hoenstly.
re: #96 Blind Frog Belly White
There’s that, and there’s ‘Government can’t create jobs!’, and ‘The Private Sector does everything better and cheaper!’, and ‘Regulation is a burden imposed by Government on business and the economy!’, and ‘The Market is self-policing!’
Oh, and ‘Growth comes from rich people!’
Yep. So much falsehoods caused by years of right wing dogma.
Trump says signing desk is “smallest desk I’ve ever seen” and like a child’s desk.
He’s in Roosevelt Room signing 4 bills. pic.twitter.com/RQ57RLGcJ7— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 27, 2017
Size matters to Trump https://t.co/zqRb6IzjhZ
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) March 27, 2017
re: #93 Blind Frog Belly White
From last night:
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This explains a lot about how the Trump Administration works. Analogizing the Government to Business, citizens are not the CUSTOMERS. We’re the OWNERS, the shareholders. Presidents, Congress, etc - they’re MANAGEMENT, i.e. the people we hire to run the business, to increase our shareholder value. In a business, Management makes money for the Shareholders.
Customers? They’re the folks you make money FROM, selling them the least product for the most money (see Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump etc.)
Using a normal business model, thinking the citizens as customers is bad enough. But in the Trump model, customers are suckers, and the business sells shitty, shoddy products at inflated prices by stamping ‘TRUMP’ on it in big gilt letters, to fool the rubes.
But, yeah - that’s how they see us.
Exactly. Government by sales pitch.
They’ve got it all wrong and they don’t even notice.
re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth
@JenniferJJacobs But for once his tiny hands look normal-sized.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 27, 2017
re: #100 makeitstop
Exactly. Government by sales pitch.
They’ve got it all wrong and they don’t even notice.
And worse, their voters marks won’t get it either.
re: #101 Blind Frog Belly White
But with his tiny hands, it looks normal!
You beat me by 10 seconds.
re: #97 HappyWarrior
It’s too bad that he sold out to a degree by signing on with Reagan though to his credit, he did make the difficult decision to raise taxes as President. H.W is probably the best Republican president since Ike hoenstly.
I’m guessing Ford wasn’t terrible (and the last official pro-choice Republican president). He took office in probably the worst possible conditions (non-Andrew Johnson category), and was a serviceable president.
Side note: from what I remember reading a while back, there was actually a push for a constitutional convention during the Watergate area that would have sought to reform our system into a more parliamentarian system with a prime minister.
re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump says signing desk is “smallest desk I’ve ever seen” and like a child’s desk.
He’s in Roosevelt Room signing 4 bills. pic.twitter.com/RQ57RLGcJ7— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 27, 2017
That might be why his hands almost look normal sized in that picture https://t.co/L3KUwoUWFe
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 27, 2017
re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth
What are the bills he’s signing? I wasn’t aware that Congress had actually passed anything…
re: #97 HappyWarrior
It’s too bad that he sold out to a degree by signing on with Reagan though to his credit, he did make the difficult decision to raise taxes as President. H.W is probably the best Republican president since Ike hoenstly.
Yeah, but remember - after signing the biggest tax CUT in history, Reagan later signed the biggest tax HIKE in history.
That’s the REAL Reagan, of course. Zombie Reagan didn’t raise any taxes. He stared down Tip O’Neill with a steely glare and made the Social Security Trust Fund secure for 3 generations by sheer force of will!
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re: #110 Blind Frog Belly White
“Force of Will” is probably why we keep “firing at Will” so often.
re: #93 Blind Frog Belly White
From last night:
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This explains a lot about how the Trump Administration works. Analogizing the Government to Business, citizens are not the CUSTOMERS. We’re the OWNERS, the shareholders. Presidents, Congress, etc - they’re MANAGEMENT, i.e. the people we hire to run the business, to increase our shareholder value. In a business, Management makes money for the Shareholders.
Customers? They’re the folks you make money FROM, selling them the least product for the most money (see Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump etc.)
Using a normal business model, thinking the citizens as customers is bad enough. But in the Trump model, customers are suckers, and the business sells shitty, shoddy products at inflated prices by stamping ‘TRUMP’ on it in big gilt letters, to fool the rubes.
But, yeah - that’s how they see us.
Kushner doesn’t realize it but he’s creating conditions for a perfect storm of anti-semitic backlash when Trump’s administration inevitably, finally implodes under the weight of its combined corruption and incompetence. Trump’s racist supporters will interpret Jared’s nepotistic, totally unearned role within the Administration and responsibility he’s been undeservedly given as the machinations of a “Court Jew” who will then be scapegoated as the central reason the promise of MAGA never materialized.
re: #109 KGxvi
What are the bills he’s signing? I wasn’t aware that Congress had actually passed anything…
No doubt something allowing businesses to burn orphans for fuel, or press SNAP recipients into military service.
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re: #106 KGxvi
I’m guessing Ford wasn’t terrible (and the last official pro-choice Republican president). He took office in probably the worst possible conditions (non-Andrew Johnson category), and was a serviceable president.
Side note: from what I remember reading a while back, there was actually a push for a constitutional convention during the Watergate area that would have sought to reform our system into a more parliamentarian system with a prime minister.
Yeah Ford was pro choice and pro LGBT. Ford had a lot of good things going for him especially as a person. H.W gets my edge for Clean Air Act and Americans With Disabilities but Ford was good and it would have been better if they had gone in his/Bush’s wing rather than Reagan’s in 1980.
re: #110 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah, but remember - after signing the biggest tax CUT in history, Reagan later signed the biggest tax HIKE in history.
That’s the REAL Reagan, of course. Zombie Reagan didn’t raise any taxes. He stared down Tip O’Neill with a steely glare and made the Social Security Trust Fund secure for 3 generations by sheer force of will!
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Ha!
re: #113 Blind Frog Belly White
Dr. Orpheus: It craves… purity… it devours… purity… it seems to be… What the hell is this thing made out of?
Dr. Venture: Nothing.
Dr. Orpheus: Come on…
Dr. Venture: Alright fine, I might have used a few unorthodox parts.
Dr. Orpheus: Just tell me one!
Dr. Venture: An… (mumbles)
Dr. Orpheus: A what?
Dr. Venture: An… orphan.
Dr. Orpheus: Did you say… an orphan!?
Dr. Venture: Yeah… a little.. orphan boy..
Dr. Orpheus: It’s powered by a forsaken child!?
Dr. Venture: Might be… kind of… I mean, I didn’t use the whole thing!
re: #111 Belafon
“Force of Will” is probably why we keep “firing at Will” so often.
No wonder Dr. Smith used to wail, “Ooohh, Wiiillll! We’ll all be kiiillled!!!”
“Are you as hard as I am right now you kinky Nazi fuck?” pic.twitter.com/ItnCUSUdhO
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) March 27, 2017
re: #107 Kragar
That this usurper is linked in any way with either Roosevelt is enough to make me despair for this great country.
P.S. Clara Jeffrey posited last night that Jared’s “SWAT” Team might actually have internally originated as “SWOT,” which is business school analysis model jargon for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.
