We need to talk about Donald – the Nightmare continues

[pErvinalia]

Not the Democrats. They are the underdogs, just trying to serve the people, provide the needy with health care, and make the world a cleaner, safer, and more secure environment, while simultaneously respecting people's rights and pronouns, all while checking their own privilege. That's been verified by Politifact.

Sarcasm fail. You'll not find - in this forum at least - a single person (except possibly for Tatt) who thinks of the Democratic Party as any better than the preferable of two bad options.

It doesn't matter. He'll argue against a strawman til the heat death of the universe. This is about the possibility of Trump interfering in justice, not the Democrat's political rhetoric. Not that this obvious point will stop 42 in his usual nonsense.

[pErvinalia]

I think that's hard to believe. I think most ratz folks view the democrats as a better choice than the republicans.

Reread what Hermit said.

[Animavore]

If Clinton had done this Trump supporters would be screaming, "Lock her up!" hysterically in a way similar to Orwell's 2 minutes of hate. But now they're either silent or defensive.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. It never was about corruption and justice or any of the reasons they claimed. Their swivel-eyed, irrational hatred of Clinton has its origins somewhere else (and yes, given the stuff written on Trump supporters badges, misogyny is a valid, part candidate).

They are a spiteful bunch who seem to revel in destruction and taunt those who want a better world ("liberal tears"), goaded by their leader. They've no interest in compromise or meeting people in the middle. They attack women, gays, and minorities. They attack the free press. Currently many are arming themselves, training themselves, and talking about a "liberal genocide".

They are fascistic, fanatic, virulent, dangerous cultists who need to be destroyed at the polls in 2018 and again in 2020 before they cause irreversible harm to the US and the world.

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[Animavore]

Someone get Melissa McCarthy on the phone.

According to the Washington Post, White House press secretary Sean Spicer disappeared and hid behind a "tall hedge" after a brief interview with Fox Business on Tuesday night following the firing of FBI director James Comey — apparently in an effort to avoid a field of reporters hungry for answers.

Spicer first divulged news of Comey's firing at around 5:40 p.m. by shouting it to nearby reporters outside his office, according to the Post.

After Spicer spent a few minutes in the shadows, Janet Montesi, an executive assistant in the White House press office, told reporters at the scene that Spicer would answer questions, but not on camera. Spicer then came out from the bushes.

https://mic.com/articles/176761/sean-sp ... .QFamk2ZZv

You rang?

Actress Melissa McCarthy will again host "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, when she will reprise her popular impersonation of President Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, the late-night comedy show teased on Wednesday.

"SNL" posted a video, "SNL Host Melissa McCarthy Feels Pretty, Oh So Pretty," to its Twitter account that shows McCarthy dancing and singing along to the "West Side Story" hit while going through numerous costume changes behind the scenes of the show. She is seen in her Spicer get-up toward the end of the video.

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/33 ... ean-spicer


This should be gold.

[Brian Peacock]

I don't know why another thread was created about this. Until the merger -



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/p ... n-fbi.html

Days Before Firing, Comey Asked for More Resources for Russia Inquiry

WASHINGTON — Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in resources for the bureau’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the presidential election, according to three congressional officials who were briefed on his request.

Mr. Comey asked for the resources last week from Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who also wrote the Justice Department’s memo that was used to justify the firing of Mr. Comey this week, the officials said.

Mr. Comey then briefed members of Congress on the meeting in recent days, telling them about his meeting with Mr. Rosenstein, who is the most senior law enforcement official supervising the Russia investigation. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself because of his close ties to the Trump campaign and his undisclosed meetings with the Russian ambassador.

This stinks to high heaven.

Yeah, but Democrats...

As I said many moons ago, the Trump-Russia nexus should be a concern for every US voter regardless of persuasion. The charge is that the Trump campaign and the Russian government colluded to undermine democratic systems and effect the election in favour of Trump. Therefore this needs to be thoroughly investigated by some idependent commission.

Now, if voters are intemsly relaxed at the prospect of collusion between presidential candidates and a foreign power, when it means their preferref candidate gets elected, then they become unwittingly complicit in selling their own democracy out from under themselves.

This is a serious business. Frankly, the "Yeah, but Democrats... " rebuke just doesn't cut it.

