Church of Trump

[Spur_Fanatic]

4 shit years to come. :D

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Donald Trump Is Very Upset That The Media And American People Are Mocking Him

Spicer moaned about Trump not getting the respect that he deserves from the press,

“There’s some positive aspects here and there, :lol

but largely it still continues to not treat him with the respect that he deserves. :lol

I think for a lot of folks inside the beltway, and inside pundit-world, they don’t fully appreciate the understanding that he has of where the American people are. :lol

They continue to mock him in ways, when it frankly just shows the lack of understanding :lol

of that they have of where the American people are and what they think.”

"Everything he does right now ... everyone starts to mock him" :lol

What’s obvious is that

Trump is sending his press secretary out to do interviews complaining about the mocking and lack of respect, because it bothers him.

The majority of Americans who didn’t vote for Trump aren’t going to bow down to him.The more Trump or his staff complains, the more they will be mocked.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/08/donald-trump-upset-media-american-people-mocking.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

"I don't get no respect" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Dangerfield

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the sicko fucker can't stop

Trump tweets his anger that Kellyanne Conway interview cut short

Donald J. Trump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)✔@realDonaldTrump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)

Kellyanne Conway went to @MeetThePress (https://twitter.com/MeetThePress) this morning for an interview with @chucktodd (https://twitter.com/chucktodd). Dishonest media cut out 9 of her 10 minutes. Terrible!
10:46 AM - 8 Jan 2017 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/818136714396975104)

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000011961281/f053ce187d9fe1393f4684ca92c89d74_bigger.jpegBrian Stelter (https://twitter.com/brianstelter)
(https://twitter.com/brianstelter)✔@brianstelter (https://twitter.com/brianstelter)

NBC source says Team Trump knew (on Friday) that the show was only planning to run a sound bite from @KellyannePolls (https://twitter.com/KellyannePolls), not full interview https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/818136714396975104 … (https://t.co/8xFulaizfC)
11:33 AM - 8 Jan 2017 (https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/818148713319251968)


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/01/08/trump-tweets-his-anger-kellyanne-conway-interview-cut-short/96315016/

[Winehole23]

libcucks at the WSJ pile on:


The debts of President-elect Donald Trump and his businesses are scattered across Wall Street banks, mutual funds and other financial institutions, broadening the tangle of interests that pose potential conflicts for the incoming president’s administration.

Hundreds of millions of dollars of debt attached to Mr. Trump’s properties, some of them backed by Mr. Trump’s personal guarantee, were packaged into securities and sold to investors over the past five years, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of legal and property documents.


Mr. Trump has previously disclosed that his businesses owe at least $315 million to 10 companies. According to the Journal’s analysis, Trump businesses’ debts are held by more than 150 institutions. They bought the debt after it was sliced up and repackaged into bonds—a process known as securitization, which has been used for more than $1 billion of debt connected to Mr. Trump’s companies.


As a result, a broader array of financial institutions now are in a potentially powerful position over the incoming president. If the Trump businesses were to default on their debts, the giant financial institutions that serve as so-called special servicers of these loan pools would have the power to foreclose on some of Mr. Trump’s marquee properties or seek the tens of millions of dollars that Mr. Trump personally guaranteed on the loans.


“The problem with any of this debt is if something goes wrong, and if there is a situation where the president is suddenly personally beholden or vulnerable to threats from the lenders,” said Trevor Potter, who served as a general counsel to the presidential campaigns of Republicans George H.W. Bush and John McCain.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-debts-are-widely-held-on-wall-street-creating-new-potential-conflicts-1483637414

[pgardn]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-cyber-idUSKBN14S0O6

In before Trump says the opposite in a tweet.

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Boris Johnson flies to New York for talks with Donald Trump's team

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/F533/production/_93317726_mediaitem93317724.jpg :lol ANOTHER asshole with dyed hair

Before the US election, Johnson was extremely critical of Trump. Following the president-elect’s suggestion that he would back a ban on Muslims entering the US and that parts of London were no-go areas, the foreign secretary

said Trump was

“clearly out of his mind”

and

“betraying a quite stupefying ignorance that makes him unfit to hold the office of president of the United States."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/08/boris-johnson-flies-to-new-york-for-talks-with-donald-trumps-team

"Check Out The Big Brain on Don" -- Jules

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[DMX7]

Trump tweets that Meryl Streep is "one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood" after she criticized him at the Golden Globes. Who didn't see that coming?

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http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/pepetrump.png-large-800x430-800x430.jpg

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TRUMP URGES SPY AGENCIES TO LAY OFF RUSSIA AND FOCUS ON THREAT POSED BY ACTRESSES

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Borowitz-TrumpUrgesSpyAgenciestoLayOffRussiaandFocusonThrea tPosedbyActresses-600.jpg

NEW YORK — In an emergency meeting at Trump Tower on Monday morning, President-elect Donald J. Trump urged the heads of the nation’s

intelligence agencies to “stop picking on Russia” and instead focus on “the very real threat” posed by Hollywood actresses.

Calling the recent allegations against Russia a “witch hunt,” Trump told the intelligence chiefs that their investigations of Russian President Vladimir Putin were distracting them from “America’s real enemy, actresses.”

Growing increasingly irate, he laid out a series of proposals for dealing with what he called a “scourge,” including

mandatory registration of actresses and a temporary ban on actresses entering the country.
Additionally, he said that

the flow of actresses could be “cut off at the source” by having F.B.I. agents infiltrate improv classes.

“Nothing should be taken off the table,” Trump reportedly said.

The President-elect also complained that, under President Barack Obama, actresses have been allowed to operate with impunity.

“Barack Obama is basically the founder of actresses,”

he said.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-urges-spy-agencies-to-lay-off-russia-and-focus-on-threat-posed-by-actresses (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-urges-spy-agencies-to-lay-off-russia-and-focus-on-threat-posed-by-actresses)

[Th'Pusher]

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15871472_10212235981401221_7605456015670341261_n.j pg?oh=c4e526b3401418c0bb4791370294e208&oe=58DF6683

I'll bet this one keeps that thin-skinned pussy up at night.

[Quetzal-X]

Boris Johnson flies to New York for talks with Donald Trump's team

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/F533/production/_93317726_mediaitem93317724.jpg :lol ANOTHER asshole with dyed hair

Before the US election, Johnson was extremely critical of Trump. Following the president-elect’s suggestion that he would back a ban on Muslims entering the US and that parts of London were no-go areas, the foreign secretary

said Trump was

“clearly out of his mind”

and

“betraying a quite stupefying ignorance that makes him unfit to hold the office of president of the United States."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/08/boris-johnson-flies-to-new-york-for-talks-with-donald-trumps-team"Check Out The Big Brain on Don" -- Jules



Colored people

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Robert Reich: 15 warning signs of impending Trump tyranny

As tyrants take control of democracies, they typically:

1. Exaggerate their mandate to govern — claiming, for example, that they won an election by a landslide (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2016%2F12%2F 11%2F505182622%2Ffact-check-trump-claims-a-massive-landslide-victory-but-history-differs&t=OTViYzEzN2Q4N2EzZmNhNGFmOTEyOTViY2RiMDRhYTFiODM1 MmUwMSw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1) even after losing the popular vote.

2. Repeatedly claim massive voter (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fstory%2 F2016%2F11%2Ftrump-illegal-voting-clinton-231860&t=MGE5M2VkODE0YTA4NzQ3ZTE3ZDMyMTcwNTY2NTE5ZjBjNzZl YjUxZSw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1) fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to restrict voting in subsequent elections.

3. Call anyone who opposes them “enemies (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicususa.com%2F201 6%2F12%2F31%2Ftrump-calls-majority-voted-enemies-losers-years-message.html&t=MDEwN2RiNmJlMzM2ZWU0N2ZjZTYxMGRkZTI4Y2U0OGU1MGY2 YTYzMiw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1).”

4. Turn the public against journalists or media outlets that criticize them, calling them “deceitful (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F2016%2F0 5%2F31%2Fpolitics%2Fdonald-trump-veterans-announcement%2F&t=Y2YyNGRlNDYzNWQ3MWZlNTcwYmZiYmI4MGIwNzExMjIwNTc0 Y2I2NSw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1)” and “scum (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F2016%2F0 5%2F31%2Fpolitics%2Fdonald-trump-veterans-announcement%2F&t=Y2YyNGRlNDYzNWQ3MWZlNTcwYmZiYmI4MGIwNzExMjIwNTc0 Y2I2NSw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1).”

5. Hold few if any press conferences (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2016%2F12%2F 15%2F505557146%2Fpresident-elect-trump-breaks-with-long-history-of-press-conferences&t=ZDA4YTBkYzkxMTc1NTUzYTIyYTg5ZDI4YzA2ODhhNDQxMjQ3 Y2I5NSw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1), preferring to communicate with the public directly through mass rallies and unfiltered statements (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F2016%2F1 2%2F13%2Fpolitics%2Fdonald-trump-tweets-as-president-elect%2F&t=MjQzNzFhZGYxNjE1MzMxMGFlYjg0ZDRjNTc3OWYxOGMzY2E5 YzM4Niw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1).

6. Tell the public big lies (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politifact.com%2Fperso nalities%2Fdonald-trump%2Fstatements%2Fbyruling%2Fpants-fire%2F&t=ZTM5ZmZlMDBhOTg2ZjM1ODdkMWMyMDg5OGI2OWUyNWY4Njdj YTgwZCw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1), causing them to doubt the truth and to believe fictions that support the tyrants’ goals.

7. Blame economic stresses on immigrants (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F4386240%2Fdonal d-trump-immigration-arguments%2F&t=NjJiZmUwMTVjN2ZiNWViNzljZjY4MGFjOTQ4MDU3NmFmOWYw YzU4OSw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1) or racial or religious minorities, and foment public bias and even violence (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fhow-trump-has-inspired-violence-across-the-country-in-one-map-6ab5e096a627%23.wbwd4ut8f&t=YjViZGVkMDBiNzhkN2UxNmZlNWY3ZWM3MTFiNWVkZDQ2ZDdk YjhhOSw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1) against them.

8. Attribute acts of domestic violence to “enemies within,” and use such events as excuses to beef up internal security and limit civil liberties (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fcong ress-blog%2Fpresidential-campaign%2F291258-donald-trump-is-the-enemy-of-liberty-his-words-are&t=YzIxMDIxNDc0Y2E5ZTkyYzljZmY3YTIyZjA3YzBkMDdhNjli NTVhMiw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1).

9. Threaten mass deportations (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2F1a 6e37e8-a7b8-11e6-8b69-02899e8bd9d1&t=OTRkMDM2ZjlmMjA5ZGYxNjY3ZjM2YzRkZjU2ZWQyMTlhNThm YTgzNyw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1), registries (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2F1a 6e37e8-a7b8-11e6-8b69-02899e8bd9d1&t=OTRkMDM2ZjlmMjA5ZGYxNjY3ZjM2YzRkZjU2ZWQyMTlhNThm YTgzNyw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1)of religious minorities and refugees bans.

10. Seek to eliminate or reduce the influence of competing centers of power, such as labor unions (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fstory%2 F2016%2F12%2Ftrump-unions-war-232382&t=MTAzYWIyMjJhYjQ3YzVlYWFjNmNiZGUwYjc2YmZjNDk1ODg4 YzJkNyw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1) and opposition parties.

11. Appoint family members (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2F news%2Fthe-fix%2Fwp%2F2016%2F11%2F18%2Fwhy-donald-trumps-family-being-in-the-white-house-is-problematic-explained%2F%3Futm_term%3D.48a709c635dd&t=MTEyMTk4MWE3ZTM1ZTU4ZTU1NDRlOWRkYzEzOTEzMzA5NWMy NWEyOSw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1) to high positions of authority.

12. Surround themselves with their own personal security force (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fstory%2 F2016%2F12%2Fdonald-trump-security-force-232797&t=ZjY1YWQ1MWY2MzE1YzVlZDI0MDYyOTQ2MmFhMjA1ZmEyYzY4 ZmQ5NSw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1) rather than a security detail accountable to the public.

13. Put generals (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2F opinions%2Ftrump-is-surrounding-himself-with-generals-thats-dangerous%2F2016%2F11%2F30%2Fe6a0a972-b190-11e6-840f-e3ebab6bcdd3_story.html%3Futm_term%3D.ad9a81b2a78e&t=NmNiY2M2N2QwZDAzNTk3YTVmM2MzY2NjZGY4ZDU2ZjY0OThj MTA4ZSw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1) into top civilian posts.

14. Make personal alliances with foreign dictators (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2F news%2Fworldviews%2Fwp%2F2016%2F12%2F14%2Fputin-trump-and-the-wests-new-ideological-alliance%2F%3Futm_term%3D.a0c1f499d2c1&t=NWZmMTZiYzdjMmE0ZmVjZDA3MDhhOGM2ZjkxNmUyZDUwZDc3 YzAyZiw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1).

15. Draw no distinction between personal property and public property, profiteering from their public office (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fbusi ness%2Farchive%2F2016%2F12%2Fdonald-trump-conflicts-of-interests%2F508382%2F&t=YmJkN2JiMGE2NzkzMmQxOWQ0MmJmNDEwZjgzM2UwZGVhZGE4 MWJhNCw1S1gzYkRSNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1553192641 60&m=1).

Consider yourself warned.

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/04/robert-reich-15-warning-signs-of-impending-trump-tyranny_partner/?source=newsletter

[Thread]

^I don't blame him on 12.. I'd keep my people twixt me & SS...no-matter-what.

ADDENDUM:::This whole fucking Russian Hack thing is a set up. A feeding frenzy of absolutely no worth. None. Not a grain of truth.

Trump shoulda stayed away. (They) ain't fuckin' around.

[spurraider21]

How can you be worried about tyranny if he's letting us keep our handguns and shotguns. Military has no chance tbh

[Thread]

& Streep. I thought she walked tall. Instead, she's crawlin', belly draggin' like a fuckin' dog returning to it's vomit.

& That presser for Wednesday. Spicer should lay it out like this:::one question per person, no follow-up, no two parter's, no three parters, no second question. One person-one question & you're donePERIOD

Trump is wrong to even have it. Fuck them.

[Trill Clinton]

donald is looking like a delicate snowflake more and more everyday. i thought the liberals were supposed to be the sensitive ones?

[in2deep]

Poor Merryll. Great actress but being subservient to Hillary just shows even the greatest actors can be very stupid.

Plus, her name is Merryll

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The conflicts of interest Donald Trump recently canceled added up to less than $400,000

The president-elect has canceled business contracts to avoid the appearance of conflict, but he hasn't made a dent

When confronted about his numerous conflicts-of-interest, President-elect Donald Trump’s business organization likes to tout how he has withdrawn from contracts to address that problem. Despite having a $3 billion company, however, Trump’s canceled contracts amount to less than $400,000.

The combined revenue generated by the projects from which Trump has so far withdrawn amounts to only $323,150 for 2015 and the first half of 2016, according to a Bloomberg report on Monday (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-09/trump-s-canceled-overseas-projects-brought-in-a-mere-323-150). The report was based on Trump’s own financial disclosure forms filed with the Federal Election Commission in May.

