We Need To Talk About Donald

[Animavore]

I wouldn't put it past those scumbags to try start a war. I suspect it will kill his popularity though. The usual cultists will defend him or try say that Killery would've been worse. As has been shown on this site of late, there is no depth of immorality these guys won't defend from their cult leader.

[JimC]

That story isn't going away. Unless perhaps he can manufacture a bigger story. Today he started making threats to North Korea. I really hope he doesn't start a war just to get out this Russia stuff..

Hang on. Isn't going to war with NK a little bit of a thing with you?

[Brian Peacock]

Why has this thread gone quiet? Has he not done anything stupid in a while?

TFS.

[Animavore]

I'm sure the days without being a national and international embarrassment counter will be set back to zero sokn enough.

[pErvinalia]

That story isn't going away. Unless perhaps he can manufacture a bigger story. Today he started making threats to North Korea. I really hope he doesn't start a war just to get out this Russia stuff..

Hang on. Isn't going to war with NK a little bit of a thing with you?

Well, if it was a widely supported action by a lot of countries, and the goal was to sort out the problem there (as opposed to sort out Trump's personal problem), then I'd probably back some action.

[pErvinalia]

That story isn't going away. Unless perhaps he can manufacture a bigger story. Today he started making threats to North Korea. I really hope he doesn't start a war just to get out this Russia stuff..

Hang on. Isn't going to war with NK a little bit of a thing with you?

Well, if it was a widely supported action by a lot of countries, and the goal was to sort out the problem there (as opposed to sort out Trump's personal problem), then I'd probably back some action.

Translation: Bomb the cunts.

[Tero]

Is Trump dead yet?
http://istrumpdeadyet.com

[Forty Two]

Is Trump dead yet?
http://istrumpdeadyet.com

You're inciting violence. Off the gulag with you.

[Tero]

Trump and CNN

Had Trump lost the election, CNN would probably have returned to its previously scheduled struggle for survival. Instead, it has become more central to the national conversation than at any point in the network’s history since the first gulf war. And the man who is presiding over this historic moment at CNN happens to be the same one who was in some part responsible for Donald Trump’s political career. It was Zucker who, as president of NBC Entertainment, broadcast “The Apprentice” at a time when Trump was little more than an overextended real estate promoter with a failing casino business.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/maga ... ed-it.html

[Tero]

Drain the MEDICAL swamp into FDA
https://theintercept.com/2017/04/04/sco ... eb-opioid/

[Brian Peacock]

At least 60 people have been killed in northern Syria after being exposed to a toxic gas that survivors said was dropped from warplanes, an attack that sparked comparisons to the most infamous act of the country’s six-year war.

At least another 100 people were being treated in hospitals in Idlib province, where the strike took place at dawn on Tuesday. Several dozen others were transferred to Turkey, some in critical condition.

Condemnation mounted throughout Tuesday as the US, Britain and EU blamed the Syrian government for the carnage, hours before the start of a donor conference on Syria in Brussels.

Donald Trump denounced the carnage as a “heinous” act that “cannot be ignored by the civilized world.” But he also laid some of the responsibility on Barack Obama, saying in a statement that the attack was “a consequence of the past administration’s weakness and irresolution.”...

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Tuesday’s strike came days after the US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, said the Trump administration was no longer prioritising the removal of Bashar al-Assad, and that the Syrian people would ultimately decide his fate. The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, made similar comments on Monday, affirming a shift in US policy that began under the Obama administration.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... b-province

I think Clownface Littlehands is trying to have it both ways there. Also, trying to make domestic political gain out of this is pretty poor form imo.

[Brian Peacock]

By the week’s end, two events seem all but inevitable: Neil Gorsuch will be confirmed to the US supreme court and, to do so, Republicans will change longstanding Senate rules that could fundamentally reshape the institution that proudly refers to itself as the “world’s greatest deliberative body”.

Leaders of both parties on Tuesday appeared resigned to the fate that Republicans will invoke the so-called nuclear option and eliminate the filibuster for nominees to the nation’s highest court. The unprecedented step would enable supreme court picks to be confirmed with a simple majority vote, as opposed to the traditional 60-vote threshold.

