Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

xp: certainly it was also criticism of Merkel, but more importantly, running on an anti-Trump platform is now an obvious political stance throughout Europe.

Exactly.

In broad strokes, this piece gives a decent POV from Germany about last week, Trump, and why it's so unhappy with Trump's USA.

"Then they'll play the National Anthem. That part's easy. Just stand still."
"Got it."
pic.twitter.com/9oNjcXvQOW

— shauna (@goldengateblond) May 29, 2017

what a buffoon.

surprised he didn't mime throwing a pitch at the end tbh

Words like 'buffoon' never seem sufficient. W. was a buffoon. Trump seems like some weird homonculus formed out of shit that briefly attempts to mimic human beings but gives up in a matter of seconds after realizing that it doesn't really care if it comes off as anything but an off-putting shit puppet.

Obama — Special Agent Dale Cooper
Nixon — Doppelcooper
Trump — Dougie

It's the little moments like that that really drive home how fucked this is tbh

What kind of fascist can't even work up the requisite mawkish sentimentality on Memorial Day ffs

I can actually see that footage pissing a lot of red staters off, if they actually ever encountered it in our splintered bubble fuckscape

That said here's our fella at slane way back when

https://i.redd.it/36rgq3adbtgy.jpg

just rockin' out to the national anthem on memorial day nbd

challenge accepted...

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18740129_10155355035540908_8907945058714118661_n.jpg?oh=f1c478fc0475a4c5796250ab87e2e287&oe=59E84B71

jesus christ could these people be any less self aware?

the question isn't who is going to let me shit in this bowl of water and leave it on the elevator, it's who is going to stop me

Ok Trump bopping and singing along to the National Anthem is amazing.

We've been doing sketches from photographs the past few weeks. This guy's the second-best artist in my class--grade 3!

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/sketch_zpstl3ro4ht.jpg

He does capture a certain something about the man.

(I'm sure everyone's seen the image--not sure why he reversed it, but pretty impressive that he even could.)

http://media.salon.com/2015/07/trumps-macys-new-york.jpg

out-Pettibons Pettibon, solid work

pretty good...kinda reminds me when people used to give Wilfred Laurier a Spock makeover on the old $5 bills

Question: are double jeopardy laws still in play with a presidential pardon? Say, if Kushner is pardoned, and it turns out he's in trouble for more than he is pardoned for, or more of the same, can he still be tried? Or for that matter, can a president just keep pardoning the same person, again and again, as long as he's president?

Wasn't Ford's pardon of Nixon pretty much a blanket pardon of anything he may have done, rather than anything specific? If it came to that, Trump would say "Jared totally did not do anything wrong, this is a total witch hunt, but just in case, I pardon him for anything he may have inadvertantly done up until, let's say yesterday. No, let's say this morning."

can a president just keep pardoning the same person, again and again, as long as he's president?

iirc, the Constitution doesn't place any limits on a president's ability to commute sentences or grant full pardons.

the lizard people will have revealed themselves by then, none of it will matter

iirc, the Constitution doesn't place any limits on a president's ability to commute sentences or grant full pardons.

But there have to be some limits, right? Can a president pardon literally everybody, just empty the jails?

now yr just getting ridiculous

Can a president pardon literally everybody, just empty the jails?

In theoretical fairyland, yes. As a practical matter, no. Each commutation or pardon must specify the person's name and is signed personally by the president and the USA has one of the two or three highest incarceration rates of any country on earth. We might be number one now. I don't follow the rankings that closely.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c6AzSL5Prcg/hqdefault.jpg

We got spirit, yes we do, we got spirit, but to the pokey with you

I'm not sure what Kushner would be indicted for except looking like a twink carved out of plastic.

didn't the joker let everyone out of jail in one of the batmans? i can't find any evidence to back it up but i remember

That's what the world has come to, a vague recollection that something happened.

irl lol Alfred

Cuba policy rollback coming, Daily Caller sez, w/ help from Rubio and Menendez

By September we'll be relitigating Brown v Board of Ed

didn't the joker let everyone out of jail in one of the batmans? i can't find any evidence to back it up but i remember

you may be thinking of bane letting gotham's most dangerous criminals out of arkham asylum in the crossover story knightfall, which ran between 1993 and 1994 and ended with bane breaking batman's back

Jesus Christ spoilers

mods pls delete, sorry everyone

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/05/30/world/30Macron/30Macron-master768.jpg

Here we go: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/30/dubke-resigns-as-white-house-communications-director/?utm_term=.dce15d99dfee

Dubke, Gorka, all these names sound like something you'd play on the Scrabble board and hope nobody challenged.

Lol. Then you should take a peak at the Irish politics thread...

they look like smurfs in peach

gosh

(CNN)Russian government officials discussed having potentially "derogatory" information about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and some of his top aides in conversations intercepted by US intelligence during the 2016 election, according to two former intelligence officials and a congressional source.

One source described the information as financial in nature and said the discussion centered on whether the Russians had leverage over Trump's inner circle. The source said the intercepted communications suggested to US intelligence that Russians believed "they had the ability to influence the administration through the derogatory information."

But the sources, privy to the descriptions of the communications written by US intelligence, cautioned the Russian claims to one another "could have been exaggerated or even made up" as part of a disinformation campaign that the Russians did during the election.

The details of the communication shed new light on information US intelligence received about Russian claims of influence. The contents of the conversations made clear to US officials that Russia was considering ways to influence the election -- even if their claims turned out to be false.

None of the sources would say which specific Trump aides were discussed. One of the officials said the intelligence report masked the American names but it was clear the conversations revolved around the Trump campaign team. Another source would not give more specifics, citing the classified nature of the information.

Who knew?

here's the real scandal tho

President Donald Trump’s golf courses in the United States display a coat of arms taken from another prominent American family with just one small tweak, according to a New York Times report out Sunday.

Trump uses the coat of arms belonging to Joseph Edward Davies, the third husband of Marjorie Merriweather Post, according to the Times. Post built Mar-A-Lago, the Florida resort now run by Trump. Davies’ coat of arms shows three lions with a chevron pattern, with the word “integritas,” Latin for integrity, at the bottom. Trump uses the same coat of arms, but replaced “integritas” with “Trump,” per the Times.

Trump never asked the family for permission to use the coat of arms, Joseph D. Tydings, a former senator and Davies’ grandson, told the New York Times. Tydings said that some members of his family wanted to sue Trump but that he argued against taking on the real estate mogul.

“I just told the other members of my family that you can’t win on this,” he told the New York Times. “You’ll borrow for two generations to sue him.”

missed it at the time it was initially reported but if this doesn't blow the lid off the whole trump organisation i dunno what will

George dubke bush

Loool:

This shows how Trump simply does not understand governing. Health care and tax cuts were both proceeding on 51-vote threshold. https://t.co/w6ysr6ns3S

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) May 30, 2017

(this twitter embed feature might mean more spamming of these threads. Sorry.)