Good King Trump

[Stormlight]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Trump admin orders EPA contract freeze and media blackout

How about building a big, fat, polluting coal plant near Mar-a-Lago? Upwind? Maybe crowd-fund it?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I'm learning that a media freeze isn't unprecedented on admin changes for a get up to speed period.

But time will tell, now won't it.

[Dragar]

Does the President (on Day 3 of his new administration!) often threaten to 'send in the Feds' to a city?

Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible "carnage" going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds!"

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Shut Up, Be Happy - Ice T ( Lyrics ) - YouTube

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Internet Archive on Twitter: "If you see something, save something. Use Save Page Now to save URLs at https://t.co/qGDMcslRtF https://t.co/AtHn0UhREo"

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Trump admin orders EPA contract freeze and media blackout

I'm sensing a new sign/slogan ... dear Trump admin: If you've got nothing to hide ...

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Censorship of public scientific data; Threat of martial law; Executive Order on pipeline in which he has financial interest.

Day 4.

[JoeP]

Reddit Finds Donald Trump Trash Can for Photoshop Battle



The best and simplest edit:

show spoiler

[lisarea]

“Rogue” national park Twitter accounts are cropping up by the hour

The year is 2017. America is a tire fire. The resistance is led by Teen Vogue, Badlands National Park, and the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

[Watser?]

America first, make Netherlands second because they requested it! | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

The Netherlands has requested, within the scope of the new America first initiatives, to be simply: second. They don't want us to forget about them. So the White House should give them a call. 2nd place is open, and they asked nicely before anyone else. We'll make them great too. We can do it.

[Stephen Maturin]

The New York Times sez that the leading candidates for the empty SCOTUS seat are William Pryor, Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, all U.S. Court of Appeals judges. I don't know a goddamn thing about Hardiman. Pryor would be a nightmare, voting even more Scalia-like than Scalia (Pryor would be more reliably wingnutty on constitutional criminal procedure matters). Gorsuch is not nearly as crazy, and would likely be fairly easy to get confirmed.

ETA:

SCOTUSblog has profiles on all three judges named in the Times article:

Pryor

Gorsuch

Hardiman

[Ari]

The fact Trump even has a pick shows the total lack of backbone the dems have. The GOP are abusive assholes and the dems keep letting them walk all over them.

[Zehava]

Originally Posted by Ari

The fact Trump even has a pick shows the total lack of backbone the dems have. The GOP are abusive assholes and the dems keep letting them walk all over them.

I hear a lot of talk from Democrats that Trump needs to be resisted but I'm not seeing a lot of actual resistance.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Wasn't 2016 such a great year?

[Zehava]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Wasn't 2016 such a great year?

[Ari]

At the very least always remember no matter how shitty you feel, Trump feels worse. If he wasnt such a dangerous asshole I might actually feel sorry for him, 70 years with the emotional maturity of a spoiled todler must suck hard. Everwhere a slight, everywhere an insult. Your wife and kids cant stand to be around him, he has no friends and people groan when dealing with him. 70 years of a fake life. Sad!

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

BREAKING: Trump administration mandating EPA scientific studies, data undergo review by political staff before public release.

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 25, 2017

Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on 'politicized science' | Environment | The Guardian

[erimir]

Trump... does not seem mentally all there.

It’s No Trump Tower, but White House Has ‘Beautiful’ Phones - New York Times

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by erimir

Trump... does not seem mentally all there.

It’s No Trump Tower, but White House Has ‘Beautiful’ Phones - New York Times

The president sat at his desk — the one used by former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy, among others

I'm pretty sure Donnie will scratch his name onto the desk. Or have it gilded. Not enough gold in the White House.

[Stormlight]

Originally Posted by erimir

Trump... does not seem mentally all there.

It’s No Trump Tower, but White House Has ‘Beautiful’ Phones - New York Times

Originally Posted by The New York Times

"Mr. Trump can go for days without breathing (...)"

Can't say I'm surprised.

[Vivisectus]

Originally Posted by JoeP

I'm pretty sure Donnie will scratch his name onto the desk. Or have it gilded. Not enough gold in the White House.

He will have something gold related done to it anyway

[Ari]

I know the best passwords, the yugest!

[The Man]

The Doomsday Clock currently sits at two and a half minutes to midnight, the closest it's ever been since the '50s. Tangerine Trujillo, according to the scientists who run the Clock, is a primary reason for this. This is also historically unprecedented in that it's the first time the statements of a single world leader have been cause to move the clock's position closer to midnight.

"Two and a Half Minutes to Midnight" isn't quite as catchy as the Iron Maiden song.

2 Minutes to Midnight

[The Man]

uh... pic.twitter.com/Dc4zSWLJq5

— cry me a potato farm (@i_cry_potatoes) January 26, 2017

There are no words.

[Kyuss Apollo]

It's gone now but someone had edited the Wikipedia page for invertebrates to include Paul Ryan 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Oe7qOSp027

— Alp Ozcelik (@alplicable) January 26, 2017