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

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

Nixon called it the "Enemies List".

not surprising

https://i.imgur.com/aMsD6Bv.png

Hosted on gop dot com. Which is "temporarily offline".

Why do people pay this much attention to the president being his usual dumbass and jerking off?

there was never a page, it's just a broken link that he'll falsely claim = proof that the page is down cos of everybody rushing to it

meanwhile

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s chief of staff on Wednesday told a group of Democratic lawmakers that Mr. Trump’s campaign promise to build a wall along the Mexican border was “not fully informed,” and that the president has “evolved” on the issue of immigration, participants in the meeting said.

...Mr. Kelly told the lawmakers that “he was the one who tempered” Mr. Trump “on the issue of the wall, on the issue of DACA,” said Representative Raúl Grijalva, Democrat of Arizona, who attended the session, which was first reported by The Washington Post.

“He has basically got him to understand that a concrete wall from sea to shining sea along the southern border, that that was not going to happen for environmental, geological and other reasons, and that I think he has come to the point that he understands that barriers can mean many different things,’’ Mr. Grijalva said.

...“I can confirm that Chief of Staff Kelly said today that the President’s campaign was not fully informed about the wall he was promising to voters,” Mr. Gutiérrez said in a statement. “Kelly went on to say that many campaigns are not fully informed about every policy and that campaigning and governing are two different things and that governing is harder. Kelly took credit for educating the President on the wall and that a concrete barrier from sea to shining sea was no longer the conception of border security barriers supported today by the White House.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/us/politics/chief-of-staff-kelly-trump-not-fully-informed.html

a wall isn't a physical barrier so much as a state of mind, a way of living if you will

all alone, or in twos, the ones who really love, walk up and down outside the wall
some hand in hand, some gather together in bands -- the bleeding hearts and the artists make their stand
and when they've given their all some stagger and fall, after all, it's not easy
banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall

I don’t get this tax thing, all these mega corporations paying all these taxes that affect their bottom lines. I though trump was a republican. Imagine the reaction if this happened under a Dem pres. what am I missing?

Too predictable. I like this one better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9yim3ZGuUc

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

the stock market might not be rational, but I think it might be kinda racist

(I’m only kind of joking)

It’s def not rational but at least some past bull markets were based on something more than positive republican daddy’s are in charge vibes

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/17/health/trump-heart-disease-gupta/index.html

so the fake news thing on gop.com is up, and...it's actually worth a scroll just to see how absurdly amateur hour the whole thing. everything about it - not bothering to include any sources or links on a publication that is supposed to be about the truth, being composed of a top 11 list, the 11th item of which consists of another 10 sub-items, the kinds of things that they're choosing to highlight, the pure pettiness and pointlessness of most of the items on the list , the fact that the headline is "The Highly-Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards".

this is #11:

11. And last, but not least: "RUSSIA COLLUSION!" Russian collusion is perhaps the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people. THERE IS NO COLLUSION!

it's typed out like that. who wrote this? did trump write this? seriously, did trump write this, because if he didn't, who else could get away with writing that? is it odd to point out that it's sort of ...messageboard style?

but seriously, the whole page is worth a look. i don't usually save entire websites, but i am archiving this shit so that i can revisit it again when i'm old

What specifically should be sending the stock market lower? It's obviously overheated, but there isn't yet a great case that it should be done.

xxp

Also, remember all those tax cuts and loosened regulations?

oh so it's like those GOP surveys which are literally Colbert's "Great President...or Greatest President?" joke

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

Depressing to debate my cubemates on Trump's unsuitability, when the majority of them gleefully relate the rise in their retirement accounts. Money wins over humanitarian and environmental concerns.

Flipside is that it won't last. Much of what is being undone now was put in place in response to the last crash, but we aren't quite to the point where people are just lighting money on fire yet.