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HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#179801: Mar 27th 2017 at 9:17:17 AM

Probably won't get learned, though.

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#179802: Mar 27th 2017 at 9:20:14 AM

[up] I hardly think that's a bad thing though. Fiery rhetoric and big dreams are a starting point, and while it's very often the case, perhaps almost universally the case that such rhetoric and grand visions never come to fruition in the way their originators intended, they can and do produce meaningful long term reevaluations among the political elite about what is possible and permissible.

edited 27th Mar '17 9:21:43 AM by CaptainCapsase

StarOutlaw Since: Nov, 2010
#179803: Mar 27th 2017 at 10:26:10 AM

Trump's Gallup approval rating has dropped sharply to 36%, the lowest yet. I expect it'll bounce back up a bit in the next few days, but there does seem to be a trend of it steadily dropping every week.

fruitpork Since: Oct, 2010
#179804: Mar 27th 2017 at 11:12:46 AM

I suspect it's still gonna trend downward over time. Bigger question: what's his approval rating among only Republicans? Once it drops before 50 on that scale we'll see actual progress.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#179805: Mar 27th 2017 at 11:15:42 AM

So guess where Nunes' got the Information that Trump and his team were incidentally picked up by Intelligence Agencies? From the freakin' WHITE HOUSE! At least, that's what he claims. Supposedly, someone from Trump's team got that information, showed it to Nunes at the White House on Monday, and then Tuesday Nunes went to the President and the Press.

Nunes needs to go! Even Sean Spicer says that this smells like complete bull!

edited 27th Mar '17 11:17:34 AM by DingoWalley1

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?
#179806: Mar 27th 2017 at 11:16:48 AM

Would it still trend downwards, or more importantly stay down, when Trump is out of the news though?
(Perhaps Trump's antics may never leave the news cycle, making this moot, but I really don't like the implications of Trump and his cronies doing something newsworthy every single day.)

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
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#179807: Mar 27th 2017 at 12:09:46 PM

I'm not sure Trump will do something terrible every day. But the man just can't get go, he has to have the last word. So he'll be the news all the time because anything from a damning scandal to another Twitter rant will keep going for a week because he won't stop feeding the fire.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#179808: Mar 27th 2017 at 1:02:11 PM

[up] And meanwhile, the rest of the Teapublicans will happily take advantage of everyone paying attention to the monkey to pass all their bills to tear down the government while simultaneously making it a capital offense to even think anything negative about the Glorious Leader.

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#179809: Mar 27th 2017 at 1:05:38 PM

They've done a piss poor job of passing those bills so far, thanks to their monumental (and predictable) incompetence at actually legislating. So there's hope yet.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
fruitpork Since: Oct, 2010
#179810: Mar 27th 2017 at 1:59:33 PM

[up]there are several bills to completely abolish both the epa and the department of education ready to pass, though.

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#179811: Mar 27th 2017 at 2:14:03 PM

It'll cause damage, but both of those are liable to either not be able to pass, or to backfire hard. The education one especially. I could see things getting to the point that universities and colleges outright refuse to take any students from certain states because the education systems have degraded just that much.

And the EPA? If the EPA is gone, more Flints are going to happen. And people living in those places will make the connection.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#179812: Mar 27th 2017 at 2:18:14 PM

[up]HARVARD: All right kids, let's see if you've got what it takes to get into Harvard! Let's start with something simple, shall we? What's 2+2?

KIDS: Uh, what's a 2?

HARVARD: ...I'm going to go cry now.

edited 27th Mar '17 2:19:08 PM by kkhohoho

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#179813: Mar 27th 2017 at 2:42:10 PM

I can kind of see the philosophy behind trying to reduce the government, even if I disagree. However, of all government departments to axe the Department of Education and the EPA would be near the very bottom of that list.

It just doesn't make any sense to me.

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PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#179815: Mar 27th 2017 at 2:47:22 PM

That's good, right?

i'm tired, my friend
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#179816: Mar 27th 2017 at 2:49:33 PM

Good for Massachusetts at least. I'm not sure how it would work in practice without other states signing on.

3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#179817: Mar 27th 2017 at 2:54:04 PM

not sure that video works outside of Germany but Trump now claims he never 'wanted to repeal Obamacare' and how everyone heard his speeches.

Followed by 50 seconds of speeches where he said exactly that.

#ThatsYourPOTUS

edited 27th Mar '17 2:54:21 PM by 3of4

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megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#179818: Mar 27th 2017 at 3:01:01 PM

The interesting part of this, though, is that is was specifically drafted in response to trump wanting to kill the EPA.

"State Senator Jamie Eldridge, one of three legislators who first filed the bill, pointed out that even if the Trump administration refuses to act on climate change, states can wage their own war. He said in a statement, β€œMassachusetts has been a leader on alternative energy policy for over a decade, and now with federal assaults on efforts to combat climate change, it will be up to individual states to protect the environmental and health interests of the public.”

http://inhabitat.com/massachusetts-lawmakers-sponsor-100-renewable-energy-bill/

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#179819: Mar 27th 2017 at 3:34:55 PM

In before the party of states rights tries to interfere

Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#179820: Mar 27th 2017 at 3:37:37 PM

For those people who are hoping that a future president can fix what Trump and the GOP are doing, they've started doing this:

Trump strikes down teacher, school regulations

This article is about Trump repealing the teacher preparation and school accountability rules that will govern things like training regulations for school educators and the like. However, not only do the bills Trump signed repeal those laws, they also make it illegal for future presidents to do anything to restore what Trump is repealing.

Trump signed the bills Monday, not only eliminating the Obama-era education rules, but also prohibiting future presidents from issuing similar rules.

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MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from πŸ€” Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#179821: Mar 27th 2017 at 3:49:02 PM

Is that even legal. Can the Supreme Court challenge this?

tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Never Trust
#179822: Mar 27th 2017 at 3:54:46 PM

The Supreme Court cant challenge anything. they have to wait until a legal case challenging it makes it's way to them.

Trump delenda est
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#179823: Mar 27th 2017 at 4:05:15 PM

If he's dumb enough to actually write in something that says "neener neener you can't undo this" you can damn well bet that some later president will challenge that, and likely win. Because that's fucking moronic and impractical. Limits on presidential power are supposed to come from the judicial or legislative branches, not from previous presidents.

Also, prohibited doesn't seem quite as severe as illegal, but whatever. I'd like to see the actual passage that's about, because this is an article very scant on details. It's quite too short to actually give details.

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?
#179824: Mar 27th 2017 at 4:26:39 PM

Nah. Legislative vetos and executive orders binding future presidents are nonstarters, but this was done through "bicameralism and presentment."
They followed the steps its constitutional, if highly immoral, because Congress passed—and Trump signed away—restrictions on powers that Congress had granted in the first place.
Doesn't mean a future Congress can't change it back, just you have to go through a future Congress to change it back.

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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
#179825: Mar 27th 2017 at 5:01:25 PM

Yeah while congress (with Trump's approval) can bind a future president a future congress can simply ubind them at any time. Which just shows how important it is for the Dems to retake congress.

edited 27th Mar '17 5:01:53 PM by Silasw

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