Trump’s projects included branding opportunities for building in Argentina, Azerbaijan, Brazil and Georgia. The Argentine project lacked the necessary permits, the Azerbaijani building contained a partner with family ties to that country’s government, the Brazilian project was the subject of a criminal probe, and the Georgian project has stalled due to internal political conditions in that former Soviet republic.

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/09/the-conflicts-of-interest-donald-trump-recently-canceled-added-up-to-less-than-400000/

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Why Jared Kushner’s conflicts of interest matter

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, is all but running foreign policy during Trump’s transition to the Oval Office, while also serving as CEO of his family business and doing deals with a companies closely tied to the Chinese government.

A New York Times report (http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-business.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news) on Kushner’s conflicts of interest makes clear that they’re at least as numerous and complex as those of his father-in-law, the future president. Kushner has a loan from an Israeli bank under Justice Department investigation. He does business with a Chinese company that the Obama administration has blocked from acquiring some American hotels out of security concerns. Investors in some of his projects have benefited from a federal program that hands out US visas in exchange for hefty investments in American companies.

Even if Kushner were just Trump’s son-in-law, this would be troubling: Trump will have authority over a wide range of federal programs and regulators that could affect Kushner’s business. But Kushner is much more than just a relative. He’s a trusted adviser, serving as a go-between for the president-elect on foreign policy and laying the groundwork for a role in the White House.
The report on Kushner makes clear the Trump administration’s conflicts of interest reach far beyond Trump himself, whose business ties already create an unprecedented way for foreign governments and special interests to try to bribe the president.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/9/14205898/jared-kushner-white-house-conflicts-anbang

The Trash administration's corruption with be "unpresidented".

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Trash won't make a dent in mfg job loss


This Chart May Stun You (Or Not)


http://a5.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/image/upload/w_652/bzrvissfekjs6fdgv98w.jpg

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/this-chart-may-stun-you-or-not?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Same for coal, whose main job losses have come from mine owners (not Obama/EPA) switching from deep mining to surface mining. But coal unions naively supported Trash, who will screw them.

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Donald Trump’s rabbi: Why is the founder of the Museum of Tolerance praying at the inauguration of a president who spews hate?A study in hypocrisy: Rabbi Marvin Hier, who launched a major anti-discrimination nonprofit, will pray with Trump
http://media.salon.com/2017/01/rabbi-trump-620x412.jpg

Trump and Rabbi Hier have something else in common: putting family members on the payroll.

In addition to Hier’s $827,408 salary,

his wife Marlene earns $440,603 as the director of membership development, and

his sons Alan and Aron are also on the Wiesenthal Center’s staff.

A report by the Forward (http://forward.com/articles/189187/the-most-overpaid-and-underpaid-jewish-charity-chi/) called Rabbi Hier “by far the most overpaid CEO” of any major Jewish nonprofit organization.

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/09/donald-trumps-rabbi-why-is-the-founder-of-the-museum-of-tolerance-praying-at-the-inauguration-of-a-president-who-spews-hate/

Just another corrupt asshole pillaging a non-profit.

[cd021]

donald is looking like a delicate snowflake more and more everyday. i thought the liberals were supposed to be the sensitive ones?

We have a sensitive president now ,Trill, we need to respect his safe space.:lol

Obama and Clinton had much thicker skin than he does, tbh.

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump was bailed out of bankruptcy by Russia crime bosses (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/9/1618540/-Was-Donald-Trump-bailed-out-of-bankruptcy-by-Russia-crime-bosses)

In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. attended a real estate conference, where he stated that (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/heres-what-we-know-about-donald-trump-and-his-ties-to-russia/2016/07/29/1268b5ec-54e7-11e6-88eb-7dda4e2f2aec_story.html)

Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia


a series of studies by the Financial Times (https://www.ft.com/) to show how funds from Russian crime lords bailed Trump out after yet anther bankruptcy. The conclusions are stark. (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1vHUNPXUAEKZWP.jpg)

Among the powerful facts that DNI missed were a series of very deep studies published in the [Financial Times] that examined

the structure and history of several major Trump real estate projects from the last decade—

the period after his seventh bankruptcy and the cancellation of all his bank lines of credit. ...

The money to build these projects flowed almost entirely from Russian sources.

In other words, after his business crashed,

Trump was floated and made to appear to operate a successful business enterprise through the infusion of hundreds in millions of cash from dark Russian sources.

He was their man.




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/9/1618540/-Was-Donald-Trump-bailed-out-of-bankruptcy-by-Russia-crime-bosses?detail=email&link_id=2&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-as-trump-is-jeered-watch-the-peoples-president-get-a-raucous-heartfelt-standing-ovation-in-nyc&email_referrer=as-trump-is-jeered-watch-the-peoples-president-get-a-raucous-heartfelt-standing-ovation-in-nyc&email_subject=as-trump-is-jeered-watch-the-peoples-president-get-a-raucous-heartfelt-standing-ovation-in-nyc

:lol

Trash is totally compromised by Pootin and his kleptocrats. Then throw in the hours of Pootin's vids of Trash in Moscow fucking whores and doing coke.

Thanks, all you Trash fellators.

[boutons_deux]

RUSSIA BANS MERYL STREEP MOVIES


http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Borowitz-Streep-Putin-1200.jpg
MOSCOW — In a sweeping act of official censorship, the Russian government has banned all Meryl Streep movies from the country, effective immediately.

Moviegoers at Moscow’s Kinoteatr 16 movieplex were taken aback on Monday night when government agents stormed the projection booth and seized a copy of “Florence Foster Jenkins,” the 2016 Streep film that was unspooling.

But the full force of the ban was not felt until Tuesday morning, when

the Ministry of Internal Affairs ordered police to go door to door, confiscating Streep DVDs from Russian citizens.

“I was terrified,” Vasily Dmitrovic, who lives in St. Petersburg, said.

“They broke down my door. My wife was screaming. They would not leave until I handed over ‘Mamma Mia!’ ”

In an appearance on state television, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered no reason for the ban, other than to say that Streep was “overrated.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/russia-bans-meryl-streep-movies (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/russia-bans-meryl-streep-movies)

[CosmicCowboy]

Boo, you post some of the dumbest shit.

[Thread]

She only put forth on the one early in her career:::"Sofie's Choice." Otherwise she's been squattin' on the plain & takin' her fair share of cash. Like every other asshole in-the-line.

[boutons_deux]

Boo, you post some of the dumbest shit.

and it really gets you and other rightwingnuts so butt hurt

[boutons_deux]

January 10, 2017 - U.S. Voters Approve Of Obama, Disapprove Of Trump, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Trump Should Stop Tweeting, Voters Say 2-1

American voters approve

55 - 39 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing, his best approval rating in seven years,

according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today.

These same voters disapprove 51 - 37 percent of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president-elect.

Americans are optimistic 52 - 43 percent about the next four years with Trump as president and say

47 - 31 percent that he will help rather than hurt the nation's economy. :lol

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2415

[Thread]

On the Intel hearings today a Dem asked Comey outright if there was an investigation of collusion twixt either candidate & the Russians and if that finding would be declassified and disclosed before January 20. Comey declined the question several times citing rules prohibiting him from stipulating if there was an investigation, or, if there was not an investigation.

Something is afoot.

[boutons_deux]

Boo, you post some of the dumbest shit.

http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/5756d2631200005b02895990.jpeg?cache=is4fdjdh2u

[boutons_deux]

Lawmakers broach possible Trump campaign coordination with Russia

Members of Congress made clear Tuesday they're increasingly willing to broach a taboo topic: possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

The subject is one lawmakers have largely avoided discussing since the presidential election, even as anti-Trump advocacy groups have sounded alarm bells about the president-elect.

But that changed Tuesday, during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia's meddling in November's election.

The hearing followed Friday's release of an unclassified version of an intelligence community investigation into Russia's interference in the election, which said Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence operation to undermine Hillary Clinton and help Trump.

During the intelligence hearing, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) noted the extensive ties between Trump advisers and the Russian government and pointed to an interview shortly after the election in which a top Russian diplomat said his government had had "contacts" with the Trump campaign.

Wyden then asked FBI Director James Comey, "Has the FBI investigated these reported relationships, and, if so, what are the agency's findings?"

Comey refused to confirm or deny the existence of an investigation, saying he could not comment publicly about such matters. His response raised some eyebrows among Democrats and led to a biting response from Sen. Angus King (I-Maine): "The irony of your making that statement here, I cannot avoid, but I'll move on."

"I would never comment on investigations, whether we have one or not, in an open forum like this," Comey said Tuesday. "So I really can't answer it one way or another."

On Sunday, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham also discussed the possibility of an investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, suggesting that a probe might already be underway.

Asked about the possibility of a probe on NBC's "Meet the Press," the South Carolina senator said: "I believe that it's happening. But you need to talk to them because I don't want to speak for them."

"Whether Trump's pandering to Putin is a result of Trump's potential ties to Russian investors, impending business deals, or simply gratitude for Russia's hacking on his behalf — it's clear that Trump for some reason feels beholden to Putin," said the group's president, Jessica Mackler.

"It's a disgrace that Republicans are capitulating to Trump and standing by Trump's attacks on the U.S. intelligence community and defense of Putin."

A number of Trump advisers have connections to Russia.

The president-elect's pick for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, built strong relationships with Kremlin officials during his tenure as CEO of ExxonMobil, which has sought make inroads in Russia and has lobbied against U.S. sanctions against the country.

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, set to become Trump's national security adviser, was photographed sitting next to Putin at a 2015 event in Moscow celebrating RT, the news network funded by the Russian government that the U.S. intelligence community says was a major source of anti-Clinton propaganda.

And Paul Manafort, a former chairman of the Trump campaign, did some lobbying work for pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-russia-campaign-coordination-233439

but ...but ... but ... Never Forget B E N G H A Z I ! :lol

[Mitch]

:lmao CNN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPaA4V-2cVo

[Thread]

:lmao CNN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPaA4V-2cVo

I love this guy.

[Mitch]

I love this guy.

Ain't he a hoot, Cub? The man just shoots from the hip

[Thread]

Ain't he a hoot, Cub? The man just shoots from the hip

And he never stumbles for the line. He is excellent. He starts then brings the woman out to explain the trust stuff and he stands over there with the family all calm. He doesn't go out there to (get it over with). Just incredible.

[TheSanityAnnex]

:lmao CNN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPaA4V-2cVo

:lmao

[Thread]

I can't fathom why the CNN guy finally relented. I thought he'd go on till they escorted him out. But, he just quit abruptly.

[Mitch]

And he never stumbles for the line. He is excellent. He starts then brings the woman out to explain the trust stuff and he stands over there with the family all calm. He doesn't go out there to (get it over with). Just incredible.

The guy loves the spotlight, feeds off of it. He'll have a half chub before every press conference.

[boutons_deux]

Trump finally lands big name inaugural act:

‘America’s number one Bruce Springsteen cover band’

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trump-finally-lands-big-name-inaugural-act-americas-number-one-bruce-springsteen-cover-band/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

:lol

[Adam Lambert]

https://media.giphy.com/media/l4xVGOegQxqe9za4E/giphy.gif

[boutons_deux]

Trash again proves he is a total fraud

Trump packed news conference with paid staffers to cheer and jeer as he bashed reporters

several of those attendees were actually paid staffers, who joined the news conference to provide moral support to the president-elect, Politico reports (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-press-conference-paid-staffers-media-233496).

The paid staffers, alongs with his children and Mike Pence, bolstered Trump as he bashed the media and intelligence communities.

At one point attendees shouted “no!” when the president-elect rhetorically asked, “do you honestly believe that Hillary Clinton would be tougher on Putin than me?”

Politico also reports the staffers cheered when Trump jeered at a reporter asking about his tax returns.

“The only ones who care about my tax returns are the reporters,” Trump insisted, to his supporters’ delight.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trump-packed-news-conference-with-paid-staffers-to-cheer-and-jeer-as-he-bashed-reporters/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump’s Made-for-TV Promises

If anyone still held out hope that the

awesome responsibilities and dignity of the presidency might temper or even humble Donald Trump, :lol

there was a shock from his first news conference as president-elect, on Wednesday.

Bombastic, vain and slippery,

Mr. Trump played the same small-screen character he has offered the viewing public for years.

Presenting himself as the

leader of “a movement like the world has never seen before,” :lol (ignorant clown, leader of 60M conned, duped, lied to fools)

he offered no olive branch to the majority of American voters who opposed him. :lol another Repug UNITER! :lol

He displayed only petulance and braggadocio in response to issues that dogged him during the campaign.

On suggestions that he had business dealings with Russia: “I tweeted out that I have no dealings with Russia.” :lol

He ducked and dodged when reporters asked whether he or members of his staff colluded with Russia before the election — one of the most explosive of the charges swirling around him.

On his promise to reveal his tax returns, which could prove he has no financial or business ties to Russia: “I’m not releasing the tax returns because as you know, they’re under audit.” He added, “You know,

the only one that cares about my tax returns are the reporters, O.K.?” :lol grammar from the illiterate ignoramus

On whether he would maintain sanctions on Russia, for its hacking of the presidential election:

“If Putin likes Donald Trump, guess what, folks? That’s called an asset.” :lol yep, an asset for Putin :lol

On the economy: “I will be the greatest jobs producer that God ever created.” :lol LIE Repugs/BigCorp/VRWC destroy jobs

Mr. Trump spoke while standing next to piles of manila folders, :lol they were EMPTY! :lol

.. props representing his decision to turn management of his business interests over to his adult sons. That half measure will not dispel suspicions about his hidden conflicts as president.

By not divesting his businesses,

Mr. Trump invites corruption by signaling that corporations and foreign actors have many ways to curry favor with him and his administration through his family.

He emphasized that, in his view, he wasn’t legally required to do a thing, presenting his largely symbolic measures as a high-minded sacrifice to the public interest. He bragged that over the weekend he had been offered $2 billion “to do a deal in Dubai,” adding, “

I didn’t have to turn it down, because as you know, I have a no-conflict situation because I’m president, which is — I didn’t know about that until about three months ago, but it’s a nice thing to have.” :lol ignorant fuck

Like the rest of Mr. Trump’s plan, ignores what government ethics officials told Mr. Trump’s lawyers: The only way to avoid conflict-of-interest charges is to sell off his businesses and put the proceeds into a blind trust.

Mr. Trump closed the news conference with his best “Celebrity Apprentice” scowl.

Of his sons, he said, "If they do a bad job, I’ll say, ‘You’re fired.’”

His staff and supporters applauded, and the show was over.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/opinion/donald-trumps-made-for-tv-promises.html

Thanks, Trash fellators.

[boutons_deux]

Honeymoon? :lol

http://images.dailykos.com/images/348999/story_image/chartQuinnipiacPollNovJan.png?1484226706

[Thread]

Honeymoon? :lol

http://images.dailykos.com/images/348999/story_image/chartQuinnipiacPollNovJan.png?1484226706

Readin'/believin' polls is how Hillary got her ass handed to her for close order inspection.

[spurraider21]

Readin'/believin' polls is how Hillary got her ass handed to her for close order inspection.
The election itself is one big poll. Don't be obtuse

[Spurminator]

Wonder if we're going to see the same stupid "Miss me yet?" billboards featuring Obama that we saw in 2009 featuring Bush.

