Dump Shithole

[DEATH ROW JOE]

[MickeyG]

Radiobed, the problem with the infrastructure spending (apparently 1 trillion dollars), is that Trump is going to have to get it through the house and the senate. He needed the health plan to go through, because it saved money that could be spent elsewhere. There's no way the tea partiers are going to vote through a huge spending plan on the idea that "we'll make it back later", especially with no planned cuts to entitlements. Oh, and lets not forget the tax cuts that are expected, Trump is expecting Republicans to cut loose financially bigly when they've all been whining about money.

[That-guy]

Trump's approval rating is dropping fast. At this rate, Heenan Snuka will have a better chance than him in 2020.

[Danzig in the Dark]

Trump's approval rating is dropping fast. At this rate, Heenan Snuka will have a better chance than him in 2020.

Don't be so sure, unless you see a mass die-off of stupid people in the near future.

[radiobed]

Radiobed, the problem with the infrastructure spending (apparently 1 trillion dollars), is that Trump is going to have to get it through the house and the senate. He needed the health plan to go through, because it saved money that could be spent elsewhere. There's no way the tea partiers are going to vote through a huge spending plan on the idea that "we'll make it back later", especially with no planned cuts to entitlements. Oh, and lets not forget the tax cuts that are expected, Trump is expecting Republicans to cut loose financially bigly when they've all been whining about money.

There will be challenges for sure. Trump needs to find a consensus somewhere to meet some of his goals and the hard right could be a barrier. My guess is Trump works with some moderate democrats (as has been suggested) and eventually ACA is modified in some way. My hope is they push forward with the agenda (tax/regulations/infrastructure) assuming some savings on health care down the line.

I was mildly surprised the markets were stable today which suggests most still feel the agenda will still go forward.

[DEATH ROW JOE]

The Trump budget proposal released last week bears a striking resemblance to the Heritage Foundation’s “Blueprint for Balance: A Federal Budget for 2017,” complete with a list of deep spending cuts designed to scale back the size and scope of the federal government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... 3b2c658d7e


Same Heritage he blamed for failure of Trumpcare

[vlad]

The Trump budget proposal released last week bears a striking resemblance to the Heritage Foundation’s “Blueprint for Balance: A Federal Budget for 2017,” complete with a list of deep spending cuts designed to scale back the size and scope of the federal government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... 3b2c658d7e


Same Heritage he blamed for failure of Trumpcare

That budget and Heritage's healthcare advice are probably why he's so pissed at them. He has no understanding or concern about what was in the plans, he just said, "yeah, we'll go with that, no need to explain it to me". He's just pissed it backfired so badly on him. He wanted to bask in the glow of success. Someone must pay.

[Luminiferous]

So does Faux News get to wear the label of #fakenews now?

Tweets that their President is working in the White House all weekend, when in fact he was (where else?) at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia...

[vlad]

He's on a tweet rampage right now. Somebody forgot to hide his phone.

Uraninum, Clintons, Russia !!!!! Freedom Caucus bad. The Democrats will make a deal.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref ... r%5Eauthor

[TawnyVonJagger]

Such a sad little man. 36% approval rating! #MAGA!

[DEATH ROW JOE]

He's trying tweet his way to a sub 30% approval rating. Can't wait for tax reform to fail. He'll get nothing done his first year.

[Turner Coates]

[Luminiferous]

He's on a tweet rampage right now. Somebody forgot to hide his phone.

Uraninum, Clintons, Russia !!!!! Freedom Caucus bad. The Democrats will make a deal.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref ... r%5Eauthor

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump Mar 26

General Kelly is doing a great job at the border. Numbers are way down. Many are not even trying to come in anymore.

That's because even illegals don't want to be in a country with you as it's Prez...

[Rageman]

A composite sketch of a border patrol volunteer

[DEATH ROW JOE]

[eddie lee roth]

He's on a tweet rampage right now. Somebody forgot to hide his phone.

