The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

[bluehenbear]

My guess is that she got triggered by Rep. Crockett (again).

[ObakeBakaNeko]

Marjorie Taylor Greene declines to challenge Jon Ossoff in Georgia Senate race

[PsiPhiGrrrl]

@Melizmatic

I used well known fictional iterations to make my point, since Pumpkin Spice Polpot seems to think tv shows and movies are real

Great idea! Seeing this makes me wonder if we can use that to our advantage:

Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired...

So, who can we influence at this station…
https://www.wlrn.org/television-schedule
… and what should we encourage them to broadcast next time is coming to town?

[RAvery]

[RAvery]

@PsiPhiGrrrl

and what should we encourage them to broadcast next time is coming to town?

How about:

with the hope that he serves that much time.

[DukeTrout]

Spoken like someone who hasn’t been to Detroit since the 1980s…

[ficuswhisperer]

[ChuckV]

@PsiPhiGrrrl

what should we encourage them to broadcast next time is coming to town?

I would suggest Videodrome, but I’d have to be certain he made it to the end.

[DukeTrout]

@theophrastus

and (while i’m pre-coffee blathering), can we try to remember to pass laws, presuming we survive this era, that governmental police forces all have to identify themselves, as in not wearing !#$! masks!? naively would’ve assumed that were already such laws! @#$!

It’s a huge oversight that violating someone’s civil right doesn’t directly lead to criminal charges.

[DukeTrout]

@Docosc

Any and all suggestions are welcome!

Indivisible. Grass roots and organized. Weekly calls to coordinate collective action.

[DukeTrout]

@PsiPhiGrrrl

Will their flights be landing at Newark with a connection to Greater Idaho? Asking for a friend…

There are no airports in Greater Idaho that are big enough to land so much as a regional jet.

[sqlrob]

DOJ Voting Section Has Just Three Lawyers Left, Watchdog Estimates

[DukeTrout]

@Millie_Fink

Good to hear (tho I’m surprised these staffers weren’t arrested).

DO NOT COMPLY!!!

[MarjaE]

That LIBEL has inspired how many of the terrorist attacks of the past few decades?

Just in the united states, you have the Charleston church shooting, the Portland train stabbing, the Olathe shooting, the Squirrel Hill synagogue shooting, the Buffalo supermarket shooting, 2x El Paso shootings, etc., etc.

[danimagoo]

I got a chuckle out of Tangerine Palpatine recently.

[RAvery]

US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check

Duffy floats ambitious 3-year air traffic system overhaul

[Millie_Fink]

[LockeCJ]

@ficuswhisperer

His mafia style of negotiating

@Melizmatic

since Pumpkin Spice Polpot seems to think tv shows and movies are real…

I think these two points are complementary. Trump’s mafia-style tactics aren’t likely based on any real organized crime, but rather based on perceptions filtered through TV and movies. In other words, he’s pretending to be a mafia boss. That he is successful at all in his criminality has more to do with the power and influence he’s managed to accumulate, rather than the authenticity of his methods.

@Catsidhe

Don’t you have room in your heart for Stephen Miller as well?

Give him to the Smurfs, they’ll know what to do.

[Shuck]

@theophrastus

good old NYT! really does have a gift for using the pearl clutching terminology for all things right wing

There was also this, which is just… wrong:

This is why the emoluments clause specifies a quid pro quo arrangement… oh wait, NO IT DOESN’T.

[DukeTrout]

That’s not the standard in any anti-corruption/bribery legislation I’m aware of. The Sunshine Act/Safe Harbor makes it a felony to fail to report incidental expenditures like coffee or note pads that exceed $10 per “gift” or $100 per YEAR in aggregate. The FCPA makes it illegal to fail to report someone else who violates the Act.

Basically, Eric Lipton is a dipshit who is making things up as he goes along.