I notice that they are not called “mandatory daily press briefings” or “daily press briefings as required by law” or anything like that.
Like that would make a difference?
He’s obligated by the fact that (supposedly) he works for us. He’s supposed to keep the nation informed.
Just like every other norm, that got flushed and the GOP controlled Congress is showing it’s lack of spine, honor and integrity.
Just ask yourself: WWTCDIODTS?
(What Would This Congress Do If Obama Did This Shit)
Eh, it’s Manson1972, the guy who signed up to a message board to whine about people talking about people talking. I’m rather surprised, given how unimportant he thinks speech is, that he bothered to answer the question.
I’m bored. 
You’re a fucking asshole.
Hahaha!
I seem to recall that one of the candidates in the last presidential election promised to not play golf if he got elected.
Of course he’s not going to go visit a war zone. Have you seen the size of that sand trap there?
Usually I’d mention the apostrophe in “it’s” is superfluous; however, in this case you got it dead on. Today’s congress is actually a lack of spine, honor, and integrity. One could even say they are the very definition of said lack.
More like boring.
Not yet. That’s one of the many Trump innovations that is probably eventually going to produce a spate of new laws governing the actions of the Executive Branch.
Things like holding press briefings or releasing tax returns or removing financial conflicts of interest have so far been left in the sphere of custom and tradition rather than explicit legal mandate, because it was always assumed that anybody who could get elected President would have at least the rudimentary level of deference for the appearance of probity and responsibility to perform them.
We have learned from Trump’s Presidency that that assumption is not necessarily valid. So at some point, we are likely going to decide that the only way to ensure responsible behavior from a President is to enforce it legally. Even that is going to have far from perfect results, of course, but at least it will have more effect than simply leaving such matters up to the POTUS’s personal sense of duty and good reputation, of which, as President Trump has demonstrated, it is actually perfectly possible for a POTUS to have none whatsoever.
That’s the thing. Even if these “customs and traditions” were actual laws, who is going to enforce them on thump?? NO ONE, that’s who.
The customs and traditions don’t need to be laws for normal presidents who understand the gravity of the office (you know, what Mike Pence said). In thump’s case, these things being law wouldn’t make any difference.
Heard a new one today from a friend of mine who is trans. Apparently a lot of trans people are having problems getting their passports renewed. Even though their passport lists them correctly as their current gender when they submit for a renewal they’re being denied because there’s an “error” in the listed gender. It’s not a complete denial; they’re just being told they need to submit further medical documentation (no word on whether anyone has succeeded in getting a renewal after submitting the extra documentation).
I say this is just harassment. Your current passport should be considered adequate documentation for a renewal. If you were issued a passport as a woman ten years ago and you’re submitting for a renewal to that passport as a woman today, there’s no reason why what gender you may have been more than ten years ago matters.
Apparently it’s Pompeo, not Trump, who initiated this change. But I’m going to blame Trump for picking Pompeo for the job.
Visit a war zone?!? Shit, I don’t think he’s visited a state he didn’t carry in 2016.
OK, technically he visited California, but that was for a fund raiser where he didn’t have to have anyone in the room who didn’t pay to be there.
SG has been to Hawaii. We “greeted” him with signs saying, “Welcome to Kenya.”
I think this would be an interesting research project: which states has trump visited, and why.
This. The shitbrains refuse to enforce the laws we have** NOW**. Why would new laws make any difference?
Great, so President Infantile Deranged Fucking Shitstain is having another whiny tantrum* over immigration issues, including the border wall, and wants toWHAAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAAA!!! shut down that nasty, NASTY government!
Again.:rolleyes:
Awesome, almost palliative, deflection, right at the end:
(ETA - funky source - hope I’ll get the chance to use it again!)
*Why do I instantly picture a baby with Trump’s face, wearing a bonnet, sitting in a highchair, and angrily flinging some object on the floor, whining for it to be immediately picked up?
Trump blasts media, calls journalists ‘very unpatriotic’ for reporting on government affairs
Whoa! Every time you think it can’t get crazier, it does.
“Unpatriotic” for reporting on government. :dubious:
At what point do we begin to point out the obvious, that he’s a stark raving loon?
Oh, any old time… :rolleyes:
He wants only “great people” coming into the country but he is still here.
Actually I had pictured Trump sitting in that same high chair but he was flinging his own poop everywhere.
The New Colossus (v. 45)
Not like that massive woman facing East
With long green robes that reach down to her toes
(Too bad that she should have so many clothes;
You’d think she’d show a little thigh, at least)
But I digress - protect us from the beast,
The mule, the raping, thieving, killing horde,
Who, from his shit-hole country tries to board
Our great White ship that bears us to our feast.
Hold back the so-called “refugees” out there.
Send me your oligarchs, flush with success
Whose deals with me are always more than fair,
Who buy my real estate without much stress.
While Fox and Friends all praise me on the air,
We’ll show my base that they can do with less.
Maybe something in gold…