Uraninum, Clintons, Russia !!!!! Freedom Caucus bad. The Democrats will make a deal.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref ... r%5Eauthor

Those "tweet rampages" work both ways.



Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is doubling down on her calls for impeaching President Trump, tweeting Tuesday that it's time to "get ready for impeachment."

Waters has been pushing for Congress to quickly impeach Trump if evidence is produced proving collusion with the Russian government.
"The only thing that I am focused on is credible investigations to bring out the facts. ... If the facts are there, then I think we should move very quickly to do something about it. And if there was collusion, and any support for undermining our democracy, I think the president should be impeached," Waters said earlier this month.
"I've said that, and that's where I stand."
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian hackers interfered in last year's elections for the express purpose of helping Trump win, and both the Senate and House Intelligence committees are investigating the nature and extent of the intrusion.
Numerous reports have emerged linking members of Trump's inner circle directly to Kremlin officials. The White House has fervently maintained that those communications were innocuous, and no evidence has surfaced of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

[vlad]

He's on a tweet rampage right now. Somebody forgot to hide his phone.

Uraninum, Clintons, Russia !!!!! Freedom Caucus bad. The Democrats will make a deal.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref ... r%5Eauthor

Those "tweet rampages" work both ways.



Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is doubling down on her calls for impeaching President Trump, tweeting Tuesday that it's time to "get ready for impeachment."

Waters has been pushing for Congress to quickly impeach Trump if evidence is produced proving collusion with the Russian government.
"The only thing that I am focused on is credible investigations to bring out the facts. ... If the facts are there, then I think we should move very quickly to do something about it. And if there was collusion, and any support for undermining our democracy, I think the president should be impeached," Waters said earlier this month.
"I've said that, and that's where I stand."
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian hackers interfered in last year's elections for the express purpose of helping Trump win, and both the Senate and House Intelligence committees are investigating the nature and extent of the intrusion.
Numerous reports have emerged linking members of Trump's inner circle directly to Kremlin officials. The White House has fervently maintained that those communications were innocuous, and no evidence has surfaced of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Maxine is coherent. The sitting POTUS is not.

[milk-milk-lemonade]

Question:

Why does Trump show his signature "to the class" after signing an Executive Order? We just saw you sign the fucking thing. No need to show everyone, asshat. I don't remember any other President doing this, Democrat or Republican.

[TenBenny]

Question:

Why does Trump show his signature "to the class" after signing an Executive Order? We just saw you sign the fucking thing. No need to show everyone, asshat. I don't remember any other President doing this, Democrat or Republican.

For the same reason he goes around holding these post-election rallies. I had to ask someone about both of these things. "Did other presidents do this and I just didn't remember?" No, it's grandstanding. It's Trump needing to have his ego stroked.

[cantstopthemusic]

Maxine is coherent.

[Rageman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbSNnHeV_AE
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell SHREDS Drumpf after the ACA failed
Yeah, I know they're the Fox News of the left and they overreact but if you hate Drumpf, this is a fun watch.

[radiobed]

Maxine is coherent.

The funny thing is people like Vlad actually believe this liberal nonsense. Remember when Maxine Waters said we'd lose 170 million jobs when we only had 150 million workers (#SoCoherent):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hAFjq76Uz0k

And you may think this is a one time slip up but you'd lose brain cells watching more of her videos.

[Luminiferous]

Maxine is coherent.

The funny thing is people like Vlad actually believe this liberal nonsense. Remember when Maxine Waters said we'd lose 170 million jobs when we only had 150 million workers (#SoCoherent):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hAFjq76Uz0k

And you may think this is a one time slip up but you'd lose brain cells watching more of her videos.

So that explains your posts..

[radiobed]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbSNnHeV_AE
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell SHREDS Drumpf after the ACA failed
Yeah, I know they're the Fox News of the left and they overreact but if you hate Drumpf, this is a fun watch.

