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

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

I hate to break it to you but party affiliation/registration is like an actual box on a form and he has not checked it. He is registered as an Independent in the current session. He caucuses with the Democrats. He is not a Democrat.

afaik his main rationale for not wanting to officially be a Democrat is that he doesn't want to be on the hook for fundraising/organizing on behalf of the party.

calling him a Democrat is like calling McCain an Independent

Sanders is a Democrat except when he isn't, it is very clear

this is totally going to be how we beat these guys

Sanders doesn't *smell" like a democrat

at least the Green Party has figured out how to build a mailing list and fleece suckers- that's step 1 on the road to duplicating Tea Party success, I think?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jill-steins-recount-fundraising-what-happens-to-leftover-money/

he is over 70 like all the board's fave Democrats

xxp

btw Shakey I *am* a box-checked registered Democrat, and yet Bernie is the one who got appointed to the leadership team, go figure

I think this new travel ban shows real openmindedness and flexibility on the part of the administration. They're clearly paying attention to the fact that Iraq has scaled back their near-nonstop terrorist attacks on our country over the past several weeks and they're willing to reward them accordingly. It's refreshing.

I can only hope that the other six countries will take note and end their inhumane barrage of hate and carnage on US targets.

he is over 70 like all the board's fave Democrats

xxp

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, March 6, 2017 12:59 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude nobody on this board really likes the aging democratic leadership

I do

https://twitter.com/journorosa/status/838815925235232769

Khizr Khan told his "travel privileges are being reviewed." He's been a US citizen for 30 years.

wtf

Hoooooly shit. Is he almost certainly being singled out or am I being paranoid? Because if I'm not being paranoid, this is one of the most mind-blowingly stupid things this administration has done.

That's just dumb

https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/country/canada.html

yeah US citizens traveling to Canada: please have one blank passport page so we can stamp it upon your return. EXCEPT YOU MR KHAN

this just can't be true

I do

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, March 6, 2017 11:26 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb_eeVIpDw8

Meanwhile: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/john-bennett-muslim-questionnaire-islamophobia-wife-beat-oklahoma-politician-a7612051.html

And also another Indian-American was shot dead, this time in North Carolina.

This fucking guy, with Muslim ban 2.0. Basically the same shit, but this time they ... give a head's up? Because they still don't really justify the ban they still don't really explain why one country and not another, a mystery exacerbated by the loss of Iraq from the list. Iraq was there, now it's gone. Why? What changed? It's all so stupidly arbitrary.

this will die in court, just waiting to see which state sues first

Maybe Trump is in fact in court, and has been waiting there for weeks, wondering where everyone is.

“The reality is, this is existential for Republicans,” said David McIntosh, the president of the Club for Growth, which has been sending emails regularly to its 100,000 members warning that Republicans could be stalling the repeal indefinitely. The group plans to directly target party leaders like Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, and Paul D. Ryan, the House speaker, in a new phase of the campaign.

“If they don’t repeal Obamacare and replace it,” Mr. McIntosh added, “I don’t think they’ll stay in the majority in the next election.”

^ Mr. McIntosh proving he does not know the meaning of the word "existential".

EXistential = EXtra essential

@Josh, seems like Iraq got off the list through intense lobbying. It was crazy in the first place to ban people from the country fighting IS the most. Just like the whole ban is crazy http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/06/politics/iraq-travel-ban/index.html

"Bernie's not a registered Democrat" is some real forest/trees shit.

Meantime:

https://twitter.com/MatthewNussbaum/status/838826496655523841

WOW: Spicer refusing to say what Trump's source is for wire tap claim, when pressed he snaps at reporter: "You're not on camera."

is Allen Funt in the bushes?

Smile!

That "enemy of the people" shit Trump tweeted a week or so ago seems to have snapped the WH press corps out of their trance. Now, if they can only remember how to be reporters again, they might accomplish something useful.

Reporters need to start wearing police body cams to briefings, and uploading the results to YouTube.

This guy:

https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/838829366226341889

@PressSec now hanging basis for probing Obama admin wire tap on Trump tower on ex-AG Mukasey's comment on Sunday show that it was "likely"

XP They should start bringing Dippin' Dots and throwing them at Spicer when he gets uppity.

Most of the substantive reporting has come from leaks. Spicer's pressers mostly just illustrate the insanity of the WH.

Reporters should just outright quit asking policy questions at his gaggles and just ask hurtful troll questions like "Sean, why don't women like you?"

I've been saying for a while that 'what's that thing on your face?' or some variant thereof should make its way into every WH staff interview.

a lot of good sobering shit from Masha Gessen here:

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/03/06/trump-russia-conspiracy-trap/

reading this makes me feel a tiny bit sympathetic to the loons who just hunker down with their fringe media hysteria-mongers on the far right and far left and shut out the rest of the world. not that I take every word of WaPo, the Times, CNN, as gospel, but if this much of their reporting can (apparently) be picked apart, it just leaves you feeling kind of hopeless at ever getting all that close to the truth. I guess the best course of action is just heightened skepticism towards everything, though psychologically I think it's really really hard to resist buying in when a relatively dependable news source is telling you bad shit about someone you despise.