The [s]First[/s] [s]Only[/s] Second Trump term

[GORDON]

Fuck yes.

[Malcolm]

Says Big Brother.

The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!

Noted leftie nutjob speaks out.

Sen. John McCain spoke out Saturday in defense of the free press after President Trump lashed out against the news media several times over the past week, at one point declaring it “the enemy of the American People!”

Such talk, McCain (R-Ariz.) said on NBC News in an interview set to air Sunday, was “how dictators get started.”

“In other words, a consolidation of power,” McCain told “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd from Munich. “When you look at history, the first thing that dictators do is shut down the press. And I'm not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. I'm just saying we need to learn the lessons of history.”

[GORDON]

I never denied it when peeps would say Fox was against Obama. I don't know why people are denying that the rest of the media is against trump.

Just saying. Own that shit.

[Malcolm]

Donald Drumpf said Wednesday there would be no ISIS had the US kept Iraq's oil, following the US invasion into the country.

"We should have kept the oil when we got out. And you know, it's very interesting. Had we taken the oil, you wouldn't have ISIS, because they fuel themselves with the oil. That's where they got the money," the Dipshit told ABC's David Muir.

"We should have taken the oil. You wouldn't have ISIS if we took the oil."

Now, you can see why this might make Iraqi leaders uneasy. Then couple that with the dumb-ass EOs earlier this month along with the promise of more US troops on the ground over there, and you start having to make statements like this...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday the United States does not intend to seize Iraqi oil, shifting away from an idea proposed by Dipshit Donald Drumpf that has rattled Iraq's leaders.
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The oil issue, however, may be more difficult. Drumpf brought it up during the campaign, and he mentioned it again late last month during a visit to the CIA.

"To the victor belong the spoils," Drumpf told members of the intelligence community. He said he first argued this case for "economic reasons," but added it made sense as a counterterrorism approach to defeating IS "because that's where they made their money in the first place."

"So we should have kept the oil," he said. "But, OK, maybe you'll have another chance."

"To the victor belong the spoils." That's never backfired. Ever.

[Malcolm]

CIA analyst resigns.

Price said he was reluctant to leave and said he didn't think anything would ever tear him away from his chosen career path. But he was pushed over the edge after Drumpf issued a directive reorganizing the National Security Council, which Price said he served on as a staff member from 2014 until earlier this year.

The directive didn't include a seat for the CIA director and the director of national intelligence on the Principals Committee — but added Stephen Bannon, former Breitbart news executive and current White House chief strategist, as a regular attendee of the Principals Committee and the National Security Council, according to Politico.
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Dipshit Drumpf's distrust of the 17 intelligence agencies on the campaign trail was disheartening to Price, and with Bannon's appointment, he felt he could no longer serve the agency.
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On Drumpf's first full day as dipshit, he visited the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where he addressed the agency in person for the first time.

Price said the speech was not what he and his colleagues had hoped to hear.

"I couldn't help but reflect on the stark contrast between the bombast of the new dipshit and the quiet dedication of a mentor — a courageous, dedicated professional — who is memorialized on that wall. I know others at CIA felt similarly," he wrote.

Ten days before the speech — which former CIA Director John Brennan called "a despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA's Memorial Wall of Agency heroes" — Drumpf had compared the U.S. intelligence community to Nazi Germany.

[Malcolm]

Is he intentionally trying to sound like a douche?

Dipshit Drumpf took to Twitter Tuesday give to his take on the unrest seen at town hall events across the U.S., citing "so-called angry crowds" that he said are, in many cases, "planned out by liberal activists."

"The so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans are actually, in numerous cases, planned out by liberal activists. Sad!" Drumpf tweeted.

I guess liberal activists don't count in their districts because a pachyderm won.

Rep. Tom MacArthur, R-N.J., held a town hall by conference call rather than risk an in-person appearance because "recent town hall meetings across the country have devolved into unproductive shouting matches, with highly-organized, partisan special interest groups effectively hijacking the forums and crowding out local residents who want respectful discourse."

Funny, I feel the same way about Congress. Grow some balls, Tom, or maybe don't run for election next time if you can't handle dealing with the people who didn't vote for you.

Anyhow, here are a few of these town halls where liberal activists hijacked things with their unproductive shouting matches and partisan special interest groups.

