There are no surprises here unless you were expecting Jared Kushner to come out and admit everything, which just isn’t how the Trump gang rolls. He basically denies ever doing anything wrong, attacks Trump’s critics, and then walks away without taking any questions from reporters; in other words, exactly what we expected.
The Park Slope aggressive squirrel just showed up on TV at the White House.
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) July 24, 2017
“I have not RELIED on Russian funds…but I DID take a lot of them!”
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 24, 2017
Jared Kushner is not wearing a flag pin
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 24, 2017
Republican would like to shoot GOP lawmakers who stalled health care bill — but he won’t duel women https://t.co/4RS3ZyyI2r
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 24, 2017
OMG! OMG! OMG!
From Oct. 2012
Addition: Bet they thought that was an impeachable offense then.
A pretty good analysis of Jared’s statement.
Ends with this recap:
Overall, Kushner clearly wants to present the image of someone totally overwhelmed by the number of emails and meetings that would be dealt with by a mid-level projected manager designing a cat toy app. He got emails. And he didn’t have time to read them—especially multiple emails sent to Kushner under the title “Russia - Clinton - private and confidential.”
And everything Jared Kushner stated had one clear message—don’t blame Jared Kushner.
These dopes need a proofreader. Desperately.
The White House spelled West Virginia wrong on POTUS schedule—> pic.twitter.com/9vQKFBjvIi
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) July 24, 2017
Stagecraft: In 20 yrs, never seen a podium w/WH seal! outside the West Wing like the set-up WH staff has for Kushner’s imminent appearance
— Jackie Calmes (@jackiekcalmes) July 24, 2017
The heraldry department is still working on the presidential son-in-law seal.
re: #10 makeitstop
These dopes need a proofreader. Desperately.
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They also used Sarah Huckabee’s old title, not her new one.
Good job Mooch!
re: #11 jaunte
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The heraldry department is still working on the presidential son-in-law seal.
The Kushner Family has been associated with the heraldic chameleon since their family coat of arms was created in the 3rd century AD. pic.twitter.com/qezwUPSsqi
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 22, 2017
re: #5 Kragar
“According to conservative estimates, there are now around 2.6 million hogs in Texas, more than anywhere else in the United States. Their foraging causes about $52 million in annual agricultural damage…”
texasobserver.org
re: #14 jaunte
So each hog is only eating about 20 bucks worth of food?
re: #14 jaunte
“According to conservative estimates, there are now around 2.6 million hogs in Texas, more than anywhere else in the United States. Their foraging causes about $52 million in annual agricultural damage…”
texasobserver.org
I know there’s wild boars in the forest right outside my apartment building - I can hear them early in the morning. I saw one a few weeks back from my balcony. It came out of the woods and poked around for a minute or two near the walking path then disappeared back into the treeline. I’ve also seen deer do the same thing.
re: #10 makeitstop
These dopes need a proofreader. Desperately.
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I guess we can breathe a sigh of relief that it wasn’t West Vagina.
re: #15 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
They eat just about anything, so the majority of their diet is probably not commercial ag products.
re: #17 Barefoot Grin
I can’t think of a platform that doesn’t highlight a typo. My phone does it, all the programs on my computers do it. Anytime I misspell something, it gets highlighted.
E-mail received from the VFW. I did my part to oppose privatisation of VA healthcare by calling my representative. Amazingly, I got through.
Oppose Gradual Privatization of VA Health Care
Background: Congressional leaders have continually promised that they have no intent to privatize the VA health care system and do not intend to gradually erode VA’s ability to provide care in favor of sending veterans to private sector doctors. VA cannot be everything to everyone and private sector doctors must be used to supplement VA doctors when VA facilities are too far or appointment wait times are too long. However, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on S.114, which would ignore the needs of the VA health care system and use funds from VA programs to “pay for” private sector care.
For the upcoming Coen Bros. casting call, the Midwest Theatre in Scottsbluff now has the info up on their Website. We’ll be going, since y’all talked my wife into it.
Mark Meadows says HFC introducing amendment to minibus to cut CBO’s staff by 89 people, move to think-tank aggregation model (!!!)
— Niv Elis (@NivElis) July 24, 2017
🚨 The Heritage Foundation will now be scoring bills. This is a *massive* breach of democratic norms. https://t.co/DRa7tTRWg7
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) July 24, 2017
re: #22 jaunte
“The best way to run a country is to ignore any news you don’t like.”
Kushner: ‘I Did Not Collude, But I Pretty Much Have To Say That, Right?’ https://t.co/yBkQ12YEQi pic.twitter.com/mgS7ZxtBaq
— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 24, 2017
re: #16 Dr Lizardo
I know there’s wild boars in the forest right outside my apartment building - I can hear them early in the morning. I saw one a few weeks back from my balcony. It came out of the woods and poked around for a minute or two near the walking path then disappeared back into the treeline. I’ve also seen deer do the same thing.
They are a blight on the landscape all over central Europe.
re: #23 Belafon
“The best way to run a country is to ignore any news you don’t like.”
It works so well in business! And when it stops working you either sell your business to the highest bidder or you buy the competition and make whatever they were doing what you’re doing. Can’t understand why that wouldn’t work for government!
re: #5 Kragar
Okay, Blake. My sabre skills are a little rusty but from the looks of it a decent thrust, parry or riposte is beyond you.
