Good King Trump

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Playing Scrooge in "The Best Economy Ever" - The Big Picture

and

Tech-starved government seeks industry's best, brightest

makes

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

When abusive daddy is the entire government:


Trump’s US delegation was ‘dumbfounded’ by hostile reception at Munich conference: report

Politico specifically reports that the American delegation was “dumbfounded” after French President Emmanuel Macron, “speaking at the forum for the first time, echoed Steinmeier the next day, noting that ‘what Europe wants is not quite the same as the U.S.'”

Pompeo lashed back at Steinmeier’s comments in his speech, telling the attendees, “I’m here to tell you the facts. Those statements do not reflect reality.”

ETA
Trump camp finds no appeasement at Munich - POLITICO

After the speech, a consensus formed among the Germans and French that Pompeo’s audience wasn’t the Europeans in the room, but Donald Trump. Pompeo’s insistence that the “West is winning, we’re collectively winning,” was registered by many attendees as “the U.S. is winning.”

[erimir]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

"It's Like a Foreign Language": Donald Trump's Encounter With the Constitution Did Not Go Well | Vanity Fair

So... do they have this whole thing on tape?

[BrotherMan]

and Senator Ted Cruz, who “knew it from beginning to end” as a result of performing dramatic readings of the Constitution as a high school student

Hoo. Talk about buried ledes. (emphasis mine)

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by erimir

So... do they have this whole thing on tape?

I don't care hard enough to reread it. I have alternative facts on my side.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

I don't care hard enough to reread it. I have alternative acts on my side.

[SR71]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

When abusive daddy is the entire government:


Trump’s US delegation was ‘dumbfounded’ by hostile reception at Munich conference: report

ETA
Trump camp finds no appeasement at Munich - POLITICO

I'm dumbfounded the delegation was dumbfounded. How they not know?

[SR71]

First there was the letter of 1000+ former DoJ signatures calling for bar to resign, and now Federal judges' association calls emergency meeting after DOJ intervenes in case of Trump ally Roger Stone .

Rufe, nominated to the bench by President George W. Bush, said the group of more than 1,000 federal jurists called for the meeting last week after Trump criticized prosecutors' initial sentencing recommendation for his friend Roger Stone and the Department of Justice overruled them.
Trump also took a swipe at the federal judge who is set to preside at Stone’s sentencing hearing Thursday.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by SR71

I'm dumbfounded the delegation was dumbfounded. How they not know?

While I'm guessing that's rhetorical, I've an answer. If the kids in a family don't show enough enthusiasm for abusive daddy, they're volunteering for the uncoveted position of Least Favourite, and all the extra abuse that entails.

[specious_reasons]

Trump has been on a burst of pardons and commutations, and they're all for shitbags like this:
Trump Commutes The Sentence Of Rod Blagojevich | WBEZ

Other people who don't deserve clemency include Michael Milkin and Bernie Kerik, but they received it anyway.

[Ari]

It feels like Trump is really going all out to broadcast it’s open season for corruption and anyone on team Trump is guaranteed leniency. Given everything it really does seem it’s building to some corrupt officials giving whole states to Trump under the belief that so long as Trump wins, there won’t be any consequences even if caught. Bonus if propaganda networks spin Trump getting caught as proof our system is unreliable thus we should halt the elections until a Trump government approved investigation into whether democrats illegally exposed Trump officials just doing their job rigging the numbers and how many democratic senators should be jailed for exposing such weakness to our enemy. Or some such bootlicking bullcrap.

It’s amusing how so many people are realizing that when Trump asked if he could pardon himself, it was a serious question.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by specious_reasons

Trump has been on a burst of pardons and commutations, and they're all for shitbags like this:
Trump Commutes The Sentence Of Rod Blagojevich | WBEZ

Oh wow, nonpartisan.

[Stephen Maturin]

So being on Celebrity Apprentice is ... what? Something like time served?

But hey, let's not forget the Real American reason for granting pardons, namely payola:

Paul Pogue, a construction company owner who pleaded guilty to underpaying his taxes by $473,000 and received three years probation, was issued a full pardon and clemency by the president.

