Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

I mean does she realise that without a livable wage people dont spend money and buy houses and the economy grinds to a halt, right? Not to mention the increase in crime it causes which pearlclutchers like her would hate.

It's a true reflection of her party's thoughts on the matter.

if you surprised trump with the question, as a non sequitur, "do you support a living wage like the typical democrat, or do you oppose it like republican house candidate karen handel?", i wonder what he'd say

xpost yeah she just accidentally blurted out something honest, i love when that happens

if you surprised trump with the question, as a non sequitur, "do you support a living wage like the typical democrat, or do you oppose it like republican house candidate karen handel?", i wonder what he'd say

Shit man, put it up as an instapoll or something on Breibart/Fox News/etc. and learn how quickly how party labels outweigh everything else.

I've been reading the Hari Seldon-esque Peter Turchin of late. From his Ultrasociety:

There is a pattern that we see recurring throughout history, when a successful empire expands its borders so far that it becomes the biggest kid on the block. When survival is no longer at stake, selfish elites and other special interest groups capture the political agenda. The spirit that "we are all in the same boat" disappears and is replaced by a "winner take all" mentality. As the elites enrich themselves, the rest of the population is increasingly impoverished. Rampant inequality of wealth further corrodes cooperation. Beyond a certain point a formerly great empire becomes so dysfunctional that smaller, more cohesive neighbors begin tearing it apart. Eventually the capacity for cooperation declines to such a low level that barbarians can strike at the very heart of the empire without encountering significant resistance. But barbarians at the gate are not the real cause of imperial collapse. They are a consequence of the failure to sustain social cooperation. As the British historian Arnold Toynbee said, great civilizations are not murdered - they die by suicide.

This accords with my reading in history, more or less. In the U.S., we haven't seen political arguments to reduce income inequality to preserve social and civilizational stability since the 1930s. I think its a worthy justification.

"I support a gruel diet, unless they want some more"

lol

More fun:

HOT TAKE: So what happened today with the Senate on Trumpcare leads me to believe it could go exactly like the House-- secretive & fast.

— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) June 6, 2017

Ossoff is still gonna lose

ppl in north Fulton don't care about the poor they want low taxes & less regulation so Handel was right on message

On this lovely Wednesday morning is it OK if I mention again that Trump wanted to build a giant, beautiful solar power generating border wall? Oh, and this is today:

Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, today announced that the Committee will hold an open hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on Wednesday, June 7, 2017, at 10:00 a.m. Appearing before the Committee will be Director of National Intelligence, Daniel Coats; Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Andrew McCabe; National Security Agency Director, Admiral Mike Rogers; and the Department of Justice Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Meanwhile, ISIS attacked sites in Iran. What are you going to say about that, Trump? How do you like a little cognitive dissonance your way, dickhead?

I really doubt he can keep all those I's straight.

So Christie's lieutenant and the Goldman Dem won the NJ guv noms bcz those voters generally care only about property taxes.

Meanwhile, ISIS attacked sites in Iran. What are you going to say about that, Trump?

fake news, obv

come on down, Chris Wray!

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-donald-trump-names-fbi-director-pick-1496836465-htmlstory.html

He represented New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during the investigation into the George Washington Bridge lane-closing case.

lol, manages optics

Don't unpack your bags too fast, dude.

i'll give him 10 weeks before he's out the revolving door again

Any word from the unsuspecting Mr. Wray yet?

Reached at home for comment by the New York Times, Mr. Wray stammered 'Wh-wh-what?'. Retching sounds were briefly heard before the phone was apparently dropped. Mr. Wray did not rejoin the conversation.

lot going on in this one

Getting ready to leave for Cincinnati, in the GREAT STATE of OHIO, to meet with ObamaCare victims and talk Healthcare & also Infrastructure!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2017

GREAT STATE v "great state" which one seems more sarcastic

ALL CAPS v Unnecessary Capitalisation which one makes you seem like more of a moron

Nah, Dude is just on ſome Eighteenth Century Kick

ObamaCare has ravaged our communities, hindering millions from the premature deaths they so deeply desire. I salute our president for taking on this scourge, and wish him godspeed in the fulfillment of his own similar desire.

seems like a doctor

xp

unlike the feckless obama, whose efforts to save lives at home were philosophically at odds with his desire to take lives abroad, president trump is committed to equality - souls both domestic and international will be offered to the old ones in numbers as large as congress will allow

chait, buzzkilling

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/republicans-wont-impeach-trump-no-matter-what-his-crimes.html

anything to read into the fact that the new FBI director's first initial and last name combined are "cray"?

Would it be better if he was impeached (probably resign first)and we get Pencified or just continue to stall and destroy the Republican death machine from accomplishing anything for the next two years

Thats the eternal question

chait, buzzkilling

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/republicans-wont-impeach-trump-no-matter-what-his-crimes.html

― reggie (qualmsley),

he's mostly correct

(i realize the unlikeliness of this yes but trump was never going to win in the first place remember) best case scenario is trump corruption gets dug up shocking enough to wake enough of Fox Nation from their ideological stupor / filter bubbles of epistemic closure and face reality; if that means lame duck president pence, cool

there is no trump corruption which will wake fox nation from their ideological stupor - not trump secretly being a member of isis, not trump humping his daughter on the original constitution, not masterminding the dynamiting of the cancer wing of a childrens' hospital packed to the brim with doe-eyed sick kids

The only way Fox News fans are going to escape their bubble is death. Which should be arriving shortly for the vast majority of them.

on the plus side, House Republicans can be yoked to Trump by the Dems who campaign against them in 2018. I understand the political calculus of not wanting to separate yourself from the President but I think the smarter reps know they're all going down together.

and by "all" i don't mean of course that they're all going to lose, in fact there's a good chance the GOP retains the House, but it's a much more politically feasible path for Dems than impeachment.

Trump could get a yen for picking fights with
congress and in this way turn his voters against their local gop reps. This is the dream.

The only way Fox News fans are going to escape their bubble is death. Which should be arriving shortly for the vast majority of them.

if ever there was a reason to hope for the repeal of obamacare...

They're all on Medicare. Of the "keep the government out of my" variety

I'm sure many are having their coffins fitted with screens that will blare Hannity at their wormy skulls for all eternity

Their grandkids are going to auction the coffins, have their bodies cremated and scattered out of the car window while driving north to escape the searing droughts and rising floodwaters. God forbid we raise the estate tax.

I get the feeling a lot of old red state tax-me-not's are not clamoring with "take away my free health care ! take away medicare!!"

Unfairness seems to only work when its about ME

So Trump can destroy everyone else's health care but not MY "free" health care

Yes, that is how tribalism works.

Exactly. That's why one of the tea party talking points has always been how ObamaCare will bankrupt Medicare.

Xpost

BREAKING: Trump FBI Director Nominee Wray Is Partner at Law Firm Representing Russia's National Oil Company Rosneft https://t.co/02kg1LFRtz pic.twitter.com/wrpsUa7RxG

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 7, 2017

can't make this shit up

Newsweek flags: Christopher Wray's law firm advises Trump's trust, which holds his business assets https://t.co/zFgp0dZfvc pic.twitter.com/AcCGWU9UMM

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 7, 2017

If you can keep getting away with it, why not?