[Scot Dutchy]

White House bars US press from Donald Trump's meeting with Sergey Lavrov but allows Russian state media in

Former CIA deputy director among those raising concerns over potential security risk in Oval Office

The White House barred reporters from witnessing the meeting between Donald Trump and Sergey Lavrov but granted access to Russian state media, it has emerged.

David S Cohen, the former deputy director of the CIA, is among those alarmed by the decision to allow a Tass news agency photographer into the Oval Office, which some argued could present a security risk.

When a former national security adviser to the Obama administration asked whether it was a “good idea” to let a Kremlin-linked photographer and their equipment into the high security area on Twitter, Mr Cohen replied: “No, it was not.”

The US President’s meeting with Mr Lavrov was listed as “closed press” on his schedule, meaning media would not be allowed inside to document the meeting, unlike those with heads of state including Angela Merkel.

Earlier in the day, bemused journalists had also been summoned to attend an unannounced meeting between Mr Trump and Henry Kissinger.

So there was surprise when Tass news agency started publishing photos of Mr Trump and the Russian foreign minister, also showing the US President smiling and shaking hands with ambassador Sergey Kislyak in images shared by the Russian embassy.

More...

Just what is going on? A Putin take over?

[Animavore]

Whatever Trump says, California does the opposite and it's working.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles ... from-trump

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[Tero]

https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/stat ... 4266043392

[Animavore]

Remember as Trump and his cabal of not-so-merry men consider pulling out of climate agreements; this just happened.

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 2#p1707332

[Animavore]

I like this article on Betsy DeVos yesterday. Starts with -

Betsy DeVos is also having a shit day.

The president is actively flaming out on the internet; Sean Spicer is hiding in the fucking bushes waiting for people to leave him alone; Kellyanne Conway and the rest of the Trump administration’s band of trained, dancing bears is in the frostiest internal ring of hell—cable news—defending the Comey firing to pundits and broadcasters. Who else is there?

Well, there’s good old bear-fearing Betsy DeVos, the education secretary who, in a standard 2017 posture, seeks to destroy the organization she ostensibly leads and plans to do so while smiling ghoulishly and wearing a huge fucking brooch or something. What is she up to? She’s giving a commencement speech at the historically black Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. How did that go?

Ends with -

Roughly half of the graduating students turned their backs to her as she spoke. Trump advisor Omarosa Manigault also spoke at the ceremony, and also got booed.

This being a bad day for pretty much everyone in the Trump administration, Jared Kushner is probably locked in a bathroom somewhere with chronic diarrhea, while Steve Bannon woke up yet again inside of the nightmare that is his own body.

[Animavore]

Remember you complained about Hillary because she was corrupt with Wall Street money, and Trump was going to "drain the swamp"?

The White House Just Used a Brazen Backdoor Move to Bypass the Senate

A loophole allowed the Trump administration to install a Wall Street lawyer to take over one of the nation’s most powerful regulators without a hearing or confirmation.

In a week in which Donald Trump fired the person investigating his campaign’s ties to Russia, it will surely come as a shock to learn that the circumstances under which financial services lawyer Keith Noreika became the head of a powerful Wall Street regulator were not totally above board.

The story begins here: Donald Trump has promised his friends in the banking industry that he will gut financial regulations. But one thing that’s prevented him from doing so, thus far, has been the head of the Office of the Comptroller, Thomas Curry, who was appointed by Barack Obama and was thus a killjoy who made it his job—because it kind of was his job—to impose tough rules and big fines for wrongdoing in the industry. It was clear, given Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchnin’s pledge to unshackle Wall Street from financial-crisis-era regulations, that Curry not only had to go, but be replaced by someone with a more friendly relationship with the banks, like Noreika.

Unfortunately, there was a problem with the longtime financial services attorney: Noreika, who reportedly worked closely with the same Wall Street companies that are overseen by the O.C.C., would have to be approved by the Senate—a process that would involve airing all of Noreika’s financial conflicts of interest. So the Trump administration devised a plan to avoid that particular obstacle.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/ ... nald-trump

Ha! Ha! Oh yeah, that's right. You don't give a shit now because, like I've said, your objection was never really about the things you said it was. It was all a front to give a rationale to sheer hatred.

[Brian Peacock]

Anyone appointed under Obama is obviously a partisan Democrat shill, whereas anyone appointed under Trump is a great guy... the best... a really smart cookie.