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Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#186001: May 1st 2017 at 1:30:59 PM

Hell, my reps aren't moderates and I still want to ask them what 24 million Americans ever did to them to deserve losing their health care.

As for being dead in the Senate, I feel we shouldn't be so confident about that - the fillibuster is dead. Oh, sure, it's still on the books, but the Gorsuch vote prove that the moment it stands in the way of the Silver Legion Republican Party, it will be revoked and the GOP agenda rammed through 51:49.

SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#186002: May 1st 2017 at 1:37:23 PM

So apparently Trump is just now learning about the Civil War.

My various fanfics.
math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#186003: May 1st 2017 at 1:38:57 PM

I mean, his dad was a Klansman, makes sense he wouldn't know anything about the Civil War.

Him being a complete idiot everywhere else is, of course, entirely incidental and mostly his own fault.

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#186004: May 1st 2017 at 1:42:44 PM

There is a conflict of interest regarding Trump's meeting with Duterte.

Yes, yes there is a Trump property in Manila.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#186005: May 1st 2017 at 1:44:28 PM

Sean Hannity Eyes Fox News Exit, Insiders Say

Sean Hannity is looking to leave Fox News, according to sources, following the resignation of Fox News co-president Bill Shine officially on Monday.

Shine was Hannity’s his long-time ally whom he personally recommended the network hire two decades ago to produce Hannity & Colmes. In recent days, Hannity warned it would be the “total end” of Fox News should Shine leave, and he rallied conservative activists to back him up.

Initially, insiders said, Hannity’s army of lawyers had hoped to discuss with Fox ways of protecting his 8-year-old primetime show, amid fears that Lachlan and James Murdoch—fresh off the ousting of Bill O’Reilly—were looking to push the network away from hard-right politics.

However, with Shine’s departure on Monday, one source told The Daily Beast, there’s no reason for Hannity to stay. “The network now belongs to the Murdoch sons,” another Fox insider said after learning that Shine was gone.

LAWD. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

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speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#186006: May 1st 2017 at 1:49:32 PM

Man, they're dropping like flies over at Fox News.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#186007: May 1st 2017 at 1:52:23 PM

So, about the spending bill. It's so heavily slanted towards Democratic interests that it's unreal.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#186008: May 1st 2017 at 1:54:19 PM

I'm kind of curious about why the younger Murdochs are trying to pull the network away from the far right. Why do any differently from what their daddy did?

Do not obey in advance.
Gaon Smoking Snake from Grim Up North Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#186009: May 1st 2017 at 1:56:07 PM

Declining profit, maybe? Realization that Trump is a sinking ship and they have to be "on the right side of history"?

"All you Fascists bound to lose."
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#186010: May 1st 2017 at 2:00:16 PM

Among other things, many of the programs the evil dog wanted to cut get small raises. There is even money to counteract Russian influence in Europe.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#186011: May 1st 2017 at 2:07:29 PM

I'm kind of curious about why the younger Murdochs are trying to pull the network away from the far right. Why do any differently from what their daddy did?

Probably a difference in ideology and knowing that stoking racists sentiments aren't profitable in the long run.

You don't want to be known as the "not racist but #1 with racists" channel when half the country is a minority.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#186012: May 1st 2017 at 2:11:15 PM

Might be a bit late but here is Trump, not even in the first year of his presidency and he still acting like he still campaigning for presidency, spends more time looking for praise and he finds it in his rallies, attacks whoever criticizes him and would rather spend his time acting like he is the president rather than being the president.

elephant in the dining room

The Donald Trump skipped the White House correspondents’ dinner

He laid into the media at a campaign-style rally in Pennsylvania instead

“He made that up,” said Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times on CNN on the morning of April 30th, adding that “he does that sometimes.” Mr Baquet was referring to President Donald Trump’s claim, made to an adoring crowd at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania the day before, that the New York Times had to apologise for the way it had covered Mr Trump during the presidential campaign. It had not. Mr Baquet said the Times was tough and aggressive in its coverage of the president, but always fair.

Mr Trump’s speech in Harrisburg was remarkable not for the familiar boasting about his achievements, the ritualistic promises to build his wall, his talk about lawless immigrants and his vow to repeal and replace Obamacare, but for the amount of time he spent whacking the media. For almost 15 minutes, at the start of his speech, he talked about the failing Times, which he said could not even sell their valuable real estate in Manhattan lucratively, and had to move to a “very ugly office building in a very crummy location” (the new building of The Times was designed by Renzo Piano, an Italian architect famous for his aesthetically pleasing work). Mr Trump lambasted the ‘fake news’ propagated by CNN and MSNBC. “Their priorities are not my priorities, and not your priorities,” he said in the Pennsylvania farm-show complex arena, which, despite his claims that people were waiting outside to get in, had some empty seats. “If the media’s job is to be honest and tell the truth, the media deserves a very, very big fat failing grade”.

