POTUS Donald Trump

[PseudoSABR]

Well Trump sure is winning.  Look at all the stuff he got in the spending bill:

 

 

 

Let’s go down the list.

The EPA was slated for massive cuts – roughly 31%. It will retain 99% of its funding.

Trump demanded funding for his border wall. He didn’t get any.

Trump wanted to cut funding for the National Institutes of Health. It’s getting $2 billion of additional funding.

Funding is included for the Obamacare subsidies Trump has threatened not to pay.

There’s no provision for “defunding Planned Parenthood.”

There’s no language to defund “sanctuary cities.”

There are obviously many other things included in the bill. And it’s not like Trump got nothing. But at least on most of the hot button issues he’s pushed as part of his agenda he folded like a cheap suit.

 

[TheLeviathan]

I know when I think about Great Americans who settle things the right way, my first thought is Andrew Jackson.

 

I mean, good lord this guy.

 

With some of his recent comments, does he even make it half of his first term before he simply resigns?

[Pardon My Dinger]

Ah, good old AJ. Satan's reincarnated anti-intellectual spirit with a heart of gold.

[ashbury]

"He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War. He said 'there's no reason for this.”

'Nobody Knew Slavery Could Be So Complicated' was Jackson's exact quote, I believe.

[D. Hocking]

His latest tweet  --  he is actually going to continue to go down the Andrew Jackson rabbit hole, because he has to somehow be right about everything.  I suspect he would be OK if Jackson's plan to prevent the Civil War would have been to maintain the slavery status quo.

 

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump  3h3 hours ago

President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!

[jimmer]

His latest tweet -- he is actually going to continue to go down the Andrew Jackson rabbit hole, because he has to somehow be right about everything. I suspect he would be OK if Jackson's plan to prevent the Civil War would have been to maintain the slavery status quo.

 

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 3h3 hours ago

 

President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!

Then he went on to say 'it was during the revolution that Jackson first confronted and defied an arrogant elite.'

 

Ah yes, the Revolution that started before Jackson was born and ended when he was, what 15 or so?

[TheLeviathan]

So in the Civil War who was the arrogant elite? The north?

[kydoty]

https://mobile.twitter.com/kalebhorton/status/859252777695956992

 

This man is so stupid.

[nicksaviking]

 

well,he considers himself a modern day Jackson, so of course jackson had a really big heart. The biggest heart. Jackson was probably the least racist person in his time too, like trump is.

 

Yeah, the history books leave out that the Trail of Tears was actually made up of tears of joy and gratitude toward Andrew Jackson.

[kydoty]

So Trump now wants a government shutdown.

 

I'm sure Ryan and McConnell are so happy today knowing that the face of their party is taking personal responsibility for it if it happens.

[jimmer]

 

So Trump now wants a government shutdown.

I'm sure Ryan and McConnell are so happy today knowing that the face of their party is taking personal responsibility for it if it happens.

oh, he'll blame the Democrats if it happens.

[jimmer]

 

So Trump now wants a government shutdown.

I'm sure Ryan and McConnell are so happy today knowing that the face of their party is taking personal responsibility for it if it happens.

I like how he's claiming credit for getting the temporary budget done.  Saying he and the Republicans won, even though he didn't get most of what he wanted AND another Republican said the Democrats cleaned their clock.  Of course, prior to claiming victory, he said the country needed a good government shutdown because of the budget not going the way he wanted it.  But hey, now that it's done, it's a victory for the Republicans due to Trumps leadership.

 

No contrary thoughts going on there.

[gunnarthor]

For more fun, looks like Sally Yates will testify that she warned the Trump White House about Flynn.  This, if true, contradicts the White House story.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/sally-yates-michael-flynn-testimony-contradict/

 

She is "expected to give her version of events when she informed the White House about her concerns that Flynn may have been "compromised" by the Russians, contradicting Spicer's comment that Yates was simply giving officials a "heads up" about the then-national security advisor."  I keep hoping this Russian stuff will actually sink this white house.  

[PseudoSABR]

 

  I keep hoping this Russian stuff will actually sink this white house.  

Me too.  But I worry the pace of the investigations and hearings will just normalize the issue, and anything less than impeachable offenses will get drowned out by static. 

[TheLeviathan]

It's also possible that there really isn't anything there.  Despite all the coincidences and the weird vibes we all got, it's quite possible there really isn't any substance to that relationship.

 

If that's the case I'll be a bit surprised, but while subterfuge and shady behavior seems like the most plausible answer to all of those connections, I can't rule out raging stupidity either.  And raging stupidity isn't a crime.  (Though it should make you unelectable....but I digress)

[Mike Sixel]

He can't get bills thru a congress he controls, but he's going to finally bring us Mid East peace. 

