eVille Times

Jan 21, 2017

Now What?

So, Trump's in the Oval Office now, and in that first big official briefing, did everybody roll their eyes when he asked, "So what's the real story on that whole Roswell alien thing, huh?" - like he's the first one who ever came up with that (except he prob'ly wasn't joking).

Second - how disappointed is he that there really is no such thing as The Big Book Of Secrets?

Which brings us to number three - will there be a call to Alex Jones? Like: "Dude, you really are a fuckin' idiot - none of that shit's true."

Yeah - prob'ly not. And the Press Poodles prob'ly won't ask him about any of it either.

Just wonderin'.

Yeehaw And Away We Go

Somebody who's better at this than I am would prob'ly find it fairly easy to run it down and make sure, but I'm thinking this is prob'ly a nice little payoff for somebody in Trump's Krony Klatch.

HuffPo:

With what may have been his first presidential order, Donald Trump made it more expensive for working- and middle-class Americans to buy their first homes. The move will increase costs for 750,000 to 850,000 Americans in the next year alone, according to the National Association of Realtors.

The Obama administration had said last week that the Federal Housing Administration would drop the cost of mortgage insurance it sells by almost a third to 0.60 percent. But after Trump took office, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees the FHA, told lenders the fee cut was off. The reversal of the reduction will mean that homebuyers who borrow $200,000 under the program will see their mortgage insurance fees go up by $500 a year relative to what the Obama administration had ordered, according to figures released by the FHA when the cut was announced.

The reduction was intended to help partially offset the cost of rising mortgage rates and was scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 27. The government sells the insurance in case borrowers default.

- and -

Julian Castro, Obama’s HUD secretary, said when the fee cut was announced that the FHA’s reserve fund had grown by $44 billion in the last four years and that it was time to share these gains with borrowers. Ben Carson, Trump’s nominee to run HUD, said in his confirmation hearing that he supported undoing the fee cut, and lending trade publications reported that a reversal was likely.

Profits for me and costs for thee.

Phony-ass POTUS

I don't know all that much about it, but this body language doesn't exactly scream "Church-Goer" to me.

This is not the posture of somebody who regularly attends church. pic.twitter.com/XSg8PDGprH
— John Aravosis (@aravosis) January 21, 2017

@aravosis

Today's Tweet & GIF

@otepofficial LOL pic.twitter.com/z4YyrUuztV
— Chap (@DeadlyRice8) January 15, 2017

Jan 20, 2017

The Haunting

This is the best thing I've seen. #Inauguration pic.twitter.com/91P0OD4SWn
— mariana xx (@trustnorminah) January 20, 2017

Today's Tweet

LMAO! Most empty seats ever‼️

#InauguralBall #Inauguration pic.twitter.com/T3Br6EDWFa
— TheAverageBlackMan™ (@TheAvgBlackMan) January 21, 2017

Not exactly the adoring throngs he was hoping for.

A coupla screen caps from WaPo's live feed:

Where else do we see "presidential parades" where the security forces outnumber the crowd?

This does not bode well.

And y'know, it occurs to me - if almost literally nobody shows up to acknowledge the installation of the POTUS, maybe we only think there's a guy in the office, but we don't really have a president.

Fuck you, Trump

and the horse's ass you rode in on

Jan 19, 2017

Boycott

NEW VIDEO: #TheResistanceGQ is officially underway as of noon: BOYCOTT THE INAUGURATION. pic.twitter.com/wbBpMGzNLD
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 19, 2017

Slouching Towards Oblivion