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

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the SC nominee is a distraction?

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 5:58 PM (forty-nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How the SC nominee is being rolled out, specifically.

On rollerskates?

Ladies and gentlemen...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/34/73490410_081c8bbd7d_z.jpg?zz=1

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/317203-lawmaker-to-propose-abolishing-epa

I'm hoping this one would stall in the senate, right? But then Trump would just make it an EO

yeah Republicans are in kind of a shitty spot. I'm sure a lot of them want to speak up (and privately I would imagine nearly all of them think he's absolutely nuts) but being one of the first to do so is a big risk

They were in a good spot to denounce him three months ago when he could have been defeated. It is insane that these people think they won the presidency. Trump has never shown anything but contempt for the congressional Republicans.

I hope they are happy with frog nazi Bannon as the de facto president.

They deserve all the ignominy they get once this charade falls apart. Hopefully it comes sooner rather than later.

nothing about the SCOTUS rollout is a distraction. this is what it's all about

one thing that would be funny would be if the media scooped trump'a pick and he got mad and changed to the (slightly) more acceptable guy

the charade's going to fall apart? When?

this is beautiful

letter from a fellow USFL owner to Trump in 1984

https://twitter.com/jeffpearlman/status/826572576545648640

xp any doomsday now

LOL @ Trump right now, he's a fucking clown.

Jike

Joke

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