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

Comey don't play dat

I think the specific Orc I was thinking of was a different one (think he captures Frodo and Sam when they climb the stairsor something) but you can see what i meant from that image you shared.

Trying to think if I was thinking of an actual witch from Jim Henson or gerry Anderson
the 2 images I can find taht relate are these
http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-Witches1-635x422-500x332.jpg
for Angelica Huston in the adaptation of Witches taht henson worked on.
I was thinking there was something in the Dark Crystal but witch from that looks very different.

and Gerry Anderson
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/445318550412996608/rCAR7sep.jpeg
though could have just been imagining what a witch would look like in his later puppet style.

Heh http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-reince-priebus-white-house-235703

That spokesman for Trump who was on Good Morning America a few minutes ago got roasted. Not sure who she is but it all came off as pretty much unhinged.

please tell me gma then cut to the world's greatest frisbee catching dog

tbf that dog is one of trump's top policy advisors

nice

Isn't that Trump spokeswoman one of Mike Huckabee's kids?

yeah, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She did the rounds yesterday too

That Politico article is hilar. This machine would be running so smoothly if not for that doofus Rience!

Isn't that Trump spokeswoman one of Mike Huckabee's kids?

Better keep her away from Trump's advisor

Close, the next segment was with Michael Jackson's son.

fun with "democracy" in GA

sorry; here:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/4/1640112/-Wow-Nervous-Georgia-GOP-re-gerrymanders-state-House-to-protect-vulnerable-Republicans

Spicer is officially on the run - hasn't done an on-camera press briefing in a week, and won't be doing one today.

BBC talking "wire taps allegedly ordered by Pres. Obama" is uh...

such allegation

I've been trying to focus lately on the ways in which this clusterfuck could be beneficial in the long run. Part of me thinks that Turnip is such an unhinged and unfiltered exaggeration of every venal thing about the GOP that we may very well reach a tipping point where he ultimately toxifies much of the GOP platform. As we bear witness to the horrorshow of an unshackled GOP platform being put into practice, it feels like there's a shift occurring in the attitude of their opponents from aggrieved resignation to vehement denouncement. We're already seeing this to an extent wrt these town halls where people are decrying basic GOP talking points in a way that wasn't happening previously, but I have to imagine that much of their soft support is going to eventually melt away under these conditions. That rural Midwestern lady might be uncomfortable with particular groups that she's never interacted with directly but she might be more uncomfortable supporting a party that's increasingly associated with, say, anti-Semitic violence and a president who's unwilling to denounce these acts without somebody twisting his arm. Maybe not a perfect example of what I'm trying to get at, but basically: frothing maniacs are increasingly only appealing to other maniacs the longer they froth.

the Kochs aren't gonna stand for that!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/us/politics/koch-brothers-affordable-care-act.html?ref=politics&_r=0

has anyone asked you to stop using the word "turnip"?

Sure.

i really have no clue how everything will work out w/ trump but at a basic policy level i think things like the ACA repeal and other unpopular policy ideas, whether they are actualized or not, might fuck the GOP a little. bama's gone and it's going to be hard to continue to keep kicking him around when millions of people might lose their insurance. obv a lot depends on how well democrats expose GOP on those issues but we'll see

the Kochs aren't gonna stand for that!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/us/politics/koch-brothers-affordable-care-act.html?ref=politics&_r=0

i should really stop being surprised at the hypocrisy of these assholes but to think the Right has been flinging accusations of Soros-backed paid protestors and then they shamelessly roll out this Astroturfed bullshit.

sounds like the second iteration of the Muslim ban is being signed today, but nobody has much detail yet except that it's "limited" and no longer includes iraq

I really do think Trump's so stupid he thinks this new iteration of the travel ban is going to be applauded as totally rational and justified instead of attacked for being only slightly less unjustified than the previous one.*

*I do realize I am perhaps putting too much faith in the likes of CNN here, they really might be even dumber and might fall for this bullshit.

> no longer includes iraq

has he opened another hotel?

Lots of people, exposed to unvarnished GOP policy goals, especially if they actually become law, are going to be turned off. A wave election in 2018 is pretty much a sure thing. However, never discount the Democratic party's ability to piss off progressives and the American left by greedily going after more and more of a theoretical "center" that doesn't actually exist.