Hell, I suspect that I’ll just have to keep out of range for a minute and you’ll fall to the ground wheezing.
re: #22 jaunte
Mark Meadows says HFC introducing amendment to minibus to cut CBO’s staff by 89 people, move to think-tank aggregation model (!!!)
— Niv Elis
Link?
re: #27 Romantic Heretic
Okay, Blake. My sabre skills are a little rusty but from the looks of it a decent thrust, parry or riposte is beyond you.
Hell, I suspect that I’ll just have to keep out of range for a minute and you’ll fall to the ground wheezing.
Sabres? What is this? That unamerican game of hockey? No, sir, here we duel the way God intended - with pistols!
Watching Jared Kushner give a presser today is reminiscent of a “bring your kid to work” day.
Poor boy Kushner is so put upon for having all this work for which he is entirely unqualified to do and yet he’s still attending meetings unquestionably.
Trump told him he’s in charge of everything and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. It’s someone else’s fault he attended a meeting that he went and left off of all his SF-86 filings.
Each time he leaves something off the SF-86, that’s an act or omission in violation of 18 USC 1001. It says it right there on the form. You don’t get a do-over, let alone 3 do-overs.
This crapweasel is up to his same tricks, and shouldn’t help him one bit. If anyone else did what he did, they’d have all lost their security clearance by now, let alone their job.
re: #28 Sir John Barron
-> @RepMGriffith + fellow House Freedom Caucus members @Jim_Jordan @RepScottPerry @RepMarkMeadows introduce bill to abolish CBO pic.twitter.com/w1QVKV85vm
— Mason Adams (@MasonAtoms) July 24, 2017
re: #28 Sir John Barron
Link?
A new front has opened in Republican’s war on the Congressional Budget Office—the non-partisan agency currently run by a conservative Republican appointee that crunches the numbers on major legislation like the repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
In a speech at the National Press Club on Monday, Freedom Caucus chair Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) announced that another member of the hardline conservative group will attempt to shoehorn an amendment into the current federal budget negotiation that would strip the Congressional Budget Office of 15 million dollars in funding and 89 of its staff members.
“For the first time in 35-plus years, there will be a rule that will be used this week called the Holman Rule,” Meadows said. “It gives us the tool to actually go in and cut the funding without cutting an entire agency.”
(more at the link)
re: #29 KGxvi
Sabres? What is this? That unamerican game of hockey? No, sir, here we duel the way God intended - with pistols!
foil, belgian grip
re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are a blight on the landscape all over central Europe.
Yes. And a radioactive blight at that, at least in some parts of Central Europe.
.@RepMarkMeadows says Rep. Griffith will offer amendment to minibus that would reduce CBO’s staff by 89 employees/$15M under the Holman Rule
— Jennifer Shutt (@JenniferShutt) July 24, 2017
GOP looking to cut and gut the CBO because the CBO continues to savage GOP math on budgets & health care as wealth redistribution scheme. https://t.co/AjCIQi6E2z
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 24, 2017
Now, they’re just going to flat out make it impossible for the nonpartisan CBO to do their job. GOP is actively sabotaging govt.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 24, 2017
re: #29 KGxvi
Sabres? What is this? That unamerican game of hockey? No, sir, here we duel the way God intended - with pistols!
Axe duel or no duel at all.
re: #37 lawhawk
Now we can end reconciliation as well.
re: #29 KGxvi
Sabres? What is this? That unamerican game of hockey? No, sir, here we duel the way God intended - with pistols!
I’m cool with that. He’s a much bigger target than I am, and I’m a pretty good shot.
re: #31 lawhawk
Poor boy Kushner is so put upon for having all this work for which he is entirely unqualified to do and yet he’s still attending meetings unquestionably.
Trump told him he’s in charge of everything and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. It’s someone else’s fault he attended a meeting that he went and left off of all his SF-86 filings.
Each time he leaves something off the SF-86, that’s an act or omission in violation of 18 USC 1001. It says it right there on the form. You don’t get a do-over, let alone 3 do-overs.
This crapweasel is up to his same tricks, and shouldn’t help him one bit. If anyone else did what he did, they’d have all lost their security clearance by now, let alone their job.
Well, the SF-86 does actually allow updates, because no one is perfect and may not remember that casual conversation with a person they had in Paris that later turned out to be a foreign agent or something.
That said, leaving out an entire meeting full of foreigners, including government officials, is a bit beyond the pale.
I’m not an alleged multi-bazillionarie, so the one meeting I had with a foreign official (an MEP of the EU) sticks out pretty clear with me. But I think I would remember a whole room full of foreigners in a meeting in a building my father owns that was allegedly arranged by friends.
re: #16 Dr Lizardo
I know there’s wild boars in the forest right outside my apartment building - I can hear them early in the morning. I saw one a few weeks back from my balcony. It came out of the woods and poked around for a minute or two near the walking path then disappeared back into the treeline. I’ve also seen deer do the same thing.
