US Politics, March 2018: Why do people leave the White House for good?

Donald Trump genuinely has no understanding of or interest in the systems which underpin this or any other country. As long as his Fox News and his Twitter and his taco bowl deliveries continue unabated, it's aaaaaaall good.

so relatable

so if we're getting steel from the other countries, doesn't that mean that THEY don't have a countries?

AND that we have their steel?

so that we DO have a country?? AND steel???

i was never any good at economics or breathing

Does the US have a strategic steel reserve? We should!

Sure we do. I mean, it feels right. Why not.

we should built a vault and store all the steel in the world in it. then charge people to take their pictures with it.

vault should be wall-shaped and extend along border w Mexico

he'll change his tune once he realizes this guy's black

https://heroichollywood.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/steel-137010-1024x640.jpg?x42694

"did i say Steel? i meant The Eradicator"

someone tell him christopher steele isn’t just a name, he’ll change his mind right quick

I can't believe our dilemma is real
Prez Trump is tweeting bout the trade of steel

we want an america that's american, not a second-rate canada

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Rush_Caress_of_Steel.jpg

based on the "last thing he heard" principle i suspect we can get the tariffs lifted again by piping in some Devo and suggesting that many people in Akron are saying we should twist away the gates of steel

"trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy!"

ohhhhhh my fucking god the depths of this man's idiocy still continue to astound

Since CD-RWs often eventually degrade and quit working altogether, I spend my days hoping that the CD-RW equivalent of a human brain does likewise. Looking forward to presidential statements that sound like Oval tracks.

trade wars are good, and easy to win
trade wars are good, and easy to win
trade wars are good, and easy to win
trade wars are good, and easy to win
trade wars are good, and easy to win
trade wars are good, and easy to win
trade wars are good, and easy to win

they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big.

Game theory!

If you get to keep all the goods that you're exporting that is a bonus isn't it?

Sure. You can just go swimming through the oceans of surplus like Scrooge McDuck. Winning!

the scrooge mcduck toys in the big floating trash gyre over there --->

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-ichan-steel-imports-cf7deb8beaf0/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Real wars are good and easy to win too. When they not looking, shoot at them-we win big.

The Pence thing is interesting. I interpret potentially as attempted dominance behavior from someone who knows what a homophobe he is, which makes me ask how Pence may be threatening Trump at the moment.

dude

his brain is leaking out through his ears

blended haircut might help with that

moo vaughn and his team of behavioural profilers, yesterday

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/4200000/Lie-to-Me-cast-lie-to-me-4292033-469-311.jpg

Did you enjoy that show? My friend created it.

"trade wars are good," trump says as the stock market screams

Trumpers will scream "fake news" as the first warhead hits and their flesh is torn from their body and their eyeballs melt.

Screaming stock markets are good! It can't be dead if it's screaming.

Melting eyeballs are good! Who wants to see all that flesh being torn from your body? Not me! Gross! Sad!

wait we all know what I'm referencing right https://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/obama-bee-attack-easter-children-screaming-116704

https://www.axios.com/the-wild-wars-within-the-trump-white-house-1519905402-f84fb393-4789-44ed-a8a1-0f846b1580af.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/us/politics/trump-chaos-oval-office.htm
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-preparing-mcmaster-exit-early-next-month-n852371
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/01/gary-cohn-white-house-tariffs-432625
https://apnews.com/5355a70b30a84e1681600eca533719f1/Trump-adrift:-Tumult-in-West-Wing-amid-exits,-investigation
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/02/opinions/trump-the-great-unraveling-opinion-borger/index.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-impeach-trump-mike-pence-president-20170221-story.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/trump-mocked-pence-joked-about-him-wanting-to-hang-gays-new-yorker-profile-20171017.html
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/363258-pence-told-rnc-he-could-replace-trump-on-ticket-after-access

Fake news, right?

well that sure was a collection of links you just posted

I can't tell how I feel about the prospect of this turning into a simon vs. gabbneb thread. I guess I wouldn't miss it much.

US Politics, March 2018: I guess I wouldn't miss it much

maybe those links could be contextualized in a 100-post tweetstorm.

oh god if I ever post to this thread more than 5 times in a 12-hour span from here on out, please fp me xps

Did you enjoy that show? My friend created it.

ban gabbneb

Video of a candid conversation between Trump and Pence

hey, it's good to be in Da Inner Circle

Billionaire investor and longtime Trump confidant Carl Icahn dumped $31.3 million of stock in a company heavily dependent on steel last week, just days before Trump announced plans to impose steep tariffs on steel imports.

In a little-noticed SEC filing submitted on February 22, 2018, Icahn disclosed that he systematically sold off nearly 1 million shares of Manitowoc Company Inc. Manitowoc is a “is a leading global manufacturer of cranes and lifting solutions” and, therefore, heavily dependent on steel to make its products....

cahn, a billionaire investor with far-flung holdings, is a close associate of Trump — who invoked Icahn’s name repeatedly on the campaign trail. Once in office, Trump installed Icahn as a “special adviser,” although Icahn did not not unwind his business entanglements before accepting the position.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-ichan-steel-imports-cf7deb8beaf0/

Does that technically count as insider trading (assuming for the sake of argument that we still live in a world where things are illegal and subject to punishment of some sort)?

I'm genuinely surprised that the people in Trump's circle don't just drop by the mint on occasion and load their pockets with fresh bills. I mean why the fuck not.

So, with McMaster hitting the road, and Kelly feuding with Jared, Ivanka and Don Jr., how many more weeks does Kelly have before he's unceremoniously dumped? Not that it matters much, since the Supreme Leader will still be there, but it's crazy how many people he's discarded or alienated in just over a year.

That one-off story someone posted, that if Kelly leaves he'll do without a Chief of Staff, seems increasingly believable. It would appeal to Trump as a way of disguising the fact that no one on earth wants to work for him who can also pass a security clearance. He'd just announce this is how he likes to run the White House and because he's such a genius it'll work out better than any White House has ever been run before.

why is steel more important than any other industry?

I can't tell if this is a serious question but steel production and control of it is, by some magnitude, probably the most important element to any western economy along with food production, which is itself is hugely dependent on the steel industry obviously. you can't compare the production of steel and basic food supplies to any other element of a country's economic strategy; transport, infrastructure, building, food production and manufacture.

don't forget fuel & energy but yeah

fwiw the white house denies the NBC report that mcmaster is on his way out:

“Look General McMaster is not going anywhere,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during an interview with “Fox and Friends” Friday morning. “As the President said yesterday in the Oval Office to a number of people, he thinks he is doing a great job and (is) glad he is here.”

but...pretty sure they say that just before everyone leaves

i didn't mean to just tag that list on at the end, i was in the process of shifting that block of text. xp