Good King Trump

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The beauty of it all is how Jerome thinks his cocksucking skills will keep him off a Tascón List.

[Ari]

A reminder of who Jerome and the right now totally believe,
Kucinich: I saw a UFO – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs
who “felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.”

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Let Bannon Be Bannon! - New York Times

It talks about how it appears that it's Bannon who pushes for things that help me he middle class, and this is the area that Trump won't yield.

Fave quote:

The third possibility is that Donald Trump doesn’t really care about domestic policy; he mostly cares about testosterone.

He wants to cut any part of government that may seem soft and nurturing, like poverty programs. He wants to cut any program that might seem emotional and airy-fairy, like the National Endowment for the Arts. He wants to cut any program that might seem smart and nerdy, like the National Institutes of Health.

But he wants to increase funding for every program that seems manly, hard, muscular and ripped, like the military and armed antiterrorism programs.

Indeed, the Trump budget looks less like a political philosophy and more like a sexual fantasy. It lavishes attention on every aspect of hard power and slashes away at anything that isn’t.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Trump Thinks the Constitution 'Makes Us Look Weak' - Rolling Stone

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

One has to ask why leftists have sex come to mind when talking about Trump.

Lusting for a big daddy maybe?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Right, I misspelled Kochsucking.

[erimir]

David Brooks is not a leftist, he's a conservative. Idiot.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

When you're so far to the right you're over the event horizon, everyone's a leftist.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Secret Service Agent's Laptop Containing 'Highly Sensitive' Info Stolen In Brooklyn: Gothamist

The laptop contained floor plans for Trump Tower, details about the Hillary Clinton email investigation, evacuation protocols, and other information pertaining to national security

"Golly Gee, we'd love to help with the investigation but we don't have a budget for that anymore." -New York City*

*Satire

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by erimir

David Brooks is not a leftist, he's a conservative. Idiot.

You believe labels instead of words, typical of leftists, can't think past labels.

I guess his swooning over Obama, his missing of Obama are conservative ideas ...

Charles Krauthammer refereed to Brooks "as his favorite liberal columnist."

Brooks wrote that Goldwater and Reagan were not proper models for future leaders, that Obama was.

lol @ you falling for labels

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[erimir]

Missing Obama because Trump is awful doesn't make you a leftist.

And being a conservative isn't about your opinions of particular people, it's about your policy preferences, and Brooks is center-right. You could argue that he's more just a centrist... but he is not a leftist.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Africa Trade Meeting Has No Africans After US Visa Denials - VOA

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Donald Trump kicked One Direction out of his hotel for refusing to meet his daughter | The Independent

lol

[Ari]

Donald Trump refuses to shake Angela Merkel's hand | The Independent

Trump refuses to shake woman's hand, who also happens to be the leader of Germany.
Some people are saying Trump said, "Touching intimate areas like hands is reserved for a father and his hottest daughter. No wonder they are failing. Sick socialists! Sad!"

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by Ari

Donald Trump refuses to shake Angela Merkel's hand | The Independent

Trump refuses to shake woman's hand, who also happens to be the leader of Germany.
Some people are saying Trump said, "Touching intimate areas like hands is reserved for a father and his hottest daughter. No wonder they are failing. Sick socialists! Sad!"

The real story is Trudeau gave Merkel some Judo lessons and Trump is aware of this.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Trump administration rescinds Obama guidance on student loan defaults: report | TheHill

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

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Pookleblinky on Twitter: "You process text with the same meat you use to process faces."

[erimir]

There was that time when he didn't notice that Rudy Giuliani was sitting right in front of him...

Maybe he's both illiterate and face-blind!

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Events and actions this week lend credence to an evolving theme: Trump isn’t all that interested in typical legislative stuff like passing healthcare or his budget — his passion and focus are on enriching himself, and making America white.This week was also unfamiliar territory for Trump: he couldn’t control the narrative the entire week. We’re learning Trump is great on offense, but inept on defense.

