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Its a one way trip – state facilitated suicide.
There's our solution, tell trump and his family that they can go on the first mission to mars to secure planning/building rights for the mars trump tower but he will need to negotiate directly with the martians upon landing.
Problem solved, and for an extra kick perhaps fudge the trajectory calculations for the spaceship and send the entire family into deep space, never to be seen again.
I would be the last person to rush in and defend the orange knobclanger,but did he really demand an early Mars trip? On the NASA interview it looks like he is just making a (crap) joke about how soon he would like it to happen. Still,it was worth watching some of the footage just to see Kate Rubins trying to keep a straight face during some of his cringeworthy chat.
Haven't seen the video but here is the reporting of it that is linked above:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/trump-offered-nasa-unlimited-funding-to-go-to-mars-by-2020.html
There’s our solution, tell trump and his family that they can go on the first mission to mars to secure planning/building rights for the mars trump tower but he will need to negotiate directly with the martians upon landing.
Ark Fleet Ship B
Smart move on the part of the Dems - they’ll pay for the wall, if Trump leaves the country!
If they can only find a country that’ll take him...
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/dems-agree-to-fund-wall-and-reopen-government-if-trump-leaves-country-forever
OK, so Sarah I Heart Huckabees literally said that the US government is going to leave climate change in the hands of god. I am in awe of that woman.
Luckily God has preemptively hoofed her in the slats with his liberal snowflake publication, "the bible"
Just as a matter of interest, does this "no pay for government employees" extend to the politicians?
does this “no pay for government employees” extend to the politicians?
Of course not. Its only for the plebs. A bunch of senior administration types actually got a payrise since the pay freeze in place for them expired due to the shutdown.
I like the multi-millionaire Commerce Secretary questioning why the workers don't just take out bank loans instead of going to food banks. A comment like that would be political suicide here but no doubt just improves his standing with republican voters.
It's crazy though that government employee wage funding isn't excluded from this sort of budget approval mess, sure increases like if Trump wanted 1m more border agents should need congressional approval but not pre-existing employee wages.
Roger Stone has been charged by Muller another one in court.
7 charges against Roger Stone, are we entering the end game for Mueller?
A leaked draft of the Mueller report concludes that Trump has conspired with Russia! (Apparently reported by Bernstein the watergate journalist)
Futon - what's your source?
Investigation not complete; likely that more 'big names' will be getting FBI wake-uop calls
The Mueller team have leaked nothing to date; leaked draft is fake news.
There's no way the report is out there, Mueller is nowhere near done.
FAKE NEWS!
From the highly regarded podcast ‘Mueller She Wrote’ - Bernstein has spoken to someone who has seen Muellers draft report, Bernstein has not added anything more apparently ...... so make of it what you will. The podcast has been very good, so far!
Having followed the podcast for a while now, it’s an inescapable conclusion really.
He said, she said; spoof!
Trump getting impeached and going to prison would go some way towards making up for the crushing disappointment that is Brexit. In the years to come as my family huddle round the last of the burning furniture and enjoy a candle lite rat dinner the thought of Trump behind bars would warm my heart.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1088832908494888961
I feel a tweetstormy coming...
NO COLLUSION!
Apparently our Nigel could well get implicated too - that would be lovely.
From the highly regarded podcast ‘Mueller She Wrote’ – Bernstein has spoken to someone who has seen Muellers draft report, Bernstein has not added anything more apparently …… so make of it what you will. The podcast has been very good, so far!
Having followed the podcast for a while now, it’s an inescapable conclusion really.
Then I'd say they are using their credibility to speculate, this is an investigation where nobody has seen or heard Muller speak publicly I think, there has been zero leaks since they started it gives too much ammo to the Republicans.
I feel a tweetstormy coming…
Especially since the TSA workers taking the entirely reasonable approach of "no pay no work" seems to getting close to the critical level where services are going to get interrupted.
I have to admit I was skeptical about his claim about draining the swamp but he does seem to be delivering this with the number of his staff ending up in prison/under investigation.
