My wife and I are re-watching The Office, and I think Trump has a lot of similar characteristics of Michael Scott. Incompetent at best, petulant asshole at his worst. I don't like this comparison b/c I really like The Office, but I can't help thinking about it whilst watching.
No, Michael Scott was a fantastic salesman who was promoted beyond his competence and was a terrible manager who didn't know it and couldn't begin to fix it.
Trump is a mean, petty tyrant with absolutely no concern for others and no consistency. He's a fraud and at best a petulant asshole. Incompetent would be several steps up.
This has been an interesting news cycle.
So, Trump appoints a general as WH Chief of Staff and the Republican party talks about abandoning all of the positions and letting the WH take an "independent" stance. I'm not sure that's really the best course of action for the country... unless we're trying to make the point that the office of President is an antiquated one and needs to be removed?
A quote from Reddit about McCain's actions:
Now, I don't know that all this is true as I don't have anything beyond the palest, barest minimum about how you guys govern yourselves down south, but if it is, shit, I take back my shit talk on McCain this week. He did a pretty good thing and made the Republicans look like idiots.
Looked up budget reconciliation, here's what seems to be the relevant bit:
"Under Senate interpretations of the Congressional Budget Act, the Senate can consider the three basic subjects of reconciliation — spending, revenues, and debt limit — in a single bill or multiple bills, but it can consider each of these three in only one bill per year (unless Congress passes a second budget resolution). Consequently, in the Senate there can be a maximum of three reconciliation bills in a year, one for each of the basic subjects of reconciliation. "
"Under Senate interpretations of the Congressional Budget Act, the Senate can consider the three basic subjects of reconciliation — spending, revenues, and debt limit — in a single bill or multiple bills, but it can consider each of these three in only one bill per year (unless Congress passes a second budget resolution). Consequently, in the Senate there can be a maximum of three reconciliation bills in a year, one for each of the basic subjects of reconciliation. "
My God, there really is an old Trump tweet for everything he does. Perfect.
That Donald J Trump must really hate this president. He has predicted every bad move a leader could make, and this executive asshole makes those very mistakes.
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Yeah, I was stunned that McCain voted to advance it to a vote, because it seemed it would pass and that he would vote for it. It looked so hypocritical after that speech on working together.
But that idea makes much more sense. He moved to completely shut down the Republican scheme and FORCE bipartisanship. That's pretty damn admirable.
New rule for me. Never go to Twitter after a big political event. I saw so many memes of McCain being a traitor and devil with no loyalty or morals that I want to strangle someone.
Honest question; we all joked when George H. W. Bush had Quayle as his vice president, he didn't need the secret service. Nobody in the world wanted Quayle as President, so George was safe from all would be assassins.
Now that Pence is the lone Republican left in the White House, what steps could trump take to replace him with a poisonous version, so that Congress would never impeach?
Now that Pence is the lone Republican left in the White House, what steps could trump take to replace him with a poisonous version, so that Congress would never impeach?
The Democrats aren't wasting time making themselves more appealing to non-Republicans:
Democrats propose new competition laws:
--Patrick
Democrats propose new competition laws:
Sooo...AA/United, Comcast/Charter, AB Inbev, Monsanto, and Luxottica?
--Patrick
I call bullshit. You can't throw a rock in Congress without hitting someone who has taken money from one, if not all, of those companies. Not gonna happen.
Right, but they can appear otherwise by trying this. The Democrats are taking a page from the Obama era Republican playbook, putting forward legislation they know won't pass so they can blame the other side for stopping it even if really they wouldn't want it to pass anyway.
Yes, but this can bite them in ass later if they don't actively pursue these legislative efforts when they do, eventually, regain control of Congress.
Sure, but at least the Dems have the advantage that the Reps will never implement a law they came up with, and then can't pass anything because the only workable option that didn't screw their voters over badly enough for them to
EDIT: where the fuck did i get motive from notice?
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Reports are saying it was Kelly's first decision as Chief of Staff. Apparently "The Mooch" running his mouth about reporting directly to the President and not to the CoS didn't sit well with Kelly.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
I can't wait for Colbert tonight.
If you've watched Futurama, you basically know the story already.
Speaking of vacation, I bet Last Week Tonight is wishing they scheduled their vacation for another time.