Trump, September 2017: Walmart Knockoff Hats and Other Indignities

Oh, is THAT what Trump was having those guys help him pray about in the picture upthread?

that would be insane though, right? I mean you can get away with the empty pledge for publicity when the spotlight isn't on you (as Trump has done many, many times), but can you really do it as President of the United States of America?

― frogbs, Tuesday, September 5, 2017 7:14 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this also feeds the stupid GOP narrative that disaster relief shouldn't come from the government but from private individuals and churches and other organizations that conspicuously aren't sitting on a printing press for money

cher is the hero america needs pic.twitter.com/cmC7xp4IVe

— carmina burrata (@nately) September 5, 2017

Cher should be in a Marvel movie.

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Not in MY mouth.

Congress now has 6 months to legalize DACA (something the Obama Administration was unable to do). If they can't, I will revisit this issue!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 6, 2017

uhh...what?

hard to keep the swimming and rapidly inverting matrices of this 39th dimensional chess in my head all at once

what the hell

That's so hilariously, tragically backwards. Trump revisited the issue after Obama made it legal, something Congress was unable to do now becomes Congress must do it because Obama couldn't, or I will. Or something.

I think he may have realized that he fucked himself into a corner but lacks the language/cognition/humility to express that as a coherent thought.

Wait so he DOES want it, but "more legal than legal"? or... im confused.

" If they can't, I will revisit this issue!"

"what do we want? DACA! When do we want it? ... eventually!"

Trayce: Some people are making a claim that only congress holds the constitutional power to create and modify immigration law (others are pushing back—depends on how strictly you interpret the constitution), and DACA was an executive order (something Obama had to do a lot of because of congressional obstruction and fecklessness). The DREAM act should be a slam-dunk bi-partisan passage, but y'know...brown people and stuff.

i dont think the gop has the votes at all

They ain't got shit. One self-own after another with this guy.

But hey, tax reform oh wait.

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Can we, on this board, stop calling it 'GOP obstruction/fecklessness' and call is rascism for christ

just got back from a Racism for Christ 5k run phew

even if there was 0 racism to GOP, they would still be moronic sand-in-the-gears obstructionists with horrible anti-govt ideas

Terminal illnesses can have many distinct symptoms.

As an illness he's pretty contagious, better put him in a quarantine ward.
Or live out the next 3 years as an international hospice.
Couldn't he just die for crissake.

i thought the CW around this is that now the Republicans will now pass a watered-down version of the DREAM act and take credit for it, shoring up the conservative Latino vote, while Trump gets to take credit for being mean to brown people = everybody "wins"

And risk getting primaried by rabid anti-immigrants? I think the fuck not

What defines a crime against humanity? & how close is the orange one trying to sail.
hope lack of republican voters isn't a central part of the differentiation.

bison I believe the thinking is that Republicans in danger of being primaried can vote against it and there will be enough Dem votes for it that it will pass

The conventional wisdom before Trump and Sessions came out with the stupid 6 month plan was that they would have to be stupid to do it, now the conventional wisdom is that they intend to do it less stupidly, ignoring the fact that they are beholden to the stupid caucus.

8 months in and political press still cannot stop itself from projecting "savvy" onto everything

Trump is so savvy he obstructs himself.

Assuming Congress even gets around to it, enough of the House is insane that there is no way any sort of revised DREAM act gets put forward without some extreme provision, whether linked to a stupid wall or contingent on Mexico being made illegal or some such shit. So yeah, Trump will be "revisiting" it.

As always, the hypocrisy of the GOP and especially shitheads like Jeff Sessions is shameless. They're all about rules and laws and fairness and history and the sanctity of the constitution, but literally only when it pushes their racist and/or rich person agenda.

it is curious isn't it how suddenly they all care about executive overreach

Except when they do it.

Plus, reversing executive overreach is the easiest way for them to be anti Obama without Obama.

my dry, smarmy chuckle at "racist and/or rich person agenda" never materialized; but we must continue to be slash-inclusive and non-gendered in our characterization of who these people really care about

ahaha oh look it materialized after all :D

president hamburger pimp. he's so bad he kicks his own ass twice a day!

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#BREAKING Trump profits from golf memberships bought by lobbyists, federal contractors https://t.co/F6OiiCvsxf

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) September 6, 2017

noooothing realllly mattters

every day this ratbag isn't kicked out of office the country sells a little more of its soul

it's just fucking deadening

Have fun over there.

https://www.axios.com/scoop-senate-leadership-ponders-combining-harvey-debt-ceiling-and-government-funding-2482154617.html

Senate Republican leadership is privately contemplating a bold maneuver: attaching the government funding bill (CR) to the debt ceiling and emergency funding aid for Hurricane Harvey.
Three sources with knowledge of the discussions confirmed them to Axios. They stressed nothing has been decided and the move would be highly risky, with a strong chance of a conservative revolt. It's especially unclear whether such a vehicle could move through the House — given the Freedom Caucus and other conservative members are already angry about the plans to use the Harvey funding to raise the debt ceiling without spending cuts.
The advantage: If GOP leadership can get the CR done this week with Harvey funding and the debt ceiling that would be a big tactical victory, given Democrats may be poised to oppose the government funding extension if it doesn't include measures to support DACA.

Per a source close to GOP Senate leadership: "Leadership is testing the waters in the Senate for adding the CR...Senate leaders will only add it if House leaders believe they can pass it. Problem is the CR is the vehicle for the Dems to demand a DACA fix and the Freedom Caucus to fight that and push for spending reductions. It is a bold idea but putting together the votes seems tough."

it sounds monumentally stupid but i ain't no expert

every day this ratbag isn't kicked out of office the country sells a little more of its soul

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, September 6, 2017 9:28 AM

we went from shopping at banana republic to living in one

20 years from now, when we're living in bunkers, Paul Ryan et all will write the "How Were We to Know?" memoirs and I will finally stick my head in the oven.

this whole Presidency is like watching a baby standing outside on the ledge of a 20 foot building and half the people are saying "stop freaking out, it's cute!"

This presidency is like reading tweets about a baby on a ledge on your phone while otherwise glued to a rerun of American Ninja Warrior.

we're fucked

Y'all forgot to mention the explosive collars we're all wearing which will detonate the second the baby falls and triggers its dead switch.

But still: so adorable!