[Thread]

The election itself is one big poll. Don't be obtuse

Get your own shit. That's my shit.

[Spurminator]

The election itself is one big poll.

Just set it up on a tee, why don't you?

[Thread]

Wonder if we're going to see the same stupid "Miss me yet?" billboards featuring Obama that we saw in 2009 featuring Bush.

We won't need the boards. That idiot will hitchhike down there and stick his half black/half white nose twixt the fence grates.

Galls him that he HAS to leave the property.

[Spurminator]

We won't need the boards. That idiot will hitchhike down there and stick his half black/half white nose twixt the fence grates.

Galls him that he HAS to leave the property.

I doubt that very much. I'm guessing he's been counting down the days for months. I know I would be.

[Thread]

I doubt that very much. I'm guessing he's been counting down the days for months. I know I would be.

& you don't believe that. He's addicted to power, like the Clintons. Addicted to the soft seat, like the Clintons. (They) ain't foolin' anybody who doesn't want to be fooled.

He'll have to sit on one of those metal lounge chairs in his backyard with his Sears binoculars and watch the House. + he'll rouse the rabble. That's what he's good for whether POTUS, organizer, or, now mean old black man.

[Spurminator]

If he wants to stay in public service or in Washington after his Presidency, more power to him. We need more people like Obama in Washington.

[boutons_deux]

Wonder if we're going to see the same stupid "Miss me yet?" billboards featuring Obama that we saw in 2009 featuring Bush.

I doubt we'll see that gloating from the Dems, but all kinds of nastiness is in bounds for the Repugs and their hateful supporters.

Looking at Trash's DISAPPROVAL numbers already, it looks like only the truly stupid, ignorant are pleased with Trash.

Just wait til those hard core assholes see the damage that the Repugs are gonna visit on the country.

[tlongII]

If he wants to stay in public service or in Washington after his Presidency, more power to him. We need more people like Obama in Washington.

Why?

[Spurminator]

Why?

Reasonable. Speaks above a 4th grade bible school teacher level.

[boutons_deux]

A message to my doomed colleagues in the American media

Watching Trump’s presser, I had a feeling I’d seen it all before — while covering Vladimir Putin’s annual news conferences.
(https://medium.com/@alexey__kovalev/a-message-to-my-doomed-colleagues-in-the-american-media-6e2e76eeae77?source=email-d66fe34fa2c3-1484310993749-digest.reader------0-3&sectionName=suggested)
Congratulations, US media! You’ve just covered your first press conference of an authoritarian leader with a massive ego and a deep disdain for your trade and everything you hold dear.

We in Russia have been doing it for 12 years now — with a short hiatus when our leader wasn’t technically our leader — so quite a few things during Donald Trump’s press conference rang my bells. Not just mine, in fact — read this excellent round-up (https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/you-thought-this-was-rock-bottom-america-but-the-russians-are-knocking-from-below-56789) in The Moscow Times.

Putin’s pressers are televised live across all Russian TV channels, attended by all kinds of media — federal news agencies, small local publications and foreign reporters based in Moscow — and are supposed to overshadow every other event in Russia or abroad.

These things are carefully choreographed, typically last no less than four hours, and Putin always comes off as an omniscient and benevolent leader tending to a flock of unruly but adoring children.

Given that Putin is probably a role model for Trump, it’s no surprise that he’s apparently taking a page from Putin’s playbook. I have some observations to share with my American colleagues.

You’re in this for at least another four years, and you’ll be dealing with things Russian journalists have endured for almost two decades now. I’m talking about Putin here, but see if you can apply any of the below to your own leader.

Welcome to the era of bullshit.

Facts don’t matter.

You can’t hurt this man with facts or reason.

He’ll always outmaneuver you.

He’ll always wriggle out of whatever carefully crafted verbal trap you lay for him.

Whatever he says, you won’t be able to challenge him.

He always comes with a bag of meaningless factoids (Putin likes to drown questions he doesn’t like in dull, unverifiable stats, figures and percentages), platitudes, false moral equivalences and straight, undiluted bullshit.

He knows it’s a one-way communication, not an interview. You can’t follow up on your questions or challenge him.

So he can throw whatever he wants at you in response, and you’ll just have to swallow it.

Some journalists will try to preempt this by asking two questions at once, against the protests of their colleagues also vying for attention, but that also won’t work: he’ll answer the one he thinks is easier, and ignore the other.

Others will use this opportunity to go on a long, rambling statement vaguely disguised as a question, but that’s also bad tactics.

Non-questions invite non-answers.

He’ll mock you for your nervous stuttering and if you’re raising a serious issue, respond with a vague, non-committal statement

(“Mr President, what about these horrible human rights abuses in our country?” “

Thank you, Miss. This is indeed a very serious issue.

Everybody must respect the law.

And by the way, don’t human rights abuses happen in other countries as well?

Next question please”).

[My name is Alexey Kovalev, I’m a Russian journalist and

I’m writing about propaganda, fake news and Russian state media on noodleremover.news.

It’s all in Russian, but here’s an example (https://globalvoices.org/2016/09/12/how-fake-stories-reported-in-russias-news-media-regularly-fool-everyone/) of what I’m doing in English.

You can contact me at [email protected]. I tweet as @Alexey__Kovalev (https://twitter.com/Alexey__Kovalev).

https://medium.com/@alexey__kovalev/message-to-american-media-from-russia-6e2e76eeae77#.u3i1tnio8

[spurraider21]

Rep John Lewis is being an idiot calling trump illegitimate

[Thread]

Rep John Lewis is being an idiot calling trump illegitimate

He's senile. & needs to go on into the dust that is always the end.

[boutons_deux]

Rep John Lewis is being an idiot calling trump illegitimate

Trash is illegit

Dems learned something today from FBI that has them boiling with anger. no details.

Comey and Assange elected Trash, he is ILLEGITIMATE.

[tlongII]

Trash is illegit

Dems learned something today from FBI that has them boiling with anger. no details.

Comey and Assange elected Trash, he is ILLEGITIMATE.

He's THE BOSS. Get used to it.

[pgardn]

Trash is illegit

Dems learned something today from FBI that has them boiling with anger. no details.

Comey and Assange elected Trash, he is ILLEGITIMATE.

Get off it.

It was a close election, Trump is the winner, move on.

[SnakeBoy]

Get off it.

It was a close election, Trump is the winner, move on.

Wasn't really that close. It wasn't Bush/Gore. Which is why it's strange Democrats think they are going to gain something by trying to delegitimize Trump's victory. It didn't do anything to help them when they tried it against Dubya and they had a much stronger case then imo.

[Thread]

Wasn't really that close. It wasn't Bush/Gore. Which is why it's strange Democrats think they are going to gain something by trying to delegitimize Trump's victory. It didn't do anything to help them when they tried it against Dubya and they had a much stronger case then imo.

I still remember John King running back from the Supreme Court building after the stewards delivered the judgment. He grabbed the paper and ran---the closer he got to the microphone the slower he gaited. I knew then it was gonna be alright.

[pgardn]

Wasn't really that close. It wasn't Bush/Gore. Which is why it's strange Democrats think they are going to gain something by trying to delegitimize Trump's victory. It didn't do anything to help them when they tried it against Dubya and they had a much stronger case then imo.

Nothing will come close to that. Swing states that went to Donald were close.

But when you get butt stomped in the popular vote.
Its close. It was a strange election and a close election.

Sorry.
The nation is very divided. It is a unique time.
Its strange the Republicans feel like this is some sort of mandate.

[SnakeBoy]

Nothing will come close to that. Swing states that went to Donald were close.

But when you get butt stomped in the popular vote.
Its close. It was a strange election and a close election.

Sorry.
The nation is very divided. It is a unique time.

The popular vote doesn't mean anything. So Hillary did a great job turning out the vote in California, a place voter turnout didn't matter at all. That's meaningless.

Do you think the Democrats have done anything wise post election to help them regain some power?

[pgardn]

The popular vote doesn't mean anything. So Hillary did a great job turning out the vote in California, a place voter turnout didn't matter at all. That's meaningless.

Do you think the Democrats have done anything wise post election to help them regain some power?


So Donald did a great job in Texas. Throw my state out... What you got...

The vote was close.
The nation is clearly divided.
You don't believe this.

The Democrats have whined and griped. 4 years from now they could very well have it thrown back in their lap which would be disturbing based on this election and their utter inability to see that Trump tappped into the same basic idea as Bernie.

[SnakeBoy]

So Donald did a great job in Texas. Throw my state out... What you got...

The vote was close.
The nation is clearly divided.
You don't believe this.


Well if the roles were reversed and Trump's huge popular vote lead was entirely accountable to the margin of victory in Texas then yes I would say throw it out. Electoral votes are all that counts and by that measure it wasn't close. If it were just swing states Trump eeked out a victory in then maybe you'd have a better argument but he beat her in blue states that shouldn't have been up for grabs.



The Democrats have whined and griped. 4 years from now they could very well have it thrown back in their lap which would be disturbing based on this election and their utter inability to see that Trump tappped into the same basic idea as Bernie.

Democrats have a lot more to worry about than just getting back the WH.

[pgardn]

Nothing will come close to that. Swing states that went to Donald were close.

But when you get butt stomped in the popular vote.
Its close. It was a strange election and a close election.

Sorry.
The nation is very divided. It is a unique time.
Its strange the Republicans feel like this is some sort of mandate.

Again.

It does not matter which way the votes were supposed to go.

Hillary was supposed to Stomp Donald's buttt. It did not happen, it was close.
Believe what you would like, I think it's pretty clear we have a divided country and had a close election. Lotta people stayed up late. You go to bed early, saw it was clearly wrapped up?

With all the Republicans that are now clinging to Donald in close States, in 4 years the Senate and House could be reversed. IMO this would be troubling. Shit better get done.

[Th'Pusher]

Wasn't really that close. It wasn't Bush/Gore. Which is why it's strange Democrats think they are going to gain something by trying to delegitimize Trump's victory. It didn't do anything to help them when they tried it against Dubya and they had a much stronger case then imo.

Historically, not that impressive an EC victory, tbh.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_El ectoral_College_margin

[spurraider21]

Wasn't really that close. It wasn't Bush/Gore. Which is why it's strange Democrats think they are going to gain something by trying to delegitimize Trump's victory. It didn't do anything to help them when they tried it against Dubya and they had a much stronger case then imo.
we've had 58 elections. this was 46th on the list of biggest blowouts if you look at the electoral college

it was also the 3rd worst popular vote margin for a winner in US history

no matter how you slice it, it was a fairly close election, all things considered. that's not to say he's not the deserved winner or crap like that, but to call the election a close one is fairly accurate tbh

[Reck]

LOL Snakeboy.

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/25066_386680376871_3081312_n.jpg?oh=ccf24f6463b1ee 448ecec200ec001e00&oe=591ECFF6

[pgardn]

Boots.

You are utterly worthless.
You are most likely the worst example of a Democrat ever. I'm voting Republican with one big switch if you are an average Democratic mind.

[boutons_deux]

First, Destroy the Federal Workforce?—?Then Rule Like an Autocrat

The bureaucracy is one of the last things standing in Donald Trump’s way

President-elect Donald Trump’s greatest advantage is the fact that he is facing a public and a media that have no framework for understanding him. American politics and journalism long ago suppressed and expelled the people who were equipped to understand exactly what the fuck is going on right now.

Trump and congressional Republicans have effectively ended the federal civil service in the last week or two, and along with erosions of constitutional authority enacted by Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and their immediate predecessors, Trump will very likely have near-autocratic powers almost immediately after he is sworn in next week.

Four specific actions?—?among others?—?have done the most to signal Trump’s shift.

First we have the questionnaires the Trump transition team sent to the U.S. Department of Energy about individuals working on climate change and to the U.S. State Department about who was working on gender equality issues.

Next came the announcement by the Trump team that all Obama-appointed political ambassadors would be terminated on Jan. 20, 2017, no exceptions, regardless of circumstance. they direct official business in the courts of the United States’ closest and oldest allies, making extended vacancies in these posts problematic. Trump has broken with tradition and good sense in issuing a formal “tough shit” to these appointees and the embassies in which they serve.

Third came Trump’s war of words against the CIA, his appointment as national security advisor of a figure that the CIA despised and ran out of town and his refusal to receive regular briefings from the intelligence agencies. The so-called “deep state” is the element of the federal bureaucracy most immune to political change, and Trump is taking it on. If Trump can push around the CIA, what hope does the EPA have?

Finally, in the aftermath of public outrage over the GOP’s attempted evisceration of the Congressional Ethics Office, lawmakers sneaked in a return of the so-called Holman Rule, a 19th-century parliamentary procedure that allows any member of Congress to cut any particular federal position’s salary to $1.

The pushback against the CIA shows that there are no limits to where they will assert their will.

The questionnaires show that they are searching deep within the federal bureaucracy for their political targets.

And the Holman Rule change gives them the weapon with which to strike those targets.

The entire federal bureaucracy will fall in line with Trump’s whims — or it’ll end up on the list of one-buck chumps.

https://medium.com/defiant/first-destroy-the-federal-workforce-then-rule-like-an-autocrat-934439bd0b5f#.392je64x0

Trash doesn't give a shit about Federal bureaucracy.

He's an ignorant, clueless LOSER who is being steamrolled, bypassed by the Repug/VRWC/capitialist strategy to destroy Federal govt, and he DOESN'T GIVE A FUCK.

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/25066_386680376871_3081312_n.jpg?oh=ccf24f6463b1ee 448ecec200ec001e00&oe=591ECFF6

[CosmicCowboy]

Realistically Trump will get 25% of his platform through legislation, if that. He won't get NAFTA revoked and he won't get import tariffs. He has, however changed the perception and big corps will think twice about moving jobs offshore for fear of a tweet backlash in public relations. If the democrats block vote I don't see any way they get significant tax cuts through because there will be too many republican deficit hawks wanting offsetting revenue. The same argument applies to substantially increasing the military and even 'building the wall". There are Republicans that won't vote for legislation that gives us Trillion dollar deficits. Hell, he may very well not even get a supreme court nomination through. That's gonna take 60 votes in the Senate. We may be stuck with 8 justices for awhile until someone else dies.

[boutons_deux]

Both Trash's and Repugs' budget plans increase the debt by man $Ts over 10 years.

(Repug) deficits don't matter. Cutting taxes on capitalists and BigCorp dominates kills an conern about deficits.

[baseline bum]

If the democrats block vote I don't see any way they get significant tax cuts through because there will be too many republican deficit hawks wanting offsetting revenue.

They'll push it through using reconciliation just like they did with the Bush tax cuts. The GOP only cared about deficits because Obama was in power, they never mattered under Bush, Bush, or Reagan. :lol

[boutons_deux]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/6c/26/f5/6c26f5af2ff9d9972a44cd3094793402.jpg

[boutons_deux]

http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/trump.jpg

Here's Donny!

[boutons_deux]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/17/45/08/1745081aaa392e7617ed3a7e273805a4.jpg

[Thread]

They'll push it through using reconciliation just like they did with the Bush tax cuts. The GOP only cared about deficits because Obama was in power, they never mattered under Bush, Bush, or Reagan. :lol

Bend over. I'll show you fuckin' reconciliation.