2/ There’s no quote in the article that uses “SWAT” just this paragraph: https://t.co/geHPpjEZsR pic.twitter.com/N5Q5bTesSg
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) March 27, 2017
4/ SWAT= Special Weapons and Tactics
SWOT= Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) March 27, 2017
6/ ??? pic.twitter.com/vl9LTEZWsl
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) March 27, 2017
@ddiamond Maybe though one can imagine, in either admin:
Bschool guys: It’s SWOT, ask for a correction
Comms people: SWAT sounds cooler
:)— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) March 27, 2017
re: #109 KGxvi
What are the bills he’s signing? I wasn’t aware that Congress had actually passed anything…
Pres Trump signs 4 bills nullifying Obama Admin regulations including 3 he called “federal power grabs” in land management & education. pic.twitter.com/fi6CeJpSPU
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 27, 2017
This should be retweeted every single day:
WATCH: Trump last year: If I’m POTUS I don’t think I’d see any of my golf courses again, I just want to stay in WH and “work in my ass off” pic.twitter.com/4nOtG7BavO
— Yashar (@yashar) March 27, 2017
WATCH: Trump last year: If I’m POTUS I don’t think I’d see any of my golf courses again, I just want to stay in WH and “work in my ass off”
You know who co-sponsored the legislation allowing Internet Service Providers to sell your web history?
Rand Paul. https://t.co/fzZjb4m7tp— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) March 27, 2017
He says this as though it should be surprising that a Randian would sponsor a bill that keeps government from stopping a business screwing its customers.
Again, why we don’t want to be seen as Government’s customers.
Call[no phone numbers allowed]! @ChrisGorham and I WILL PICK YOU UP and take you to vote! Just picked up drew. On our way to Yvette! @ossoff #FlipThe6th pic.twitter.com/3YIZJHMHdY
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) March 27, 2017
BREAKING: Senate Democratic Leader Schumer calls for removal of Nunes as chairman of House Intelligence Committee https://t.co/A62On7C9ha
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) March 27, 2017
re: #123 Dr. Matt
This should be retweeted every single day:
Yeah but now as POTUS I work so, so very hard that I deserve all my golf time because I earned it!
re: #124 Blind Frog Belly White
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He says this as though it should be surprising that a Randian would sponsor a bill that keeps government from stopping a business screwing its customers.
Again, why we don’t want to be seen as Government’s customers.
Rand Paul again shows he’s nothing but a pathetic fraud just like his Dad.
yeah it is the desk that is small@JenniferJJacobs pic.twitter.com/KzLY43xbUI
— darth™ (@darth) March 27, 2017
True story.
TFW when your @REI dividend arrives. pic.twitter.com/KDkr020a9c
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 27, 2017
re: #123 Dr. Matt
This should be retweeted every single day:
That was before I won the biggest election victory ever since that guy who won the president a long time ago. I won bigly.
re: #128 HappyWarrior
Rand Paul again shows he’s nothing but a pathetic fraud just like his Dad.
Insert generic Republican and you’d get the same result.
re: #133 Stanley Sea
Cray cray Fox is standing right there,
must be for the anti-education bill, whatever it is.
re: #106 KGxvi
I’m guessing Ford wasn’t terrible (and the last official pro-choice Republican president). He took office in probably the worst possible conditions (non-Andrew Johnson category), and was a serviceable president.
Side note: from what I remember reading a while back, there was actually a push for a constitutional convention during the Watergate area that would have sought to reform our system into a more parliamentarian system with a prime minister.
We actually could have a more paliamentary-like system of government without amending the Constitution. Adding proportional representation to our system of electing Congressman, with other reforms, could end the monopoly on power held by the two major parties. If electors were also selected proportionally, and there were usually more than two major candidates for President, then the President would almost always be elected by Congress, much like Parliament selects the Prime Minister.
re: #132 lawhawk
Insert generic Republican and you’d get the same result.
True, true. I just find Rand really repulsive in this regard since he loves to sell himself as a champion of privacy rights.
Today I’m signing 4 bills under the Congressional Review Act that cancels regulations & eliminates unnecessary, job-killing rules. #MAGA pic.twitter.com/AzoKpgdLoW
— President Trump (@POTUS) March 27, 2017
I’ll keep working with Congress, agencies, and the American people until we eliminate every unnecessary, job-killing regulation we can find!
— President Trump (@POTUS) March 27, 2017
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah, was just looking on the WH website to see what was pending. For what it’s worth, here’s the summary of the Dept of Interior regulation that was shut down today:
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is amending its regulations that establish the procedures used to prepare, revise, or amend land use plans pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA). The final rule affirms the important role of other Federal agencies, State and local governments, Indian tribes, and the public during the planning process and enhances opportunities for public involvement and transparency during the preparation of resource management plans. The final rule will enable the BLM to more readily address resource issues at a variety of scales, such as wildfire, wildlife habitat, appropriate development, or the demand for renewable and non-renewable energy sources, and to respond more effectively to change. The final rule emphasizes the role of using high quality information, including the best available scientific information, in the planning process; and the importance of evaluating the resource, environmental, ecological, social, and economic conditions at the onset of planning. Finally, the final rule makes revisions to clarify existing text and to improve the readability of the planning regulations.
They stopped a regulation designed to get more parties involved in the process. What am I not shocked that Trump would be opposed to transparency.
re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth
People-killing, on the other hand, isn’t an issue.
re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth
Christ, always with the “job-killing” bullshit. It’s like a Republican Security blanket.
re: #138 KGxvi
Even better, the regulation summary from the DoD and NASA:
DoD, GSA, and NASA are issuing a final rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement Executive Order 13673, Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces, which is designed to increase efficiency and cost savings in Federal contracting by improving contractor compliance with labor laws. The Department of Labor is simultaneously issuing final Guidance to assist Federal agencies in
I thought they were all about increasing efficiency and cost savings? Wait… you mean to tell me that’s all for show?
Yeahhh….I’m gonna have to ask you to give up your healthcare. If you could just die without going to the hospital, that’d be great.
6/ ??? pic.twitter.com/vl9LTEZWsl
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) March 27, 2017
“It’s a child’s desk,” said Pres Trump of the table provided for the bill signings. “It’s the smallest desk I’ve ever seen,” he complained. pic.twitter.com/orVCXQgWAk
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 27, 2017
wait wat is going on with his tie
is he changing his tie every photo shoot pic.twitter.com/3lxgE24iyK— darth™ (@darth) March 27, 2017
re: #141 Mattand
Christ, always with the “job-killing” bullshit. It’s like a Republican Security blanket.
You’re not kidding. I have to read a lot of stuff from Chabot (head of the Small Business Committee) in the House and there’s so much whining about “job killing” regulations.
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And the number of people who predicted that Schumer would be the one leading the Congressional resistance?
Zero…
Myself included and I am pleasantly shocked.
re: #148 b.d.
And the number of people who predicted that Schumer would be the one leading the Congressional resistance?
Zero…
Myself included and I am pleasantly shocked.
He’s been a pleasant surprise.
re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth
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wait wat is going on with his tie
is he changing his tie every photo shoot pic.twitter.com/3lxgE24iyK— darth™ (@darth) March 27, 2017
is the tie blue and silver or is the tie red u decidehttps://t.co/JgAkcku7u7
— darth™ (@darth) March 27, 2017
re: #141 Mattand
Christ, always with the “job-killing” bullshit. It’s like a Republican Security blanket.
Regulation kills jobs. De-regulation kills workers. They’ve made their choice.
re: #151 Decatur Deb
Regulation kills jobs. De-regulation kills workers. They’ve made their choice.
Regulation kills dangerous, low-paying jobs producing dangerous, shoddy products while producing dangerous, unhealthy side effects on the environment.
re: #152 Blind Frog Belly White
Regulation kills dangerous, low-paying jobs producing dangerous, shoddy products while producing dangerous, unhealthy side effects on the environment.
