"Just another day in paradise, okay?" April 2017 President Trump and oppo dump thread

god damn if that "I thought it was going to be easier than Celebrity Apprentice" quote doesn't make my blood pressure shoot through the goddamn roof

the fact that a dude with dementia did the job for 8 years and is still treated like a god by half the country probably played into this misconception

honestly I hope Trump never goes to the stupid circle jerk unfunny White House Correspondents dinner & kills that stupid tradition

still treated like a god by half the country

as long as he keeps pissing off the libs he could blow putin live on celebrity apprentice 2.0 and fox/koch/mercer/ALEC nation would still vote for him

all his recent interviews scream GET ME OWWWWWDA HERE

I think Keyes is referring to Reagan there but you're right

i don't think Yam is gonna get an airport named after him. maybe a wildlife preserve

Meanwhile, on the Sean Spicer beat:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SovietSergey/status/857950612184584192

"The President understands that North Korea is a threat. He is in constant contact with President Xi of Japan."

- @PressSec, April 28, 2017

As noted further, this was not a joke:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SovietSergey/status/857953054397739008

That level of incompetence is deeply irritating to have to deal with in the context of one's workplace or, say, someone you hire to shingle your roof. Wrt the executive office of the USA, it's going to get somebody or a lot of somebodies fucking killed.

i don't think Yam is gonna get an airport named after him. maybe a wildlife preserve

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, April 28, 2017 9:36 AM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe people will decide that his name is on enough things already?

more more more

anyway, the Nu Trumpcare is DOA, time to start the weekend

"The President understands that North Korea is a threat. He is in constant contact with President Xi of Japan."

I'm going to guess that this is a spoiler for season 2 of Stranger Things

HUSH HUSH

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) voiced her concerns over President Barack Obama’s plans to accept $400,000 for giving a speech to Cantor Fitzgerald LP, saying money in politics is “a snake that slithers through Washington.”

The senator appeared on Sirius XM’s “Alter Family Politics” program to promote her new book, “This Fight Is Our Fight,” and she was asked about Obama’s upcoming payday.

“I was troubled by that,” she said. “The influence on dollars on [Washington] is what scares me. I think it ultimately threatens democracy … we have to think about what the tools are to fight back against it.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-barack-obama-wall-street-speech_us_5902b98fe4b0bb2d086c6c99

wgaf he's not in office anymore

everyone on twitter cares a lot about it one way or the other

warren's not wrong at all, but i think it's probably more of a pressing concern that there is an actual honest-to-goodness kleptocrat in the oval office right now

ESPECIALLY Sanders die-hards xp

democrats: never ones to score an open goal when there's an opportunity to run back down the field and bulge the onion bag at their own end

I liked Trevor Noah's response to the Obama critics re: the speech

<citation needed>

fuck Trevor Noah

something along the lines of “So the first black president must also be the first one to not take money afterwards?” .......F— that, and f— you!”

relatively speaking, it's a minor issue in the Bipartisan Whorehouse, but maybe the hagiographies of the Great Surveiller can end now.

that's rather a nice boost over previous ex-potus fees

maybe it's cuz he's such a great jokester! swoon swoon swoon

he also signed an eight figure book deal just a few months ago

and is getting a shabby pension from us

Morbz what would be your preferred projectile if you could throw something at Obama during a speech - shoe? glitter? rotten eggs? tomatoes? cabbage? What about Hillary?

he also just sold his first handmade tea cosy on etsy iirc

morbs' preferred projectile is always a particularly cutting dennis perrin tweet

Can't wait!

The same sort of accommodations will be made for the Trumps, who hired interior designer Tham Kannalikham to help them remodel the living space. They have a more formal style than their predecessors and turned down the Obamas’ offer to keep the wooden playset on the South Lawn that then-White House Chief Usher Stephen Rochon traveled to South Dakota to select for the girls in 2009.

The Trumps’ Manhattan penthouse is ornately outfitted in gold and marble. Their Mar-a-Lago Resort in Palm Beach, Fla., where the president and first lady have spent many weekends, is similarly decorated with gold leaf in the ballroom and centuries-old oak paneling in the club’s library. “The White House, by comparison,” said Barbara Res, a former Trump construction executive, “is rather tame, decorating-wise.”

“If he wants [the White House] to look like Trump Tower on the inside, we can do that, from the carpets to the floors, to making it gilded,” Rochon said.

also, Cantor Fitzgerald: CLASSY bunch

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/27/wall-street-firm-paying-obama-400000-faced-internal-controversy-after-pocketing-huge-911-settlement/

xp

Okay, fine, whatever, my current house is on fire and I'm about to burn to death, blah blah blah...but did you see the shoddy workmanship in my previous residence? Disgusting!

just preparing everyone for the "Andrew Cuomo is our only hope" wave

Isn't he?

j/k, there is no hope.

i'd consider voting cuomo if he ran on medicare / social security for all, birth to the earth

Another smash success:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/27/house-republicans-obamacare-repeal-votes-237685

House Republican leaders on Thursday delayed a vote on their Obamacare repeal bill until next week at the earliest, denying President Donald Trump a major legislative victory during his first 100 days in office.

Speaker Paul Ryan and his top lieutenants decided during a late-night huddle in the Capitol that they still do not have the votes to pass the stalled health-care legislation. At least 15 House Republicans remain solidly opposed to the bill, with 20 more leaning no or still undecided, according to GOP lawmakers and aides.

Has he had any legislative victories in his first 100 days? Or anything at all that can be considered a victory or that indicates that he's a conscious being with control over the most powerful office in the world? He's managed to avoid choking to death on a chicken bone for an entire 100 days. I guess that's something.

From where I'm sitting, he's just run his fucking mouth the same as he did for years before he was elected. Only now his bloviation has potential real-world consequences and scares the shit out of people.

He should ask us to look at all the bad legislation he didn't pass

You could say Gorsuch, of course, but he and the Cabinet are only confirmed by the Senate, so not both houses. I've noticed a lot of people clinging to Gorsuch as a sign of success precisely because there's nothing else to hold on to.

yeah Gorsuch is it. and doesn't really count as "legislative success" imo

He accomplished killing a bunch of people, so there's that.

j/k, there is no hope.

no jobs or cash either iirc

he's proven that our conservative friends have been right along! the government which governs least governs best! it's like norquist says -- just give any old sentient ape a pen so he can sign tax cuts! #MAGA

This is the Whac-A-Mole problem of the Trump presidency. There are so many bad things going on at once—so many minor corruptions and shady deals and strings that if tugged will surely lead to more evidence of self-dealing—that it’s impossible to concentrate on one at a time. The flagrant, prima facie corruption of the Trump administration is so transparent and so all-encompassing that, perversely, it’s impossible to get people to care about it.

http://fusion.net/every-day-of-the-trump-presidency-is-a-hellish-game-of-1794607016

kind of like the flagrant, prima facie post-reagan neo-feudalism from which the beast sprang that it seems impossible to do anything about

But at least people like Jim deMint are thriving oh wait

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/28/demint-set-to-be-ousted-from-heritage-foundation-237754

_To the Detriment of Research and Scholarly Aims: The Heritage Foundation in American Politics_ by James DeMint

that's a speech!!!!!!

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1yoKMBbDQAzGQ

He's managed to avoid choking to death on a chicken bone for an entire 100 days. I guess that's something.

let's wait until the full 100 days are up first, let's not all extinguish all hope