We used to love having wild boars at the gunnery ranges at Grafenwöhr when I was stationed in the 1st Armored Division in 83-84. Of course, the German game wardens were never happy with us but when they went running across the range, almost every tank would open fire with their .50 cal machine gun ;) Still had our own Army cooks in those days too - very tasty what they could do with a pig.
re: #48 William Lewis
We used to love having wild boars at the gunnery ranges at Grafenwöhr when I was stationed in the 1st Armored Division in 83-84. Of course, the German game wardens were never happy with us but when they went running across the range, almost every tank would open fire with their .50 cal machine gun ;) Still had our own Army cooks in those days too - very tasty what they could do with a pig.
wild boar bratwurst is quite a delicacy
re: #32 jaunte
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These shitstains. The CBO didn’t give them bad information. It scored the ACA as it was written with EVERYONE DOING WHAT WAS EXPECTED. Then some fucknut repub govs DIDN”T DO WHAT WAS EXPECTED TO BE DONE.
Architect designs a massive structure, auditor reviews the plan and says it will work. Plan calls for 50 pillars to hold up the structure. 20 pillar manufactures decide they are not going to build the pillars. Building goes up without the pillars, starts to become unstable.
These shitstains want to blame the auditor for passing the plan rather than the 20 assholes that DIDN”T BUILD THE FUCKING PILLARS.
Trump to speak to 40,000 at Boy Scouts gathering:
And this so-called investigation, total witch hunt. Total. Call your congressman. Tell ‘em to leave me alone. Also healthcare. Call ‘em. And this sleazy congressman who keeps bashing me on TV about “Russia”. Total loser. I won. Did you see my electoral college vote?
re: #5 Kragar
Gee, he seems nice. Good thing he actually didn’t call for a duel, since that is illegal.
And citing Aaron Burr? There’s a real American hero.
Trump’s inability to make policy has prompted the IMF to cut its economic forecasts for the US https://t.co/MluwhBDtne
— Quartz (@qz) July 24, 2017
Police are hunting for a man who attacked five people with a chainsaw in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen.
Franz Wrousis is alleged to have launched his assault at a health insurance office shortly after 10:30 local time (08:30 GMT).
…
Police say the 51-year-old, who lives in the woods, is dangerous and believed to be still armed with the chainsaw.
haha
Giuliani tells @CNN he’s NOT being eyed for AG. Then, breaking with Trump he says Sessions “made the right decision” to recuse himself.
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) July 24, 2017
re: #52 Anymouse 🌹
Gee, he seems nice. Good thing he actually didn’t call for a duel, since that is illegal.
And citing Aaron Burr? There’s a real American hero.
Is he clever enough that’s a subtle reference to Hamilton and the RWNJ “boycott” thereof?
Nah. He just lucked into that one.
re: #19 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
I can’t think of a platform that doesn’t highlight a typo. My phone does it, all the programs on my computers do it. Anytime I misspell something, it gets highlighted.
Highlighting doesn’t mean anything if the spellchecker isn’t loaded with all the words, etc.
I’m not sure what spellchecker Charles uses here, but it oftentimes highlights a word that is correct but must not be in the database.
Chuck Schumer’s “new” economic plan in the Times is great. I also liked it when it was Hillary Clinton’s campaign platform.
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) July 24, 2017
re: #33 Anymouse 🌹
If you don’t produce numbers favorable to our policy we will whine and lie about you and cut your funding.
re: #50 Eventual Carrion
These shitstains. The CBO didn’t give them bad information. It scored the ACA as it was written with EVERYONE DOING WHAT WAS EXPECTED. Then some fucknut repub govs DIDN”T DO WHAT WAS EXPECTED TO BE DONE.
Architect designs a massive structure, auditor reviews the plan and says it will work. Plan calls for 50 pillars to hold up the structure. 20 pillar manufactures decide they are not going to build the pillars. Building goes up without the pillars, starts to become unstable.
These shitstains want to blame the auditor for passing the plan rather than the 20 assholes that DIDN”T BUILD THE FUCKING PILLARS.
not enough updings
Thank You Democrats! pic.twitter.com/MJybV1L30l
— Mr. Weeks (@MrDane1982) July 24, 2017
re: #58 sagehen
BUT DOES IT INCLUDE SINGLE PAYER?!?!??!?!?
re: #63 Eclectic Cyborg
Fuckers.
I knew they’d find a way to take down CBO.
Every aspect of reality that is inconvenient for the RWNJ dogma of the day is to be denied/ignored.
Remember if Trump doesn’t like something, he just doesn’t pay for it.
Things like the ACA and the CBO, for instance.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 24, 2017
OUTRAGEOUS! —-> Team Trump Used Obamacare Money to Run PR Effort Against It https://t.co/jvcjJf1CHX via @thedailybeast
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) July 24, 2017
re: #66 Kragar
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And as a result of the sabotage they get to claim that the CBO was off in its predictions and now sabotage it. I need to go for a run or something. I’m about to scream.
re: #57 ObserverArt
Highlighting doesn’t mean anything if the spellchecker isn’t loaded with all the words, etc.
I’m not sure what spellchecker Charles uses here, but it oftentimes highlights a word that is correct but must not be in the database.
As far as I know, the spell check function is a function of the browser, not LGF. (If I click on one of the words to “add to dictionary,” the result is my browser dictionary opens.)
Since my browser dictionary is set to Canadian English, it doesn’t highlight “centre” but does highlight “center” and such.
re: #66 Kragar
Glad to see this getting more coverage.
“I did not have collusion with that country.” - Kushner.
