Twitter filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Customs and Border Protection today. Twitter seeks an injunction barring them from asking for the identity of the person behind @alt_uscis. It’s not clear what legal reason the Trump administration is seeking to identify @alt_uscis. The @alt_uscis bio states: “Immigration resistance . Team 2.0 1/2 Not … Read More
War With Syria?
Breaking News: The Pentagon is developing options for a military strike in Syria in response to the chemical attack https://t.co/CZhplm9INI — The New York Times (@nytimes) April 6, 2017 Well, I guess it’s good to know that Trump finally recognizes the seriousness of the Syrian situation. And I hope he makes a connection between the horrible Sarin gas attacks and … Read More
The Bannon Downgrade Isn’t Just About Palace Infighting; It Means Globalists Are Beating The Nationalists
“America First” might still be the motto of the Trump White House, but what that means might be something than it originally meant. Bannon’s removal from the National Security Council could mean that Trump is starting to see America’s interest as inextricably linked to global events, rather than as something separable. The New Yorker gets it: For students of White … Read More
Sam Bee Throws Water On My Illusion That Ivanka Is My “Secret Progressive Buddy” In The White House
I want to believe. But maybe she really IS our secret progressive buddy, if only because she has Jared’s ear. But I don’t see her as being very effective. At least, she has yet to show it.
If It Sounds Unlikely, You Can Bet It Is A Lie
I’m not sure we need to fact check Trump anymore. Anything that sounds like a lie has an almost 100% chance of being a lie. Take this, from his interview with Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush yesterday: TRUMP: Elijah Cummings [a Democratic representative from Maryland] was in my office and he said, “You will go down as one of the great … Read More
Understanding The Trump Presidency
Forget white supremacists and the alt-right, writes Alex Pareene. They don’t explain how Trump got into power, and why his Administration is failing so badly. To understand that…. …. You pretty much just need to be in semi-regular contact with a white, reasonably comfortable, male retiree. We are now ruled by men who think and act very much like that ordinary … Read More
Bannon On The Run
Steve Bannon has more free time: President Donald Trump has removed Steve Bannon, his chief strategist, from the National Security Council, according to a filing in the federal registry. A top White House official told NBC News that Bannon was put on the NSC’s Principals’ Committee only as a check against then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Now that Flynn is … Read More
Gorsuch’s Plagiarism
Uh-oh:
Wow! Fox News And The White House Are Going Full Bore On This Susan Rice Thing!
It is amazing how the goalposts have moved from Trump’s initial tweets on March 10. Let’s look at them again: Okay. So Obama has now become Susan Rice, Obama’s National Security Adviser. “Wiretap” has become “names unmasked”. “Trump” and “Trump Tower”, the object(s) of the supposed “wiretap(p)”, is not Trump associates. But other than those things — Trump was 100% … Read More
When Doing Something Legal Is A Scandal
So let’s recap two of Trump’s tweets this morning: .@FoxNews from multiple sources: “There was electronic surveillance of Trump, and people close to Trump. This is unprecedented.” @FBI — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 3, 2017 Such amazing reporting on unmasking and the crooked scheme against us by @foxandfriends. “Spied on before nomination.” The real story. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) … Read More
Signs Of Insanity
I don’t understand Trump’s tweets. I mean, what does he think he accomplishes by them? Shouldn’t he know by now that they don’t divert anybody? Shouldn’t he know that it actually DOESN’T rally his base, but poll after poll shows it embarrasses them? Yet he still does it. Doing the same negative thing over and over again and expecting different … Read More
Trump’s Favorite TV Show Is Misleading Him And Therefore The Country
Media Matters: “For the record,” a top Fox News executive explained to the network’s newsroom a decade ago, “seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC.” John Moody, at the time Fox’s vice president for news, issued that missive after Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve … Read More
Is This How You Run A Business?
A lot of people voted for Trump because they thought he would run the country the way you run a business, which is stupid to begin with because a country is not a business. Maybe it has something to do with management style, although I’m not sure all businesses have the same management style, and I think very few people … Read More
Speed Read: The House Obamacare Replacement Bill
From Axios: The House Republican Obamacare replacement package is finally out, and the two main health care committees — Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce — are scheduled to start working on the bills on Wednesday. Here’s your speed read on what’s in them — summaries are available here and here: In: Pre-existing condition coverage Continuous coverage — 30 … Read More
Disdain For Democracy
Worse than lying, says Greg Sargeant: Trump is enraged at being subjected to a system of democratic and institutional constraints, for which he has signaled nothing but absolute, unbridled contempt. The system is pushing back, and he can’t bear it. On Monday morning, the latest chapter in this tale — Trump’s unsupported accusation that Obama wiretapped his phones — took … Read More