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

btw, some bipartisan bill writing on behalf of mega-banks here

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/crapo-instead-of-taking-on-gun-control-democrats-are-teaming-with-republicans-for-a-stealth-attack-on-wall-street-reform/

Josh Marshall introduced the word failson to lots of new people yesterday

Trump gave a failson dork carte blanche to run US foreign policy and he pursued a policy focused on coming up with a billion in personal loans to save the family business his idiocy helped destroy.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 3, 2018

btw does anyone have images of Putin's PowerPoint in his Supernuke speech the other day, with the animated missiles pointed at Florida?

https://openclipart.org/image/2400px/svg_to_png/261323/rocket-312767.png

https://www.sixflags.com/sites/default/files/dsc_0367_1.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51blz0tgToL.jpg

I missed tombots stirring defense of ass eating

Take it to the gay thread, sailor.

ask a tombotty cleaner

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It was a real lapse in my jingoism when I voted for the Australian version

a prolapse

No wonder he’s grumpy!https://t.co/iVsni6kHR9

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) March 3, 2018

Let the man eat

yes, preferably something coated in arsenic

Or at least let him go heavy on the dressing.

imagining a Trump salad having huge chunks of hamburger tossed in and like 2 feet of thousand island

"imagining"

I ask you, is a pureed double quarter pounder not technically a soup?

Burger smoothie!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IJYXolap8DE/VEQCshIi7EI/AAAAAAAAQYs/fWE_fhJyelU/s1600/DSCN4040.JPG

i.e. artist rendering of the Trump brain.

My wife was a vegetarian for maybe 15 years. When she would visit some of her family in Omaha they (family and restaurants like) just could not make her a salad with no meat for the life of them. She'd order a salad and it would come with bacon, or fish, or something to negate to whole purpose, as if "salad" meant vegetarian no matter what was on or in it.

In this case, I suspect their real message was: you are deeply wrong to reject meat and if we put some right under your nose when you are hungry, you will come to that happy realization and be saved from your terrible folly.

this is the vegetarian's plight, also people for some reason assuming meat=beef and poultry I guess is a vegetable?

i had a cousin who was vegetarian in her late teens and college. this was the mid-90s in east Tennessee. it made her parents apoplectic.

(which, tbf, might have been a small bonus for her)

Well, somebody shot himself right in front of the White House today

Another year of this and they'll be lining up around the block

Instead of Taco Trucks on every corner, we get these...

https://media.giphy.com/media/ENB1fIlVnMRcQ/giphy.gif

some xposts

i had a vegetarian girlfriend in college who visited family in rural pennsylvania. she told them she didn't eat meat, so they made her hamburger helper.

Georgia rush-removed a $40 million tax break on jet fuel from Delta as punishment for dropping their NRA discount.

Number of tickets sold in the lifetime of the discount program: 13.

just bein helpful

xpost

unbelievable.

Sic, you’re behind, Delta already called their bluff

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/02/delta-ceo-our-values-are-not-for-sale.html

Anyway

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376573-secret-service-shots-fired-white-house

the only way to stop a guy with a gun is that same guy with a gun

Oklahoma teachers might follow W VA's lead

http://ktul.com/news/local/oklahoma-teachers-planning-a-statewide-strike

This post makes a valid point. Yes, it's bad that Republicans are rescinding a giant corporate tax break to Delta Airlines in order to punish them for not fellating the NRA enough...but giant corporate tax breaks of that sort are themselves bad, and it's important to keep that in mind when it's time to decide whether to scream "Those dastardly Republicans!" or not.

my concern is that corps learn their 'lesson' and will quickly trade any notional social responsibility for their sweet sweet tax cuts

i mean good on Delta for not going back on it, but might it not cow others into keeping their mouths shut or outright supporting wingnut agendas of their state governments?

It doesn’t exactly make GA look like a good destination for corporations

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-skelton-adam-schiff-congress-20180222-story.html

xp I guess this could go in the other thread but while we're on the subject it seems like it would behoove the assorted gun control lobbies to merge and copy the NRA model with membership cards, sticky "lifetime" terms, inflated enrollments etc. I'm not a member of anything besides AAA but I would gladly pony up for such a thing.

it's important to keep that in mind when it's time to decide whether to scream "Those dastardly Republicans!" or not.

Doing the right thing for an bad and terrible reason doesn't absolve you of being bad terrible person. If pedophile gives a homeless single mother money for rent and food, thinking it might help him molest her daughter, he is still evil.

It doesn’t exactly make GA look like a good destination for corporations

that and how the state senate just passed an anti-gay adoption bill

Loomis is rarely nuanced. Because he’s bad at it!

People, our positions should not be defined by knee-jerk reactions to fascists.

Aimless trying to hit the side of a barn door with that metaphor and still has to resort to a clause about intent

Oklahoma teachers might follow W VA's lead

good. socrates/plato/aristotle should shrug until our education system is properly funded. fuck atlas (and the koch brothers and the amway crew etc) with a cache of legally-purchased AR-15s

Is it raining in Florida?

If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2018

i am not an economist but trump’s understanding of trade seems... limited at best to my mind

something tells me Japan may have an opinion on that

Delta already called their bluff

It wasn't a bluff? Passed 44-10 in the senate, 135-24 in the house.