Mark your calendars with that quote. We shall see.— Karoli (@Karoli) July 24, 2017
This pizza is so colorful! 🍕 pic.twitter.com/DHvukscm25
— INSIDER food (@InsiderFood) July 22, 2017
food is CANCELLED until y’all learn how to behave https://t.co/oomUF7kFvC
— helena™ (@mcustark) July 23, 2017
re: #51 Sir John Barron
Trump to speak to 40,000 at Boy Scouts gathering:
And this so-called investigation, total witch hunt. Total. Call your congressman. Tell ‘em to leave me alone. Also healthcare. Call ‘em. And this sleazy congressman who keeps bashing me on TV about “Russia”. Total loser. I won. Did you see my electoral college vote?
As an Eagle Scout and as a Scouter, I’m embarrassed as hell.
re: #71 wrenchwench
It’s like pizza crashed into My Little Ponies and fused with them.
#BREAKING Small plane lands on Ga. 316 in Gwinnett https://t.co/htRK2fl9MR pic.twitter.com/cUFf13TY8z
— AJC (@ajc) July 24, 2017
I guess he was trying to eat at Luftwaffle House https://t.co/KKSNjjbVpC
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger_sherman) July 24, 2017
A lucrative Moscow deal was just approved for the family who set up Trump Jr. meeting https://t.co/PloP1te44B
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) July 24, 2017
re: #53 Kragar
Will the GOP abolish the IMF next?
re: #58 sagehen
This is an interesting bit from Schumer’s op-ed:
Right now our antitrust laws are designed to allow huge corporations to merge, padding the pockets of investors but sending costs skyrocketing for everything from cable bills and airline tickets to food and health care. We are going to fight to allow regulators to break up big companies if they’re hurting consumers and to make it harder for companies to merge if it reduces competition.
But I think he gets it slightly wrong. In the 90s - after the Clinton Administration challenged Microsoft - a consensus arose to mostly ignore enforcement of the Sherman Anti-trust Act. It goes back further than that, including deregulation that basically allowed the return of Ma Bell. The law is still there, and it’s still enforceable. We’ve just decided that we’re not going to enforce it. Instead, we’ve gone the other way and allowed more and more consolidation - hell, we encouraged it during the mortgage bubble meltdown.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m on board with this idea, I’ve been saying we need more antitrust enforcement for a decade plus. But after almost three decades of movement in this direction, it’s going to be incredibly difficult to move things back. Especially if you can’t explain how you plan to do it and why it will be better.
re: #77 dangerman
It’s probably on the other side.
Tillerson may make early exit from State Department: report https://t.co/Z0Ji3XjGN9 #rexit
— Liz (@bluebonnetbunny) July 24, 2017
When you’re such an incompetent fuck even your hand-picked cronies don’t want to work with you. #Tillerson out. https://t.co/wvdyivwL2y
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 24, 2017
Another appointee, another Russian connection.
DOJ Nominee Says He Once Represented Alfa Bank, one of Russia’s largest financial institutions https://t.co/I9w4TpaWFm @charlie_savage
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) July 24, 2017
re: #80 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
It’s probably on the other side.
On the bottom — pineapple upside-down My Little Ponion* pizza
*a newly discovered particle; comes in seven colors
re: #81 darthstar
I’m here to announce my new pick for the Department State, State of State, whatever. It’s Mr. Jared Kushner. A man of profound integrity, great knowledge, the greatest. Knows meetings. Knows people. Solved the Mideast crisis that Obama created. Ended war in Syria.
re: #81 darthstar
I saw that story over the weekend. Imagine how fucked the hearing will be in September (?) when Trump has to appoint a new SoS and AG? And I wonder if there’s anyone who has the wherewithal to take those jobs?
re: #85 KGxvi
I saw that story over the weekend. Imagine how fucked the hearing will be in September (?) when Trump has to appoint a new SoS and AG? And I wonder if there’s anyone who has the wherewithal to take those jobs?
To say having the Secretary of State leaving after six months is a big fucking deal would be a bit of an understatement.
re: #85 KGxvi
Might take him a year to nominate a replacement.
re: #86 darthstar
To say having the Secretary of State leaving after six months is a big fucking deal would be a bit of an understatement.
McMasters can’t be far behind. Wonder if Mattis hangs on for four years?
re: #86 darthstar
To say having the Secretary of State leaving after six months is a big fucking deal would be a bit of an understatement.
Especially with so many posts left unfilled and a prior pledge to reorganize the department.
— Margo Kingston (@margokingston1) July 24, 2017
re: #86 darthstar
To say having the Secretary of State leaving after six months is a big fucking deal would be a bit of an understatement.
This fiasco of an administration is a complete laughingstock.
Anyone wanna wager that he appoints Ivanka as SoS? Would anyone be surprised?
re: #91 Dr Lizardo
This fiasco of an administration is a complete laughingstock.
Anyone wanna wager that he appoints Ivanka as SoS? Would anyone be surprised?
Honest question, when was the last time a cabinet nominee was actually rejected by the Senate, by vote? Not the typical “I’m withdrawing my nomination” bullshit, but an actual vote that said, “nope, not this person”?
re: #91 Dr Lizardo
This fiasco of an administration is a complete laughingstock.
Anyone wanna wager that he appoints Ivanka as SoS? Would anyone be surprised?
My guess would be another executive, and Trump will agree to let him make some international business deal so he would take the office.
