Idiocracy

[Kin]

It takes a special kind of cravenness to vote for a lousy healthcare bill and specifically exempt yourself from it.

 

[L K]

It takes a special kind of cravenness to vote for a lousy healthcare bill and specifically exempt yourself from it.

Or not even bother to read it while trying to rush it through before the CBO trashes it for the pile of garbage that it is.  This bill does nothing but provide a tax cut to the wealthy and piss on the inevitable graves of the poor and middle class.

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

Yep, that's right, Republicans think Christians are discriminated against more than Muslims, immigrants, blacks (by almost double!!) and gays/lesbians, and about equal to trans people.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-identity-politics-of-the-trump-administration/?ex_cid=538twitter

 

[bustaheims]

It takes a special kind of cravenness to vote for a lousy healthcare bill and specifically exempt yourself from it.

And then have a party to celebrate it passing the House, when there's (hopefully) an excellent chance it'll die in the Senate.

 

[herman]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mtZ60AvDQY[/youtube]

https://twitter.com/Minnysconsin/status/860896913717166080
www.twitter.com/Minnysconsin/status/860896913717166080

Bannon's been quiet. Too quiet.

 

[herman]

FBI director Comey finds out he has been fired by the President as he addressed the Bureau from the news screen tickers behind him.

Super weird.

 

[bustaheims]

FBI director Comey finds out he has been fired by the President as he addressed the Bureau from the news screen tickers behind him.

Super weird.

Nothing guilty about firing a guy who is about to testifying about your potential connections to Russia. Nothing at all.

 

[herman]

FBI director Comey finds out he has been fired by the President as he addressed the Bureau from the news screen tickers behind him.

Super weird.

Nothing guilty about firing a guy who is in the middle of testifying about your potential connections to Russia. Nothing at all.

The reason for dismissal was his handling of the Clinton email situation days before election. That helped hand Trump the presidency.

 

[bustaheims]

The reason for dismissal was his handling of the Clinton email situation days before election. That helped hand Trump the presidency.

That may be the official reason, sure, but . . .

This move means Trump gets to chose the person who will now be leading the investigation into Trump's ties to Russia.

 

[herman]

 

[Bender]

Can he literally just hire and fire people at will? I really think it shows how insane the American political system is built.

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[herman]

If the pattern of firing and hiring holds true, it's likely Trump will appoint a domestic terrorist for the post.

https://twitter.com/emayfarris/status/862107289418944513
www.twitter.com/emayfarris/status/862107289418944513

 

[herman]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/10/comey-firing-trump-russia-238192

President Donald Trump weighed firing his FBI director for more than a week. When he finally pulled the trigger Tuesday afternoon, he didn't call James Comey. He sent his longtime private security guard to deliver the termination letter in a manila folder to FBI headquarters.

He had grown enraged by the Russia investigation, two advisers said, frustrated by his inability to control the mushrooming narrative around Russia. He repeatedly asked aides why the Russia investigation wouldn?t disappear and demanded they speak out for him. He would sometimes scream at television clips about the probe, one adviser said.

This is one way to draw attention away from Sally Yates' testimony (and to prevent Comey from testifying?).

Bipartisan criticism of Comey had mounted since last summer after his lengthy statement outlining why he was closing the investigation into Clinton?s private email server.

But the fallout seemed to take the White House by surprise. Trump made a round of calls around 5 p.m., asking for support from senators. White House officials believed it would be a "win-win" because Republicans and Democrats alike have problems with the FBI director, one person briefed on their deliberations said.

Instead, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told him he was making a big mistake ? and Trump seemed "taken aback," according to a person familiar with the call.

By Tuesday evening, the president was watching the coverage of his decision and frustrated no one was on TV defending him, a White House official said. He wanted surrogates out there beating the drum.

He did it for the Likes.

 

[Arn]

At this point Trump just has to be trolling. This probably all started out as a little bar room joke "sure I could be president" and every time he tries something more outrageous he keeps getting away with it.

 

[Bender]

If Nixon can be brought down so can he. He won't get away with this kind of shit forever.

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[hockeyfan1]

If Nixon can be brought down so can he. He won't get away with this kind of shit forever.

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Impeachment?  That may very well happen at some point in time, who knows.

 

[bustaheims]

If Nixon can be brought down so can he. He won't get away with this kind of shit forever.

Here's hoping. I don't see him resigning like Nixon, so we could very well be on the way to witnessing history - the first US President to actually be removed from office.

 

[louisstamos]

If Nixon can be brought down so can he. He won't get away with this kind of shit forever.

Here's hoping. I don't see him resigning like Nixon, so we could very well be on the way to witnessing history - the first US President to actually be removed from office.

It won't happen with a Republican congress.  Many of them put their eggs in his basket.  2018 at the soonest would be my guess.

 

[bustaheims]

It won't happen with a Republican congress.  Many of them put their eggs in his basket.  2018 at the soonest would be my guess.

Unless the investigation turns up a significant smoking gun - something that they really can't ignore or downplay - that's probably true.

 

[Kin]

It won't happen with a Republican congress.  Many of them put their eggs in his basket.  2018 at the soonest would be my guess.

While that's probably true, it's not like you'd need a lot of Republicans. You'd need about 25 of the 238 members of the house and 3 senators to think that hitching their wagon to Trump might cost them their jobs.