[baseline bum]

Bend over. I'll show you fuckin' reconciliation.

You couldn't even push reconciliation through with Katy girl and now you're talking big? Back to the couch with you.

[SnakeBoy]

we've had 58 elections. this was 46th on the list of biggest blowouts if you look at the electoral college

it was also the 3rd worst popular vote margin for a winner in US history

no matter how you slice it, it was a fairly close election, all things considered. that's not to say he's not the deserved winner or crap like that, but to call the election a close one is fairly accurate tbh

I didn't say it was a blowout. My original comment was more about the current state of shambles the Democrat party is in and the tactics they are using. I don't want the Dems back in power so it's fine with me if they think just crying "russians" and chanting "not my president" is all that's needed to get back power.

Republicans dominate govt at every level but sure it's really close. Stay the course Dems.

[Th'Pusher]

I didn't say it was a blowout. My original comment was more about the current state of shambles the Democrat party is in and the tactics they are using. I don't want the Dems back in power so it's fine with me if they think just crying "russians" and chanting "not my president" is all that's needed to get back power.

Republicans dominate govt at every level but sure it's really close. Stay the course Dems.

where'd the goalpost go?

[SnakeBoy]

where'd the goalpost go?

Go back and read my original comment.

but everything is fine. The Democratic Party is still on the verge of permanent one party rule.

[Th'Pusher]

Go back and read my original comment.

but everything is fine. The Democratic Party is still on the verge of permanent one party rule.

Aristotle follows up a goalpost move with a strawman.

It's a two party system. The Democratic Party isn't going anywhere. Demographics are on the side of democrats as are the issues, quite frankly. It's not like the American people voted for a conservative agenda. Democrats ran a shitty candidate. that's the extent of it.

[SnakeBoy]

Aristotle follows up a goalpost move with a strawman.

It's a two party system. The Democratic Party isn't going anywhere. Demographics are on the side of democrats as are the issues, quite frankly. It's not like the American people voted for a conservative agenda. Democrats ran a shitty candidate. that's the extent of it.

:lol the lack of introspection is encouraging. Everything is fine...Pelosi will lead your party to glory.

[Th'Pusher]

:lol the lack of introspection is encouraging. Everything is fine...Pelosi will lead your party to glory.

America is more progressive than you are. That's a fact.

[SnakeBoy]

America is more progressive than you are. That's a fact.

Democrats are in the worst position since reconstruction. Everything is fine though...stay the course.

[Splits]

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[Th'Pusher]

Democrats are in the worst position since reconstruction. Everything is fine though...stay the course.

The American people are just a little emotional right now, hence Trump. Don't worry, it's cyclical. On the issues, Anericans are progressive. Democrats have a branding issue right now. I'm confident Trump is going to work toward resolving that.

[SnakeBoy]

The American people are just a little emotional right now, hence Trump. Don't worry, it's cyclical. On the issues, Anericans are progressive. Democrats have a branding issue right now. I'm confident Trump is going to work toward resolving that.

Just a branding issue...okay.

Let me ask you the same question pgardn wouldn't answer

Do you think the Democrats have done anything wise post election to help them regain some power?

[Th'Pusher]

Just a branding issue...okay.

Let me ask you the same question pgardn wouldn't answer

Do you think the Democrats have done anything wise post election to help them regain some power?

Not particularly. They don't need to. Your boy Trump is going to do all the heavy lifting.

[baseline bum]

The American people are just a little emotional right now, hence Trump. Don't worry, it's cyclical. On the issues, Anericans are progressive. Democrats have a branding issue right now. I'm confident Trump is going to work toward resolving that.

Branding issue. :lol

The GOP used to say that shit too. The Democrats issue is (1) they were trying to push a complete piece of shit into the presidency and (2) they haven't done anything to counteract all the Koch money that gave the state governments to the GOP.

[Th'Pusher]

Branding issue. :lol

The GOP used to say that shit too. The Democrats issue is (1) they were trying to push a complete piece of shit into the presidency and (2) they haven't done anything to counteract all the Koch money that gave the state governments to the GOP.

(1) I already conceded. (2) possibly. Money only goes so far. People vote on emotion. Hillary outspent Trump by god knows how much.

The republican's ground game to give them the census, and thus the right to gerrymander, in 2010 was impressive. That doesn't change the fact that when it comes to the most basic of issues, Americans are generally progressive.

[DMC]

820494045365596162

SNL did a bang up job keeping Donald out of the WH.

[rmt]

The American people are just a little emotional right now, hence Trump. Don't worry, it's cyclical. On the issues, Anericans are progressive. Democrats have a branding issue right now. I'm confident Trump is going to work toward resolving that.

I respectfully disagree that Americans are progressive on the issues. The majority of them couldn't care less about racism, sexism, LBGTQ, white male privilege or whatever else ails these SJWs (gee - I've learned so many terms I'd never heard of a year ago). They care about jobs, affordable health care, their children having an equal/better life than them, comfortable retirement. It worries me that the young have an "well, what can you do about it?" attitude instead of the attitude that Morgan Freeman has in the racism thread.

You're so confident that Trump's gonna mess up? Or that his policies just don't work?

[SnakeBoy]

Not particularly. They don't need to. Your boy Trump is going to do all the heavy lifting.

What's he going to do that is going to propel the Dems into power. Get us bogged down in a ground war, still win reelection, then preside over the greatest financial crisis since the great depression?

Waiting on the other party to fail doesn't seem like the best strategy.

[boutons_deux]

SNL did a bang up job keeping Donald out of the WH.

People who vote Repug no matter what are too stupid to appreciate SNL.

[spurraider21]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S65jqrHQi_c

[Th'Pusher]

What's he going to do that is going to propel the Dems into power. Get us bogged down in a ground war, still win reelection, then preside over the greatest financial crisis since the great depression?

Waiting on the other party to fail doesn't seem like the best strategy.

Whats specific issues do you think the the Republican party has a corner on?

[Th'Pusher]

I respectfully disagree that Americans are progressive on the issues. The majority of them couldn't care less about racism, sexism, LBGTQ, white male privilege or whatever else ails these SJWs (gee - I've learned so many terms I'd never heard of a year ago). They care about jobs, affordable health care, their children having an equal/better life than them, comfortable retirement. It worries me that the young have an "well, what can you do about it?" attitude instead of the attitude that Morgan Freeman has in the racism thread.

You're so confident that Trump's gonna mess up? Or that his policies just don't work?

I would point you to polls, but you would just disregard them.

[boutons_deux]

You're so confident that Trump's gonna mess up?

I have no doubt. Look at his agenda, look at Repugs platform (Trash intervened only to protect Pootin), almost 100% of overlap.

If you not in the top 5% or BigCorp, you're gonna get screwed, esp if Dems can't block a Scalia-type activist rightwing extremist. Even if they can, whomever the Repugs nominate will always vote 5-4 with the current rightwing VWRC racist tools.

[SnakeBoy]

Whats specific issues do you think the the Republican party has a corner on?

Elections aren't decided by specific issues, I'm not talking about policy. Political strategy has little to do with policy.

[Thread]

Political strategy has little to do with policy.

Bannon's mission to stake out a killing ground withstanding. He plotted one twixt Minnesota & New York and sent the Conway girl & Trump out there.

Viola. Lewis can't go Friday.

[Th'Pusher]

Elections aren't decided by specific issues, I'm not talking about policy. Political strategy has little to do with policy.

gerrymandering? Faux populism? Tell me about this brilliant political strategy the republicans have employed to relegate the democrats to be a wholly ineffective party.

[boutons_deux]

(Repug) Political strategy has little to do with policy ...

... because it's all about /hate/paranoia/god/guns/gays/abortion/racism/bigotry/xenophobia/misogyny/white_male_supremacy.

[boutons_deux]

Republicans, in lather over question of Trump's legitimacy, want—wait for it—Obama to 'step up' (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/15/1620765/-Republicans-in-lather-over-question-of-Trump-s-legitimacy-want-wait-for-it-Obama-to-step-up)


http://images.dailykos.com/images/350359/story_image/GettyImages-495005872.jpg?1484496462


Donald Trump's team is still plenty steamed after a leading House Democrat described Trump as an illegitimate president - and there are now calls for President Barack Obama to act.

Trump's incoming White House chief of staff says the congressman, civil rights leader John Lewis of Georgia, is being "irresponsible" and has started a "firestorm." :lol

Reince Priebus tells NBC's "Meet the Press" that Obama should "step up" and "call it what it is - it's wrong what is happening, it's wrong how some of these Democrats are treating President-elect Trump." :lol


Indeed.

It’s time for Barack Obama to step up—for the tiny fingered, popular vote losing puppet of Putin, who spent eight years leading the “birther” jag-off movement—and defend Trump’s legitimacy.

He should get right on that.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/15/1620765/-Republicans-in-lather-over-question-of-Trump-s-legitimacy-want-wait-for-it-Obama-to-step-up?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

iow, Repugs can lie, slander, bullshit, fabricate, harass, witch hunt, deny the legitimacy of anybody non-Repug,

but let just one Dem TELL THE TRUTH about their ILLEGITIMATE shitbag TRASH,

and deluded Repugs go running to their beloved Muslim fist-bumping terrorist foreigner illegit-Pres Obama to legitimize Trash's illegitimacy. :lol

[boutons_deux]

Repug reachout to blacks as heart-felt as it was in after Bishop Gekko got curb stomped by a knitter :lol
(http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/15/1620746/-Trump-cancels-MLK-Day-visit-to-National-African-American-Museum-because-he-s-too-busy)

Trump cancels MLK Day visit to National African American Museum because he's too busy (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/15/1620746/-Trump-cancels-MLK-Day-visit-to-National-African-American-Museum-because-he-s-too-busy)


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NEW: Donald Trump expected to visit National African American Museum in observance of Martin Luther King Day, transition sources tell @ABC (https://twitter.com/ABC).





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UPDATE: Trump no longer to visit National African American Museum on MLK Day due to scheduling issues, transition officials tell @ABC (https://twitter.com/ABC).
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/15/1620746/-Trump-cancels-MLK-Day-visit-to-National-African-American-Museum-because-he-s-too-busy?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[boutons_deux]

Black lawmakers consider boycotting Trump’s inauguration en masse after attack on John Lewis


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/black-lawmakers-consider-boycotting-trumps-inauguration-en-masse-after-attack-on-john-lewis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

Republicans defend legitimacy of Trump's election :lol

Vice President-elect Mike Pence said on Sunday that he was disappointed by a black civil rights activist and politician's questioning of Donald Trump's legitimacy as president of the United States and his decision to boycott Friday's inauguration.

"We honor the sacrifice that he made," Pence said on CBS' "Face the Nation" :lol

"We need folks like John Lewis, and others who I think have been champions of voter rights, actually recognize the fact that Donald Trump was duly elected," said Priebus. :lol

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-race-idUSKBN14Z0M6?/feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F +US+%2F+Top+News%29 (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-race-idUSKBN14Z0M6?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F +US+%2F+Top+News%29)

Hey, Repugs, Trash is an ILLEGITIMATE L.O.S.E.R.

Like dubya telling NAACP convention that he values the black vote (but not black people), Pence "says" he values Lewis' sacrifice (but not Lewis)

[Trill Clinton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V8TO6y0IR4

[DMX7]

"Irony" is Reince Priebus' middle name.

[boutons_deux]

‘Absolutely payback’: Katrina Pierson claims Trump ‘actually gains’ power by attacking John Lewis

http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/fox_ff_pierson_170115a-800x430.jpg

“He attacked Donald Trump!” Pierson told Fox News host Clayton Morris on Sunday. “And Donald Trump also has a First Amendment right to defend himself.

So this criticism is not fair. :lol

And it’s never supposed to be fair for Republicans :lol

because Republicans are supposed to sit down, shut up and be publicly humiliated and never defend themselves.” :lol

“And all that changed with Donald Trump entered the arena,” :lol

she continued. “And he said several times, ‘If you attack me, I will hit you back.’ That’s exactly what happened here.

This is what Democrats do. They pick a fight and they play the victim.” :lol

Pierson insisted that Trump’s attack on Lewis was “absolutely payback” for undermining his legitimacy.

“This doesn’t hurt Donald Trump’s political clout,” Trump’s former national spokesperson opined. “He actually gains, simply because he is someone who is standing up for himself.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/absolutely-payback-katrina-pierson-claims-trump-actually-gains-power-by-attacking-john-lewis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Lewis was standing up for America.

Trash only stands up from the toilet (probably a gold-leaf toilet) when he's pooped out some risible tweets

[boutons_deux]

Why Trump Is All but Certain to Create a New Major Crisis in the Middle East

Even if the Iran deal is kept intact, expect Washington to clash with Tehran.

http://www.alternet.org/why-trump-all-certain-create-new-major-crisis-middle-east

And if not Iran, who do y'all Macho Man armchair Seal Team wannabes think Trash/Repugs will pick pointless fight with?

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump Really Means What He Says—and Plans to Silence and Intimidate Dissenters

Trump took a divide-and-conquer strategy during that press conference. He zeroed in on CNN and BuzzFeed, attacking them as “fake news” for printing reports — reports that are 100 percent true — that a dossier implicating Trump in Russian espionage efforts was presented by intelligence officials to both Trump and President Obama.

He then praised other outlets for not running with the story (though some did), a rather unsubtle effort to turn journalists against one another.

These middle school bully-style tactics worked, Will Oremus at Slate reports (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/01/how_trump_is_manipulating_the_media.html):

BuzzFeed was so anathematized that by presser’s end, fellow journalists were picking up their lunch trays and moving to the other side of the cafeteria.

“I can understand why President-elect Trump would be upset” with BuzzFeed, said CNN’s Jake Tapper, a co-author of the very story that had just been impugned in the press conference.

“I would be upset about it, too.” :lol


To put my fellow journalists on blast for a moment:

You should be ashamed of yourselves, letting this doofus whose rhetoric literally sounds like that (http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/hear-mark-hamill-read-donald-trump-tweet-as-the-joker-w459623) of a mustache-twirling comic book villain manipulate you, using the same tactics as some schoolyard bully.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/donald-trump-really-means-what-he-says-and-plans-silence-and-intimidate-dissenters

[Th'Pusher]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V8TO6y0IR4

The Russian flag lapel pin is a nice touch:lol

[boutons_deux]

Jennifer Holliday bails on singing for Trash

[boutons_deux]

Trump Slams NATO, Floats Russia Nuke Deal in European Interview

Donald Trump

called NATO obsolete,

predicted that other European Union members would follow the U.K. in leaving the bloc,

and threatened BMW with import duties over a planned plant in Mexico

signaled a major shift in trans-Atlantic relations, including an interest in lifting U.S. sanctions on Russia as part of a nuclear weapons reduction deal.

Trump predicted that Britain’s exit from the EU will be a success and portrayed the EU as an instrument of German domination designed with the purpose of beating the U.S. in international trade. For that reason, Trump said, he’s fairly indifferent to whether the EU stays together,

he was interested in making “good deals with Russia,” floating the idea of lifting sanctions that were imposed as the U.S. has sought to punish the Kremlin for its annexation of Crimea in 2014 and military support of the Syrian government.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-15/trump-calls-nato-obsolete-and-dismisses-eu-in-german-interview

Trash is a tool of Pootin, who would love to see EU and NATO destroyed.

