US Politics - A Society in Meltdown

That really is the one hilarious thing about it all. His people desperately cobble together a cover story for him and then he immediately exposes them as liars.

Even Fox is reeling from this latest one. If he endangered an undercover agent then that’s a huge deal. Especially since Snowden is the devil incarnate for (in the opinion of Fox and no one else) having done the same thing.

But I guess if they got over the Scooty Libby fiasco they’ll get over this too.

To be expected, they know that money is needed for Trump’s infrastructure plan and they have the size and bulk to lobby for it. It should only happen with comprehensive reform of CT but given the situation both parties allowed to develop I won’t hold my breath and I expect a huge write off for the big Cos.

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His tour of the Middle East will be a hoot.

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No surprise there, the big MNCs have the lobbying power to get what they want, and if they don’t they’ll just continue to store profits offshore. As Tim said, overall tax reform is the key. Small companies are crippled by high federal, state and local taxes and although they are the lifeblood of the economy, take a backseat to the demands of the MNCs.

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This should be absolutely tremenjus.

This, from July 21st, 2015, has proved to be one of the greatest tweets ever made.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/16/trump-once-demanded-edward-snowdens-execution-for-giving-serious-information-to-russia/?utm_term=.f8980c0fde27

"In tweets in summer 2013, Trump repeatedly called Snowden a “traitor” who gave “serious information to China and Russia” and who “should be executed.”

President Snowden 2020!

Trump is running his presidency like he’s a heel WWF wrestler from the late 80s/early 90s, complete with the choreographed pieces to camera “calling out” his enemies.

Sort of a mixture of Ric Flair and Sergeant Slaughter, when Slaughter was in his “traitor” phase.

Hardly a surprise when he’s actually been a WWF/WWE character in the past, is a member of the WWE “Hall of Fame” and Vince McMahon’s wife is actually in his cabinet. He’s even got the dumb broad who actually hates him on his arm like the Million Dollar Man had Sensational Sherri and Macho Man Randy Savage had Elizabeth.

Is there aby thing serious going on in the background while the public is fixated with trump?

He’s formed a commission to try and gerrymander the electoral system across the US in favour of Republicans by systematically denying the vote to people likely to vote against them, which is pretty serious.

NY Times now breaking a story that Trump asked Comey to kill the Flynn investigation :joy:

Ah come on Sid, he’s President Camacho

https://youtu.be/CNsCwg5MxP0

Unreal. It just keeps coming.

What a time to be alive.

Totes obstruction of justice, like.

Fox News is gas,the spin going on right now is unrale.The Donald looks like he needs a good lawyer.

The White House has denied Trump asked Comey to kill the Flynn investigation.

Trump will be along with some tweets in the morning to say that’s exactly what he did.

“What you think is happening often isn’t”.

Dead right.

Some people who watch the below think they’re watching a news programme, they aren’t, they’re watching a credibility-free propaganda shill programme.

Absolutely fucking hilarious.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/16/trump-officials-on-comey-memo-dont-see-how-trump-isnt-completely-fcked?via=twitter_page

“I feel like running down the hallway with a fire extinguisher,” one senior Trump administration official told The Daily Beast, in response to an inquiry regarding Tuesday’s developments.

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“Every time I feel like we’re getting a handle on the last Russia fiasco, a new one pops,” a White House staffer told The Daily Beast on Monday evening. On Tuesday, after reports of the Comey memo began to circulate, the staffer revised that assessment: “I guess I was wrong about the timing,” the staffer said. “We can’t even wrap up one Russia fiasco before we’re on to the next one.”

A senior official in the Trump administration, who previously worked on the president’s campaign, offered a candid and brief assessment of the fallout from that string of bad press: “I don’t see how Trump isn’t completely fucked.”

Sally Yates for President 2020.

She’d destroy Orrin Hatch.