Rep. Diane Black of Tennessee and Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah also faced questions about their desire to repeal Obamacare.

One town hall participant in Tennessee told Black that he needed coverage from the ACA to "make sure that I don't die."
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The Tampa Bay Times reported that a gathering with Republican Rep. Gus Bilirakis earlier this month was similarly fiery, with constituent Evan Thornton pleading with the GOP lawmaker for his life.

"I'm an independent who voted for you," Thornton said to Bilirakis according to the Times. "Please don't take my life away. Please don't let me die."

Yep, that's partisan bullshit right there.

Most of the concerns brought up in the town halls appear to be related to the more than 23 million who are estimated to have gained coverage from various provisions of the ACA. Constituents, along with Democratic lawmakers, have argued that any significant repeal and replace of Obamacare could endanger the coverage for some or all of those people.

While Trump has promised to make sure everyone currently covered under the law receives coverage, most Republicans have emphasized they are targeting access to care not a guarantee of coverage.

So, there are a lot of people worried about losing their insurance because they can't trust dipshit-in-chief Drumpf nor his brainless, greedy cronies.

[Malcolm]

I'm waiting for the for mega-prison island to be built.

Administration officials insisted that the memos simply outline Trump’s own priorities for who should, and who should not, be deported.

“No,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said when asked whether mass deportations are the goal.

“Those people who are in this country and pose a threat to our public, or have committed a crime, will be the first to go, and we will be aggressively making sure that that occurs,” he said.

Funny, that sounds like it could be applied to citizens as well.

Under the Drumpf administration’s guidelines, any immigrant who is convicted, charged or suspected of a crime is considered a priority for removal.

Suspicion is enough to get your the boot? Are you fistfucking me? But wait, there's more.

Drumpf is also restoring programs, halted under the Obama administration, that allow local law enforcement officials to collaborate with federal immigration authorities.

Those programs, known as 287(g) and Secure Communities, deputize local law enforcement officials as immigration agents and allow them to incarcerate immigrants suspected of criminal activity for longer periods before they are turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

That's right, each and every local pig has greater power to shit on your rights if they suspect you've done something wrong. Of course, they'd never abuse that authority.

Agencies are told to “allocate all available resources to expand their detention capabilities and capacities,” but Congress would likely need to appropriate more money to build new detention centers.

I assume this will go on the same tab as that piece of shit wall we're building at some undetermined point in the future.

[TheCatt]

Those programs, known as 287(g) and Secure Communities, deputize local law enforcement officials as immigration agents and allow them to incarcerate immigrants suspected of criminal activity for longer periods before they are turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

That's right, each and every local pig has greater power to shit on your rights if they suspect you've done something wrong. Of course, they'd never abuse that authority.

Illegal immigrants actually being HELD instead of catch and release? The hell you say!

[Malcolm]

Uh, it didn't say "illegal." Taking those words at face value means anyone suspected of a crime who isn't a full US citizen is subject to extra bullshit treatment if one cop takes a disliking to them for whatever reason.

[TheCatt]

Uh, it didn't say "illegal."

Then you should read 287(g) and know what you are talking about.

[Malcolm]

Agencies that participate in 287(g) have received federally-funded training from ICE, with officers participating in a four-week training program. ICE in turn authorizes the agencies to identify and detain deportable immigrants encountered by officers in “the course of daily duties,” according to an ICE fact sheet

"Deportable" is a far looser standard than "illegal." Then there's this:

For example, here's what former San Diego County Sheriff Bill Kolender stated in 2006 as the Bush administration tried to expand the program: “We are currently 200 positions short for our basic law enforcement needs throughout the county...and are unable to dedicate additional resources to help federal officers apprehend and detain illegal immigrants.”

[Malcolm]

Guess who just got a sock stuffed down their throat?

The White House is barring counselor Kellyanne Conway from television appearances after the high-profile aide made multiple on-air statements contradicting the Drumpf administration’s official stance, CNN reported Wednesday.

Conway, who was recently a regular fixture on TV news, hasn’t appeared for an on-air interview since early last week. That Monday, she argued that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn had the “full confidence” of Dipshit Drumpf.

If only the White House would put the same clamps on Drumpf.

Ah, Mexico.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the U.S.-Mexico relationship is "phenomenal.” Further, Spicer said Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who abruptly canceled a visit to Washington last month over Trump’s proposed border wall, would offer the same characterization.