Then lifting of sanctions so Pootin and Tilliserson can consummate their $500B oil deal, worth $Ts to each of them.

This fucking scary stuff.

ILLEGITIMATE TRASH is totally compromised by Pootin

[boutons_deux]

A ‘prayer shield’ and a ‘wall of meat’: Christians and bikers vow to protect Trump at inauguration


http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Bikers-for-Trump-Chris-Cox-Fox-n-Friends-screencap-800x430.png

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/a-prayer-shield-and-a-wall-of-meat-christians-and-bikers-vow-to-protect-trump-at-inauguration/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

CRIMINAL TRASH SUPPORTING, PROTECTING CRIMINAL TRASH

[spurraider21]

imo this is fairly convincing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aYFC_7ZIn4

[boutons_deux]

It doesn't matter now, the "truth", one way or the other, because the damage to Trash as mocking physically disabled is done

See how that works?

and anyway, Trash is damaged is so many more disturbing, serious ways.

Mocking disabled people, or fucking whores and doing coke in Moscow, is totally credible for this asshole.

Like "crooked Hillary", "hillary killed 4 Americans at Benghazi", "emails", that shit sticks, so does "mocking disabled reporter" and "golden showers".

[boutons_deux]

Instead Of Preparing To Be President, Trump Throws A Tantrum Over Saturday Night Live

In a matter of days, Donald Trump will take the oath of office and become the next President Of The United States,

so Trump is preparing for this epic responsibility by whining about Saturday Night Live.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/15/preparing-president-trump-tantrum-saturday-night-live.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[boutons_deux]

Trash kicking the press out of the White House

Trump’s Plan to Neuter the White House Press Corps, and Neuter Our Democracy

Tyrants don’t allow open questioning, and they hate the free press. They want total control.

That’s why, according to three senior officials (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=denied%3A%255Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.esquire. com%2Fnews-politics%2Fnews%2Fa52301%2Ftrump-evict-press-white-house%2F&t=ZjhmYjM4MDcwMTY1YzM3MWNmNWEyZDUwYmJhZmQ3YTQyZmRh YTAzNCxhV1RGNlB3QQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1559238495 70&m=1) on the transition team, the incoming Trump administration is considering evicting the White House press corps from the press room inside the White House and moving them – and news conferences – to a conference center or to the Old Executive Office Building.



This may sound like a small logistic matter. It’s not. The White House “press room” contains work stations and broadcast booths, and the briefing area for presidential news conferences. Reporters have had workspace at the White House since Teddy Roosevelt was president, in 1901.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/16/trumps-plan-neuter-white-house-press-corps-and-neuter-our-democracy

[SpursforSix]

Trash kicking the press out of the White House

Trump’s Plan to Neuter the White House Press Corps, and Neuter Our Democracy

Tyrants don’t allow open questioning, and they hate the free press. They want total control.

That’s why, according to three senior officials (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=denied%3A%255Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.esquire. com%2Fnews-politics%2Fnews%2Fa52301%2Ftrump-evict-press-white-house%2F&t=ZjhmYjM4MDcwMTY1YzM3MWNmNWEyZDUwYmJhZmQ3YTQyZmRh YTAzNCxhV1RGNlB3QQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1559238495 70&m=1) on the transition team, the incoming Trump administration is considering evicting the White House press corps from the press room inside the White House and moving them – and news conferences – to a conference center or to the Old Executive Office Building.



This may sound like a small logistic matter. It’s not. The White House “press room” contains work stations and broadcast booths, and the briefing area for presidential news conferences. Reporters have had workspace at the White House since Teddy Roosevelt was president, in 1901.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/16/trumps-plan-neuter-white-house-press-corps-and-neuter-our-democracy




That's rich. Obama and Hillary had their questions hand picked for them. It's all two sides of the same coin.

[spurraider21]

It doesn't matter now, the "truth", one way or the other
That's rich, coming from the bitch who whines about "YOU LIE" and likes to claim it's only repubs who don't care about facts

Partisan hacks are the problem

[Thread]

Trash kicking the press out of the White House

Trump’s Plan to Neuter the White House Press Corps, and Neuter Our Democracy

Tyrants don’t allow open questioning, and they hate the free press. They want total control.

That’s why, according to three senior officials (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=denied%3A%255Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.esquire. com%2Fnews-politics%2Fnews%2Fa52301%2Ftrump-evict-press-white-house%2F&t=ZjhmYjM4MDcwMTY1YzM3MWNmNWEyZDUwYmJhZmQ3YTQyZmRh YTAzNCxhV1RGNlB3QQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1559238495 70&m=1) on the transition team, the incoming Trump administration is considering evicting the White House press corps from the press room inside the White House and moving them – and news conferences – to a conference center or to the Old Executive Office Building.



This may sound like a small logistic matter. It’s not. The White House “press room” contains work stations and broadcast booths, and the briefing area for presidential news conferences. Reporters have had workspace at the White House since Teddy Roosevelt was president, in 1901.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/16/trumps-plan-neuter-white-house-press-corps-and-neuter-our-democracy




49 seats ain't enough, especially when Helen Thomas takes up 3 with her fat fuckin' ass.

[boutons_deux]

That's rich, coming from the bitch who whines about "YOU LIE" and likes to claim it's only repubs who don't care about facts

Partisan hacks are the problem

That's a poor take, typically coming from you. I don't support partisan hacks by either side.

I especially love how rightwingnutjobs whine about their leaders being hit with "kill shots" and hacks.

Trash is an ILLEGITIMATE prick.

[Thread]

That's a poor take, typically coming from you. I don't support partisan hacks by either side.

I especially love how rightwingnutjobs whine about their leaders being hit with "kill shots" and hacks.

Trash is an ILLEGITIMATE prick.

MLK's niece voted for him. tee, hee.

[CosmicCowboy]

That's a poor take, typically coming from you. I don't support partisan hacks by either side.

I especially love how rightwingnutjobs whine about their leaders being hit with "kill shots" and hacks.

Trash is an ILLEGITIMATE prick.

:lmao

Boo is the epitome of a partisan hack.

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Donald Trump Demands an Apology From You

Just out of curiosity, I did a quick check to see how many people/organizations Donald Trump has demanded an apology from since he began his campaign.

The answer is 21:



Intelligence chiefs
Cast and producers of Hamilton
Mika Brzezinski
The media
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
CNN
Wall Street Journal
Vicente Fox
Mark Halperin
Hillary Clinton
Rachel Maddow
Chuck Todd
Chris Christie
The liberal media
The Washington Post
Carly Fiorina
Fox News
Tom Llamas
Charles Krauthammer
John McCain
Univision


http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/01/donald-trump-demands-apology-you

Fuck you, you ILLEGITIMATE LOSER

[spurraider21]

That's a poor take, typically coming from you. I don't support partisan hacks by either side.

I especially love how rightwingnutjobs whine about their leaders being hit with "kill shots" and hacks.

Trash is an ILLEGITIMATE prick.
"I don't support Partisan hacks"

Routinely cites maddow, kos

[TheSanityAnnex]

Trash kicking the press out of the White House

Trump’s Plan to Neuter the White House Press Corps, and Neuter Our Democracy

Tyrants don’t allow open questioning, and they hate the free press. They want total control.

That’s why, according to three senior officials (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=denied%3A%255Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.esquire. com%2Fnews-politics%2Fnews%2Fa52301%2Ftrump-evict-press-white-house%2F&t=ZjhmYjM4MDcwMTY1YzM3MWNmNWEyZDUwYmJhZmQ3YTQyZmRh YTAzNCxhV1RGNlB3QQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AhQ9Ds4P3Iv6D7mgEr8WMqg&p=http%3A%2F%2Frobertreich.org%2Fpost%2F1559238495 70&m=1) on the transition team, the incoming Trump administration is considering evicting the White House press corps from the press room inside the White House and moving them – and news conferences – to a conference center or to the Old Executive Office Building.



This may sound like a small logistic matter. It’s not. The White House “press room” contains work stations and broadcast booths, and the briefing area for presidential news conferences. Reporters have had workspace at the White House since Teddy Roosevelt was president, in 1901.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/16/trumps-plan-neuter-white-house-press-corps-and-neuter-our-democracy




ILLEGITIMATE CRYING

planned move is to accommodate 250 reporters instead of the 50 the press room holds.

[boutons_deux]

ILLEGITIMATE CRYING

planned move is to accommodate 250 reporters instead of the 50 the press room holds.

...Trash will "credential" dozens of KKK/Christian Taliban assholes who will cheer and jeer the mainstream media, just like Trash's "reality show" press conference.

[DMC]

49 seats ain't enough, especially when Helen Thomas takes up 3 with her fat fuckin' ass.

You realize Helen Thomas has been dead for like 3 years?

[TheSanityAnnex]

...Trash will "credential" dozens of KKK/Christian Taliban assholes who will cheer and jeer the mainstream media, just like Trash's "reality show" press conference.

ILLEGITIMATE CLAIM

no proof of said credentials being handed out to KKK

[boutons_deux]

ILLEGITIMATE CLAIM

no proof of said credentials being handed out to KKK

it's coming, along with a bunch of extreme right wing assholes to pack the new press room and shout down their opponents

[Thread]

You realize Helen Thomas has been dead for like 3 years?

I know. I was just seeing if anyone else knew it.

[spurraider21]

I know. I was just seeing if anyone else knew it.
I'll just bet you were.

[boutons_deux]

Betting website gives Trump 4-1 odds of being impeached within six months


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/betting-website-gives-trump-4-1-odds-of-being-impeached-within-six-months/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[DMC]

I'll just bet you were.

Only pussies and assholes play the "keeping up with who's still alive" card.

[boutons_deux]

POLL: 74% of Americans Feel Don The con Trash Should Release His Tax Returns

Per the survey, 74% of respondents said the incoming POTUS should show his tax returns.

93% of of Hillary Clinton supporters were in favor of this as were 83% of independents.

Even 49% of Trump voters feel he needs to release the returns.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/poll-74-of-americans-feel-donald-trump-should-release-his-tax-returns/

People are fucking ignorant, stupid.

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New Report Proves Donald Trump Lied About Not Seeking Business In Russia

Trump's history of seeking business in the country that helped him win last year's election is well-documented.

a new report published Monday by the New York Times may make the controversy even worse for the president-elect.


While Trump claims that he has always shied away from doing business in Russia, the Times report shows that the incoming president

has spent decades trying to strike deals to get business in the country.

More from the report (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-business.html?_r=0):

Mr. Trump repeatedly sought business in Russia as far back as 1987, when he traveled there to explore building a hotel.

He applied for his trademark in the country as early as 1996.

And his children and associates have appeared in Moscow over and over in search of joint ventures, meeting with developers and government officials.

During a trip in 2006, Mr. Sater and two of Mr. Trump’s children, Donald Jr. and Ivanka, stayed at the historic Hotel National Moscow across from the Kremlin, connecting with potential partners over the course of several days.

As recently as 2013, Mr. Trump himself was in Moscow. He had sold Russian real estate developers the right to host his Miss Universe pageant that year, and he used the visit as a chance to discuss development deals, writing on Twitter at the time: “TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next.”

As the Russian market opened up in the post-Soviet Union era, Mr. Trump and his partners pursued Russians who were newly flush with cash to buy apartments in Trump Towers in New York and Florida, sales that he boasted about in a 2014 interview.

“I know the Russians better than anybody,” Mr. Trump told Michael D’Antonio, a Trump biographer who shared unpublished interview transcripts with The New York Times.Seeking deals in Russia became part of a broader strategy to expand the Trump brand worldwide.

By the mid-2000s, Mr. Trump was transitioning to mostly licensing his name to hotel, condominium and commercial towers rather than building or investing in real estate himself.

He discovered that his name was especially attractive in developing countries where the rising rich aspired to the type of ritzy glamour he personified.

Trump’s history of seeking business in the country that helped him win last year’s election is well-documented, but that didn’t stop

him from blatantly lying about it at last week’s disaster of a press conference.

“I have no dealings with Russia,” Trump said, adding:

“I have no deals that could happen in Russia because we’ve stayed away.

”While Trump is right that none of his deals ever broke through in Russia, it’s

only because his repeated efforts – which the New York Times outlined in the report – failed.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/16/report-destroys-trumps-lie-sought-business-russia.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

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BUSH COUNTING DOWN DAYS UNTIL HE IS NO LONGER WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY


http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Borowitz-BushCountingDownDaysUntilHeisNoLongerWorstPresiden tinHistory-1200.jpg


DALLAS — Former President George W. Bush is eagerly counting down the days until he is no longer the worst President in U.S. history, Bush confirmed on Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters at his home, Bush said that he “could hardly wait” until Friday, when he will be officially bounced from the worst-President slot.

“I have to admit, I never thought I’d see this day in my lifetime,”

the former President said.

“When you leave office with the nation in smoldering ruins,

you sort of come to accept that you’re gonna be worst for a long, long time.”

“I guess you could say I set the bar kind of high, worst-wise,” he chuckled.

As the returns came in on Election Night, however, the former President suddenly realized that his days as the worst President in U.S. history might be coming to an abrupt end.

“Holy cow,” Bush remembered saying to himself. “Just holy cow.”

While Bush recognizes that many Americans are dreading Friday’s Inauguration, he said he hoped that they could “sort of understand” why he might see things differently.

“To be honest, Friday can’t come fast enough for me,” he said. “I’m like a kid waiting for Christmas.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/bush-counting-down-days-until-he-is-no-longer-worst-president-in-history?intcid=mod-latest

[boutons_deux]

Trash world famous for his repulsive misogyny

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/jan/17/topless-femen-protester-donald-trump-waxwork-madrid-video

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Trump's New Tactics With the Press Follow the Old-School Authoritarian Model

Journalists will be targeted in ways we didn't imagine.

Donald Trump is fulfilling the role of an authoritarian demagogue so thoroughly

The latest example comes as Trump and his team attempt to alienate the media by shutting down the White House press room, which has been in operation since the Nixon years. Trump’s war on the press is also attracting candidates to his administration who are helping PEOTUS devise ways to make journalists’ jobs harder, including by mandating that those who cover the White House undergo biannual drug tests.

"They are the opposition party," a senior official reportedly told Esquire.

"I want 'em out of the building. We are taking back the press room."

Effectively shutting out and shutting down the news media would allow Trump’s voice, in concert with propagandistic platforms such as Breitbart, the Enquirer, Fox News and other right-wing echo chambers, to ring out the loudes

“Journalists who are at the White House more than one day per week should be subject to drug screenings,”

Martosko wrote, according to New York Post Page Six (http://pagesix.com/2017/01/13/drug-testing-floated-for-white-house-press-corps/) columnist Richard Johnson, who broke the story. “Refusal to comply should exclude them from credentialing entirely.”

http://www.alternet.org/media/trumps-new-tactics-press-follow-old-school-authoritarian-model

Thanks, all you Trash fellators.

[pgardn]

That's a poor take, typically coming from you. I don't support partisan hacks by either side.