*Usually I avoid the generic “he/him” male pronoun, but there’s no way in hell anybody but an old white guy is getting the job. I think Trump already went through his entire binder of women.
re: #92 KGxvi
Honest question, when was the last time a cabinet nominee was actually rejected by the Senate, by vote? Not the typical “I’m withdrawing my nomination” bullshit, but an actual vote that said, “nope, not this person”?
IF this is accurate (2/3/17):
In 1989, when U.S. Senator John Tower was denied the job of Secretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush, that was the first time such a rejection had taken place in 30 years. And, nearly 30 years later, it still remains the most recent.
re: #92 KGxvi
Ok, so apparently it was in 1989 (full list):
In 1989 President George H. W. Bush nominated John Tower, a former United States Senator, to be Secretary of Defense. He was investigated over claims of drunkenness, womanizing, and ties with defense contractors. The Senate rejected Tower by a vote of 53-47.
re: #48 William Lewis
At least the cooks didn’t have to grind the pork.
re: #92 KGxvi
Honest question, when was the last time a cabinet nominee was actually rejected by the Senate, by vote? Not the typical “I’m withdrawing my nomination” bullshit, but an actual vote that said, “nope, not this person”?
John Tower (GHW Bush’s 1st pic for Defense)? Not sure Tower made it through a full vote. Somebody in the Clinton era?
re: #92 KGxvi
Honest question, when was the last time a cabinet nominee was actually rejected by the Senate, by vote? Not the typical “I’m withdrawing my nomination” bullshit, but an actual vote that said, “nope, not this person”?
We nearly had it with Devos. We would have had it with the Labor Secretary had he not withdrawn early.
re: #89 KGxvi
Especially with so many posts left unfilled and a prior pledge to reorganize the department.
Destruction of the government is Steve Bannon’s (and to a lesser extent, all conservatives and libertarian nihilist wing of the GOP) goal. Donald Trump’s goal was beat the black guy at his own game, and make money doing it.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
re: #51 Sir John Barron
Trump to speak to 40,000 at Boy Scouts gathering:
Didn’t wingnuts lose their shit when Obama spoke to the Boy Scouts?
re: #101 Dr. Matt
Didn’t wingnuts lose their shit when Obama spoke
to the Boy Scouts?
Adjusted for comprehensiveness.
re: #91 Dr Lizardo
This fiasco of an administration is a complete laughingstock.
Anyone wanna wager that he appoints Ivanka as SoS? Would anyone be surprised?
“Acting SoS” for 3 1/2 years…no need for Senate approval. Honestly, I think it’s early to be betting on Tillerson baililng, but it has to suck being in a role that gets stepped on by the boss’s son-in-law on a regular basis.
re: #92 KGxvi
Honest question, when was the last time a cabinet nominee was actually rejected by the Senate, by vote? Not the typical “I’m withdrawing my nomination” bullshit, but an actual vote that said, “nope, not this person”?
Wikipedia, that font of all human ken (citation needed) can provide that answer.
Nine total were rejected by the Senate. Last was John Tower for Secretary of Defense under Geo. H. W. Bush, who was rejected over reports of drunkeness, womanising, and ties to defence contractors.
Fourteen have withdrawn their names from consideration after nomination.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #103 darthstar
“Acting SoS” for 3 1/2 years…no need for Senate approval. Honestly, I think it’s early to be betting on Tillerson baililng, but it has to suck being in a role that gets stepped on by the boss’s son-in-law on a regular basis.
That’s a bingo!!
And that’s probably how he’d do it, too.
re: #100 Sir John Barron
Then H.W. Bush nominated Darth Cheney (who was actually a pretty good Sec of Defense and more sane then compared to what he would become under W.).
I think Cheney was one of those politicians who lost their minds after 9/11.
If Russia sanctions bill passes it probably puts Tillerson in an untenable situation.
re: #107 Barefoot Grin
If Russia sanctions bill passes it probably puts Tillerson in an untenable situation.
And it sure as hell paints Trump into a corner too.
re: #105 Dr Lizardo
That’s a bingo!!
And that’s probably how he’d do it, too (appointing Ivanka acting head).
Unlawful.
Moreover, an acting head of a department is appointed from within the department, not from outside of it. Acting heads may not change policies of the department (so if he wishes to change policy at the State Department, he needs a head, not an acting head).
Appropriate that Aaron Burr should become a role model for modern seditious pieces of shit.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 24, 2017
THREAD
Anti-Putin blogger Vyacheslav Derevensky found dead with signs of torture on his body. https://t.co/nkFxAq7nFI
— X Soviet (@XSovietNews) July 24, 2017
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹
Unlawful.
Moreover, an acting head of a department is appointed from within the department, not from outside of it. Acting heads may not change policies of the department (so if he wishes to change policy at the State Department, he needs a head, not an acting head).
What matters the law now? This is Trump we’re talking about.
He simply doesn’t give a shit - he feels he’s not bound by laws. No one in the GOP-controlled Congress is telling him otherwise, that’s for damned sure.
re: #92 KGxvi
Honest question, when was the last time a cabinet nominee was actually rejected by the Senate, by vote? Not the typical “I’m withdrawing my nomination” bullshit, but an actual vote that said, “nope, not this person”?
Did John Bolton ever get a vote?
I found an email address some might want to use. I just did. It is for HHS Secretary Tom Price. Please use it. Let that piece of slime have it for his and the Republican congress doing things like spending ACA budget on negative ads deigned to destroy the program and now messing with the legislation scoring (CBO).
secretary@hhs.gov
re: #112 Dr Lizardo
What matters the law now? This is Trump we’re talking about.
