Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

so beating him at the handshake was bad strategy?

i thought it was the appropriate way to deal with the situation. trump was going to quit the climate agreement regardless. why? he feels bad about it. why? 'paris' + 'climate' + 'agreement' are words that make him feel bad, so you put them together, and he feels like it's bad. his feelings are very important. a lot of men in charge are like this

yep.

http://www.sierraclub.org/compass/2017/06/10-things-you-can-do-resist-trump-s-historic-paris-mistake

i was reading an article earlier on how the sierra club's beyond coal campaign has quietly been tremendously effective - 250+ coal power plants in the us retired/committed to retire.

my hope is that at the end of the day the biggest actual effect of this action (i understand the actual agreement withdrawal cannot even happen until nov 4, 2020) will be further energizing activists and damage politically to trump/GOP. bannon thinking this is a win like kushner thought firing comey was a win

i appreciate your optimism (seriously)

Frankly, the low costs/BTU of fracked NG since 2009 have been far more effective than any environmental groups in driving utilities to retire coal and embrace combined cycle NG, which is the current solution to the renewables intermittancy problem as well. That will continue (so long as dumb shareholders/creditors subsidize NG) for a while, regardless of Trump's idiocy.

cnn panel like every cnn panel has approx 2 people who have facts and expertise and then 2 people who are political hacks and don't know anything about the subject and have them discuss, like this is a reasonable way to cover the news. christ. stephen moore and jeffrey lord and that casey anthony trump lady or whatever her name is are on tv constantly and melissa harris-perry doesn't have a show

we're also the only democracy on the planet that still uses a constitution from the 18th century

Can you imagine what the one "we" would write in the 21st century would look like?

If The U.S. weakened the terms of the Paris Accord is there any likelihood that in its absence the other members might make the terms stronger. & when America returns with its tail between its legs it'll be harder to get back out of?
Or is its presence for the next 4 years going to hinder that?

While the USA is still there, the rest should crank it up ludicrously and troll the US at every opportunity.

Macron has already started the trolling. Wasn't sure about that guy before.

i think macron secretly wants to literally rule the world. all the military stuff, his ludicrous statement that france hasn't had "a strong leader since napoleon" (senior, i presume).. his quite obvious attempt to seize the world leadership vacuum created by trump by giving a speech in english last night. jsl

Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature

macron macron what have ye done

we're also the only democracy on the planet that still uses a constitution from the 18th century

Can you imagine what the one "we" would write in the 21st century would look like?

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, June 2, 2017 1:02 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I'd love to see what Ryan, McConnell and Trump cook up for Bill of Rights 2.0

A few more republican governors/state legislatures and you might get your constitutional convention wish...

http://wuwm.com/post/wisconsin-could-become-30th-state-demand-constitutional-convention

It takes 34 to convene and draft an Amendment, 38 for a convention.

Number of Republican governors: 33

*blows raspberry*

thanks, didn't realize we were still 5 away

On the other hand, it's just a rule. Or a law, or whatever. People increasingly just do whatever they feel regardless of some dumb code of conduct. Maybe the president will just smash open the case where the Constitution is and start writing some new amendments at the bottom in crayon. Why the fuck not.

i wonder how hard it would be to convince trump that the national treasure movies are documentaries

It's like releasing a wild dog in your kitchen and trusting that it'll behave like a person and also cook you a meal. Just give it a chance.

xpost If he's seen them, he probably doesn't even need convincing.

People are still out there putting forth the proposition that they should 'just give him a chance' aren't they?
Do they have a default switch off point?

Well yeah, we all do; it's called "death"

People are still out there putting forth the proposition that they should 'just give him a chance' aren't they?

yeah, i hear this a lot from trump's faithful. they support (or at least shruggingly accept) everything he does & think the "msm" are liberal crybabies on a vengeful witch hunt.

Well yeah, we all do; it's called "death"

speak for yourself - i'm cursed to walk the earth forevermore

xp yeah and the "if they would just let him do his thing" argument, the narrative that he is being hamstrung by the swamp/deep state is already being constructed

Someone in my office was making that argument a couple of weeks ago--admittedly a perhaps not-too-swift twenty-something from Staten Island, so he's a nice boy but I wouldn't set too much store by his opinions if it weren't for the fact that he gets to vote.

"we woulda won in vietnam"

the whole fucking point of a congress is so a president can't "just do his thing"

and yet his supporters say Trump is right to pull out of this since it didn't go through Congress.

Trump pulls out of Paris Accord, stocks rise. Why isn't the end of civilization priced into the market?

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) June 1, 2017

Too long term. What will it do to next quarter’s earnings? https://t.co/Wz8cz5WzFl

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) June 1, 2017

markets dont act rational, fucko. just because people worship them doesn't mean they're right.

how can you be 60 years old and have not know that the long-term stability of environmental factors doesn't price into the stock market

you know whats also not priced into the market? people's well-being.

