The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making

[Slash1972]

@Rick_Kitchen

A bad day for Individual 1.
1-The Supreme Court ruled, with Gorsuch writing the majority opinion, that employers can’t discriminate against LGBTQ employees.
2-The Supreme Court refused to overturn a lower court’s ruling that states cannot be required to work with ICE.
3-The FDA removed authorization of malaria drugs in treating Covid 19.

There were also many gun cases they refused to hear.

Not sure why “conservative judges” were such a good reason to vote for Trump.

[BrickBat]

@enipla

Thinking more about it’s posture, well, Trump has been a bully his entire life. Getting in your face and yelling is a common tactic I would think, so he naturally leans over to do so.

I think that’s precisely it. “Looming” is a known tactic of intimidation. Obviously it doesn’t work when one isn’t in close proximity to somebody who is to be loomed over, but then the whole bravado “puff-up” bullshit is so inveterate in his persona, it comes as naturally as breathing.

[ThelmaLou]

“Top Voice of America editors resign amid strife with White House, arrival of new Trump-appointed director”

Top Voice of America editors resign amid strife with White House, arrival of...

The top two editors at Voice of America resigned Monday amid White House criticism of the government-funded but editorially independent news agency and as a new overseer loyal to President Trump was about to take office.

It wasn’t immediately clear why VOA Director Amanda Bennett and Deputy Director Sandy Sugawara submitted their resignations. In a memo to staff on Monday, they jointly wrote, “It is time for us to leave,” but cited no specific reason other than the arrival of Michael Pack, a Trump appointee who will head the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA. Pack is an ally of Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist.

They added, “As the Senate-confirmed C.E.O., he has the right to replace us with his own VOA leadership.”

Their departure comes amid concerns within the agency that the Trump administration is seeking to exert greater control over what and how VOA reports.

The organization’s relationship with the Trump administration was already fraught, but over the weekend, a new rift developed. After news emerged that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had instructed its communications staff to deny interviews to VOA reporters — a policy prompted by the White House’s criticism of the agency — Bennett issued a strongly worded statement condemning the policy.

“Efforts such as those outlined in the CDC memo can result in the kind of chilling effect on our journalism that we regularly see in the markets we broadcast to that have no free press,” she wrote.
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My bold.

That’s what trump has in mind. Don’t need no stinkin’ free press.

[GreysonCarlisle]

@BrickBat

I think that’s precisely it. “Looming” is a known tactic of intimidation. Obviously it doesn’t work when one isn’t in close proximity to somebody who is to be loomed over, but then the whole bravado “puff-up” bullshit is so inveterate in his persona, it comes as naturally as breathing.

If only Hillary had turned around and kicked him square in the nuts.

[Der_Trihs]

@Slash1972

Not sure why “conservative judges” were such a good reason to vote for Trump.

Because conservative judges hurt people, and the point of voting for Trump *was *to hurt people.

[nightshadea]

did any see or hear of the press conference today where he was trying to throw Bolton under a bus? and he was just doing him a favor appointing him to the sec of state and mentioned that his book might be “illegal”?

the dullard doesn’t even know that even if such a book is printed the CIA and NSA both read it to make sure nothing classified gets printed?

[eschereal]

@BrickBat

“Looming” is a known tactic of intimidation.

But I think I have seen him weaving from time to time as well.

[OttoDaFe]

@eschereal

But I think I have seen him weaving from time to time as well.

What a warped sense of humor you have.

[kaylasdad99]

@BrickBat

“Looming” is a known tactic of intimidation.

@eschereal

But I think I have seen him weaving from time to time as well.

@OttoDaFe

What a warped sense of humor you have.

I used to have one, but it weft…

[tricoteuse]

Rotten tomatoes! Rotten tomatoes for sale! Get them while they’re squashy! Only 25 cents each or 3 for a dollar!

[solost]

@eschereal

But I think I have seen him weaving from time to time as well.

@OttoDaFe

What a warped sense of humor you have.

Let’s not knit-pick here. I thought that was a pretty good yarn.

[Mikkel]

I can’t believe no one else have said it, but can we refer to his two-handed drinking technique as his “drinking problem”?

[Ike_Witt]

@Gyrate

If you look at the virus, it collapses its waveform and the illness becomes real.

A quantum virus sounds dangerously cool.

[DesertDog]

@enipla

Between the air in his head, and the load in his pants, he’s very well balanced there.

Now you got me thinking of a dippy bird.

[Monty]

@Mikkel

I can’t believe no one else have said it, but can we refer to his two-handed drinking technique as his “drinking problem”?

Once he starts spilling it, go for it.

[OttoDaFe]

@Ike_Witt

@Gyrate

If you look at the virus, it collapses its waveform and the illness becomes real.

A quantum virus sounds dangerously cool.

Actually, you may have broken CFSG’s code. It’s Schrödinger’s Virus: there’s no infection unless someone tests for it. No tests, no infections; no infections, no hospitalizations; no hospitalizations, no deaths. Problem solved!

Now I need to go take a very long shower to get the stink of that “logical” progression off.

[Little_Nemo]

@OttoDaFe

Actually, you may have broken CFSG’s code. It’s Schrödinger’s Virus: there’s no infection unless someone tests for it. No tests, no infections; no infections, no hospitalizations; no hospitalizations, no deaths. Problem solved!

We had to test a few people. Just enough to win that badge of honor.

[psychobunny]

I just flipped on the television and he was talking about the AIDS vaccine and how great it is. I wasn’t aware that there was an AIDS vaccine…

[Ludovic]

@OttoDaFe

Actually, you may have broken CFSG’s code. It’s Schrödinger’s Virus: there’s no infection unless someone tests for it. No tests, no infections; no infections, no hospitalizations; no hospitalizations, no deaths. Problem solved!

Now I need to go take a very long shower to get the stink of that “logical” progression off.

Plus, if you haven’t been recently tested, you have to act as if you are simultaneously infected and not infected.

[KarlGauss]

@Ludovic

Plus, if you haven’t been recently tested, you have to act as if you are simultaneously infected and not infected.

Depends when you are located in the multiverse.