Holy Mother of God...

[CosmicCowboy]

Trash world famous for his repulsive misogyny

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/jan/17/topless-femen-protester-donald-trump-waxwork-madrid-video



lol fatty with floppy boobs. She really told them!

[boutons_deux]

lol fatty with floppy boobs. She really told them!

hey, racist, misogynist, not every woman can look like First Slut

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump's transition has hurt his popularity, not helped

he will enter the White House on Friday far weaker in that regard than any president in decades.

Trump is unique among the last seven presidents-elect:

He is the only one whose popularity dropped between election day and his swearing-in

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-popularity-slump-20170117-story.html?utm_source=Today%27s+Headlines&utm_campaign=3ddf9e92e6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b04355194f-3ddf9e92e6-80027601

L O S E R

America is warming to him, once they get to know him better :lol

[tlongII]

#WINNING!

[Mitch]

Only a moron would believe polls after this election, tbh. Some dummy who cites Salon is obviously a poll believer still

[boutons_deux]

Pootin boytoy traitor Trash news

WHY DONALD TRUMP’S PRO-ASSAD STANCE WON’T END SYRIA’S TURMOIL (https://theintercept.com/2017/01/18/why-donald-trumps-pro-assad-stance-wont-end-syrias-turmoil/)

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/18/why-donald-trumps-pro-assad-stance-wont-end-syrias-turmoil/

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5 Ways To Measure Trump’s Illegitimacy

First,

there is the indisputable loss of the popular vote (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/opinion/donald-trumps-lies-about-the-popular-vote.html) that indelibly taints him as a minority president. He let fly in a tweet on November 27, “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” But Trump fiction cannot erase the fact that he lost by 2.8 million votes.

Second,

there is the criminal espionage of a hostile foreign power to aid his election, the Russian hacking of the DNC (https://theintercept.com/2016/12/14/heres-the-public-evidence-russia-hacked-the-dnc-its-not-enough/) and the Clinton campaign, which Trump brazenly encouraged. The former top expert on Russia for MI6, the British intelligence service, also claims in a dossier that Trump’s campaign collaborated and coordinated with the Russians, and that the Russians recorded Trump engaged in compromising behavior.

Third,

there is the intervention of FBI director James Comey, (http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/11/14215930/comey-email-election-clinton-campaign) who announced late in the campaign that Hillary Clinton was again a suspicious citizen under investigation, his interference triggered by a cabal of politically motivated agents in the New York bureau connected to Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani—an act in flagrant violation of strict Department of Justice guidelines against meddling in elections.

Whatever the motivations of anyone involved, whether of Putin or Comey, whether vengeance or arrogance, the FSB and the FBI assaults on the electoral process, separately and parallel, had the effect of a coup d’etat.

Fourth,

Republican-sponsored voter ID laws suppressed the black vote (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a-photo-id-so-you-can-vote-is-easy-unless-youre-poor-black-latino-or-elderly/2016/05/23/8d5474ec-20f0-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html) and possibly tipped the states of Wisconsin and North Carolina.

Fifth,

Trump’s campaign (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/donald-trumps-brazen-dishonesty-starts-catch-him) was malicious, dishonest and disreputable, unlike that of any previous major party presidential candidate in the entire history of the country. He is the only one to have waged a campaign from beginning to end that whipped up virulent elements of racism, misogyny, nativism, mockery of the disabled and anti-Semitism.

His venomous campaign has not faded in memory. “Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence,” said Meryl Streep (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/arts/television/meryl-streep-golden-globes-speech.html)

http://www.nationalmemo.com/five-ways-trump-illegitimate/

Pootin boytoy traitor Trash, elected by Kobach, Assange, Comey, is FUCKING AS ILLEGITIMATE as he is ILLITERATE

[Thread]

In 48 hours we get the keys, Bouts.

CHARGE!!!!!!!!!

[boutons_deux]

http://images.dailykos.com/images/351574/story_image/1257.png?1484696198

[boutons_deux]

How Trump Could Kill a Plan to Get You Overtime Pay

Donald Trump ran for president as the billionaire who would champion working people.

As the president-elect put it in one of the major economic speeches (https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/trump-delivers-speech-on-jobs-at-new-york-economic-club) of his campaign:

"Too many of our leaders have forgotten that it's their duty to protect the jobs, wages and well-being of American workers before any other consideration."

At stake is the possibility of overtime pay for about 4 million workers around the country.

Labor advocates say some employers have been playing games with who is considered a white-collar worker.

Trump's pick for labor secretary has attacked the idea of expanding overtime, and the president-elect himself seems skeptical.

When Trump was asked about (http://circa.com/politics/election-2016/trump-would-slash-us-education-department-reverse-worker-overtime-rules) the rule in August, he spoke of "a delay or a carve-out of sorts for our small business owners." It's not clear (http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-shift/2016/08/trump-v-overtime-rule-215883) from his comments that Trump actually knew the details of the pending Obama changes.

Andrew Puzder, Trump's pick to be secretary of labor and the CEO of a fast-food company, has spoken out strongly against the overtime rule.
In a 2014 Wall Street Journal op-ed (http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304256404579449811698734216), Puzder warned against "rewarding time spent rather than time well spent."

"What they lose in overtime pay they gain in the stature and sense of accomplishment that comes from being a salaried manager," Puzder said of workers trying to climb the management ladder.

the Trump administration could decide to stop defending the rule or not to appeal any judgment against it.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39132-how-trump-could-kill-a-plan-to-get-you-overtime-pay

:lol Trash/Repugs are going to fuck hard the racist "white working class". :lol

Trash as "white working class" hero! :lol

Remember, dubya forced Ms of exempt workers into non-exempt status. That's just how pro-business/anti-worker Repugs roll.

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Donald Trump Faces Four Looming Flashpoints

North Korea

North Korea’s stepped-up development of nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles may present the Trump administration with its first great international challenge. In recent years, the North Koreans appear to have made substantial progress (http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/northkoreaprofile) in producing such missiles and designing small nuclear warheads to fit on them.

The South China Sea

The next most dangerous flashpoint? The ongoing dispute over control of the South China Sea, an area bounded by China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and the island of Borneo. Citing ancient ties to islands in those waters, China now claims (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13748349) the entire region as part of its national maritime territory. Some of the same islands are, however, also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Although not claiming any territory in the region itself, the U.S. has a defense treaty with the Philippines,

The Baltic Sea Area

If Hillary Clinton had been elected, I would have placed the region adjoining the Baltic Sea at the top of my list of potential flashpoints, as it’s where Vladimir Putin would have been most likely to channel his hostility to her in particularand the West more generally. That’s because NATO forces have moved most deeply into the territory of the former Soviet Union in the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. Those countries are also believed to be especially vulnerable to the kind of “hybrid” warfare (http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2015/also-in-2015/hybrid-modern-future-warfare-russia-ukraine/EN/index.htm)—involving covert operations, disinformation campaigns, cyberattacks, and the like—that Russia perfected in Crimea and Ukraine.

The Middle East

The Middle East has long been a major flashpoint. President Obama, for instance, came to office hoping to end U.S. involvement in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet U.S. troops are still fighting in both countries today. The question is: How might this picture change in the months ahead?
Given the convoluted history of the region and its demonstrated capacity for surprise, any predictions should be offered with caution. Trump has promised to intensify the war against ISIS, which will undoubtedly require the deployment of additional American air, sea, and ground forces in the region

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/four_looming_flashpoints_facing_president_trump_20 170118?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Truthdig+Truthdig%253A+Dril ling+Beneath+the+Headlines

Illegitimate Trash will Tweet USA to dominance, from his morning dump on his goldplated toilet. :lol

[boutons_deux]

Business Euphoria Over Trump Gives Way To Caution And Confusion

as the president-elect fires off mixed and sometimes confusing messages on healthcare, taxes, and trade.

Doubts deepened over the weekend as Trump declared he would replace President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare plan known as Obamacare with “insurance for everybody” (http://www.nationalmemo.com/trumps-big-health-care-promise-insurance-everybody/) – a goal far beyond Republican designs – and criticized a key component of a plan in Congress to overhaul corporate taxes.

Doubts deepened over the weekend as Trump declared he would replace President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare plan known as Obamacare with “insurance for everybody” (http://www.nationalmemo.com/trumps-big-health-care-promise-insurance-everybody/) – a goal far beyond Republican designs – and criticized a key component of a plan in Congress to overhaul corporate taxes.

‘We are not really sure what he means by that’,”

A veteran Republican financial lobbyist said she is under constant pressure from clients to predict what the new administration is planning, but she has no reliable answers for them.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/business-euphoria-trump-caution/

Traitor Trash just blowing random smoke out of his fat ass.

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Guess Who's Been Advising Trump? (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/17/1621714/-Guess-Who-s-Been-Advising-Trump)

Guess who's been advising Donald Trump on his picks for the people who will control foreign policy in a Trump administration?

Well, here's a hint: who's the most murderous, toxic, partisan psychopath you can think of?

One who gained so much infamy for his services to the Bush administration that he had to flee the country (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/world/18blackwater.html) to avoid the law?
If you guessed Erik Prince, notorious mercenary and founder of Blackwater, you win the dubious prize (https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/notorious-mercenary-erik-prince-is-advising-trump-from-the-shadows/):

Erik Prince, America’s most notorious mercenary, is lurking in the shadows of the incoming Trump administration. A former senior U.S. official who has advised the Trump transition told The Intercept that

Prince has been advising the team on matters related to intelligence and defense, including weighing in on candidates for the defense and state departments....

On election night, Prince’s latest wife, Stacy DeLuke, posted pictures from inside Trump’s campaign headquarters as Donald Trump and Mike Pence watched the returns come in, including a close shot of Pence and Trump with their families....


Speaking of families, his not-yet-quite-so-notorious sister, Betsy DeVos, will be a member of the Trump administration, tasked with destroying the public education system:

Prince’s sister, billionaire Betsy DeVos, is Trump’s nominee for education secretary and Prince (and his mother) gave large sums of money to a Trump Super PAC....


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/17/1621714/-Guess-Who-s-Been-Advising-Trump?detail=email&link_id=1&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-guess-whos-been-advising-trump&email_referrer=guess-whos-been-advising-trump&email_subject=guess-whos-been-advising-trump

[boutons_deux]

MOVING VANS ARRIVE AT WHITE HOUSE TO REMOVE ALL TRACES OF COMPETENCE, DIGNITY


http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Borowitz-MovingVansArriveatWhiteHousetoRemoveAllTracesofCom petenceDignity-1200.jpg

WASHINGTON — Moving vans arrived at the White House on Wednesday to remove all traces of competence and dignity.

Working around the clock, movers started clearing out the optimism and progress that had accumulated during the past eight years.

“Once we’ve packed up that stuff, we’ll start moving out the wisdom and maturity,”

one of the movers said.

“The guy who’s moving in wants all of that gone.”

After the movers complete their work,

a cleaning crew will come in and scrub the White House of every last speck of compassion.

The movers are working under a strict deadline, since the White House needs to be totally stripped of decency by nine o’clock on Friday morning, the mover said.

“The new guy wants the place to be completely empty, ” he said. “He has a lot of crap.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/moving-vans-arrive-at-white-house-to-remove-all-traces-of-competence-dignity (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/moving-vans-arrive-at-white-house-to-remove-all-traces-of-competence-dignity)

[CosmicCowboy]

Damn neighborhood gentrification!

[boutons_deux]

Damn neighborhood gentrification!

yep, move the knitters out, move the racist billionaires in

[CosmicCowboy]

Making America Great Again!...:lol

[Splits]

Only a moron would believe polls after this election, tbh.

Why is that, double hockey sticks? Most election polling had it within the margin of error (except that USC poll)

[Mitch]

Why is that, double hockey sticks? Most election polling had it within the margin of error (except that USC poll)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM220XCGypQ

[rmt]

MOVING VANS ARRIVE AT WHITE HOUSE TO REMOVE ALL TRACES OF COMPETENCE, DIGNITY


http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Borowitz-MovingVansArriveatWhiteHousetoRemoveAllTracesofCom petenceDignity-1200.jpg

WASHINGTON — Moving vans arrived at the White House on Wednesday to remove all traces of competence and dignity.

Working around the clock, movers started clearing out the optimism and progress that had accumulated during the past eight years.

“Once we’ve packed up that stuff, we’ll start moving out the wisdom and maturity,”

one of the movers said.

“The guy who’s moving in wants all of that gone.”

After the movers complete their work,

a cleaning crew will come in and scrub the White House of every last speck of compassion./FONT][FONT=arial]

The movers are working under a strict deadline, since the White House needs to be totally stripped of decency by nine o’clock on Friday morning, the mover said.

“The new guy wants the place to be completely empty, ” he said. “He has a lot of crap.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/moving-vans-arrive-at-white-house-to-remove-all-traces-of-competence-dignity (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/moving-vans-arrive-at-white-house-to-remove-all-traces-of-competence-dignity)



Really, optimism? Guess that's why the optimism indexes - whether small business, consumer confidence, etc. are all up big since Trump's been elected.

[boutons_deux]

Really, optimism? Guess that's why the optimism indexes - whether small business, consumer confidence, etc. are all up big since Trump's been elected.

Most Americans are pretty fucking stupid and ignorantly do not follow politics at all, which is exactly how the corporatocracy/VRWC/Repugs like it.

[boutons_deux]

Let's America Great Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf9K5KEs4rE

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15977795_10106805891211485_3769506625178199148_n.j pg?oh=f808683c10e0630719bc8ea3b78715af&oe=59245679

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump admitted he met Vladimir Putin in 2015 interview, despite recently saying he hadn’t

President-elect Trump may say now that he never met Putin, but that wasn't what he said in 201

President-elect Donald Trump may be trying to downplay his relationship with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, but in an October 2015 interview (https://www.yahoo.com/news/tape-shows-trump-contradicting-himself-again-on-putin-meeting-213245455.html), he openly admitted to having met the despot.

During the radio interview in question with conservative talk show host Michael Savage, Trump said that he had met Putin “one time … a long time ago” and claimed that he “got along with him great.”

Trump also praised Putin’s atrocities-filled military campaign in Syria (https://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia/russia), describing it as “wonderful” because the Russians were “really hitting ISIS hard.”

When Savage asked if Trump felt he could “do business with Vladimir” if he was elected president, Trump replied, “Yes, I do. I think I would get along very well. I had the Miss Universe pageant, believe it or not, in Moscow two years ago. I got many of the Russian leaders, the top people in Russia, honestly . . . These are people, they are looking to do things.”

This isn’t the first time that Trump has admitted to having met Putin (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/01/donald-trump/donald-trump-gets-full-flop-whether-hes-had-relati/). His previous occasions included a November 2013 interview with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts, in which Trump said, “I do have a relationship [with Putin], and I can tell you that he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today.”

In an address at the CPAC conference in March 2014, when he bragged that “Putin even sent me a present” after the Miss Universe contest; at an address at the National Press Club in May 2014, he said, “I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin” during his stay in Moscow for the pageant.

During a debate on Fox Business News in November 2015, Trump claimed (inaccurately) that he had gotten to know Putin “very well because we were both on 60 Minutes” (which would have been impossible since their footage was shot on different continents).