Yup. But you can’t beat Walmart on 10-packs of tube socks.
re: #153 Decatur Deb
Yup. But you can’t beat Walmart on 10-packs of tube socks.
Right. And look how much higher black employment was before that pesky 13th Amendment regulation passed!
I like to think that people would want to work in a safe work environment but I’m not a Republican.
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I know, in the big scheme of things, it’s pretty unimportant, but it makes me want to puke whenever he holds up his signed crap for approval. What. A. Douchenozzle.
re: #156 HappyWarrior
I like to think that people would want to work in a safe work environment but I’m not a Republican.
Ah, but you see, the Republicans would say, “Nobody is forced to work in an unsafe environment! They can choose different jobs!”
Then, with their next breath, they’ll complain there aren’t enough jobs.
re: #157 BeachDem
I know, in the big scheme of things, it’s pretty unimportant, but it makes me want to puke whenever he holds up his signed crap for approval. What. A. Douchenozzle.
“Hey, everybody! Look at my psychopathic signature!!”
re: #154 Blind Frog Belly White
Right. And look how much higher black employment was before that pesky 13th Amendment regulation passed!
“The family that picks together stays together, until the jobbers from Louisiana come upriver in the Spring.”
re: #160 Decatur Deb
“The family that picks together
stayssticks together, until the jobbers from Louisiana come upriver in the Spring.”
FTFY
re: #148 b.d.
And the number of people who predicted that Schumer would be the one leading the Congressional resistance?
Zero…
Myself included and I am pleasantly shocked.
Well, old Chuck wanted to be Senate Dem Leader after Harry Reid packed it in (still miss him); not really a shocker that he’d have to step up into the public eye* : but I agree, he’s doing a good job so far.
* More so, that is: that old wheeze about “the most dangerous place in Washington is between Chuck Schumer and a camera” goes WAY back
This is a self fulfilling prophecy. Trump’s utter failure as president virtually guarantees a recession, but hey, not his fault, right?
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 27, 2017
re: #141 Mattand
Christ, always with the “job-killing” bullshit. It’s like a Republican Security blanket.
I heard a clip of an interview with Pruitt on NPR where he made that charge explicitly: regs were written to kill jobs. It got by the interviewer because it was couched as ‘regs that hurt the economy’; but basically their charge is that Democrats hate jobs.
Read Spicer’s claim Trump ‘walked away’ from ‘bad’ health care deal to senior WH staffer — who laughed, laughed then laughed and said ‘no.’
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) March 27, 2017
Heard a similar response from a West Wing person, along the lines of it not being believable https://t.co/XCk8O1dbC4
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 27, 2017
Trump cannot fail. He can only BE failed.
re: #158 Blind Frog Belly White
Ah, but you see, the Republicans would say, “Nobody is forced to work in an unsafe environment! They can choose different jobs!”
Then, with their next breath, they’ll complain there aren’t enough jobs.
Yep same clueless and out of touch bullshit that we’ve come to know and love. That one can just quit a job just like that.
re: #112 goddamnedfrank
Kushner doesn’t realize it but he’s creating conditions for a perfect storm of anti-semitic backlash when Trump’s administration inevitably, finally implodes under the weight of its combined corruption and incompetence. Trump’s racist supporters will interpret Jared’s nepotistic, totally unearned role within the Administration and responsibility he’s been undeservedly given as the machinations of a “Court Jew” who will then be scapegoated as the central reason the promise of MAGA never materialized.
Kushner scares the crap out of me because he fits every anti-Semitic stereotype of the sneaky, thieving, plotting, conniving JOO and he thinks he’s bullet proof.
Fmr sr. WH offical: Even House Intel chair must be cleared into WH grounds: “It’s just not possible the WH was unaware or uninvolved.”
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) March 27, 2017
In other words, it’s “not possible” that the White House didn’t know Nunes was there the day before his announcement https://t.co/HlWt5t5Dtk
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 27, 2017
re: #166 HappyWarrior
Yep same clueless and out of touch bullshit that we’ve come to know and love. That one can just quit a job just like that.
“If they want better pay and healthcare, they should get better jobs, of which there aren’t enough because workers keep demanding better pay and healthcare, and if they want better pay and healthcare, they should get better jobs, of which there aren’t enough because workers keep demanding better pay and healthcare, and if they want better pay and healthcare, they should get better jobs, of which there aren’t enough because workers keep demanding better pay and healthcare, and ……
No rack full of souvenir presidential signing pens either. He used one per bill and then held pen up in the air for grabs. pic.twitter.com/gwjmSKN2UZ
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 27, 2017
I can’t quite get over the fact that they slapped a bill together then gave up in less than three weeks.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 27, 2017
But they did everything they could! They spent literally tens of hours trying!
re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He can’t stop in the middle of that seismograph signature, or he’ll lose his place.
Ivanka Trump will travel to Berlin for a women’s summit, her first trip abroad representing the Trump administration https://t.co/fDtmaB8NRx pic.twitter.com/uFTunutPuD
— CNN (@CNN) March 27, 2017
Donald: Daughter Ivanka, you have a vagina, go to Berlin & represent me to your fellow inscrutable vagina bearers.
Ivanka: OMG Thanks Dad!! https://t.co/xYBzseOdhf— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 27, 2017
Gibberish is the White House’s new normal: A close look at Trump’s peculiar derangement
Now we have a president who, when he speaks, spatters the air with unfinished chunks, many of which do not qualify as sentences, and which do not follow from previous chunks. He does not release words into a stream of consciousness but into a heap. He heaps words on top of words, to overwhelm meaning with vague gestures. He does not think, he lurches.
rawstory.com
Heh
re: #173 goddamnedfrank
From what we’ve seen so far, Ivanka is taking the “First Lady” role, as Trump’s current wife apparently isn’t interested in the job.
re: #171 Blind Frog Belly White
But they did everything they could! They spent literally tens of hours trying!
Oh, they’ll be back with something worse soon enough.
re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth
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You know, I think this and stuff like the tie change aren’t inconsequential, when stacked up.
I was thinking earlier today about how authoritarians…and particularly dictators…engage in theater, because their power roots in being seen as indispensable (either a necessary evil or a man of the people). And I think we’re seeing a slightly different kind of theater at play in events like this: it’s sound and fury, inflating nothing into Something Important. More than anything, it resembles reality television and its trick of editing and “reenacting” to create emphatic, heightened scenarios.
This is all performance and flair to obfuscate the substance.
re: #174 BeachDem
Gibberish is the White House’s new normal: A close look at Trump’s peculiar derangement
Now we have a president who, when he speaks, spatters the air with unfinished chunks, many of which do not qualify as sentences, and which do not follow from previous chunks. He does not release words into a stream of consciousness but into a heap. He heaps words on top of words, to overwhelm meaning with vague gestures. He does not think, he lurches.
rawstory.com
Heh
That’s because people insist on listening to his words. Trump’s words are inconsequential—it’s all in the gestures. Trump is an unsurpassed mime.
re: #175 freetoken
From what we’ve seen so far, Ivanka is taking the “First Lady” role, as Trump’s current wife apparently isn’t interested in the job.
*bites tongue*
re: #178 Decatur Deb
Trump’s words are inconsequential—it’s all in the gestures.
Wildly waving orange thing:
re: #171 Blind Frog Belly White
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But they did everything they could! They spent literally tens of hours trying!
Its almost like they realized that passing that piece of crap would be even worse for them politically than giving up on it.
re: #175 freetoken
From what we’ve seen so far, Ivanka is taking the “First Lady” role, as Trump’s current wife apparently isn’t interested in the job.
