I think the tackiness of the obviously-flimsy cake is pretty great too.
So does that insanity have any chance of passing? Does it have real support? Or does it risk to be passed through pure stupidity, like the JASTA insanity?
On one hand, it’s been floated every congress for decades. On the other hand… Trump. I don’t know. I just don’t know.
It’s funny, but it’s terrifying.
This was literally the first full day Trump was president. The first day, and his press secretary and chief advisor are saying truth does not matter and they might refuse to speak to anyone to whom truth matters.
There is no chance whatsoever this administration will not be, at best, a total disaster. The question is whether it will devolve into a catastrophe.
One in three chance of nuclear war. A worldwide depression? Fifty-fifty.
Mike Rogers files this bill in every Congress (taking over from Ron Paul, who used to do it). It’s not a Trump thing and it has no chance of passing.
Three months ago, we all thought Punkinhead had no chance of being President…
Fair enough. But this bill has been proposed dozens of times and never made it beyond committee. Trump had never run for POTUS before.
The latest from the Minister of Propaganda: the women’s march wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, and they weren’t protesting Trump anyway.
:dubious: Even ignoring the complete bullshit of the content of this remark, I have a semantic quibble with the form of it. Exactly how does Mr. Spicer envision people protesting without protesting against anything? That’s kind of what the word “protest” inherently means.
“Why are you protesting?”
“I’m protesting for equal rights!”
Maybe a but sloppy, strictly speaking, but close enough for folk music.
That is pure art. Awesome, man, does he have Gary Trudeau writing for him?
Yeah, if Spicer had used the word “demonstrating” instead of “protesting” we wouldn’t have to engage in so much double-think.
Sure, but doesn’t that kind of imply that there’s currently an absence of equal rights that you’re protesting against?
Unless you mean that “protest” has informally come to be essentially synonymous with “rally” or “demonstration”, where you can rally or demonstrate either for or against something. Sounds weird to me, but okay.
Etymologically, no. You can protest for something. The word even has “pro-” in it.
Spicer is using alternative facts. So it’s all good.
In other news, today is banatuesday, and American astronauts have landed on Mars!
I don’t quite follow it myself, but according to Forbes, Congressional Republicans are getting ready to enact something called a border adjustability tax, which Steve Forbes claims will increase the cost of consumer goods to the tune of one trillion dollars over the next ten years. The tax will, AIUI, result in more expensive imports while providing large tax incentives to exporters. Republicans say this tax will help offset the cost of eliminating the estate tax and alternative minimum tax and reducing corporate taxes. I thought it was an article of faith among Republicans that tax cuts paid forthemselves, so I’m not sure why you need to offset those tax cuts by raising taxes on consumer goods. But, then, I’m no economist. Regressive taxes are the good ones, right?
In local news, the new Attorney General of Missouri has decided that the provision of the Missouri constitution that says the Attorney General “shall reside at the seat of government and keep his office in the Supreme Court building”, which every Attorney General for 50 years has interpreted to mean they have to actually live in Jefferson City, really just means he has to keep an office there. He says the law allows him to continue living in Columbia Missouri, about 24 miles from Jeff City. I don’t care, myself, if he wants to live in CoMo. It’s a reasonable commute, and I don’t see any practical downside to the AG living 24 miles from his office. But it does seem to be, yanno, the law that he’s supposed to live in Jeff City. The new AG skirting the law for his own convenience doesn’t augur well for his approach to the office.
A Facebook friend of mine posted a link to a story about the ND law, with the comment, “I hope we get a law like this in Missouri soon.” The person who posted this is a high ranking officer in a large local police force. 
SD lawmakers are considering a bill to repeal an anti-corruption act passed on a ballot initiative. Seems the people think the politicians are crooks, and the politicians are saying, nuh-uh!