Once Trump’s alleged relationship with Putin became a controversy, however, he changed his tune.

In July he told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News that “I have no relationship to — with him. I have no relationship with him.” He has repeated these claims ever since, most recently on Twitter.

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/18/donald-trump-admitted-he-met-vladimir-putin-in-2015-interview-despite-recently-saying-he-hadnt/

[boutons_deux]

Trump Makes $25M Payment To Settle Trump University Fraud Lawsuits
Out of the settlement, $21 million will go to about 7,000 former Trump University enrollees in two California class action lawsuits and the remaining $4 million will cover a case brought against Trump by New York's attorney general Eric Schneiderman,

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-university-pays-25-million-to-settle-lawsuits?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Don The Con is a very successful businessman :lol

Fraud, corruption, grifting, pay-for-play will be unlimited. Price's insider trading is another indication of how Repugs will be fleecing, stealing $Bs.

[Winehole23]

Behind the media-manufactured facade of white working class men as the cackling villains who gave the country to Donald Trump, in other words, lies a reality far more in keeping with the complexities of American electoral politics: a ramshackle coalition of many different voting blocs and interest groups, each with its own assortment of reasons for voting for a candidate feared and despised by the US political establishment and the mainstream media. That coalition included a very large majority of the US working class in general, and while white working class voters of both genders were disproportionately more likely to have voted for Trump than their nonwhite equivalents, it wasn’t simply a matter of whiteness, or for that matter maleness.




It was, however, to a very great extent a matter of social class. This isn’t just because so large a fraction of working class voters generally backed Trump; it’s also because Trump saw this from the beginning, and aimed his campaign squarely at the working class vote. His signature red ball cap was part of that—can you imagine Hillary Clinton wearing so proletarian a garment without absurdity?—but, as I pointed out a year ago (http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2016/01/donald-trump-and-politics-of-resentment.html), so was his deliberate strategy of saying (and tweeting) things that would get the liberal punditocracy to denounce him. The tones of sneering contempt and condescension they directed at him were all too familiar to his working class audiences, who have been treated to the same tones unceasingly by their soi-disant betters for decades now.

http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.nl/2017/01/the-hate-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html

[boutons_deux]

http://images.dailykos.com/images/352133/large/IMG_1178.JPG?1484837622

[TheSanityAnnex]

http://images.dailykos.com/images/352133/large/IMG_1178.JPG?1484837622
What's a patriotic pajama boy like you going to do about it?

[boutons_deux]

What's a patriotic pajama boy like you going to do about it?

None of your fucking business.

[boutons_deux]

A Trump Voter's Alarming Ignorance of NATO & My Surprising Opportunity to Enlighten Him (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/18/1621321/-A-Trump-Voter-s-Alarming-Ignorance-of-NATO-My-Surprising-Opportunity-to-Enlighten-Him)

I recently verified something that most of us lefties more or less rightfully assume:

Most Trump voters aren’t very smart people.

But I also discovered something about Trumpers I didn’t really believe: Some of them actually listen—at least one I met recently did.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/18/1621321/-A-Trump-Voter-s-Alarming-Ignorance-of-NATO-My-Surprising-Opportunity-to-Enlighten-Him?detail=email&link_id=7&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-cartoon-trumps-health-care-plan&email_referrer=cartoon-trumps-health-care-plan&email_subject=cartoon-trumps-health-care-plan

.... probably 1 in 10,000, max.

Most are fucking ignorant, believing shit like "All those poor Americans that Hillary killed in Benghazi"

[Mitch]

None of your fucking business.

You're not doing shit, botox. Just spamming a Spurs forum with opinion articles and being a partisan ballsack cleaner like RandomGuy

[boutons_deux]

You're not doing shit, botox. Just spamming a Spurs forum with opinion articles and being a partisan ballsack cleaner like RandomGuy (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=1813)

Nearly all of my articles are recounting the FACTS, WORDS, ACTIONS of your fucking Repugs, with some editorial context.

You don't know shit about me and what I do, dickless dumbass.

[Mitch]

Nearly all of my articles are recounting the FACTS, WORDS, ACTIONS of your fucking Repugs, with some editorial context.

You don't know shit about me and what I do, dickless dumbass.

You don't even read your articles, dipshit. You just read headlines.

You're just a political version of Cosmoron

Edit: I take that back, Cosmoron actually researches his bullshit for a living. You just read fucking headlines :lmao

[Mitch]

Hey Botox, this is what your shithead does all day

http://i.imgur.com/XKOxp.gif

[boutons_deux]

‘He Has This Deep Fear That He Is Not a Legitimate President’


On the eve of the inauguration, Trump’s biographers ponder his refusal to bend his ego to his new office.

assess whether Trump has continued to surprise them. Their collective wisdom? In a word, no.

they see the same person they’ve always seen—the consummate classroom troublemaker; a vain, insecure bully; and an anti-institutional schemer, as adept at “gaming the system” as he is unashamed. As they look ahead to his inauguration speech in two days, and to his administration beyond, they feel confident predicting that he will run the country much as he has run his company. For himself.

“He’s not going to be that concerned with the actual competent administration of the government,” D’Antonio said. “It’s going to be what he seems to be gaining or losing in public esteem. So almost like a monarch. The figurehead who rallies people and gets credit for things.”

exact same M.O. that we saw throughout his career, throughout the campaign, and now. This is all about him completely dominating the news cycles—the use of Twitter to distract from any real questions, emphasis on loyalty, vituperation toward anyone he sees who is disloyal or doesn’t toe his line, and his emphasis on conflict, the notion of setting people against each other. Now it’s countries against each other. It’s news organizations against each other.

it would have been in his best interests to sit back from the Twitter show and take a breather. And he couldn’t help himself. And he’s opining on subjects that he knows very little about from national security to healthcare policy and others.

why he seems to have affection for a guy like Putin. And the thing that I’m afraid of most, based on what I’m seeing, is that he seems to want to be the same style of leader, where he intimidates people. He tries to shame them. The most shocking thing I think he did was note all of his enemies in his New Year’s message. The idea of a president actually having even the thought of all of these enemies in his head as he’s welcoming the new year and greeting the country is almost crazy to me.

is there any indication that he would be able to separate the interests of the country now from his own personal pique?

Blair: Zero.

O’Brien: Absolutely not. There will be no divide there. The whole thing has been a vanity show from the second he ran to the Republican Convention

He’s been unable to find a clean division between his own emotional needs and his own insecurities and simply being a healthy, strategically committed leader who wants to parse through good policy options and a wide series of public statements about the direction in which he’ll take the country.

his grasp in early adulthood that being a bully and really putting it to other people and not backing down often works.

Roy Cohn (http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-roy-cohn-mentor-joseph-mccarthy-213799) as a mentor, a guy who stood for cold-eye calculus about how bullying people works.

O’Brien: His father and Roy Cohn, those are the two most singular influences on his whole life, and they provided him with a militarized, transactional view of human relationships, business dealings and the law.

we have overlooked as we see Trump trying to delegitimize others is what I suspect is a feeling he has inside that nothing he’s ever achieved himself has ever been legitimate.

that’s why he goes to such great lengths to delegitimize even the intelligence community, which is the president’s key resource in security, and he’s going to do this demeaning and delegitimizing behavior rather than accept what they have to tell him.

he’s gaming the White House. He’s gaming, looking for the loopholes. The president is exempt from these conflict of interest laws. There’s an awful lot, it turns out, that are matters of tradition, of habit, of what we expect. But they’re not actually legally required—the tax returns, all of that. He’s gaming all of that. All of the things that people thought had to be done, don’t have to be done.

D’Antonio: I think Donald Trump measures himself by the number of norms that he can violate. The more he can get away with, the more he can thumb his nose at convention, the more powerful he feels.

makes him the classic ‘60s, early-‘70s baby-boomer, anti-establishment ruffian. Everybody talks about how it was, this cliché version of the anti-war hippie person that represents the ‘60s, but I think this narcissistic, anti-establishment tenor of his personality and what he’s doing now makes him the inheritor of all of that chaos. He just never outgrew it.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/trump-biographers-presidency-legitimate-214655?lo=ap_c1

[Mitch]

http://i.imgur.com/XKOxp.gif

[TheSanityAnnex]

Hey Botox, this is what your shithead does all day

http://i.imgur.com/XKOxp.gif

:lmao

[spurraider21]

:lol

[boutons_deux]

you little dickless bitches are so butthurt :lol

[TeyshaBlue]

:lmao

[HI-FI]

:rollinMitch with the goods.

[SpursforSix]

you little dickless bitches are so butthurt :lol

Your mom smells like fart.

[boutons_deux]

y'all remember this gem?

Your President Trash is one pedophile, misogynist sicko, For him, women are nothing but fuck holes.

“I’ll Be Dating Her in Ten Years” — Why the Girl Scouts of America Should Refuse to March in the 2017 Inaugural Parade

https://medium.com/athena-talks/ill-be-dating-her-in-ten-years-why-the-girl-scouts-of-america-should-refuse-to-march-in-the-388aa52883f#.upeueofh1

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16114992_10154305580441134_6712056400944566674_n.j pg?oh=096ea82ff49c8e12c3b5d543421dee2a&oe=5922EE22

[DarrinS]

^Is this your schtick for the next 4 years? Sad

[CosmicCowboy]

you little dickless bitches are so butthurt :lol

:lmao

You are the one melting down...:lol

Repeat after me...President Donald J. Trump.....

*flush*gurgle*booscreamingggggg

#circlingthedrain :lol

[rmt]

:lmao

You are the one melting down...:lol

Repeat after me...President Donald J. Trump.....

*flush*gurgle*booscreamingggggg

#circlingthedrain :lol

Go easy on bou - it's a tough day for some. My son's teacher (who has a Hillary doll) came to school in all black today - joined the girls arguing against the boys about the protests.

[TheSanityAnnex]

boutons_deux

https://media2.giphy.com/media/4QOOGZqdPUJHi/200w.gif#53

[boutons_deux]

The Trump Administration Quietly Purges All Mention of Civil Rights and Climate Change from White House Website

Since the inauguration Friday afternoon, WhiteHouse.gov (https://www.whitehouse.gov/), the official website for the White House,

has purged (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/20/trump-s-whitehouse-gov-disappears-civil-rights-climate-change-lgbt-rights.html) all reference to civil rights,

LGBT rights,

health care and

climate change.

In their stead are a list of top "issues" for the Trump administration whose language is vague, contradictory and frequently vindictive—much like Trump himself.

Under the heading "America First Energy Policy," the Trump administration vows to eliminate

"harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and

the Waters of the U.S. rule."

After promising to reignite the country's clean coal industry, :lol which does not exist (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-10/-clean-coal-is-far-from-real), it claims the EPA will honor its "essential mission of protecting our air and water."

Under "Making Our Military Strong Again," the White House pledges to get our soldiers the care they need by

"firing the corrupt and incompetent VA executives who let our veterans down." Trump is considering (http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-considering-moving-va-toward-privatization-1482974260) privatizing large swaths of the VA office.

A page devoted to civil rights has been replaced by a screed under the heading "Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community."

WhiteHouse.gov notes that the homicide rate in Washington, D.C., is up 50 percent, which is demonstrably false (http://the%20trump%20administration%20quietly%20purges%20 all%20mention%20of%20civil%20rights%20and%20climat e%20change%20from%20white%20house%20website/).

It also promises to increase the country's police presence and provide security for Americans who have "not known safe neighborhoods for a very long time."

The words "African American" do not appear in any portion of the text.

Meanwhile, the "America First Foreign Policy" page promises to destroy Islamic fundamentalism, guaranteeing "peace through strength."

Welcome to Donald Trump's America. This is your country now.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-administration-quietly-purges-all-mention-civil-rights-and-climate-change-white

Trash / Repug / VRWC / capitalist DYSTOPIA

[TheSanityAnnex]

http://i.imgur.com/XKOxp.gif

[boutons_deux]

President-elect Donald Trump (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald--trump) plans to dramatically slash funding (http://thehill.com/policy/finance/314991-trump-team-prepares-dramatic-cuts) for the humanities when he takes office, according to a new report from The Hill. In meetings with White House staff, Trump transition officials have reportedly indicated that the administration will shutter

the National Endowment for the Arts and

the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as

privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The Hill report notes that the floated budget cuts “hew closely to a blueprint published last year by the conservative Heritage Foundation.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-reportedly-plans-to-end-national-arts-funding_us_5880de61e4b070d8cad0e184?section=us_art s&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=culture%20shift%2001-20-17&utm_content=culture%20shift%2001-20-17+CID_ef232eac1820c86e3ae11ad76a2157a3&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Read%20More&

[Clipper Nation]

Hey Botox, this is what your shithead does all day

http://i.imgur.com/XKOxp.gif
:lmao

[TheSanityAnnex]

President-elect Donald Trump (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald--trump) plans to dramatically slash funding (http://thehill.com/policy/finance/314991-trump-team-prepares-dramatic-cuts) for the humanities when he takes office, according to a new report from The Hill. In meetings with White House staff, Trump transition officials have reportedly indicated that the administration will shutter

the National Endowment for the Arts and

the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as

privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The Hill report notes that the floated budget cuts “hew closely to a blueprint published last year by the conservative Heritage Foundation.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-reportedly-plans-to-end-national-arts-funding_us_5880de61e4b070d8cad0e184?section=us_art s&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=culture%20shift%2001-20-17&utm_content=culture%20shift%2001-20-17+CID_ef232eac1820c86e3ae11ad76a2157a3&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Read%20More&




Slashing funding for the NEA and NEH saves around 300 million of taxpayer dollars. Slash more Trump.

[Dirk Oneanddoneski]

The Trump Administration Quietly Purges All Mention of Civil Rights and Climate Change from White House Website

[COLOR=#000000][FONT=arial]Since the inauguration Friday afternoon, WhiteHouse.gov (https://www.whitehouse.gov/), the official website for the White House,

has purged (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/20/trump-s-whitehouse-gov-disappears-civil-rights-climate-change-lgbt-rights.html) all reference to civil rights,

LGBT rights,








They're just getting started

http://i.imgur.com/5r5ErtV.jpg

[boutons_deux]

Fiesta Slut already selling jewelry on WH website :) tacky grifting bitch

[boutons_deux]

In First Act as President, Trump Raises Mortgage Rates on Struggling Homeowners

One of President Obama’s last acts as head of the executive branch was to instruct Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro to cut mortgage insurance premiums (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-already-suspends-obama-era-fha-mortgage-insurance-cut-2017-01-20) under the Federal Housing Authority (FHA).

The move was intended to expand mortgages to lower-income families to allow them the opportunity to own a home, effectively saving FHA borrowers anywhere between $500 and $1,000 per year.

Despite the housing crash of 2008, Secretary Castro said his administration would be more than capable of absorbing the hit in annual revenue, making a bailout of the FHA highly unlikely.