Was this written for them?
Not that I can say I feel sorry for either of them. They both had to have known what they were getting into.
re: #178 Decatur Deb
That’s because people insist on listening to his words. Trump’s words are inconsequential—it’s all in the gestures. Trump is an unsurpassed mime.
The article ends with:
Any journalist, any talking head, any pundit, any commentator, any politician who pretends that Donald Trump makes sense has volunteered to go to work in the tailor shop where his invisible clothes are weaved.
re: #167 The Vicious Babushka
Kushner scares the crap out of me because he fits every anti-Semitic stereotype of the sneaky, thieving, plotting, conniving JOO and he thinks he’s bullet proof.
I dunno: he scares the crap out of me because, AFAICT, he’s a mediocrity of little discernible talent shoved into a position of major importance in the government solely out of nepotism and no-choice “loyalty”. The “Jewish” thing is almost secondary (though you may be right).
— Theater of SciFi (@theaterofscifi) March 27, 2017
re: #72 BlueGrl21
I’ve reached the point where Spicer isn’t worth my time any more, even for the humor potential. I’m done listening to him. Trump will just contradict him in 10 mins anyway.
He swims with the fishes.
What’s to listen to anyway? It’s all lies and deflection. This White House is totally incapable of dealing with truth. It has an aversion to facts and reality.
— Theater of SciFi (@theaterofscifi) March 26, 2017
re: #181 Big Beautiful Door
Its almost like they realized that passing that piece of crap would be even worse for them politically than giving up on it.
That’s certainly true of the 30 or so “moderates” who opposed it rather more quietly than the HFC, who are just cruel and bugfuck nuts.
I saw an interesting thing noting that since Trump was elected, the people getting the most attention in town halls have been people whose lives and health depend on the ACA, and who could say in no uncertain terms that the AHCA would have a dire impact on them.
ETA: As opposed to the usual “Muh premiumz went up!” folks.
re: #167 The Vicious Babushka
Kushner scares the crap out of me because he fits every anti-Semitic stereotype of the sneaky, thieving, plotting, conniving JOO and he thinks he’s bullet proof.
Exactly. He has no idea or seeming care in the word about whose lives he’s really endangering with his self dealing fuckery.
re: #190 Blind Frog Belly White
Whoa. That cat looks ridiculously at home in the water.
Despite most cats being afraid of water they are typically good swimmers.
AP Exclusive: Price tag of North Carolina’s LGBT law: $3.76B | WTOP https://t.co/FxP8yfx3fG via @WTOP
— Timothy Watson (@timothy_watson) March 27, 2017
re: #187 gocart mozart
— Theater of SciFi (@theaterofscifi) March 26, 2017
Go home cat, you’re drunk…
I’ll take “That’s Not How This Works” for 500, Alex. https://t.co/ZBldGspUOc pic.twitter.com/q0RMZvjXS5
— Caleb Watney (@calebwatney) March 27, 2017
Bangs out 4000 word think piece about how Donkey Kong was inspired by the Council of Trent. https://t.co/5JTKr0PzbZ
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 27, 2017
re: #196 goddamnedfrank
Does that make Last Rites the ultimate cheat code?
re: #136 HappyWarrior
True, true. I just find Rand really repulsive in this regard since he loves to sell himself as a champion of privacy rights.
You know what Rand is really a champion of?
Rand.
Dude just oozes arrogance.
re: #181 Big Beautiful Door
Its almost like they realized that passing that piece of crap would be even worse for them politically than giving up on it.
“Eh, we tried. Those Democrats, know what I mean?”
That’s all it takes to amuse their base.
“this desk is so tiny i cant even rest both my hands on it
wait wat why are u all looking at me like that” pic.twitter.com/bfV2pf4gla— darth™ (@darth) March 27, 2017
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mark Knoller ✔ @markknoller
“It’s a child’s desk,” said Pres Trump of the table provided for the bill signings. “It’s the smallest desk I’ve ever seen,” he complained.
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The smallest desk is perfect for a very small president.
(Fun with the word small…)
re: #56 Kragar
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I’ve had it with these tax dodging Welfare Queen Pulpit Pimps!
Tax The Churches!!!!!
re: #196 goddamnedfrank
The alternative fact is even more nonsensical.
Finally, a Cure for Government Dysfunction: Nepotism
Let Jared do it!
Solve the crisis in the Middle East, which has defeated generals and clerics, emperors and kings, democrats and autocrats?
Let Jared do it!
Refashion the federal government into a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Trump Organization so everybody can get a sweet slice of the pie before the whole clan winds up playing pinochle together in Danbury?
Let Jared do it!
However, I do spot an essential element of the Trump business plan deep in the story.
In some cases, the office could direct that government functions be privatized, or that existing contracts be awarded to new bidders.
I’m sure this process will be marked by the same commitment to meritocracy that landed Jared in the White House.
What is the deal here? Where are the actual Trump sons? I know Eric’s off somewhere having the bolts in his neck tightened, and Don, Jr. is out in the woods, sitting on a stump and thinking big thoughts about picking fights above his weight class:
Meanwhile, Ivanka’s honey-bunny is getting to run the world.
re: #196 goddamnedfrank
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Its like he gets his “Christian” theology from the half hour sitcom The Good Place, which works exactly like he described.
You have one day to stop Congress from giving away your web browsing history
So the answer to Trump is to run around with my hair on fire for the next 4 years? So is it “my fault” if I don’t sit down at my desk with my quill pen every fucking week begging and pleading for the bad man to stop? Fuck that noise. I donated to both Clinton and Sanders, I voted.
re: #181 Big Beautiful Door
Its almost like they realized that passing that piece of crap would be even worse for them politically than giving up on it.
While conceding that was probably the thinking, I’m not entirely convinced that’s true. There are a LOT of moderate Republican’s who are going to go home in 2018 without a measurable, tangible vote against the AHCA. If Trump’s approval rating remains at garbage levels, and it’s hard to see how it gets much better, these people will be tarred by association, struggling to differentiate themselves from his horribly corrupt & inept governance.
Another regulatory power grab from the Obama Administration is getting rolled back. This one reverses a harmful U.S. Fish and Wildlife rule. pic.twitter.com/ivjzhO5Kdo
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) March 27, 2017
paul ryan consoling himself for his devastating health care plan loss by making it legal to shoot hibernating bears
that will show them paul https://t.co/my0p9cgV7P— darth™ (@darth) March 27, 2017
Full stop, if you are against abortion, or think it’s murder, you are no moderate. The whole GOP believes this.
re: #211 Amory Blaine
Full stop, if you are against abortion, or think it’s murder, you are no moderate. The whole GOP believes this.
Harry Reid was against abortion.
re: #212 Belafon
Did he belong to a political party that considers it murder? And that observation doesn’t disprove that there are few moderates in the GOP. Have at it. If there are so many, list them or point me to the list of moderates.
re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth
I can see the Trump sons making their travel plans as soon as that Panda shoot in a Chinese zoo comes through.
You dumb fuck Trump voters just keep winning.
Trump Repeals Regulation Protecting Workers From Wage Theft
WASHINGTON ― Companies that commit wage theft and put their workers in harm’s way just received a favor from the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump signed a bill Monday repealing a regulation that had encouraged federal contractors to follow labor laws. Under the Obama-era rule, companies with an egregious record of violating wage and safety laws would lose their government contracts if they didn’t come into compliance.
