The delirious dope of Trump Tower is a big fan of Breitbart & InfoWars conspiracies, not a fan or evidence on #wiretap. #saturdaymorning pic.twitter.com/dkBx49B5Ns— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) March 4, 2017
Mar 4, 2017
Today's Tweet
Mar 3, 2017
Away Again
In about 6 weeks, 45* has spent more tax dollars on leisure travel than Obama spent in a year.
And why does he feel the need to take a 3-day break every fucking week?
And why does he feel the need to take a 3-day break every fucking week?
PR Photo Op featuring adorable grandbabies and Armored Personnel Carriers - the Daddy State's wet dream.
But it feels better if we can go on pretending it was purely by happenstance.
But it feels better if we can go on pretending it was purely by happenstance.
Today's Tweet
Trump was right. America is becoming a laughingstock pic.twitter.com/QHZgvxfLBK #Sessions #Putin #TRUMPRUSSIA— Richard Hine (@richardhine) March 3, 2017
That Creepy Feeling
"Checks and balances is a metaphor, not a mechanism."
There are some holes in this of course, but the adage holds true: "I'm not trying to describe what I see happening in the future so much as I'm trying to prevent it"
David Frum's take on Trump World:
There are some holes in this of course, but the adage holds true: "I'm not trying to describe what I see happening in the future so much as I'm trying to prevent it"
David Frum's take on Trump World:
Mar 2, 2017
Going Going
Julia Ioffe at The Atlantic
The flags in the lobby of the State Department stood bathed in sunlight and silence on a recent afternoon. “It’s normally so busy here,” marveled a State Department staffer as we stood watching the emptiness. “People are usually coming in for meetings, there’s lots of people, and now it’s so quiet.” The action at Foggy Bottom has instead moved to the State Department cafeteria where, in the absence of work, people linger over countless coffees with colleagues. (“The cafeteria is so crowded all day,” a mid-level State Department officer said, adding that it was a very unusual sight. “No one’s doing anything.”) As the staffer and I walked among the tables and chairs, people with badges chatted over coffee; one was reading his Kindle.
“It just feels empty,” a recently departed senior State official told me.
This week began with reports that President Donald Trump’s budget proposal will drastically slash the State Department’s funding, and last week ended with White House adviser and former Breitbart head Stephen Bannon telling the attendees of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference that what he and the new president were after was a “deconstruction of the administrative state.” At the State Department, which employs nearly 70,000 people around the world, that deconstruction is already well underway.Defend the institutions or see them topple like dominos.
Mar 1, 2017
Today's Tweet
Follow as much of this thread as you can. The basic premise of civilian control over the military is mildly important to the care and feeding of our little democracy here.
This ain't about saving time. It's a dangerous desire to pass the buck. Let me lay this out in a few tweets. https://t.co/MlFuVM6rnb— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) March 1, 2017
Read Your Charlie
...it's a lot better'n eatin' vegetables.
Charlie Pierce at Esquire:
Charlie Pierce at Esquire:
Presidential, was it?
Even I didn't believe they could lower the bar far enough that an otherwise sensible fellow like Van Jones would take the indecent exploitation of a war widow's fresh sorrow and turn it into Lincoln's Second Inaugural. Even I didn't believe they could sink the bar far enough into Middle Earth that otherwise critical observers would look at a pile of deceptive leaves and see a coherent tree. Every day in every way, this administration and this president* taxes the far limits of even my cynicism. For example, it is not true that nobody profits from "lawless chaos." How do you think Vladimir Putin created the gangster's paradise that helped Rex Tillerson and Wilbur Ross get even more wealthy?
When one calls that speech "presidential," whose presidency are you summoning? Pierce? Buchanan? Rufus T. Firefly? Jesus, people, at least try to sound like you graduated middle school.
President No-Show
There's Mr Bombast - the showboating salesman who promises all your dreams will come true if you just hand everything over to him.
And there's Mr Forgetful - the guy you'll never find when it's time to settle up.
And then there's Mr No-Show - the guy who does whatever he wants, with no regard for what he promised anybody. And worse, is very much aware that he's pullin' shit, and so he knows he'll have to hide what he's really doing at every opportunity.
Yesterday, before Mr Bombast did his thing at the Joint Session, Mr No-Show got busy.
NBC News:
And here I thought the rule was No More Blow Jobs In The Oval Office.
Silly me.
And there's Mr Forgetful - the guy you'll never find when it's time to settle up.
And then there's Mr No-Show - the guy who does whatever he wants, with no regard for what he promised anybody. And worse, is very much aware that he's pullin' shit, and so he knows he'll have to hide what he's really doing at every opportunity.
Yesterday, before Mr Bombast did his thing at the Joint Session, Mr No-Show got busy.
NBC News:
President Donald Trump quietly signed a bill into law Tuesday rolling back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun.
The rule, which was finalized in December, added people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs to the national background check database.
Had the rule fully taken effect, the Obama administration predicted it would have added about 75,000 names to that database.So Wayne LaPierre gets at least 75,000 new prospects for the gun manufacturers - who'll put some of that new money in the pockets of Congress Critters, of course - and we get what would be a measurable increase in gun violence if the GOP hadn't already cut the funding needed for CDC to study such things.
And here I thought the rule was No More Blow Jobs In The Oval Office.
Silly me.
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