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

Election in Pennsylvania? What election in Pennsylvania?

Hundreds of good people, including very important Ambassadors and Judges, are being blocked and/or slow walked by the Democrats in the Senate. Many important positions in Government are unfilled because of this obstruction. Worst in U.S. history!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 14, 2018

Perhaps at no time in history have the business fundamentals of U.S. companies been better than they are today!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 14, 2018

its misspelling there seems deliberately designed to add injury to his insult

xpost

trump: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Worst in U.S. history!

even a stopped clock...

ROFFles from the ACLU/Kobach voter rights trial:

Another banner day for Kris Kobach's voter fraud experts. https://t.co/hMzOqAz7jI pic.twitter.com/5fFr3mQo32

— Adam Smith (@asmith83) March 13, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYMIyS2VQAAhQCq.jpg:large

trump don't sign your tweets

where's the tax returns?

yeah but is judge murguia a citizen? where's the proof?

What kind of weirdo un-American name is 'Kobach' anyway? He should flag himself just to be on the safe side.

kobach to where he came from

so the GOP spin is gonna be that Lamb won because he "essentially ran as a Republican"

suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu (3000 more u's here) uuuuuuuuuuuuure

Sure, he ran as a non-Trump Republican.

And then why didn't Saccone try that?

Because he "was Trump before Trump was Trump".

Because he was busy being more trump than trump

xposts, lol. You have to admit it was a catchy slogan for saccone.

Or, ok, not more trump than trump, but he at least beat him to it

More human than human.

republicunt

btw this got lost with the PA-18 race so I'm gonna re-post it here

Take a bow, @NYPost pic.twitter.com/dthl70r1Sc

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 13, 2018

wake me when the best new york tabloid headlines aren't plays on new york tabloid headlines from the era when the city was affordable

sorry but this was tops

EX-EXXON TEXAN EXEC REX NEXT EX-SEC

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) March 13, 2018

(different event but still)

headless state department in topless ah fuck it

THERE IS A DEMOCRAT SUPPORTING THE BDS MOVEMENT, ADVOCATING FOR REPARATIONS AND CALLING FOR ABOLISHING ICE IN A DISTRICT TRUMP WON BY 27 POINTS. https://t.co/nPliez5gy2

— abolish ice. subscribe to my newsletter. (@SeanMcElwee) March 14, 2018

that rules

he seems cool: https://twitter.com/dancanon

Vice profiled him a bit ago.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9knpkp/is-dan-canon-the-progressive-savior-of-indiana

https://i.imgur.com/HfC8e4Y.png

if we can just get the mid-terms out of the way before WWIII + Civil War 2 i will be feeling pretty good

just bought a canon tee

Larry Kudlow is the new Gary Cohn

*loud, poorly camouflaged sniffing sound*

read that as "Lisa Kudrow"

would swap out existing cabinet for entire cast of Friends in a heartbeat

the one with all the white ppl still in charge

sure, whatever, would swap out for random selection of twenty people pulled randomly off the street

McCabe is scheduled to retire on Sunday. This smacks of a petty, cruel effort to deny him his pension after 21 years of service to his country. https://t.co/4omLShxFIf

— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) March 14, 2018

could our nation's infrastructure BE any worse?

https://i.imgur.com/R0mBdQy.jpg

infriendstructure

meanwhile here's the sapience of Larry Kudlow.

Getting goofy here

NEW: Trump has discussed a plan to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and replace him with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, according to two Republicans in contact with the White House https://t.co/UZDwGBmJhi

— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) March 14, 2018

btw re yesterday's econ move

“President Trump and his administration made the right decision on blocking Broadcom from taking over Qualcomm,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor.

“We all know that China has been rapacious about trade and very smart. They look for places where they can steal our best technology,” Schumer added.

RAPACIOUS! Heavens! Imagine if the USA ever engaged in rapacity.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-m-a-broadcom-congress/senate-democratic-leader-praises-trumps-blocking-broadcoms-takeover-of-qualcomm-idUSKCN1GP231

anyway nice to see the Official Leader of the Resistance giving big ups to Twoscoops

“The president is finally realizing he is the president,” a former White House official told me. “He’s just making these decisions on his own.”

the cheeto is becoming sentient

Official Leader or not, if Chuck Schumer tried to steer The Resistance in directions it did not want to go, he would be officially ignored by the majority of The Resistance.

i wasnt sure if that was a jab for schumer or the resistance tbh

fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and replace him with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt

w h a t

pruitt is on his way to the ted cruz god tier of assholes. even if he doesn't become the new AG, he's likely to be the OK senator by 2020.

w h a t

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, W

"He is just making these decisions on his own."

gotta fill the swamp before you can drain it

Last Tuesday, Trump met with ultra-hawkish former U.N. ambassador John Bolton in the Oval Office to discuss a potential job offer. Bolton has for years argued that the United States should pre-emptively attack Tehran. In 2015, he wrote a New York Times op-ed headlined, “To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran,” and last month, he wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed outlining the legal case for a pre-emptive strike against North Korea.

According to a person who spoke with Bolton after the meeting, Bolton recalled that Trump said he wanted him to join the administration: “We need you in here, John.” Bolton responded that there were only two jobs he’d consider: secretary of state and national security adviser. Trump said, “O.K, I’ll call you really soon.” Sources added that Trump spent much of the time with Bolton fuming that McMaster was speaking privately with Barack Obama’s former national security adviser Susan Rice. “Trump kept saying, ‘Can you believe it? To Susan Rice? Can you believe it?’”

trump adding bolton to the inner circle is a very bad sign of things to come. jfc, how does this guy persist in public life?