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

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Meanwhile, in multitasking congress:

Tensions between congressional Republicans and the Trump administration are rising over Russia, as lawmakers probing alleged ties between the president’s team and the Kremlin accused officials of trying to block their efforts.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), whose committee is one of several where investigations are fully underway, accused Justice Department officials Wednesday of lying when they promised to share information about ongoing department probes with lawmakers conducting oversight.

“It doesn’t matter whether you have a Republican or Democrat president, every time they come up here for their nomination hearing . . . I ask them, ‘Are you going to answer phone calls and our letters, and are you going to give us the documents we want?’ And every time we get a real positive ‘yes’! And then they end up being liars!” Grassley said, screaming into the phone during an interview with The Washington Post. “It’s not if they’re treating us differently than another committee. It’s if they’re responding at all.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/is-there-an-investigationgraham-demands-answers-from-fbi-on-russia/2017/03/15/9d98c330-097a-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html

Yeah the courts opposing it isn't the concern, it's whether the people implementing it are given orders, explicit or otherwise, to ignore the courts.

Dershowitz otm

Wednesday night’s ruling could also impact the Supreme Court confirmation process for Judge Neil Gorsuch — one of the most smooth-sailing initiatives launched by the administration — because Democrats may now have a greater incentive to stall his appointment.

“He can’t change it again,” Dershowitz said in an interview. “That would be embarrassing. He’s going to seek an expedited appeal from the Ninth Circuit, and the Democrats will try to slow down the Gorsuch nomination so he won’t be there in time to break a four-four tie.”

Altho I'm not so sure it would be a tie at this point

Esp when Prez ManBaby keeps flapping his gums

I'm not so sure it would be a tie at this point

Chief Justice Roberts seems to have retained a shred of self-respect that he still wishes to preserve. One may hope this would be operative when this case arrives.

why would the SCOTUS even hear it?

at this point, I hope Trump never dies, just forced to sit there at 173 years old reliving the "nelsonlaugh.jpg" that was his Presidency over and over, Ludovico-stylez in prison

I'm surprised there's no pro-ban litigation trying to claw its way to the fifth circuit but I guess you would need to prove damages to do so

"our anti-Muslim conventions have lost money as a result"

Sort of funny that Tucker Carlson interviewed him at what appears to be a car dealership

I'm just amazed that Tucker Carlson still exists in 2017. woulda thought he'd been deprogrammed with the other obsolete units from 2004

He's apparently the resident populist rabble rouser at fox news now. Weird world.

He's apparently the resident populist rabble rouser at fox news now. Weird world.

Sorry for the double

lol, highlights of this Fox News poll: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2017/03/15/fox-news-poll-315/

difference between "strongly approve" and "strongly disapprove" = -15%

-3 disapproval of his handling of terrorism

-15 disapproval of his handling of immigration

-20 disapproval of his handling of health care

-22 on Russia

Dems take a beating re: Congress but Republicans viewed 6 points worse

Paul Ryan -10% favorability rating

Elizabeth Warren +8% (19% voted "never heard of", if you want a clue of the types of people who vote in this shit)

Wikileaks -15% favorability rating

McConnell -24% favorability rating (that is actually UP from last year)

-11% approval of Executive Order banning immigrants (2nd one)

Supreme court approval +27%

-20% approval for Republican health care act (40% strongly oppose to 17% strongly favoring)

also his approval rating is +10% with men, -25% with women!

btw NYT had front-page story today about Gorsuch ties to a "secretive" Colorado mogul

tl;dnr

It being FOX, there's a fair chance Trump might see those numbers. He HATES being strongly disapproved.

fake Fox News!

I have it on good authority that this survey was hacked

roger stone jumped in front of a car to secure its integrity

GOP finally got the Phineas Gage they deserve

This is some serious WTF

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/842196143727607809

this man's ability to totally fuck up softball interviews is always gonna be amusing to me

And yet this man was elected President of the United States. Makes you think.

