Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

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i just got a new windoze computer (never had one before) and i was a little dismayed that the newsy tiles on the start menu of course became a constant stream of trump stories before i had even tried to configure them

so there was a phone call w/ Putin today: Syria, terrorism, N Korea

and here we sit

a silver spoon asshole who'd rather golf than read leads a nation of odysseus anti-virtuosic post-punk badasses. laffer curve

a silver spoon asshole who'd rather golf than read leads a nation of odysseus anti-virtuosic post-punk badasses. laffer curve

― reggie (qualmsley)

when did ian svenonius quit being the sassiest boy in america

mark twain is the number one blues singer in the country. joyce kilmer. blues explosion!

Yeah I can't remember the last time I sat in an armchair that was facing a television. 2002? 2006?

My children (6 and 10) have almost never sat in a chair and faced a television. They just plop down with a tablet wherever they happen to be. Not sure that bears on anything said upthread or anything Blanchard writes. I guess I agree that the metaphor is quaint.

feel real sorry rich fucks can't muster the votes to kill vulnerable americans :(

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/republicans-obamacare-repeal-votes-237871

There's something very No Exit about voting 50 times or whatever to repeal the ACA, then getting both the White House and both houses of congress, and then continuing to attempt to repeal the ACA, over and over, again and again, for eternity.

Jean Paul Ryan

Hell is Other Congresspeople

My reading of this thread today has basically been just chortling darkly and repeating "OOOOOOOOH, my God" over and over again

so it looks like Trump is finally going to sign his executive order legalizing anti-LGBT discrimination in the service of "religious freedom":

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/donald-trump-religious-liberty-executive-order-237888

He's religious free to kiss my ass.

Oh, wait, maybe he's not anymore?

Wonder how long that would last in court, though.

so uh are we going to boycott ourselves now or what? can't isolate the indianas and north carolinas this time around..

That EO is gonna die an immediate death in the court, ACLU and any number of LGBT groups are poised to sue

Hmmm

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/sally-yates-michael-flynn-testimony-contradict/index.html

Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates is prepared to testify before a Senate panel next week that she gave a forceful warning to the White House regarding then-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn nearly three weeks before he was fired, contradicting the administration's version of events, sources familiar with her account tell CNN.

In a private meeting January 26, Yates told White House Counsel Don McGahn that Flynn was lying when he denied in public and private that he had discussed US sanctions on Russia in conversations with Russian Ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak. Flynn's misleading comments, Yates said, made him potentially vulnerable to being compromised by Russia, according to sources familiar with her version of events. She expressed "serious concerns" to McGahn, making it clear -- without making a recommendation -- that Flynn could be fired.

Yates' testimony May 8 will be the first time the former acting attorney general will publicly speak about the White House meeting. A source familiar with the situation says that Yates will be limited on what she can tell the Senate judiciary subcommittee because many of the details involving Flynn are classified, meaning there may only be a few new revelations.

Meantime:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/mark-green-army-secretary-nomination/index.html

The nomination of President Donald Trump's Army secretary is in serious jeopardy, and he could be withdrawing as soon as this week, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Mark Green, Trump's second pick to be Army secretary, is facing what the sources described as a difficult -- if not insurmountable -- path to confirmation amid a backlash over his controversial statements on LGBT issues, Islam and evolution.

national queer march on DC (June 11) needed a boost or two

donald trump colluded with vladimir putin to steal the 2016 US presidential election, and we're all like, don't front too hard because it's not cool

mark twain is the number one blues singer in the country. joyce kilmer. blues explosion!

― reggie (qualmsley)

mark twain was right on regarding polk miller and his old south quartette.

There's something very No Exit...

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, May 2, 2017 5:21 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jean Paul Ryan

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, May 2, 2017 5:29 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hell is Other Congresspeople

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 2, 2017 5:31 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Huis Cloture

whenever i see the word "cloture" i...

think of cloaca?

think of nick laird-clowes

Reporters ask Rep. Issa his position on the revised healthcare bill. "None of your business," he says.

— Cristina Marcos (@cimarcos) May 2, 2017

Many XP, but take care of yourself, Karl.

