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Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#191101: May 31st 2017 at 5:46:50 AM

Pretty sure the US can just veto any action taken against it.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#191102: May 31st 2017 at 5:47:36 AM

Only in the Security Council. They have no bearing on economic sanctions.

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#191103: May 31st 2017 at 5:48:42 AM

Even if everyone else was for it?

Also

Sean Spicer returns with a press briefing for the ages

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/30/sean-spicer-returns-with-a-press-briefing-for-the-ages/

A preview:

Sean Spicer was back Tuesday, and the White House media briefing was better than ever.

President Trump's press secretary opened his first news conference since May 15 with an epic retelling of the president's multi-stop foreign trip. Adjectives used by Spicer included “extraordinary,” “unprecedented” and “historic.”

But the real fun began when Spicer opened the session to questions. The first went to The Washington Post's Philip Rucker, who asked whether Trump knew at the time that his senior adviser, Jared Kushner, sought to create a secret communication channel with Russia in December.

“You're asking if he approves of an action that is not a confirmed action,” Spicer replied.

Huh? The Post reported Kushner's effort on Friday, and the White House did not deny the report or even cast doubt on it. In fact, surrogates including national security adviser H.R. Mc Master, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly and counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway seemed to validate the report by insisting publicly over the next few days that back channels are common, appropriate and good.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#191104: May 31st 2017 at 5:53:03 AM

The president can unilaterally walk out from a treaty, anyway. See Goldwater vs. Carter

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#191105: May 31st 2017 at 5:57:20 AM

Which reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiCEFuBGw6Y

Sorry, markup help still doesn't open for me.

Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#191106: May 31st 2017 at 5:59:44 AM

And the baby boomer generation abandons what little pretense it still maintained at wanting to leave behind a better world for their successors. I don't know why I'm surprised by this, but I am.

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#191107: May 31st 2017 at 6:01:48 AM

I am not surprised he didn't have the guts to say this until after he got back to the USA.

Disgusted, but not surprised
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#191108: May 31st 2017 at 6:03:31 AM

I wonder if #covfefe will be enough to get Trump's Cabinet and Pence to even consider using the 25th (IE, removing the President through a no confidence vote)...

... Knowing them, they'll never do it...

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#191109: May 31st 2017 at 6:04:14 AM

What

Who can figure out the true meaning of "covfefe" ??? Enjoy!

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869858333477523458

What does this even mean?

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#191110: May 31st 2017 at 6:04:49 AM

[up] He's trying to pretend he didn't misspell coverage. SMH

Disgusted, but not surprised
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#191111: May 31st 2017 at 6:05:24 AM

[up][up] ... O_O What the hell?!

Either this is the first joke Trump's made since getting into the White House, or Trump is really going nuts!

edited 31st May '17 6:05:31 AM by DingoWalley1

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#191112: May 31st 2017 at 6:09:19 AM

I'm pretty sure he's joking.

I will be very disappointed in America if there isn't a massive protest march on Washington in response to that piece of garbage's latest stunt.

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
#191113: May 31st 2017 at 6:22:44 AM

I suspect that a staffer with twitter access make the joke, Trump wouldn't make it himself.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#191114: May 31st 2017 at 6:23:38 AM

Trump is planning to withdraw from the Paris agreement.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/05/31/politics/trump-paris-accord/index.html

I hate these people with every fibre of my being. This is our planet's habitability, and my future on the line, you know. What happened to; for our children, and our children's children? Apparently it got replaced with; For money! Screw the consequences.

[down]at least Germany has it together.

edited 31st May '17 6:33:33 AM by megaeliz

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#191115: May 31st 2017 at 6:27:22 AM

Meanwhile Germany has made a deal with India, which will ensure that the economic development in the country will adhere to the agreement.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#191116: May 31st 2017 at 6:28:40 AM

The USA is now in the company of Nicaragua and Syria, the only others who are not in the agreement.

edited 31st May '17 6:28:59 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#191117: May 31st 2017 at 7:09:12 AM

[up]x3 "What happened to; for our children, and our children's children?"

Like I said: it never actually existed, except as a fig leaf to justify their own selfishness and resistance to progress. "I want my children to live a better life than I did, which is why I don't want to see society become more tolerant of anyone that's different from me, or to have any kind of social safety net, while I turn the world they're going to live in into a polluted shithole that can't support any fucking goddamned life whatsoever! I'm totally not doing any of this for my own grafitication, I'm doing it for my children, and that means you all should love me for it!" It's just now that they've stopped bothering with the fiction.

edited 31st May '17 7:14:42 AM by Reflextion

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
Proglottid Since: Mar, 2010
#191118: May 31st 2017 at 7:17:11 AM

"For our children....to clean up the mess because that will be THEIR problem, not ours. More whale meat, please!"

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#191120: May 31st 2017 at 7:37:01 AM

And, to be fair to Nicaragua, they're not signing because the treaty doesn't do enough for them. And Syria is in no condition to sign anything, so...

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#191121: May 31st 2017 at 7:40:33 AM

[up] Yeah, at least they have somewhat legitimate reasons and excuses not to agree.

The USA does not.

Disgusted, but not surprised
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#191122: May 31st 2017 at 7:41:16 AM

Assuming a Dem president in 4 (or 8...0) years, I've been thinking for a while that they're probably going to be so busy trying to undo all the damage Trump and his squad will have done by that point that a lot of people are going to think they aren't actually doing anything, which will probably hurt their reelection chances.

edited 31st May '17 7:42:11 AM by LSBK

nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#191123: May 31st 2017 at 7:46:56 AM

[up]That seems to be the GOP's general strategy.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#191124: May 31st 2017 at 7:53:01 AM

The first result if you type in "co" in Google if Covfefe.

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#191125: May 31st 2017 at 8:06:07 AM

Given the amount of attention on that stupid tweet I'm genuinely suspicious at this point that he intentionally misspelled it to draw attention to the far more grave act of dismissing the Paris accords.


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