And yet the market optimism maintains and Ford has now in total added over a billion more in investment to the initial planned 900 million investment from 2015.

what does the media say about Ford:

Trump administration takes credit for Ford investment first announced in 2015

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/trump-ad ... -2015.html

Yet if you watch the video, the exec clearly states they've added incrementally 1 billion more that was not planned from 2015, and he even cites, a pro business environment for more than doubling the investment.

Yet the headlines downplay this good news...wonder why?!?

Just like they downplay the market run...don't worry, there will be volatility at some point so we'll talk about the market then and blame Trump!!

Is it any wonder the media is under attack??

[radiobed]

The funny thing is people like Vlad actually believe this liberal nonsense. Remember when Maxine Waters said we'd lose 170 million jobs when we only had 150 million workers (#SoCoherent):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hAFjq76Uz0k

And you may think this is a one time slip up but you'd lose brain cells watching more of her videos.

So that explains your posts..

Im happy to be the idiot in a bizarro world where Maxine or Chuck Schumer are respected and guys like a Trump and Rex Tillerson are buffoons.

[Luminiferous]

The funny thing is people like Vlad actually believe this liberal nonsense. Remember when Maxine Waters said we'd lose 170 million jobs when we only had 150 million workers (#SoCoherent):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hAFjq76Uz0k

And you may think this is a one time slip up but you'd lose brain cells watching more of her videos.

So that explains your posts..

Im happy to be the idiot in a bizarro world where Maxine or Chuck Schumer are respected and guys like a Trump and Rex Tillerson are buffoons.

Thank you Captain Obvious...

[Rageman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbSNnHeV_AE
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell SHREDS Drumpf after the ACA failed
Yeah, I know they're the Fox News of the left and they overreact but if you hate Drumpf, this is a fun watch.

Yet the headlines downplay this good news...wonder why?!?

Just like they downplay the market run...don't worry, there will be volatility at some point so we'll talk about the market then and blame Trump!!

Is it any wonder the media is under attack??

Who the Hell is the media under attack from? Fox News and Drumpf? They downplay the good news because we are all in un-chartered territory with a complete embarrassment masquerading as the leader of the free world who keeps trying to dig himself out of hole after hole with uninformed twitter remarks. Just because some more dipshits (Ford) are still buying into his bullshit that he's some business genius, doesn't mean all the other shit he does/doesn't do is harmless. Why did Obama win a Nobel Peace prize? Simply because he wasn't that dipshit George Bush. Drumpf makes Bush look like a political genius.

[MurrayFiend]

Jeremy Scahill's Intercepted podcast keeps having little segments with Anthony Attamaniuk (sp?) playing Trump and holy fuck he is fantastic. Makes Baldwin sound like total shit.

[Judge Smails]

some great reads

http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizz ... omey-wrong

http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizz ... nce-debate

Early on Monday morning, a couple of hours before the start of the first House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia’s involvement in the Presidential election, one of Donald Trump’s closest White House advisers made a startling—and completely erroneous—prediction: James Comey, the F.B.I. director, would testify that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. “The Russian collusion thing has always been bullshit,” the official said. “I think Comey will come down and say there absolutely was no contact, collusion, or anything like that with the campaign.”

The official conceded that, in the early days of the Trump campaign, the candidate attracted some dubious figures. Sam Clovis, an Iowa talk-radio host who had been appointed as Trump’s senior policy adviser, strained to put together a serious team. Meanwhile, fringe political operatives, such as Roger Stone, a longtime Trump adviser, and Stone’s good friend and former business partner Paul Manafort, who became the campaign chairman, had easy access to the candidate. The White House official described these camps as “two converging sets of marginalia.”

“You had Sam Clovis, God bless him, who tried to put together an advisory group of people,” the official said. “Then you have the whole Manafort-Ukraine thing and Roger Stone running around doing whatever Roger Stone is doing.” He added, “This campaign, early on, had a lot of marginalia associated with it. Guys like Carter Page, Roger Stone. I have no earthly idea what those guys have been up to, right?”

