Trump, August 2017: A great day at the White House!

The mentality is straightforwardly 'NK and Iran will bomb America the moment they are physically capable of doing so and therefore must be completely eliminated first, irrespective of the cost to their neighbours.

He's in the pocket of the arms companies but i can't imagine even they would be particularly keen on a massive nuclear strike against NK. There wouldn't be much profit in it.

xpost Can you get more lib than Communists? Better dead than beta red!

Are there sweet libtears in North Korea?

united nations libtears inspectors haven't been allowed into north korea for a while now, only the use of military force will let find out for sure

At the end of Trump's statement criticizing the sanctions bill, he boasts about his company and chastises Congress: pic.twitter.com/mqZD5h4Wif

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 2, 2017

full statement clearly not written by him

Signing statement accompanying the new sanctions bill pic.twitter.com/iygyaEZYgE

— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) August 2, 2017

I dunno, the typos sort of scream out "tiny fingers!"

Ha, Rick Perry being considered for Homeland Security. You know that dude wants out of Dept of Energy.

Why does Lindsey Graham like war so much?

Because Huckleberry Butchmeup doesn't have to fight them?

even 'normal' presidents have writers u know

You know that dude wants out of Dept of Energy.

literally *everybody* in the top ranks at the DoE has a PhD, he has to be very frustrated that his smart-glasses are not working their magic

What must it be like, working under a total dummy who has no understanding of what you do. (remembers practically every job he's ever had) Oh, yeah...

I can only assume that Perry was v confused when he found out the DoE doesn't really do much with energy policy and instead spends most of it's time shuttling nuclear waste around the country

Wasn't that how it was reported? That he totally thought he'd be fighting against solar power and stuff but instead got stuck with nuclear waste management?

Re Enrique Pena Nieto: Above Josh Marshall's cute maxim, the one instance of Occam's Razor that's appropriate with Trump is: Is this a dumb power play?

I can only assume that Perry was v confused when he found out the DoE doesn't really do much with energy policy and instead spends most of it's time shuttling nuclear waste around the country

he definitely had no idea. from that vanity fair article from the other day (which was excellent btw):

In his confirmation hearings to run the department Perry confessed that when he called for its elimination he hadn’t actually known what the Department of Energy did—and he now regretted having said that it didn’t do anything worth doing.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis

looooool I hadn't seen that before thx

Why do we need a department, there's energy everywhere.

Department of Labor? What, women haven't figured out how to give birth by now? Get rid of it!

I like making huge and impactful changes with the same casual, ignorant dismissiveness that I direct towards some band I won't listen to because they look stupid in their press photos.

Rasmussen has mailboxhead at -24% today

mostly notable because Strongly Disapprove is at 50%

reading that signing statement on the sanctions bill, did Trump previously issue an executive order banning apostrophes?

full statement clearly not written by him

🐦[Signing statement accompanying the new sanctions bill pic.twitter.com/iygyaEZYgE🕸
— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) August 2, 2017🕸]🐦

fuckin' apostrophes, how do they work

stay sexy russkie rexy : )

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/02/tillerson-isis-russia-propaganda-241218

USS Rexxon, I presume?

You guys could maybe just, y'know, try to look like you're not in Russia's pocket. Just engage in a little meaningless kabuki to deflect the accusations that your every action seems to confirm. Or not. Just a suggestion.

Out of interest, given that most of the recent attempts to "counter Russian propaganda", like the PropOrNot fiasco, seem to have targeted American journalists with no affiliation to Russia, and the US already spends millions on things like VoA and Radio Free Liberty, how would you like the Trump administration to be spending that cash?

i've been sort of amazed at how brazen they are with the russia stuff in the face of all the accusations. it does seem to get their base hot & bothered, but it's just so goddam weird.

xpost It's the Purloined Letter strategy: they're being so blatant and brazen that no one will believe what's going on is what it appears to be. And by "no one" I mean "most reasonable people," because these would-be bandits are idiots.

I'm not sure what the US should be doing different with Russia, re: spending or counter propaganda and whatnot, but they should most certainly not be making Russia's life easier.

BREAKING: Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced the Department of Justice is investigating why black people can say it but white peop

— Lana Del Raytheon (@LanaDelRaytheon) August 2, 2017

Soon to be followed by an intensive study on exactly whose lives matter.

Sanctions are not making Russia's life easier. Promising that Georgia will get made a member of NATO is not making Russia's life easier. Making the Chairman of the Atlantic Council ambassador is not making Russia's life easier. All of which happened this week.

If people are arguing that the Trump administration should be using $60m to go after media narratives seen as 'pro-Russia' it makes sense to at least think through what that might look like.

Rasmussen has mailboxhead at -24% today

― Neanderthal, Wednesday, August 2, 2017 9:08 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gallup's at 36/60 too

Sanctions are not making Russia's life easier. Promising that Georgia will get made a member of NATO is not making Russia's life easier. Making the Chairman of the Atlantic Council ambassador is not making Russia's life easier. All of which happened this week.

Exactly, but all of these things are happening despite Trump, not because of him.

xxpost It's more that their willingness to just leave that money on the table rather than engaging in a little anti-Russian theater and blowing it all on 70" flatscreens in every State Dept. office or whatever is one of those things that make you go 'hmmm'.

it's the RAISE Act, aka SPEAK ENGLISH

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/trump_announces_support_for_republicans_bill_limiting_immigration_to_people_who_speak_english

what about people who speak ruble?

Cool, so I guess Trump has to leave the country now?

In all seriousness, though: fuck you Trump, and may the reaper greet you ASAP.

that bill is going to die in the Senate, thankfully

what about people who speak ruble?

two-scoops is just trying to swing an understanding between uncle sam and mr. putin, that's all. no big deal. why won't stupid jealous elitist sore loser liberals just chill?

what about people who speak ruble?

"Hey, leave me out of this!"

http://uploads.neatorama.com/images/posts/287/65/65287/1379479080-0.jpg

33% approval rating on Quinnipac: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/AUG_2_US_PRES+BP.pdf

starting to get tired of all the winning

*sigh*

http://www.thedailybeast.com/boy-scouts-execs-deny-calling-trump-to-praise-national-speech

White men are divided 47 – 48 percent

fucking white men

^^

As noted above, my daily supply of outrage dwindles sometimes, but that whole Boy Scouts thing is so infuriating. Make a ridiculously inappropriate speech, get chastised for it, then come back and claim the Boy Scouts called it the best speech ever. (Of course it was.) It's just so stupid, and so easily disproven, but he can't stop Trumpeting his own greatness.