Bigly Better Wages

Just. Do. Better.

I'd pay a lot for Trump to tweet about OJ.

That's what I'm hoping for (... and then a leak).

So, quiet evening for this thread. While the latest story tells us that 45 has just been, you know, mildly curious how this whole "pardon thing" works, and whether it's okay for him to use it on, just say for instance, family members or even himself.

But, "nothingburger," got it.

Side note: that's a hell of a leak.

Kinda feels like a Fri night massacre is coming sometime, somehow ...

Bye Spicey... we'll miss you :(

Not that I think Spicer would've been good under normal circumstances, but he definitely had one of the most difficult press secretary assignments ever.

Sean, get out there and lie about crowd sizes!
Aye, aye, captain.

Sean, get out there and lie about Russia!
Aye, aye, captain.

Sean, hide in the bushes so no one can find you!
Aye, aye, captain.

Sean, you're fat.
Aye, aye, captain.

Sean, you're gonna have a new boss.
No way, Jose! I'm out.

I'm waiting to see who is so mentally damaged that they're willing to take that job now.

Some reports that Reince may be outta here today as well.

If I'm Trump, the first name I'm calling is ... Meghan McCain

Spicer quits amid White House feud - POLITICO

apparently the guy mentioned here-scaramucci

Certainly not a fan of Spicer, but he had a pretty impossible job-make donald trump look presidential. Hopefully he takes a long vacation on a island far from the US where there are no press to bother him anymore.

Spicer seems like a good guy given an impossible task.

The book deals that will eventually come out of this administration are going to be amazing.

And writes a book about the whole experience while he is there. I can't imagine someone having a tougher job in any type of PR position than this guy had.

Spicer chose to actively participate in countless bogus stories. Remember, he didn't resign because the bullshit got too deep, he quit because he doesn't like his new boss.

He doesn't deserve much of our sympathy.

Dola

It sure looks like Mooch is a Wall Street Dem that decided there was more money and fame in rabid Trumpism.

Well Scar seems to handle BSing quite well.

Keep draining that swamp

Agree, he lost any sympathy from me during the inauguration attendance fiasco. From there on out it was all on him.

New report states that Sessions did discuss the Trump campaign during his undisclosed meetings.

Sounds like a leak from Trump camp. They want him gone.

I agree with this.

Looking forward to his book.

Yep, hope he enjoys his bag 'o dicks.

Doing anything they can to get someone who will squash Mueller before he gives us President Hatch.

Can we all agree to ignore this Sessions news and make jokes about Sean Spicer stealing a mini fridge for the next 24 hours.

With all the drama and healthcare reform seemingly stuck, its looking less likely that the Wall and Tax reform will start / be done this year.

Really wanted tax reform.

Is there really some story involving Spicer and minifridges out there? Please tell me there is. That would make my day.

Hopefully he will also be wearing two different shoes, like a Bruno Magli in honor of OJ, and I don't know, a hightop white Converse?

Needlessly ask and ye shall reluctantly receive

But will he do the fandango?

It's criminal this man does not continue to be the press secretary. He's quite clearly about as well suited to this President as anyone alive.

A 12% "regret rate" seems pretty high. I wonder what that number would be for other presidents in their first year. It's kind of hard to even imagine the person who voted for Trump but would vote for Clinton now.

I could see a higher number regretting Trump support in the primaries, given what a failure he's been in terms of what he promised.

Same article says the same poll conducted in May gave Clinton a 15% regret rate. Interesting that she comes in higher.

This really tells me nothing. What I would be more curious about is whether people who chose not to vote in 2016, either because of pure disinterest or belief Hilary was a fait accompli, are more likely to vote in 2020. Or, perhaps more importantly, are the Libertarian/Green Party people more likely to be Democratic-nose holders in 2020?

I would expect in a race like this for the loser's number to be higher. In this case, I'm guessing it's people on the far left who couldn't stand her but voted for he only to stop Trump. I'm sure some of them are now thinking "if I'd known he was going to win, I would have written in Stein/Bernie/Warren/etc."

