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Rocky First Weekend for Trump Troubles Even His Top Aides A most dreadful inaugural address By George F. Will

Absolute disaster for GB today

Something to keep in mind is that nonsense bills that go absolutely nowhere get introduced all the time. This bill has one sponsor. If it makes it to even the subcommittee level, then it's worth talking about. I can't imagine a majority of Republicans would want to give up our permanent seat on the security council.

https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/823210...src=twsrc%5Etfw This is what Cheney did in the run-up to the Iraq war

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 22, 2017 -> 11:56 AM) Sorry I find the Trump voting demographics interesting, instead of just assuming there are 63 million toothless male white supremacists out there. Trying to bring up the demographics of people who voted for Trump as some sort of counter to the historical protests doesn't even make sense, though. You were trying to imply that there was some sort of overlap between people yesterday and people who didn't vote or voted for Trump. It's just nonsense.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/mi...a-a7540476.html

McCain and Graham confirmed they're voting for Tillerson, so he's in.

FWIW the DJIA and "the economy" are not the same thing

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 22, 2017 -> 08:38 AM) It's not relevant but it's amusing. The majority of white women voted for Trump yet here they are so outraged. for some reason you keep assuming that people who went to the largest protest in US history, which was organized by women and primarily focused on a rejection of Trump, either didn't vote or voted for Trump. The numbers you brought up multiple times in this thread aren't really relevant beyond trying to make a smuggo point that doesn't really work.

Trump also probably violated the presidential records act by deleting a tweet. Violating the Constitution from the moment he was sworn in and the law on his first full day. Off to a fantastic start.

First full day and your presidency is already a trending joke. #spicerfacts https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/SpicerFacts?src=hash Even the Dallas Stars are getting in on the act https://twitter.com/unlikelyfanatic/status/...src=twsrc%5Etfw

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 21, 2017 -> 07:48 PM) No, sorry, it's more like 20% of women. But 40-50% of them didn't even care enough to get up and vote. 40-50% of the people protesting today didn't vote? Source?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 21, 2017 -> 06:32 PM) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-po...m=.9be6861589f5 Spicer seems like a great candidate for the first staffer not to make it to 2018. Does he think the next presser will be easier? There's blood in the water now. You can't just demonstrably lie over and over again to the media unless you're Trump. The thing to keep in the back of your mind when you see things like this is that this is how creeping fascism takes hold. Deny everything, attack everyone regardless of the merit of the criticism, build culture where the only source to be trusted is the leader, not the lying media. There's no guarantee that it'll be effective, but it's something to watch for. Former CIA director Brennan says Donnie should be ashamed of his speech in front of the CIA memorial wall. https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/82295...src=twsrc%5Etfw

1) absolutely no one believes your claim that you wouldn't be whining about Clinton constantly. 2) I want America and Americans to do well. To me, that means trump failing at basically every single part of his stated agenda. If he wins, we lose. He has done nothing to deserve a "clean slate" and everything to demonstrate how unqualified and undeserving he is off the office, and he's already continued to do that today.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 21, 2017 -> 05:43 PM) The new press secretary also took no questions while doing this. That is less than normal. Vague threats to the press regarding holding them accountable were issued as well.

First presidential press statement from Trump: whining about crowd sizes and Twitter. https://twitter.com/VOANews/status/82294276...src=twsrc%5Etfw No comments on the massive, worldwide demonstrations against him today, but they did brag about using the CIA as a political prop.

Widespread Republican voter suppression efforts have not gotten the attention they should have these past few months.

Per US attorney spokesperson most of the 230 arrested yesterday will face felony rioting charge which carries a max sentence of 10 years and $25k fine. Not exactly a great start to this administration if they want to temper the fears of authoritarianism. https://twitter.com/BruceLeshan/status/8229...src=twsrc%5Etfw

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 21, 2017 -> 03:54 PM) It's just so predictable what will set him off. I'm sure there's nothing foreign powers could do to exploit that. Second worst television rating in 50 years, too. https://twitter.com/mulvihill79/status/8229...src=twsrc%5Etfw

His speech to the CIA sure was... Something. Another Iraq invasion? https://twitter.com/brikeilarcnn/status/822...src=twsrc%5Etfw And his own hype men to applaud him while speaking, just like at his press conference last week https://twitter.com/giff18/status/822906986...src=twsrc%5Etfw Also used the occasion to brag about how many times he's been on the cover of Time, falsely claiming he holds the record, and also lied about how many people bothered to show up to his inauguration yesterday. It'll sure be interesting to have a full blown narcissist who's detached from reality running the country.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 20, 2017 -> 11:18 AM) Didn't Trump already say he was not gonna start working until Monday? Like the Presidency is a M-F job? yes fun fact as linked by balta in the old thread, a lot of the federal government won't even be in place Monday because Donnie demanded that everyone resign effective now and hasn't even bothered to nominate replacements for all but a handful of positions. but it's also the stated goal of his white supremacist chief policy adviser to destroy the federal government, so they probably view this as perfectly fine and good. ok, now I'm checking out.

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Jan 20, 2017 -> 11:17 AM) "We will get people off of welfare." Trump is trying to rally POC but they just won't buy it. Neo-Nazi's have to be pissed haha Well, yeah, they're going to get people off of welfare... but it'll be by eliminating welfare

p. awesome we're officially run by a delusional, self-obsessed autocratic moron now, going to be a fantastic stress test of just how resilient our democracy actually is time to take the weekend off of politics

That is one of the more ridiculous ideas I've ever heard.