Here we see the Senate Foreign Relations Committee interviewing Donald Trump’s latest extreme right wing religious fanatic tied to radical anti-Muslim hate groups, nominated to a position he shouldn’t be anywhere near. With people like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, Trump is stacking his administration with war-mongering Christian supremacists. This can’t end well.
Personally, my favorite exchange so far remains Mike insisting that it’s totally consistent to say that he can’t recall what was said at a key meeting prior to Comey’s termination, BUT he’s totally sure that Trump did not mention any implied orders to shut down Comey or the investigation he was leading.
Got my taxes done. Used CreditKarma because its free to use and file, but it won’t let me use the status I want for my state return, so I’ll have to snail-mail it.
Trump’s talking again… and again with all the usual Trump flourishes. Empty platitudes and nonsense while claiming he’s doing better than every predecessor (especially Obama).
“Taking care of our environment”
He’s taking care of it by enabling polluters to wreck it and for mining and oil companies to go into formerly protected areas like Bears Ears to profit while Native Americans get screwed again.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 12, 2018
All the time, money, and resources for these confirmation hearings for someone that likely be fired (or will quit) in the next 6 months. FFS.
this didnt take long
President Trump told top administration officials Thursday to look at rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the multination trade agreement he pulled the United States out of shortly after taking office.
Rejoining the pact would be a major reversal as Trump escalates a trade conflict with China. The Pacific Rim trade deal was intended by the Obama administration as a way to counter China’s influence, but Trump criticized the pact as a candidate and pulled the United States out of the pact in early 2017.
my bold
re: #6 dangerman
No, it didn’t.
Trump folds again like a cheap suit after making promises he couldn’t keep and which made no sense.
Now he’s going to claim that he’s going to get the TPP renegotiated after everyone else already adopted it. That’s not going to happen either.
re: #7 lawhawk
No, it didn’t.
Trump folds again like a cheap suit after making promises he couldn’t keep and which made no sense.
Now he’s going to claim that he’s going to get the TPP renegotiated after everyone else already adopted it. That’s not going to happen either.
i would add “that he didnt understand”
though that pretty much applies to everything he does and i guess is redundant
re: #8 makeitstop
Trump: ‘Can we join the partnership?’
TPP: ‘Well, maybe. Go sit in the back and wait, we’ll think about it.’
TPP: we seem to have done ok without you, so not sure we need you. what are you bringing to the table? snacks at least.
re: #8 makeitstop
Trump: ‘Can we join the partnership?’
TPP: ‘Well, maybe. Go sit in the back and wait, we’ll think about it.’
“We’ll talk to you again in three years.”
“See you then.”
“We’ll see.”
re: #10 dangerman
TPP: we seem to have done ok without you, so not sure we need you. what are you bringing to the table? snacks at least.
I’m hoping that, while being diplomatic about it, the TPP takes the opportunity to humiliate Trump to the fullest extent possible.
Trump to a truck driver: “Very importantly, the roads are getting a lot better. Do you notice?”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 12, 2018
re: #14 Stanley Sea
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Especially Route 30 outside of Pittsburgh…the part that collapsed…
Pompeo says Muslims have an “opportunity” to condemn terrorism because of their religion. Thanks to @SenBooker for calling him out on this BS. #StopPompeo pic.twitter.com/goddK28PnZ
— Wardah Khalid (@wardahkhalid_) April 12, 2018
re: #19 jaunte
Have there been any questions about his business?
re: #20 Belafon
If you mean this one, I haven’t heard any yet.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo failed to disclose last year that he owned a Kansas business that imported oilfield equipment from a company owned by the Chinese government.
That omission, on the questionnaire Pompeo was required to fill out for Senate confirmation to lead the spy agency, could cause a problem for him in Thursday’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to be President Donald Trump’s secretary of state.
currently:
(duane allman’s in there somewhere)
re: #23 Dr. Matt
Self-induced reality star drama. Now the stock market will respond by gangbusters and dotard will take credit for it.
And then Trump will get pissed when the other TPP members say that we have to do certain things and will scream about putting tariffs on all of them and the market will tank to the point it’ll have to close early.
So our bipolar market is up again — possibly anticipating our rejoining TPP and that nothing much will come of Trump’s faux belligerence toward Syria.
Trump has texted me to inform me I am being persecuted by the state! And the only way out is to…give the billionaire head of the state my money? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/StJAlj6Jf1
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) April 12, 2018
Woot!
Steve Stockman, a Republican former congressman from Texas, has been convicted of defrauding two conservative mega-donors and funneling their $1.25 million into personal and campaign expenses as part of what prosecutors have described as a “white collar crime spree.”
A jury in federal court in Houston ruled Thursday afternoon that Stockman is guilty of all but one of the 24 felonies he was charged with last March.
texastribune.org
re: #22 plansbandc
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In no order, I try to live by the following, each prefaced by “as much as possible”:
Don’t do unto anybody else what you wouldn’t like to be done to you.
Respect other’s property and respect the responsibilities that come with owning, managing and using your own
Be honest
Don’t cause pain
Don’t murder humans and don’t kill (anything) indiscriminately
I’ve observed that any set of simply put moral rules actually requires a lot of wording, interpretation and explanation behind it, lest they get misunderstood, misapplied or worse, perversely spun.
re: #29 Joe Bacon 🌹
And that ass said Obama and Hillary would be locked up for treason…
He was convicted of screwing over other Republicans.
re: #28 jaunte
Woot!
I don’t care if he spent it on cocaine and hookers. Both are better causes than electing Republicans.
At his confirmation hearing, secretary of state nominee Mike Pompeo refuses to answer if he thinks that being gay is a perversion. pic.twitter.com/Rf9StH9rIV
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) April 12, 2018
“My respect for every individual is the same, even if they’re a filthy godless pervert.” https://t.co/jBI0uJS6ye
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 12, 2018
How about if being a bigoted wingnut is a perversion? Because it sure looks like one.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) April 12, 2018
re: #36 Charles Johnson
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Cowardly weasel. I like Booker. I have some faults with him but I like him mostly.
re: #37 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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My deeply held religious beliefs say I shouldn’t be able to serve right wing bigots. Oh wait, that only applies if oyu’re refusing to serve gay people.
This is a parody site but the list is mostly real. I don’t know what “dank meme stashing” is but most, if not all, of the others have appeared in various fundy lists of satanic phenomena. Shows how hard it is to be more absurd that Bachmann’s actual supporters.
re: #4 lawhawk
Taking care the same way mob bosses take care of snitches.
re: #14 Stanley Sea
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pretty sure they are noticing:
Route 30 Collapses In East Pittsburgh, Emergency Declarations Issued
re: #4 lawhawk
.@POTUS: “We will take care of our environment.” pic.twitter.com/ZVHIat69DC
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 12, 2018
re: #40 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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This is a parody site but the list is mostly real. I don’t know what “dank meme stashing” is but most, if not all, of the others have appeared in various fundy lists of satanic phenomena. Shows how hard it is to be more absurd that Bachmann’s actual supporters.
spirit animals
i thought it said spirit airlines.
so far im still good
re: #45 dangerman
spirit animals
i thought it said spirit airlines.
so far im still good
I have cats, pandas and a Prius. Wait scratch the pandas from that list, and I only have one cat. Is it still witchcraft with only one cat and no pandas?
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