POTUS Donald Trump

[Squirrel]

 

Is this the draining of the swamp part, or the falling into the abyss part?

 

Hard to tell.

Yes.

 

 

Edit: partially ninja'd by Craig.

[nicksaviking]

 

Are you kidding me? I hammered at the Jackson/Trump comparison for months as a reason to never, ever vote for Trump.

 

Andrew Jackson was a bad, bad man. And I'm not even talking about his military actions before he became president. He was a lying, awful toad of a human being.

 

You're just saying that because he was a murderer and was proud of it.

[TheLeviathan]

 

How do they expect to actually run these departments? There are A LOT of things unique about STATE that some random manager can't know about at all.....

 

edit: we'll just have to rely on life-long "lazy" federal employees, I guess...

 

Well that's the rub right?  You don't have to run them if you make them cease to exist....

 

(And some of them certainly could be condensed or shuttered altogether.  Others need more authority)

[nicksaviking]

 

How do they expect to actually run these departments? There are A LOT of things unique about STATE that some random manager can't know about at all.....

 

edit: we'll just have to rely on life-long "lazy" federal employees, I guess...

 

What do we need a State Department for now? I thought it was clear that we're losing all contact with the rest of the world for the next four years.

[Doomtints]

News today is that Trump and his inner circle are using their own email server.

 

This is probably worth pointing out to the rabid anti-Hillary people who could think of nothing else.

[drjim]

On the plus side, Defense seems in good hands.

 

I do wonder if some of the Departments can be scaled back or even eliminated. But I would like to see this down a little more strategically, a little less on the haphazard side.

 

Ultimately this will all be fine for the Administration and Republicans until an actual crisis occurs. That's probably why they want to jam everything through so quickly. Once a blunder happens they're all going down.

[D. Hocking]

 

News today is that Trump and his inner circle are using their own email server.

 

This is probably worth pointing out to the rabid anti-Hillary people who could think of nothing else.

 

Hasn't it also been reported that he himself is using an unsecured android phone for his tweets?  

 

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

Hasn't it also been reported that he himself is using an unsecured android phone for his tweets?  

I fully agree the phone he tweets from should be securely in the hands of someone else.

[Vanimal46]

 

I fully agree the phone he tweets from should be securely in the hands of someone else.

Yep, no matter who you voted for, I think we can all come to an agreement that someone needs to take away his Twitter account ASAP. 

[Craig Arko]

Or just redirect it to /dev/null and maybe he won't notice.

[Craig Arko]

In other impressive news about our nation's braintrust:

 

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/26/sean-spicer-n9y25ah7/

 

[D. Hocking]

 

Yep, no matter who you voted for, I think we can all come to an agreement that someone needs to take away his Twitter account ASAP. 

 

I am fairly confident if he was a member of the TwinsDaily webpage, one of the moderators would have responded and taken action about his ability to comment by now.

[Mike Sixel]

 

News today is that Trump and his inner circle are using their own email server.

 

This is probably worth pointing out to the rabid anti-Hillary people who could think of nothing else.

 

Knowing my RW friends, they won't care....even a little.

[Doomtints]

 

Knowing my RW friends, they won't care....even a little.

Or they will say, "Eh, both sides are corrupt... what can you do?" and then prattle on a bit more about the evil liberals.

[D. Hocking]

 

Knowing my RW friends, they won't care....even a little.

 

But I am guessing they might question the credibility of Bannon's, recently saying the media "among the most dishonest people on earth.”, and say -- wasn't he part of Brietbart, a "news" organization that arguably is not completely objective, perhaps he is being a bit hypocritical.

[twinsnorth49]

 

I am fairly confident if he was a member of the TwinsDaily webpage, one of the moderators would have responded and taken action about his ability to comment by now.

I can show you how that works if you like.

[gunnarthor]

So Trump is planning a 20% tax on Mexican imports, according to CNN.  I wonder how long it'll take the business community to get him to change that.  

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/politics/donald-trump-mexico-import-tax-border-wall/index.html

[Mike Sixel]

 

So Trump is planning a 20% tax on Mexican imports, according to CNN.  I wonder how long it'll take the business community to get him to change that.  

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/politics/donald-trump-mexico-import-tax-border-wall/index.html

 

Less than a week, I'd guess. Maybe less than a day.

[twinsnorth49]

Better stock up in the Tequila America, for more than a few reasons.

[Mike Sixel]

I bet the tea party is pissed right now.....I mean 20% tariff is quite the tax hike!

[ashbury]

I can show you how that works if you like.

C'mon. Who is going to object to "Make the Twins Great Again"? "Drain the Swamp" could work too. "It's Going To Be YUGE! Big League, I'm telling you."

 

"We're going to build the wall". Hey, bringing in the fences a few feet might result in more HR for Mauer. And if "we're going to make the White Sox pay for it" can work, I'm all for it.

 

"Lock Her Up." OK, I got nothin'.

[gunnarthor]

On the refugee issue, I really liked this one.  It's dated but it's coming around again.  Sadly.

 

 

 

[D. Hocking]

 

Better stock up in the Tequila America, for more than a few reasons.

 

Remember the good old days when the main reasoin you needed to stock up on alcohol was to make it through the Twins season?

[gunnarthor]

 

Remember the good old days when the main reasoin you needed to stock up on alcohol was to make it through the Twins season?

Back in the day, we drank because it was Vikings season and Disco Darren didn't catch the damn ball.

[Mike Sixel]

 

Back in the day, we drank because it was Vikings season and Disco Darren didn't catch the damn ball.

 

he never would have scored, if had caught it, imo.....

[gunnarthor]

Nah, the ball crossed

 

[Mike Sixel]

It's darn close, but I think he is stopped short by that hit. No replay!

[Vanimal46]

Better stock up in the Tequila America, for more than a few reasons.

And Pacifico, my favorite Mexican beer...

[nicksaviking]

So Trump is planning a 20% tax on Mexican imports, according to CNN.  I wonder how long it'll take the business community to get him to change that.  

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/politics/donald-trump-mexico-import-tax-border-wall/index.html

Smart move. Now that he's a politician they call that kind of convincing "campaign contributions" not bribes.

[gunnarthor]

And now he's tweeting attacks at Mexico.  In all seriousness, what the ****?  This is the President of the United States?  Can't we just impeach him now and let Pence screw everyone over instead?