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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#176951: Mar 5th 2017 at 4:27:32 AM

[up]x4 Businesses around Trump Tower are in a similar mess since Melania won't leave.

And yes, the security detail around her is also costing taxpayers money.

edited 5th Mar '17 4:28:07 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#176952: Mar 5th 2017 at 4:47:07 AM

At the current rate, isn't his vacation security going to end up costing the taxpayer more in one year than Barry did in eight?

"Yup. That tasted purple."
math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#176953: Mar 5th 2017 at 5:04:08 AM

Twice as much.

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#176954: Mar 5th 2017 at 5:19:17 AM

Do I need to say it? Fuck it, I will anyway: It's Ok If You Are A Republican.

edited 5th Mar '17 5:19:30 AM by Reflextion

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#176955: Mar 5th 2017 at 5:41:25 AM

[up][up][up] He's already passed the cost for Obama's vacations in a year. It's been like 45 days.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#176956: Mar 5th 2017 at 5:43:19 AM

I mentioned in an earlier post that Trump's vacations have already cost US taxpayers about a tenth of what Obama's vacations cost them over the course of both terms. That was before this most recent visit to Mar-a-lago.

edited 5th Mar '17 5:44:20 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#176957: Mar 5th 2017 at 6:18:05 AM

Republicans in Maine and Utah have approached Trump to "undo" national parks and monuments in their states so they can exploit the areas for resources. If he goes for them, it'd be the first time a president made a move against Teddy Roosevelt's antiquities act.

Can't have some filthy dead democrat like Roosevelt get in the way of progress!

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#176958: Mar 5th 2017 at 6:25:07 AM

[up]Was that a joke about Trump confusing Teddy Roosevelt (R) with F D Roosevelt (D)?, because it's a pretty good one then.

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Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#176959: Mar 5th 2017 at 6:30:03 AM

The White House has asked Congress to investigate if the Obama administration abused its investigative powers.

Trump may have been serious that bugging accusation.

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carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#176960: Mar 5th 2017 at 6:31:49 AM

[up][up]A sad number of trumplings I know think the former Roosevelt was a democrat.

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#176961: Mar 5th 2017 at 6:33:28 AM

[up][up]I would laugh if that investigation ends up finding a tape of Trump directly colluding with Russians. (as in: Trump personally talking with a GRU officer about doing things to compromise the US' position and benefit Russia).

[up]I'm not even surprised.

edited 5th Mar '17 6:34:12 AM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#176962: Mar 5th 2017 at 6:48:20 AM

Republicans in Maine and Utah have approached Trump to "undo" national parks and monuments in their states so they can exploit the areas for resources. If he goes for them, it'd be the first time a president made a move against Teddy Roosevelt's antiquities act.
Because heaven forbid we not exploit every last scrap of land in the country. It does sound like there is significant opposition to the measure, so I'm hopeful. Doesn't some more recent legislation like NAGPRA override some of the Antiquities act, though?

Every time I see how much it costs for Trump's vacations, and his wife's stay in New York, I think about this stupid tweet. I'm pretty sure with the money they're going to waste, we could buy a steak note  for every man, woman, and child below the poverty line in America.

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#176963: Mar 5th 2017 at 7:36:01 AM

I can't be surprised at Trump taking every weekend off. Remember: he's not a politician, he's a businessman.

He thinks being President is something where he can turn in forty hours of work a week and then go enjoy his weekend.

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ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#176964: Mar 5th 2017 at 7:44:42 AM

In fairness, the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch is getting on Trump's case already over the repeated trips to Florida.

Also, last week we had the two Indian men (and one bystander who tried saving them) get shot, with one killed - and now we get a shooting in Washington motivated for the same "Get out of our country!" reason.

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#176965: Mar 5th 2017 at 7:56:58 AM

I can't be surprised at Trump taking every weekend off. Remember: he's not a politician, he's a businessman.

He thinks being President is something where he can turn in forty hours of work a week and then go enjoy his weekend.

Yeah, and if only one could point out to Trumpists that actual business types don't do that. They're always on the clock. I've seen more than a few examples and always have to make time for a phone call for something or other or checking emails near 24/7. (That's its own problem).
And I have little doubts that many of President Obama's "breaks" were networking events.

Though, Trump's attitude is a perfect match for someone just out to squeeze tribute from the country to fund his lavish lifestyle and overgrown ego and then do the bare minimum in return.

edited 5th Mar '17 8:27:40 AM by CenturyEye

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#176966: Mar 5th 2017 at 8:30:18 AM

Real businessmen are workaholics and don't really have a weekend. Trump isn't a businessmen, he is an entertainer and pretender.

Proglottid Since: Mar, 2010
#176967: Mar 5th 2017 at 8:35:11 AM

The real irony is, there's DEFINITELY a whole damn bunch of Trumplings that voted him just to get back at all the SJW's and POC's and wymmen and political correctness and their triggers and special snowflakes with their whining and safe spaces

....And the guy they brought to power does almost nothing but demand a snowflake treatment, get triggered at the same topics over and over, whine about it and fuck off to his safe space at the first chance he gets

edited 5th Mar '17 8:41:50 AM by Proglottid

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#176968: Mar 5th 2017 at 8:48:02 AM

[up]That's because reactionary projection is 100% real, and every complaint about "trigger warnings" and "snowflake behavior" applies to the average Trumpist reactionary than it does to the average progressive.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#176970: Mar 5th 2017 at 9:02:57 AM

Keough [a pastor at The Woodlands Bible Church who has claimed his election to the House was “divine appointment.”] defended his position, arguing that he wasn’t criminalizing undocumented immigrants, simply refusing them state funds.

“I’m not a racist, I love people, I love the people of my church and I love all of you,” Keough said.

Wow...

In other news, Mexico's Paying for Something..

Mexico has opened legal aid centres at consulates in 50 US cities, in a move designed to protect its citizens from tougher immigration enforcement.

Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray reaffirmed concerns about the human rights of Mexicans in the US.

But migrant defence centres would not "promote illegality," he said.

Millions of Mexicans who have lived in the US for many years are suddenly facing the prospect of fighting a lengthy and costly legal battle against deportation.

The new defence centres will provide free legal assistance for Mexican citizens who feel that their rights in the US are being threatened.

Bilateral relations have reached its lowest point in decades.

edited 5th Mar '17 9:04:34 AM by CenturyEye

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#176972: Mar 5th 2017 at 9:27:31 AM

On the bright side, Trump and his cronies wouldn't bother with "trumped up" charges against Obama if they weren't worried about the real investigations into the Russia connections. Makes you wonder what they are worried about.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#176973: Mar 5th 2017 at 9:33:43 AM

[up] I agree: This smells of Distraction to the highest order.

And unless there is an independent investigation into the supposed wire tapping, I wouldn't trust any investigation led by Mr. "I don't know if the Russians Helped Trump, even though the intelligence agencies I control say so" Sessions.

[down] From the Russian Investigations; if there were an investigation into this supposed wire tapping, he'd be in control of it!

edited 5th Mar '17 9:38:05 AM by DingoWalley1

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#176974: Mar 5th 2017 at 9:34:53 AM

Sessions has already recused himself.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#176975: Mar 5th 2017 at 11:35:10 AM

I can't help but think of they were trying to be distracting that they'd have an easier time going after Hillary Clinton. He's got the whole "lock her up" thing already

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/04/pence-demands-apology-ap-releasing-wifes-email/98757274/

Pence is upset because a story by AP released his wife's private email as part of the story. Apparently the person who did the story didn't realize the email was still active

edited 5th Mar '17 11:41:15 AM by sgamer82


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