Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

Nobamacare

I hate all Republicans i have decided.

https://mobile.twitter.com/moorehn/status/838131146382802944

Heidi N Moore‏ @moorehn

your regular reminder that Steve Bannon has literally no experience or qualifications in government or intelligence

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Robert Costa‏ @costareports
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Bannon is working closely with Trump on combating what he calls the "deep state" in intel comm, per multiple people at WH
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12:56 PM · Mar 4, 2017

God if u are there...aneurysms to go round please

The "Health--Who Cares?" Act

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, March 4, 2017 10:49 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, think we've established that healthcare is communism

https://i.redd.it/ag9lunxdyuiy.jpg

why are these people so mean?

Victims of modernity and/or late-capitalism, mixed with a lot of ressentiment, and more than a few other factors

The Tyranny of Hope

That flyer's a great example for if anybody ever wanted to know what a "metonymy" is

GOP 2017 = people that think Scrooge is the hero of ACC

every time i hear a republican talk i become increasingly convinced that the human race has no future.

I guess we can now expect a roll back of federal regulations on vehicle pollution and a dismantling of the Clean Power Plan.

According to the NYT, “the E.P.A. will also begin legal proceedings to revoke a waiver for California that was allowing the state to enforce the tougher tailpipe standards for its drivers.” S. William Becker, the executive director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, predicted that “if this administration goes after the California waiver, there will be an all-out brawl between Trump and California and the other states that will defend its program.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/us/politics/trump-vehicle-emissions-regulation.html

I realize regulation has been a bad word for years but like their approach to terrorism = keep em out by any means necessary 1 terror death is too many and w/ everything else it's "the market will respond" no natter how many folk have to oeace out first

Peace

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/feds-wiretap-trump-tower-not-obama-worry/?mbid=social_fb_onsiteshare

He will die in jail

That would be so wonderful.

some more in depth analysis about the tap from Julian Sanchez, the Cato Institute fellow quoted in the Wired article, here:

https://www.justsecurity.org/38347/tapping-trump/

why are these people so mean?

― a but (brimstead), Saturday, March 4, 2017

Victims of modernity and/or late-capitalism, mixed with a lot of ressentiment, and more than a few other factors

― International House of Hot Takes (kingfish), Saturday, March 4, 2017

I kinda feel like "rolling explaining conservatism" could be its own thread

i think it would fit in nicely in rolling philosophy, given how important explaining evil is in philosophy

It's a good idea for a thread of its own.

Xpost

why is everyone being so mean to poor carter page?

https://i.imgur.com/0DGaRPu.jpg

He just wants you to hug him

Vladimir Harrelson

rick scott doubling down on a gollum impression

uhhhhhhhh....

https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/833735448186990593

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/838180635923595264

yeah.

something strange is afoot.

how many Russian diplomats have died in the past few months?

4, I gather.

Corey, meanwhile, has some things to claim

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/838215994149593089

I saw somewhere the count was closer to 8

I think I saw 6 but that it was 4 since the start of the year.

is anyone besides TPM reporting Oronov's death?

Yeah, looks like 7-8 in the past 4 months from a quick google scan.

poor baby

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/04/politics/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-reince-priebus/index.html

"Nobody has seen him that upset," one source said.

Trump continuing his tradition of being unable to look ridiculously suspicious.

"I WAS A GOOD BOY FOR A WHOLE HOUR! NO FAIR!"

narrative there is he's upset cuz it makes him look bad but that's one of a million things that have made him look bad. flipping out like apparently he's never flipped out before reads to me as he's legit scared that he lost a seemingly important defense structure against the russian probes, but maybe i'm looking too hard at a guy who's dumb and erratic.

Looks like Roger Stone has taken a page from the Trump book of petulant flame outs.

https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/838248860044623874

It's quite remarkable how little happened yesterday. The leader of the Republican party, who is also the President with privileged access to a lot of information, informed the nation that his predecessor illegally spied on him. And even in his own party, the response was mostly just tired disbelief. Nearly nobody is believing a word he says about anything at this point.

https://www.justsecurity.org/38347/tapping-trump/

not sure if this has been posted yet but v much worth reading

louise mensch's articles aren't worth parsing in that level of detail imo. she's a crank.

A failed politician, sad.

Good mourning!

is anyone besides TPM reporting Oronov's death?

Not really but http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/alex-oronov-obituary?pid=1000000184312511 lol?

Still think that Trump Inc's. Russia connections and possible tomfoolery are real but separate from Russian interference in the election, but the Russian interference in the election and in particular Trump's surprise win have inextricably connected the two. Hence Trump's frustration. He and his circle have been up to no good for decades, but a commonplace no good - like offshore accounts or not paying taxes - that surely many shady businessmen have been up to, and get away with, all the time, because there has never been an incentive to dig deep and investigate. But that's just what the Russian interference in the election has provided, which explains the suspicious and contradictory defenses we've been getting from Trump Inc. They had no connection with the Russians re: election interference, but they did have ongoing business connections with the Russians. Which may indeed be sketchy and illegal, but which have been magnified now that he has ported all those connections and connectors over with him to the fucking White House, probably the hardest place to be sneaky in America, especially if you start out your administration under a cloud of suspicion.

It'd be like if I worked at a candy shop for 10 years, and every week I stole a dollar from the till. That's $520, no small change but nothing anyone would notice. But then it's revealed the owner of the candy shop has been laundering money for the mob and the entire operation is audited, and that $520 over 10 years is suddenly noticed. After a decade of thinking I got away with it, and convincing myself it was barely a crime, suddenly I'm in the spotlight, and the potential punishment is magnitudes higher than it was.

Of course it's possible one or more of Trump's chumps did collude with the Russians re: the election, but who knows.

The FBI

Maybe! Or we may never find out.

LOL"

Although Trump provided no information that he may have been monitored, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) stated that the president may want to lawyer up.

“Mr. President: If there was a wiretap at Trump Tower, that means a fed judge found probable cause of crime which means you are in deep shit,” Lieu wrote. After providing a link to a Washington Post article on Trump’s tweets and the fallout, Lieu took it a step further.

“Either @realDonaldTrump is paranoid like Nixon, or judge found probable cause of crime for #wiretap. Either way our President is in trouble,” he wrote.

More LOL:

Author Stephen King on Saturday jokingly turned President Trump's tweets accusing his predecessor Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower into a short story using a series of tweets.

"Not only did Obama tap Trump's phones, he stole the strawberry ice cream out of the mess locker," King tweeted.

"Obama tapped Trump's phones IN PERSON! Went in wearing a Con Ed coverall. Michelle stood guard while O spliced the lines. SAD!" King continued.

"Trump should know OBAMA NEVER LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE! He's in the closet! HE HAS SCISSORS!" King wrote.