The idea behind the rule was to make sure unscrupulous employers didn’t receive taxpayer dollars. But Republicans in Congress thought the rule was too punitive and unfair to businesses. They used an arcane tool known as the Congressional Review Act in an effort to kill the regulation, which was called the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule.
By approving the legislation sent to him by the Senate, Trump has ensured not only that the regulation will die, but also that no similar regulation can be put forth by the Labor Department again. Trump signed the legislation at a White House ceremony in front of the press.
re: #213 Amory Blaine
Did he belong to a political party that considers it murder? And that observation doesn’t disprove that there are few moderates in the GOP. Have at it. If there are so many, list them or point me to the list of moderates.
Patriarchy comes in all flavors. And some religions got it bad.
re: #212 Belafon
Harry Reid was against abortion.
Reid had an imperfect but mostly pro-choice voting record in spite of his personal views.
re: #217 goddamnedfrank
Reid had an imperfect but mostly pro-choice voting record in spite of his personal views.
I have it on reasonably good authority that Harry Reid never performed nor had any abortions while in the senate.
re: #212 Belafon
Harry Reid was against abortion.
Well, there’s ‘against abortion’ and then there’s favoring the use of government force to prohibit/prevent abortion, and then there’s believing this is The Most Important Issue.
re: #212 Belafon
Harry Reid was against abortion.
Reid never let that personal belief interfere with the law.
re: #220 Backwoods_Sleuth
Reid never let that personal belief interfere with the law.
Same with Biden, IIRC.
re: #215 Skip Intro
You dumb fuck Trump voters just keep winning.
Trump Repeals Regulation Protecting Workers From Wage Theft
Now why would a great businessman known for cheating suppliers and others for dollars repeal a bill from protecting workers from wage theft?
Making America Great Again for Scummy Business Men.
BTW, here’s a list of the things the ISPs hope to be able to get back to doing, per the EFF. This one is particularly creepy to me:
Hijacking your searches
Which ISPs did it before? Charter, Cogent, DirecPC, Frontier, Wide Open West (to name a few)
Back in 2011, several ISPs were caught red-handed working with a company called Paxfire to hijack their customers’ search queries to Bing, Yahoo!, and Google. Here’s how it worked.
When you entered a search term in your browser’s search box or URL bar, your ISP directed that query to Paxfire instead of to an actual search engine. Paxfire then checked what you were searching for to see if it matched a list of companies that had paid them for more traffic. If your query matched one of these brands (e.g. you had typed in “apple”, “dell”, or “wsj”, to name a few) then Paxfire would send you directly to that company’s website instead of sending you to a search engine and showing you all the search results (which is what you’d normally expect). The company would then presumably give Paxfire some money, and Paxfire would presumably give your ISP some money.
In other words, ISPs were hijacking their customers’ search queries and redirecting them to a place customers hadn’t asked for, all while pocketing a little cash on the side. Oh, and the ISPs in question hadn’t bothered to tell their customers they’d be sending their search traffic to a third party that might record some of it.
Belligerent intoxication at Mar-a-Lago is no longer acceptable https://t.co/aJbwmPxQCW
— David Freedlander (@freedlander) March 27, 2017
Belligerent sobriety, however, is right up the owner’s alley.
I suppose my language was ambiguous at best. Personally against is different than legislatively.
re: #222 ObserverArt
Now why would a great businessman known for cheating suppliers and others for dollars repeal a bill from protecting workers from wage theft?
Making America Great Again for Scummy Business Men.
I think this is what Trump meant when he said people would beg him to stop because they just couldn’t take all that winning.
re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White
Ivanka in 5 years.
re: #215 Skip Intro
Hey if you don’t like your boss stealing from you, you can always just get another job. Right? :D
re: #217 goddamnedfrank
Reid had an imperfect but mostly pro-choice voting record in spite of his personal views.
An actual practitioner of pro-choice.
You know that guy who wrote “The Bell Curve”? That guy that “race realists” (AKA “racists”) like to cite b/c “he’s scientific, totally not a racist!”
He was totally a racist. (But you already know that)
https://t.co/2dhW4wSbXB The thing about Charles Murray burning a cross is no joke. pic.twitter.com/5qmgv2h2fF
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) March 27, 2017
re: #230 The Vicious Babushka
You know that guy who wrote “The Bell Curve”? That guy that “race realists” (AKA “racists”) like to cite b/c “he’s scientific, totally not a racist!”
He was totally a racist. (But you already know that)
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And PBS has been giving him a platform to promote his views:
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re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White
This is good. I like that all the rich people that pay to stay with Trump have to now watch all their Ps and Qs. Nothing says relaxing getaway like SS no-go zones.
re: #215 Skip Intro
You dumb fuck Trump voters just keep winning.
Trump Repeals Regulation Protecting Workers From Wage Theft
Sucks for all those Clinton voters who will get hurt by this.
I wonder if a company like Costco could sue (I guess the big question is who) over unfair practices.
Oh I see Ann Coulter retweeted Richard Spencer, hm pic.twitter.com/EBshz2TfSn
— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) March 27, 2017
re: #233 Belafon
Sucks for all those Clinton voters who will get hurt by this.
I wonder if a company like Costco could sue (I guess the big question is who) over unfair practices.
This was part of what Ryan was talking about, ‘standing with the American workforce’. Yeah, standing with a cattleprod, waving a pink slip menacingly….
re: #199 ObserverArt
You know what Rand is really a champion of?
Rand.
Dude just oozes arrogance.
That’s a given with an anarchist, I mean libertarian. I’ve never, ever, met a humble one.
re: #234 bratwurst
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That’s a great thing (the voter registrations - not Punchface McGee). Having come from Kansas (now in Colorado) and having been back in Kansas the last few months for funerals all I can say is these mid-western states should thank their god(s) that these people decide to put down roots in these areas. Otherwise their populations of small towns and counties would go to nothing. All the young people who could get out of the mid-west did and they need the manpower and the people to keep their areas afloat.
re: #236 Romantic Heretic
That’s a given with an anarchist, I mean libertarian. I’ve never, ever, met a humble one.
Said it before, will say it again:
If you ever want to experience what life would be like under a libertarian government, go play BioShock for a few hours.
re: #234 bratwurst
Vögel of a Feder flock zusammen.
re: #236 Romantic Heretic
I wouldn’t even credit him with libertarian.
He’s a Confederate like his dad. “Rights” are real and serious when they reinforce the hegemony of his people, nonexistent otherwise.
re: #215 Skip Intro
Another chapter in “Uber Leftist Bernie/Jill-or-Busters managed to undermine EVERYTHING they ostensibly cared about” https://t.co/SHcTBTd7ZU
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 27, 2017
@HarryTuttle11 This just made me choke on my tea laughing. pic.twitter.com/9LKsl9UIOU
— Abbey Bartletmitzvah (@clapifyoulikeme) March 27, 2017
re: #242 goddamnedfrank
Derp. ALL CHOICES IN THE TROLLEY PROBLEM ARE EQUALLY BAD. Derp.
re: #243 gocart mozart
Does anyone else think of MASH when they see Tuttle?
Rachel Dolezal claims she was “Too Black” for her husband: https://t.co/jFtuWaawFh pic.twitter.com/W9Z0j9UUSB
— The Root (@TheRoot) March 25, 2017
In the same way that I’m too athletic for a professional soccer career. https://t.co/KRYZpYB5Bd
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 27, 2017
re: #246 goddamnedfrank
I’m so ethnically white I’m one of those pale blue people, but…damn, white people be crazy.
