My 89-year-old, middle of the road Democratic mother is livid over that scene of Pence politicking before the troops overseas.
Ah. The old “both sides do it” lie.
The guy who made death threats to CNN twenty-two times got out on bail before the end of his arrest date. Any guesses on what color his skin is?
You miss my point entirely.
I’m saying that seems to be what Trump wants to do. I’m using humor - irony, even - to point out how ridiculous that would be under any normal circumstances, like with a Democratic president. Or really, any other sane person in office.
I really miss the days when “any other sane person in office” didn’t mean “democrat”.
everyone should be, especially republicans - nobody can take the party seriously with those two at the top.
When you see Democrats actually doing it, let us know, willya? :rolleyes:
I got it, Jack. New folks don’t necessarily recognize sanity right off the bat… It’s a symptom of the times.
I miss the days when you could say something absurd and it would be recognized as absurd and not something ~30% of the American population would cheerfully endorse.
^^^ That.
That was back before the tragically absurd became the way things really are.
Replacing Tom “travelin’ maaaaaann” Price is Right, Alex Azar is the new head of HHS. While he’s had experience as HHS general counsel and deputy secretary, it was under Bush, and is making (what I bet will turn out to be spurious as fuck) claims that his priorities are to help curb high prescription drug costs, make health insurance more affordable and available, focus Medicare payments on quality, and confront the growing opioid addiction epidemic.
:rolleyes: TIMES TRILLIONS YOU FUCKING FUCK-STICK.
For feces and laughter I figured I’d check into previous HHS secretaries to see if any of them had any Pig Pharma backgrounds - I went back ten HHS heads (Louis Wade Sullivan, '89-93) - nope, none of 'em, so would it be fair to say Azar is a bit of a scumbag outlier here?
As president of Ely-Lilly USA, I’m pretty sure, under his watch, that the opioid crisis that he now speciously spews he’ll conquer was part of his legacy. (not quite as vile as Oxycontinmongers Purdue, p-haps)
Apologies for the Seger earworm.
I mean, I would be surprised if he does them, but those aren’t bad priorities for an HHS secretary to have. And he has experience in the actual department, which puts him ahead of a lot of the other Trump cabinet picks.
Sure, those are perfectly fine HHS secretary priorities, (and I already acknowledged his experience), but I’m not still not convinced he’ll be any more effective than Price, especially given the high bar of President Bumpaddle’s cabinet appointments, and so I’ll certainly agree with you that I would also be surprised if Azar even starts to meet any of his stated directives.
Maybe, but given Trump’s cabinet picks so far, an HHS Secretary who just wants to screw over poor sick people while putting a positive face on it seems refreshingly normal. So I’m optimistic.
Melania is backing out of accompanying Chump to Davos. Word is she’s royally pissed off about Stormy Daniels. In fact, she’s not made any appearances since the story broke on January 12 except to make an MLK Day tweet (which Chump didn’t do) and to release a photo of her and a Marine on Inauguration Day on the anniversary thereof with no mention of Chump. And speaking of anniversaries, their 13th just passed, and it was suspiciously quiet.
First divorce in the White House?
Yeah I’m dancing the Lucky Charms too.
Looks like Kansas Gov. Sam “Let’s Just Absolutely Fuck Kansas Over” Brownback will most likely be donning an interesting new title as…wait for it…Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom. (fuck I wish I was one of those:mad:)
Huh.
Tide Pods look delicious! 
Oh good. Trump can send him to a country that has some so he can learn what it looks like. (Hint: it involves not barring Muslims from entering the country.)
^^^<Nelson laugh>^^^