More predictable than a John Hughes plot. It’s a good testament to the how stupid the people are that still support him— right away they believed him on this. In spite of him admitting it out loud for the entire world to hear.
That’s thing about people like him and NPD. When confronted with hostility and the prospect of being called out on something, they just react impulsively and not strategically.
It’s so painful to watch the idiocracies that politics has suddenly become. It’s like watching two alpha 11-year-olds rage over the rules of Scrabble, only nobody can read. They say shit, and they think it comes true because they said it, in spite of the actual evidence. Like that fuckwad US Ambassador for Holland: He says a load of bullshit, the press call him out on it, and he turns to his aids as if to say “Why are you letting them grill me? Why do I have to answer for my lies? What’s done is done!” You have to answer for it because you’re a FUCKING AMBASSADOR. All of these once-prestigious positions are going to be jokes of professions when this administration is through. The guy hired to head Education in America is a 7th Day Adventist who believes the great pyramid was a fucking grain elevator, what more do you need to know?
Friendly reminder: Democratic House was seated today. They've already introduced a bill to protect the Mueller Probe against trump trying to shut it down. Grab your popcorn.
The Democrat plan is basically two-fold: Use their new committee chairs to shoves subpoenas up every asshole less tight than a diamond and return the oversight committees to actually conducting oversight. Expect to first see legal wrangling over whether people have to appear (which they'll lose, based on precedent from earlier administrations) and then a lot of very poor answers and dodges to uncomfortable questions in public hearings about what's been going on the last two years. Pass a lot of bills that poll well with Americans and then spend every news cycle they can highlighting how said bills died in the Republican Senate. They're basically doing a full broadside against the Republican reputation in preparation for 2020. Next two years will be an endless stream of: Democrats want to end the shutdown, Republicans don't; Democrats want to protect your right to vote; Republicans don't; Democrats want to put restrictions on lobbying and corporations funding campaigns; Republicans don't; Democrats want to improve your healthcare; Republicans don't; Democrats want to deal with climate change; Republicans don't; etc etc. Anything that actually gets through the Senate is just gravy.
Let's not forget that trump held a last minute press conference today just to talk about how he really really badly wants his wall. And also he said the phrase "A lot of nations have problems, but none as bad as ours" in reference to immigration.
Depends on the particulars but if they can't sell "clean energy + jobs" we're all in bigger trouble than we think.
They elected Pelosi as Speaker. The same woman who crippled the Democratic Party, sold out Obamacare to the insurance companies and handed Congress to the Republicans for almost 10 years. She’s going to fuck it up.
But her fund raising ability doe! I’m very curious to see what the house does now and how trump will respond. Shit is going to go from an 11 to a 35.
Already pumping the gun control bullshit and taking a pro-illegal immigration stance is hardly reasonable. Oh and introducing a bill to dissolve the electoral college because boo-hoo 2016. Fuck em, I hope they get nothing. Deadlock it until 2020.
It was one rep from Tennessee and the bill will never see the floor. If you want to critique the actual Democrat agenda, look at HR 1.
I did. The good: -Repeal of the penalty for not having healthcare -AMT reform -Small business reform -Foreign income participation exemptions The dumb: -Automatic voter registration regardless of citizenship status Income tax disclosure that affect the President and not Congress or the Senate