Especially since the TSA workers taking the entirely reasonable approach of “no pay no work” seems to getting close to the critical level where services are going to get interrupted.
Mass walkouts shutting down public transportation, air traffic, and other 'vital' economic services is what they need to be doing at this point.
In other news, Congress is going after his magic rouble tree.
There is so much going down right now that it is a full time job keeping on top of all the different strands of potential criminality.
I love the fact the FBI did despite not being paid because of the shutdown...
entitlement and lying run through the core of these people so much that it probably never occurred to them that bullshitting congress or the fbi would get them into trouble as it never did in the past.
NYT - Stone and Wikileaks Sitting in a tree
So in a HIGNFY Style the advent calendar of indictments keeps revealing stuff, the dots are getting joined up here.
The Trump Campaign is referenced 24 times in the indictment 😅
Looks like the orange bawbag blinked first - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47007081
Not a good day for trump
Stone in cuffs, Bannon up next (he wont go down without kicking & squealing)
And turns out Trump cant make deal with democrats either
🙂
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bitch slapped by a women, his ego must be in despair, someones going to cop it !
Earlier in the white house garden
Ouch!!
Orange ****nugget is gonna lash out after this one
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1088888030901882880
So he backed down, expect a war or something to deflect from this.
I'm sure he'll claim he didn't actually want a wall at all #fakenews
It’s worth reading this piece by David Axelrod on the state that dTrump has found himself, and just what a foe Pelosi is:
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/26/opinions/pelosis-brutal-civics-lesson-for-trump-axelrod/
^ From that link above ^
"Trump has boxed himself into a corner"
Who else could manage that in an oval room. 🙂
the brietbart comments on the agent orange folding on his 7 high are quite amusing.
Looks like the orange bawbag blinked first –> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47007081
I'm guessing he's agreed to this to try and divert from Roger Stone, next up - Venezuela and threatening "a strong response" - then back to another shutdown
PrinceJohn
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Apparently our Nigel could well get implicated too – that would be lovely.
Ok, it won't happen but boy, if we all wished hard enough???
What the hell is going on with Global Waming?
using that term instead of climate change was a mistake I think, allows comments like this.
No, nothing to do with terminology, he is just thick.
No, nothing to do with terminology, he is just thick.
It’s everything to do with terminology. Watch Vice...
Eg
Vehicle Excise Duty vs Road Tax.
Estate/Inheritance Tax vs Death Tax.
Affordable Healthcare Act vs Obamacare
What a dolt.
Is it really hitting -60°F (wind chill) there though? That's -51°C. Blimey that's damn cold!
Puts the UK Wintergeddon Snowpocalypse into perspective.
Seems the poor boy just can't get qualified staff:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47061509
Mitch! McConnell! has actually been shitter than Donald! Trump! today. Getting more people to vote is officially a democrat power grab.
Well, voting is a power grab of sorts. By US citizens.
News just in: Trump's shutdown actually led to a surge of immigrants heading in just to give birth.
This is amazing. The guy is a rambling nutter.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-new-york-times_uk_5c543780e4b043e25b1b8514
Tbh honest if you read any of his transcripts they make no sense.
He pretty much perpetually reiterates what his fans want to hear regardless of whether it’s true.
PMSL @ GrahamS’s post above!🤣
He pretty much perpetually reiterates what his fans want to hear regardless of whether it’s true.
He’s the President, truth is what he says it is, even when he contradicts himself from sentence to sentence. He’s demanding money to build his wall, then claiming moments later that the wall is already being built and needs money to finish it.
This report from Time magazine about dTrump’s regular intelligence briefings is both enlightening and deeply worrying.
What’s that expression about military intelligence being an oxymoron? Does this show that Agent Orange is an eight-sided idiot?
http://time.com/5518947/donald-trump-intelligence-briefings-national-security/
Interesting piece about Mueller on the BBC - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47094301 - basically he's not interested in Agent Orange but whether any laws have been broken. Didn't realise that 9/11 happened in his second week in charge of the FBI.
