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

Those hard things in KFC chicken aren't bones.

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"So, the first black president must also be the first one to not take money afterwards?”

Historically, this is wildly inaccurate. Presidents started cashing in after Truman, mostly by taking positions on corporate Boards of Directors. iirc, Saint Reagan was the first to accept mega-dollar speaking fees upon retirement from office.

blaming obama for flynn is possibly the dumbest thing this administration has put forth and thats no small feat

"first one" is meant by Millennials not as in "ever" but "since my pubes sprouted"

this is a guy that questioned a sitting president's american birth, and still succeeded him. "stupid" rules in these united states, despite our fancy taste and gadgets

xpost

so I suppose it's too late to stop journalists from using the Yam's "deconfliction" as a word, right?

man, i never ran across that one before. Surely he didn't coin it?

He spent a penny on it.

He promised to spend a penny, then stiffed somebody for the bill.

he did a chick named penny. it was tremendous. she was a 9 at least, maybe a 9.5

he watched a couple of young women spend a penny while on a visit to moscow iirc

Gonna get lonely in the Bannon office there:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/28/white-house-weighs-kicking-out-sebastian-gorka

The Trump administration is actively exploring options to remove controversial national security aide Sebastian Gorka from the White House and place him at another federal agency, multiple sources tell The Daily Beast.

Two senior administration officials familiar with the situation say it is exploring a new role for Gorka elsewhere in the administration. Another said he has been entirely excluded from day-to-day policy-making at the National Security Council in the meantime.

time to file some more lawsuits

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Trump-executive-order-seeks-to-open-coast-waters-11106672.php

“The president really likes him and appreciates him as a good spokesperson for the administration, but he isn’t part of the NSC policy making process,” a senior administration official said of Gorka. That makes sense, as he’s part of the Bannon-and Kushner-run Strategic Initiative Group, but the official said his contributions to foreign policy have been minimal, with Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster’s team overshadowing the relevance of his input. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.

he lies good, but hes toooo much of a nazi so we had to get rid of him

appreciates him as a good spokesperson for the administration

i mean really

if Flynn has anything to cough up about Trump, i imagine Trump saying he "blames Obama" for Flynn is a surefire way to expedite the process.

Deconfliction is a regular jargon term in interagency policy work

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It me

This isn't necessarily germane, but if we're stuck with cultural refs in our political discourse, we could have some deeper pulls. This one will do:

https://twitter.com/aardvarsk/status/857996485014585348

Ariana Lenarsky @aardvarsk

i don't understand, beautiful women luring you with music toward an island has always worked out well in the past

9:34 AM · Apr 28, 2017

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haha was that for the Fyre thread? I can't even tell anymore

TRUMP IS THE FYRE OF PRESIDENTS. HONOR FYRE!

totally stealing that

Make Fyre Hot Again

I have this feeling that if Trump had lost the election, he quickly would have been drawn into branding some Fyre-esque garbage island fest w/The Nuge, Kid Rock etc.

Not to say it can't still happen.

A beautiful moment:

https://mobile.twitter.com/FoxNews/status/858099799186436096

@POTUS on renegotiating trade deals: "We're going to have a lot of money pouring into our country."

Response from one Scott Lincicome, noted Cato Institute social media type:

https://mobile.twitter.com/scottlincicome/status/858101422298210304

WHICH MEANS WE'D HAVE A GIANT TRADE DEFICIT MY GOD I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE

hahahaha oh god

We can't <all> launder money for the Russian mob...

Trump's America!

https://mobile.twitter.com/FoxNews/status/858122058286342144

Fabio: Releasing inmates early will lead to more crime.

There's video.

100 days of sod him

& in just under 3 weeks time if the cabinet doesn't change it will be 120 Days of sod 'em too.

https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/858085676016730112

Strategic Initiative Group

How did I miss that Nazis already call _themselves_ SIG?

Spectrum Is Green

Why does Fabio look like a caveman that's had too many jaw surgeries

asked and answered

Say, how difficult would it be to auto-populate a twitter link? How much would it cost to code that in? Seriously, and I don't want to sound like a dickhole or anything, should we pass the hat to accumulate funds to cover dev expenses?

Loyalty Day?!?!?!

^^^ apparently a First Red Scare innovation that's been on the books for a century, and regularly observed since McCarthy times, but never much discussed or highlighted by sitting officials? just doing some quick googling here since it was news to me too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjVe35M8C0U

Yeah, every President from 1921 on has declared Loyalty Day, Obama included

Yeah, every President from 1921 on has declared Loyalty Day, Obama included

maybe we should choose our leaders by lottery

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/trump-voters-explain-why-hes-doing-great-actually

White House officials had hoped to further vex the journalists by having Mr. Trump announce news in Harrisburg, which would spoil their evening, forcing them to set down their forks and knives and go to work.

But a plan for the president to announce in Harrisburg that the United States was pulling out of the North American Free Trade Agreement fell through when Mr. Trump decided, after urgent phone calls on Wednesday from the leaders of Canada and Mexico, not to do it — at least for now.

The White House then toyed with the idea of having Mr. Trump announce that he was ripping up the Korea Free Trade Agreement. But he stole his own thunder, telling The Washington Post on Thursday that the United States might terminate the five-year-old agreement.

“It’s a horrible deal. It was a Hillary Clinton disaster, a deal that should’ve never been made,” Mr. Trump said. In fact, President George W. Bush negotiated the agreement with South Korea in 2007, and President Barack Obama renegotiated it in 2010, which is effectively what Mr. Trump is now proposing to do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/29/us/politics/trump-rally-pennsylvania.html

Chris, a 23-year-old bank teller in Vermont

VICE: Why did you vote for Trump?
Chris: I voted for Trump to weaken the moderate left. After the primary, the mood was that Hillary was going to easily win office. A Clinton victory would have set back the left wing of the Democratic Party for years, at the very least until 2020. Having won both the primary and the general election by wide margins, the party establishment would have had an excuse to sweep Bernie (Sanders)'s "revolution" under the rug, never to be seen again.

How do you feel about the mass protests against Trump?
They're a little too focused on social justice for my taste. Don't get me wrong, those issues are important, but the whole point of making sure Hillary lost was to promote socialism. The Democratic Party already has a solid set of positions on things like minority rights, women's rights, and abortion. Where's the march for healthcare, or Occupy Wall Street part two?

Which of Trump's campaign platforms are most important to you?
Infrastructure. That's one of the few issues where he and the left overlap, and I'm hoping his own party won't derail his planned infrastructure bill when it comes up for a vote.

Also, healthcare. The ACA made Democrats complacent. If Trump destroys healthcare then single-payer will grow in popularity. You can already see polls where support for it is over 50 percent just from the THREAT of the GOP messing with the ACA.

Chris, a 23rd-dimension chess player in Vermont

one thing's for sure, we have the best election system in the world and there is no reason to change anything about it

Yes, everyone knows that the left's biggest enemy is the moderate left. Very urgent to make sure the moderate left is defeated, for as everyone knows, socialist utopia is what comes _just_ on the other side of racial holy war.

guys we already have boring things like "equality", why haven't we overthrown the government yet?! #cheguevara2017