Failing Trump administration. Sad!

Never mind that ‘letting nature take its course’ in western wildfire-adapted forests is to just let them burn.

There is a joke or two here, somewhere.

Not if you want to host the WHCA dinner there isn’t.

Pretty sure the WHCA dinner is a joke no matter who hosts it.

He can prosecute his dumbass daughter then too since she too used private email for government business.

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Five Alarm Fire. LOL. Trump could strangle a child on live TV and keep the support of his base and, therefore, the entire GOP establishment.

Well, yeah, but his base is a totally lost cause. They are basically Jonestown residents.

Sure…but in fact he wasn’t able to order the investigation. Not that it’s not scary, but so far at least the institutions are holding.

I agree. But as long as their support keeps the entire GOP glued to Trump, that’s quite a lot of lost-causers.

I don’t think trying to jail Clinton will drive any more of them away.

Yep! But McGahn is leaving, and Whitaker exists.

Well, Deep Fakes can make a believable video of anything, dontchaknow?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/22/trump-judicial-fantasy-what-chief-justice-roberts-could-have-told-him-didnt/?utm_term=.43bb6b0c2e51

Good editorial, especially the ending.

One of the toughest dressings-down came from a decision blocking Trump’s “sanctuary cities” crackdown written by Judge Ilana Rovner, appointed by President George H.W. Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, based in Chicago. In a decision joined by a Gerald Ford appointee and a Reagan appointee upholding a lower-court ruling by a Reagan appointee, she lit into the Trump administration for assuming powers to withhold money not granted to it by Congress to punish states and cities that didn’t go along with efforts to round up those in the country illegally.

Her message to Trump and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, translated, was basically, who do you think you are?

Our role in this case is not to assess the optimal immigration policies for our country. . . . The founders of our country well understood that the concentration of power threatens individual liberty and established a bulwark against such tyranny by creating a separation of powers among the branches of government. If the Executive Branch can determine policy, and then use the power of the purse to mandate compliance with that policy by the state and local governments, all without the authorization or even acquiescense of elected legislators, the check against tyranny is forsaken.

There was one possibly accurate observation in Trump’s comments: He said his losses sometimes seem “automatic.”

Based on the record, that’s not far from the truth.

But Roberts would never say that.

How long before this happens in the West Wing?

This guy?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/politics/nick-ayers-pence-chief-of-staff-trump/index.html

If Kelly goes, everything is still totally 100% fine, right? I’m sure that’s what the story will be now, anyway.

"[…] six months before people were sickened by the contaminated romaine, President Donald Trump’s FDA – responding to pressure from the farm industry and Trump’s order to eliminate regulations – shelved the water-testing rules for at least four years.

Despite this deadly outbreak, the FDA has shown no sign of reconsidering its plan to postpone the rules. The agency also is considering major changes, such as allowing some produce growers to test less frequently or find alternatives to water testing to ensure the safety of their crops."

But will no one think of how much money Big Ag can save by not testing for this shit?

The water is a big problem, but as noted elsewhere, we also need to make sure that employers are providing the migrant workers with breaks and facilities, or there will continue to be other more direct sources of contamination.