The Politics Thread

[JaneAusten]

Eichenwald is great but honestly I think I might like a lot of journalists people like Glenn Greenwald and Michael Tracy dismiss and chastise.

[Vee]

Both Greenwald and Tracey are insane.

[Roman]

Trump has frozen federal hiring and wages. 

[Wales2004]

Spicer lied about federal hiring being up so that it could seem as if they are putting a stop to waste. Federal hiring actually decreased since 2009.  It is probably the case that there was not much in the way of hiring or creation of new positions anyway, since automation and budget cuts have caused reductions in staff across the board (with the exception of the military).  Trump's all about taking credit for what was already being done or going to be done anyway.

 

While he's "befriending" the unions for bragging purposes, he wants to gut the civil service's equivalent of a union by reducing the minimum pay to $1. 

 

Cutting government waste would be great if they actually cut waste but the 30% jobs that they are likely to not cut much in the way of waste.  They need to be able to fund his "great" deals since he so easily gave up $7 million or so in tax dollars to fund the 700 jobs he "saved" in that Carrier deal (which btw does not prevent Carrier from making other job cuts).

 

 

[JaneAusten]

I am no CNN or Jake Tapper fan but this is funny

 

 

[kalbir]

Maybe it's me, but I get the feeling that Trump wanted to win the election more than he actually wanted to be President.

[DRW50]

For future GOP chaos it seems to always be a good idea to follow Rebekah Mercer, who played a big part in helping Trump win and is now close to splitting off again:

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-rebekah-mercer-robert-mercer-donors-234030

[ReddFoxx]

That's exactly right. He wanted to say that he won the Presidency, but none of the responsibility.

[Roman]

Trump makes W. look like Lincoln. now who thought of that ever happening?

[Khan]

I'm...not quite there yet, lol.  Although I would agree that W.'s time in the WH now looks more peaceful in retrospect.

Edited January 24, 2017 by Khan

[Roman]

He did. like W. he now has this look like "Oh I have to do some work now?" he just wanted it in his portfolio, and I also believe this is nothing but one gigantic business deal for him.  I am now also almost convinced that  Melania can't stand him, and is only with him because of her son and his money. She is looking the way she does because IMPO she hoped he get his ass KICKED and she would finally get TF away from him, sue him for divorce and get her son away from him.  I just saw a video where she smiled at him when he said something to her...and the second he turned back around she had a look on her face like she had threw up a bit. 

[marceline]

W was a bad president but not a bad human being. He was more weak than evil. Trump is evil, crazy and incompetent.

[DRW50]

 

There are a lot of people out there who might disagree if they were still breathing.

[JaneAusten]

After a couple of good days, I just feel kind of ho-hum today. I wonder if those who feel targeted feel like this constantly. Just a day off and on of hearing Trump nonsense has me exhausted. I think I need to just disconnect from it and focus. And the Bernie people don't help.

[DRW50]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/medicaid-overhaul-republicans-234049