Ya, it's a different dynamic for the loser and a different hypothetical that people are asked to weigh in on. But that number also seems high. Who voted for Clinton but now would vote for Trump if given another chance? Who are these people? Based on these %s there's millions of them.

Edit: I guess the write-in thing could be a partial explanation, I read the survey as just proposing a binary choice. And only a tiny number of people write-in votes in November. (I think, I know some states count those and some just throw them away)

Apparently, its not going to be the new Comm Director's job to keep Trump off of Twitter. Looks like he set a record for tweets today/last night

Didn't he specifically say he wanted Trump to be less restrained in his usage of Twitter? This morning's tweet storm in particular was off the rails even by Trump standards.

I have no doubt that Hillary's % would be similar even if she won, from many of the Brogressives who'd be complaining that her proposed $12/minimum wage means she's out to execute all poor people.

At first glance I thought "yeah, could be" but on second thought I dunno.

I mean, various obstructionists have been in the way of some of his better stuff thus far. And I don't recall anyone in the primary that would have been an improvement over that situation for Trump voters.

I dunno how much regret would be a vote change, maybe some that'd just opt to sit it out though.

Better pizza, Better ingredients, Papa Johns

Fox Business on Trump:

WOW, I can't believe Microsoft's meteoric rise in the past six months!

I'm sure he'll be tweeting that soon.

As for the rest of the Varney opinion, I have a 401k but I won't see a piece of that for probably another 30 years. So we'll see what the longer term impact on the market is. (Though in 30 years any impact may be long erased. Unless we're in selling-water-on-the-black-market territory because global temps are regularly in the 90s).

Holy fuck, I need to check these emerging giants out....

And he ridicules other news outlets, SMH

if only I could go back in time six months, I would totally gobble up all the stock I could in those companies.

Watched a Sunday talk show that had Scaramucci. I thought he did well representing Trump.

Still a honeymoon period I think and looking forward to more productive and less confrontational press briefings and relationship.

I felt sorry for Spicer but he brought alot of it on himself and glad there is a fresh face(s) to try get things back on track.

There is a hilarious lack of self-awareness in this quote.

Spicer is an asshole and he deserved everything he got.

Sean Spicer Stole A Fridge From White House Staffers

Glad he could live up to the low bar of not accidentally denying the Holocaust.

Scaramucci isn't going to be the press secretary, which was Spicer's job. THat's going to be Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

It's hard for me to take the Mooch seriously when in his opening remarks he was borderline a North Korean propogandist just short of claiming Trump only made holes in one on the golf course.

Or more seriously that his past positions magically evolved in 24 hours to match the President's, just shortly after the President's largest donor raised a stink.

Or that he keeps carrying the President's water on doubting whether Russian hackers tried to interfere in the election.

But you're right, he does look good in that suit!

The shit he said, if it was about KJU we wouldve said well who gives a shit, its North Korea.

Stop.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-anon...e-14bd69d07db6

Heh, "further calls into question." If you weren't already convinced that all of his "a little birdy told me" moments were just him pulling stuff out of his ass, you're not going to start thinking that way now.

The President, who said he didn't want the Justice Department to investigate HRC, is whining this morning that the Justice Department isn't investigating HRC.

Have to whip up the base. For all the bluster about coal or the wall, for many of his rally-attending supporters the biggest deal was taking down Hillary (in what most resembles a literal witch hunt, really). If you've succeeded at one thing but can't seem to do anything else, why not revisit that victory?

He does realize he is in charge of it, right?

Probably his way of deflecting since his son-in-law is being questioned about whether or not he committed treason this morning.

I know there is a comparison of politics to pro wrestling but it feels closer every day. Reading some of Scaramucci's old thoughts on Trump and politics compared to today sounds like a manager turning on his guy and switching to represent another guy. The whole thing just feels like performance art.

It looks like tomorrow the Senate will vote on a healthcare bill, even bringing back McCain for the vote.

But nobody knows what will be voted on. Repeal? Repeal and replace? Cruz amendment? Something else? Nobody knows.

