Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

Just to the right of the TV set in that image.

Sam Brownback might get out of Kansas: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/sam-brownback-might-not-be-governing-kansas-much-longer/519165/?utm_source=atltw

It's non sequiturs like this that really underlines to me how shitty republicans are: Brownback suffered his latest blow last week, when the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the state’s funding of public schools violated the constitutional rights of minority students.

I'd been trying to discern when exactly the parties initially flipped and I had assumed it was a gradual process but based on something I was reading yesterday it sounds like it was more or less an instantaneous, catastrophic shift at the '64 GOP convention? And almost entirely (and unsurprisingly) because of race?

recently flipped out over deranged facebook feeds, too

http://www.cjr.org/analysis/breitbart-media-trump-harvard-study.php

No. Racism doesn't exist in this country.

it isn't one moment, i wdn't say

don't forget there was a race brouhaha at the '64 Dem convention (two competing Mississippi delegations, one w/ Fannie Lou Hamer)

xxp

I mean, I get that it was a confluence of a number of factors, but it seems like even a lot of GOP-ers were caught off guard by the sudden shift towards Goldwater extremism.

Nixon cut deal with Strom Thurmond in '68. That helped.

you still have liberal/centrist Republicans (like Jacob Javits) through the '70s

huh in that CJR stuff both beetbort and huffpo are a lot bigger in share qty than I woulda guessed vs old/"regular" media. sorta think huffpo seems more disproportionate to me.

CJR could have also pointed out that breitbart infected the NYT and WaPo itself - by funding the work that produced Clinton Cash, which the WaPo and NYT then gained 'exclusive' publishing rights to the early scoops.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/04/new-york-times-washington-post-fox-news-strike-deals-for-anti-clinton-research-205791#.VTZM3TQ7MwM.twitter

hard to believe huffpo could still have much influence when every link takes literally an hour to load

works fine over here

why must i suffer

https://twitter.com/ap_politics/status/840264161997279233

Honestly surprised this happened.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tweets-archived_us_58c1a8d3e4b0d1078ca51126

https://twitter.com/MattNegrin/status/840272780276965376
lol

Meanwhile...can't say he doesn't love his work, I guess:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/justin-amash-cries-after-missing-vote-235928

He's already tweeted his apology to his district:

https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/840284925924392960

lol "@justinamash in soviet russia, vote miss you!"

i don't mean to be overly negative but i do not think donald trump is doing a good job as president

@lhfang
Just before Paul Ryan's PowerPoint presser he was doing his actual area of expertise: fundraising w/insurance lobby

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/09/paul-ryan-fundraised-with-health-insurance-lobbying-firm-just-before-his-powerpoint/

jobs report :

“In the past, the president has referred to particular job reports as phony or totally fiction,” a reporter asked. “Does the president believe that this jobs report was accurate and a fair way to measure the economy?”
“I talked to the president prior to this, and he said to quote them very clearly,” Spicer said. “They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.”

^^^delivered w a chuckle and a shit-eating grin

ffs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIpbMsgm5M0

^^^delivered w a chuckle and a shit-eating grin

And the assembled journalists had a hearty laugh, too. The clip is fucking disgusting.

aw just havin a laff about their collective sham

"They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now." "They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now." "They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now." "They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now." "They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.""They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now." "They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now." "They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now." "They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now."

http://www.businessinsider.com/gary-cohn-economic-advisor-trump-jobs-report-credit-2017-3

It's just more of the extremist tribalism this administration traffics in. That thing the other side did was awful but it's amazing when we do the exact same thing. There's no more nuance to it than that, and people who are inclined just eat it up.

7/4/16 -- Happy Birthday, America / first tranche of Hillary's emails sent out by Wikileaks

7/22/16 -- DNC's emails published by Wikileaks . . . three days before the DNC convention

10/7/16 -- 'Access Hollywood' "grab em by the pussy" tape leaked / third tranche of DNC emails leaked . . . an hour after the 'Access Hollywood' tapes hit the press

3/7/17 -- Wikileaks exposes all the CIA's cyberwarfare tricks . . . two days before Trumputin pal Nigel Farage visits Julian Assange

if this is what it takes to finally get to the bottom of barry soetero's real birth certificate, then fine

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-jeff-sessions-asks-46-obama-era-u-s-1489181229-htmlstory.html

cool a US Attorney purge

this is only unusual inasmuch as its being done heavy-handedly and incompetently (ie predictably)

I wouldn't care -- every administration does this and why not -- if the attorney general weren't a colossal dick who's going to appoint more colossal dicks.

yeah I guess I dont know the USA life-cycle.. I've only worked with one and he was basically a gossip queen who chatted on the phone all day long with other ex-USAs.

Calling Sessions a colossal dick is like calling a cerebral hemorrhage a headache.

http://i.imgur.com/frXhNhq.jpg

BREAKING: Federal Court strikes down large portions of Texas Congressional map as violation of VRA and Constitution.

Please let this stick. TX needs the change badly!

what's this thing about Spicer committing a felony in his response to a question about the Russia investigation?

It's from a satire site afaict.

I figured as much.

Maybe you were thinking of this? re: jobs announcement

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-spicer-broke-a-federal-rule-when-he-1489164146-htmlstory.html

The White House was excited Friday when the first jobs report of the Trump administration came in stronger than expected.

But one official got carried away and broke an obscure federal rule by publicly touting the data too soon.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer took to Twitter 22 minutes after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the February jobs report.

He tweeted that the 235,000 net new jobs and the slight decline in the unemployment rate was "great news for American workers."

But the timing of the tweet was not great news for Spicer.

It didn't take long for some experienced jobs-report watchers to note that he had jumped the gun and violated a longstanding prohibition against executive branch officials publicly commenting on the report within an hour of its release.

Specifically, Spicer broke the Office of Management and Budget's Statistical Policy Directive No. 3, adopted in 1985.

"Except for members of the staff of the agency issuing the principal economic indicator who have been designated by the agency head to provide technical explanations of the data, employees of the Executive Branch shall not comment publicly on the data until at least one hour after the official release time."

Among those pointing out the violation was Jason Furman.

As chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Obama from 2013 until this past January, Furman emailed a lengthy analysis of the monthly jobs report and often went on TV to discuss the data.

Furman tweeted that the rule has been in place for decades and "everyone has followed it. Until now."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/10/roger-stone-trump-confidant-acknowledges-innocuous/

Roger Stone wrote the Russians, asked them for help in spreading fake news.

all this pointing out hypocrisy/rule-breaking is so tedious... it needs to be done, but it's p much worthless politically xp

Yup

They're mavericks who live by their own code but it's cool because dammit they get results.

It's a situation where you're telling a dude who keeps burning people's houses down that what he's doing is wrong and that he's breaking the law but you live in a town with no police and no jail so he just flips you the bird and burns your house down. What can be done?

it needs to be done, but it's p much worthless politically xp

to the extent that anyone notices, it helps trump. people love when trump breaks the rules anyway, might as well be an obscure one that seems a little silly

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/10/politics/ukraine-manafort-hacked-texts/

Paul Manafort's daughter had some harsh things to say about him in 2015