Weak Seven of the Trumpanzy!

[JackLuis]

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Trump contemplates his failure just when he got the right costume.

 

[JackLuis]

Pssst, Wanna Read Something REALLY Racist?

Add this to your “Wow, how surprising” files: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s chief political advisor, is a big fan of a frankly racist novel, The Camp of the Saints, a dystopian what-if depiction of Europe being overwhelmed by a literal invasion of dirty brown people who take over and ruin civilization, because that’s simply how immigration works. The 1973 novel by Jean Raspail has become something of a touchstone on the right, even getting respectful reviews in “respectable” conservative outlets like National Review, which found ominous parallels between Raspail’s vision of scary brown people taking over Europe and the arrival of thousands of unaccompanied Central American refugee children in 2014.

The Indian armada brings “thousands of wretched creatures” whose very bodies arouse disgust: “Scraggy branches, brown and black … All bare, those fleshless Gandhi-arms.” Poor brown children are spoiled fruit “starting to rot, all wormy inside, or turned so you can’t see the mold.”

The ship’s inhabitants are also sexual deviants who turn the voyage into a grotesque orgy. “Everywhere, rivers of sperm,” Raspail writes. “Streaming over bodies, oozing between breasts, and buttocks, and thighs, and lips, and fingers.”

The HuffPo piece closes with Chavez warning that Bannon’s influence on Trump on matters of immigration and race is “extremely dangerous”:

She said Trump’s immigration moves are “a kind of purging of America of anything but our Northern European roots.” Bannon, she added, “wants to make America white again.”

Huh. Trump supporters will no doubt wonder why Chavez would say that like it’s a bad thing.

Tuesday of the Seventh Weak of Trumpanzy!

‘Somebody give this guy a Xanax’: Stephen Colbert brutally mocks Trump’s Obama-wiretap tweet storm

John McCain orders Trump back up wire-tapping claim with evidence

S. Senator John McCain on Monday called for President Donald Trump to release any evidence supporting his claim the Obama administration wiretapped him while probing Russia’s influence in the 2016 election.

“I think the president of the United States, if he has any information that would indicate that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower, then he should come forward with that information. The American people deserve it,” McCain, a Republican from Arizona, told Reuters.

Jason Chaffetz, a Republican lawmaker who heads the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told CBS in an interview on Monday that he had “not seen anything directly that would support what the president has said.”

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who heads the Senate Judiciary subcommittee looking into allegations Russia meddled in the election, said the panel would be asking both Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey and the Justice Department whether he had told the law enforcement agency this weekend to reject Trump’s wire-tapping claim.

Put Up, Or Shut Up, Sucker!​

 

[ChloeTzang]

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Trump contemplates his failure just when he got the right costume.

Don't Jack, don't. I start singing in Spanish and dreaming of helicopters and we all know where those two generalissimos went.

Camp of thd Saints? A prescient work indeed and one we can see taking place before our eyes. Lets hope France has the sense to elect Le Pen.

I don't think anyone on the left actually listens to Bannon. Hes an economic nationalist. I know the difference. But hey, They're retarded enough to believe their own bs. Can't fix stupid.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

It's a pretty well known fact that immigrants often turn out to be virulently anti-immigration.

They're deeply insecure about their place in the pecking order and the easiest thing to do when they get here is raise themselves above someone else--blacks and browns if they can.

I may be slanty eyed but I'm not Muslim!

I'm Italian, not African, blah blah blah

They like to come up with myths that give them a sense of importance and distinguish them from all the other dirty hordes, like Oohh your great grandma carried a mule across the Andes in a snowstorm to get here, or Daddy swam naked across the Indian ocean, not like all these FILTHY BROWN RAPISTS sneaking in or those radical Islamic terrorists. We CHOSE to come here unlike those blacks.*

*Unless you're Ben Carson

The first thing they say when THEY get in is no more dirty immigrants!!!

 

[ChloeTzang]

I prefer to think of it as legal immigrants vs illegal aliens. Legal immigrants may well include, and often have, refugees. That's the way my family on both sides got here. They went through the process. Happiest moment of their lives when they landed here with their papers. Then they assimilated.

Illegal aliens? That's a different argument entirely. Legal immigrants are often virulently anti-illegal immigrantion.

 

[phrodeau]

I prefer to think of it as legal immigrants vs illegal aliens. Legal immigrants may well include, and often have, refugees. That's the way my family on both sides got here. They went through the process. Happiest moment of their lives when they landed here with their papers. Then they assimilated.