[PseudoSABR]

 

It's also possible that there really isn't anything there.  Despite all the coincidences and the weird vibes we all got, it's quite possible there really isn't any substance to that relationship.

 

If that's the case I'll be a bit surprised, but while subterfuge and shady behavior seems like the most plausible answer to all of those connections, I can't rule out raging stupidity either.  And raging stupidity isn't a crime.  (Though it should make you unelectable....but I digress)

My assumption has been if there was anything there, Trump would be insulated from criminal liability through plausibility deniability--which would be buttressed by Trump's own idiocy. 

 

Although the Russian connections might not bear fruits of impeachability, perhaps the cover-up regarding Flynn might yield criminal liability for some in the White house.   If Pence really was in charge of vetting Flynn and knew full well of his connections yet gave him the pass and perpetuated the false narrative that he was somehow lied to by Flynn, Pence might be the more likely candidate for impeachment

[PseudoSABR]

 

He can't get bills thru a congress he controls, but he's going to finally bring us Mid East peace. 

It sounds like they may get the Healthcare bill through the House.  This bill evidently is more objectionable than the first one which failed. 

[drjim]

 

It sounds like they may get the Healthcare bill through the House.  This bill evidently is more objectionable than the first one which failed. 

 

I imagine Dems are kind of hoping they do. Don't see it getting through the Senate. Do see it featured prominently in TV ads next Fall. 

[Mike Sixel]

Well, it was really a comment about him thinking he can do what hasn't been done since humanity first walked the earth.....

[TheLeviathan]

 

Well, it was really a comment about him thinking he can do what hasn't been done since humanity first walked the earth.....

 

Have you just met this guy?  

[PseudoSABR]

WT-actual-F? Is this true?  'Under Trumpcare plan, rape would be considered a pre-existing condition'. 

[DaveW]

 

WT-actual-F? Is this true?  'Under Trumpcare plan, rape would be considered a pre-existing condition'. 

Something called "resistance report" tends to make me think that maybe, just maybe, maybbbeeee they aren't shooting with straight dice.

I'd suggest snopes.com or Washingtonpost to either confirm or deny this.

If this is #fakenews, I would like to state that fake news is just as harmful if it is coming from the right OR left.

[PseudoSABR]

 

Something called "resistance report" tends to make me think that maybe, just maybe, maybbbeeee they aren't shooting with straight dice.

I'd suggest snopes.com or Washingtonpost to either confirm or deny this.

If this is #fakenews, I would like to state that fake news is just as harmful if it is coming from the right OR left.

The reason I ask whether it's true is because the source is hardly reputable (duh).  But my cursory research does suggest that pre-existing conditions prior to Obamacare did include things like domestic violence.

 

That said, there's nothing to suggest this is false. Insurance companies have every reason to include what ever they can to deny the vulnerable and the infirm. 

[kydoty]

The spending bill passed the Senate 79 to 18, making it veto-proof when combined with the House vote.

 

If Trump's plan was to unite both parties, he certainly accomplished that.  Just not the way he intended.

[D. Hocking]

Picture of the rose garden celebration of the repeal and replacement of health care.

 

That is a whole lot of entitled white male who have a really good health care plan paid for by the tax-payers.  Trump smiling smugly -- only caring about victory and sticking it to Obama, not even really sure of what was in the bill or how it will really affect people.  Still his core supporters will think he is a messenger of God even as they lose their health care coverage.

 

He also signed that nice Religions EO -- what a great day for the country.

 

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/RTR-GOPAtWhiteHouse-02-jrl-170504_12x5_1600.jpg

[D. Hocking]

Another picture of these clowns gleeful over their win - who cares how it actually effects the average person.

 

They are really soulless and with no sense of honor or decency (or grace, class, empathy etc..). 

 

[DaveW]

Meh, it will never pass the senate like that, and it likely just guaranteed the Dems to take the house in 2018.

 

Short term "loss" for a long term gain.

[jimmer]

 

Meh, it will never pass the senate like that, and it likely just guaranteed the Dems to take the house in 2018.

Short term "loss" for a long term gain.

If it doesn't pass, the GOP supporters will blame the democrats and still vote republican for the house and senate.  Why? Because their voters, the same ones who would get destroyed by the bill, won't get a chance to see how badly it would have hurt them.

[DaveW]

If it doesn't pass, the GOP supporters will blame the democrats and still vote republican for the house and senate. Why? Because their voters, the same ones who would get destroyed by the bill, won't get a chance to see how badly it would have hurt them.

A lot of them will know how much it will hurt them. They can try to blame the Dems all they want, it's malarkey.