The the vote will probably include a vote overriding the parliamentarian who ruled some major portions as incompatible with the Byrd rule. Some way, some how the GOP is going to pass something that will do something!

Step __: co-opt a youth organization!

Many conservatives enraged over Obama school speech

We should never take a conservative outrage story seriously again.

Impressive or creepy? Maybe this generation's Scott Thorson.

The Mooch did his homework. pic.twitter.com/Wku0DF2ovd

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 24, 2017

What an asshole.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017

That's a good example of why we can't judge the right thing by Trump's petty motivations. It's either the right thing or it isn't.

The Mad King had quite the morning. Anyone seen a Robert Baratheon?

dola,

His tweet about McCain being a hero after he's trashed him is sick. If McCain had any pride left, he'd vote no simply because of that.

Sessions just needs to resign if his boss is going to keep criticizing him in public.

Guys, this is just more 6-D Chess to make us feel sorry for Sessions.

I kinda hope Sessions doesn't resign just to spite Trump. And I hate Sessions!

Yeah, Dipshit Donald wants him gone. He knows firing him will bring down more thunder, so he's resorting to this petty shit to try and get him to resign. I know what I'd do were I in Sessions' spot, but it will be interesting to see what he does.

Trump is basically grabbing him in the pussy right now.

Heh. Someone forgot to delete this.

AG Jeff Sessions is a stand-up guy. He's always said he would recuse himself from any case in which his impartiality could be questioned. pic.twitter.com/Pd7TM6e27R

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) March 2, 2017

Looks like they have 50 votes to begin debate. Collins and Murkowski voted no. Ron Johnson and John McCain left to vote.

Bannon and co's fascination with Hitler Youth probably made yesterday a huge wet dream come true for them.

I guess being a war hero doesn't automatically make someone a decent human being.

From a strictly political standpoint, his maverick image has always been a fraud. He's been a straight party guy for decades who just talks a big game to the press and never backs it up.

I don't care about the vote but enough with the talk John. You've never backed it up as a Senator.

McCain lived as a hack and will die as one too

To be fair, McCain has never claimed to be a maverick about social programs.

I thought this was a pretty good article about McCain

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...in-a-maverick/

But what a maverick move to give a speech denouncing the process that he'd just cast the deciding vote to put into action.

Trump said Lebanon is at the front fighting Hezbollah today at the press conference. Unbelievable.

I'm not going to argue that he's been almost all bark over his career.

A front has two sides, right?

Given that he did the same on Gorsuch earlier this year it's hardly surprising

Now voting for the bill after today's speech was the ultimate in McCain bark.

Maybe I am not on up on the political process in Congress, bur why is it a big deal to vote to debate the AHCA?

Because they arent actually debating. its a procedural move that essentially starts the debate clock, so that the various iterations of the bill that have no chance of passing are debated, while the actual bill is thrown down at the last moment.

Also, maverick mccain voted for the brca draft of the bill tonight... the same draft bill he disparaged in his speech 7 hours ago.

Thanks Easy Mac.

Correct me if I am wrong, but we knew this was going to happen, right? It was only a matter of time before the Republican controlled Senate was going to take action against the ACHA. No matter which side anyone takes on the matter, I see the process as fairly pointless. Either they are going to do something or they won't.

Of course, I'm just pretty much jaded about all things political at this point. I just know no one in that room has my interests at heart.

From an interview during the primaries:

Donald Trump: I will know the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah 'when it's appropriate' | US news | The Guardian

via tweet, transgendered people may no longer serve in any military capacity.

Ok, so this is the exact equivalent of Bart Simpson setting the trash can on fire to create a distraction, right?

How long until someone defends Trump by claiming a Russian meeting might have just been some comedians playing a prank?

Well, and culture war is a good way to re-engage some on the right who are disenchanted with him. I'm already seeing righties who have been critical of him the last couple of weeks in particular lining up lock-step on this one.

Just spoke to a Trump administration official about the transgender military decision. Here's what they said... pic.twitter.com/eOWdvlxTfd

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) July 26, 2017

Such a piece of shit.

Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2016

...and now he's renewing public attacks on his Attorney General.