However, under the new executive order Trump signed on Friday evening, the cut in premium rates has now been suspended “indefinitely,” meaning low-income homeowners across the United States already struggling to pay their mortgage are now going to have to scrimp and save even more, as Trump’s latest action now makes them roughly $1,000 poorer.

http://usuncut.com/politics/trump-mortgage-rates-homeowners/

:lol How many of his voters did Trash screw today? :lol

[boutons_deux]

http://usuncut.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/dsb.png

Trump just deleted the White House’s website on protecting people with disabilities


http://usuncut.com/news/trump-just-deleted-white-houses-website-protecting-people-disabilities/

[boutons_deux]

Republicans privately admitting Trump has 'no clarity on where he stands on many issues' (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/20/1622728/-Oh-my-Republicans-privately-admitting-Trump-has-no-clarity-on-where-he-stands-on-many-issues)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/20/1622728/-Oh-my-Republicans-privately-admitting-Trump-has-no-clarity-on-where-he-stands-on-many-issues?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[boutons_deux]

The FEC Inadvertently Confirms That Trump Paid Actors to Attend His Announcement Event

they used a casting agency called The Extra Mile to pay extras to attend Donald Trump’s announcement. Here’s the highlights from the FEC (http://eqs.fec.gov/eqsdocsMUR/17044405316.pdf) doc:

SUBJECT: The complaint alleged that the Committee paid actors to attend Trump’s candidacy announcement but failed to disclose payments to the actors or the companies that allegedly hired them, or to report a debt or obligations to Gotham, one of the companies involved with running the announcement event. Consequently, Gotham and Extra Mile, the other company allegedly involved with hiring the actors, may have made and Trump and the Committee may have accepted prohibited or excessive contributions. Trump was a 2016 candidate for United States President.DISPOSITION: The Commission exercised its prosecutorial discretion and dismissed the allegation that the Committee failed to report debt to Gotham, in light of the relatively modest amount at issue. The Commission closed the file in connection with the remaining allegations.

…We believe that the service at issue here — assembling a crowd of attendees for a candidacy announcement — provided a benefit to the Trump campaign…In this matter, the available information indicates that the Committee, retained Gotham as an event consultant, and Gotham, in turn, subcontracted with Extra Mile to provide extra administrative support at Trump’s announcement, including the provision of at least some of the rally crowd.…Extra Mile issued a casting call e-mail for actors “to wear t-shirts and carry signs and help cheer [Trump] in support of his announcement” in exchange for a payment of S50.

Also noted in the papers is further indication of efforts to make the crowd look bigger, “Another press report indicated that campaign staff also persuaded tourists in the area to be part of the crowd.”

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/20/fec-inadvertently-confirms-donald-trump-paid-actors-attend-announcement-event.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

:lol Trash is total FRAUD

[rmt]

Does what happened at the beginning of his campaign matter? What matters is that tens of millions voted for him on election day (and in the right places).

[Th'Pusher]

Does what happened at the beginning of his campaign matter? What matters is that tens of millions voted for him on election day (and in the right places).
No. But it goes to show that the American people managed to elect a fraud strictly on the basis of emotion and optics.

[baseline bum]

In First Act as President, Trump Raises Mortgage Rates on Struggling Homeowners

One of President Obama’s last acts as head of the executive branch was to instruct Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro to cut mortgage insurance premiums (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-already-suspends-obama-era-fha-mortgage-insurance-cut-2017-01-20) under the Federal Housing Authority (FHA).

The move was intended to expand mortgages to lower-income families to allow them the opportunity to own a home, effectively saving FHA borrowers anywhere between $500 and $1,000 per year.

Despite the housing crash of 2008, Secretary Castro said his administration would be more than capable of absorbing the hit in annual revenue, making a bailout of the FHA highly unlikely.

However, under the new executive order Trump signed on Friday evening, the cut in premium rates has now been suspended “indefinitely,” meaning low-income homeowners across the United States already struggling to pay their mortgage are now going to have to scrimp and save even more, as Trump’s latest action now makes them roughly $1,000 poorer.

http://usuncut.com/politics/trump-mortgage-rates-homeowners/

:lol How many of his voters did Trash screw today? :lol




So Obama did that just to have a talking point against the GOP? And Trump revoked a cut that never actually happened? This is why no one ever takes your ass seriously, you just spam shit against Trump/Repugs/RacistRedStateBubbas and drown out legitimate gripes.

[Clipper Nation]

Trump just deleted the White House’s website on protecting people with disabilities


http://usuncut.com/news/trump-just-deleted-white-houses-website-protecting-people-disabilities/

Fake news. Nothing got deleted. All of Obama's old shit simply got archived.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/disabilities

The same thing happened with Dubya's website when he left office.

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/

[velik_m]

No. But it goes to show that the American people managed to elect a fraud strictly on the basis of emotion and optics.

So, just like every other election ever?

[boutons_deux]

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/01/170120_POL_trump.jpg.CROP.promo-xlarge2.jpg

It looks like Trash as lightened his hair from orange towards blond, dog-whistling his "central casting" leadership of the Aryan "master race".

His heavy face makeup is still orange, contrasting with his tiny white, pasty hands.

[TheSanityAnnex]

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/01/170120_POL_trump.jpg.CROP.promo-xlarge2.jpg

It looks like Trash as lightened his hair from orange towards blond, dog-whistling his "central casting" leadership of the Aryan "master race".

His heavy face makeup is still orange, contrasting with his tiny white, pasty hands.




Be honest boutons when is the last time you went outside and saw the sun?

[DMX7]

No. But it goes to show that the American people managed to elect a fraud strictly on the basis of emotion and optics.

No, he got 3M less votes than Hillary who was an awful candidate in her own right. The American people didn't vote for him. The broken electoral college did.

[Thread]

No, he got 3M less votes than Hillary who was an awful candidate in her own right. The American people didn't vote for him. The broken electoral college did.

Then you need to get right on changing that. You said you were gonna get right on it after Gore got his pants taken down. Instead you sat on your ass the next 16 years and got your own pants taken down.

Chop/chop.

[Chucho]

Then you need to get right on changing that. You said you were gonna get right on it after Gore got his pants taken down. Instead you sat on your ass the next 16 years and got your own pants taken down.

Chop/chop.

Good lord, that kid is bow legged now.

[spurraider21]

:rolleyes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14llAWjyS6Q&feature=youtu.be

[DMX7]

"No one had numbers!" -Sean Spicer :lol

822991825506013184

[spurraider21]

:lol "period"

oh ok

[da_suns_fan]

I just dont get it.

I mean, how long are we suppose to "give him a chance"?

[Thread]

I just dont get it.

I mean, how long are we suppose to "give him a chance"?

He never asked for a fuckin' chance, da. You don't have to give him shit. Just piss all over him and be done with it. And don't fret, it's only 4 years and then we can get back to same old tired ass shit bags.

[da_suns_fan]

Serious question. Is this what trump supporters see?

Qdo106gMaI8

And I mean this genuinely/positively. Do you see an unapologetic, patriotic if sometimes vulgar American who is gonna take no shit from any Mexicans etc?

I just dont see that.

[Clipper Nation]

I just dont get it.

I mean, how long are we suppose to "give him a chance"?

:lol You gonna throw a parade for losing the election like the one you threw for losing the Finals?

http://i.imgur.com/JJ53LTT.jpg

[da_suns_fan]

:lol You gonna throw a parade for losing the election like the one you threw for losing the Finals?

http://i.imgur.com/JJ53LTT.jpg

WTF...did D'Antoni and Harden let you come up for air?

As you were:

http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2006/7/10/125684_fc11ef83-9b48-4eaf-ba80-bb22894c5b73_prod.jpeg

[Thread]

:lol You gonna throw a parade for losing the election like the one you threw for losing the Finals?

http://i.imgur.com/JJ53LTT.jpg

ha, ha, da.

[boutons_deux]

Trump tells CIA "maybe we’ll have another chance" to take Iraq's oil (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/21/1623288/-Trump-tells-CIA-maybe-we-ll-have-another-chance-to-take-Iraq-s-oil)

http://images.dailykos.com/images/137521/story_image/Iraq_Operation_Archangel.jpg?1453531482

On the day after he was sworn in as the 45th president in American history, Donald Trump stepped in foreign policy controversy, saying the US should have kept Iraqi oil after its drawdown from the Iraq war, and suggesting “maybe we’ll have another chance” at accessing that natural resource.

He also said Iraqi oil was responsible for the rise of ISIS.

“If we kept the oil, you probably wouldn’t have ISIS because that’s where they made their money in the first place, so we should have kept the oil, but, OK, maybe we’ll have another chance,” he said.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/21/1623288/-Trump-tells-CIA-maybe-we-ll-have-another-chance-to-take-Iraq-s-oil?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[ducks]

Mexico's Pena Nieto, Trump Speak by Phone, to Meet Jan. 31

[boutons_deux]

Mexico's Pena Nieto, Trump Speak by Phone, to Meet Jan. 31

MX ain't gonna pay for the useless fence

[boutons_deux]

Chuck Todd Obliterates Kellyanne Conway For Claiming White House Lies Are “Alternative Facts”

On Meet The Press, Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway tried to claim that the White House is using "alternative facts." :lol

Host Chuck Todd destroyed Conway's claim and showed that the media isn't going to be Trump's propaganda arm.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/22/chuck-todd-obliterates-kellyanne-conway-claiming-white-house-lies-alternative-facts.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

If nothing else, maybe the world-wide protests against Trash and his ilk will embolden the press

[florige]

Chuck Todd Obliterates Kellyanne Conway For Claiming White House Lies Are “Alternative Facts”

On Meet The Press, Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway tried to claim that the White House is using "alternative facts." :lol

Host Chuck Todd destroyed Conway's claim and showed that the media isn't going to be Trump's propaganda arm.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/22/chuck-todd-obliterates-kellyanne-conway-claiming-white-house-lies-alternative-facts.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

If nothing else, maybe the world-wide protests against Trash and his ilk will embolden the press



He asked her 10 or so times to answer the direct question about Spicer and she deflected each time rambling on changing the subject.

[Thread]

Chuck Todd Obliterates Kellyanne Conway For Claiming White House Lies Are “Alternative Facts”

On Meet The Press, Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway tried to claim that the White House is using "alternative facts." :lol

Host Chuck Todd destroyed Conway's claim and showed that the media isn't going to be Trump's propaganda arm.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/22/chuck-todd-obliterates-kellyanne-conway-claiming-white-house-lies-alternative-facts.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

If nothing else, maybe the world-wide protests against Trash and his ilk will embolden the press

After 8 years of cowtowing to Huseein Obama the press has got nowhere to go but up.

[Spurminator]

If nothing else, this administration is going to be a Twitter hashtag goldmine.

lol "Alternative Facts"

[boutons_deux]

#ITriedToTellYou

[florige]

I'm not sure why anyone would be expecting him to all of the sudden turn Presidential after he got sworn in. One, its not who he is, and two its not what got him elected. He got elected saying off the wall nonsense that for some reason his voters like.

[boutons_deux]

He asked her 10 or so times to answer the direct question about Spicer and she deflected each time rambling on changing the subject.

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

[Reck]

What the fuck are alternative facts? :lol

[florige]

What the fuck are alternative facts? :lol


A new term that his administration will use to continue to fool his supporters.

[Thread]

What the fuck are alternative facts? :lol

You know wtf it is, Recky. Media stated their facts. We stated our alternative facts. Don't be purposely obtuse.

[Reck]

You know wtf it is, Recky. Media stated their facts. We stated our alternative facts. Don't be purposely obtuse.

So you're in agreement is just another term for lie?

[cd021]

What the fuck are alternative facts? :lol

The new truth. There's the facts and then there's alternative facts one can be substantiated and the other can be said angrily in place of the truth.

I'm 6'4 but I can say I'm 7'2 and if someone tells me I'm not then I can light them up for being biased. It's truly a great time to be alive, Reck.

[cd021]

A new term that his administration will use to continue to fool his supporters.

The scary thing is the lack of skepticism.

[boutons_deux]

Masha Gessen knows exactly what the Trash and Repugs game is, how it's played, and how you CAN'T win

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwQeKSlY56Q

[Thread]

So you're in agreement is just another term for lie?

No. She's saying that her facts are just as true as (theirs)...We went first and called lie. They went second and called lie. We went third and called lie again.

But, you know this. You're just being purposely obtuse because you're with your buddies here drinking coffee & playing flinch.

[rmt]

I'm not sure why anyone would be expecting him to all of the sudden turn Presidential after he got sworn in. One, its not who he is, and two its not what got him elected. He got elected saying off the wall nonsense that for some reason his voters like.

because they can't say stuff or they'll get fired, condemned, hounded, become pariah - look at the performers who pulled out of the inauguration activities because of fear for their careers.

[Thread]

because they can't say stuff or they'll get fired, condemned, hounded, become pariah - look at the performers who pulled out of the inauguration activities because of fear for their careers.

Thank Christ that guy with the violin hung fast. That, that performance I'll take to the grave.

[boutons_deux]

Conway Backtracks On Trump's Tax Returns, Saying He's Still Under Audit :lol

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/conway-backtracks-trump-audit-tax-returns?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

He'll never release them.

[hater]

I just dont get it.

I mean, how long are we suppose to "give him a chance"?

4 years. And if Shillary runs again 8 years

[hater]

What the fuck are alternative facts? :lol

A new term for Hope and Change

[boutons_deux]

A message for you next President, before 2020

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM MIKE PENCE


http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Borowitz-Letter-from-Mike-Pence-1200.jpg


WASHINGTON — Vice-President Mike Pence has issued the following message to the American people:

Dear American People,

What with all the hoopla and hullabaloo of Inauguration Week, we didn’t really get a chance to get to know each other. And so, if you don’t mind, I thought that I’d take a minute or two to tell you a thing or two about Mike Pence.

I’m what most people would call a “fun guy.”

In my spare time, I enjoy golf and heterosexuality.

And I’m something of a voracious reader. My favorite book, of course, is the Bible, but I enjoy other books, too. I’m a big fan of “The Da Vinci Code,” which has a lot of stuff about the Bible in it.

And Paul Ryan just gave me a copy of “Atlas Shrugged,” by Ayn Rand. I just started reading that one, so I haven’t gotten to any parts in it about the Bible yet, but it’s darn good.

Another thing I read recently, and it’s probably become

my second-favorite piece of reading material right after the Bible, is the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

It’s all about how to remove the President and replace him with the Vice-President. I have to admit that it was a kick to start reading the dusty old Constitution for the very first time and see yours truly right in there!

It turns out that the Twenty-fifth Amendment says that the country can remove the President if he is found to be “incapacitated.” That can mean anything from physically incapacitated, like being in an irreversible coma, to mentally incapacitated,

like being seen raving like a lunatic during a visit to the C.I.A.

Either way, if folks decide that it’s time to put a fork in you, see you later, alligator!

Whenever I read something great, I tell everyone I know to go out and read it, too. And so, my fellow-Americans,

I encourage each and every one of you, history buffs or otherwise, to read the Twenty-fifth Amendment today—especially Section 4, which is a little complicated but really exciting, too.

If you enjoy reading it as much as I did, let me know. I’m in my office in Washington and you can reach me anytime—I’m of sound mind and body.

Well, I’m super-glad we had the chance to get to know each other a little better. Until next time, here’s Mike Pence saying, God bless America.

And God bless the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/an-important-message-from-mike-pence (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/an-important-message-from-mike-pence)