Illegal aliens? That's a different argument entirely. Legal immigrants are often virulently anti-illegal immigrantion.

Welcome back.

They haven't deported you yet?

 

[JackLuis]

Trump scrambles to control damage on GOP’s dead-on-arrival health bill — and vows fixes in ‘phase 2’

The Republican Party’s new health care bill is getting panned from all sides, and President Donald Trump has already taken to Twitter to try to clean up the mess.

The president began the day by expressing enthusiasm for “our wonderful new health care bill,” which he said was nonetheless open for “review and negotiation.”

However, the GOP’s plan took heavy criticism on Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning from both Sen. Rand Paul (R-TN) and conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham.

Paul slammed the plan as “Obamacare lite” and vowed to oppose it on the grounds that it created a new “entitlement” program. Ingraham, meanwhile, said that two of the biggest promises that Trump made during his presidential campaign — to rein in the cost of prescription drugs and to let Americans buy insurance plans across state lines — were nowhere to be found in the GOP’s plan.

Trump tweeted out that he’s still going to pursue the ideas that he campaigned on, but added that they would have to come in “Phase 2 & 3” of repealing Obamacare.

Republican Health Care Plan? What's next Porcine Aviation?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Welcome back.

They haven't deported you yet?

Thanks - still here and singing in praise of our Glorious Leader

 

[JackLuis]

No. 2 Senate Republican says Senate to probe Trump’s wiretap claims

The No. 2 Republican in the U.S. Senate said on Tuesday the chamber’s investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election would also examine President Donald Trump’s claim that he had been wiretapped by the Obama administration.

Asked by CNN whether Trump’s claim, for which he has presented no evidence, would be part of the probe, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn said: “I think all of that is part of the investigation.”

“It needs an investigation so we can find out what the facts are,” he added. “We’ll follow the facts wherever they may lead.”

Investigate the Kenyan Usurpers ass! But they will end up in Trumps ass, where he pulled his allegations from.

 

[JackLuis]

‘The math is not there!’: Robert Reich schools ex-Trump adviser over GOP’s ‘absurd’ Obamacare replacement

Speaking with CNN’s Anderson Cooper and former Donald Trump adviser Stephen Moore, Reich said the new healthcare bill is “smoking out Republicans” by proving who was only interested in repealing the Affordable Care Act versus who was interested in designing a workable replacement plan. Of the Republicans who are actually interesting in “replacing” Obamacare, Reich noted, “They are discovering that the math is not there.”

“If you get rid of the taxes that supported the Affordable Care Act, and you also get rid of the mandate … then you don’t have the wherewithal to replace what you had before,” Reich explained, adding “Republicans are in an impossible position right now.”

So will we see another round of Saturday blurts and Wednesday morning moaning? Probably it's Trump TV!

 

[JackLuis]

Here’s how Donald Trump could be removed without being impeached

The notion Trump may be unable to serve in his role as commander-in-chief could undermine his presidency to the point where he could be removed without an official impeachment process, according to a little-known section within the 25th Amendment to the United States.

Protesters holding signs outside of the Trump International Hotel and Tower during its grand opening in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Feb. 28, 2017. Photo: Reuters

The Constitutional Amendment clearly states Vice President Mike Pence could call on Congress to remove Trump from office if he is proven "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office." The language used within the Amendment open for interpretation; Congress would ultimately need to review a letter signed by the vice president and a majority of his Cabinet members demanding a transfer of power before the action can be done.

Do it Mikey! Do it now!

 

[JackLuis]

Dem senators: Tillerson’s State Department ignored by White House as Kushner calls the shots

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Democratic leaders have sent a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson expressing dismay at a department that they described as being at a “tipping point,” with President Donald Trump seemingly getting foreign policy advice from his son-in-law Jared Kushner instead of top diplomats.

According to a letter obtained by The Hill, Sens. Dick Durbin (IL), Tom Udall (NM), Patrick Leahy (VT) and Chris Murphy (CT) are saying the State Department is “experiencing significant management challenges.”

“The Department of State is experiencing significant management challenges, being cut out of important administration foreign policy decisions, and facing potentially devastating budget cuts,” the senators wrote.

At issue are reports that Tillerson’s department is being cut out of White House decision making, including recently being excluded from the release of the Human Rights Report.

Nepotism is an impeachable offense too.

