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

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Back up -- Jerry Falwell influenced MLK?

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, except for homos, abortionists, and feminists.”

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQacnto7wAM

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:46 (seven years ago) link

lol I was just thinking I would love to see what Comey had to say about Falwell, and then the "influenced MLK" post came up and I almost did a spit take.

You're going to see a lot of love. Okay? Thank you. (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:47 (seven years ago) link

resign away, mr. wayward president

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVD5iqAcIbQ

reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link

What in the fuck, never link that again, anywhere.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link

Back up -- Jerry Falwell influenced MLK?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:17 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

of course! i mean MLK would've been a republican today

marcos, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:08 (seven years ago) link

party of lincoln etc

marcos, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:08 (seven years ago) link

Lincoln was tough on emigration, he wouldn't let those other states leave

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link

lenny bruce is trenchant social commentary

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link

anthrax cover of kansas is surprisingly faithful to the original

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:12 (seven years ago) link

well how can you not be

j., Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link

Instant classic from The Onion: Mike Pence Asks Waiter To Remove Mrs. Butterworth From Table Until Wife Arrives

http://www.theonion.com/article/mike-pence-asks-waiter-remove-mrs-butterworth-tabl-55661

neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link

welp

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/gorsuch-manchin/index.html

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link

ARGH

sleeve, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:20 (seven years ago) link

doesn't matter.

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link

unless they have four votes apiece

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link

ty

sleeve, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:23 (seven years ago) link

He has a record as a balanced, meticulous, and well respected jurist who understands the rule of law

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:23 (seven years ago) link

haha

"I've decided to cast my vote for Gorsuch, but my 3 Super Votes will be for Garland"

Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:24 (seven years ago) link

yeah I know it won't break filibuster, just typical "rmde at Manchin"

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link

Schumer's gonna filibuster, GOP won't have the 8 Dem votes needed for cloture, McConnell will invoke "nuclear option" (which I doubt Manchin and Heitkamp will support) and it will pass on party lines, Gorsuch will then get confirmed with 52 votes or thereabouts.

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link

xp

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link

this is all turning into a shitty 90s political 'thriller' flick

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link

Meanwhile at the White House:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W3bF4ASGJWA/hqdefault.jpg

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:30 (seven years ago) link

Anyway Trump is now just calling some people out directly:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/847559239149158401

If @RepMarkMeadows, @Jim_Jordan and @Raul_Labrador would get on board we would have both great healthcare and massive tax cuts & reform.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link

hope Jim writes back "ur mom was on board last nite"

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link

lol

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:34 (seven years ago) link

I have to say this is all turning out about as well as could be hoped

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:34 (seven years ago) link

omg

Treeship, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:39 (seven years ago) link

Okay folks, it's fully on now:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-flynn-offers-to-testify-in-exchange-for-immunity-1490912959?mod=e2tw

Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional officials investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia that he is willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.

As an adviser to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, and later one of Mr. Trump’s top aides in the White House, Mr. Flynn was privy to some of the most sensitive foreign-policy deliberations of the new administration and was directly involved in discussions about the possible lifting of sanctions on Russia imposed by the Obama administration.

He has made the offer to the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees though his lawyer but has so far found no takers, the officials said.

Mr. Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner, declined to comment.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:46 (seven years ago) link

ha -- news is moving so fast that I thought I was responding to that breaking bit several minutes ago

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link

xp sweet

sleeve, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link

Snitchin' Mike

Treeship, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:50 (seven years ago) link

He has made the offer to the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees though his lawyer but has so far found no takers, the officials said.

uh...can we get any takers on this

Karl Malone, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:50 (seven years ago) link

willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution

haha oh shit, yeah this seems like a big deal

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:51 (seven years ago) link

May be that he's not offering up anything meaningful on other people, so why grant immunity?

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link

why would he need immunity? i didn't expect him to get charged with anything.

Treeship, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:55 (seven years ago) link

As the voice of miserable pessimism, it just means he thinks he might have done something illegal - which could be lying about or failing to disclose payments from RT or Turkey in his security clearance application. It doesn't mean he has flipped on Trump - particularly if nobody is willing to take up the offer.

Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:55 (seven years ago) link

SV is right but a Trump guy breaking the law and getting caught w/in the first few months (weeks?!) of the administration is at the very least a black mark on WH (and one that apparently refuses to go away)

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:59 (seven years ago) link

Maybe all along, the leaker was....Hillary.

she had seen that she'd be taking office with a divided Congress, united against her, even her own party in some ways. she knew she'd be ineffective.

Why not tear the Republicans apart from the inside by letting him win, and then framing him for an espionage campaign that all but sinks the Republican party for eternity? All along, she had us all where she wanted us.

my alternate theory is that lizard people did it.

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link

Flynn needs to be careful about standing too close to any open windows

Moodles, Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link

xxpost that's the thing really is the whole "Paterno" scenario. obv he became more directly implicated as that story developed further but in the earlygoing, he was seen more was the guy that "didn't do enough" when made aware of something and held accountable for what happened under him.

President appointing a guy who is about to be indicted to National SEcurity is as bad a headline as you could ask for.

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link

Flynn needs to be careful about standing too close to any open windows

― Moodles, Thursday, March 30, 2017 7:02 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

could Trump's admin even get that right at this point?

wouldn't be half surprised to see a processional of Trump goons tricked one by one into falling out a window to their demise while Flynn sits idly by and laughs

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:04 (seven years ago) link

With Putin's help, anything is possible, and this is one of his specialties

Moodles, Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link

Flynn probably has no takers as he's quibbling w/ the FBI over the hotel they will put him up in

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link

why would he need immunity? i didn't expect him to get charged with anything.

― Treeship, Thursday, March 30, 2017 10:55 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

failing to register as a foreign agent of turkey - illegal, regardless of their ham fisted ex post facto registration
taking payments from a foreign power while being retired military - also illegal

I cant see how his testimony would relate to that but hey, give him points for trying

officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:17 (seven years ago) link

Trump's primary threat tactic is p funny - w his approval ratings in the tank, who does he think is gonna run in a year out of sheer loyalty to Trump, rather than loyalty to a particular ideology or actual constituents. Like are there *really* that many available candidates out there who are just "idgaf what he does, I will support him on anything no matter what"?

xp

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link

Trump doesn't get that his legislative support is predicated on his being a vehicle for *their* priorities, not vice versa

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:19 (seven years ago) link

Like are there *really* that many available candidates out there who are just "idgaf what he does, I will support him on anything no matter what"?

Just you wait, next year we'll be reading news stories about Congressional candidate X, "better known as Cuntkiller88 from /r/the_Donald"

Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:20 (seven years ago) link


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