Trump

[kk67]

One hopes not.

Now is the time to grow the feck up. Seriously.... grow the fuck up.

[Digby]

He really isn't stupid enough to force Sessions to can Mueller's investigation?

Surely not?!?

I'm sure some of his core support will lap it up, but I reckon many will begin to question their support.

Does anyone know if that could lead to a likelihood of impeachment?

It might lead to impeachment but what it wouldn’t do is end the investigation, it'd only send ownership of the process back to the FBI

It's reaching a stage where even impeachment won't change anything.
Ken Livingstone is notorious for claiming that 'if voting changed anything, they'd ban it'.

Cunty McCunt Trump is rewriting the political lexicon.

That's not what Ken is notorious for

[kk67]

It might lead to impeachment but what it wouldn’t do is end the investigation, it'd only send ownership of the process back to the FBI

It's reaching a stage where even impeachment won't change anything.
Ken Livingstone is notorious for claiming that 'if voting changed anything, they'd ban it'.

Cunty McCunt Trump is rewriting the political lexicon.

That's not what Ken is notorious for

Maybe not,.....but I'd feckin love him in the bun fight today.
At least we'd have a local councillor with probity.

I'm sick to the back teeth of the scum in local government.

[Which Tyler]

That particular one thinks he is, but he isn't.

Pretty sure that Pence is still a psychopath

[Digby]

So he's winning the trade war with China , opened the EU food market for US farmers and will pay down the national debt using tariffs.

Or in the real world China is poised to escalate the trade war, the EU got him to agree they shouldn't even discuss agriculture other than the EU would buy more soy which it was doing anyway, and whatever is left over of the tariffs after subsidies to support domestic producers hurt by his trade wars would likely amount to 0.01% of the debt, if that, and that before the damage to the economy will hit harder anyway

And he's not just overtly wrong about this he's expecting praise

[Mikey Brown]

Slow news day. So here you go.



I appreciate the gif is not from when she made the statement, but seems kind of relevant.

[Digby]

Can I assume she's not making a stand in support of native Americans?

[morepork]

Space Force...

[Digby]

What actually is the given rationale for hiving off the role from the air force?

And what does Donny think his space force would look like, which is does he envisage what the Pentagon would realistically think doable, or does he have Imperial Star Destroyers in mind?

[J Dory]

Like anything else he does, it's purely an attempt to boost his own popularity.

What an utter cunt.

[morepork]

What actually is the given rationale for hiving off the role from the air force?

And what does Donny think his space force would look like, which is does he envisage what the Pentagon would realistically think doable, or does he have Imperial Star Destroyers in mind?

Rationale? "HEY LOOK OVER THERE".

I doubt he understands gravity and other space stuff. Can't wait for him to start attacking black astronauts for taking a knee during the anthem.

[canta_brian]

What actually is the given rationale for hiving off the role from the air force?

There is no air in space. Even Donald Dunce knows that.

[Digby]

I'd contend there is air in space, it's not a vacuum, it's just not especially plentiful

[morepork]

There are tariffs on vacuums, so Space Force should be right as rain.

[morepork]

Reports starting to filter in from lawyers and such like regarding denaturalisation of foreign born citizens on any technicality possible, including in some cases not accurately reporting sexual orientation at the time of application. Traffic fines, found with a roach in your pocket, whatever. The overriding priority of this administration is stamping out diversity as harshly as possible. Pretty fucking grim. The ghoul Stephen Miller is driving a pretty hard race war through the orange puppet.

[Digby]

Harsh on ghouls, and given they're even going after those who've served in the military the rest don't look well placed

[Digby]

You wouldn't think he could still surprise you, but bollocks to national security and the right to free speech just to try and move the story away from another 'dog' he hired himself. he's not draining the swamp as much as filling it with effluent.

[Puja]

What's really surprising me (in a "Jesus, I thought we were at the bottom already, but, no, here's a lower place" sort of way) is the Republican primaries for the November elections and the attacks that candidates are making on each other. Trumpism has such control of the base voters that candidates are running attack ads that "X didn't stand by Trump when the Access Hollywood tapes came out and had the nerve to say that sexual assault of women was wrong when the country and the Supreme Court was in the balance. I always stood by him and that's why I am the better conservative and republican." And they're effective!

Puja

[Digby]

We attack politicians for being weirdos, but they can reasonably show that's what we vote for

[morepork]

It's just fuckin embarrassing.

[Sandydragon]

What's really surprising me (in a "Jesus, I thought we were at the bottom already, but, no, here's a lower place" sort of way) is the Republican primaries for the November elections and the attacks that candidates are making on each other. Trumpism has such control of the base voters that candidates are running attack ads that "X didn't stand by Trump when the Access Hollywood tapes came out and had the nerve to say that sexual assault of women was wrong when the country and the Supreme Court was in the balance. I always stood by him and that's why I am the better conservative and republican." And they're effective!

Puja

I don’t think there is much Trump could do to lose some of his core base. It’s insane and depressing in equal measure.

[Puja]

A few interesting things happened today then. Manafort found guilty and likely to be found guilty again at state level where Trump can't pardon him and he's said to be reconsidering his stance on not cooperating wih Mueller, Flynn's sentencing pushed back again due to ongoing cooperation with Mueller, Cohen pleading guilty and implicating Trump on campaign finance crimes, before going on to heavily imply that he's considering cooperating with Mueller and that he's got hard evidence of Russian collaboration.

Obviously everyone knows what's desired by Mueller and is talking up their value to try and get a better deal, so it may all be smoke and dust, but the odds of Trump reaching 2020 in the White House have just lengthened considerably.

Puja

[Digby]

And using all the guilty verdicts as cover Trump has made it easier to pollute the world using coal

[Puja]

And using all the guilty verdicts as cover Trump has made it easier to pollute the world using coal

To be fair, I'd imagine he's probably annoyed that they've taken attention away from his glorious victory over the forces of environmentalism, science, and other anti-American demons.

Puja

[morepork]

The guy is irrelevant to policy making. He sucks all the oxygen out of the room so that the soulless cracker army can wage race war while their wealthy benefactors dismantle as much infrastructure as they can to line their pockets in their twilight years. What a fucking sock puppet Trump is. I am genuinely amazed at how clueless he is, even after a year in charge. Maybe we deserve it after decades of ignorance and inactivity.