Everything you didn't want to know about Trump and were not afraid to ask

[Tero]

He's asked Sessions, nicely by Twitter, to fire Mueller. Or he will fire Sessions.

[Svartalf]

can sessions even fire mueller without putting his own career down the shitter, not that it's very far from there anyway, anybody that worked for the orange turd must be on the shit list.

[Brian Peacock]

They're the untouchables, in so many ways - but not in a cool way.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Goddamn judicial activism, invoking separation of powers/checks and balances to thwart the great progress to Make America Great Again!™ (We all know that the Ninth Circuit is swarming with leftists, anyway.)

"9th Circuit rules White House can’t withhold money from ‘sanctuary cities’"

President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court on Wednesday.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that federal funding could be withheld only with congressional authorization. The appeals court also noted that the U.S. District Court went too far by blocking the policy nationwide, and sent back the case for “reconsideration and further findings.”

“We conclude that, under the principle of Separation of Powers and in consideration of the Spending Clause, which vests exclusive power to Congress to impose conditions on federal grants, the Executive Branch may not refuse to disperse the federal grants in question without congressional authorization,” a three-member panel of the 9th Circuit said in its 2-to-1 ruling.

Trump signed an executive order in January 2017 that dealt with interior immigration enforcement. The 9th Circuit on Wednesday ruled against a provision that limited funding to jurisdictions that don’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement — also known as sanctuary cities.

The executive order focused on a federal statute that prohibits federal, state and local officials from restricting the sharing of information related to an individual’s immigration or citizenship status. While the appeals court didn’t rule on that statute, U.S.C. 1373, a Chicago-based federal judge in late July found it unconstitutional in separate lawsuit over withholding of federal grants over immigration enforcement. That ruling was limited to the city of Chicago, the plaintiff in the case.

The Justice Department issued a statement Wednesday condemning the ruling as a "victory for criminal aliens in California" and said the department will continue to be committed to "keeping criminal aliens off the streets."

[pErvinalia]

Enemies of the people.

[Seabass]

It's a cult...

[Tero]

The Onion gets mad:
In recent days, President Donald Trump has increased his criticism of the media, and at a briefing Thursday, his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, controversially refused to walk back his statements. Recognizing that unity in the journalistic profession is absolutely essential to allowing reporters to bravely and securely practice their craft, The Onion announces that we proudly stand with our brothers and sisters in the media as the enemy of the people.

When the Trump administration refers to news organizations as antagonists to the American public, we know exactly what they’re doing: correctly identifying the awesome power that we hold over the slobbering masses and trying to drive a wedge between the public and the fourth estate. Rest assured, however, that this wedge was already there. We in the news media despised you imbeciles long before Trump, and we’ll despise you long after he’s gone.

[Svartalf]

I'd if trump wasn't so damn dangerous

[Animavore]

Am I the only person who hasn't actually watched or listened to Trump in ages? I mainly just read transcripts because I can't stomach him. He literally makes me feel ill. Sleaze just oozes out of his every pore. I don't know how anyone likes the guy, let alone would vote for him. He's the type of shit merchant who, if he came near me, I would be very guarded. Like any arsehole who tries to sell me anything I can just spot his fakeness at a glance. He creeps me out.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Yes, he's a repulsive person and has been ever since he first appeared on the public stage, in my opinion.

I think there is a certain element among Trump supporters who at least used to feel a lesser version of what you're talking about. However, since he says things that they agree with and really want to hear they suppress that reaction, and I think that over time many of them have managed to eliminate it entirely, coming to view him with the same absurd respect and admiration as the more gullible have always felt.

[Scot Dutchy]

That is a great presumption. I doubt Trump supporters feel anything. You need a brain cell to do that.

[Tero]

#DrainTheTrump...or open the floodgates and leave him there

[Tero]

More Winning!
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/03/63507179 ... icit-soars
Trickle down didn’t pay off our bills!

[Tero]

These are the wildest of ironies: Their President is in the White House, their politicians commandeer the House and Senate, the Supreme Court is tilted In their favor—and yet they still manage to feel themselves oppressed, still picture the world unfair, still rage against a machine they’ve made and are part of. So many of them claim faith in Jesus, and yet live in almost polar opposition to his example.

The only time they do smile, is to reflect the arrogant, self-satisfied sneer of their leader; almost always in the face of someone else’s heartache or misfortune, almost always when someone else loses something.
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/08/01/th ... le-people/

[Rum]

That is a great presumption. I doubt Trump supporters feel anything. You need a brain cell to do that.

I think they 'feel' everything - their reaction and support is primarily emotional and visceral and feeds off the blame everyone else psychology of a once admirable country now sliding into some sort of anti-intellectual torpor and redtrograde path that will take them back, they hope, to Cadillacs, 8 track stereos, towns with drug stores and sodas, and the freedoms of some imaginary energetic young country that never really was. They are dangerous and they will sink America if the ship isn't turned..