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

no you're right. it's this weird talent, even when his faculties seem otherwise, well, less-than-par shall we say

trump attacks with his +3 microblog of energy, dispersing the fake news spell

It does take a certain skill to convince people that breaking things is a talent.

The Bureau of Land Management on Monday removed about 17,300 acres of land in central Montana from an upcoming oil and natural gas lease auction, just a week before the scheduled sale.

The Interior Department, which oversees one in every five acres of land in the United States, was set to auction off leases for 109 parcels stretching across the Big Sky State from the Canadian border to Wyoming.

But Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who before joining the Trump administration represented Montana in Congress, decided to withdraw 26 parcels from consideration, along with portions of two others. A cadre of local and national environmental groups had filed formal protests against the sale, contending that drilling would adversely impact the Yellowstone River and other areas.

Interior will proceed starting next Monday with the auction of the remaining 83 parcels, which encompass nearly 46,200 acres.

Zinke initially tweeted his decision before issuing a more detailed statement that said further study was needed before part of the sale could take place.

“Multiple use is about balance,” his statement noted. “I’ve always said there are places where it is appropriate to develop and where it’s not.”

good mourning!

I want nothing more than the most ironic of punishments for Zinke.

I still don't care about the freakshow element of the death of the Republic, but i'm glad you guys had yet another rollicking day's entertainment

you're too hip, baby. I can't carry you no more.

must be tough to wait for Solo to come out

Must be tough to wait for The Day The Clown Cried to come out.

no, that's for fuckers like you i suspect

Seems telling that this guy can have a world-class meltdown that leaves people worried he won’t survive the week and still effortlessly own Cillizza.

― JoeStork, Tuesday, March 6, 2018 6:49 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's just repeating what he's heard from his pinstripes-and-primary-colors mentor, who probably got it all from Roy Cohn. Chris Cilizza's layup punditry with I-like-the-new-Grizzly-Bear asides can be pretty corny, but he seems to make a pretty good living at it, and he isn't about to maybe go to jail or worse.

Holy shit how do you do it

I want nothing more than the most ironic of punishments for Zinke.

― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, March 6, 2018 1:56 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed. Horse-whipping? Lonely death from fall in box canyon?

let me know when gabbneb is banned again, guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRxPDoTGWj0

Also, I think Nunberg would probably say the same thing about virtually everyone who posts on this message board.

I like how we're supposed to pity him even though it's clear he's been living in his home state of Rhode Island since last year, so it's not like he's suddenly homeless.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/flynn-selling-house-pay-legal-bills-trump-probe/story?id=53545172

Oh well that's so nice!

Joe Flynn and other family members set up a defense fund for Flynn to collect donations from supporters. He wouldn't disclose how much has been raised, but he said the family has been surprised and deeply moved by the thousands of individual donations they've received, none of which came from foreign nationals or from Flynn's former boss, Trump.

I want nothing more than the most ironic of punishments for Zinke.

― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, March 6, 2018 1:56 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed. Horse-whipping? Lonely death from fall in box canyon?

― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, March 6, 2018 9:20 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there has to be an endangered species of stinging ant or easily annoyed stinging bug that lives on our public lands

Crystal Skull flashbacks, gabbneb standing up for poor old Cilizza, and Morbius in the Morning - we’ve almost hit for the cycle and it’s not even 10am eastern

Huh, did not know this about Beto:

His relentless touring schedule, however, hails from his days as a post-hardcore guitarist in the 1990s, when his band Foss released a seven-inch record called The El Paso Pussycats. (The drummer of his group, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, went on to find widespread success in bands like At The Drive-In and The Mars Volta.)

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/05/espy-announces-run-cochran-senate-seat/397589002/

"There is no Chaos, only great Energy!"

i knew it. trump is dr. robotnik

I want nothing more than the most ironic of punishments for Zinke.

Mauled by a bear.

A bear who then wears his ears as a trophy.

i knew it. trump is dr. robotnik

holy shit, truth bomb

i wonder if maybe michael cohen paid sam nunberg for that awesome meltdown (the day the new yorker (!) alleged the kremlin ordered trump to choose rexxon tillerson for american secretary of state over mr. self-deport) more than he paid stormy daniels, less?

I'm sure the ATDI connection is among the factors making him probably the most youthfully exciting and, more fraught, attractive candidate of the cycle*, even aside from the fact that he's running against probably the most annoying major candidate, to put it nonviolently. I expect it may also make a side-of-freakishness appearance in an outside-expenditure negative ad focusing on his burglary and DUI arrests, including video of him rolling around on the floor of a bar, for which the Mercers et al may be willing to spend in unlimited amounts, but these days it may just help him, we'll see.

*which may or may not be siphoning dollars from less interesting and less liberal candidates with much better shots at winning in NV, AZ, and maybe/probably TN (and now MS too?), not to mention downballot in TX. Wendy Davis was exciting and attractive and spun her fundraising too, but lost by nearly 20 points. Beto is doing better, and will do better, and fingers crossed.

holy shit a line break

It's merely a footnote.

Line break isn't really my preferred nomenclature. Maybe because I'm Jewish.

holy shit another line break

Hard return? Enter?

Or, since you're Jewish:

?retnE ?nruter draH

Stop taking the bait

wait what??? line breaks? judaism? i don't get it

I have to assume there's a mohel involved.

Jokes, Guv'nor
IDK, paragraphs? This is a line break.

This is
a line break.

exclusive.

hot breaks

Imagine the long odds may be responsible for the legislative Castro's sitting out the race too, but maybe he'll lose that Beto.

starts diagramming sentence

I am thinking, based on reading this thread, that Nunberg's public meltdown yesterday is what America looks like from outside the country.

'outside'

yeah you can smell the alcohol on our breath from 100 miles offshore

I have to be honest, I can't really judge the extent of my own meltdown.

This is America, posting as f. hazel

help

This is a low
But it won't hurt you

f. hazel thank you for being the greatest country in the world

I don't care what anyone says I think f. hazel has always been great. crowd cheers