Donald John Trump: The 2nd Greatest President of the USA (by volume)

[cerebus]

“We’re amending Obamacare. We’re not killing it,” a frustrated Jason Pye of the conservative group FreedomWorks told me earlier this month as the murky outlines of the Senate proposal were beginning to emerge.[/url]

Yeah.. how about proving it by opening your kimono, instead of just changing the terminology?

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

the full text is out ... https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/SENATEHEALTHCARE.pdf

 

[buka001]

So after trump warned comey that he had tapes of their discussions via a tweet, he now tweets that he never had such tapes ...

OK great, perfectly understood. Hope those nuclear launch controls are easier to understand then.

 

[RanzB]

So after trump warned comey that he had tapes of their discussions via a tweet, he now tweets that he never had such tapes ...

You think Trumpites care about things like the truth?

 

[buka001]

You think Trumpites care about things like the truth?

Oh hell no. Conservative supporters are saying Trump was just "punking" the media with his lies.

 

[Garson007]

He just nudged Comey into telling his (Comey's) version of the truth.

 

[RanzB]

So after trump warned comey that he had tapes of their discussions via a tweet, he now tweets that he never had such tapes ...
.

You think Trumpites care about things like the truth?

He just nudged Comey into telling his (Comey's) version of the truth.

See? :crylaugh: When it comes to Trump they can't even call a lie a lie.

 

[RanzB]

Missouri Is One Step Closer To Disqualifying You For Jobs Because You Take Birth Control

Guess who? Can't be the party of small government and the party of freedom and individual responsibility, could it?

 

[Garson007]

See? :crylaugh: When it comes to Trump they can't even call a lie a lie.

I honestly don't get how your mind works.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

GOP can only afford to lose 2 senators if they want to pass the bill...

 

[RanzB]

I honestly don't get how your mind works.

It's apparent you don't know how many things work. And you can't tell how a lie works, when it comes from Emperor Snowflake.

Oh wait theres more:

One of President Donald Trump’s newest appointees is a registered agent of Saudi Arabia earning hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby on the kingdom’s behalf, according to U.S. Department of Justice records reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity.

Since January, the Saudi Arabian foreign ministry has paid longtime Republican lobbyist Richard Hohlt about $430,000 in exchange for “advice on legislative and public affairs strategies.”

Trump’s decision to appoint a registered foreign agent to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships clashes with the president’s vow to clean up Washington and limit the influence of special interests.

Trump singled out lobbyists for foreign governments for special criticism, saying they shouldn’t be permitted to contribute to political campaigns. Hohlt is himself a Trump donor, though his contributions came before he registered to represent Saudi Arabia.

“I will issue a lifetime ban against senior executive branch officials lobbying on behalf of a FOREIGN GOVERNMENT! #DrainTheSwamp,” he tweeted in October.

Let me guess Garson, he was just joshing about draining the swamp, right?

 

[RanzB]

GOP can only afford to lose 2 senators if they want to pass the bill...

Wonder how they'll spin this into the Dem's fault.

 

[The_Assimilator]

He just nudged Comey into telling his (Comey's) version of the truth.

90D intergalactic chess boogaloo at it again!

 

[Garson007]

90D intergalactic chess boogaloo at it again!

No, just a simple bluff.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Ironic that so many of the old are responsible for Trump's rise to power. Perhaps they're secretly suicidal?

Nah, many of them are just gullible ("but Trump said...!") or nihilistic ("Doesn't matter if people die, libs will be mad!").

Many are operationally liberal, too. I.e. they like the benefits of welfare programmes, but hate the idea of having government provide the service ("keep your government hands off my medicare!").

You honestly have no clue how democracy is supposed to work, do you?

Don't be silly. Lobbyists knew what's in the bill before the rest of the Senate or the public.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

It's apparent you don't know how many things work. And you can't tell how a lie works, when it comes from Emperor Snowflake.

Oh wait theres more:




Let me guess Garson, he was just joshing about draining the swamp, right?

Pfft. It's all fake news.

Ex-lobbyists swarm Trump administration, despite 'drain the swamp' pledge

More than 100 former federal lobbyists have found jobs in the Trump administration, despite President Trump’s campaign pledge to restrict the power of special interests in Washington, according to a tally provided to USA TODAY by a Democratic group.

And roughly two-thirds of them — 69 — work in the agencies they have lobbied at some point in their careers, according to research by American Bridge 21st Century. They include about three dozen recent lobbyists who have not received waivers from Trump’s ethics rule that bar industry insiders and former lobbyists from working on specific matters that benefited their former employers or clients for two years after their appointments.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Election Hackers Altered Voter Rolls, Stole Private Data, Officials Say

The hacking of state and local election databases in 2016 was more extensive than previously reported, including at least one successful attempt to alter voter information, and the theft of thousands of voter records that contain private information like partial Social Security numbers, current and former officials tell TIME.

In one case, investigators found there had been a manipulation of voter data in a county database but the alterations were discovered and rectified, two sources familiar with the matter tell TIME. Investigators have not identified whether the hackers in that case were Russian agents.

The fact that private data was stolen from states is separately providing investigators a previously unreported line of inquiry in the probes into Russian attempts to influence the election. In Illinois, more than 90% of the nearly 90,000 records stolen by Russian state actors contained drivers license numbers, and a quarter contained the last four digits of voters’ Social Security numbers, according to Ken Menzel, the General Counsel of the State Board of Elections.

Congressional investigators are probing whether any of this stolen private information made its way to the Trump campaign, two sources familiar with the investigations tell TIME.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

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GOP can only afford to lose 2 senators if they want to pass the bill...

Pretty standard trick. Claim to be against it now, extract meager concession, claim victory, vote for horrible bill anyway.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Imagine that.

Trump's Carrier deal is not living up to the hype — jobs still going to Mexico

More than 600 employees at a Carrier plant in Indianapolis are bracing for layoffs beginning next month, despite being told by President Trump that nearly all the jobs at the plant had been saved. The deal, announced with great fanfare before Trump took office, was billed not only as a heroic move to keep jobs from going to Mexico but also as a seismic shift in the economic development landscape.

Nearly seven months later the deal has not worked out quite as originally advertised, and the landscape has barely budged.

"The jobs are still leaving," said Robert James, president of United Steelworkers Local 1999. "Nothing has stopped."

In fact, after the layoffs are complete later this year, a few hundred union jobs will remain at the plant. But that is far different from what then-President-elect Trump said just three weeks after the election.

 

[Xarog]

Imagine that.

Trump's Carrier deal is not living up to the hype — jobs still going to Mexico

OD, give it up, his brand of bullschit smelled better than Hillary's and the fact that Trump is openly trolling Pelosi means that it's time to wake up and smell the crappy odour of reality. It's the smell that stood the test of time.

Everybody can see he's America's first Reality TV president, the snake-oil salesman from hell. But his act is still classier than Hillary's.

Will you pretty please finally admit that the Democrats need to reprioritise and to get off the sour tit of resentment based identity politics?

Trump's message is a load of schit, but at least he has the capacity to vaguely cobble together a string of words that articulates something to stand for.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...4b9e4b014ae8c69dd88?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004

A bad solution is still better than no solution, and undermining a bad solution is no solution at all.

The fact of the matter is that humanity is undergoing a paradigm shift before our very eyes and we need to start talking frankly about solutions that will work for everybody because otherwise people are going to start planning their own survival parties and the conflict that manifests itself out of that chaos will likely get everybody killed.

And no, praying to the open border gods isn't a solution, either.