1. As Trump’s wiretap claim entered its second week, Trump still offered no evidence to support it. Conway backed Trump saying, “microwaves that turn into cameras” can spy on us. Spicer said Trump didn’t mean wiretapping literally when he tweeted about wiretapping.
2. OMB Mulvaney claimed Obama had been “manipulating” jobs data.
3. The Trump regime had its second email scandal in two weeks. WSJ reported that Tillerson used an email alias - ‘Wayne Tracker’ — while at Exxon, to discuss climate change.
4. Kushner is set to net $400 million on the sale of a NYC office building to a Chinese firm with murky links to the Chinese power structure.
5. Ivanka imported 53 metric tons of Chinese goods while her father was making his ‘Buy American’ speeches.
6. A businesswoman with ties to Chinese Intelligence and the Chinese ruling elite purchased a penthouse in a Trump property for $15.8 million.
7. These ties, along with the 38 trademarks granted to Trump in Week 14, as Trump readies to host China’s PM at Mar-a-Lago. Trump has shifted on both his “One China” policy and trade war threats in recent weeks.
8. Trump insider Stone told AP he may have been the subject of surveillance by Intelligence for his possible role as a foreign agent for Russia.
9. Former WH staffer Crowley, who was fired for plagiarism, took a job as a foreign agent for a Ukrainian oligarch with ties to Russia.
10. Reuters uncovered that Russian elite have invested close to $100 million in Trump luxury towers in Southern Florida.
11. The yacht of Trump financial backer Robert Mercer, was spotted in the British Virgin Islands next to the yacht of Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Russian oligarch mentioned in Week 17 for his multiple connections to Trump and Wilbur Ross.
12. Mercer also has close ties to Bannon, and collaborated with him on at least five ventures, including Breitbart News.
13. A document released Thursday showed that Flynn received three formerly-undisclosed payments from Russian interests, totaling $70,000.
14. WSJ broke that Flynn also had an interaction with a Russian-British national while he was head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which he failed to report, as required.
15. Russia continued provocations: a Russian spy ship reappeared in the US eastern seaboard, just 20 miles south of a U.S. Navy submarine base.
16. News of the DOJ’s findings that Russian agents were behind the Yahoo hacking, brought Russia interference back front and center.
17. As things heated up on Russia in the Senate, McCain accused Rand Paul, on the Senate floor, of “working for Vladimir Putin.”
18. Further to Week 17’s Deep State theme, Trump opened the week signing an executive order on a “reorganizing” of the executive branch, which opened the door to the Trump regime dismantling federal agencies.
19. POLITICO reported on the growing paranoia and dysfunctionality in Trump’s executive branch. One staff member said, “people are scared.”
20. Tillerson mirrored Trump, saying the proposed slashing of the State Department’s budget would make it “much more efficient,” while offering no vision or strategy for foreign policy.
21. As mentioned in Week 17, much to the consternation and over objections by our media, Tillerson did not bring press along on his first trip to Asia. He did, however, bring one reporter from conservative media IJR — who coincidentally had written a glowing piece about him two weeks prior.
22. Friday, Tillerson said the US was prepared to take military action against North Korea, if necessary. Tillerson cut his trip to South Korea short, citing fatigue.
23. Saturday, Tillerson stood by his decision not to allow the media along on his trip to Asia, saying, “I’m not a big media press access person.”
24. A Federal Judge in Hawaii halted Trump’s second Muslim Ban the day before it was set to go into effect, saying the Ban is unconstitutional and discriminates based on religion.
25. The Federal Judge also cited remarks made by Miller and Giuliani on TV in his ruling.
26. Conservative media IJR (same as on Tillerson’s plane) speculated that Obama’s visit to Hawaii and was behind the ruling. IJR next day added an editor’s note to the article, and soon thereafter, the reporter resigned.
27. Buzzfeed reported that Nick Ayers, a top adviser to Pence is an investor in the IJR.
28. Trump held a campaign rally in Nashville, TN on Wednesday in which he chastised the Federal Judge who ruled against his Muslim Ban, claiming incompetence, before transitioning the crowd to cheers of, “Lock her up!”
29. Trump’s ranting about the halt of his second Muslim Ban at the Nashville rally — “This is watered-down version of the first one” - could be a death blow to his chances in an appeal, which he does plan to file.
30. WAPO reported on a second internal report prepared for the Trump regime, again with data undercutting the premise of his Muslim Ban.
31. Trump’s Nashville campaign rally was half full; while thousands of protestors outside chanted things like, “bless your heart.”
32. Gorka, Trump’s top counter-terrorism advisor, was reported to be a sworn member of Hungarian group listed by our State Department as ‘under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany’ during World War II.
33. In Netherland’s race for prime minister, the candidate associated with Trump lost with unexpectedly poor results. Some in Europe noted that Austrian and Dutch elections point to a Trump backlash.
34. At a photo op before his Michigan speech, Trump said publicly to the governor “Come on, governor — even though you didn’t endorse me….I never forget.”
