US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/michael-wolffs-fire-fury-become-tv-series-1075346

kind of redundant

a politico-spiritual successor to the human centipede

In private conversations, Trump has told advisers that he doesn’t think the 2018 election has to be as bad as others are predicting. He has referenced the 2002 midterms, when George W. Bush and Republicans fared better after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, these people said.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/17/16893408/donald-trumps-2018-plan

everything is fine. he's definitely not thinking about exploiting a terrorist attack or taking the country to war for political gain.

Tillerson says he doesn't have a Twitter account; his staff prints the president's tweets out and hands them to Tillerson. He likes it this way, because he can already see others' reax & work to address it.

— Tamara Cofman Wittes (@tcwittes) January 17, 2018

wait, does this mean tillerson gets a paper print-out of trump's tweets and the responses? that's quite a print-out

Was this posted?

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A surprising Democratic upset in a conservative Wisconsin Senate district where voters overwhelmingly supported President Donald Trump just 14 months ago has raised liberal hopes of more election success coming this fall.

Patty Schachtner’s victory over an incumbent Republican state representative in Wisconsin’s 10th Senate District follows a series of Democratic wins across the country. Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who is up for re-election to a third term in November, took note, posting on Twitter minutes after Schachtner’s win calling it a “wake up call for Republicans in Wisconsin.”

Sarah says the Fake News Awards (what I'm calling "the Fakies!") will be "something later today."

"We'll keep you posted." pic.twitter.com/H6gNVjrUdL

— David Mack (@davidmackau) January 17, 2018

lol they forgot about it

it's gonna be one tweet with a gif of Trump curbstomping the CNN logo or something

i guess flake's stalin/trump speech was supposed to be a grand counterpunch to the fake news awards? i don't know if anyone will care. flake acts like a person playing a president in a tv movie. he announces his retirement a year early, makes a great show of being anti-trump but supports the trump administration with his votes. the only way any of this makes sense is if he's planning to primary in 2020.

more like jeff fake

otm

"Flake" works too

where's the tax returns?

He denounces Trump, cozies up to him, announces his retirement, calls him Stalin. What a terrible politician.

truly the stunning rebrand the GOP deserves

the fakies
jesus christ

Meanwhile in American Fascism https://jezebel.com/border-patrol-agents-accused-of-systematically-destroyi-1822165599

Meanwhile the 538 poll accumulator has cracked 40% approval for the first time since last May.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/01/17/minnesota-gop-leader-seeks-cut-of-big-donations

"Unlike other state parties, Minnesota is different. Neither our Chairman or our National Committeeman and National Committeewoman are from the donor class," she writes. "To make-up for what I lack in personal wealth, I've chosen to dedicate my time to ensuring the party is set-up for short and long-term success."

lol

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A surprising Democratic upset in a conservative Wisconsin Senate district where voters overwhelmingly supported President Donald Trump just 14 months ago has raised liberal hopes of more election success coming this fall.

It’s news like this that reminds me that reality shattered and sooo many deep assumptions of what could not be done from clueless “realists” are unsupportable now. Is every seat gunna flip? Hell no, but 50-state strategy time again and see what you can do.

And that whoever programmed their algorithm to decide what races to fund overwhelmingly better start rejiggering some assumed constants.

The new chairwoman of Minnesota's Republican Party is seeking a 10 percent commission from large donations to the party, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.

^ Thus exemplifying the entrepreneurial spirit so valued by her party. Of course, the 10% figure is just an opening number in what would be a continuing negotiation, as recommended by President Trump in his stellar book, The Art of the Deal (available at fine booksellers everywhere!)

don't want to move the goalposts and say it doesn't matter that his net approval has ticked up on aggregators, but the fact that a near majority now *strongly* disapprove is worth keeping in mind

New Quinnipiac poll:

Trump approval: 38-57

29% approve strongly
49% (!) disapprove strongly

Trump uniting/dividing country: 31/64 (!)

Mentally stable/unstable: 45/47 (!!)

Does/Does not respect people of color as much as whites: 38/59 (!!!)https://t.co/Cfih4Q4VGE

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 17, 2018

(!!!!)

Now to PLan B in the Trump toolbox - DECLARE BANKRUPTCY

ty caek

^^^
could use a caek/ned-only thread without everyone else's poorly formed joeks

https://bnanews.bna.com/daily-labor-report/haiti-removed-from-temporary-visa-eligibility-list

Haiti has been removed from the list of countries eligible to participate in two temporary work visa programs.

A Jan. 17 notice from the Department of Homeland Security lists Haiti as one of three countries whose nationals no longer can apply for H-2A or H-2B visas. The announcement comes less than a week after President Donald Trump reportedly referred to the Caribbean country as well as African nations as “shithole countries.”

