Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

We've been doing sketches from photographs the past few weeks. This guy's the second-best artist in my class--grade 3!

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/sketch_zpstl3ro4ht.jpg

He does capture a certain something about the man.

(I'm sure everyone's seen the image--not sure why he reversed it, but pretty impressive that he even could.)

http://media.salon.com/2015/07/trumps-macys-new-york.jpg

out-Pettibons Pettibon, solid work

pretty good...kinda reminds me when people used to give Wilfred Laurier a Spock makeover on the old $5 bills

Question: are double jeopardy laws still in play with a presidential pardon? Say, if Kushner is pardoned, and it turns out he's in trouble for more than he is pardoned for, or more of the same, can he still be tried? Or for that matter, can a president just keep pardoning the same person, again and again, as long as he's president?

Wasn't Ford's pardon of Nixon pretty much a blanket pardon of anything he may have done, rather than anything specific? If it came to that, Trump would say "Jared totally did not do anything wrong, this is a total witch hunt, but just in case, I pardon him for anything he may have inadvertantly done up until, let's say yesterday. No, let's say this morning."

can a president just keep pardoning the same person, again and again, as long as he's president?

iirc, the Constitution doesn't place any limits on a president's ability to commute sentences or grant full pardons.

the lizard people will have revealed themselves by then, none of it will matter

iirc, the Constitution doesn't place any limits on a president's ability to commute sentences or grant full pardons.

But there have to be some limits, right? Can a president pardon literally everybody, just empty the jails?

now yr just getting ridiculous

Can a president pardon literally everybody, just empty the jails?

In theoretical fairyland, yes. As a practical matter, no. Each commutation or pardon must specify the person's name and is signed personally by the president and the USA has one of the two or three highest incarceration rates of any country on earth. We might be number one now. I don't follow the rankings that closely.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c6AzSL5Prcg/hqdefault.jpg

We got spirit, yes we do, we got spirit, but to the pokey with you

I'm not sure what Kushner would be indicted for except looking like a twink carved out of plastic.

didn't the joker let everyone out of jail in one of the batmans? i can't find any evidence to back it up but i remember

That's what the world has come to, a vague recollection that something happened.

irl lol Alfred

Cuba policy rollback coming, Daily Caller sez, w/ help from Rubio and Menendez

By September we'll be relitigating Brown v Board of Ed

didn't the joker let everyone out of jail in one of the batmans? i can't find any evidence to back it up but i remember

you may be thinking of bane letting gotham's most dangerous criminals out of arkham asylum in the crossover story knightfall, which ran between 1993 and 1994 and ended with bane breaking batman's back

Jesus Christ spoilers

mods pls delete, sorry everyone

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/05/30/world/30Macron/30Macron-master768.jpg

Here we go: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/30/dubke-resigns-as-white-house-communications-director/?utm_term=.dce15d99dfee

Dubke, Gorka, all these names sound like something you'd play on the Scrabble board and hope nobody challenged.

Lol. Then you should take a peak at the Irish politics thread...

they look like smurfs in peach

gosh

(CNN)Russian government officials discussed having potentially "derogatory" information about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and some of his top aides in conversations intercepted by US intelligence during the 2016 election, according to two former intelligence officials and a congressional source.

One source described the information as financial in nature and said the discussion centered on whether the Russians had leverage over Trump's inner circle. The source said the intercepted communications suggested to US intelligence that Russians believed "they had the ability to influence the administration through the derogatory information."

But the sources, privy to the descriptions of the communications written by US intelligence, cautioned the Russian claims to one another "could have been exaggerated or even made up" as part of a disinformation campaign that the Russians did during the election.

The details of the communication shed new light on information US intelligence received about Russian claims of influence. The contents of the conversations made clear to US officials that Russia was considering ways to influence the election -- even if their claims turned out to be false.