Well State of the Union address to look forward to tonight, but here was a fun little thing fromthe Post today:
Rejoice! The president is doing a lot of nothing.
A leak of internal White House schedules has caused a to-do over what President Trump is doing — or, rather, what he may not be doing. According to Axios, which received the leak of 51 daily schedules since the midterm elections, Trump has spent about 60 percent of his scheduled time in “Executive Time” — the period during which the president, often in his residence, watches TV, tweets, talks on the phone, has impromptu meetings and (very) occasionally reads something.
He spent 297 hours in Executive Time since Nov. 7, compared with 77 hours for policy planning, legislative strategy and making video recordings, combined. Though he has a seemingly endless tolerance for Executive Time, policy meetings tend to be allowed 45 minutes, and can be as brief as 15.
The director of Oval Office operations, Madeleine Westerhout, is deeply aggrieved, tweeting that the leak was a “disgraceful breach of trust” and insisting that Trump “is working harder for the American people than anyone in recent history.”
Indeed, it would not be easy to watch TV for seven hours a day (he had that much Executive Time the day after the election and again on Jan. 18). Sometimes the idleness is so taxing that Executive Time must be broken up — by an hour-long lunch break.
Westerhout needn’t be so defensive about the president’s loafing. The vast majority of Americans who are displeased with whatever it is he’s doing should be delighted to learn that he is not doing a lot of it. Given the harm and chaos caused by his actions, inaction is a welcome reprieve.
Among the many things the president is currently not doing is appointing people to work for the federal government. His administration could be the cast of a Broadway musical: an acting chief of staff, acting attorney general, acting defense secretary, acting interior secretary, acting budget director, acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency. An analysis done by The Post and the Partnership for Public Service finds that Trump has not troubled himself to nominate people for 150 of 705 key Senate-confirmed positions.
Nearly 60 percent of such positions are unfilled at the Justice, Labor and Interior departments — coincidentally the same proportion of the president’s day spent in Executive Time. But people are not needed in these positions because the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, runs the entire government with the same sure-footedness that led him to outsource the United States’ Middle East policy to Saudi Arabia.
What Trump is actually doing during Executive Time should be obvious to anybody who looks at the man. He is performing his beauty regimen.
Katie Rogers of the New York Times just did an investigative deep-dive into Trump’s routine and reported, among other things: “A half-dozen current and former aides and people close to Mr. Trump say he has long been self-sufficient in matters of grooming.”
This is impressive, because his grooming is extensive: By Trump’s own account, shampooing with Head & Shoulders and then an hour of drying. Only then does the extensive combing and hair-spraying begin. In addition, there is the coloring of both hair and skin to whatever bad ombre of orange he desires. Self-tanning creams can take four to eight hours to do their magic before they can be washed off. That’s a lot of executive time.
It’s easy to see a hypothetical presidential schedule that goes like this:
●8 a.m.: Hair washing (30 mins)
●8:30 a.m.: Hair drying (60 mins)
●9:30 a.m.: Hair combing and spraying (30 mins)
●10 a.m.: Skin oranging (4 hours)
●2 p.m.: Makeup application (30 mins)
Would sound better if presented like this:
●8 a.m.: Executive Time (4 hours)
●Noon: Lunch (1 hour)
●1 p.m.: Executive Time: (1½ hours).
Let us not, then, give the White House a hard time about the president’s leisurely schedule. The more time he is applying orange agents to himself, the less time he is doing harm to others.
The importance of keeping the president inactive was confirmed again in recent days by equities analyst Barry Ritholtz. He made two stock portfolios: one of companies Trump has touted (he calls this the Oligarch Index) and one of companies Trump has disparaged (the Drain the Swamp Index). Writing for Bloomberg, he reported that companies Trump disparaged gained 43 percent in 2017, more than twice the growth of the companies Trump praised.
And in 2018? Trump-touted companies fell 23 percent, while those he disfavored gained 6 percent — 12 points better than the S&P 500.
