Trump

[Digby]

Good news for hard up coal magnates with Team Trump moving to lift the limits on mercury being belched out by beautiful clean coal

And with there being no downside to mercury polluting the environment this will be yet another win nobody but a stable genius could deliver

[morepork]

Radio silence for 24 hours. Fucker must have gone golfing.

[Digby]

Radio silence for 24 hours. Fucker must have gone golfing.

Thought he'd noted federal employees were having their 2019 pay rises cancelled, you've got to pay for that tax cut for the rich somehow

[morepork]

The bullshit is piled so high you need wings to stay above it.

In hindsight, nothing truly revelatory here, but by thunder there had to have been people who had first hand knowledge of just how gormless DJT really is? Who is driving the bus while he is tweeting? I'd wager there are battalions of bent Pruitt-like public servants pillaging the public purse. Lobbysists must be ecstatic having idiots like Perry, De Vos (sister of Blackwater Security founder Eric Pince and architect of the disastrous Detroit charter school experiment), Ben Carson (greatest achievement so far being a $31,000 dining set purchase), and on and on, without any credible leadership from the top. I really hope that when this great social experiment in fuckheadedness is complete that we get to see what really goes on behind the scenes and identify a way pump the brakes on the current wholesale dismantling of education, environment, health, and foreign policy that was as simple to enact as putting an entitled village idiot on the throne by transposing a realty TV template to government.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019 ... an-success

[WaspInWales]

I'm amazed he hasn't tweeted about the UK being invaded by ISIS in little boats over the channel?!?

It would fit in with his narrative quite nicely, and he could give us expert advice on how to built a wall on water.

[Digby]

Another outstanding cabinet meeting, heaven knows what each one costs but rarely in history can anyone have had less productive exchanges and discussion

[morepork]

Fuck. It's just pathetic.

[Digby]

The seeming good news is sanctions are coming, and so far they're proving a roaring success in the estimation of people who'd be confused by velcro straps

[WaspInWales]

Another outstanding cabinet meeting, heaven knows what each one costs but rarely in history can anyone have had less productive exchanges and discussion

That was something though.

It's no wonder he considers himself a genius above all others. His level of intellect is just on a different level so everyone else just doesn't understand him.

I honestly thought I was reading a parody of the event when I read some of the comments. That said, I wasn't surprised to find out they were genuine.

[Sandydragon]

The bullshit is piled so high you need wings to stay above it.

In hindsight, nothing truly revelatory here, but by thunder there had to have been people who had first hand knowledge of just how gormless DJT really is? Who is driving the bus while he is tweeting? I'd wager there are battalions of bent Pruitt-like public servants pillaging the public purse. Lobbysists must be ecstatic having idiots like Perry, De Vos (sister of Blackwater Security founder Eric Pince and architect of the disastrous Detroit charter school experiment), Ben Carson (greatest achievement so far being a $31,000 dining set purchase), and on and on, without any credible leadership from the top. I really hope that when this great social experiment in fuckheadedness is complete that we get to see what really goes on behind the scenes and identify a way pump the brakes on the current wholesale dismantling of education, environment, health, and foreign policy that was as simple to enact as putting an entitled village idiot on the throne by transposing a realty TV template to government.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019 ... an-success

In an age of celebrity, this is the politician we deserve.

[WaspInWales]

Awe-inspiring stuff:

[WaspInWales]

Trump word bingo. Down a shot every time you hear...

Billions and billions...

Tremendous

Beautiful

Me

'any word, or collection of words' repeated by the same word or collection of words

Deal

Many people

Billions and billions

China (why the fuck does he pronounce China the way he does???)

Billions and billions

[morepork]

I can't fucking watch it. Only a truly stupid person could be that smug talking that much shit in that context. It just does my fucking head in. NASA are have just piloted a spacecraft past an object 30km wide and 6.4 billion km from earth. It looks a lot like the head of NASA, commander in chief, leader of the fat world, etc etc, and is likely a fucksite more cogent than the terrestrial fat orange mass. I'm so over this shit.

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[morepork]

While we're about it. Mike Pence. What the fuck are you? A background extra fuck doll with rigor mortis?

[WaspInWales]

While we're about it. Mike Pence. What the fuck are you? A background extra fuck doll with rigor mortis?

That was, and continues to be very worrying.

If the tiny handed tyrant does get successfully impeached, Mummy's boy is next in line!!

The man stares at Trump in a manner that can only be described as extremely worrying.

The only saving grace is that Pelosi is now 2nd in line. Like pissing in the wind though.

Is America permanently fucked?

[Which Tyler]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46763940
So.. his "cunning" plan is to create a national emergency; declare a national emergency; and assume the dicatorial powers that allows him.

Surely it doesn't work that way.
Surely that he's actually saying that he's doing this is grounds for impeachment, regardless of anything else he may or may not have absolutely has done

[Digby]

Workers who are expected to be working without pay as things stand are starting to phone in sick so they can take cash paying jobs, apparently they don't want to be homeless and starving, which seems pathetically selfish of them when there's a bigly wall to be built

Next month the Coast Guard goes unfunded after the bodge in financing this month. SAD!

[Digby]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46763940
So.. his "cunning" plan is to create a national emergency; declare a national emergency; and assume the dicatorial powers that allows him.

Surely it doesn't work that way.
Surely that he's actually saying that he's doing this is grounds for impeachment, regardless of anything else he may or may not have absolutely has done

Presidential overreach doesn’t seem obvious grounds for impeachment, they likely all try it on which is the theoretical virtue of the checks and balances in their system

I don't see how he declares the wall or lack of a national emergency, but I've gotten plenty wrong so who knows

[Which Tyler]

To my mind, there's a huge difference between presidential over-reach, and faking/manufacturing a state of emergency to grant oneself emergency powers.

My reading is that it's not the lack of a wall that would justify a state of emergency, but a prolonged government shutdown (which is 100% his own doing, as he has proudly told us).

[morepork]

The judicial will never let the executive get away with something that weak.

[Mikey Brown]

Hmm.



You’d think the quote is ridiculous enough. Somehow the video makes it even worse.

[Digby]

So it turns out steel is stronger than concrete, it's a service this man provides alright

[Digby]

I'm hoping the announcement combines the solid see through wall/transient barrier with a Kanye West led Spaceforce

[morepork]

Yeah great. A prime time reality TV Nuremberg rally.

[Puja]

Followed by a rebuttal by Pelosi and Schumer that I'm sure everyone will continue on to watch, in the interests of hearing both sides.

Puja