None of the sources would say which specific Trump aides were discussed. One of the officials said the intelligence report masked the American names but it was clear the conversations revolved around the Trump campaign team. Another source would not give more specifics, citing the classified nature of the information.

Who knew?

here's the real scandal tho

President Donald Trump’s golf courses in the United States display a coat of arms taken from another prominent American family with just one small tweak, according to a New York Times report out Sunday.

Trump uses the coat of arms belonging to Joseph Edward Davies, the third husband of Marjorie Merriweather Post, according to the Times. Post built Mar-A-Lago, the Florida resort now run by Trump. Davies’ coat of arms shows three lions with a chevron pattern, with the word “integritas,” Latin for integrity, at the bottom. Trump uses the same coat of arms, but replaced “integritas” with “Trump,” per the Times.

Trump never asked the family for permission to use the coat of arms, Joseph D. Tydings, a former senator and Davies’ grandson, told the New York Times. Tydings said that some members of his family wanted to sue Trump but that he argued against taking on the real estate mogul.

“I just told the other members of my family that you can’t win on this,” he told the New York Times. “You’ll borrow for two generations to sue him.”

missed it at the time it was initially reported but if this doesn't blow the lid off the whole trump organisation i dunno what will

George dubke bush

Loool:

This shows how Trump simply does not understand governing. Health care and tax cuts were both proceeding on 51-vote threshold. https://t.co/w6ysr6ns3S

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) May 30, 2017

(this twitter embed feature might mean more spamming of these threads. Sorry.)

yeah that is really wtf. everything i'm reading/hearing suggests GOP has an uphill climb to even get to 50 on AHCA

McConnell should revolutionize American politics by switching to a 40-vote threshold

eh why stop there? Twenty votes and go home imo

appoint trump as god-emperor or gtfo

Trumpsuo: the Iron Man

bizarro, I absolutely agree that Heraldrygate needs more attention. Too bad the fake news media is burying the story.

What did the president know about the fess gules rampant, and when did he emblazon it? Much more than a blot on his escutcheon imo.

Trump uses the same coat of arms, but replaced “integritas” with “Trump,”

lol.

the inside of trump's brain is like

http://i.imgur.com/iw2ti2h.gif

scrubbing 'integrity' off someone else's coat of arms and replacing it with your own name would be borowitz-level satire if it wasn't true

ymp, thx for your support, i'm glad someone else takes this as seriously as i do

I'm pretty sure Trump is German or Latin or Esperanto or something for integrity anyway.

it's so amazing. i just, it's both amazing and makes me feel impotent and stupid all at the same time

Last name: Trump
This early English medieval surname is derived from the pre 8th century Olde French 'Trompeor', and as such was introduced by the Norman invaders of England in 1066. It is a metonymic or job descriptive name either for a trumpeter or a maker of trumpets, and is recorded in the modern forms of Trump and Trumper.

aye donald's a total fuckin' trumpet right enough

Something deeply symbolic in the fact that the word in the motto replaced by 'Trump' on the stolen coat of arms was 'Integrity' or a direct translation.

trenchant own-goal

Future generations will acknowledge Trump for the satirical genius he so clearly is. Even if only because said acknowledgement is mandated by the new constitution under which the cave-dwelling remnants of humanity must live.

trump
"fabricate, devise," 1690s, from trump "deceive, cheat" (1510s), from Middle English trumpen (late 14c.), from Old French tromper "to deceive," of uncertain origin. Apparently from se tromper de "to mock," from Old French tromper "to blow a trumpet." Brachet explains this as "to play the horn, alluding to quacks and mountebanks, who attracted the public by blowing a horn, and then cheated them into buying ...." The Hindley Old French dictionary has baillier la trompe "blow the trumpet" as "act the fool," and Donkin connects it rather to trombe "waterspout," on the notion of turning (someone) around. Connection with triumph also has been proposed. Related: Trumped; trumping. Trumped up "false, concocted" first recorded 1728.