The president, it would seem, has a reverse Midas touch — yet another reason he should have all the Executive Time he desires.
Oh dear another leak
Good news though. We're going to ask the President Tango to sort out the Irish for us:
NYT fact checks state of the union
El presidente pants on fire gets the old random fact generator out for his big occasion
Now then...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47166938
Surely Donny wouldn't be daft enough to get involved with his mate at the Enquirer blackmailing his enemy Bezos with some dirty texts, quite possibly hacked by the Saudis because they are irate at coverage in the Washington Post? When already under heavy scrutiny from New York prosecutors over the Stormy Daniels business?
Because that would be beyond dumb, although the irony of Trump being taken down not by his own wandering dick, but that of Jeff Bezos, would not be wasted on me...
Here’s the latest from The Awesome Orange Orator. Trippingly off the tongue...
Since the founding of our nation, many of our greatest strides, from gaining our independence to abolition of civil rights... have been led by people of faith and started in prayer.
... of course, even if he’d managed to say what he meant, he’d still be wrong.
abolition of civil rights… have been led by people of faith and started in prayer
Can't argue with that. Anyone for Roe vs Wade?
The big question is does Bezos have the cash to extract the ‘golden shower tape’ from Vlad?
Even with all of Bezos's $bns. Investigations into the Saudis always get brushed under the carpet, still....
https://twitter.com/Will_Bunch/status/1093859179436101633?s=19
Or wrapped up on in one!
Now then…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47166938
Surely Donny wouldn’t be daft enough to get involved with his mate at the Enquirer blackmailing his enemy Bezos with some dirty texts, quite possibly hacked by the Saudis because they are irate at coverage in the Washington Post? When already under heavy scrutiny from New York prosecutors over the Stormy Daniels business?
Because that would be beyond dumb, although the irony of Trump being taken down not by his own wandering dick, but that of Jeff Bezos, would not be wasted on me…
Bezos’ article is here..
https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310f
Best line in it? His comments about instructing his investigator to find out what’s happening...
“I asked him to prioritize protecting my time since I have other things I prefer to work on and to proceed with whatever budget he needed to pursue the facts in this matter.”
Picking a fight with the richest person in the world, the one with f-you levels of money? Smart move.
Picking a fight with the richest person in the world, the one with f-you levels of money? Smart move.
Especially when that particular businessman is making money hand over fist, while ‘the bestest businessman ever, in the history of the world, the bigliest, and that’s a fact’, is managing to make the huge fortune he inherited into a small fortune.
Yeah for all of the best and brightest Trump was going to get in to help them, he seems to have missed the actual brightest and best and in turn set about pissing them off.
bluerich
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Or wrapped up on in one!
🙂
Wonder if Bezos can be bothered to push it all the way?
though obviously silicon valley rich kids donate mostly to the Democratic party I don't think the republican party are too keen on a protracted public spat and watching all those additional dollars going to the Liberals
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47247726
And boom, there goes the national emergency card
President Donald Trump will sign a bi-partisan funding bill and then declare a national emergency to fund his wall, top Republican Mitch McConnell says.
Doing so would allow Mr Trump to use military funds for a US-Mexico wall.
Speaking on the Senate floor, the majority leader announced Mr Trump's plan just before the upper chamber votes on the compromise bill.
The bill would avert another government shutdown if it passes Congress and is signed by the president.
This ain't going to be pretty.
His press conference is beyond parody, just talking utter rubbish.
Making America Grate Again.
"I've saved the slaughter of 3 million people in idlib province", they want to give me the nobel peace prize"
ff sake, just shoot the orange ****er now and do us all a favour.
This takes throwing your toys out the pram because you couldn't have what you wanted to a whole new level.
I liked when he started singing about court rulings. I want to see Theresa May dancing to it
Agent Orange’s best quote: “ I didn’t need to do this, but...”
https://boingboing.net/2019/02/15/trump-admits-his-national-em.html