US Politics November 2017

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attempted to consolidate all student loans under one servicing company, a plan she later abandoned; and, most notably, rescinded the Obama-era guidance on Title IX as it pertained to sexual assault cases on campus.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

The cabinet nomination process should just involve a parade of people putting their face through the hole of a giant picture of Calvin peeing on the department in question until they find the unctuous mug that best fits.

Old Lunch, your sense of humor helps me smile through otherwise painfully stupid shit like Trump appointees. ty

plenty more tax plan analysis to come, but tweeter-in-chief will benefit from this

the text eliminates the alternative minimum tax, which is designed to hit higher-income earners

xpost Thank you back. Finding a way to laugh at the horror is pretty much the only thing that keeps me from shutting down completely rn.

The proposal repeals an itemized deduction for medical expenses, a crucial provision to households with extraordinary health-care costs. It also repeals the tax credit for adoption and the deduction for student-loan interest.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/11/republicans-double-down-on-screwing-blue-states-in-tax-bill/

"We don't want people to get abortions but we also don't want people to adopt children that can't be raised by their birth parents." - the GOP

It's super-important that all babies be brought to term but once that's taken care of it's basically

http://memes.ucoz.com/_nw/25/96588251.jpg

Hmm...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/jeff-sessions-congress-russia-trump-campaign/index.html

The notable part here is both Cornyn and Grassley making noises.

they'll "look into it" and then accept His Keebler-ness's bullshit explanation, since he's such a good man dontchaknow

Likely, but the fact that they're even saying something is a shift.

atm, seems like this tax bill should be the focus of attention & resistance, because they're going to try to rush it through as fast as possible, before anyone knows what hit them. I look forward to news reports that expose all the poison pills in it.

*"Unborn"* children can now have 529s. This is new. No one has talked about this. pic.twitter.com/cM9Mt8kKZ6

— Meghna Chakrabarti (@MeghnaWBUR) November 2, 2017

"a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb"

corporations are unborn children, my friend