“We have a very healthy and robust relationship with the Mexican government, and Mexican officials and I think they would echo that same sentiment. President Peña Nieto has echoed that at well,” Spicer said at his daily news briefing. “I think the relationship with Mexico is phenomenal right now, and I think there’s an unbelievable and robust dialogue between our two nations.”

Really?

Spicer’s preview of the upcoming meeting differed from that of Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray, who said Wednesday that his nation will not accept the “unilateral” immigration policies currently being pursued by the Trump administration, according to a report from Reuters. Videgaray also said the Mexican government is willing to seek help from the United Nations in protecting immigrants in the U.S.

"I want to say clearly and emphatically that the government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose on the other," the Mexican foreign minister said. "We will not accept it, because there's no reason why we should, and because it is not in the interests of Mexico."
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Roberto Campa, head of the human rights department of Mexico’s interior ministry, called that guidance “hostile” and “unacceptable,”

[TPRJones]

I just read 287(g) (a.k.a. 8 USC 1357g) and it doesn't address immigrants of any sort directly. It's just about how state officials can do federal officials work sometimes but if they do they are still a state official and not a federal official because the federal government is not going to pay them or provide them health insurance or (and so on and so forth). Any reference to 287(g) that mentions immigrants of any sort is conflating other federal laws in the discussion.

[Malcolm]

Remember when Drumpf bitched about Obama wasting money and time?

The new dipshit has taken three weekend getaways in the first month of office, spending millions of taxpayer dollars in Secret Service protection and about 25 percent of his time away from the White House. The Secret Service has also paid for security for expensive business trips for his sons' business ventures to foreign countries.

The actions seem to fly in the face of how he mocked Obama's travel. "President Barack Obama's vacation is costing taxpayers millions of dollars — unbelievable!" he wrote in one of many tweets criticizing Obama for taking a trip.

Drumpf has headed to the golf course at least six times since he took office, another favorite criticism against Obama. Drumpf mocked Obama more than two dozen times for golfing amid problems in the White House.

"Donald Drumpf has zero worry about contradicting himself, because he does it all day long," said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian who has met with Drumpf. "He figures he can get away with it because he does it all the time. There is no worry about it. He says one thing and then does another, and his supporters don't hold it against him."

[Malcolm]

Drumpf still a fucking prick.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is suggesting the Drumpf administration may crack down on states that have legalized recreational marijuana.

Spicer says during a press briefing Thursday that the issue rests with the Justice Department. But he says, “I do believe that you’ll see greater enforcement of it.”

Because you have nothing better to spend money and resources on. Go fuck yourselves if so.

[GORDON]

Intervention time.

I know lots of people have a visceral reaction to his existence. I know we hate his policies, opinions, and physical appearance. I myself give no shits about him, I always assume everyone in government is a self serving, lying piece of shit.

That being said, implore you to drop the "dipshit drumpf" shtick, and all iterations of it. I say this not to defend his honor and integrity, but because the joke is now so old and played out that I stop reading every post as soon As I see it. Also "Cheeto head" and any other dispariging observations about his.physical appearance. That's never been cool.

I'd like to read more posts and opinions, but I will not if that tired phrasing is used yet again .

Thank you for your time

[Leisher]

Intervention time.

I know lots of people have a visceral reaction to his existence. I know we hate his policies, opinions, and physical appearance. I myself give no shits about him, I always assume everyone in government is a self serving, lying piece of shit.

That being said, implore you to drop the "dipshit drumpf" shtick, and all iterations of it. I say this not to defend his honor and integrity, but because the joke is now so old and played out that I stop reading every post as soon As I see it. Also "Cheeto head" and any other dispariging observations about his.physical appearance. That's never been cool.

I'd like to read more posts and opinions, but I will not if that tired phrasing is used yet again .

That you for your time

Agreed and it's not just politics.

Name calling for comedic or even critical effect is fine every now and then, but when you do it every time all it does is discredit you.

[Malcolm]

I calls 'em like I sees 'em.

[Malcolm]

What in the fuck?

"I think that when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing that we should be doing is encouraging people. There's still a federal law that we need to abide by when it comes to recreational use marijuana and other drugs of that nature,"

Explain what the oxy boon has to do with bud.

[Leisher]

I calls 'em like I sees 'em.

So does Trump.