World War Tweet: The Megaton Thread!

[Syt]

Boring day at the WH, I guess.

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 
The Democrats had to come up with a story as to why they lost the election, and so badly (306), so they made up a story - RUSSIA. Fake news!

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 
FAKE NEWS media, which makes up stories and "sources," is far more effective than the discredited Democrats - but they are fading fast!

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 
The spotlight has finally been put on the low-life leakers! They will be caught!

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 
Leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a big problem in Washington for years. Failing @nytimes (and others) must apologize!

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump
Stock market hits new high with longest winning streak in decades. Great level of confidence and optimism - even before tax plan rollout!

[garbon]

Feels like he's the only one interested in talking about the election...

[HVC]

it's like the stream of consciousness of a paranoid schizophrenic

[Grey Fox]

Feels like he's the only one interested in talking about the election...

Not sure it's the election. I think he's just interested talking about the mainstream media falling short. He's a Breibart fan boy, this is vindication.

[Berkut]

I think he is interested in talking about something...anything.... other than his administrations penetration by the Russians.

[Syt]

He's obsessed with not measuring up, not being good enough, not being the best, not being legitimate.

[Tamas]

I mean, he just threw the Palestinians under the bus so that people would stop talking about his court being full of Russian spies.

[Valmy]

I mean, he just threw the Palestinians under the bus so that people would stop talking about his court being full of Russian spies.

Did he? Ah well they are used to it. Most Muslim heads of state betray them about five times a week.

Palestinians are the people everybody in the world pretend to love but in fact despise. I mean besides the people who just openly despise them.

[CountDeMoney]

I mean, he just threw the Palestinians under the bus so that people would stop talking about his court being full of Russian spies.

I think it's apparent to everyone--Jew, Arab, Miscellaneous--that he doesn't have the slightest fucking idea about the Israeli-Palestinian issue, and he is just talking out of his ass.

[grumbler]

I think it's apparent to everyone--Jew, Arab, Miscellaneous--that he doesn't have the slightest fucking idea about the Israeli-Palestinian issue, and he is just talking out of his ass.

It was pretty clear that he didn't know what the "two state solution" even was.  I think he is showing signs of senility.  That would explain a lot.

[Syt]

Donald J. Trump  @realDonaldTrump
'Trump signs bill undoing Obama coal mining rule'

With a link to this article:

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/319938-trump-signs-bill-undoing-obama-coal-mining-rule

President Trump on Thursday signed legislation ending a key Obama administration coal mining rule.

The bill quashes the Office of Surface Mining's Stream Protection Rule, a regulation to protect waterways from coal mining waste that officials finalized in December.

The legislation is the second Trump has signed into law ending an Obama-era environmental regulation. On Tuesday, he signed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution undoing a financial disclosure requirement for energy companies.

Both the mining and financial disclosure bills are the tip of a GOP push to undo a slate of regulations instituted in the closing days of the Obama administration. The House has passed several CRA resolutions, and the Senate has so far sent three of them to President Trump for his signature.

Regulators finalized the stream protection rule in December, but they spent most of Obama's tenure writing it.

The rule is among the most controversial environment regulations the former administration put together. The coal mining industry said it would be costly to implement and lead to job losses across the sector, which is already suffering from a market-driven downturn in demand for its product.

At the signing, Trump called the regulation "another terrible job killing rule" and said ending it would save "many thousands American jobs, especially in the mines, which, I have been promising you — the mines are a big deal."

"This is a major threat to your jobs and we're going to get rid of this threat," he added. "We're going to fight for you."

Republicans on Congress, especially from Appalachia, supported that argument and sought to block the rule several times before finally passing the CRA resolution this month.

"In my home state of Kentucky and others across the nation, the stream buffer rule will cause major damage to communities and threaten coal jobs," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said before the bill passed. "We should heed their call now and begin bringing relief to coal country."

Environmentalists supported the administration rule, saying it would protect waterways from pollution and preserve public health. They have criticized the GOP for repealing environmental rules in the name of supporting coal mining jobs, but doing little else to help displaced workers in mining areas.

"If you want to help miners, then come address their health and safety and their pension program," Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said during floor debate on the measure.

"You can protect the coal industry here with special interests and the amount of lobbying they do, or you can step up in a process and have a regulation that works for the United States of America so the outdoor industry and sportsman and fishermen can continue to thrive."

The Senate this week sent Trump a CRA resolution blocking a gun sales regulation. Members could soon take up a measure undoing a methane rule for natural gas drilling operations on public land.

[CountDeMoney]

Sorry, Syt;  you already missed derfetusfucker celebrating about it in the other thread.

[Syt]

It seems weird that the GOP seems intent on turning public health and environment protection laws back to at least the 1970s.

[CountDeMoney]

You just don't understand shareholder value, man.

[The Larch]

It seems weird that the GOP seems intent on turning public health and environment protection laws back to at least the 1970s.

To think that it was Nixon who created the EPA...