The suzerain Trump

[Tero]

Laptops and cell phones being smashed up as we speak..type?...and coverup well under way.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3213 ... ussia-ties

[Brian Peacock]

White House press secretary Sean Spicer earlier Monday dismissed calls for a special prosecutor to probe Russian meddling in last year’s presidential race generally.

“I guess my question would be: A special prosecutor for what?” he said during his daily press briefing. "We have now for six months heard story after story about unnamed sources say same thing over and over again and nothing has come from it.”

“So the question becomes at some point, what do you need to further investigate if there is nothing that has come out? How many times do you have to come to the same conclusion before you take the answer?”

What? We can't do an investigation to find out what actually happened because we don't know what actually happened?

[Tero]

It's like them science research proposals. Some old fart on the committee will turn it down because "this hasn't been fone before, so it won't work"!

[Tero]

Done before!

[pErvinalia]

Dome before!

[JimC]

Doom after!

[Tero]

From Bella:
BREAKING: Surge In Orders For New TVs Placed As Americans Smash Existing Ones With Rocks And Fists

[JimC]

That's one way to improve China's economy...

[DRSB]

Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”

Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, “look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves.”

https://theintercept.com/2015/07/30/jim ... l-bribery/

[Svartalf]

Carter may have been a lackluster president, but he's no fool.

[Tero]

Congress: How to work with a con man?

The president's speech to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill is well-received by supporters, but his detractors are not as impressed.

Trump is a con man. He ran and won a two-year campaign designed to tear America apart. He has a record of discrimination allegations dating back nearly a half century.

And, maybe worst of all, this shallow man who now lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue spent five years trafficking in one of the most racist and vile lies ever told about a person of color.

Trump has dropped the birther lie about Barack Obama from his tiny vocabulary. And none of the above is to suggest he invented hate crime.
http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index. ... peech.html

Stephen Colbert Rips Apart Donald Trump’s First Major Speech To Congress
“Now, technically, this was not a ‘State of the Union,’ because I think in this timeline, the Confederacy won.”

[Tero]

Sen. Booker: Many Trump policies a betrayal to his supporters
Blue collar jobs not coming, only grandiose speeches
Mortgages more expensive in my state
Healthcare crisis affecting unemployed blue collar. Medicaid dollars going away.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/s ... 7119427599

[mistermack]

And, maybe worst of all, this shallow man who now lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue spent five years trafficking in one of the most racist and vile lies ever told about a person of color.

Just a bit of fake news. Move along there. Nothing to see here.

[DRSB]

Bank of Cyrus is a very Russian bank: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... prus-putin

[Tero]

Fuck you Trump! GOP doing it the old way. They want Obama back!

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's plan to impose sharp cuts to foreign aid and domestic programs is a non-starter in the Republican-led Congress — and that's according to top GOP lawmakers.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who once headed the panel responsible for the foreign assistance budget, told reporters that Trump's cuts to foreign aid probably couldn't pass muster on Capitol Hill.

"The diplomatic portion of the federal budget is very important and you get results a lot cheaper frequently than you do on the defense side," McConnell told reporters. "So speaking for myself, I'm not in favor of reducing the (foreign aid) account to that extent."

The initial reaction among Republicans signaled that Trump faces a fight with his party over the $1 trillion-plus portion of the federal budget that is passed each year by Congress. That discretionary part of the budget has been squeezed over the past few years, while Republicans controlling Congress have largely ignored the ever-growing tide of automatic-pilot spending on benefit programs like food stamps, student loans, and Medicare.

The proposed cut to the State Department's diplomatic corps and the foreign aid budget are particularly striking, and likely to include security contractors at diplomatic missions abroad after the GOP criticized Democrats for security at the U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans died in a 2012 attack.

"What the president wants is to move spending from, say, overseas back in this country," said Trump's budget director, former tea party Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., on "Good Morning America" on ABC. "That's why you'll see fairly significant reductions in his proposals regarding foreign aid."

Such a cut fits into Trump's "America first" worldview, but is alarming to lawmakers who see diplomacy and foreign aid as a small but crucial component of the federal budget, just more than 1 percent.

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a primary rival of Trump, delivered an impassioned speech on the Senate floor in defense of foreign aid. Rubio argued that spending on foreign aid is critical to the U.S. economy and national security.

"I promise you it's going to be a lot harder to recruit someone to anti-American and anti-American terrorism if the United States of America was the reason why they are even alive today," said the senator, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.

"We've reduced our discretionary spending over the last seven or eight years an incredible amount," said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J. "Maybe some people don't like those agencies, but it's been pretty difficult for them to meet their mandate."

Top congressional priorities include aid to disadvantaged schools, Pell Grants for low-income college students, medical research, Amtrak subsidies, and water and sewer projects.

"There are important priorities within the domestic side, on the discretionary side of domestic spending," added Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-budget ... nance.html