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The story in the Washington Post is going to have repercussions.

One of the big tells: Pence in the story throws Flynn under the bus completely.

Trump has had quite a day!

  1. 9th Circuit slaps him down, with great prejudice…

  2. His all caps tweet earns him no favors across party lines…

  3. He caves to China immediately and agrees to honor “One China” policy…

  4. His hand picked national security advisor very likely committed a felony and is going to be the subject of an investigation, if not indictment

  5. And his White House is still leaking like a seive. It feels like utter chaos at 1600, where internecine factions are dumping dirt on one another willy-nilly.

And his presidency remains one of utter stagnation to this point. He’s signing shouty executive orders that give the illusion of action without actually doing anything substantive. At this point, Obama was preparing to sign ARRA as it worked its way through congress. He’d submitted a budget proposal as well. W. Bush had also submitted his budget to congress and was working on legislation of his own.

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Fake account or not, sounds legit.
Noted left wing mouthpiece Cosmopolitan has some advice for orange 45:

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Here’s a followup on that new PPP poll:

Do you think that Frederick Douglass is alive or dead, or are you not sure?

Frederick Douglass is alive: 2%
Frederick Douglass is dead: 65%
Not sure: 34%

Hats off to those who were honest enough to admit they didn’t know the answer to something, rather than faking it and looking like a complete idiot. Honest ignorance is a curable condition; stubborn stupidity is not.

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And I think that is the most optimistic thing we could hope for.

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[quote=“MrGrumpy, post:2876, topic:126890, full:true”]Noted left wing mouthpiece Cosmopolitan has some advice for orange 45:


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When Cosmopolitan and Teen Vogue are leading the charge in calling our government to task for its idiocy, you know something is seriously messed up. Kudos to both publications though for having the courage to publish articles that could very well be unpopular among a significant portion of their readers. My hope is that said articles keep coming, and hopefully educate a significant portion of their readers…

Also, Donald totally failed the relationship quiz. Poor Melania.

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“Five ways to find out if your boyfriend is a fascist, loofa-faced, shit-gibbon”

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Spoiler alert.

Sir, you are the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. I’m begging you, grow the fuck up. (And also, maybe remove the actual Nazis from your inner circle.)

I like she added that last bit.

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This is great.

[quote]
In interviews, nearly two dozen people who’ve spent time with Trump in the three weeks since his inauguration said that his mood has careened between surprise and anger as he’s faced the predictable realities of governing, from congressional delays over his cabinet nominations and legal fights holding up his aggressive initiatives to staff in-fighting and leaks.[/quote]

[quote]
Trump has privately expressed disbelief over the ability of judges, bureaucrats or lawmakers to delay — or even stop — him from filling positions and implementing policies.[/quote]

[quote]
After Trump grew infuriated by disclosures of his confrontational phone calls with foreign leaders, an investigation was launched into the source of the leaks, according to one White House aide. National Security Council staffers have been instructed to cooperate with inquiries, including requests to inspect their electronic communications, said two sources familiar with the situation. It’s not clear whether the investigation is a formal proceeding, how far along it is or who is conducting it.[/quote]

[quote]
The president and his allies believe career NSC staff assigned from other agencies are out to get them. In turn, some NSC staff believe Trump does not possess the capacity for detail and nuance required to handle the sensitive issues discussed on the calls, and that he has politicized their agency by appointing chief strategist Bannon to the council.

Last week, Trump told an associate he had become weary of in-fighting among — and leaks from — his White House staff “because it reflects on me,” and that he intended to sit down staffers to tell them “to cut this shit out.”[/quote]

[quote]
Some staffers worry about running afoul of Kushner, and say they’re unclear about his role, describing his portfolio as amorphous. “No one quite knows what it is,” said one. “It’s confusing.”[/quote]

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Someone should show this to him.

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He’s the president. If he wanted privacy, he shouldn’t have run for that job. There is classified information sure, but the bickering of his staff and displeasure of his approach is not that.

2886

OMG is this a shitshow. What a national embarrassment, and less than one month in.

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But he won, don’t you get it??? He won, why won’t you just stop being difficult and do everything he says?

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Embarrassing.

[quote]
As soon as the door closed and the reporters allowed to observe for a few minutes had been ushered out, Trump began to talk about the election, participants said, triggered by the presence of former New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who lost her reelection bid in November and is now working for Trump as a Capitol Hill liaison, or “Sherpa,” on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch.

The president claimed that he and Ayotte both would have been victorious in the Granite State if not for the “thousands” people who were “brought in on buses” from neighboring Massachusetts to “illegally” vote in New Hampshire.[/quote]

[quote]
During the meeting, Trump also reacted to Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren being silenced on the Senate floor while trying to object to the nomination of former Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general. According to participants in Thursday’s meeting, Trump referred to Warren several times as “Pocahontas,” the moniker he gave her during his campaign, and told the Democrats present he is glad Warren is becoming the face of “your party.”[/quote]

He’s like a stupid child.

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Unless Howard Stern wasn’t lying and he actually is trying to get them to find a way to replace him with Clinton. He should just resign and leave it to Pence. At least then we’d have a normal political clusterfuck instead of an insane toddler clusterfuck.

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Pence would be a problem for me, but at least he would be an internal problem. Trump is an international problem.

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Does the poll ask if everyone actually believes the way they answered why they didn’t vote for Hillary instead of Trump?

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Love it. I hadn’t read anything on either site (I don’t think) other than what my wife has showed me, but she’s mentioned several times how some of the best journalism is coming out of female-centric publications right now.

@Timex I almost went on a rant a couple of different times about how I know I’m an idealist, but the country I love learned about from Schoolhouse Rock. It’s the great American Melting Pot, not the country that builds walls or bans Muslims. the president would be a hell of a lot better informed about how the system works if he had too.

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I was actually corrected on this statement a few years ago by some younger individuals i was working with. Like you I was taught to think of Amkerica as a melting pot. Apparently today it’s being called a salad. The idea, I guess, is everything remains individual and unique, even identifiable, but commingles well together to complete and present a unique whole… something like that. I think i can actually accept either idea, but I thought you might want to know what some are telling me is being taught in school today.

I remember seeing the cartoons in elementary school too. They were old then abut just as relevant as they mostly are today.

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But salads suck compared to fondue.