SMDH
Kafka’s diaries show the real fun side of writing. pic.twitter.com/h7UWC7UFVR
— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) March 19, 2017
I was driving home from work this afternoon and I saw something that made me look again.
There was “A Handmaid’s Tale” woman standing at the bus stop.
It was weird because I did not read or hear about any demonstrations going on, and not at a strip mall in my neighborhood.
I drove past again and saw that it was an old lady, with a walker, who just happened to be wearing a bright red raincoat and a white bucket hat.
I didn’t take a picture because (1) I was driving and (2) privacy, it was just a random woman at a bus stop, not a “Handmaid”
But dayum.
White House refuses to condemn murder of black man by white supremacist https://t.co/OHWW4OG9p0 pic.twitter.com/pJRahzVlbh
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 27, 2017
It’s not that they’re incapable of learning from past missteps, it’s that they’re intentionally and overtly evil. https://t.co/MVX7c2sfFp
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 27, 2017
This will prob snowball all week until Trump has to give out a half hearted condemnation accompanied by a shit-grinned “are you happy now?”
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 27, 2017
re: #242 goddamnedfrank
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“Good, because Trump’s gonna make it so intolerable in America that the people will rise up and throw him out of office, beginning the glorious revolution we’ve been waiting for!!!”
Don’t laugh, that’s what I’ve been told on more than one occasion.
re: #252 Targetpractice
1. Things get worse.
2. —-
3. Everybody will come around to my way of thinking!
4. Revolution!
Marx was the original underpants gnome. And we’re now dealing with his Sawney-Beane-like offspring who aren’t even making accurate observations about industrialized Europe.
edited because “inbred” and a Sawney Beane reference are redundant. Also, my British level is now over 9000.
re: #79 Big Beautiful Door
The national debt isn’t a problem at all, much less our #1 crisis. But that is a message rightwing media has been spewing for eight years.
Some of us old lizards recall interest rates that were substantially higher than today — banks were paying 12% on CD’s in the early 80’s. The only reason that the national debt isn’t a problem is that interest rates have remained so low over the past decade and longer. If we are faced with a similar economic crisis as in the 1970’s, something that may indeed happen under this feckless, traitorous regime, the debt may again become a fiscal problem for us.
In any case, raising taxes on those who can best afford seems like a rational solution in all cases.
re: #248 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Bonus thought:
Rachael Dolezal is why Get Out is both horror and satire.
Those that best can afford them are those who have benefited the most from Americas system that they have gamed so well.
re: #253 gocart mozart
Robert DeNiro in Brazil
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Thanks. The Captain Tuttle episode just reminds me of many attempts to cover up a lie.
re: #223 Belafon
BTW, here’s a list of the things the ISPs hope to be able to get back to doing, per the EFF. This one is particularly creepy to me:
This may be helpful: Freenom World is a fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver
From their intro page:
Speed up your internet experience
— Freenom does not store IP addresses
— Protect your privacy
— No advertising
Get the results you expect. Freenom - as one of the largest DNS providers - is committed to preserve the integrity of the DNS protocol. Freenom World’s DNS resolvers will never forward any request for a non-existing domain to an advertising page.
Some DNS providers, such as OpenDNS, offer a “balance” between strict adherence to standards, vs some protections from typo-squatting, malware and phishing sites, etc, for some degree of end-user protection. Some others are deep in the pockets of advertisers, or worse. One’s choices for DNS services are a tradeoff, but majorly affect how the web works for you. Or against you.
My wife is hosting a visit this weekend for one of her RWNJ friends and her man from Rockford Illinois. She hasn’t been over since I admonished her for a racist diatribe coming out of her mouth at my dining room table 2 years ago. Cursory review of her facebook entries show a willingness to let any meme about Chicago crime rates come front and center. I mean to ask her why she’s so concerned about Chicago’s crime rate considering her own Rockford has a higher crime rate. I am also curious why she would visit New Orleans for Fat Tuesday when it is clear that New Orleans has more crime than Chicago. Actually I’m not curious, she’s a racist nutter that considers my wife “one of the good ones”.
re: #260 Amory Blaine
It’s that fucking C S Lewis thing where they’re excited that there’s someplace they can conceive of as The Worst.
They’re heroes…when contrasted with total depravity they project on everybody else.
Presidential Memorandum designating son-in-law Jared Kushner to head WH Office of American Innovation. https://t.co/QW1TT6aAod
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 27, 2017
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
Still proposing that 45 is trying to Giovanni Sforza Mr. Kushner.
Caption Contest! Everybody wins!
My entry: “Gee, Suzy, looks like I don’t have to get you home by 10 after all.”
(Artist Ed Valigursky via Vault of the Atomic Space Age)
McConnell Warns Dems: Americans ‘Just Won’t Tolerate’ SCOTUS Block https://t.co/rEqqdw5sHV pic.twitter.com/f9K2E1WIRB
— VivaLaResistance⚜ (@Kimmi1965) March 26, 2017
McConnell himself has proved otherwise. https://t.co/zaLV0Ki8dj
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) March 27, 2017
re: #212 Belafon
Harry Reid was against abortion.
I don’t think Harry Reid was in favor of making abortion illegal. That’s the only thing that matters.
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel
“See that Sue? That’s a freedom cloud”
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
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@Minuteman04 Exactly… @rmiskimens @docrocktex26 pic.twitter.com/e29IlXIFhF
— vlh (@coton_luver) March 27, 2017
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel
I yelled “Don’t look Edith!” But it was too late - she’d already been a-salt-ed.
(all due apologies to Ray Stevens)
re: #152 Blind Frog Belly White
Regulation kills dangerous, low-paying jobs producing dangerous, shoddy products while producing dangerous, unhealthy side effects on the environment.
“Here, have a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich. The peanut butter was made in a plant that’s now free of those job-killing regulations, and the place is just teeming.”
“So is the sandwich.”
Bridgegate: Feds seek ‘meaningful’ jail term for former Christie allies https://t.co/XayLNOYh0D pic.twitter.com/wBZoeg46DV
Look at all this winning!!!!
#Dow posts 8-day slide, longest since 2011, as Wall Street weighs tax reform prospects https://t.co/HPP20j4Ldo via
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 27, 2017
US STOCKS-Wall St off as Trump agenda weighed; Dow down for 8th day https://t.co/WOdomDql0b via
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 27, 2017
re: #270 jaunte
“Here, have a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich. The peanut butter was made in a plant that’s now free of those job-killing regulations, and the place is just teeming.”
“So is the sandwich.”
Do the workers get bathroom breaks? Are you sure that’s peanut butter? /
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel
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(Artist Ed Valigursky via Vault of the Atomic Space Age)
“Honey, did you turn off the stove before we left?”
re: #274 unproven innocence
“The marketplace, not faceless Washington bureaucrats, will decide what’s peanut butter.”
re: #255 Hecuba’s daughter
Some of us old lizards recall interest rates that were substantially higher than today — banks were paying 12% on CD’s in the early 80’s. The only reason that the national debt isn’t a problem is that interest rates have remained so low over the past decade and longer. If we are faced with a similar economic crisis as in the 1970’s, something that may indeed happen under this feckless, traitorous regime, the debt may again become a fiscal problem for us.
In any case, raising taxes on those who can best afford seems like a rational solution in all cases.
I remember when we were PAYING rates like that on farming loans. That can push you out of business in a hurry.
