Rick Perry says fossil fuels help avert sexual assault: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/358386-rick-perry-fossil-fuels-will-help-prevent-sexual-assault
This Vanity Fair… uh piece… from a month ago that focused on the Kushner side of the cluster was probably linked in at least one of these threads, but if I missed it, others probably also missed it and that’s just not acceptable.
I ran across it while reading this more recent one, which you might as well read if you haven’t already.
I get an image of Riff from that show. After all, Riff is:
[ul][li]a dinosaur[/li][li]six years old, and[/li][*]orange[/ul]
Sam Clovis withdraws from consideration to be the USDA’s chief scientist. Maybe the next nominee will be an actual, you know, scientist. I can dream, right?
More likely the next person will be someone who once
[del]took classes near the science building[/del]
[del]can spell science[/del]
gave Trump or a friend of Trump a lot of money.
You’d think he would withdraw for being completely unqualified - but no, it’s because he was Papa’s supervisor on the campaign and would have to face Dem questioning about this at his hearing.
What a remarkable facility for putting together those word things. But at least he has good hair. Dear Molly save us.
I take it that the people around him are still letting him believe that the glasses disguise the fact that he’s really Stupidman.
Trump: As you know, I am not under investigation.
John Kelly: It’s very difficult to concentrate on being President when you’re under investigation.
But he only hires the BEST!
A Nazi (Gorka)
Another Nazi (Bannon)
A racist (Sessions)
Another racist (Kelly)
A nincompoop son in law (Kushner)
A theocrat (Pence)
An agent for foreign governments (Flynn)
Another agent for foreign governments (Manafort)
An absolute and notorious moron (Ben Carson)
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera
From the Washington Post, who usually are his bestest fan boys:
A group called American Oversight had the foresight to make records requests for résumés of those hired by the Trump administration, and the group searched for those who worked on the Trump campaign. Among the “best” Trump hires American Oversight found:
Sid Bowdidge, assistant to the secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy. Before working for the Trump campaign, Bowdidge, from 2013 to 2015, was manager of the Meineke Car Care branch in Seabrook, N.H. He previously was service and branch manager for tire shops. I don’t know what qualified Bowdidge for his position, but I do know this: He is not going to pay a lot for that muffler. (He had to hit the road, losing his job after it was discovered he had called Muslims “maggots.”)
Victoria Barton, congressional relations for Regions II, V and VI, Department of Housing and Urban Development. Prior to working for the Trump campaign, Barton was an office manager and, between 2013 and 2015, a “bartender/bar manager.” The expertise in housing policy possessed by Barton is no doubt invaluable to HUD Secretary Ben Carson, a retired brain surgeon.
A confidential assistant at the Agriculture Department was a cabana boy at the Westchester Country Club from 2009 to 2015.
Whoa! Jabba the Hutt is out! That makes my day. 
Session now admits that he had discussions about Russian cooperation with other people in the campaign. So he admits he committed perjury (but but but, maybe he actually forgot he talked about that and only now just remembered once there was proof…).
Will he stay as AG? I imagine he will. If he puts up with Trump humiliating him all the time, what’s the pressure from congress in comparison?
Is that new? Do you have a link? I’m not trying to be argumentative or doubt you, I just didn’t realize he had made that admission. That seems like kind of a big deal.
Unclear at the moment.
At the moment, it appears that Sessions has stated that he does not recall any meetings about the Russians, AND at the same time, he is sure that he nixed the Papadopoulos proposal for Trump-Putin meet, during the meeting that he does not recall being at.
He’s sounding like a confused Grandpa. Trying to avoid jail time for perjury.
Please clarify: WHO are you’re saying WaPo is a fanboy of? Not Trump. They HATE Trump almost as much as the New York Times hates him.
…coulda been an attempt at irony, foiled by Poe.
Weird alliterations I just noticed
The Whitehouse mouthpiece is Sarah Sanders
Who replaced Sean Spicer in that position
Whose boss, the communications director, is Hope Hicks
Certainly nothing there. But it creeps me out.
Sounded odd to me, too. I could buy that the Washington Times was fond of Trump, but not the Post.
Maybe Stan Lee is in charge of recruiting and hiring…