He simply doesn’t give a shit - he feels he’s not bound by laws. No one in the GOP-controlled Congress is telling him otherwise, that’s for damned sure.
True. But we have to keep caring.
re: #100 Sir John Barron
Then H.W. Bush nominated Darth Cheney (who was actually a pretty good Sec of Defense and more sane then compared to what he would become under W.).
Well, yeah. Back then he had a functioning heart. (not a metaphor. Back then, he actually had a regular human heart.)
re: #117 Scottish Dragon
What fucked up person puts a swastika on their airplane?
A tRump supporter?
Snopes is being sued by a corporation that (shadily) owns 50% of the shares of the company. (The corporation actually doesn’t own those shares of the S-corp that is Snopes: five board members of the corporation do.)
The suit is rather convoluted, so Wonkette explains it with the usual snark:
wonkette.com
şöyle harika bir şeye denk geldim pic.twitter.com/5mDpiqvQrD
— saydambey (@saydambey) July 23, 2017
The girl messed it up, not the dog.
This cannot be said too many times: fuck Jill Stein.
— Danielle Blake (@abradacabla) July 24, 2017
re: #106 KGxvi
I think Cheney was one of those politicians who lost their minds after 9/11.
I think it was all about business. That ‘war’ on terror made him and his buddies plenty of coin.
re: #101 Dr. Matt
Didn’t wingnuts lose their shit when Obama spoke to the Boy Scouts?
Trump would have been an Eagle Scout, if not for the bone spurs.
re: #117 Scottish Dragon
Another economically distressed southerner.
Well fancy the fuck out of that… :/
It’s weird how the US already has Universal Basic Income and Single Payer healthcare, but only for the most conservative voters: seniors
— Anxious Herzog (@anxious_herzog) July 22, 2017
re: #107 Barefoot Grin
If Russia sanctions bill passes it probably puts Tillerson in an untenable situation.
re: #108 Dr Lizardo
And it sure as hell paints Trump into a corner too.
I’ve been wondering if the sanctions are the Republicans in congress trying to show Trump he is not in charge of everything and can’t get his way. Maybe they are testing him to see how far he is going to go to get his way and use that as a bit of their own judgement on how bad his Russian connections really are. Not that they will do anything about it.
Jason Chaffetz on his first outing on FOX News Channel, asks why Congress is questioning Jared Kushner, but letting Chelsea Clinton off the hook with questions about Benghazi. (more at the link):
“So every time a Democrat says ‘I gotta talk to Donald Trump Jr.,’ then go up and bring Chelsea Clinton in there,” Chaffetz continued, “because she was involved in the Benghazi situation, she was involved with the (Clinton) Foundation.”
He didn’t detail what possible crimes Chelsea Clinton may have committed, but Chaffetz said it was ridiculous that congressional investigators wanted to speak with Kushner about the foreign contacts and loans he failed to disclose on his security clearance forms.
“They would never, ever, ever do this to the Clintons,” Chaffetz said.
re: #31 lawhawk
Poor boy Kushner is so put upon for having all this work for which he is entirely unqualified to do and yet he’s still attending meetings unquestionably.
Trump told him he’s in charge of everything and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. It’s someone else’s fault he attended a meeting that he went and left off of all his SF-86 filings.
Each time he leaves something off the SF-86, that’s an act or omission in violation of 18 USC 1001. It says it right there on the form. You don’t get a do-over, let alone 3 do-overs.
This crapweasel is up to his same tricks, and shouldn’t help him one bit. If anyone else did what he did, they’d have all lost their security clearance by now, let alone their job.
If you search for 18 USC 1001 on Google, the first highlighted result is this:
So I’m assuming that Law Group is trying to advertise to people in the Clownstick admin?
“…While some might make the defense that the person who slapped a swastika on the aircraft was going for historical accuracy, that might not be the best argument. Kelsey Atherton, defense technology reporter at Popular Science, pointed out on Twitter that the Sonex craft that landed on the Georgia highway didn’t look all that much like a Messerschmitt BF 109.
“Going for historical accuracy in the paint is an odd defense when the plane it’s trying to mimic looks way different,” Atherton tweeted while posting photos of the two aircraft side by side.”
newsweek.com
re: #92 KGxvi
The last time I remember that a cabinet member was rejected was John Tower as Defense Secretary in 1989.
This is fucking insane. Republicans really are trying to destroy the very idea of objective facts and non-partisan expertise.
.@RepMarkMeadows says Rep. Griffith will offer amendment to minibus that would reduce CBO’s staff by 89 employees/$15M under the Holman Rule
— Jennifer Shutt (@JenniferShutt) July 24, 2017
Meadows says the goal is to turn the CBO into an “aggregator” that doesn’t produce legislative scores, but combines scores from think tanks https://t.co/cpkmNZ8GxX
— Jennifer Shutt (@JenniferShutt) July 24, 2017
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹
Jason Chaffetz on his first outing on FOX News Channel, asks why Congress is questioning Jared Kushner, but letting Chelsea Clinton off the hook with questions about Benghazi. (more at the link):
Glad Fox Noise finally has a conservative voice on to represent the common unbiased man.