Manafort, a longtime political lobbyist, worked for years in Ukrainian politics as a paid adviser for a pro-Putin party, before surfacing back in the United States as a Trump campaign operative, and later, the campaign’s chairman. Stone, who has known Trump for decades, had advance knowledge that WikiLeaks would release e-mails, later determined to have been stolen by Russian hackers, from the account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman. Page, an energy consultant and former Trump campaign adviser, travelled to Moscow last summer for a paid speech. Page, Manafort, and Stone, as well as Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national-security adviser, are reportedly part of an F.B.I. investigation.

The White House official’s attempt to separate Trump from the “marginal” figures who once ran Trump’s campaign isn’t likely to work. Later in the day, Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, echoed this spin publicly when he claimed that Manafort played a “limited role for a very limited amount of time” in the campaign. In fact, Manafort worked for Trump for six months last year, from March to August, the crucial period in which Trump secured the Republican nomination and fended off potential challenges at the G.O.P. Convention.

But the larger takeaway from the White House’s spin is that the top people around Trump may have no idea how much exposure the President has on the issue of Russian collusion. Two hours after the White House official confidently predicted Comey would vindicate the Administration, Comey did the opposite, saying:

I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the F.B.I., as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 Presidential election, and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts. As with any counterintelligence investigation, this will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed.

The large gap between what the White House believed about the F.B.I. investigation and the actual facts of that investigation reveals several things. First, Comey has been successful in concealing details from Trump’s closest advisers. One of the reasons that Trump and the White House have been exuding a smokescreen of misinformation is because they are as clueless about what Comey knows as everyone else is.

In fact, there are very few officials who understand the true extent of the investigation. Comey revealed yesterday that the investigation began in late July of 2016. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and Adam Schiff, the ranking member for the Democrats, both told me that they did not know the details of the investigation until they recently received a classified briefing from Comey. After that briefing and yesterday’s hearing, Schiff and Nunes have started to take different views of Comey.

Previously, both men had been highly critical of Comey’s level of coöperation, but after the private briefing Schiff began praising Comey. Schiff now believes that the F.B.I. is pursuing a wide-ranging and serious investigation of potential collusion between Trump, or his associates, and the Russians. “We need to do a thorough investigation in Congress, but we don’t have anywhere near the resources that the F.B.I. does,” he told me yesterday afternoon. “So it gives me some level of confidence knowing that an agency that does have the resources is devoting itself to determining just what type of coördination might have taken place.”

For the same reasons that Schiff was pleased with the thoroughness of the F.B.I. investigation, Nunes seemed concerned by it. As Nunes was leaving the hearing, a group of reporters surrounded him near the dais. Asked by one reporter if Comey was as forthcoming as he had hoped, Nunes said no. He complained that he was not informed by Comey about the investigation last year. “But I do think I should have been,” he said tersely. He also complained that there was now a “cloud” over the White House, and said that it was “very problematic” that Comey would not disclose whether current Trump officials were under investigation.

Nunes, like the White House, tried to distance Trump from any actions taken by his former campaign advisers. “I have no evidence of collusion or conspiracy, especially as it relates to anybody who is in the White House,” he said. “There’s all these extra characters out there who I don’t think really had anything to do with the campaign.” Asked by another reporter about Page and Stone, Nunes claimed, implausibly, that he had never heard of them.

But if Nunes seemed concerned it’s because, like the White House and Schiff, he understands that Comey is conducting a wide-ranging inquiry, and that nobody outside the agency knows the extent of it. Someone asked Nunes if Trump himself could be the subject of the F.B.I.’s investigation. Comey had refused to comment when asked the same question earlier during the hearing. “I highly doubt that,” Nunes said. “But you know what? We don’t know everything.”

[DEATH ROW JOE]

Get ready for Trumpcare Zombie: White House reverses course, looks to renew health care battle
http://www.salon.com/2017/03/28/get-rea ... re-battle/