America under Trump - Year One: January 2017 to ... January 2017

Sorry to say it, but the USA is officially a laughing stock.

Forget North Korea.

Wish it were funny.

"Please, Louise..."

I'm not there, so it is. (xp)

wonder if gorsuch will manage to live up to the legend of his wonderful mother

He attended Harvard Law with former President Barack Obama. On Tuesday, Obama's former ethics czar, Norm Eisen, another classmate, tweeted: "Hearing rumors Trump's likely Supreme Court pick is Neil Gorsuch, my (and President Obama's!) 1991 Harvard Law classmate.If so, a great guy!"

Alberto Gonzales is on the NPR Trumpocalypse show right now, and this guy's OK with Fredo. (Gorsuch, not Moe Greene)

Legal affairs droner Jamie Floyd is going on at length how Gorsuch is "genteel, collegial" compared to his "fiery" crooked mother, which is why i don't give WNYC money any more.

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/232856168-story

so, wait, is this the first sane thing trump has done?

? are you an originalist, scott?

I'm sure he means that he nominated Gorsuch to SCOTUS and not, say, Jared Kushner.

yeah, i'm not saying that this judge isn't...whatever he is, but he's not like a total kook or something. i could see some Dems not hating him. he's not gonna get people rioting in the streets.

at least when he votes to uphold the USA PATRIOT Acts (I & II et al) it'll be just like Obama's on the Court

he's not gonna get people rioting in the streets.

yeah, that's true. he is fucking terrible, though, and compared to what should have occurred - garland getting ready to celebrate his 1-year anniversary as a sitting supreme court justice - it's a shameful outrage. feelings of relief at his nomination are a sign of normalization of trump's terrible decisions

it is kinda shocking that trump actually picked somebody i could imagine almost any republican president picking, like an actual person with experience and a resume, instead of picking some wacko lobbyist who tweets a lot

otoh that is a pretty low bar to set; originalism is a p deranged legal philosophy

the guy's a fucking idiot nutjob???? JFC

what am I reading? where are you people receiving transmissions?

originalism is a p deranged legal philosophy

mainly because it was devised to deliver a preordained result, not because it had any other merits to recommend it.

I mean come on Norm Eisen is a meaningless nobody

this dude is a pro-religion psychopath

what do you expect man

TOMOBOT, why do you hate God

there are pro-religion psychopaths and there are pro-religion psychopaths.

i mean there is no end to choose from there. and this guy ain't scalia-level satanic.

k3vin I am reacting against the "this guy is practically a moderate choice" which is not the case
he's totally going to be scalia-level insane if he gets on the bench

he talks bonkers nonsense and his record is horrifying

feelings of relief at his nomination are a sign of normalization of trump's terrible decisions

― Karl Malone

this is very OTM, Gorsuch is a dangerous lunatic who only looks good when compared to even more dangerous lunatics.

That sounds pretty normal to me, relative to the GOP.

none of this is normal

He is a conservative which is a step-up from the far right so-called "populist" bomb throwers who are running things in the white house rn

From what I can gather having known about this guy for like an hour

is he going to visit your office

is he going to bring God

anti-gay, pro-life, pro-corporate -- the ideal republican SC nominee!

don't want to look into anything? now you don't have to! here's the view from 30 billion feet

http://i.imgur.com/Qc49m5Y.png

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/31/us/politics/trump-supreme-court-nominee.html

clarence thomas way off in the wilderness, having spoken so little for so long that he is not unsure whether anyone else can understand him or if the language has evolved past his experience

that he is unsure not not unsure you know what i mean

Sherrod Brown already issued a statement saying "Fuck, no."

Great comment on LGM:

I would love for one Democratic Senator to ask “Sir, is your name Merrick Garland? No? Thank you. I yield the remainder of my time.”

"Sir, why are you so fucking terrible?"

also Morbs rage upthread actually v otm

i assume this was covered 400 posts ago but oh well

The Trump administration doubled down Tuesday on its commitment to transforming the nation’s border law enforcement, signaling that some of the temporary bans on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries are likely to be made permanent and elevating a deportations official to run the top immigration enforcement agency.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-trailguide-updates-1485885194-htmlstory.html

@ggreenwald
Virtually all "temporary" rights abridgments end up being permanent. The Patriot Act was "temporary" when enacted. It's now 16 years old.

this is cheering https://twitter.com/blowticious/status/826582040472645633

ty, much needed

Some detailed info here about legit rogue twitter accounts: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/resistance-from-within-federal-workers-push-back-against-trump/2017/01/31/c65b110e-e7cb-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-low_resistance-0909pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.81ed309556dd

TOMOBOT, why do you hate God

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

failure to strike donald trump with a lightning bolt?

EYEhategod

no Tomo

Oh, Botpaws.

pro-religion, the religion of professionals

how much does God make for a typical speaking engagement dya think