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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/03/16/trumps-budget-makes-perfect-sense-and-will-fix-america-and-i-will-tell-you-why

National Endowment for the Arts: The NEA will be destroyed and replaced with an armored helicopter with a shark painted on it.

which the fuck congressmen were in that meeting with Trump just now and did they really just agree to switch from No to Yes on AHCA? or were they just humoring the big old fussy baby?

Awesome, now even we're bombing Aleppo.

I thought we didn't know where that was

To be fair, maybe we don't, it was reported that we supposedly just bombed a mosque *near* Aleppo.

Doctor Casino looks like you've got some competition:

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/5zsilz/trump_when_told_the_biggest_losers_under/df0p14d/

Also I am not u/surviva316 (down thread) despite having said the exact same thing here, basically.

J love and j Chicago can you all drop a link or two

see. trump tells it like it is. he's not some lying politician, saying anything just to get elected

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mounting-claims-of-civilian-deaths-after-us-targetsal-qaeda-in-syria/2017/03/17/350d5838-0ae9-11e7-8884-96e6a6713f4b_story.html

BEIRUT — The United States said Thursday that an airstrike on an al-Qaeda meeting site in Syria killed “several terrorists,” but reports emerged Friday that dozens of civilians may have died in the same attack.

A brief statement from the U.S. Central Command said it struck a “meeting location” in the northwestern province of Idlib, which it described as “a significant safe haven for al-Qaeda in recent years.”

Separately, a U.S. official said the strike was based on verified intelligence and targeted al-Qaeda groups gathered to discuss future operations. The attack involved two Reaper drones, which fired about eight Hellfire missiles and dropped at least one 500-pound GPS-guided bomb, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.

But local activists and a monitoring group claimed that the airstrike hit a mosque in the western Aleppo countryside next to Idlib province, killing at least 46 people and leaving dozens more under the rubble.

There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy on the location of the strike.

“The mosque in al-Jinah was destroyed,” said Mohamed al-Shaghal, a local journalist who arrived at the scene shortly after the attack. “Bodies filled the space.”

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring network, described the attack as a “massacre” and said the dead were mostly civilians. In photographs from the area, rescue workers were shown pulling mangled bodies from a bank of rubble. Aerial imagery appeared to confirm that much of the northern section of Jinah’s mosque was destroyed, although it was unclear whether the strike was a direct one.

According to the opposition-linked Step News Agency, the building was full at the time of the attack.

Idlib and Aleppo provinces are home to hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting, as forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad box the remnants of a six-year-long armed rebellion into a shrinking sliver of territory along the country’s border with Turkey.

The United States has struck dozens of locations in the region, where an al-Qaeda-linked alliance of rebel groups is now the ascendent force. The group’s second-in-command, Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, was killed in an airstrike on his car in late February, and the Central Command said that a separate bombing raid on an al-Qaeda training camp in January killed more than 100 militants.

Russian and Syrian aircraft are also known to operate in the area, turning the battlefield into a microcosm of the geopolitical tensions that have come to define Syria’s war.

Senior U.S. military officials have called for increased talks between Washington and Moscow to “deconflict” operations and make sure there are no collisions between aircraft.

Separately Friday, Syria and Israel traded competing claims over an apparent Israeli attack near the western city of Palmyra in the early morning hours.

While the Syrian military said its air defenses had shot down an Israeli jet over what it called "occupied ground," an Israeli military spokesman said the pilots’ safety was “at no point” compromised.

in b4 morbs to say obama killed civilians too &c &c

Well, yeah. Does it make a moral difference if one president says he gives a fuck if civilians are killed and the other doesn't?

Meanwhile, just for Alfred: Peggy Noonan, she is earnest!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/reach-across-the-aisle-mr-president-1489705420?mod=e2two

― Ned Raggett, Friday, March 17, 2017 10:14 AM

Thanks - I was about to have lunch!

death hurts less

arguably Yam at his most "presidential"

xp

I'm starting to think that some malformed "compromise" (but still terrible) version of AHCA/ACA repeal is going to pass tbh. It will please no one and doom the GOP's mid-term prospects, but the desperation to show any kind of accomplishment seems likely to override any principled stands (or, at least, enough of them). Not expecting anything to come up to a floor vote and fail, neither McConnell nor Ryan will expose themselves to that kind of humiliation. Currently seems like best hope to block it is for it to get delayed in the Senate long enough - ie, until after the spring recess, during which Senators will get pummeled by the public/town halls/etc. - and that might doom it. idk.

current AHCA= HEAD FAKE!!! trial balloon!!!

