I heard that while dropping off the kids this morning. It is absolutely fucking infuriating.
Yep. They aren’t even trying to hide what a bunch of corrupt bastards they are anymore.
The most recent couple of posts plus Tmurp’s new fuck-the-poor-out-of-spite budget that probably won’t actually save any money and will run up spending with unnecessary military spending increases.
Aside from all of the concerns about the wall raised here,
amp/www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-border-wall-20180211-story.html%3foutputType=amp
Is it supposed to stretch all the way to the Pacific Ocean? How far? Would have people just keep boating around it like they already do?
But…but…but…it’s going to be a WALL. A WALL keeps people OUT.
Apparently, the new infrastructure proposal will make it easy to set up oil and gas pipelines through national parks, FFS.
And that lending company (I’ve seen their commercials all the way in Kentucky) charges 900% interest, which just ought to be unfathomably criminal.
Them, and those vile reptiles in the payday loan racket. Don’t believe in Hell, but there are people who make me wish I did. We are civilized, we have laws, standards. You can’t beat somebody with a stick to take their money, but if you’re smarter than they are, you can strip them to the bone.
May their shit turn to cactus in their colon, amen.
A year in, Justice Gorsuch is doing pretty much what conservatives wanted him to do: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/politics/scalia-gorsuch-supreme-court/index.html
One of his predecessors would beg to differ with Trump’s assertion that not applauding him is treasonous:
“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”
Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
The entire quotation is wonderful–thanks for posting it.
I guess we know the minimum qualifications for appointment to any Trump Administration position: if you aren’t base and servile, you haven’t got a chance.
Incompetence in coverups is also a plus: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/politics/rob-porter-john-kelly-timeline-white-house/index.html
They’re running out of dicks to step on, and may have to bring in temp dicks.
So our President has finally spoken up and clarified his stance on domestic violence. As you might expect, he did it with all the dignity, grace and gravitas of a kid being forced to eat his vegetables.
Clothy is over in another Pit thread chortling about stupid Californians and how so many of them voted for Hillary.
Otherwise, he’s mostly in Cafe Society. Safe space? 
Shhh, we want him to stay there.
He’s smart in the Cafe, not so much in the Pit.
Hiding from the press much, Donny Boy?: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16/politics/donald-trump-press-conference-analysis/index.html
This post seemed to get overshadowed by the market chaos and parade outrage from a week ago.
I just watched this episode - it should not be missed.
Donald Trump is a piece of shit.
“Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign - there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!”
Trump multiple choice always picks the worst option.
School shooting…should I:
a) Feign deep sympathy and grief and say something about thoughts and prayers
b) Suggest some meaningful legislative change to prevent this from happening again
c) Find some way to make this about me… oh, I see the FBI investigated the shooter, they’re investigating me too. Tremendous!