“Labor is being paid first again”: American Airlines investors complain after company gives pilots and flight attendants raises

http://www.salon.com/2017/04/28/labor-is-being-paid-first-again-american-airlines-investors-complain-after-company-gives-pilots-and-flight-attendants-raises/

Meanwhile:

Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) on Thursday indicated that he’s not optimistic about the Senate’s chances to pass a comprehensive bill to repeal and replace Obamacare this year.

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“I don’t see a comprehensive health-care plan this year,” he told North Carolina television station WXII 12 News.

Burr also said that the House bill is “dead on arrival” in the Senate.

The senator’s comments come after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said last week that he’s not sure how the Senate will pass an Obamacare repeal bill.

“I don’t know how we get to 50 at the moment,” he told Reuters. “But that’s the goal.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/burr-no-senate-health-plan-this-year

aaaand about that testimony:

President Donald Trump could invoke executive privilege to prevent fired FBI director James Comey from delivering his scheduled testimony before Congress next week, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway suggested Friday.

Conway first told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the Trump team would be “watching with the rest of the world” to see what Comey said in his congressional testimony.

Then, asked directly if Trump would use his presidential authority to block Comey’s testimony, Conway hedged: “The President will make that decision.”

good luck w that

isn't that exactly what landed Nixon before the SC

DO IT, TRUMP!!!

yeah, do it!

I am so completely adamant about my innocence that I will do everything in my power to prevent the possibility of my official exoneration.

Meantime...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-flynn-turkey-exclusive-idUSKBN18T276

Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible ties between the Trump election campaign and Russia, is expanding his probe to include a grand jury investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, three sources told Reuters.

The move means Mueller’s politically charged inquiry will now look into Flynn’s paid work as a lobbyist for a Turkish businessman in 2016, in addition to contacts between Russian officials and Flynn and other Trump associates during and after the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Federal prosecutors in Virginia are investigating a deal between Flynn and Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin as part of a grand jury criminal probe, according to a subpoena seen by Reuters.

Alptekin’s company, Netherlands-based Inovo BV, paid Flynn's consultancy $530,000 between September and November to produce a documentary and research on Fethullah Gulen, an exiled Turkish cleric living in the United States. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan blames Gulen for a failed coup last July.

Alptekin, an ally of Erdogan, told Reuters he hired Flynn to provide research on how Gulen is “poisoning the atmosphere” between Turkey and the United States.

Gulen has denied any role in the coup and dismisses Turkey’s allegations that he heads a terrorist organization.

Bernie interview:

Is Trump in his eyes an autocrat, or does he simply fail to understand the constitutional limits of the presidency? "The answer is both," Sanders replies. "I think he has authoritarian tendencies. The fact that he feels comfortable with authoritarians like Russian President Vladimir Putin, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and others around the world, suggests to me that he is an authoritarian-type personality." Trump, says Sanders, is also working "hand in glove" with the "billionaire class to move this country in a very oligarchic direction."...

The essence of his argument is that he doesn't want people to believe that (impeachment talk) is just a political attack on Trump and that he wants to bring Republicans along. "If Bernie Sanders says something, people say, 'Well, you don't like Donald Trump.'" That, he adds, is why it's a good thing that former FBI Director Robert Mueller has been appointed as special counsel. "You have somebody who a lot of people respect," says Sanders.

In his opinion, would the Democrats be making a mistake by focusing solely on Russia? If everything is about Russia, says Sanders, many people will say: "Hey, all of that is interesting, but you know what? I can't afford health care. I don't have a job. My kid can't afford to go to college. Why don't you pay attention to our needs?"

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-bernie-sanders-about-donald-trump-a-1149427.html

the "if they would just let him do his thing" argument, the narrative that he is being hamstrung by the swamp/deep state is already being constructed

Forsooth; indeed it was thusly foretold before the election. Resistance on the part of entrenched elites was expected, and continually saying so is a common means of managing expectations. "It's going to take more than 100 days to dismantle an infrastructure of corruption dating back to the New Deal; jeez, guys."

If everything is about Russia, says Sanders, many people will say: "Hey, all of that is interesting, but you know what? I can't afford health care. I don't have a job. My kid can't afford to go to college. Why don't you pay attention to our needs?"

otmfm, Bernie

the biggest problem is that the dems have a valid excuse for not passing helpful legislation, bcz they don't have control of the House, the Senate, or the Presidency, but the same people bernie cites above as asking those questions will not accept even valid excuses. this is why somebody in the dems needs to think about a gingrich-style 'contract with america' in lieu of the fact that no one pays attention to party platforms any more. it needs to be specific and it needs to be simple for voters to grasp.

I feel like a juicy newsbomb has dropped every Friday around COB for the last few weeks, so I'm gonna be pretty disappointed if it doesn't happen again today.

i could use a break tbh

leakers gonna leak

and the tweakers gonna tweak tweak tweak