35. WAPO’s Fahrenthold followed up on three promises made by Trump on November 8: donating his salary, giving away leftovers from Inaugural Committee, and donating profits derived from foreign governments use Trump hotels to the US Treasury. Trump has given $0 so far.
36. On Friday, the Trump Organization announced it will wait until 2018 to start donating profits from foreign government in his hotels.
37. Anti-Semitic threats continued. CNN created a map to show how widespread Jewish bomb threats have become: so far in 2017, 159 bomb threats in 38 states.
38. Trump’s Muslim Ban took another blow from a Federal Judge in Maryland who suspended the part of the ban that prevented visas from being issued. Trump and his surrogates continued the “judicial overreach” and need to change this imbalance of power, talking point.
39. Trump’s budget got off to a disastrous start when OMB Mulvaney said of cutting funds to Meals on Wheels, it’s a program, “not showing results.” Words ‘Meals’ and ‘Wheels’ trended on Twitter for the rest of the day.
40. WSJ reported that tax cuts for the wealthy in the GOP’s tax plan would save Trump millions.
41. Part of Trump’s 2005 tax return was leaked to reporter David Cay Johnston, who shared them on The Rachel Maddow Show. Trump called it “fake news,” Maddow called the scoop, “a drop of water in the desert.”
42. NJ legislature passed a bill requiring presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns.
43. Continuing his efforts to drain the swamp, Trump nominated his fifth Goldman Sachs employee to a role as Deputy Treasury Secretary.
44. Ethics documents showed that Liddell, Trump’s director of strategic initiatives, has $3–4 million in stock holdings of 18 of the companies, whose CEOs attended a meeting with he and Trump.
45. By midweek, Republicans including Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, were turning on Trump for his wiretapping claim. Ryan joined him too.
46. The Senate Intelligence Committee issued a formal statement that there is no evidence of any surveillance (going beyond wiretapping) or Trump Tower during or after the campaign. The statement was issued 15 minutes before the WH daily briefing.
47. At the daily briefing, which started an hour late, Spicer said Trump stands by his allegation that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
48. Spicer also parroted allegations first made on Fox News, that Obama used British intelligence agency GCHQ to spy on Trump. GCHQ issued a strongly worded refute of this ridiculous claim.
49. Friday morning, UK media reported the US made formal apology to Britain for the WH accusation that the GCHQ wiretapped Trump Tower.
50. That afternoon, Spicer denied that an apology was made, saying, “I don’t think we regret anything,” while Trump commented on the matter, “We said nothing. All we did was quote a very talented legal mind.”
51. With cameras rolling, Trump refused when asked by Merkel, to shake her hand.
52. Multiple pictures surfaced of Ivanka inexplicably seated next to Chancellor Merkel at the meeting.
53. Trump misspoke during the press conference with Merkel, referring to the US as a “company” instead of a country.
54. Also at the press conference, Trump turned to Merkel in answering about his wiretap claims by Obama and said, “At least we have something in common perhaps.” He claimed he got the information from Fox News.
55. After the press conference, Fox News’ Shep Smith said on his show, ‘Fox News knows of no evidence of any kind that now-President of the United States was surveilled at any time, in any way. Full stop.’
56. Oklahoma Rep Cole became the first congressional Republican to call on Trump to apologize to Obama for his false wiretapping claim.
57. Friday is was announced that Trump’s DOJ is working to speed deportations, shifting immigration judges to 12 US cities where they claim there are more immigrants who have committed crimes.
58. Cases continued to surface of non-criminals being targeted for deportation, including a mother of six in Chicago during a routine check-in with ICE. Her congressman was handcuffed defending her.
59. Canada’s version of the Girl Scouts — the Girl Guides — canceled all trip to the US citing concerns over Trump’s Muslim Ban, and it’s message.
60. Rep Steve King said Blacks and Hispanics “will be fighting each other” before overtaking whites in population. Few in the GOP condemned him, as King continued to the TV circuit re-iterating his white nationalism.
61. The Trump regime went to court to try to bring the consumer protection agency created by Sen Warren after the 2008 recession, under direct control of Trump, opening the door to dismantling it.
62. The WH “1600 Daily” email blast mistakenly included a very obviously satirical article from WAPO, “Trump’s budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and I will tell you why.”
63. Continuing his pattern of hiring insiders, Trump plans to nominate Kellyanne Conway’s husband to a powerful post overseeing the Federal government’s lawsuits, including the Muslim Ban.
64. Republicans continue to face energized, raucous crowds when returning home. Sen Ernst faced a packed crowd, which frequently booed her.
65. The House Intel Committee sent a letter to the FBI, CIA and NSA demanding info on whether Flynn was being surveilled. The House Intel Committee oversees the FBI, CIA and NSA, yet the agencies did not comply. Rachel Maddow in a segment called it “nuts” and “not normal.”
66. Open hearings in Congress on Russian interference start next week: March 20th in the House, and March 30th in the Senate. McCain said on upcoming Trump-Russia probes, “ I think there’s a lot of shoes to drop from this centipede.”