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel
“If we’d brought the kids and dog like I wanted, Jane, we’d at least have had a few days of survival rations. You happy now?”
re: #255 Hecuba’s daughter
Some of us old lizards recall interest rates that were substantially higher than today — banks were paying 12% on CD’s in the early 80’s. The only reason that the national debt isn’t a problem is that interest rates have remained so low over the past decade and longer. If we are faced with a similar economic crisis as in the 1970’s, something that may indeed happen under this feckless, traitorous regime, the debt may again become a fiscal problem for us.
In any case, raising taxes on those who can best afford seems like a rational solution in all cases.
When I transferred in 1979, the 30 year mortgage rate was 13.1%!!! The rate stayed that high for several years before we could refinance.
Okay, I know Mass Effect Andromeda isn’t perfect, but that final mission is more rewarding than anything in Mass Effect 3 (except maybe Citadel DLC).
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel
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(Artist Ed Valigursky via Vault of the Atomic Space Age)
“It’s OK honey, that’s just the neighborhood where the colored people live.”
re: #272 Cheechako
Remember those photos of trump sitting in the big rig? Someone let him take it for a test drive. Here is the result:
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I just feel like they are trying to overwhelm us with corruption so that we become desensitized and just say, fuck it.
‘K.T. McFarland may have illegally used campaign funds to advance career’
re: #272 Cheechako
We have an emergency! #Trump #Truck @POTUS @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/DHqUjzsRFp
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) March 24, 2017
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel
“I’m pretty sure the spider is dead. We use our second strike capability when its radioactive mutant offspring turn up…unless they fight crime. Then everything’s copacetic.”
Ok, I need some help locating a song. It’s a blues song, I want to say it’s by Joe Cocker, but my research leads me to believe it’s not by Joe Cocker. I first remember hearing it some time in the late 90s or early aughts (not that this means much of anything since it’s a blues song). The one line I remember is something along the lines of “she wears a red fascinator” (though I might not even have the color right).
Help, please.
(I’m also willing to accept that this is simply a Mandela Effect moment for me… and if that’s the case, I’m willing to consider ways of getting to that alternate version of reality, since this one has gone a bit wonky)
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel
“And that, m’lady, is how a REAL MAN bakes a pizza.”
re: #8 Charles Johnson
Become? When was he anything else? I remember his nauseating CNN days and Washington Post stint. Pretended to be neutral while smugly pushing Conservative talking points. So glad that he’s on Fox News so I never see him anymore.
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel
“I’m sorry, honey, but it appears God finally found the toys we hid in the bedside pleasure drawer. Apparently the lead lining did nothing.
That’s a hundred dollars in contractor’s fees we’ll never get back.”
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel
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(Artist Ed Valigursky via Vault of the Atomic Space Age)
Damm it!!! I told them: Do not give the “football” to trump!!
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
Was that not said of Rasputin?
re: #287 KGxvi
It will come to you. In a faraway place and not until it is irrelevant. That’s how it works with me anyways.
My friend in Mackay, Queensland says it’s getting a little windy about now.
Category 4 #CycloneDebbie moving WSW towards the coast. Crossing expected after midday. Latest warnings: https://t.co/YTkwbdYNGp pic.twitter.com/XTSRhaMbjW
— BOM Queensland (@BOM_Qld) March 27, 2017
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel
“I was a fool to ask for my steak well done!”
After much consideration I believe Chairman should recuse himself from involvement in investigation/oversight of Trump campaign & transition pic.twitter.com/jpfA1x80Si
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) March 27, 2017
$1 billion for 62 miles works out to $16.13 million per mile. Or over $32 billion for 2,000 miles. @lawhawk
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 27, 2017
The sheer dumbassery of this proposal has been debated, but Trump’s now attached a dollar figure to the first phase of this project. Extrapolated to the entire length of the border, we’re talking $32 billion.
It’s nuts, especially when Trump himself said the best way to get around or over the wall is to go to Home Depot or Lowes and grab a ladder or rope.
Tonight on @PBS! “Fierce, unapologetic & feminist women who confront injustice, build community & redefine identity” https://t.co/LKBX6ps5ev
— ARTCRANK® (@ARTCRANK) March 27, 2017
re: #293 Amory Blaine
It will come to you. In a faraway place and not until it is irrelevant. That’s how it works with me anyways.
I wish that were the case but I’ve been trying to find it for about a week and a half.
re: #53 Dr. Matt
Just 40? How many Dems are in Congress? All of them should be signing this letter and going on tv to publicize it.
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel
“All things considered…the sodomy was worth it.”
re: #297 lawhawk
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The sheer dumbassery of this proposal has been debated, but Trump’s now attached a dollar figure to the first phase of this project. Extrapolated to the entire length of the border, we’re talking $32 billion.
It’s nuts, especially when Trump himself said the best way to get around or over the wall is to go to Home Depot or Lowes and grab a ladder or rope.
I’m going to posit a guess that the 62 miles in question are probably close to established roads and supplies. The cost is going to go way up when the location is in the middle of the desert.
re: #297 lawhawk
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The sheer dumbassery of this proposal has been debated, but Trump’s now attached a dollar figure to the first phase of this project. Extrapolated to the entire length of the border, we’re talking $32 billion.
It’s nuts, especially when Trump himself said the best way to get around or over the wall is to go to Home Depot or Lowes and grab a ladder or rope.
So? Mexico is paying for it, after all./
Why Barack Obama chose Marlon Brando’s island hideaway to write his memoir https://t.co/FSpeaZzFu3 pic.twitter.com/lLJO18jr04
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 27, 2017
Not sure why this really needs to be explained. @thedailybeast https://t.co/EYxrTvRHaX
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 27, 2017
I just received an email from my ISP saying they respect my privacy and urging me to contact the EFF and my congresscritter about all this.
re: #302 KGxvi
Or, it’s replacing existing “fence” with wall.
Here, scientists set a great test for this rotund Hodgeheg.
The choice? To snaffle a delectable snack or to remain upright…
No contest. pic.twitter.com/0o052K5HMN— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) March 27, 2017
re: #297 lawhawk
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The sheer dumbassery of this proposal has been debated, but Trump’s now attached a dollar figure to the first phase of this project. Extrapolated to the entire length of the border, we’re talking $32 billion.
It’s nuts, especially when Trump himself said the best way to get around or over the wall is to go to Home Depot or Lowes and grab a ladder or rope.
Yeah but Mexico is going going to pay us back. Trump promised.
US Oakland Pirates wrestling team flees Pacific coast for Las Vegas, in terror of mighty missiles of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un.
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) March 27, 2017
re: #279 Cheechako
When I transferred in 1979, the 30 year mortgage rate was 13.1%!!! The rate stayed that high for several years before we could refinance.
It is worth noting, however, that if interest rates were that high, inflation would be very high as well, and the current debt would be shrinking in real terms
re: #311 Skip Intro
These are just some of the people who want you dead.
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Oh, I’m not sure it’s fair to say they want you dead. It’s just that they don’t care whether you are, or at least not enough to do anything about it.
House Intel Chair Nunes says the classified documents he viewed on White House grounds came from executive branch https://t.co/gBaT7y6lYr pic.twitter.com/BuE0KtWHyb
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) March 27, 2017
re: #313 Blind Frog Belly White
Oh, I’m not sure it’s fair to say they want you dead. It’s just that they don’t care whether you are, or at least not enough to do anything about it.
I’m afraid I’m past trying to be fair any more.