Govs. Kasich, Snyder, Sandoval and Hutchinson (all GOP) just formally rubbished AHCA via a statement to McConnell/Ryan

http://www.healthtransformation.ohio.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=S_gEqkALBFY%3d&tabid=160

Has there ever been a time when the stance of the federal government was so overtly (OVERTLY, I said) 'fuck most of you'?

Probably Reagan.

Is this a new thing, pushing to pass a piece of shit bill with the understanding it will be fixed after it passes?

As for whatever Trump is claiming:

https://twitter.com/freedomcaucus/status/842763614004109314

The House Freedom Caucus still opposes the GOP replacement bill in its current form.

Dems did it in 2010!

xpost

sort of (LBJ's first civil rights bill springs to mind) - but what they're doing here is p unique since no one's ever successfully rescinded an entitlement program, and using reconciliation to enable them to do it in stages is a novel approach, to say the least.

so afaik no one posted about the EPA-Monsanto revelations?

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a53906/monsanto-glyphosphate-roundup-epa/

news to me but not surprised

See, Crooked EPA is in bed with companies. Sad! That's why we must dissolve this agency immediately to #MAGA.

https://twitter.com/BroderickGreer/status/842780279005691906

The White House included that Washington Post column in their daily email of press clips. So either they didn't read past the headline, or someone in the Press Office is trying to send a message...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7IdpK1W4AAev8B.jpg

SIT UP STRAIGHT YOU FUCKING MAN BABY

low energy Secret Service almost put me at risk! Sad!

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/politics/white-house-fence-jumper/index.html?adkey=bn

You want low energy?

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cut short his recent visit with South Korean officials due to "fatigue," the Korea Herald reported on Friday.

he probably had to fly the plane to korea himself

Probably not used to flying in someone else's plane.

happy st. patrick's day!

i cannot (be held accountable when i) tell a lie (because americans are suckers who let you get away with more and more the more money your parents have, and if you ever call me on my "dishonesty", i'll say you just don't understand "business", "negotiation", and "the real world", you jealous loser)

AHCA House floor vote scheduled for next Thursday

Well, this is exciting...

https://twitter.com/jeffpeguescbs/status/842773968608251905
..@CBSnews has learned #Secret Service agent's laptop stolen in #NY has #national security information about #Trump.

https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/842790114635997184
Source tells me that protective perimeter pins & other @SecretService communication equipment also was stolen, and that USSS is FREAKING.

Oh, well:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/secret-service-laptop-trump-tower-floor-plans-details/story?id=46204467

A laptop computer containing floor plans for Trump Tower, details on the criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and other national security information was stolen from a Secret Service agent's vehicle in New York City on Thursday, law enforcement sources tell ABC News.

Authorities are still searching for the laptop. Police expect to quickly identify the suspect from video evidence, the sources said.

The computer is encrypted and authorities are able to wipe the hard drive remotely if needed.

wtf "criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton's" ? why does the secret service have this?

Clearly a staged incident by John Barron

wayne tracker is on the case!

the introduction of wayne tracker to the political scene has genuinely been a kind of bright spot within this hellscape, the name "wayne tracker". it makes me laugh every time

What Trump Might Do When He Realizes He's Losing

Wayne Tracker, trackin' Waynes in your direction

Wayne Tracker
Come and play with my affection

Come on, kiss the Trump

Wayne Tracker
The forces against you, the rain
I know everybody wants to put you down

Heh https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/842807224158343168

anyone know why there are so many douchebag wisconsin "conservative" politicians -- sean duffy, paul ryan, scott walker, reince priebus? does it have anything to do with frank lloyd 'the fountainhead' wright growing up near madison?

stately wayne tracker

lol Sparkle Motion i was about to make that exact post

Health care seems to be dead in the Senate, as two Republicans have already said they won't vote for it - Collins and Heller (R-NV) - and Tom Cotton's probably a No, too.

anyone know why there are so many douchebag wisconsin "conservative" politicians -- sean duffy, paul ryan, scott walker, reince priebus? does it have anything to do with frank lloyd 'the fountainhead' wright growing up near madison?

it's because Wisconsin sucks

signed, MN for Life