But the significance of a potentially historic shift in procedure was diminished by an almost muted response on both sides of the chamber. Even as members placed blame on the opposing party for precipitating the showdown, theatrics mostly gave way to a simple shrug of the shoulders.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, told reporters on Tuesday that Republicans had the necessary votes to change the rules if Democrats were to filibuster Donald Trump’s first supreme court nominee. But he signaled Democrats were in essence forcing his hand....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ule-change

Republicans effectively blocked Obama's nomination for the empty SC chair on the grounds that it was unfair that a President in their last year should be able to nominate to the court. And yet, a nomination by a president under investigation by parliamentarians, and whose legitimacy accordingly hangs somewhat in the balance, will be forced through by a spurious change to the rules allowing Republicans to side-step the very mechanism they have been using against the previous administration for a year. This isn't just a shoddy or bigoted double-standard, though it is of course - it's essentially authoritarian.

[Animavore]

I think Clownface Littlehands is trying to have it both ways there. Also, trying to make domestic political gain out of this is pretty poor form imo.

Just shows how petit he is. He also Tweeted at the time that the US shouldn't get involved in Syria because they would get dragged into it.

Yet again he shows no integrity or grace.

[pErvinalia]

By the week’s end, two events seem all but inevitable: Neil Gorsuch will be confirmed to the US supreme court and, to do so, Republicans will change longstanding Senate rules that could fundamentally reshape the institution that proudly refers to itself as the “world’s greatest deliberative body”.

Leaders of both parties on Tuesday appeared resigned to the fate that Republicans will invoke the so-called nuclear option and eliminate the filibuster for nominees to the nation’s highest court. The unprecedented step would enable supreme court picks to be confirmed with a simple majority vote, as opposed to the traditional 60-vote threshold.

But the significance of a potentially historic shift in procedure was diminished by an almost muted response on both sides of the chamber. Even as members placed blame on the opposing party for precipitating the showdown, theatrics mostly gave way to a simple shrug of the shoulders.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, told reporters on Tuesday that Republicans had the necessary votes to change the rules if Democrats were to filibuster Donald Trump’s first supreme court nominee. But he signaled Democrats were in essence forcing his hand....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ule-change

Republicans effectively blocked Obama's nomination for the empty SC chair on the grounds that it was unfair that a President in their last year should be able to nominate to the court. And yet, a nomination by a president under investigation by parliamentarians, and whose legitimacy accordingly hangs somewhat in the balance, will be forced through by a spurious change to the rules allowing Republicans to side-step the very mechanism they have been using against the previous administration for a year. This isn't just a shoddy or bigoted double-standard, though it is of course - it's essentially authoritarian.

Politics in the US is a total shambles.

[Animavore]

Trump Kleptocracy Watch: An Update

A quick reminder: when trying to figure out what Donald Trump is up to, it always pays to heed Deep Throat’s advice and follow the loot. The past few days have been busy ones on the Trump money beat. Although the latest developments aren’t particularly surprising, they add to the picture of a supposedly populist Administration that is actually the richest, most conflicted, and least transparent in living memory.

On Monday, ProPublica, the investigative news site, reported that someone had changed the terms of the trust that Trump established before he entered the White House. The trust controls the four hundred or so businesses that Trump owns, and a new clause says that its trustees—Trump’s two sons, Eric and Don, Jr., and a family lawyer, Allen Weisselberg—“shall distribute net income or principal to Donald J. Trump at his request, as the Trustees deem necessary for his maintenance, support or uninsured medical expenses, or as the Trustees otherwise deem appropriate.”

That language reads like a license for the President to extract as much money as he wants from his businesses, with no public disclosure, while he’s still in the White House. For example, it appears to suggest that the trustees could sell a Trump-owned asset anywhere in the world and forward the proceeds to Trump’s bank account without informing anybody.

Trump isn’t taking his annual Presidential salary of four hundred thousand dollars: on Monday, the White House announced that he would donate some of it to the National Park Service. So, he may need income to pay his personal bills and contribute to the upkeep of his family. But legal experts consulted by ProPublica said that the language in the trust was so broad that it was almost unheard of.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cass ... I5NDUxNAS2

Robbing you suckers blind.