What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[DontSayBanana]

Ugh, Stephen Miller.  That guy just simply needs to be punched in the larynx.

Preferably after a few nut taps.

[jimmy olsen]

Kushner's business subpeoned

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-attorney-subpoenas-kushner-cos-over-investment-for-visa-program-1501717119

https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/892895012635238401

Kushner has been unofficially offering green cards in exchange for investing $500k in his property deals.

[Syt]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/02/donald-trump-sam-clovis-old-blog-progressives-obama

Sam Clovis: Trump's pick for top science job called progressives 'race traitors'

Sam Clovis, who has been nominated by Donald Trump to be the department of agriculture's top scientist, previously ran a blog where he called progressives "race traders and race 'traitors'" and likened former president Barack Obama to a "communist" and a "dictator".

Clovis, previously a college professor and radio talk show host in Iowa, wrote the blog for his show Impact with Clovis. The website has been taken down but is archived.

In a September 2011 post, Clovis said that Obama was "brought up by socialists to be a socialist. His associations were socialists or worse, criminal dissidents who were bent on overthrowing the government of the United States."

Warming to the theme, Clovis claimed in subsequent posts that Obama had a "communist father, socialist mother" and "has designs on being a dictator". Obama's followers, Clovis claimed are "progressive, Maoist, anti-colonist".

Clovis, who served in the Air Force for 25 years, turned his attention to race in August 2011, labeling progressives as "liars, race traders and race traitors". He also accused progressives of keeping "minorities in this country enslaved to government" with a supposed desire to "essentially eliminate people of color from the American landscape".

In June 2011, Clovis said civil rights leader WEB Du Bois was "the first race trader" for convincing black people to vote for Woodrow Wilson.

According to CNN, a USDA spokesperson defended Clovis. "Dr Clovis is a proud conservative and a proud American," the spokesperson said. "All of his reporting either on the air or in writing over the course of his career has been based on solid research and data. He is after all an academic."

Clovis is a departure from previous USDA's chief scientists, without a strong science background. He also departs from mainstream scientists with his views on climate change, which he said he was "skeptical" about in 2014, claiming that "a lot of the science is junk science".

Despite this colorful background, or perhaps because of it, the Trump administration has nominated Clovis and is awaiting his confirmation. In July, agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue said Clovis was a "trusted advisor and a steady hand".

"He looks at every problem with a critical eye, relying on sound science and data, and will be the facilitator and integrator we need," Perdue added. "Dr Clovis has served this nation proudly since he was a very young man, and I am happy he is continuing to serve."

"Dr Clovis was one of the first people through the door at USDA in January and has become a trusted advisor and steady hand as we continue to work for the people of agriculture," agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue said in a statement Wednesday evening. "He looks at every problem with a critical eye, relying on sound science and data, and will be the facilitator and integrator we need. Dr Clovis has served this nation proudly since he was a very young man, and I am happy he is continuing to serve."

Clovis was Trump's top policy advisor in 2015 when the presidential candidate announced his infamous Muslim ban. The former Iowa college professor described the policy of banning all Muslims from entering the United States to the Guardian as a "reasonable precaution" in order to "stop, take a break, have a look and make sure everything is cool"

[Syt]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous  low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us HCare!
5:18 AM - 3 Aug 2017

[Grey Fox]

All time low?! Ok.

[garbon]

All time low.

[The Minsky Moment]

I never understood the anti-colonialist dig on Obama.  Are we supposed to be pro-colonialist?  Bring back King George III?  Put the East India company back in charge?

[garbon]

He hates the Queen!

[Malthus]

I never understood the anti-colonialist dig on Obama.  Are we supposed to be pro-colonialist?  Bring back King George III?  Put the East India company back in charge?

Well, to be honest, bringing back the Monarchy is looking pretty attractive at the moment ... 

[Malthus]

In the 1770s, British imperialist grandees scoffed at the notion that a mixture of backwards, credulous colonial hayseeds and grasping, self-promoting Yankee sharpers could ever govern themselves.

In the 2010s, they were finally proven right. 

[derspiess]

I never understood the anti-colonialist dig on Obama.  Are we supposed to be pro-colonialist?  Bring back King George III?  Put the East India company back in charge?

It's that he has a bug up his ass about colonialism even though it hasn't been a thing in a quite a while.

[derspiess]

Ugh, Stephen Miller.  That guy just simply needs to be punched in the larynx.

He put that CNN guy in his place.

[garbon]

In the 1770s, British imperialist grandees scoffed at the notion that a mixture of backwards, credulous colonial hayseeds and grasping, self-promoting Yankee sharpers could ever govern themselves.

In the 2010s, they were finally proven right. 

Does not compute. All previous years of competent government are negated by a vote last year.

[Malthus]

In the 1770s, British imperialist grandees scoffed at the notion that a mixture of backwards, credulous colonial hayseeds and grasping, self-promoting Yankee sharpers could ever govern themselves.

In the 2010s, they were finally proven right. 

Does not compute. All previous years of competent government are negated by a vote last year.

Uh, whoosh?

The joke is the contrast.  Only two hundred odd years later has the Brits' prediction 'come true'.

[garbon]

I do tend to have difficult with jokes that lack a key element - being funny.