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

i don't know what this means for trump just thought i'd put it here.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-retail-apocalypse-has-officially-descended-on-america-2017-3

What it means to him is that he inherited a mess.

If only Obama hadn't abruptly stopped shopping at Foot Locker, such a bad (or sick) guy.

https://twitter.com/samueloakford/status/842750506443427840

Good mourning!

not really a new phenomenon, this country's full of ghostly half empty malls. but now it's Official, I guess

XP Is civilian feeling in the middle east still influenced by the going after the oil comments? So this would be adding to that wouldn't it?
Geneva convention etc thought of as passé by the orange one?

And now the Senate Intel folks want to talk to Kushner:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/us/politics/senate-jared-kushner-russia.html?referer=

Until now, the White House had acknowledged only an early December meeting between Mr. Kislyak and Mr. Kushner, which occurred at Trump Tower and was also attended by Michael T. Flynn, who would briefly serve as the national security adviser.

Later that month, though, Mr. Kislyak requested a second meeting, which Mr. Kushner asked a deputy to attend in his stead, officials said. At Mr. Kislyak’s request, Mr. Kushner later met with Sergey N. Gorkov, the chief of Vnesheconombank, which the United States placed on its sanctions list after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia annexed Crimea and began meddling in Ukraine.

In terms of further 'hmmm,' Schindler referred to a 2015 story of his regarding a bank employee arrested for espionage; someone else brought up the fact that Gorkov graduated from a Russian spy academy in 1994 or so. Again, who knows.

"A public official may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public official."

The chain store shutdown/mall clearout thing seems almost like a delayed reaction after the first wave following 2008.

What has Kushner really did in business but spend his daddy's money in a billionaire version of flip this house?

he's certainly done much for hot bathing suit business:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/12/26/16/3BA415A400000578-0-image-m-51_1482771011040.jpg

the republican president is shaking up washington by violating the constitution. why do republicans hate the constitution?

I got to think Kushner getting that gig is a pretty good chuckle to the black belt six sigma types out there.

What has Kushner really did in business but spend his daddy's money in a billionaire version of flip this house?

― earlnash, Monday, March 27, 2017 8:46 AM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'Spending daddy's money' is the new 'legitimately demonstrating basic business competence'.

not so funny for 18F and USDS, xp

maybe he can have his daddy's old jail cell?*

*obligatory 'imagine the collective fox/koch nation epilepsy if barry "the shariah" soetero appointed his son-in-law to lead the federal government?' sore loser reminder

USDS is hollowing out from what I hear although I guess they just made new sweatshirts with emoji on them so maybe I'm just TOMA as usual

18F is now subordinate to the new Tech Transition Service at GSA, so they've sort of "burrowed in"

http://theweek.com/articles/687915/why-democrats-shouldnt-giddy-about-gops-healthcare-disaster

Direct from Nunes's spokesperson. Which seems a little ill-advised if you're trying to tamp down speculation:

https://twitter.com/AlexNBCNews/status/846368043353681921

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C77nPwCXkAAqCNa.jpg:large

that guy is toxic. he has no business being chairman of the house intelligence committee

so clearly he got it from bannon or priebus

Ryan, still tryin'

https://twitter.com/tomlobianco/status/846392059485458432

Spox for @SpeakerRyan tells @mkraju "Ryan has full confidence Chairman Nunes is conducting a thorough, fair, and credible investigation."

Also isn't this basically saying the white house leaked confidential information?

ahem "someone on white house grounds"

who leaked the leak? oh no! it's not the same people who are blackmailing comrade combover for the golden leak video, i hope : (

I mean it could have been that guy who was knocking on the WH door when the Secret Service couldn't find him. itisamystery.gif

There are so many people at the WH, guys, let's not jump to conclusions. Probably a gardener or something.

Separately, I have really had no opinion on Jim Harbaugh until now. Now I think he's A-OK:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/jim-harbaugh-politics-michigan-football-coach-trump-budget-214948

funny how Captain-Find-and-Prosecute-a-Leak is ok when the shoe is on the other foot

and in this case the leak wasn't even reporting any illegal activity that occurred!

The White House needs its facility clearance revoked, methinks

Huh.

https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/846398195529895938

JUST IN: Senate Judiciary Committee postpones vote on SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch until next Monday

Aren't they on recess then?

damn

These guys clearly flunked conspiracy class, lol.

the kabuki regarding gorsuch sounds so stupid to me. on slate's political podcast with the host of face the nation they were discussing what the dems will probably do - filibuster, but then allow dems to break ranks and vote for cloture. so they can say they 'filibustered' the 'moderates'/dems who want to vote for this fucker like the senator from colorado will say they were 'reasonable' and the nuclear option isnt invoked. a win win for everyone! except like, regular people.

best nuclear option is to kill'em all imo

The real reason for the near-extinction of mankind due to nuclear warfare those hundreds of years ago has been largely unknoen. Few clues survived other than transcripts from an obscure social group known as "ILXOR".

as best we can surmise, a casino thug named Trump usurped the Presidency, accumulated power, and escalated woekd tensions culminating in the Hen Fap wars, which led to an exchange of missiles with the leader of Russia, Don Henley.

where's the tax returns?

new personal best http://www.gallup.com/poll/201617/gallup-daily-trump-job-approval.aspx

jared and russia, sitting in a tree . . . aspen, to be exact : )

http://www.ericrosenwaldphotography.com/awol-in-aspen

How nice, a shrine:

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/846401938728108033

Mystery buyer pays $2M for Trump's boyhood home, per @Woellert.

Queens property is now Trump Birth House LLC's.

Dow has been dropping for a week straight

They're bummed that tax reform is now on the ropes

For those alive at the time how does this feel in relation to Nixon...

Not in regards to how it ended but how it began prior to his re-election. Did it feel like ultimately there wasn't enough there, was there a lengthy period of anxiety as everything dragged on?

I know these are hardly apples to apples compares esp since the Dems held Congress then but kinda curious overall. Everytime i think the current GOP couldn't possibly transparently obfuscate the investigation further we get shit like Nunes last Wed

(Obv that won't be many of you lol)

Queens property is now Trump Birth House LLC's.

Some people have money to burn.

Nunes's office has had to put out a statement re another question -- why use the White House with its secure area for intelligence stuff instead of the one at the Capitol:

https://twitter.com/jessicaschulb/status/846410963398131715

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C78Mx2SWkAEgKlp.jpg:large

This is being treated skeptically, thus:

https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/846412114218639360

If this source had access to these reports, I would bet good money he/she also has a courier card for SCI materials. So I call BS.

Xpost exclusive photo of the buyer

http://i67.tinypic.com/ix9nhj.jpg

As I've already noted a month ago so thereabouts, Watergate was a minor story, comparable to a paper cut or minor toothache. You were aware of it, it never quite faded away, and you were troubled by it, but it never seemed to go anywhere. The change came when the original burglars were convicted and Judge Sirica held long prison terms over their heads to compel their cooperation. Once they started naming names (even though it was to a grand jury) the story jumped back into prominence and accelerated steadily right up to Nixon's resignation.

yep, from June '72 til Feb or March of '73 Watergate did not catch fire, and was blasted regularly by the GOP as a partisan witchhunt. They even have Robards-as-Bradlee in the ATPM movie quote some poll along the lines of '2/3 of the public never heard of Watergate.'

man i wish i'd had the foresight to accumulate a couple of mil for trump's birth house and then have it bulldozed, burned, and the earth salted