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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#170451: Jan 28th 2017 at 3:38:55 PM

A resignation on the Federal Energy Regulatory Comission is likely to delay movement on Keystone XL and DAPL by at least several weeks

The resignation doesn't appear to be a protest one like those in the State Department but it leaves them without a quorum to rule on project proposals.

GameGuruGG Vampire Hunter from Castlevania (Before Recorded History)
Vampire Hunter
#170452: Jan 28th 2017 at 3:42:15 PM

Republicans continue their gerrymandering efforts because it benefits Republicans, not because it benefits Trump. The Republicans are the enemy. Trump is their convenient scapegoat.

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#170453: Jan 28th 2017 at 3:43:21 PM

The whole thing is something of a Xanatos Gambit too. If there really are fewer terrorist attacks in the US (even if they were already really rare) they can claim "see, what did I tell you?" but if there are more terrorist attacks they can still go "see? these are dangerous people!". This sucks all around.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#170454: Jan 28th 2017 at 3:43:48 PM

Governor Cuomo has instructed the Port Authority, the Department of State, and his Counsel's Office to begin searching for legal means of assisting and protecting the rights of those detained at New York airports.

I don't say this every day, but attaboy, Cuomo.

[up] Man, I have thought about that scene so many times since the election.

edited 28th Jan '17 3:44:17 PM by RBluefish

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#170455: Jan 28th 2017 at 3:46:26 PM

@Mad: Yeah, see, that doesn't convince me. Because unless it's like, Priebus himself, that seems untenable. It seems a lot more likely that's just some guy telling people what they want to hear.

Like, if later we get independent confirmation for something that twitter account said, that'd be something, but at the moment there's absolutely no evidence it's a trustworthy source. Which means reading it too much can easily land one with a bunch of really unhelpful biases.

edited 28th Jan '17 3:47:12 PM by Gilphon

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#170456: Jan 28th 2017 at 3:53:28 PM

Rogue POTUS account might be a Republican agent provocateur, heightening the anti-Trump sentiment to accelerate Pence's ascension. The information it's producing seems too targeted.

"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."
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#170457: Jan 28th 2017 at 3:53:30 PM

With what you're all saying, I'm going to predict that if the account is real, it's being managed by Rancid Pubes Reince Priebus himself.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#170458: Jan 28th 2017 at 3:55:25 PM

Reince Priebus is the Daedra Lord of Backstabbing and Sabotage, yo.

Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#170459: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:03:00 PM

I'm putting my money on "fake" myself. It's the most simple explanation, and as much as Trump's presidency seems to exist within The Tyson Zone, there are limits to how closely reality can play out like a high school student's attempt at a political intrigue drama.

edited 28th Jan '17 4:03:29 PM by Kayeka

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#170460: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:03:09 PM

Is the White House taken over by the Harkonnens, or the Thénardiers?

Trump once walked out to "Do you hear the people sing" when he should have done "Master of the House"

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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
#170461: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:07:46 PM

I'm trying my damnedest to not let all the Trumpery become "normal" to me but to be honest I'm failing. My reaction to the Muslim ban was feeling a little disappointed and powerless, not angry. This is, however, simply unacceptable.

EDIT: Oh, I read some comments in the NYT comment section, and that's made me angry. People caring about women and LGBT people only when it's convenient to them, and tarring a region of millions upon millions of people people with the same brush as somehow "incompatible" with US/European values. That makes me angry.

edited 28th Jan '17 4:12:31 PM by LinkToTheFuture

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#170462: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:18:46 PM

"Kellyanne Conway Retweeted Fox News Get used to it. @POTUS is a man of action and impact. Promises made, promises kept. Shock to the system. And he's just getting started"

Fuck.

This.

Bitch.

New Survey coming this weekend!
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#170463: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:20:45 PM

Oh, action and impact is one way to put it alright. Doesn't mean anything good is coming out of it.

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#170464: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:39:07 PM

This guy speaks the truth.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#170465: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:40:26 PM

Steve Bannon is now an official member of the National Security Council's Principal Committee.

The transition to a fascist state is becoming complete in like a week's time.

edited 28th Jan '17 4:43:33 PM by MadSkillz

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#170466: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:42:21 PM

Was just gonna post that.

The right has been radicalized. The only difference in my eyes is they haven't killed people yet.

New Survey coming this weekend!
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#170467: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:45:15 PM

Only a matter of time.

This is becoming sink or swim for Bannon and Trump.

Either we get the Fascist United States or America or they're about to get thrown out/shot in the head.

Ludlow Since: Apr, 2013
#170468: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:48:04 PM

It hard to feel anything but powerless these days. The Republicans control the government at all levels, what little Democratic opposition exists seems to bow to the new government's every whim, and despite all this talk of activism there's truly nothing that us normal people can do. No politician cares about phone calls or emails, especially when they come from nobodies like me who probably wouldn't vote for them anyway.

Everyone say that its apparently my duty to stand up, but the truth is I have no power, no influence.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#170469: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:49:56 PM

Someone said it a few days ago, but they're right. The Republican Party HAS to go. No if ands or buts about it.

New Survey coming this weekend!
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#170470: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:50:52 PM

[up] Again, don't know how to do that without devolving into a Fascist state anyways.

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#170471: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:55:45 PM

You know we all thought that Trump might be Putin's puppet but it seems he's also be Bannon's puppet. That's infinitely worse.

Bannon just wants to see the US burn.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#170472: Jan 28th 2017 at 4:56:50 PM

[up][up][up]In addition to calling your local representative, call your local plutocrat. If they aren't receptive, threaten their pocket, one way or another.

Smaugs are sensitive in the pocket.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#170473: Jan 28th 2017 at 5:03:22 PM

[up][up][up]Try to copy what Germany did after world war two?

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#170474: Jan 28th 2017 at 5:05:08 PM

[up] ... Get invaded by foreign nations, split, and de-radicalized by said foreign powers for like 5 years?

Try doing that to the USA and you just emboldened the Alt-Right Fascists. That, and get nuked on.

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#170475: Jan 28th 2017 at 5:06:47 PM

What they did, not what happened to them.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV

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