Haitians who apply for the visas have shown “high levels of fraud and abuse” and a “high rate” of staying in the U.S. after their visas have expired, the DHS said in the notice. The State Department also has refused to issue the visas to Haitian nationals at “extremely high rates,” the DHS said. Therefore, allowing them to continue to apply for the visas is “no longer in the U.S. interest,” the agency said.

H-2A visas go to temporary workers in the agriculture industry, while H-2B visas go to seasonal nonagricultural workers such as those in landscaping, amusement, and hospitality.

A representative for the DHS’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Jan. 17 declined to comment on the reasoning behind the decision. A representative for the Haitian Embassy also didn’t respond to Bloomberg Law’s request for comment.

xp agree 100%

I can't wait to hear White House Chief of Staff dismissed as "a low-level functionary" soon in trumptweets:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/01/17/kelly-says-some-of-trumps-campaign-pledges-on-immigration-wall-uninformed-meeting-attendees-say/

Somehow Kelly's comments AND the idea that Kelly was ever employed at the White House will both be derided as fake news.

you know, it's almost as if the hollowing out of the entire experienced layer of professional journalists in the united states might have consequences or something

hanle y is always smoking in any jacket, fuiud

Oh wow. Trump, in new interview, says Obama, Bush and Clinton must have left him the North Korea problem because they knew he had the best brain, as evidenced by his score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. https://t.co/R3oPvUsZJr pic.twitter.com/BWGPShs12S

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 17, 2018

don't worry folks President Bigbrain will figure it all out

“@JeffFlake the only institution that's been threatened in #USA is that of voting. It's an institution that the socialist @DNC you’ve hopped into bed with & the #fakenews #MSM you're now prostituting yourself out to are intent on destroying” @stinchfield1776 #ClenchedFistofTruth pic.twitter.com/BRbMVCfNY2

— NRATV (@NRATV) January 17, 2018

Minneosota's Grand ol' Party of Fiscal Responsibility has had probs for a while

http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-gop-still-in-debt-using-credit-line-for-cash-crunch/285688091/

#ClenchedFistofTruth

1776!!!

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/57ea20991700004007ac76d8.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale

i have a suggestion of what you can do with that #clenchedfistoftruth

So Comrade Combover decides he is tired of this and fires Mueller. Congressional Republicans say nothing and Sarah Sanders stands there and says there was never an investigation and Mueller was just some low level staffer that no one even talked with.

He openly breaks the law. He openly steals tax payer money. He openly runs his business from the White House. He openly enriches himself through tax policy he claimed would cost him a fortune. He openly states his racism and classism. Jeff Sessions rolls back civil rights laws and reignites the drug war with mandatory sentencing. Russian sanctions are dropped. Russian trolls and bots are reengaged. Voter rolls are purged of people who haven't voted since 2017. The 2018 midterm elections are a whole lot of fun.

ugh

On Thursday, the NYT is not running any editorials in print. The ed board is devoting the page to letters from Trump supporters. Check it out https://t.co/feU41BwXNU

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 17, 2018

Amusing (darkly)

Included in the questions Lewandowski would not answer was: "Did you have a conversation with the president of the United States within the last 24 hours where you discussed your testimony?" said Schiff.

— Billy House (@HouseInSession) January 17, 2018

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very important to give more of a voice to perspectives like this

I’ve voted twice in my life: once for myself when I ran for Congress 10 years ago, and once for Donald Trump last year. Virtually all of my friends or colleagues actively hate Mr. Trump. I’m a minority in every circle I move in. I have a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and a bachelor’s and master’s from Harvard; I’m a former hedge fund trader and now an academic; I’m a journalist and author. Imagine being a Trump supporter in even one of those circles! We learn to stay quiet.

How’s he doing? He has turned a fragile nation “anti-fragile” (the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s term). Before Mr. Trump, we were scared of any volatility. Oh no, ISIS! Oh no, banks! The more chaos there was, the worse we were.

Now volatility is our friend. The more chaos, the better! Entrepreneurship up. Optimism up. Good old American problem solving is back! You know who loves change? Capitalists. Mr. Trump has led us on that spiritual exodus.

PHILIP MAYMIN
GREENWICH, CONN.

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what the fucking fuck

more failed "bipartisanship"

shithole trump fans

christ imagine being one of philip mayman’s students

That letter needs polling

PHILIP MAYMIN of GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT'S Opinions on Donald J. Trump, President of These United States

so crooked hillary is ineligible because she emailed from a private server but trump is the god emperor as his former campaign CEO (erstwhile cambridge analytica VP) has an attorney (who also represents white house counsel don mcgahan and former chief of staff reince priebus) texting during congressional testimony to the white house from a smartphone. usa

What is happening at the NYT in this last month

They haven't announced some new approach, right, this is just What They're Doing Now

what the fuck is up with the stock market, that's what I want to know.

oh boy, here we go

And the FAKE NEWS winners are...https://t.co/59G6x2f7fD

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2018