Source with links: Week 18: Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so…

[The Man]

This may be my current favourite statistic.

At 37%, Trump today has a lower Gallup approval rating than Obama ever had in his entire presidency. pic.twitter.com/jSnFjmGbMT

— Ray Wert (@raywert) March 19, 2017

In other news, Loomis highlights this particular issue of supreme Republican voter idiocy:

Blake Yelverton is taking a break with a burger that doesn’t cut any corners. Cheese and bacon and everything. He’s 23, a burly young man with a big red beard, and he works on his father’s cow farm.

“I don’t believe it’s the federal government’s job to provide health care,” he said. “It’s communism, socialism anyway.”

Yelverton hopes Trump trashes the whole thing, and he’s not too fond of the GOP plan being discussed in Congress either. “They’re doing a lesser evil of Obamacare,” he said.

His insurance?

“I’m on my parents’ plan,” he said.

So, Yelverton, it turns out, benefits from Obamacare. That’s because the law allows parents to keep kids on their insurance until age 26 — a widely-popular element of Barack Obama’s signature health law that Republicans intend to keep in their replacement plan.

Confronted with that information, he pauses for a moment.

“I haven’t been to the doctor in four or five years,” he said.

Government health care is socialism! What, you mean that the fact that I'm even on insurance right now is due to a government law popularly referred to by the name of our first black president? I never used that anyway!

You couldn't have written this as believable satire four years ago. No one would have believed that people are actually this stupid.

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by Ari

Donald Trump refuses to shake Angela Merkel's hand | The Independent

Trump refuses to shake woman's hand, who also happens to be the leader of Germany.
Some people are saying Trump said, "Touching intimate areas like hands is reserved for a father and his hottest daughter. No wonder they are failing. Sick socialists! Sad!"

FAKE NEWS

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Trump administration rescinds Obama guidance on student loan defaults: report | TheHill

lol, where was the outrage when Obama took over the student loan scam in the first place?

[Ari]

...it's like you dont even click the links or something.

[godfry n. glad]

He wouldn't shake her hand _after_ the negotiation session. He's pouting because it didn't go as well as he thought it should....he was the loser.