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

i really haven't met any ppl like Chris irl, i hope they number in the dozens

And they all live in Vermont

just annooooother day

Working hard to promote socialism by working in that most socialist of endeavors, commercial banking.

i really haven't met any ppl like Chris irl, i hope they number in the dozens

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, April 30, 2017 11:46 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And they all live in Vermont

― El Tomboto, Sunday, April 30, 2017 11:55 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i haven't met any here, either!

also, not to let him off the hook, but of all the places in america where voting for trump was a meaningless self-indulgence, vermont has got to be up there

And now for some huge news:

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the dean of the Florida legislative delegation and the first Cuban American elected to Congress, is retiring at the end of her term next year, saying it’s time to move on after 38 years in elected office.

“It's been such a delight and a high honor to serve our community for so many years and help constituents every day of the week,” the Miami Republican told the Miami Herald in an exclusive telephone interview Sunday. “We just said, ‘It's time to take a new step.’”

Her unexpected retirement marks the end of a storied career in which Ros-Lehtinen repeatedly broke political ground as a Cuban-American woman -- and gives Democrats an opportunity to pick up a South Florida congressional seat in 2018.

Ros-Lehtinen, 64, was elected last November to Florida’s redrawn 27th district, a stretch of Southeast Miami-Dade County that leans so Democratic that Hillary Clinton won it over Donald Trump by 20 percentage points. It was Clinton's biggest margin of any Republican-held seat in the country.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article147718764.html#storylink=cpy

I suspect Chris is really Ra's al Ghul

It's no big surprise that a 23 year old can fool himself into thinking he's a deep political strategist. There are worse fools. At least he has political goals other than white supremacy.

or at least in addition to white surpremacy

Democrats give up hope on striking a deal with Trump

Though many are still nervous — there remains deep anxiety about being pulled into a government shutdown fight over border security — party leaders are in a much different place than they were in December and their success in defeating the Obamacare repeal made them feel that political order had been restored after a year of feeling like they no longer understod anything.

In the Democratic debate about how to deal with Trump, total obstruction — similar to the Republican approach during Obama’s presidency, with hopes it’ll produce the same results in elections — is winning, and selective, principled compromise is starting to seem like a fever dream, despite anxiety in some quarters that Democrats will be blamed for more gridlock in Washington that voters clearly don’t want.

What a vindictive moral midget:

The Mauricio Macri administration reverted a decision to award former US president Jimmy Carter the Order of the Liberator General San Martín — the maximum distinction that the country can give to a foreign personality —, under the pressure from US President Donald Trump’s administration, CNN web site reported this week.

The official tribute, which had already been approved by the foreign ministry and was published in the Official Gazette, was cancelled after receiving a specific request by the US government, which would have suggested it would be better to delay it. Carter was to be given the award for his work in promoting human rights during Argentina’s last military dictatorship.

despite anxiety in some quarters that Democrats will be blamed for more gridlock in Washington that voters clearly don’t want.

Learn to say: "The Republicans have all the tools they need in order to govern. Let them govern."

how funny will it be when the "conservative" senate removes the legislative filibuster?

Not gonna happen

A day after Watergate reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward issued a stirring call for the press to hold Donald Trump to account, the president’s chief of staff said the White House is actively considering a change to libel laws affecting news reporting.

“I think it’s something that we’ve looked at,” said Reince Priebus, appearing on ABC’s This Week. “How that gets executed and whether that goes anywhere is a different story.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/apr/30/reince-priebus-libel-law-change-media-white-house

can May's thread be titled: "People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?"

Dear, dear lord.

There really is no ceiling on the amount I would shell out to watch the Pay-Per-View special of him being slowly fed into a wood chipper.

I mentioned this yesterday, but this good news isn't getting enough play: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ileana-ros-lehtinen-announces-no-reelection-bid-2018

Can't help but wonder if as a member of the House Intelligence Committee (and the only one to ask a question that didn't pertain to leaking to the press) she saw more Russia shit and thought, "Shit, my seat, redrawn a couple years ago, looks more unsafe in 2018..."

New thread - Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

May I never read the phrase 'oppo dump' again.