Will he make it to five weeks?
It appears that people in the Intelligence Community are getting increasingly anxious about Trump, so they’re talking to the Post and the Times more. The Post did a big late in the day drop on Monday, so yesterday it was the Times’s turn. CNN and MSNBC stayed up all night to discuss it.
Trump people talked to Russian intelligence officials during the campaign.
The IC people who talked to the Times declined to give important details, like which Trump people and what they talked about.
Trump of course is melting down, as conspicuously as possible.
The fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. @MSNBC & @CNN are unwatchable. @foxandfriends is great!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
Subtle, isn’t he.
This Russian connection non-sense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
Why would anybody care about covering up Clinton’s campaign mistakes now?
Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
This from the guy who couldn’t praise Wikileaks enough during the campaign:
That’s just one of many; CNN showed a whole string of them last night. He loves “wikkyleeks.”
Thank you to Eli Lake of The Bloomberg View – "The NSA & FBI…should not interfere in our politics…and is" Very serious situation for USA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by "intelligence" like candy. Very un-American!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
Wikkyleeks, dude. You love them.
Only if you consider it a losing campaign to get more votes. Apparently in this country, we do.
Pretty soon he’ll be saying, “My heart doesn’t need a left ventricle to pump blood. It’s just that good.”
If he does not make it another month, I will actually miss this stuff. But until that moment he is making life a serious drag. He is possibly the only human who has ever suppressed my pacifism in favor of supporting unabated suffering for the remainder of his life.
And while everyone’s gaze is fixed upon the Donald and his antics, republican congressmen are busy carrying out his vision:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/861/text
That should teach those pesky environmentalists a thing or two.
Funny you should mention that left ventricle thing – RoguePOTUS –
https://twitter.com/RoguePOTUSStaff/status/831855344427085825
Almost exactly on the schedule I predicted. I was feeling it would be within the first two months. They know how quickly the public can turn on them, and they’re going to get their wishlist completed before that happens.
Who needs clean water? Who needs clean air? Who needs to limit poisons in our food? No, that doesn’t matter, because the rich folks in Congress can simply have their food specially grown, or shipped in from Europe, where they do still have environmental rules.
So here is their plan: Poison the poor, make sure they don’t have health care, then take everything they own because they can’t pay for their doctor, their hospital, or their funeral, and then cast their bodies into the sea to build new islands for increasingly wealthy zillionaires to party.
If you are not disgusted by all this, you are either not paying attention, or you are a Trump supporter.
Harald – yes – I saw the end the EPA bill at the time (early in the month). We knew that was on their list. Will it pass? Well…even Republicans like to be able to breathe and drink water and have a few trees around.
Oops, I cross-posted with you, iknklast.
I think this one might be less of a slam-dunk than other items, simply because shit air can’t be confined to poor neighborhoods. That’s just a guess.
One can hope, indeed, that this is too extreme even for most republicans. I don’t know anything about the four sponsor of the bill. Maybe they belong to the even-more-lunatic-than-the-rest fringe of the party.
Most Republicans belong to that fringe these days. But there are a few who don’t…and it’s at least theoretically possible they could break ranks.
I do know that ending the EPA has been on the Republican wish list for decades. They’ve never had the ability to do it because of checks between the houses, but…I wouldn’t be so sure they won’t do it. I don’t think they believe that these things are harmful. I think a lot of them believe that this is a conspiracy cooked up by the left to bring capitalism to a grinding halt.
Let’s hope I’m wrong.
Well, it is easy to want to abolish something so long as you know you don’t have the power to do so. But often, when parties suddenly find themselves in power, it turns out they don’t quite have the stomach for it. Doing so could have side effects that they blithely ignored while in opposition, for example.
At least, that how these things tend to work in normal democracies …
‘Crimea was taken?’ Isn’t this the guy who claimed there was no Russian presence in Ukraine? SOMEONE must have told him something….probably Murdoch or Jones.
To Harald Hance-Olsen’s point @#11: I’ve always found it telling that we still have late-term abortions in this country. In the 90s, the Right got their base stirred up by having a showdown with Bill Clinton over the biggest federal restriction on abortion since Roe v. Wade. Clinton was actually willing to sign a bill, but demanded that it have an exception for “the health of the mother”. The GOP insisted on exception language that read, “the physical health of the mother”. The claim was that the law would be toothless if one of those silly abortion-wanting women could claim to be depressed or something. (Never mind that scheduling a second appointment with a psychiatrist or psychologist to get a diagnosis indicating such danger would take more time than getting the doctor in the room with you to give you a physical diagnosis, or that pregnancy by its nature is physically dangerous and therefore every pregnancy should qualify under those terms anyway.)
But Bill held fast, and the GOP did the same, and the bill died with the veto pen stroke.
Then, we got President Shrub, and a GOP-dominated Congress (at least until the midterms), and… suddenly, no one had any urge to talk about abortion restrictions at the federal level. (They did a lot of incremental horror-shows at the state level, of course, but half of those were meant to get shot down in the courts, just to keep the base in a state of continual agitation against ‘activist judges’.) But that “physical danger to the mother” bill that sailed through Congress (and a LESS conservative Congress than the Shrub had to deal with at the time)? Nah, that kind of quietly got put aside.
That was when I knew–not only was the Republican Party position on abortion reprehensible, it was also patently dishonest. It’s solely about demonizing ‘those’ women, about (as they say) ‘virtue signaling’. I’m not saying that the GOP base doesn’t fully buy into the notion of jailing, or even executing, women and doctors who get or perform abortions; just that the party apparatchiks have no intention of actually giving them everything they want, because it’s easier to keep them showing up at the polls angry at Democrats by constantly talking about how the GOP just needs a little more power before they can get the job done.