The reason for this eruption of anti-media rhetoric? The White House Correspondents’ Association’s dinner, an annual gala for which Hollywood comes to DC. Mr Trump loves few things more than glamorous dinners with influential people; he may have skipped it because he was made fun of when he attended and knows that most of the dinner’s guests abhor his politics. “As you may know, there's another big gathering taking place tonight in Washington, DC. Did you hear about it? A large group of Hollywood actors and Washington media are consoling each other in a hotel ballroom in our nation's capital right now,” he said, “and I could not possibly be more thrilled than to be more than 100 miles away from Washington's swamp, spending my evening with all of you, and with a much, much larger crowd, and much better people, right?"

Mr Trump was the first president to miss the gala since Ronald Reagan did so in 1981 because he was recovering from an assassination attempt. Hasan Minhaj, the comedian hosting the dinner, had been asked to keep clear of Mr Trump, but towards the end of the evening he said he needed to address the elephant in the room. "The leader of our country is not here. And that's because he lives in Moscow. It's a very long flight. As for the other guy, I think he's in Pennsylvania because he can't take a joke."

The crowd in Harrisburg, meanwhile, loved the red meat rhetoric from their president. Towards the end of his nearly hour-long speech Mr Trump read the lyrics of a song by Al Wilson called “The snake”, as he had repeatedly done during the campaign. “‘Take me in tender woman, take me in, for heaven's sake,” cried Mr Trump. “‘Take me in, oh tender woman,’ sighed the vicious snake.” His recitation was dedicated to the secretary of homeland security, John Kelly. And in case the audience didn’t get it, Mr Trump helpfully explained that it was a metaphor for “the border”.

The crowd was ecstatic. The president loves whipping his fans into a frenzy and said that he might return to Harrisburg at the same time next year. But he might also, he said, attend the correspondents’ dinner and make it “more exciting for them”.

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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#186013: May 1st 2017 at 2:20:29 PM

Like let's look at this from a genuine psychological prospective. How is your ego so fragile and your thin so skin that you're the most powerful man on Earth, and that's STILL not enough?

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Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#186014: May 1st 2017 at 2:22:12 PM

The guy doesn't know how to be president. At best, he can only be a TV President (while the actual adults like Mc Master do their best to clean up after him).

But even then, it turns out that making new episodes is still hard. So he has to resort to campaign reruns.

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#186015: May 1st 2017 at 2:25:59 PM

Sean Hannity Eyes Fox News Exit, Insiders Say

He should be. The way the wind is blowing is obvious at this point, and everyone knows that your resume looks better if you resign instead of being fired. If Hannity bails, he can make up whatever reason he wants as his rationale for leaving.

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CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#186016: May 1st 2017 at 2:29:55 PM

"So, about the spending bill. It's so heavily slanted towards Democratic interests that it's unreal."

Oh, happy day. The Republicans will tear each other apart over this and the carnage will be glorious.

....right?

"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."
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#186017: May 1st 2017 at 2:30:19 PM

Hey, maybe Fox News can change its motto. This sounds good: "Hey, women, we're getting rid of all the highly-paid men who sexually assault you, so consider working for us, pretty please."

edited 1st May '17 2:30:45 PM by Fighteer

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#186018: May 1st 2017 at 2:33:04 PM

Hannity sexually assaulted women too?

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#186019: May 1st 2017 at 2:34:23 PM

I wouldn't be surprised, but I don't recall anything specific about that. It's indisputable that Fox has abetted a culture of sexual harassment, though.

edited 1st May '17 2:34:42 PM by Fighteer

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TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#186020: May 1st 2017 at 2:37:26 PM

I joked about them becoming an all-female network before, but at this rate it might actually happen.

edited 1st May '17 2:37:42 PM by TheRoguePenguin

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#186021: May 1st 2017 at 2:40:44 PM

Yes, Hannity's been accused. Right-wing blogger Debbie Schlussel has stated that Hannity tried to get her to come to a hotel with him twice and, when she refused, she found herself no longer welcome on the show.

Link.

“I wasn’t booked on his show again, and he called me and yelled at me,” Schlussel said. “It was made clear to me that I didn’t go back to his hotel with him after. I got a very weird feeling about the whole thing, and I kind of knew I wouldn’t be back on his show.”

She added: “This kind of stuff is all over the place at Fox News and anything that has to do with Sean Hannity.”

edited 1st May '17 2:41:36 PM by TobiasDrake

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IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
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#186022: May 1st 2017 at 2:40:50 PM

EDIT: [nja] by [up]

edited 1st May '17 2:41:32 PM by IFwanderer

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pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#186023: May 1st 2017 at 2:44:36 PM

Back in The '80s, newspaper columnist Mike Royko proposed the idea of a Figurehead President, who would be the official face of the US government, but wield no real power whatsoever. He would be strictly a personality who could go on TV, wave to the crowd, try to be witty, and tell lies to the public.

Royko had no idea how true this idea would turn out to be... and lucky for him, he didn't live to see it happen.

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Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#186024: May 1st 2017 at 2:56:17 PM

[up]The problem is that Trump absolutely has power, if he was a figurehead he'd be less destructive.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
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#186025: May 1st 2017 at 3:12:54 PM

[up]I know, and what's also frightening is that Trump has absolutely no clue as to the extent/limits of his power as a Non-Figurehead President.

IMO, what would be even more frightening would be for him to find out.

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