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

You're the subpoena!

No problem with the size of my subpoenas, ifyouknowwhatimean

wailing on his peni

― a (waterface), Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:26 AM (one hour ago)

i may have underestimated paul ryan

Rudimentary PaulRi

Ignoring subpoenas will be the new "can he do that?"

Didn't Rove ignore a subpoena for years?

Can they even do this right

http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/news/a9685/trump-white-house-easter-egg-roll/

if there's one thing trump and his cohort are known for it's their ability to project an air of lighthearted innocence, i'm sure everything will be fine

Rudimentary PaulRi

― International House of Hot Takes (kingfish), Thursday, March 9, 2017 3:19 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

Any Excuse...

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_480w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/in-the-loop/Images/spicerbunny.jpg?uuid=VmUOcpe2EeK2j9xcS0flGQ

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/03/where-are-the-romanovs-missing-faberg-easter-eggs.html

okay even if they get all the GOP on board, there's no way the AHCA will pass the Senate, right? I can't imagine any Dems going for it

every Dem Senator is on record as being against it. But the reconciliation process only requires a simple majority, which the GOP has. Not *everything* about the repeal/replace can be dealt with in reconciliation though, which is where Trump's brilliant plan to hold rallies in red states with Dem Senators to threaten them comes into play. I don't think it will work but we'll see.

esp because there are likely to be GOP defections in the Senate over this, and the Dems only need 2 to break McConnell's majority.

not sure how you can prod 10-12k people to show up in support of this POS bill

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/politics/fbi-investigation-continues-into-odd-computer-link-between-russian-bank-and-trump-organization/index.html

yeah, the crowds at trump rallies are notoriously picky about policy/program details

Hannity, meantime...

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/839934216343281681

Hannity on radio mocking critics: "'Hannity you’ve become a conspiracy theorist!' No, I’ve become a realist."

Trump supporters calling themselves "realists" is so strange to me. Its like putting someone hellbent on polluting the Earth in charge of the EPA.

Dystopia chic has really got out of hand

to the tune of ''fists up'' by the Blow

"every Dem Senator is on record as being against it. But the reconciliation process only requires a simple majority, which the GOP has. Not *everything* about the repeal/replace can be dealt with in reconciliation though, which is where Trump's brilliant plan to hold rallies in red states with Dem Senators to threaten them comes into play. I don't think it will work but we'll see."

what can't be passed via reconciliation? isn't that how the ACA was passed in the first place?

reconciliation can only be used to deal specifically with the budget. Non-budgetary related legislation (ie that doesn't have costs directly associated with it) has to go through the normal legislative process.

ACA cleared the Senate w 60 votes.

to be even more specific, reconciliation can only be used when there are two bills (one from the House and one from the Senate) that each have budgetary impacts and thus have to be "reconciled" before they can be considered approved by both chambers, with the final bill only requiring a simple majority vote. This is how Bush's tax cut was passed, among other things.

I am grossly oversimplifying things here btw but that's the short version

figured

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/trump-election-set-hbo-miniseries-game-change-team-984802

I assume Trump plays himself.

Trump to be played by several small children stuffed into an adult-sized suit

I love that the White House philosophy is "if you aren't wiretapping, how do you know about all the terrible things we did?"

BREAKING: Secretary of State Tillerson has recused himself from issues related to Keystone pipeline - State Department

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/839977448959840257

Where is the heat coming from?

He just figured this is a thing WH staffers do now and he didnt wanna be left out

HBO should cast Trump and Clinton as themselves.

Huh.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/arnold-schwarzenegger-senate-235905

For somw reason I hope they're played by extremely young, preposterously Hollywoodized versions of themselves. A Chris Hemsworth Trump would be funny, maybe, if it is even possible to wring humor out of this anymore.

Fuck no re: Arnie

CA GOP is desperate for any shred of relevance outside of the house majority leader from Bako

Arnold more likely to run as an independent though.

I hate Feinstein and want her to retire but Arnie wouldn't be much of an improvement. If he ran I could easily see him winning tho.

Maybe? I dunno.

feinstein is horrible, one of the only democrats I ever went out of my way to vote against, but I don't know that I would bring myself to do that if he ran. i'd vote green or some shit. one of the few cases where both options are just as shit.

The big problem arnie presents is who he would caucus with

His caucus will require a lot of helping hands

"Schwarzenegger, who as governor pursued political reforms including the “top two” primary system and a redistricting commission, has recently launched a major drive to end gerrymandering, a tradition he argues has benefited only partisan politics and gridlock — not the voters."

Any politician that could get something like that done in national politics would be a hero. I can't see anyone actually being able to get the surrounding vampires to actually agree to do something as such, but damn you could hope.

hasta la vista, vampires

Meanwhile, this exists:

https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/839982946782195714

Former Trump Advisor Roger Stone Was In Contact with a Russian Hacker During the Election

The contact between Roger Stone, the Trump associate, and the Russian influence operation came via private messages exchanged on Twitter, according to a source. Stone’s contact was with “Guccifer 2.0,” an online persona that U.S. officials say was created by Russian government officials to distribute and publicize material stolen during hacks of the DNC, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Gmail accounts used by Clinton staffers like John Podesta, the campaign's chairman.

Pushing a Smoking Gun reveal towards the mainstream media. Alas, Stone is a creep to the bone, which provides his employers plausible deniability.

Fuuuck

CNN was/is really all over the Trump Tower computer thing tonight.

That's nice. If it catches on as a story, all the other media outlets, including FOX and WSJ, will feel compelled to jump in.

Problem I'm having with the Trump Org / Alpha Bank computer thing is that it feels like old news.

Old news that was ignored in its old context may become new again in a new context.