 

[JackLuis]

Around The World With Trump Hookers

According to the Associated Press, the possible new business ventures for the president and his family in China include

branded spas, massage parlors, golf clubs, hotels, insurance, finance and real estate companies, restaurants, bars, and bodyguard and a class of trademarks called “social escort and concierge services”

But the AP is careful to point out that Trump has pinkie-sworn not to start any new foreign deals in office, and that “many companies register trademarks in China only to prevent others from using their name inappropriately,” so despite our very unfair headline, don’t get your heart set on dating any any Trump-branded pee hookers just yet. We feel simply awful about spreading such fake news.

 

[JackLuis]

Someone plastered posters of Donald Trump's sexual assault monologue all over the East Village in NY

Who can forget where they were when the “very religious” Mike Pence said that the then Republican nominee for President, Donald Trump “does his talking, he doesn't go tiptoeing around all those thousands of rules of political correctness?" No one could expect a 70-year-old bigoted misogynist to change his ways, but we could expect something resembling morality from the rest of the Republican field. Those were the days. Today, women across the world are taking to the streets to let their voices be known, and like a magical protest elf, someone has papered New York City’s East Village with posters reminding everyone why so many women, young and old, of all races and religions, are protesting our unpopular president.

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[JackLuis]

Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Donald Trump is "blatantly defying" the Constitution's Emoluments Clause

Sen. Dianne Feinstein goes there and calls out Donald Trump today for defying the Constitution, this after news that China may grant Trump 38 more trademarks for his businesses.

She’s calling on Republicans to step up and work with Democrats to hold Trump accountable to the Constitution. Of course, you sure as heck know Republicans will look the other way on this one too. (See Sessions lying under oath)

Republicans are the great enablers of Donald Trump. How much more before they believe the U.S. Constitution is more important then their fealty to Trump?

What are you waiting for Mikey?

 

[JackLuis]

We’re Spending $30 Million (a month) For Melania To Live In NYC As Trump Suspends Military Child Care

Taxpayers are footing the bill to the tune of an estimated $30 million for Melania Trump to live in New York City, while the President’s federal hiring freeze is causing the military to close down child care programs.

Plus spending an extra $3 Million a weakend for Mar-A-Largo retreats.

"We have to do more with less," he said, but he is doing less with more!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump is now losing the "Not News" Half of Fox

Republicans have finally rolled out a proposal health care plan to replace Obamacare, a fight they have waged in Congress for the last seven years. Some conservatives aren’t thrilled about the proposed replacement, though.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised that his insurance plan will provide “insurance for everybody.” He’s said that under the new insurance plan, Americans will be “beautifully covered.” Trump said, “What I do want is to be able to take care of people.”

However, Fox News commentator Eric Bolling slammed the so-called TrumpCare proposal in a Wednesday night segment, arguing that it won’t be beneficial for everybody. “You know who gets the best break in this whole thing? Not the American people, not the middle class, not young people, not old people” he said.

So who gets the best deal? “Insurance companies,” Bolling said.

Resist, Oppose, Impeach!​

 

[JackLuis]

‘What the f*ck is wrong with you?’: Sam Bee slams pundits for ‘gushing’ any time Trump makes a ‘big boy potty’

On International Woman's Day Sam Bee swings an ax!

The media, Bee said, rained “golden compliments down on him” following the speech.

“If pundits set the bar for President Trump any lower, even Jeff Sessions won’t be able to walk under it without bumping his head,” Bee said, adding it’s “extraordinary that he learned to read something finally!”

 

[sharingfantasies]

A couple of the many articles I have read about the new health plan is that it gives a lot of money to CEOs of health companies, and, that is mostly makes life better for those earning in the upper middle class and upper class. It makes life much harder for the lower middle class and lower class. Those in the middle of the middle class get most of the financial brunt.

Now, I don't know how much of that is true. It is hard to believe anything anyone writes these days. But it sounds about right.

As far as I have read, and I could be totally wrong, probably am, but, I thought the emoluments clause didn't apply to presidents or vice presidents, just everyone else?

 

[JackLuis]

Witnesses say Yemen raid was chaotic bloodbath: ‘Everyone who tried to run, they killed them’

The Jan. 29 U.S. Navy SEAL raid on a Yemeni village that marked Pres. Donald Trump’s first strategic engagement was reportedly a chaotic bloodbath in which a number of women and 10 children under the age of 13 perished as they ran for their lives.