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re: #120 Anymouse 🌹
Snopes is being sued by a corporation that (shadily) owns 50% of the shares of the company. (The corporation actually doesn’t own those shares of the S-corp that is Snopes: five board members of the corporation do.)
The suit is rather convoluted, so Wonkette explains it with the usual snark:
wonkette.com
never split corp stock 50/50 - it’s all about when things go wrong. and things go wrong a lot
re: #85 KGxvi
I saw that story over the weekend. Imagine how fucked the hearing will be in September (?) when Trump has to appoint a new SoS and AG? And I wonder if there’s anyone who has the wherewithal to take those jobs?
Hmmm…Jon Voight, Robert Davi, WayneNewton, Donny Osmond…
re: #132 goddamnedfrank
This is fucking insane. Republicans really are trying to destroy the very idea of objective facts and non-partisan expertise.
Facts and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.
I guess planes landing on highways is now a thing. It happened about 10 minutes from here last week.
re: #121 wrenchwench
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The girl messed it up, not the dog.
That is over-the-top cute.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹
“They would never, ever, ever do this to the Clintons,” Chaffetz said.:
because chelsea hasnt done what DJT, JR, Manafort, Kushner, Flynn, sessions et al appear to have done.
Damn. I absolutely hate this fucking guy.
President Trump, speaking loudly over crying kids, says Obamacare has hurt the country for 17 years. pic.twitter.com/zY3meBisvp
— Andrew Beatty (@AndrewBeatty) July 24, 2017
re: #134 dangerman
never split corp stock 50/50 - it’s all about when things go wrong. and things go wrong a lot
I don’t have to worry about splitting my corporate stock 50/50 with anyone. That would involve having enough money to own a corporation first.
As Rebecca Schoenkopf noted in that article, her hub is screwed if he wants to try a divorce, because their spilt is 60/40.
re: #121 wrenchwench
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The girl messed it up, not the dog.
The little pooch looks back like “hey…what happened…I want more!”
“For the past [7 years], Obamacare has wreaked havoc on the lives of innocent, hard-working Americans,” Trump says https://t.co/xwYb20M7aJ pic.twitter.com/H5NE0ONiPJ
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 24, 2017
He said “17 years!” Why are you cleaning it up for him?! https://t.co/cHZMGnCWoe
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2017
cant wait till they fact check all those families that trump brought up and find out that their stories don’t match what he claimed.
re: #141 Charles Johnson
Seventeen years? As in, before President Obama was first elected to the Senate?
Why is the GOP allowing this circus to continue (wait, I know, they want to destroy government, and Trump makes a good, if buffoonish, Gozer).
re: #144 Charles Johnson
CBS is cleaning up after tr*mp because they don’t want to admit the president is a crooked, incompetent and awesomely corrupt man-baby.
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re: #142 Anymouse 🌹
I don’t have to worry about splitting my corporate stock 50/50 with anyone. That would involve having enough money to own a corporation first.
As Rebecca Schoenkopf noted in that article, her hub is screwed if he wants to try a divorce, because their spilt is 60/40.
hey - for less than $100 bucks you too can file articles of incorporation and put “CEO” on your business card, just like Donald Trump!
BEST SPEECH EVER!! @POTUS Trump DESTROYS LYING @TheDemocrats and Liar #Obama —SHREDS #FAILEDOBAMACARE #LIES #Repeal #Replace pic.twitter.com/Kdd49yzB6B
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) July 24, 2017
Bluto’s “Was it over when the German’s bombed Pearl Harbor” speech just edges it out of first place
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 24, 2017
re: #144 Charles Johnson
That’s straight up lying for him. In editing, brackets are to put in [clarifying] information, not correct what was said.
CBS is intentionally misusing grammatical tools to make it appear the words seven years were left out or needed clarification.
As their president said, they didn’t know if Trump would be good for America but he would be damn good for CBS.
It should read (editing hat on):
“For the past seventeen years, Obamacare has wreaked havoc on the lives of innocent, hard-working Americans,” Trump says [the act has only been in force for seven years]
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹
I don’t have to worry about splitting my corporate stock 50/50 with anyone. That would involve having enough money to own a corporation first.
As Rebecca Schoenkopf noted in that article, her hub is screwed if he wants to try a divorce, because their spilt is 60/40.
Honestly, it doesn’t cost too much to form a corporation, if you’re running a business. And if you are running a business and have any sort of assets, you should incorporate to protect those assets. In Kansas filing Articles of Incorporation only runs about $100.
re: #150 dangerman
hey - for less than $100 bucks you too can file articles of incorporation and put “CEO” on your business card, just like Donald Trump!
LOL. I probably have more assets than Donald Trump as well, because we have no debt.
re: #141 Charles Johnson
President Trump, speaking loudly over crying kids, says Obamacare has hurt the country for 17 years. pic.twitter.com
— Andrew Beatty (@AndrewBeatty) July 24, 2017
So, Obamacare was passed during Bill Clinton’s administration. Senility is a SOB.
re: #144 Charles Johnson
In fairness, the last six months have felt like 6 years to many of us, so it probably does feel like 17 years to some.
re: #155 Dr. Matt
So, Obamacare was passed during Bill Clinton’s administration. Senility is a SOB.
Yep. He’s going senile.
If you tweet idiocy at me & your profile says “liberals block me because they hate truth,” I’ll block you because I hate whiny right wingers
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2017
re: #157 jaunte
— InXanadu (@InXanadu) July 24, 2017
re: #117 Scottish Dragon
What fucked up person puts a swastika on their airplane?