I worry that in response to all this undiluted wingnuttery plus the regular forgetfulness that, you know, the GOP candidate only won GEORGIA by five points, the actually-really-progressive Dem '16 platform is the one that gets watered down, partially due to the utterly infuriating misconception that a less progressive platform will let Dems "hold on" to "the center" and partially due to the fact that any Dem platform in 2018 or 2020 is going to have to first undo a bunch of awful stuff that this Congress does.

I half-jokingly forwarded the idea months ago but it's seeming more and more like the time is ripe for the parties to flip again. Starting with a horde of progressives taking advantage of rampant, simpleminded tribalism by running as Republicans.

I worry that the progressive left is ever going to come close to replicating the success of the Tea Party when it lacks anything resembling the big-money backing of the Kochs and their ilk. Especially considering Citizens United ain't getting overturned anytime soon.

Dems have plenty of money

I didn't say Dems, I said progressive left. I thought in the context of previous posts I didn't need to highlight the difference.

Protesters who damage property or block traffic could face tougher penalties under a criminal offense called “economic terrorism” proposed last week in North Carolina’s legislature.

The bill from several N.C. House Republicans comes months after Charlotte faced weeks of protests following the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. While most of the protesters were peaceful, some broke windows, looted stores and shut down Interstate 85 and Interstate

Rep. John Torbett, a Gaston County Republican, is the primary sponsor of House Bill 249. He says drivers who came upon protesters on Charlotte highways last fall “feared for their lives,” and his bill would “add a little bit more of a deterrent by heightening awareness and adding a penalty.”

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article136241788.html

need some 'Economic Terrorist' t shirts, stat.

The progressive left will keep trying to run third parties or as independents, which sucks up the money from progressives trying to drag the Dems leftward. So no, you'll never come close to replicating a Tea Party-style wave or building a strong caucus with the current formula, regardless of cash flow.

I worry that the progressive left is ever going to come close to replicating the success of the Tea Party when it lacks anything resembling the big-money backing of the Kochs and their ilk

no way dude george soros has been making it rain on those paid protestors for weeks now, didn't you hear?

Unimpeded by the progs, I have zero doubt the Establishment Dems will flood some shitshow like Andy Cuomo with 2020 money. To wit:

@davidsirota
Read this for the MSNBC view of who is important in Dem politics - notice the total omission of Sanders & his grassroots wing of the party

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/five-new-power-centers-guide-fractured-democrats-n728841

I don't see anything in that article that supports your tiresome "Cuomo 2020" bit but just remember - no matter who runs, the most important thing for real liberals to do is to withhold their support and spit vitriol at the whores

i think the fact that "the Sanders wing" does not exist for MSNBC/ClintonPravda supports it.

i'm sorry i'm tiresome, Dr Morbius' Medicine Show Vitamins are helpful tho

It'd be cool if Trump was going insane because he's been drinking mercury, thinking it would make him immortal.

i'm curious why obama chose not to release any of comrade combover's pre-election cellphone convos pre-election. was obama just getting back at hillz for exposing his kenyan birth? i'm glad attorney general sessions is on the case : )

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/new-executive-order-bans-travelers-from-six-muslim-majority-countries-applying-for-visas/2017/03/06/3012a42a-0277-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html?postshare=6131488814075437&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.d463b7ceec9e

not sure what to make of this yet

make it into a Muslim ban

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/600x315/8b/e8/62/8be86239ff2b04ec821c3fb1eb45f67a.jpg

lol

see the thing is though, this ban is only SIX countries

the other one was SEVEN countries

it's really different

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-1_9-z9rbY

this little detail from the NYT story is insane:

In a conference call with reporters on Monday morning, officials with Homeland Security, the Department of State and Department of Justice defended Mr. Trump’s original order and said the rewrite was intended to address legal concerns quickly to deal with what they repeatedly characterized as an urgent national security threat.

In a break with standard practice, participants in the call did not give their names to reporters even though, as a condition of joining the briefing, journalists had agreed to identify them only as unnamed officials.

sounds like these officials are super proud of what they're doing, not ashamed at all

who is important in Dem politics - notice the total omission of Sanders

Let me know when Sanders identifies as a Democrat, thx

howbout that Chuck Schumer identified him as one, Einstein?

Sanders is not a Democrat

ACLU to sue again

https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-comment-trumps-new-muslim-ban

funny how people keep forgetting

xp

Vermont Public Radio and a number of his colleagues seem to think he is

http://digital.vpr.net/post/post-election-bernie-sanders-makes-use-his-high-profile-democratic-party#stream/0