The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1)

[Sherrerd]

@Euphonious_Polemic

@Frazzled

“Look, we have great respect for the institution of the Supreme Court of the United States,” Pence [told] the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody on Wednesday. “But Chief Justice John Roberts has been a disappointment to conservatives

Quote was from Pence.

It seems clear to me that Pence is saying that Supreme court justices need to vote and rule only on behalf of one part of the country only; that Justice Roberts has forgotten that his oath was to serve conservatives.

I’m amazed that Pence said this out loud. He has clearly and unequivocally stated that Justices in the Supreme Court should rule NOT on the law, or by following the constitution - but rather they should rule in a partisan fashion to please one single political party or movement.

Astounding.

It goes back 50 years, now, which may be why it doesn’t get mentioned much anymore, but Pence is a great illustration of “The Peter Principle”:

…people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their “level of incompetence”

Peter principle

Pence is smart enough to know that his side expects Justices to rule according to the views of the party of the Presidents who appointed them—but not smart enough to be able to say it in a plausibly-deniable way.

[Typo_Negative]

@Smapti

Alas, I don’t think I could possibly top today’s outburst; about Biden;

He’s following the radical left agenda. Take away your guns. Destroy your Second Amendment. No religion! No anything! Hurt the Bible! Hurt God! He’s against God! He’s against guns! He’s against energy, our kind of energy. Uh, I don’t think he’s going to do too well in Ohio.

Ohio Governor now has Covid19

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ohio-gov-mike-dewine-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/ar-BB17EwoI?OCID=ansmsnnews11

[Sherrerd]

@Truman_Burbank

Back to the “what I’d like to do if I were interviewing Trump” fantasy, I’d like to hand him a section of the Declaration of Independence Or Bill of Rights, or some such, and trick him into trying to read it out loud, while the print was displayed on a split screen for readers to follow along during his effort. Or anything from a HS textbook, really.

You’d enjoy the fifth chapter (“Job Three…”) of this novel; it might be available on the free preview Look Inside:

DONALD the Employee: a comic novel of American politics

[image] http://donald.sirtespress.com/ Of interest to the many who follow American politics: this short comic novel on the current political scene. Long-ish excerpt is readable on the KDP sales page (which can be reached from the publisher’s page linked above; that’s my connection with this). [image] SIRTES, rearranged, of course, is RESIST.

[Sherrerd]

@Typo_Negative

Ohio Governor now has Covid19
MSN

Or so that one test said.

I foresee a flood of positive tests for GOP politicians who want to avoid being photographed with Trump. Then, the day after Trump leaves, it will turn out that those tests were in error----they’re not COVID-positive, after all! Whew!

[Johnny_L.A]

@Robot_Arm

876,000 hours is a few months shy of 100 years.

876,000 hours divided by 24 hours per day is 36,500 days. 36,500 days divided by 365 days per year equals 100 years.

[Andy_L]

Leap years happen. Over the course of 100 years, 24 leap years happen (2100 won’t be a leap year). So 36,500 days is 99 years and 341 days (unless I’ve gotten something wrong (which is always possible). This has been my pointless nitpick of the day…

[Snowboarder_Bo]

Despite the (hilarious) rhetoric from the GOP that Pelosi & Schumer are too inflexible in their demands, it turns out (surprise!) that’s a lie and it’s the Republicans who won’t move an inch.

BREAKING: Pelosi, Schumer give update on stimulus negotiations

[SlackerInc]

@Euphonious_Polemic

I’m shocked he didn’t say it will go away in two weeks.

LOL, right. Wasn’t there supposed to be a complete replacement for Obamacare by now?

[Robot_Arm]

It was my mistake, as well. There are 24 or 25 leap days in 100 years, so 876,000 hours is about a month short of 100 years.

[El_Kabong]

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[mistymage]

He (Schumer) should have had his mask on… while she (Pelosi) was talking. Just for optics if they hang out off camera.

[Ann_Hedonia]

I read that novel a few years ago. It was hysterical. I’m pretty sure it was written by a Doper, but I can’t remember who. Was it you?

[Rick_Kitchen]

Individual 1 pronounced Thailand as “Thighland” today, and Dinesh D’Souza is busily tweeting, “But, that’s how English speaking people pronounce it.”

[simster]

@Truman_Burbank

Back to the “what I’d like to do if I were interviewing Trump” fantasy, I’d like to hand him a section of the Declaration of Independence Or Bill of Rights, or some such, and trick him into trying to read it out loud, while the print was displayed on a split screen for readers to follow along during his effort. Or anything from a HS textbook, really.

e plab nista

[BippityBoppityBoo]

@Sherrerd

foresee a flood of positive tests for GOP politicians who want to avoid being photographed with Trump. Then, the day after Trump leaves, it will turn out that those tests were in error----they’re not COVID-positive, after all! Whew!

At 10:30pm EST Thursday 8/6/200, the NYT announced precisely this. It was a ‘false positive’. Trump had left the area by the time this was announced. Whew!

Even as deep a cynic as I am is taken aback by the turnaround. I thought it would take til tomorrow.

[Senegoid]

@simster

e plab nista

[off-topic]
In the Senegoid rating system, that was the worst ST:TOS episode of them all. (“Turnabout Intruder” being the other contender.)
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[Little_Nemo]

@Rick_Kitchen

Pence is Catholic, although of a particularly evangelical strain.

Pence was raised a Catholic but he stopped going to Catholic services decades ago. He joined an Evangelical Church back in the nineties. He described himself as an Evangelical Catholic for several years but this was apparently just a stepping stone from Catholicism to Evangelicalism.

[simster]

@Senegoid

[off-topic]
In the Senegoid rating system, that was the worst ST:TOS episode of them all. (“Turnabout Intruder” being the other contender.)
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Yeah - but damned if that speach isn’t timely … and ‘holy words’ by the trumpian guy.

[Truman_Burbank]

I’ll pick it up when I get back from killing trout in the Eastern Sierras. Looks very good!

[Snowboarder_Bo]

Well, he’s drawn a line in the sand. A squiggly line that’s kind of hard to see, but a line nonetheless:

Trump bans dealings with Chinese owners of TikTok, WeChat

… has the legal authority to actually ban the apps from the U.S.

The twin executive orders — one for each app — take effect in 45 days. They call on the Commerce Secretary to define the banned dealings by that time. While the wording of the orders is vague, some experts said it appears intended to bar the popular apps from the Apple and Google app stores, which could effectively remove them from distribution in the U.S.

“This is an unprecedented use of presidential authority,” Eurasia Group analyst Paul Triolo said in an email. At a minimum, he said, the orders appear to “constitute a ban on the ability of U.S. app stores run by Apple and Google to include either mobile app after 45 days.”

Triolo said the orders may face legal challenges and warned that Beijing is likely to “react harshly, at least rhetorically.” Trump’s orders cited legal authority from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act.