US Politics November 2017

http://www.trbimg.com/img-583e41c3/turbine/ct-donald-trump-secretary-of-state-mitt-romney-20161129

https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/president-donald-trump-paul-ryan-gop.jpg?quality=85

yeah that's the fuckin stuff

https://i.imgur.com/Ie5Q3my.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ZCF4Y63.jpg

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/the-wall-street-journal-editorial-board-coverage-of-mueller/amp

But of course

New from us: Michael Flynn Followed Five Russian Troll Accounts, Pushed Their Messages in Days Before the Electionhttps://t.co/GlpDIX7n6w

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 2, 2017

Game 7 is a snoozer. You should read about Betsy DeVos adjusting from impactful outsider to ineffectual bureaucrat. https://t.co/IhoXdcG2n5 pic.twitter.com/ugdEeAsUa2

— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) November 2, 2017

also what is going on with this tax plan?

They’re gonna revive the secret-bill strategy, but for raising your taxes to finance enormous tax cuts for the rich. https://t.co/Jk4KZDHM9J pic.twitter.com/9DOCfyFphv

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) November 1, 2017

I'm starting to get the feeling these people may not have our best interests at heart

Who knows exactly what is up with the tax cut shit - no one has seen anything - but it seems at least as confused. confusing and challenging as ACA repeal. They've got their slim margin to begin with, but there already appears to be several in the GOP with issues and concerns they want addressed. Some states want property tax deduction, some don't. Trump wants permanent corporate tax reduction, others think it should be gradually phased out. Trump floated ACA repeal as part of it, others said no. And so on. And that's before it's even released and dissected, not just from Dems but from everyone. Add to that Cohn saying he wants it by Friday, before Trump leaves for Asia, not to mention that they have 10 days before Thanksgiving break to juggle objections, constituencies, push-back and who knows what the fuck Trump will say about it, and it seems like a real uphill battle.

Which isn't to say it won't pass, but at least as much as the ACA repeal many in the GOP seems to recognize this as a total shit-burger that no one wants to eat.

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2017/10/RTS1HUT5/lead_960.jpg?1509481097

What if there were just one brave republican that was brave enough to eat the shitburger

what is going on with this tax plan?

The Republicans passed massive tax cuts for the rich in 2001 under GW Bush and when those cuts were set to expire during Obama's first term, they just ran around screaming "the Democrats want to raise income taxes" to anyone stupid enough to listen. It worked.

They learned a valuable lesson which they are all set to apply again to anew round of massive tax cuts for the rich.

The Politico article mentions in passing some of the real damage DeVos is doing:

Already since taking office, DeVos’ department has deregulated the for-profit college industry that was targeted by Obama for its abuses and lack of accountability; revised the rule for defrauded students to gain loan forgiveness; attempted to consolidate all student loans under one servicing company, a plan she later abandoned; and, most notably, rescinded the Obama-era guidance on Title IX as it pertained to sexual assault cases on campus.

at 8:00am our fucking president is screaming "death penalty" over the internet . i hate this so much

luv2tweet about ongoing legal proceedings

Can't wait till "Do you follow Donald Trump on Twitter?" becomes a question defense attorneys ask to disqualify jurors. ("Do you watch Fox News?" already should be.)

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/sam-clovis-department-of-agriculture/index.html

As for the 400 lb guy in Jersey

https://www.wsj.com/articles/prosecutors-consider-bringing-charges-in-dnc-hacking-case-1509618203

Re: Clovis, is says a lot that it takes possible collusion with a foreign power to derail his nom for chief scientist of the department of agriculture, and not the fact that he lacks any scientific background.

Rick Perry suggests fossil fuels help prevent sexual assault https://t.co/tLVOJd2DGY pic.twitter.com/kjurODSy8y

— The Hill (@thehill) November 2, 2017

unexpected source!

Former interim Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile claims Hillary Clinton secretly took over the DNC before she had won the Democratic primary.

In an excerpt from her new book published by Politico, Brazile said she promised Clinton’s opponent, Bernie Sanders, that she would get to the bottom of whether Clinton had “rigged the nomination process.” She wrote, “By September 7, the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart.”

Brazile describes a fundraising agreement between the Hillary Victory Fund, Hillary for America, and the DNC that stipulated that Hillary would control the “party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised” in exchange for Clinton raising money and investing in the DNC. It was signed long before Clinton became the nominee.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donna-brazile-i-found-proof-that-hillary-rigged-the-race-against-bernie

that is some beyond-galaxy-brain shit xp

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNoKk5nXcAAVlxI.jpg

Re: Perry, I guess when Trump sets the stupidity bar so high, you really have to launch over that fucker if you wanna make the stupidest public statement of any given day.

Morbs I already links that on the Dems thread, this one is only for "he's orange!" jokes and breathless dot-connecting

please don't say 'launch over that fucker' about the guy who looks after the usa's nuclear arsenal, i'm nervous enough as it is xp

when was the last time someone mentioned Trump's orange skin on this thread

I think he looks less orange recently

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/fashion/trump-official-portrait.html

Instead, it depicts Mr. Trump in front of the de rigueur American flag, in a navy suit with flag pin, white shirt, patterned blue tie — and big grin. The orange glow has been toned down, but it is the smile that really sticks out. It almost looks as if he’s being tickled. The word chortle comes to mind.

It’s better than most of his other portrait photos where he looks like he’s shitting his pants

The official portrait makes him look like he just shit his pants on purpose.

It’s better than most of his other portrait photos where he looks like he’s shitting his pants

― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, November 2, 2017 9:45 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The crazy thing is that you can tell he practiced that shitting face in the mirror a lot, so it's obviously what he thinks is his best photo face.

most photos of trump in the white house have him looking whiter, paler, more washed out overall. I sort of wondered if there was a conscious decision made that this made him look presidential or something.

like it's a distinct change in appearance post-campaign

That is the least convincing imitation of a human smile I've ever seen.

xpost Well he's been stuck in an office most of the day.

maybe just no more time for the tanning bed/spray tan

Plenty of time to eat tho. His face and head are bigger than ever.

I thought about that Deadspin article detailing Trump's hair guy who essentially had moved in next to him at Trump Tower, and how he'd have to get "topped off" every couple weeks or so...what happened to that? Did he just move the guy to Mar-a-Lago, knowing he would be there every single weekend?

Clovis is out - he's withdrawn his nomination.

gonna be quite the challenge to find another nominee as uniquely unqualified as he was, trump's gonna have to raise his game

Goo goo ga joob

mourning!

robert mercer:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNowMPdW0AATyKO.jpg:small

gee thx dad

imagine being so tight with milo that it takes 'several weeks' to sever ties with him

I'm trying to remember if I've heard anything about a vigilante who goes around poisoning farm animals and doing donuts in cornfields, because I think that might be our Ag Man.

"society will struggle to distinguish the signal of truth from the correlated noise of conformity"

☝️ this is someone who gets his reading suggestions from SV VCs

“Sam Clovis was almost a comically bad nominee, even for this administration.” -@SenatorLeahy pic.twitter.com/f5sMa0QiaY

— Aaron Booth (@ActorAaronBooth) November 2, 2017