President Elect Trump watch

FluffyMcDeath said:
I gave Obama at least a year, I think, before giving up on him.
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I think I was about the same.
I was aware that Obama was beholden to certain groups well before he was elected but naively thought he would fight against that and still had quite high hopes for him.
It was quite the disappointment to gradually realise he was a lying, murdering bastard.

On the other hand, I was never with Trump in order to give up on him.

I've thought him a boorish, lying arsehole for at least a decade, probably two, so he wasn't off to a good start.
Even if that had not been the case, publicly calling for the murder of terrorists' families would've sealed the deal over a year ago.
And even if that had not been the case, sending Spicer out to so blatantly lie in order to drum up support for attacking Iran would've done it.

And that's without even going into a whole host of other reasons, some documented in this thread, some not.
 
More tech companies join anti-Trump battle, but why did some pay for his inauguration?
Hypocrisy is the new normal

In news that won't surprise anyone who saw the first batch of Snowden files:
Having opposed much of Trump's rhetoric during the campaign and then legally opposed his efforts to impose the Muslim ban he promised to introduce, the news that Microsoft contributed $250,000 in cash to President Trump's inauguration committee and a further $250,000 in in-kind services has opened the company up to criticism.

Google and Amazon did the same. According to Politico, a number of tech companies also gave very healthy donations to the inauguration – something that is not sitting very well with employees or users.
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Hardly a day goes by without some hilarious absurdity from this bampot.
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Robert said:
Trump did say "You have to take out their families".
Nice to see him putting his promise of collective punishment into practice by murdering an 8 year old girl.

You guys must be so proud (or turned on, if that's your thang).
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Spicer isn't letting this go:
The White House and Sen. John McCain are feuding over the Trump administration’s characterization of a recent raid that resulted in the death of a Navy SEAL.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Wednesday described the intelligence-gathering raid targeting al Qaeda militants in Yemen as “a huge success.” The White House initially cast the military effort as a “successful raid” in a Jan. 29 statement, but Spicer toned down that description last week, telling reporters it would be difficult to proclaim success after the raid resulted in the death of American service member.

At his White House briefings this week, though, Spicer returned to the administration’s position that the raid was, indeed, successful and signaled Wednesday that McCain should apologize for calling it a “failure” on Tuesday.

“I think anybody who undermines the success of that [raid] owes an apology and [does] a disservice to the life of Chief Owens,” Spicer told reporters.
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Interesting to see these two arseholes squabbling over who is showing the most respect to the dead navy SEAL.
Of course, neither of them give the square root of a fúck about the dead children and other civilians.
 
metalman said:
9th Circus
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Pesky court system.
Be much better if the president could just dictate everything without their interference, eh? :p

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More seriously, I wouldn't worry too much if I were a Trump supporter.
I've a feeling this is just another example of the way Trump "does business"; make a ludicrously absurd opening gambit in the knowledge that it'll be refused but that the next, slightly less outrageous second "offer" will be accepted.
That is to say, even if the supreme court slaps it down too, a slightly watered down version will be accepted.
 
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Today's Mash:
Trump demands introduction of Super Double Caps Lock
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PRESIDENT Trump has demanded that a Super Double Caps Lock be created to better convey the force of his feelings on Twitter.

Following the US appeal court’s refusal to lift his Muslim ban, Trump believes that computer keyboards need a new key to represent how emphatic and powerful his words are.

A White House spokesman said: “When the president typed ‘SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!’ it was commanding, impressive and resolute.

“But unfortunately YouTube commenters calling pop videos ‘THE GAYMOST’ have lessened the impact of capital letters, meaning the tweet came across as impotent rage from a bewildered adult baby.

“Funding of $6.5 billion will create a Super Double Caps Lock key, reserved exclusively for presidential use, which will fully communicate the authority and import of President Trump’s statesmanlike tweets.

“The trial is set for October this year, when he will leave the world in awe with a series of epochal tweets about his daughter’s shoe line and a fabric softener commercial he feels is disrespecting him.”

Joe Turner of Kansas City said: “Has he tried using a whole bunch of exclamation marks? That always makes everyone take me seriously.”
 
Robert said:
Today's Mash:
Trump demands introduction of Super Double Caps Lock
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PRESIDENT Trump has demanded that a Super Double Caps Lock be created to better convey the force of his feelings on Twitter.

Following the US appeal court’s refusal to lift his Muslim ban, Trump believes that computer keyboards need a new key to represent how emphatic and powerful his words are.

A White House spokesman said: “When the president typed ‘SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!’ it was commanding, impressive and resolute.

“But unfortunately YouTube commenters calling pop videos ‘THE GAYMOST’ have lessened the impact of capital letters, meaning the tweet came across as impotent rage from a bewildered adult baby.

“Funding of $6.5 billion will create a Super Double Caps Lock key, reserved exclusively for presidential use, which will fully communicate the authority and import of President Trump’s statesmanlike tweets.

“The trial is set for October this year, when he will leave the world in awe with a series of epochal tweets about his daughter’s shoe line and a fabric softener commercial he feels is disrespecting him.”

Joe Turner of Kansas City said: “Has he tried using a whole bunch of exclamation marks? That always makes everyone take me seriously.”
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redrumloa said:
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Wow.. Even MSNBC with a truth bomb...

Scarborough: 9th Circuit Ruling Is ‘Laughable,’ ‘Will Be Overturned’

This decision, though, is laughable,” Scarborough conitnued. “This is, for me, the most disturbing part of the entire case. And by the way, at the end, this isn’t going to matter because I think the White House is going to fix it up, briefly fix it up. They could do a couple quick changes and take care of these problems. But the Ninth said, ‘The government has pointed to no evidence that any alien from any of the countries named in the order have perpetrated a terrorist attack in the United States.’ As if it is the executive branches job to actually get the Intel community in and say these are all the things that are going to happen. No, in fact, Barack Obama worked with a bipartisan Congress to come up with these seven countries, not because there was specific attacks, but because they saw deteriorating security situation that they wanted to remedy. They wanted to prevent attacks. That’s the entire purpose of that.”

“This will be overturned,” he added.
 
This attempt at satire:
Trump Urges Putin to Ignore ISIS and Bomb Nordstrom
Doesn't really work, mainly because it wouldn't seem much more implausible than some of the things he actually has said.
That limits any chance it had of being funny, and the rest of it isn't any better.

To be fair, lampooning something so ludicrous was always going to be tricky.
 
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