I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Adder

If you mean they won't find Trump personally on the phone, that might be right, but we're already aware of two of his top aids, and Roger Stone, so I'd call that a link. We just don't know how serious the things they were up to are.

As for connecting to Trump personally, this seems a bit conspiratorial so I'm not going to vouch for it's credibility, but check out this Twitter thread.



No, you were equating how normal people are now freaking out to how the Fox News crowd freaked out under Obama. These things are not the same. Which I why I listed valid reasons for freaking out, only one of which is Russia.



Feel free to share what you think has been positive. All I've got is that in sort of respecting the courts on his immigration orders, he's not been as horribly authoritarian as I'd feared. Yet.

Meanwhile, he's till openly courting racists.



So crazy to care about refugees, immigrants and vaild visa holders. Or the 24 million people who will lose their health insurance (won't actually as they've already failed to pass the AHCA, but still). Crazy to think immigration raids and deportations of people are scary and unwarranted. Just total batshit.

But we know, you don't care about other people.

ETA: Oh, yeah, and how his DOJ is going back into private prisons. That's great.



No it isn't, especially not in the stupid, ham-fisted way he's "attempted" to do it. Seriously? An exec order that creates extra busywork for beaurocrats to rearrange regs to they can count fewer? It's meaningless on it's face.



Honestly, I don't even know if it's in the AHCA, but no, it's not "good" and it's not "competition." It's being able to sell the shittiest policy you can get past the shittiest state regulator nationwide.

Or do you think health insurance doesn't need regulation? Because it very much does.

If you want the federal government to take over insurance regulation, then fine, you can sell it across state lines.



OMG. Seriously? No, this is widely acknowledged, like all across the political spectrum, as bad policy.



Is it? How can you tell if you don't know what it actually means?



They're aren't any dishes good enough to make it worthwhile. This isn't normal. He's not W.

The areas I follow closest are taxes and foreign policy. Here's the thing on foreign policy, where I'm accustomed to finding plenty of Rs to agree with in dealing with one issue or another: his approach to every situation is just incredibly assinine. He's a clown who has assembled a clown car for a team. There are - count them - two people on his foreign policy team who have avoided self-inflicted wounds in the first 60 days - Haley, who has done nothing useful but at least hasn't screwed up badly, and Greenblatt, who may be the surprise star of the administration in part because he seems to admit his shortcomings and be willing to learn.

Tillerson, who ought to be at least competent, proved himself about the worst of them on the Asia trip.

I never believed I would say this, but I really miss Cheney and his neo-cons.