According to FEC filings, Pogue’s family has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct contributions and in-kind air travel to the Trump Victory Committee. Beginning in August 2019, Ben Pogue—CEO of Pogue Construction and son of Paul Pogue—and his wife Ashleigh made over $200,000 in contributions to the campaign.

In August alone, Ben Pogue donated $85,000 to Trump Victory while Ashleigh Pogue contributed $50,000 that month. The following month, Ben Pogue made an in-kind air travel contribution of $75,404.40. The couple also made several large donations to the Republican National Committee and each donated $5,600 to Donald Trump for President Inc.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-...-news?ref=home

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

“My party is very interested in deficits when there is a Democrat in the White House. The worse thing in the whole world is deficits when Barack Obama was the president. Then Donald Trump became president, and we’re a lot less interested,” Mulvaney said. https://t.co/KmWxjp2GHO

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 20, 2020

Ooookay, and does it get worse?

Mulvaney criticized his predecessor John Kelly and spoke at length about how bureaucrats were upending the administration. He said that he hoped the Trump administration would be remembered for proving supply-side economics works. https://t.co/KmWxjp2GHO

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 20, 2020

[SR71]

Top lines from Judge Amy Berman Jackson during the Roger Stone sentencing - CNNPolitics

Judge Berman told Donald Dump and Bilbar Baghead right where to stick it, dint she? This lady was not intimidated by anything that was meant to intimidate. Respect yo.

Lock him up!

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Little on the nose there Canada. https://t.co/nxI8cTxAjh

— The Out And Abouter (@OutAndAbouter) February 21, 2020

[JoeP]

Was it addressed to Trump? Or was that just implied?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Probably important:

Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey - report | Technology | The Guardian

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Fuck tha police? Nah, different and let's blame Trump.

This was taken through a peephole in the Bronx yesterday and just released by advocates and a councilman. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/7s9kBTIWF2

— Annie Correal (@anniecorreal) March 4, 2020

Trigger discipline tho

[BrotherMan]

I didn't see it talked about too much around the places I bubble on the internet. But remember when it was a BIG BAD THING to have a planned exit date to extract troops from the Middle East?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Trump's Coronavirus Press Conference Was 40 Years of Republicanism at Work

[SR71]

Things move slowly, but sometimes they get there eventually. Stories like this restore my faith a bit. Remember when Barr held on to the Mueller report before releasing it even to congress and tried to tell the public it had nothing bad to say about Dump, even though it had plenty bad to say? Well, a Judge in a FOIA case just said as much and it is strongly implied that he don't really trust Bilbar Baghead. He wants access to the unredacted report to assess whether Barr redacted parts to make the report appear more favorable to Dump's interest than it really is.

Federal judge blasts William Barr for Mueller report rollout - CNNPolitics

"The Court cannot reconcile certain public representations made by Attorney General Barr with the findings in the Mueller Report," Walton wrote on Thursday. Barr's initial publicly announced interpretation of the findings from former special counsel Robert Mueller "cause the Court to seriously question whether Attorney General Barr made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse about the Mueller Report in favor of President Trump despite certain findings in the redacted version of the Mueller Report to the contrary."

Thank you Judge for recognizing the reality. I really appreciate that. For real.

"The speed by which Attorney General Barr released to the public the summary of Special Counsel Mueller's principal conclusions, coupled with the fact that Attorney General Barr failed to provide a thorough representation of the findings set forth in the Mueller Report, causes the Court to question whether Attorney General Barr's intent was to create a one-sided narrative about the Mueller Report -- a narrative that is clearly in some respects substantively at odds with the redacted version of the Mueller Report," Walton wrote.

I hope I'm not just naïve, but it seems as if there is significant recognition of and active opposition to Barr's toadiness within the DOJ.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

IT'S NOT MY FAULT IT'S CORONAVIRUS! ~Trump, soon

[BrotherMan]

And if it was my fault, Obama started it. ~ Also Trump, probably

And if it was my fault and Obama didin't start it it's not as bad as they say. ~ Also Trump, actually.