For a guy who always complains about the NYT, sure seems like a devoted reader.

he calls it the failing new york times

they said "wiretap" and I said "hmm" and they said "Trump" and I also said "hmm" and then I said both words together and it all became clearer

GOP finally got the Phineas Gage they deserve

this turned into a much more interesting google than i expected.

GOP finally got the Phineas Gage they deserve

http://www.vox.com/2017/3/15/14596938/david-malpass-treasury

So he got the wiretap idea from the NYT even tho the NYT are fake news and nothing they say is true, except for when it is?

...I need to lie down, my head hurts.

i read that and to me the exchange was like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddWC_aAK7hk

So that speech was hot for about two or three hours after the speech was made, because they came up with other things, having to do with other people, that they shouldn't have been able to do and they shouldn't have done, but they did it. And you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Second president in a row to be a Jay-Z fan?

hahaha

Maryland judge also temporarily blocks order

That stone thing needs some garbage memes like "life comes at you fast...like Russian hit man" or "in Putins rossia, life comes slow but his hit men- they come at you crazy fast!"

Sometimes I think about a scene from HBO's Rome, just after the assassination of Caesar.

Cassius: We have all the Senate behind us, and all the men of quality.
Antony: And I have an angry mob, that will roast and eat your "men of quality" in the ashes of the Senate House.

Now, I don't know if Trump or Trumpians watched that series, but I think they would approve of this exchange and incorporate it into their fantasy of how to transform American governance.

The judges rule against us? Well, let us storm the courthouses and bay for their blood.

how likely is this draconian budget to pass?

McCain said already it won't clear the senate fwiw.

also couple stories now circulating abt gorka's membership/ties to nazi org: https://www.buzzfeed.com/talalansari/sebastian-gorka-report?utm_term=.oda2K1PP1q#.il20prOOrJ

re McCain statements http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/324281-mccain-trump-budget-cant-pass-senate

lolzford brimley

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/15/politics/trump-wiretapping-nunes-sessions/index.html

1. Boost the military above all else
2. Demonize the independent media, make up your own "facts" (anti-intellectualism)
3. Isolationist worldview, Economic nationalism
4. Demonize "the other" (Foreigners, Illegals, Muslims, Liberals...)
5. Consolidate power (undermine Congress and "so called" Judges)

6. ???
7. PROFIT!

Likeliness to pass is a pre-Trumpian question, fool. Only idiots take his proposals/orders/support for policies literally; they forget he is the master dealmaker who always begins negotiating at an extreme, trusting that the final position will be someplace else. This is the prism through which he sees the world.

So he puts out a budget eliminating (for example) life support for fluffy puppies who have cancer. All the usual suspects cry out, "Trump hates fluffy cute widdle puppies!" Whereas to him, it was never about the puppies, but about the rush of the art of the deal. After negotiation it turns out that he really only wanted to kill, say, 75% of the puppies. You fools took him literally when it was really just a starting negotiating position.

Ditto, ban all the muslims. Maybe it's only most of them. Let's talk, let's deal.

Ditto, eliminating the EPA, NEA, NEH, PBS, and pretty much any non-Defense government department. It's just a proposal! People will get in a room, see, and there will be a Deal Made. Maybe only half of those agencies are actually eliminated.

Ditto, the health care bill. He doesn't care about the details of the GOP proposal because to him, it's just a starting point for the awesomely winning dealmaking that is gonna happen. Believe me. It'll be beautiful.

Ugh. This mode of thinking is getting normal and it just makes me so ill.

yes yes but we gotta point out that, cuts to State notwithstanding, this is a REPUBLICAN budget. They've dreamed of cutting the arts and EPA for years, at least since Reagan.

that budget won't pass either chamber, and generally speaking president's budgets never do - Congress writes the bills.

it is v much a "starting point" though

I would love to leave some "trickle down" economics on Reagan's grave