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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Tuesday Group chairman: 'We're completely relevant'
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/335526-tuesday-group-co-chairman-were-completely-relevant?amp
That's just funny. Although they do have some decent points, there's not enough of them.
edited 29th May '17 7:10:35 AM by megaeliz
Oh, bother.
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While they do have some points, it still sounds rather pitiful.
I wish they were relevant!
edited 29th May '17 7:21:52 AM by megaeliz
Oh, bother.
Heh, if reasonable sane Republicans were relevant, Trump wouldn't have won the primaries.
Approval rating update: Over the last few days Trump has been holding steady at 39.3%.
Just another day in the life of Jimmy Nutrin
Oh, bother.
No surprise there.
Asgore Adopts Noelle
Trump flip flops on his own (dead) budget; wants to put more money into Healthcare. This is despite his Budget's massive cuts into Welfare Programs and Trumpcare also making massive cuts into Welfare Programs.
It just makes me think his Budget wasn't written by him, and was instead written by some Neo-Con. And considering this is Trump, that is most likely the case anyways.
Oh, bother.
He probably hasn't even read his budget.
Disgusted, but not surprised
The budget isn't written by Trump. There was an article a while ago saying exactly that, but I don't remember what its name was. It is written by Mick Mulvaney if memory serves, a Tea Partier.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Oh, bother.
Yeah, go ahead Trump, annoy the Tea Party again. <grabs popcorn>
Disgusted, but not surprised
I think the Tea Party has figured out by now that Trump has no idea what actually happens in government. For all we know, we could send him a carbon tax bill like only the progressive caucus would approve and he'd sign it with no comments. They probably think the same way, just with different political slant.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Would that it were so simple.
I generally find "small government" politics to be deeply immoral, and if a party that espoused that trash never emerged, America would be better for it.
"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."
Oh, bother.
So-called "small government" advocates tend to be amazingly hypocritical too when it comes to appeasing the USA's religious fundie nutjobs.
They ought to just own up to being advocates for corporatism. Particularly Big Oil and the MIC.
edited 29th May '17 8:11:24 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
No they are not.
First, hardcore fundies and hardcore small government people are not usually the same people. Second, there is a difference between a political compromise and hypocrisy. Third, the idea that upholding morals is the principal reason to have government does exist.
Sorry folks, but hypocrisy is often a matter of opinion and of how much weight one gives to which consideration. Exceedingly bad bludgeon argument, as it were.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Oh, bother.
Eh, I guess. Not that it matters since the same political party panders to both.
If it weren't for our backwards political system, they'd be in separate parties for sure, and perhaps not even in a coalition with each other if the center-right, centrist, and center-left had enough seats to form a government.
A few notes from today's https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2017/05/29/Day-130/ that I'm not certain have come up yet:
Trump is considering big changes at the White House in an effort to contain the escalating Russia investigation that threatens to consume his presidency. “Everything is in play,” an advisor said. Trump may bring back a trio of former campaign officials (Corey Lewandowski, David Bossie and David Urban) to handle communications and political duties related to the Russia investigation, and – shockingly – he’s even considering having lawyers vet his tweets.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-considers-major-changes-amid-escalating-russia-crisis/2017/05/27/44d1a016-4230-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyeing-white-house-shakeup-1495831679
NSA chief: “I would not be concerned” by backchannel communications with Russia. H.R. McMaster didn’t specifically comment on the controversy surrounding Kushner.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/27/politics/jared-kushner-russia-gary-cohn-hr-mcmaster/
The Senate Intelligence Committee wants all of Trump’s Russia-related documents, emails and phone records going back to his campaign’s launch in June 2015. It’s the first time that Trump’s official campaign structure has been drawn into the Senate committee’s ongoing bipartisan investigation.
The Trump campaign likely didn’t preserve digital documents. “You’d be giving us too much credit,” a former aide said. “The idea of document retention did not come up. The idea of some formal structure did not come up.” Failure to keep track of emails, messages and other records could expose Trump’s current and former aides to criminal charges down the line.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/27/trump-russia-probe-risk-238878
Tourism to the US has declined 11% since Trump took office, hitting a low of 16% in March
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/travel/tourism-u-s-has-been-decline-trump-took-office-n764206
edited 29th May '17 8:55:21 AM by sgamer82
Honestly, I don't have a problem with that. I wouldn't want anyone to visit America as it is now anyway. Maybe in 4-8 years or so...
Oh, bother.
I feel pretty bad about this, even if I can't blame them. It makes me really unhappy that Trump and the xenophobia he has enabled and encouraged is scaring away people.
I feel like having some backchannel diplomacy with other countries is probably acceptable and in some cases preferable (like was discussed a few pages ago, sometimes you can't fly your jet directly to whoever you want to talk to). Of course, there's a huge difference between intelligence agencies talking to each other and the President of the United States (and apparently everyone else in the White House) being owned by Russia, so the NSA director can stuff it.
It's been fun.
I don't think that it really qualifies as a backchannel when it basically means to do deals behind the back of everyone, the white house, the secret service, the foreign minister, on the turf of a foreign power. That sounds more like espionage to me.
edited 29th May '17 10:01:53 AM by PhysicalStamina
It's one thing to make a spectacle. It's another to make a difference.
Oh, bother.
kkhohoho is from Minnesota. Last time I checked, Minnesota is part of the USA.
Exactly. Mind you, some of us would like to join up with our spiritual brothers and sisters in Canada, but what can you do?
(Also, my little American flag beneath my Evil Cigarette-Chomping Santa avatar should have been a tip-off. Just saying...)
edited 29th May '17 9:59:14 AM by kkhohoho
Probably Cruz, his dad basically raised him with a messish complex.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.