The Intercept’s Iona Craig wrote on Thursday that the village of al Ghayil was decimated by the raid, in which U.S. helicopter gunships hovered over the remote settlement and sprayed gunfire “in what seemed to be blind panic,” killing 29 civilians and “striking more than a dozen buildings, razing stone dwellings where families slept, and wiping out more than 120 goats, sheep, and donkeys.”

The raid — which Pres. Trump approved over dinner and didn’t even bother to monitor from the White House Situation Room — began a little after 1 a.m. when the villagers were sleeping. Accustomed to the sound of drones passing overhead, they ignored the buzzing that night until they began to hear the sound of heavy gunfire from only a few hundred feet away. The SEAL raiding party was pinned down in a gunfight and called in aerial support in the form of helicopter gunships.

Seals start a firefight and call in gunships which spray the town with cannon fire? Way to win friends and influence people!

She concluded by quoting Mohammed al Taysi, a tribesman who tried to join the fight in al Ghayil.

“If they come back,” he said, “tell them to bring their caskets. From now we are ready for any fight with the Americans and the dog Trump.”

 

[JackLuis]

MORE WAR: Marines Just Arrived In Syria To Help With Battle For Raqqa

Just a couple of hundred Marines, so just enough for a "Tonkin Gulf". and A 1,000 in Kuwait, "In case they need backup?"
Sounds like a plan to get into another fucking war we can't afford!

 

[phrodeau]

AG Sessions recused himself from investigations into election meddling.

Then, SCOTUS nominee Gorsuch revealed over 1,000 recusals in his ten years on the Tenth Circuit.

Now, Secretary of State Tillerson is recusing himself from any involvement with the Keystone pipeline.

I suppose they'll all go golfing, since they can't do their jobs.

 

[JackLuis]

AG Sessions recused himself from investigations into election meddling.

Then, SCOTUS nominee Gorsuch revealed over 1,000 recusals in his ten years on the Tenth Circuit.

Now, Secretary of State Tillerson is recusing himself from any involvement with the Keystone pipeline.

I suppose they'll all go golfing, since they can't do their jobs.

With Carson as a foursome for comedic relief.

 

[JackLuis]

March 9, 2017
Trump’s Attack on America the Beautiful

Trump’s anti-establishmentarian credentials flaunted during the campaign to woo voters fed up with America’s decline, except for filthy rich, has lost its shine. He’s an establishment creature, not anti-establishment, in the neoliberal sense of supply-side economics, force-feeding the upper class so they’ll drop crumbs down below to the vast Middle/Poor Class, a new socio-economic class in America, the newest, largest class, supplanting the vast middle class of the 1950s-60s-70s.

Now that Trump has hoodwinked America’s Middle/Poor Class voters, he has turned his attention to a much larger issue, the destruction of America the Beautiful. With the exception of perfectly groomed golf courses, Trump hates environmental protectionism. He’s out to get it.

Kiss clean air and water goodbye.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump economic advisor stammers when coal miner hammers him on his health care: ‘I don’t know all the facts’

Retired coal miner John Leach received a frustrating letter this week, informing him that his family’s heath benefits would soon be terminated should the U.S. Congress fail to act by the end of April.

“I’ve been a United Mine Worker member for over 30 years,” he told CNN’s Van Jones on “The Messy Truth” late Thursday. Jones was also joined by Wall Street Journal writer and former Donald Trump adviser Stephen Moore.

“We worked in the coal mines producing the fuel that made America the most powerful nation on earth,” Leach continued. “The company I worked for went bankrupt, and now I will lose my heath benefits.”

“The federal government has guaranteed for 70 years coal miners like myself get our benefits, but now for the first time, the government may not live up to that moral commitment,” Leach noted.

“Do you, sir, think that the U.S. government should honor the promises that were made to miners like myself?” he asked Moore.

The Trump adviser appeared flummoxed.

“I don’t know all the facts of—” Moore stammered, before deflecting.

“I would ask you this question, sir. What happened to the money? Because you paid into the system, right? And I wonder what happened to the retirement heath care dollars that were supposed to be there for you when you retired,” he answered. “I don’t know the answer to that.”

“I’ll tell you what happened,” said Van Jones, cutting in. “What happened is, when fracking hit, it made coal more expensive and they were running into bankruptcy courts to discharge those obligations.”

Aha! The dastardly plot of the Trumpainans is exposed!

To suck off the reserves and then bail on the basic obligation, thru bankruptcy!

Sounds Rethuglican to me!