I put them on my model airplanes…I guess this fellow just thought he was flying a propeller-driven Me-163 Komet, that what my impression on seeing the plane.
5 Things To Know About Sarah Huckabee Sanders pic.twitter.com/sYsV8PLNsE
— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 24, 2017
re: #132 goddamnedfrank
Meadows says the goal is to turn the CBO into an “aggregator” that doesn’t produce legislative scores, but combines scores from think tanks
in other words, privatizing it out to the highest bidder
re: #160 Ace Rothstein
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— Alex (@fenchurchly) July 24, 2017
Trump thinks Obamacare is 17 years old. In other words: Old enough to date. pic.twitter.com/qnRWfq04nz
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 24, 2017
Trump: “Obamacare is death.” pic.twitter.com/4JCDrI0z41
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) July 24, 2017
Slavery is freedom https://t.co/NIpn5KD8ae
— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) July 24, 2017
re: #144 Charles Johnson
“For the past 17 years, Obamacare has wreaked havoc,” President Trump says of law that was signed in 2010 https://t.co/Oy3Sdpuf9J
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 24, 2017
The White House used taxpayer money to conduct a study on how much time Adam Schiff has spent doing TV interviews. https://t.co/bWD40zl0eP
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) July 24, 2017
The closer you look at that group in the back, behind Trump, the more it looks like an unresolved hostage situation…
re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
in other words, privatizing it out to the
highestmost conservative bidder
Graphic art fail.
my fav colour is also hitler pic.twitter.com/0tMnOGpsOG
— some quack 🎤🦆 (@hurlarious) July 23, 2017
re: #168 FormerDirtDart
They also going to look at John McCain?
re: #160 Ace Rothstein
Bruh this lady got them long division eyebrows 💀 pic.twitter.com/cF5aOawdzn
— Jeff Lucas (@jeffIucas) July 24, 2017
Think on this and shudder:
Omarosa Manigault, Secretary of State
Trump Tells His Most Evil Lie Yet: ‘Obamacare Is Death’ https://t.co/3kmXqh81Vh pic.twitter.com/hR0I2Oo9xA
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) July 24, 2017
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹
Jason Chaffetz on his first outing on FOX News Channel, asks why Congress is questioning Jared Kushner, but letting Chelsea Clinton off the hook with questions about Benghazi. (more at the link):
What position did Chelsea hold in the administration, I forget?
re: #176 Eventual Carrion
What position did Chelsea hold in the administration, I forget?
None. And Chaffetz knows the difference. There’s a reason why Jenna and Barbara Bush weren’t questioned after 9/11 ya dumbass.
re: #175 jaunte
Of course tr*mp lies about Obamacare being ‘death’.
The first rule for megalomaniacs in charge of a death cult is to project the hell out of everything, especially the death cult part.
re: #176 Eventual Carrion
What position did Chelsea hold in the administration, I forget?
Daughter. According to the GOP nowadays, that’s a position in government. See also: Ivanka Trump. (Difference being Chelsea Clinton stayed far away from the White House during the Obama years, but being a Clinton, she can rack up a kill count merely by thought wave.)
re: #168 FormerDirtDart
Let me know when Schiff get’s to half of the time Newt Gingrich has been on.
Trump has made the Blue Room look like a fucking Las Vegas hotel lobby.
re: #158 Dr Lizardo
Yep. He’s going senile.
I think so too. Macron led him by the hand so he wouldn’t wander off during Bastille Day ceremonies. Trump, I feel, knew he’d be safe as Macron is part of polite society. Trump takes advantage of polite society.
re: #182 Semper Fi
I think so too. Macron led him by the hand so he wouldn’t wander off during Bastille Day ceremonies. Trump, I feel, knew he’d be safe as Macron is part of polite society. Trump takes advantage of polite society.
I think he’s senile too. It runs in his family and he has a lot of WTF moments.
re: #137 makeitstop
I guess planes landing on highways is now a thing. It happened about 10 minutes from here last week.
It’s always been a thing. During “practice emergencies” in my flight training, my instructor insisted I point to an “if all else fails” road just in case there’s too many houses for a better option. (mall parking lots are pretty good, too; sometimes even high school football fields if they’re not in a stadium”
re: #168 FormerDirtDart
Or how much time DJT spends on Twitter or watching TV plus tweeting about how much he doesn’t watch TV.
re: #169 nines09
The closer you look at that group in the back, behind Trump, the more it looks like an unresolved hostage situation…
You are going to stand here and listen to this, or we’ll make you stay and listen to President Trump speak again.
re: #189 wheat-dogg
You are going to stand here and listen to this, or we’ll make you stay and listen to President Trump speak again.
They just don’t look like the people I signed up for Obamacare. Can’t put my finger on it.
Paging Shiplord Kirel…
Congressman: If female GOP senators were South Texas men, I’d challenge them to a duel
re: #184 sagehen
It’s always been a thing. During “practice emergencies” in my flight training, my instructor insisted I point to an “if all else fails” road just in case there’s too many houses for a better option. (mall parking lots are pretty good, too; sometimes even high school football fields if they’re not in a stadium”
i was taught never to aim for a road - always an open field
aside from endangering traffic / human life, suburban roads - like sunrise highway have lots of overhead wires
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