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

party of lincoln etc

Lincoln was tough on emigration, he wouldn't let those other states leave

lenny bruce is trenchant social commentary

anthrax cover of kansas is surprisingly faithful to the original

well how can you not be

Instant classic from The Onion: Mike Pence Asks Waiter To Remove Mrs. Butterworth From Table Until Wife Arrives

http://www.theonion.com/article/mike-pence-asks-waiter-remove-mrs-butterworth-tabl-55661

welp

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/gorsuch-manchin/index.html

ARGH

doesn't matter.

unless they have four votes apiece

ty

He has a record as a balanced, meticulous, and well respected jurist who understands the rule of law

haha

"I've decided to cast my vote for Gorsuch, but my 3 Super Votes will be for Garland"

yeah I know it won't break filibuster, just typical "rmde at Manchin"

Schumer's gonna filibuster, GOP won't have the 8 Dem votes needed for cloture, McConnell will invoke "nuclear option" (which I doubt Manchin and Heitkamp will support) and it will pass on party lines, Gorsuch will then get confirmed with 52 votes or thereabouts.

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this is all turning into a shitty 90s political 'thriller' flick

Meanwhile at the White House:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W3bF4ASGJWA/hqdefault.jpg

Anyway Trump is now just calling some people out directly:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/847559239149158401

If @RepMarkMeadows, @Jim_Jordan and @Raul_Labrador would get on board we would have both great healthcare and massive tax cuts & reform.

hope Jim writes back "ur mom was on board last nite"

lol

I have to say this is all turning out about as well as could be hoped

omg

http://static.srcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Star-Wars-7-Rumor-Emperor-Returning.jpg

Okay folks, it's fully on now:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-flynn-offers-to-testify-in-exchange-for-immunity-1490912959?mod=e2tw

Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional officials investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia that he is willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.

As an adviser to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, and later one of Mr. Trump’s top aides in the White House, Mr. Flynn was privy to some of the most sensitive foreign-policy deliberations of the new administration and was directly involved in discussions about the possible lifting of sanctions on Russia imposed by the Obama administration.

He has made the offer to the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees though his lawyer but has so far found no takers, the officials said.

Mr. Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner, declined to comment.

ha -- news is moving so fast that I thought I was responding to that breaking bit several minutes ago

xp sweet

Snitchin' Mike

He has made the offer to the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees though his lawyer but has so far found no takers, the officials said.

uh...can we get any takers on this

willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution

haha oh shit, yeah this seems like a big deal

May be that he's not offering up anything meaningful on other people, so why grant immunity?

why would he need immunity? i didn't expect him to get charged with anything.

As the voice of miserable pessimism, it just means he thinks he might have done something illegal - which could be lying about or failing to disclose payments from RT or Turkey in his security clearance application. It doesn't mean he has flipped on Trump - particularly if nobody is willing to take up the offer.

SV is right but a Trump guy breaking the law and getting caught w/in the first few months (weeks?!) of the administration is at the very least a black mark on WH (and one that apparently refuses to go away)

Maybe all along, the leaker was....Hillary.

she had seen that she'd be taking office with a divided Congress, united against her, even her own party in some ways. she knew she'd be ineffective.

Why not tear the Republicans apart from the inside by letting him win, and then framing him for an espionage campaign that all but sinks the Republican party for eternity? All along, she had us all where she wanted us.

my alternate theory is that lizard people did it.

Flynn needs to be careful about standing too close to any open windows

xxpost that's the thing really is the whole "Paterno" scenario. obv he became more directly implicated as that story developed further but in the earlygoing, he was seen more was the guy that "didn't do enough" when made aware of something and held accountable for what happened under him.

President appointing a guy who is about to be indicted to National SEcurity is as bad a headline as you could ask for.

Flynn needs to be careful about standing too close to any open windows

― Moodles, Thursday, March 30, 2017 7:02 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

could Trump's admin even get that right at this point?

wouldn't be half surprised to see a processional of Trump goons tricked one by one into falling out a window to their demise while Flynn sits idly by and laughs

With Putin's help, anything is possible, and this is one of his specialties

Flynn probably has no takers as he's quibbling w/ the FBI over the hotel they will put him up in

why would he need immunity? i didn't expect him to get charged with anything.

― Treeship, Thursday, March 30, 2017 10:55 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

failing to register as a foreign agent of turkey - illegal, regardless of their ham fisted ex post facto registration
taking payments from a foreign power while being retired military - also illegal

I cant see how his testimony would relate to that but hey, give him points for trying

Trump's primary threat tactic is p funny - w his approval ratings in the tank, who does he think is gonna run in a year out of sheer loyalty to Trump, rather than loyalty to a particular ideology or actual constituents. Like are there *really* that many available candidates out there who are just "idgaf what he does, I will support him on anything no matter what"?

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Trump doesn't get that his legislative support is predicated on his being a vehicle for *their* priorities, not vice versa

Like are there *really* that many available candidates out there who are just "idgaf what he does, I will support him on anything no matter what"?

Just you wait, next year we'll be reading news stories about Congressional candidate X, "better known as Cuntkiller88 from /r/the_Donald"

2017 is going to be known as the "gas leak year" isn't it

Fuck, these people are hopeless.

Two days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back Barack Obama’s Climate Action Plan, easing fracking restrictions and reversing the previous administration’s efforts to shrink America’s carbon footprint, the Environmental Protection Agency sent out a press release intended to congratulate the president for his bold leadership. The agency included quotes from groups like the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the Chamber of Commerce, and the American Petroleum Institute, all of whom heaped praise on Trump. But the e-mail also contained an unexpected message—one attributed to West Virginia Republican senator Shelley Moore Capito, a longtime supporter of the coal industry in her home state.

“President Trump has chosen to recklessly bury his head in the sand,” the quote attributed to Capito read. “Walking away from the Clean Power Plan and other climate initiatives, including critical resiliency projects is not just irresponsible— it's irrational.” It continued: “With the world watching, President Trump and Administrator Pruitt have chosen to shirk our responsibility, disregard clear science and undo the significant progress our country has made to ensure we leave a better, more sustainable planet for generations to come.”

There were three apparent problems with the quote, which was featured prominently atop the E.P.A.’s press release. First, it wasn’t exactly a ringing endorsement of Trump’s executive order. Second, the release misspelled the senator’s first name. And third, Capito never actually said any of that. The E.P.A. accidentally attributed the quote to Capito, when it had actually come from Democratic senator Tom Carper of Delaware, the Democrat leading the Environment and Public Works Committee. Oops.

FWIW, Flynn's lawyer has issued a statement saying 'Yeah the committees'....but no word on the FBI. (Yet?)

https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/847590500056137728

xpost Wooooooooooooooooow.

2017 is going to be known as the "gas leak year" isn't it

― Neanderthal, Thursday, March 30, 2017 11:22 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

where u been man

"Porter Ranch leak declared largest methane leak in U.S. history" in Feb 2016

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-porter-ranch-methane-20160225-story.html

That EPA thing has to be an "inside job", so to speak