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

ok that Elaine Chao thing is pretty fucking weird

It's getting into the weeds here, but if something serious - that is to say, impeachable - were to come of all this, is the line of succession even clear?

Yes

Its in the Constitution. Pence > Hatch > Ryan > Tillerson.

Impeachment not gonna happen and not likely to improve things even if it did.

Ryan is ahead of Hatch

I can't really get any of the schadenfreude juice out of this shit because (as mentioned somewhere around here, today) if something actually terrible and bad happens, with these profoundly, epically stupid fucks in charge, thousands of people are probably going to die.

Also, I realized I won't really be able to be OK with this shit until after this guy is in the ground, because he's going to have to have a USSS detail around the clock until then. So we're never going to stop paying for the professional protection of this guy and his family until he's gone. And all these dumb fucking hicks I grew up around and served with just want to be pissed off about how their dimes go to crappy art and some science shit about snails. Let me tell you, asshole, what I want to take out of MY budget.

― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Wednesday, March 22, 2017 9:13 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ugh sadly otm

Dan is right, stupid phone

I just meant if there were endemic corruption demonstrated (just talking hypothetical) then it's not so simple as just going down the list, is it? They'd have to have investigations and clean up the mess first. Like, if a hunk of the white house, the cabinet, etc. were all tainted by this stuff, then it's not so simple.

While I'm skeptical impeachment will happen it obviously would wound the GOP in a larger sense by the very fact of it happening, would taint the party badly for the next election. It's very much something we should root for despite how awful Pence is.

I just meant if there were endemic corruption demonstrated (just talking hypothetical) then it's not so simple as just going down the list, is it? They'd have to have investigations and clean up the mess first. Like, if a hunk of the white house, the cabinet, etc. were all tainted by this stuff, then it's not so simple.

and after the most extensive set of corruption-related scandals, resignations, and indictments of all time, the line of succession to the presidency of the united states reached its way down to Dorothy Kenson, Assistant Deputy Director of the Federal Grain Inspection Service under the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration within the Department of Agriculture.

http://i.imgur.com/SKKYENf.jpg

not really, but what a day that would be for her

quite the day for all of us I should think

I stand with Dorothy Kenson.

http://gaycitynews.nyc/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wwwFriend-of-Dorothy.jpg

New Kenson Executive Order Names 'Highest Quality Grain in the World' as new U.S. motto

uh has this been covered? a defection from the Republican House, rep from Hawaii:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/hawaii-republican-leader-rep-beth-fukumoto-officially-resigns-gop-n737341

oh wait that's Hawaii House of Reps, sorry. still good news.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7kNokOXUAE6TF6.jpg

https://twitter.com/RyanLizza/status/844721400954925056

i'd say 100% chance, if the campaign manager of a democratic presidential candidate had been paid $10 million by the russian government to advance their interests, ten years ago or ten days ago, fox/koch nation would erupt in a paroxysm of second amendment solutions. what the fuck is wrong with this country?

The electoral college

i feel like we're a giant junior high, say a sixth or seventh grade with 100 kids, and the ten mean/cool/rich/popular kids have convinced about twenty more weak-minded wannabe kids to make it their number one priority in life that all ninety non-mean/cool/rich/popular kids should bow down before the ten mean/cool/rich/popular kids and do/believe whatever they say, no matter what the seventy or so rest of us want. i might be overestimating our collective maturity though

kindergarten seems more appropriate

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/breaking-former-russian-parliamentarian-and-putin-critic-shot-dead-in-kiev-57513

is it normal for all these dudes to be dying ? maybe it is but damn

It is not normal for people to be shot dead in the street, no.

Depends on your definition of normal but there is nothing to suggest this has anything to do with the US.

i was just stuck by what seems to be a significant body count in that last few months.

tbh I think that is partly because Russia / Ukraine get more coverage now.

good point

kindergarten seems more appropriate

Kindergarten population went for Clinton by like 47 points

My two year old son gets annoyed when adults are talking about adult stuff and not about him. He used to yell, "Stop talking!" but now he tries to act like he's part of the conversation. He stands between us and shouts, "Donald Truuuuump!"

I figure this is what its like when Trump talks to foreign leaders.

OMG, that's hilarious. And your assertion is probably essentially accurate.

Although I gather that that's how he interacts with pretty much everyone. Because crippling, pathological narcissism.

Trump talks to Time. Turns out he was right about everything

http://time.com/4710456/donald-trump-time-interview-truth-falsehood/

But I inherited a mess, I inherited a mess in so many ways. I inherited a mess in the Middle East, and a mess with North Korea, I inherited a mess with jobs, despite the statistics, you know, my statistics are even better, but they are not the real statistics because you have millions of people that can’t get a job, ok. And I inherited a mess on trade. I mean we have many, you can go up and down the ladder. But that’s the story. Hey look, in the mean time, I guess, I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president, and you’re not. You know. Say hello to everybody OK?

The other one, election, I said we are going to win, we won.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Nas-NastradamusAlbumCover.jpg

Go with our plan. It's going to be terrific. You're going to be very, very happy," the President said.

Hey look, in the mean time, I guess, I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president, and you’re not. You know. Say hello to everybody OK?

but i inherited a mess, a $250,000,000 new york city real estate nightmare, then i went bankrupt so many times, american banks refuse to lend to me! so i opened up a casino in DC and hired vladimir putin's #1 american lobbyist to direct my presidential campaign for free #MAGA #crooked hillary

I've run out of pejoratives for this halfwit tbh.

i hoped number none's pull quote was a joke

clearly i've learned nothing

'i can’t be doing so badly, because i’m president, and you’re not' ffs

"I'm president, and you're not. Say hello to your mother for me."

Brexit, I was totally right about that. You were over there I think, when I predicted that, right, the day before. Brussels, I said, Brussels is not Brussels.

Meantime re AHCA

https://twitter.com/elianayjohnson/status/844892819085021186

GOP rep texts that leadership just canceled a 9am conference meeting and says that "tells me it's panic time."

Plus about eight million new Manafort stories.

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Overheard from a House GOP lawmaker: "If this goes down, we're all screwed."

hawt

Why do they think that?

it's odd that the R side fears DT so much considering he has no mechanism apart from screaming, no allies within the greater R establishment and the knives are starting to come out. like the thing that WON'T make you screwed is saying you saved the republic

"Brussels, I said. Brussels is not Brussels. They're actually a vegetable, called a Brussels sprout. Not a place. Not many people know that. Sad!"

I guess after promising their voters for 7 years that they'll repeal Obamacare if given power, they assume they'll face primary challenges, or that their base won't turn out for them in '18