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

stop linking to "the palmer report" for christ's sake

"The Amanda Palmer Report"

scads of legit stories per page there, with a convincing time line. i'm of the opinion though that donald trump is innocent, and anyone who thinks otherwise has bad taste

"Lol" at Ivanka being given a WH staff position. What a country.

Huh.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/comey-tried-to-reveal-russian-plot-before-election-obama-administration-officials-blocked/

Granted, consider the source (in this case ultimately Newsweek). Still, huh.

as O said to Yam after his inaugural address, "Good job."

piss on em all

He totally should've flipped him the double bird and said 'eat this shit, bitch!' and then launched into some wild air guitar.

yes i know Structural Monsters like POTUSes don't do that, OL, but thx for being 'grown up'

we'll see what happens when Pence gets sworn in

it's all in the delivery tho, could be obama said 'good job' while making the gas face and giving a thumbs-down

there is video! no dice

feels strange to say this but GWB was totally OTM

I'm reading Perlstein's Goldwater book atm, and the circumstances leading up to his nomination in '64 are so goddamn eerily familiar. There are long passages where you could swap out a few names and he'd be talking about 2016.

can't believe we haven't heard more about this 'good job' scandal

I'm reading Perlstein's Goldwater book atm, and the circumstances leading up to his nomination in '64 are so goddamn eerily familiar. There are long passages where you could swap out a few names and he'd be talking about 2016.

I'm finding the excellent Invisible Bridge hard work for similar reasons, too many depressing parallels

watching The_Donald have an identity crisis over this internet privacy thing has been pretty entertaining tbh

how can you stand to even look at that ridiculous sub?

I don't know that I could stand it, either, but it's probably important for at least some of us to stare into the deplorable sun and report back about what we saw before our eye sockets were reduced to smoking craters.

its tough but every time Trump punts on one of what I assume are their signature issues (for example weed legalization, or this) I always get the temptation to see how they're taking it. thus far it seems to be "actually, internet privacy is bad"

Rather bold of them in particular.

Trumpists would denounce breathing if their leader wrote an anti-respiration EO.

Ah, so you're saying we should encourage him.

frogbs I've also tried to go there when I was curious about how their universe is interpreting X, but after going there this morning... I'm having trouble seeing anything besides culty praise and desperate protection of their narrative. I wouldn't know where to look to find evidence of identity crisis, especially since I think they've removed the ability to sort by controversial (shocking).

It's like holding my breath as I sift through rancid garbage attempting to find spare change that may not even be there.

they all seem to think Trump is going to veto it. cuz he'd never sell out like that.

oh goody!

President Trump effectively declared war Thursday on the House Freedom Caucus, the powerful group of hard-line conservative Republicans who blocked the health-care bill, vowing to “fight them” in the 2018 midterm elections.

In a morning tweet, Trump warned that the Freedom Caucus would “hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast." He grouped its members, all of them Republican, with Democrats in calling for their political defeat — an extraordinary incitement of intraparty combat from a sitting president.

xpost They will reconfigure their brains to justify and rationalize anything he says or does. That facility is what makes cult members cult members.

internecine republican warfare you say?

popcorn.gif

But it does indicate that Trump has learned a lesson about the importance of party unity - he's not going to go after the FC caucus guys - he actually managed to reign in his ego in an act of self-preservation, which is unusual.

― Οὖτις, Friday, March 24, 2017 3:26 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just a reminder that 'reigning in his ego' is not a thing he does.

it's a thing that he can do for a maximum of 1 week.

It is entirely "you embarrassed me and I will make you pay." Which, while completely infantile, is a wonderful energy to have unleashed on people whose values I detest; popcorn.gif indeed.

i feel like we haven't seen even a fraction of the petty vindictiveness that trump is capable of, so i'm psyched to see him raise his game against the freedom caucus (and against himself by extension)

To give you an idea of how much the Freedom Caucus are scared about this:

https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/847448570081005568

It didn't take long for the swamp to drain @realDonaldTrump. No shame, Mr. President. Almost everyone succumbs to the D.C. Establishment.

seems like this is a strong man attempt to get them to fall into line, but given that the FC already defected on healthcare it seems likely to be the case that they don't feel beholden to trump for future electoral success, so this seems like a pretty poor gamble but hey

https://media.giphy.com/media/10wBn4sLsHOllS/giphy.gif

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Trump is a bully. A bully only has power when others fear him. Once his usual tactics fail, he's nothing but a bloviating half-filled ochre beanbag.

Corker trashing Ryan is roffly.

https://twitter.com/ericbradner/status/847452477796560896

So, yeah, this tactic isn't going to benefit him in any way, but it's all he knows. Godspeed, o POTUS my POTUS.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/world/africa/trump-is-said-to-ease-combat-rules-in-somalia-designed-to-protect-civilians.html?_r=0

WASHINGTON — President Trump has relaxed some of the rules for preventing civilian casualties when the American military carries out counterterrorism strikes in Somalia, laying the groundwork for an escalating campaign against Islamist militants in the Horn of Africa.

The decision, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations, gives commanders at the United States Africa Command greater latitude to carry out offensive airstrikes and raids by ground troops against militants with the Qaeda-linked Islamist group Shabab. That sets the stage for an intensified pace of combat there, while increasing the risk that American forces could kill civilians.

I guess every GOP'er running in 2018 is gonna have to figure out which side of 20 Trump's approval rating is gonna be

hope ivanka doesn't take it too hard when she finds out daddy's been lying to her and really is in bed with the kenyans

we all know he'd rather be in bed with ivanka

Has anyone posted this one, the Interior Secretary heavily implying that we're going to build the wall *in Mexico*:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8F08YIW4AMAFOB.jpg

Yeah that made the rounds. Basically he's saying it won't actually happen.

gov of kansas vetoed Medicaid expansion, thx gop for demonizing the aca so thoroughly that states continue even today to turn down free money for basic assistance to the most vulnerable populations

https://mobile.twitter.com/dnvolz/status/847461355502280705

@marcorubio suffered from Russian active measures during the election, Clinton Watts tells Senate Intel Committee. Rubio looked startled

Hm hm hm

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39435786

from latest PPP poll (which has him at -13%)

We find that if evidence comes out that proves conclusively that members of Trump's campaign team worked in association with Russia to help him win the election, 53% of voters think he should resign to only 39% who believe he should continue to serve as President.

this fuckin country

Campaign team vs. guy himself, FWIW.

right, but I mean even though it's an abstract question where voters bring their own presumptions, I would presume if it was found conclusively that his team worked with Russia, there would probably also be evidence corroborating the suspicion that the WH has tried to obfuscate the investigation. for Nixon it was the coverup (and the coverup of the coverup)

esp since any time whispers came out about Russia, Trump insisted his people were 'clean'