"Just another day in paradise, okay?" April 2017 President Trump and oppo dump thread

Also, that information was released through Podesta hacks. So he is still pushing Russian intel.

mandatory voting will never happen, and tbh instituting it while we still vote on tuesdays w/o a holiday would end up penalizing all the working folks that feel like they can't skip out to vote right now

move all elections to saturday. this is something that could be advocated for at the state level as well as at the federal level, and would probably get bipartisan support as it appears to be pretty innocuous and common-sensical on the face

(nb that probably also means that it might not be terribly effective at increasing voter turnout, esp since many service-economy voters are still working saturday, but it would at least be a step in the right direction. like, i can't see many downsides)

Surely the problem with the debate questions was that it gave Hillary an unfair advantage over Bernie, no?

The tweet is about 'answers'.

"True or False: Lead was found in the water in Flint, MI"

http://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/img/editorial/2016/11/08/104090081-still.600x400.jpg

xpost: sure, but I was responding to: "Never really seen what the problem was with getting the questions early"

Feels so good to know that the pettiest person of whom I have any personal awareness is still the president. Feels reeeeeeeal good.

trump tweeting about dumb stuff is good, shows how unfocused and incompetent they are

personally i think it would be great if we are sitting here in 2019 and he is still tweeting about hillary and the debate

if he's still in office there is a 100% chance he will be

(this is not my actual understanding of Australia, calm down sic)

I'm that person that cares entirely too much

tbf to our right-wing overlords, they quickly realised Abbott was such a swivel-eyed loon that they knifed him three days short of his second anniversary, and replaced him with someone literally the entire party and voters hate instead

esp since many service-economy voters are still working saturday

And would probably have to work on a federal holiday too!

xpost: sure, but I was responding to: "Never really seen what the problem was with getting the questions early"

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Oh, sorry ;)

But yeah, the assumption was that telling Clinton a debate in Flint would have a question about Flint fatally undermined the Sanders campaign. Which is nonsense, but it was kinda stupid thing to do anyway.

it's a symptom of the panic/entitlement of the ClintonIncDNC operation

one drop in a large bucket

yeah but c'mon that is not why Trump keeps circling back to it

so is benedict donald going to hire tiffany? it's kind of bullshit he hasn't yet, if you ask me

trump doesn't remember tiffany exists most of the time tbf

he still seems to have it out for Marla Maples and by extension Tiffany

imagine being the child donald trump is embarrassed by - what a horrifying psychic burden to carry every day

https://twitter.com/tomkludt/status/848920136623030272

Take it easy, Bill Shine

an eagles where everyone is don or glenn, what a fucking nightmare

well, yeah

And guitar player Joe Walsh is replaced by deranged former congressman Joe Walsh

So Trump has seriously spent the last 3 hours watching FOX News? What does the President do anyway?

ilx is perhaps the only place on the internet where that tweet could spawn a heated 1000-post debate over which member of fox personnel corresponds to which member of the eagles

So Trump has seriously spent the last 3 hours watching FOX News? What does the President do anyway?

you just answered your own question

(calling shoe smith as timothy b. schmidt btw)

btw the "@FBI" in his latest tweet is hilarious to me

uh, shep smith xp to self

btw the "@FBI" in his latest tweet is hilarious to me

if only there was some way the president of the united states could easily reach the federal bureau of investigation

spain is a fake country! "Alexander Torshin, deputy governor of the Central Bank of Russia and investigated in Spain for money laundering, has infiltrated the US president’s circle."

http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/31/inenglish/1490984556_409827.amp.html

Prez at -16 on Rasmussen poll, including now 58% that voted disapprove

all is going according to trump's 6D-chess plan

Feinstein and Bennet finally both publicly on-board for filibuster of Gorsuch

scott adams just simultaneously microwaved three bags of popcorn in celebration

Hm:

White House lawyers last month learned that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The pattern of Rice's requests was discovered in a National Security Council review of the government's policy on "unmasking" the identities of individuals in the U.S. who are not targets of electronic eavesdropping, but whose communications are collected incidentally. Normally those names are redacted from summaries of monitored conversations and appear in reports as something like "U.S. Person One."

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-03/top-obama-adviser-sought-names-of-trump-associates-in-intel

Rice's requests to unmask the names of Trump transition officials does not vindicate Trump's own tweets from March 4 in which he accused Obama of illegally tapping Trump Tower. There remains no evidence to support that claim.

But Rice's multiple requests to learn the identities of Trump officials discussed in intelligence reports during the transition period does highlight a longstanding concern for civil liberties advocates about U.S. surveillance programs. The standard for senior officials to learn the names of U.S. persons incidentally collected is that it must have some foreign intelligence value, a standard that can apply to almost anything. This suggests Rice's unmasking requests were likely within the law.

@tinyrevolution
US politics used to seem like the Godfather with Bush as Sonny & Obama as Michael but now we're in a weird sequel where Fredo's in charge

P sure it's Chris montisanti tbh

Luca Brasi, surely?

Like Luca Brasi after a serious head injury.

@JoshZ2012
You take care of me? You're my kid brother, and you take care of me? You wiretapped my phones! Your a bad (or sick) guy! Sad!

not surprisingly the only media running that Eli Lake story are sites like Breitbart, Daily Caller, Townhall, etc.

it's kinda funny the game of telephone though where the article said the actions were probably legal and other sources that quoted it added an "il" in front o that word.

Republicans defended their move to block Garland, saying they were worried about Hillary Clinton winning the election.

"If (Democrats) are going to oppose Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court of the United States they will never vote and never support a nominee of this president. Because in the end, i think that's really what gets their goat the most," said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas. "We keep hearing about Merrick Garland, but I guarantee if Hillary Clinton had the presidency we'd never hear Merrick Garland's name again, because she would have had the opportunity to pick her own nominee to the Supreme Court."

that....doesn't make sense? You blocked Garland because you thought Hillary might win and then also name a liberal judge?

Apparently my Senator, Bob "Teenage Dominican Prostitutes" Menendez, is wavering re Gorsuch. I called his office to express my discontent. Got voice mail because all the lines were busy. I suspect he'll be a No eventually.

xp

yes, maybe Clinton would have nominated a more liberal justice who would also not receive a hearing from the republican senate

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-panel-prepares-to-consider-gorsuch-as-threat-of-filibuster-looms/2017/04/03/129bcd8c-186a-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_gorsuch-1020a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.5aa6a228a53c

Senate Democrats secured enough votes Monday to filibuster the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, increasing the likelihood that Republicans will enact a rules change to ensure his confirmation and pushing the battle into its climactic final act.

Four more Senate Democrats confirmed they will support a filibuster of Gorsuch’s nomination, giving the minority party the requisite 41 votes to maintain their procedural roadblock under pressure from Republicans.

I had Bennett's position wrong upthread fwiw sorry about that

xxxpost yea, I at least understood the "the American people should pick the next SCOTUS judge" internal logic even if the reason itself was abhorrent, misleading and stupid.

I don't get this one at all - "we had to, it looked like Hillary would win and then we could block her nom too and make it very evidence that it was never about Obama being in his last term".....

also doesn't work w/ McCain's comments vowing to block every nominee and "being fine with 8 justices".