SALLY YATES MONDAY 8 MOTHERFUCKERS

why are there so many russian agents attached to comrade combover?

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/russian-interference-in-the-2016-united-states-election

Oh boy, now these are going to be duuuuuummmmb

Getting weird out there

Sean Hannity and his lackey Bill Shine blocked me from Fox because I blocked Sean's insane effort to become @realDonaldTrump WH COS

— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) May 3, 2017

Sean is sad about this

Roger, with all due respect, I NEVER EVER ASKED to be considered for any WH job, nor would I ever have accepted, nor is that my skill set. https://t.co/P1yczkqL8a

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 3, 2017

demint defenestrated :(

http://www.heritage.org/article/statement-the-chairman-heritages-board-trustees

Oh...my god pic.twitter.com/Mg959tOiBv

— William Turton (@WilliamTurton) May 3, 2017

she prob just saw the picture and didn't read the txt.

Following the whole he-never-wanted-to-win theory, he finally found a way out with that retweet.

The civil war quote, maybe someone already pointed this out and I missed it, but aside from Trump being a dumbass that was a textbook example of concern trolling wasn't it? "I just have a few questions about this issue..."

In this case specifically there's also a strong dogwhistle element. Not saying Trump really intended it that way, but it doesn't seem unlikely whoever's whistling in his ear did.

lol at sean hannity thinking a lack of suitable skills would prevent him from taking a place in trump's administration - betsy devos has a job ffs

Wasn't there a military background guy about a month and a half ago who turned down a cabinet position because he was too integrally involved in his firm to divest from it? Thought the same thing then too.

yeah c'mon dude, get with the programme - flagrant ethics violations are the new normal! fill those boots with all the plunder you can before everyone drowns and/or starves to death!

Well it's great that some people you might not think it of would actually have a sense of ethics but that do0esn't seem to be what is currently prevalent. They're not actually thinking there might be a future in which they might be like prosecuted for corruption or whatever are they?
Trump doesn't have a millennial agenda or something does he?
I heard that Reagan believed in the Rapture meaning that God's kingdom was about to descend so it was the end of times already. Don't really think Trump thinks of a greater power but if time's about to end there will be no repercussions.

Good [unintelligble]!

Hitching your trolley to the Turnip Train is a high-risk endeavor with likely short-term gains and long-term consequences. I would think that anyone who can visualize a moment past, say, June of 2017 would think twice about pursuing that day in paradise.

knox county sheriff jimmy jones (or his people) is running for county mayor & apparently believe otherwise:

Jones said he knows he is known for spouting off and not being politically correct, but he said he thinks people want honesty and someone different, not unlike President Donald Trump.

“Obviously, there’s a correlation, and I think that’s what the people who are out here that work and vote and have jobs every day look at too,” he said. “I think they don’t want the rhetoric. They want somebody to do the things that they think are right because that’s what they would do.”

http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2017/05/02/sheriff-jones-officially-announces-mayoral-run/101205012/

this is the guy who pushed to give county police the authority to turn undocumented workers over to ICE under a program that obama nixed but trump is reviving. his quote from that battle: he would "stack illegals like cordwood in the county jails"

They want somebody to do the things that they think are right, like beating up the browns and victimising the poors, because that’s what they would do

I swear to god, this is the Veep-iest shit that's happened yet

oh my god the Mulvaney conference call, via @maddow pic.twitter.com/YPZr1tZfRo

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 3, 2017

nightmarish

I hope a transom falls on his head:

Ben Carson does not like the creature comforts, at least not for low-income Americans reliant on the government for a helping hand.

As he toured facilities for the poor in Ohio last week, Mr. Carson, the neurosurgeon-turned-housing secretary, joked that a relatively well-appointed apartment complex for veterans lacked “only pool tables.” He inquired at one stop whether animals were allowed. At yet another, he nodded, plainly happy, as officials explained how they had stacked dozens of bunk beds inside a homeless shelter and purposefully did not provide televisions.

Compassion, Mr. Carson explained in an interview, means not giving people “a comfortable setting that would make somebody want to say: ‘I’ll just stay here. They will take care of me.’”

omg the hold music