US Politics, May 2018: How Broke Is He?

i feel like this is one of those things, like pulling out of NAFTA, where they'll be all like 'oh wait nvm' in about a week

Trump's pardons remind me of comic books where a super-villain goes around breaking other villains out of jail to form a team. I'm guessing Hastert is next?

McMansion dwelling republicans won't be happy about a Mercedes ban.

what? http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390009-trump-to-impose-total-ban-on-luxury-german-cars-report

― mookieproof, Thursday, May 31, 2018 10:50 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for now i'm saying "the hill dot com", but who knows any more.

everyone, it's ok, don't worry

~trade wars are good, and easy to win~

comic relief

Mitt Romney revealed Wednesday who he voted for in the 2016 presidential election. His wife, Ann Romney.

“I wrote in the name of a person who I admire deeply, who I think would be an excellent president,” the Republican U.S Senate candidate told the Deseret News and KSL editorial boards in response to a question. “I realized it wasn’t going to go anywhere, but nonetheless felt that I was putting in a very solid name.”

Romney/Romney 2020

romcom

Mitt Romney is like that We Are Expecting thread.

oof

do feel kind of bad for d'souza in that he can never tell if people spitting on him in public are critics or die-hard fans who didn't recognize him

— muscular baby (@Mobute) May 31, 2018

sweet

The Latest: President Trump says he's considering commuting the sentence of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and pardoning Martha Stewart. https://t.co/CrVlURaxmS

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 31, 2018

Blagojevich was also a contestant on Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” reality television show in 2010.

fuck this

pardons for celebrity & righty crooks unlimited

Trump, on his way to meet Santa Fe school shooting victims: "We are going to Dallas, we are going to Houston. We are going to have a little fun today." pic.twitter.com/nBmseVGvNM

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) May 31, 2018

I kinda feel like my wildest imaginings couldn't possibly measure up to the variety of outrageous ways his corpse will actually be desecrated irl.

US Politics, June 2018 "We'll see what happens "

it's still a fuckin goat rodeo y'all

^ otm

too many crazy, shitty quotes and actions to ever choose one. better to summarize in one all-encompassing goat rodeo.

if one of the shooting victims hits him in the head with a chair, the Secret Service will use restraint, right?

Somewhat for the irrationally angry thread, but I detest seeing any woman or poc fucking smiling in photo ops with him when he's visiting sites of tragedy.

this photo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/avzBp50th1eoF5s_L6htYc52RJk=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/75D27UPXPU26HJHOKTFQN7JDBY.jpg

He's broken the news about Mercedes' on Fifth Avenue

does trump have the authority to unilaterally appoint curt schilling to the baseball hall of fame? let's find out

Why would any American want a car from a shithole loser country like Germany anyway

he only pardons celebs

He's hoping to establish a precedent.

I kinda feel like my wildest imaginings couldn't possibly measure up to the variety of outrageous ways his corpse will actually be desecrated irl.

― My Favorte People Call Me Dad Soft Toddler (Old Lunch), Thursday, May 31, 2018 11:23 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good news
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-inauguration-charges-dismissed-because-170411777.html

That's great news.

O'Keefe. He's another one I hope to live long enough to see lashed to a raft and pushed out to sea.

Can you undo a pardon? If delivered for corrupt reasons or anything?
Or is the process of pardoning non-reversible.
& would that further hinge on being able to impeach the person doing the pardoning.

― Stevolende

you want to know if there's a precedent? sure. there's tons of precedents. here's one:

1642 – From this date all honors granted by Charles I of England are retroactively annulled by Parliament.

Why would any American want a car from a shithole loser country like Germany Alabama anyway

― the salmon mousse (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 1 June 2018 3:54 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/31/615843930/listen-how-michael-cohen-protects-trump-by-making-legal-threats

Andrew McCarthy:

The selective, politicized prosecution of conservative author, producer, and activist Dinesh D’Souza was an exercise in gratuitous severity. President Trump’s pardon of D’Souza, announced today, is the remedy the Framers had in mind.

D’Souza was (and is) a strident anti-Obama critic. He committed a trivial campaign-finance violation. This is not to excuse the conduct; it is to reaffirm the principle that the punishment should fit the crime, and to observe that the conduct at issue is typically not treated as a crime at all. Routinely, misconduct of the kind engaged in by D’Souza is settled by payment of an administrative fine to the Federal Election Commission. In stark contrast, the Obama Justice Department not only selectively prosecuted D’Souza; prosecutors turned the case into a multiple felony indictment.

Saw a comment somewhere that at least he was a non-violent offender who already did time (right?). Someone like Joe Arpaio, that's much more stomach-churning.

Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” This seems increasingly true.

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) May 31, 2018

increasingly

it was always true

it is to reaffirm the principle that the punishment should fit the crime
i hope he agrees with this for all those black men in prison over a piddlepuff of weed then?

gonna stack some avocados

why do presidential pardons exist

fear of bureaucracy -- but faith in the decisions of the elite electorate -- in the constitutional religion

Pardons For Everyone At The Goat Rodeo!

We’re all stars in the dope rodeo

i believe that some of these things happened as described, and i believe that some of these things some did not happen as described

“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.

“Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”

“Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early,” he said.

“I feel like Michael Corleone. I almost got out.”

When they parted for the final time, Ms. Merkel had a single tear in her eye. “She’s all alone,” Mr. Obama noted.

“What else did you expect from McConnell?” he asked. “He won’t even give us a hearing on Merrick Garland.”

“I talk about it every time I’m asked,” he responded. “What else are we going to do? We’ve warned folks.” [about Russia]

He noted that Mr. Trump was already claiming that the election would be manipulated if Hillary Clinton won. “If I speak out more, he’ll just say it’s rigged,” Mr. Obama said.

The next day, Mr. Obama focused on cheering up his despondent staff. At one point, he sent a message to Mr. Rhodes saying, “There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth.”

“I don’t know,” he told aides. “Maybe this is what people want. I’ve got the economy set up well for him. No facts. No consequences. They can just have a cartoon.”

He added that “we’re about to find out just how resilient our institutions are, at home and around the world.”

Afterward, Mr. Obama called a few aides to the Oval Office to ruminate on the encounter. “I’m trying to place him in American history,” he said.

“He peddles” bull, Mr. Rhodes answered. “That character has always been part of the American story. You can see it right back to some of the characters in Huckleberry Finn.”

“Maybe,” Mr. Obama answered, “that’s the best we can hope for.”

June thread.