Noted “Hipster” Bill Mitchell VII introduces western youth culture phrases such as “pwnage,” “Daddy-O,” and “mary jane” to aging populace. pic.twitter.com/nvQxbSd0gu
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) March 27, 2017
re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So, he went to the White House to tell Trump “the call was coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!!” ??
re: #316 Skip Intro
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He looks like a character to be played by an aging Patrick Warburton.
A helpful bit of information for @DevinNunes … pic.twitter.com/fXeIw2lFzu
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 27, 2017
re: #311 Skip Intro
These are just some of the people who want you dead.
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Only a few who wish that — you also need to add Paul Ryan and anyone else who supported the legislation. After all, they all wanted to give tax cuts to wealthy, while preventing you from affording health care coverage and eliminating any benefits requirements, so the policies you purchase could essentially be worthless.
re: #315 Skip Intro
I’m afraid I’m past trying to be fair any more.
I’m reminded of a line from a show with Paul Dooley as a boss:
“It’s not that I’m an unfeeling man. It’s that I’m an uncaring man. I’d feel bad, but I don’t care.”
Devin Nunes doing secret stuff. pic.twitter.com/QHApqgxgwd
— Elizabeth West (@Limeylizzie) March 27, 2017
Brownback haz a sad:
Stunned and disappointed that the Kansas Senate voted for taxpayer funding of @PPact. -SDB #ksleg
— Sam Brownback (@govsambrownback) March 27, 2017
re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth
Tacky all the way down. That’s our Trump!
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Nunes is in congress because his pace is far too slow for a successful stripper.
re: #312 Blind Frog Belly White
It is worth noting, however, that if interest rates were that high, inflation would be very high as well, and the current debt would be shrinking in real terms
The existing debt may be shrinking but any new debt would be exploding and would have to be repaid at a much higher rate.
re: #325 Decatur Deb
Nunes is in congress because his pace is far too slow for a successful stripper.
“if I wanted to, I could have snuck onto WH grounds at night when nobody would have seen me” pic.twitter.com/WnCdYxf3mu
— Shoshana Weissmann (@senatorshoshana) March 27, 2017
Rep. Devin Nunes says he went to the WH because he had to go to executive branch facilities to read classified info https://t.co/iLS4N09c43
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 27, 2017
You. Have. A. SCIF. Of. Your. Own. https://t.co/2a19iYDjdr
— Bradley P. Moss, Esq (@BradMossEsq) March 27, 2017
@jaredkushner deleted all of his tweets. That doesn’t look suspicious AT ALL. 🙄 I wonder what else he’s hiding & deleting? 🤔 #TheResistance pic.twitter.com/Hf144gxjpf
— Don Brown (@TheRealDonBrown) March 27, 2017
re: #323 Backwoods_Sleuth
Stunned and disappointed that the Kansas Senate voted for taxpayer funding of @PPact. -SDB #ksleg
— Sam Brownback (@govsambrownback) March 27, 2017
Congrats on goating through Monday 🎉 pic.twitter.com/4iaQ8HcQA7
— 100% GOATS (@EverythingGoats) March 27, 2017
“if I wanted to, I could have snuck onto WH grounds at night when nobody would have seen me” pic.twitter.com/4Rhhj5COV9
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 27, 2017
re: #323 Backwoods_Sleuth
He actually wrote that one… and it’s still idiotic. He pushed an insane tax plan that cratered the state economy for years. He vetoed the state legislature’s effort to repeal the tax plan. He’s that insane.
All the while, his state has seen the budget crater, the economy lag, and roads and schools aren’t properly funded.
What’s stunning is that you still wont repeal your fiscally irresponsible tax plan that cratered state budgets @govsambrownback @PPact
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 27, 2017
BREAKING: @DevinNunes tells reporters he will not step down after @RepAdamSchiff calls for his recusal, says “everything is politics here”
— Katherine Gypson (@kgyp) March 27, 2017
re: #335 Backwoods_Sleuth
No, he will have to be dragged kicking and screaming off that committee.
Rudy Giuliani—Trump’s “cyber czar”—has joined the defense team of an accused Iran money launderer w/ ties to Erdogan https://t.co/1ZabCeE74O
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 27, 2017
Static fire test complete. Targeting Thursday, March 30 for Falcon 9 launch of SES-10. pic.twitter.com/0tZ7u6gngI
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 27, 2017
Breaking! ULA executives and lobbyists placed on suicide watch! Pet Congress-crooks flee for the hills!
@markknoller
WH Office of American Emoluments: fixed for greater accuracy.— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 27, 2017
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel
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(Artist Ed Valigursky via Vault of the Atomic Space Age)
“Damn it Jared, I told you leaving dad alone on Saturdays was a bad idea!”
re: #339 gocart mozart
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Title for the movie about the brief, but exciting Trump Presidency: Emoluments Men
And no, I’m not the first to say it.
Has CNN focus tested Jeanne Moos lately? She isn’t funny, insightful or interesting, is basically dry humping Andy Rooney’s pathetic schtick
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 28, 2017
re: #341 A Cranky One
Trump…. He gets it* at Jared™
By it, we mean all policy. Because he has none of his own, just empty platitudes.
re: #340 Blind Frog Belly White
Wha-a-a….?
they really aren’t trying to hide a damned thing anymore.
Dog Shipped to New York City With $1 Million of Heroin: @nbcwashington https://t.co/LS4IE07R3J
— Shomari Stone (@shomaristone) March 27, 2017
THIS WAS NOT HIS FAULT HE HAD NO IDEA. 11/10 STILL A VERY GOOD DOG https://t.co/GJ8rozumsy
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) March 27, 2017
Oh man. pic.twitter.com/okpvt6FOCc
— Gus Deep State™ (@Gus_802) March 27, 2017
non-interventionist Trump…https://t.co/MvUh0KgBne
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 28, 2017
re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth
they really aren’t trying to hide a damned thing anymore.
I’m sure we’ve discussed the article in the Toronto Star, where they interviewed Trump voters in Ohio about Trump, how they feel these days, and how they reacted to the ‘Obama wiretapped me!’ tweets and subsequent debunking.
Some JUST KNEW Trump was telling the truth, because he’s so honest and all those Government types lie.
Some weren’t sure Trump was being honest, but they didn’t care as long as he did …something.
Some said they knew he was lying, but that it was GOOD that he lied because the whole place needs to be shaken up!
I’m not sure which group leaves me more depressed.
re: #348 Kragar
I’d say Greenwald’s tweet didn’t age well, but that would presume it wasn’t just bullshit from the get-go.
re: #348 Kragar
Who’s the bigger idiot, the person who thinks Trump’s non-interventionist, or Greenwald.
Trick question. They’re both huge idiots, but Greenwald gets the edge because he knows better, but doesn’t care.
“Kill the Frogs” by vacuumslayer https://t.co/9iNTryPttb
— vacuumslayer (@vacuumslayer) March 27, 2017
Exactly which shark was it that Greenwald jumped? And when, precisely? Video, please.
re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth
they really aren’t trying to hide a damned thing anymore.
Because they know they can get away with it.
re: #349 Blind Frog Belly White
I’m sure we’ve discussed the article in the Toronto Star, where they interviewed Trump voters in Ohio about Trump, how they feel these days, and how they reacted to the ‘Obama wiretapped me!’ tweets and subsequent debunking.
Some JUST KNEW Trump was telling the truth, because he’s so honest and all those Government types lie.
Some weren’t sure Trump was being honest, but they didn’t care as long as he did …something.
Some said they knew he was lying, but that it was GOOD that he lied because the whole place needs to be shaken up!
I’m not sure which group leaves me more depressed.
All of them Katie.