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

this looks productive

https://draftbernie.org/sign-our-petition/

admittedly i prefer the Send the Clintons, Cuomo and Booker Into Space Permanently petition

Oh, OK, you're back. Earlier you posted something that wasn't critical of the Clintons, and I was wondering if you'd suffered some sort of stroke.

XPS

I guess the counter-argument that the Military has enough money and should learn to use it more effectively is one that will most certainly backfire.* As would the comment that even with more money, it's highly unlikely said funds would lead to pay raises or better facilities for the VA, which is really where the money needs to be going rn.

*Related somewhat: I'm already seeing commentary from conservative FB friends about how the Government only partially underwrote Meals On Wheels, and a portion of their budget comes from charity contributions from the public, so why don't you whiny libs ramp up donations to cover...and just die already.

welp confirm him, he has me sold

http://✧✧✧.c✧✧.com/2017/03/21/politics/President-Trump-Latest?lf-content=188682397:lb-post-31793338e90dbb318172edcf3a8c4✧✧✧@livef✧✧✧.c✧✧&hubRefSrc=permalink

ehh fuck it. Gorsuch said LGBTQ "are people"

god forbid any american congressman supports cutting any part of 60% of our budget

Whole lotta pro-life types out there going "ARGH" over Gorsuch's answers today.

really? any tweets?

No, just twicks

lol:

Inside the room, however, Trump did not get into much detail about what needed to be adjusted for the bill to win approval. He focused more on the political risks and rewards of passage, telling Republicans that they “kept passing and passing and passing” repeal bills under President Obama and would be punished if they did not make good on their campaign promises.

“We won’t have these crowds if we don’t get this done,” he said, referring to his Monday night rally in Kentucky.

i.e. "If your bill doesn't pass, my crowds will diminish."

really? any tweets?

Steve Deace's feed is a horrorshow (for them)

https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow

Meantime...

http://theslot.jezebel.com/hacked-texts-suggest-manafort-continued-to-play-a-role-1793469844

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Whitehouse: Why did JCN spend $17M to beat Garland and confirm you? Gorsuch: Ask them. Whitehouse: "I can’t because I don’t know they are."

Meantime...

http://theslot.jezebel.com/hacked-texts-suggest-manafort-continued-to-play-a-role-1793469844

yea I kinda thought Spicer's "Paul Mana-who?" routine yesterday was a bit odd.

nbc says there are 26 GOP hard or strong lean nos. 21+ and the bill fails

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/844255620358443008

seems tight enough that they'll limp over the line by thursday

but obviously if any of these people are yours, give them a call

Novi is deep Republican suburbs of Detroit

Whomp whomp

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/21/jared-kushner-struck-out-in-his-first-foray-into-middle-east-diplomacy/

Roger Stone meets the Daily Mail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4335084/Trump-friend-Roger-Stone-doubles-British-spy-claim.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

'My civil rights have been violated. My right to privacy has been violated,' Stone told DailyMail.com, specifically mentioning the Times article. 'Leaking that, if indeed it was because I was under a FISA warrant, leaking that information would be a felony.'
He declared: 'I have committed no felonies, but the intelligence services have committed felonies to slur my name.'
Later in the conversation, in the midst of a back and forth about his relationship with the president, Stone also said, 'It does occur to me during the campaign that the FBI was quite clearly monitoring my conversations with Trump, candidate Trump.'
He observed that his talks with Alex Jones, Trump adviser Steve Bannon and others, would have been taped, too.

lol i missed this yesterday

“I hate the New England Patriots,” Comey said. “No matter who they play, I’d like them to lose. And I’m at the same time rooting against the Patriots and hoping their opponent beat them because there’s only two teams on the field.”
“By the way if I’m honest with myself the reason I don’t like the Patriots is they represent sustained excellence, and as a Giants fan that drives me crazy,” said Comey, whose comment was greeted by chuckles from the committee.

ignoring the valid points of leaks being illegal and going through appropriate legal channels, not really a good look for Stone and company to be all like "the problem isn't the things I might have done the problem is HOW YOU FOUND OUT ABOUT THEM"

(not that it's any certainty that protocols weren't followed anyway)

sad lol @ this clown

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who said last month on Fox News that he did not intend to immediately subpoena Stone or Page to testify, told reporters Monday that he had never heard of either man.

“You haven’t heard of Carter Page and all these other people?” a reporter asked Nunes Monday on Capitol Hill, to which he flatly replied “no.” In response to a follow up question, Nunes again said he had not heard of Page or Stone, but added that “I’ve heard of Manafort.”

“He meant he’d never heard of them before their names appeared in the New York Times story about them allegedly being investigated in connection with Russia,” a Nunes spokesman told POLITICO on Tuesday.

sharivari please interpret https://twitter.com/BBCDanielS/status/844279337620832257

lol @ "Russian natural causes" response

Nunes has been in Republican politics since 2003 and he's never heard of Roger Stone? Yeah, I'm calling massive bullshit on that one.

Not a huge amount to interpret yet - sounds like he was thrown out of a window. He is a witness in a major money laundering case due to start in the US in May so no shortage of suspects if correct.

Xp

Also apparently due to bring a case tomorrow about collusion between Moscow police and organised crime.

nothing says "political intrigue" like a good ol' fashioned defenestration

Has anyone in the Trump camp tried to distance themselves from Roger Stone? Seems weird they let him run around telling people he is an informal sdvisor.

“I haven’t seen a single Democrat … indicate they were prepared to either for cloture or to vote for him,” McConnell told reporters. “If Judge Gorsuch can’t achieve 60 votes in the Senate, could any judge appointed by a Republican president be approved with 60 or more votes in the Senate?”

hmmm makes ya think

Merrick Garland might

Has anyone in the Trump camp tried to distance themselves from Roger Stone? Seems weird they let him run around telling people he is an informal sdvisor.

What, you mean instead of throwing him out of a fourth-floor window?

Of course, if more widely applied...

"Sorry, Sean. Out you go."
"I can flyyyyyy!"

*shortly afterward*

"No, the president never ordered me thrown out of that window. Also I'm not dead, I'm getting better."

Heh.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7eCBYMVUAArUOB.jpg

lol Ned

OMG @ that McConnell quote. These fuckers possess zero self-awareness.

Or I don't know if it's even that. The tribalism is so entrenched...of course it's okay when we do it to them, but the very idea that they'd do it to us!

yeah the false "oh my stars and garters!"-level shock is v disingenuous. At least Dems have the "well they started it" defense. (I don't really think Reid would have outright refused to give any of Romney's hypothetical nominees a hearing)

xp - it's neither a lack of self-awareness nor a consequence of entrenched tribalism. it's politics. the application of spin.

Meantime, at the Gorsuch hearing…

Sen. Flake Q: Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or 1 horse-sized duck?

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/844307193591681024

https://youtu.be/DOqb_UzJSUQ?t=1

well well http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/obamacare-repeal-mark-meadows-freedom-caucus-236314

Trump is watching House of Cards S1 for ideas

Meanwhile in the 'glad it's not me!' camp

https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/844180725494661120

he calls his kids products

"products are people too, my friend"

he shoulda beta tested some of his kids first IMO