Donald is here to stay, now what? Cursing and swearing OK

[Tero]

Stable genius? You mean he’s smarter than the horses in the stable? Only by 10 IQ points.

[Brian Peacock]

Trump tweets that he's a stable genius, just not a humble one.

[Rum]

It doesn't take long on the interwebz..

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[Tero]

The Wall, gays or transsexuals, Muslims, her emails, her foundation, benghazi, uranium.
Rinse, repeat.

We are now in the wall phase again:

Donald Trump insisted on Saturday that Mexico would pay for a wall along the southern US border, one day after his administration asked Congress for $18bn over the next decade to start construction on the barrier.

“I believe Mexico will pay for the wall,” Trump said during a brief news conference at Camp David, where he was meeting congressional Republican leaders to plan for 2018 midterms.

[Seabass]

Surprise! Trumpa Loompas are really into fake news.

RawStory: Trump supporters far more likely to read and share ‘fake news’ on social media: study

President Donald Trump famously complains about “fake news” — but a new study shows his followers are far more likely to read and share phony stories online.

NYT: ‘Fake News’: Wide Reach but Little Impact, Study Suggests

The team defined a visited website as fake news if it posted at least two demonstrably false stories, as defined by economists Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow in research published last year. On 289 such sites, about 80 percent of bogus articles supported Mr. Trump.

[Rum]

In the UK we have a sort of tradition in politics. When the story becomes bigger than the job and a 'distraction' from what government is supposed to do then you 'go'. Many - very many - political careers here have ended under this guise.

I'm assuming that arsehattery of this magnitude in the USA doesn't quite qualify..yet.

The world is laughing its head off. Well those of us you aren't scared shitless.

[Seabass]

In the UK we have a sort of tradition in politics. When the story becomes bigger than the job and a 'distraction' from what government is supposed to do then you 'go'. Many - very many - political careers here have ended under this guise.

I would say that that's generally true over here as well.

Al Franken, John Conyers, and Trent Franks resigned over sexual misconduct allegations. Larry "Wide Stance" Craig resigned after being arrested for soliciting sex in a men's airport restroom. Eliot Spitzer resigned after being caught with a hooker. Tim Murphy, pro-life congressman resigned after getting caught telling his mistress to get an abortion. Those are just a few examples, but that's generally how it works.

Trump, however, has broken all the rules, shattered all the norms, defied all expectations. The Trump presidency is the craziest fuckin' thing I've ever seen. I know that US politics is kind of a circus compared to other countries, but Trump is the circus turned up to eleven. Actually, more like one hundred eleven.

[Tero]

Schwachkopf, einen Idioten"

Der Journalist Michael Wolff hat sein Buch nun gegen diese Vorwürfe von höchster Stelle verteidigt: In einem Interview des Senders NBC beharrte Wolff am Freitag darauf, dass jeder – "100 Prozent" – in der Umgebung des US-Präsidenten, mit dem er gesprochen habe, Trump für amtsunfähig halte. Sie hielten ihn für einen "Schwachkopf, einen Idioten", und alle sagten, er sei "wie ein Kind", schilderte Wolff. "Er braucht immer sofort Bestätigung. Es muss sich alles um ihn drehen."

http://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausl ... kopf-.html

[Seabass]

Schwachkopf indeed!

[Brian Peacock]

Da, comrade. Da.

[Tero]

Plow ahead with welfare ”reform” to fund tax cut:
On the topic of a welfare overhaul — something Trump said for Republicans was "very dear to our heart" — he said again he'd seek help from Democrats.
"We'll try and do something in a bipartisan way, otherwise we'll be holding it for a bit later. But we'll be looking to do that very much in a bipartisan way," he explained.

That comment echoes recent comments by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Just before Congress left for the holidays late last year, McConnell suggested in an interview with NPR, that in order for 2018 to be a productive year, the GOP may have to move on from changes to things like changes to the federal welfare programs and repealing the Affordable Care Act, unless Democrats in the Senate were willing to work with Republicans on those issues.

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/06/57623822 ... n-for-2018

[Brian Peacock]

They've got the votes, what do they need the Dems for?

[pErvinalia]

Someone to blame when it all goes wrong?

[Animavore]

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[Animavore]

Hillary Clinton Will Read The Audiobook Version Of “Fire And Fury”

NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Alinsky Talent Agency announced this morning that one of their stable of stars has been tapped to record the audiobook version of author Michael Wolff’s bombshell investigative tell-all book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

“ATA is pleased to announce that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be reading the audiobook version of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” a press release from the agency reads. “Hillary is experienced in recording audiobooks, having read the narration to a book or two of her own in the past. She is very much so looking forward to this opportunity.”

President Trump has lambasted the book, which contains a number of explosive and embarrassing facts about him, his family, his aides, his campaign, and his first year in office. Word of the book first hit the public’s attention when an excerpt from it, in which Steve Bannon — a man that Trump once credited with helping him win the election — is quoted as saying the meeting in the summer of 2016 between Trump’s son, son-in-law, Bannon, and Russian lawyers claiming to have dirt on Clinton was “treasonous.”

Excerpts from the book paint a picture of a White House in total chaos. It portrays Trump as a borderline delusional man who lashes out, gets stuck in rhetorical loops, and cannot help himself from tweeting incendiary things, often over the advice of advisers in the administration. Trump took to Twitter yesterday to blast the book and Steve Bannon.

http://pastichepost.com/2018/01/05/hill ... -and-fury/