Trump, September 2017: Walmart Knockoff Hats and Other Indignities

More proof of Trump 10-D chess, fire Price and he'll never be able to answer democrats' letter about Obamacare

Hill Democrats Demand Answers From Trump Admin On Obamacare ‘Sabotage’ https://t.co/2YMUz8Txrf via @TPM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 29, 2017

All right STOP. Jindal time.

IT'S JINDAL TIME

JINDAL UNCHAINED

Jindal All the Way

JINDALOGY

PEANUT BUTTER JINDAL TIME

Yates, Flynn, Walsh, Comey, Dubke, Shaub, Corralo, Spicer, Short, Priebus, THE MOOCH, and Bannon all have recent experience in government

Don't forget THRILLARY!

Rick Scott just happened to be at the White House today supposedly updating Trump on Irma recovery in Florida, but let's see if he's not the next HHS nominee.

well, he's responsible for the largest Medicare scam in American history, so he's qualified.

Scott wants to run for Senate next year.

I know his poll numbers were in the toilet when I left FL in 2011, but he's won a second term since then, so I have no idea what his chances look like in a senate race. Is John Morgan still toying with the idea of running as a Dem for Governor?

The problem is that Bill Nelson looks like Mumm-Ra and is not on anyone's list of engaged, progressive senators.

LOL @ GOP

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/national-gop-groups-spent-81000-to-defend-tom-price-house-seat-for-every-day-in-cabinet

Minor issues

NSA warned White House against using personal email https://t.co/Evl8Ab3GN7 pic.twitter.com/KRAL9A5UXl

— POLITICO (@politico) September 29, 2017

Officials Feared White House Counsel Would Quit Over Donald Trump-Jared Kushner Meetingshttps://t.co/7J2XAL6orv

— Brandt (@UrbanAchievr) September 29, 2017

"feared"

So who should i donate to re: puerto rico

I'm not sure if Mercy Corps has plans to go into PR, since it is a US 'possession' and therefore should be well taken care of by the richest nation on earth (right), but if they are helping out in PR, they seem to be among the better disaster relief NGOs. Certainly not as brainless as Red Cross has proved to be in the past few decades.

Yeah they are not operating in PR

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/29/politics/elaine-duke-explains-good-news-story/index.html

"The end of my statement about good news," Duke said, "was it was good news that the people of Puerto Rico, the many public servants of the US and the government of Puerto Rico are working together and I do believe that that is the way -- part of the way -- we believe, and it's nice to see the communities together trying to recover and support each other."
Duke was speaking to reporters on the tarmac in San Juan before boarding a helicopter for an aerial look at the devastation. After the tour, she was set to hold a meeting with the governor of Puerto Rico and officials.
Traveling with Duke were TSA Administrator David Pekoske, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, Semonite, Coast Guard VADM Karl Schultz, DHS infrastructure official Christopher Krebs, and Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon.

ime people who have been mostly "back office" management over their career may never be great in front of camera, but she's no Heckuva Job Brownie

I impugn no poster when I write that at this moment I want to see no glib posts about PR.

If I came across as glib then I apologize. It is immensely fucked up.

From my perspective, the agencies that are normally tasked with dealing with this are mostly really trying to do their job properly, and many of the officials who should be helping to lead such efforts aren't political, and are currently hamstrung by the utter apathy emanating from you guessed it

Well taken Alfred.

I have been told that http://unidosporpuertorico.com/en/ is a good place to give

(via a couple of degrees of separation from the governor's wife)

Btw, wtf is going on in Cuba? Pulling diplomatic staff out, as extreme as it scans, seems ... prudent. 21 staff members sonically attacked by a totally mysterious invisible weapon by an as yet not identified for? That's weird and scary on so many levels. We don't know who. We don't know what. We don't know how. But we know whatever went down it seriously and maybe permanently injured their hearing. What's up with that?

if you want to know my totally wacky opinion it's fucking russians down the street who don't like the idea of normalized diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba, and the only reason this old Cold War witch doctor shit even works is because our embassy compound down there is the equivalent of a little piggie's house made out of straw

and I mean we totally know how because we have the same shit, it's just written out of our doctrine - we don't go in for poisoning tea with polonium, or irradiating people with ultrasonic sound of a period of weeks and months. we go land on the goddamned moon, invent the hydrogen bomb, send flying missile-laden robots to your house and occasionally kill osama bin laden by landing choppers in his yard at night which are full of night vision equipped athletes carrying automatic rifles plus a really good dog

Yeah when I read about the Cuban diplomats I was thinking of the Men Who Stare at Goats. I mean that shit does exist right?

Hooray - he's found a new low!

The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017

...Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017

...want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017

brown-skinned lazy Democratic-leaning idle little schemers

good theory, Tombot -- but the US guvmint no longer likes the idea of normalized relations w/ Cuba either. Could be an inside job!

(i'm sure the toolkit has become more flexible, or could be)

Thx tombot

We did try to topple Fidel by making his beard fall out, though.

I walked past our Havana compound in '04, it looks like a particularly neglected housing project.

it's like he was listening to alfred and said "oh you want GLIB eh"

holy shit what an evil motherfucker

Well there's his "heckuva job brownie" moment, only even more stupid and cruel (predictably)

He is a disgrace. I wish he would die.

Those tweets are breathtaking. Such a loathsome, worthless person.

To be clear, this is the mayor of San Juan who he insulted. She's using a bullhorn to find people. pic.twitter.com/OsbcNKANLd

— Denice Frohman (@denicefrohman) September 30, 2017

Try to imagine Trump doing something similar. You can't. He never would in a million billion years.

It's too much

I despair for the human race sometimes.

i haven't searched but pretty sure "they want everything to be done for them" was not used to describe the people of texas, lousiana and florida.

He is a disgrace. I wish he would die.

We should have a thread for the various specific fantasies I’m sure we all have about how this might happen. All acts of god and natural causes only of course.

Discovered in an upside-down portapotty filled to the brim with nail scratch marks covering the inside of the unit

and in the poop pile is God’s signature