The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Casey Pelous]

Postponed.

He has been really busy, and just didn't have to time to deal with the less important stuff. I know having to sign that Epstein bill took a lot out of him.

He also had to have someone get him some new clothes so he could look sharp for his new bf.

 

[Free]

He also had to have someone get him some new clothes so he could look sharp for his new bf.

Important to note he didn't need new clothes. He wanted them, even though *we* couldn't really afford them right now. New love can make a person do crazy things.

 

[Free]

I'm almost certain no one here is waiting on their Trump Phone, right?

Where Is the Trump Phone?

Is it located in the same place as the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare?

gizmodo.com

 

[Free]

Trump to announce extension of ACA tax credits for two years

President Donald Trump planning intervention to stop expiration of Obamacare subsidies sending insurance premiums skyrocketing for millions of Americans

www.independent.co.uk

Wasn't this supposed to be part of Trump's healthcare proposal he's now postponed?

(Is he trying to take Obamacare and merely slap his name on it?)

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Stephen Miller’s uncle says that he’s a product of chain migration himself

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

(Is he trying to take Obamacare and merely slap his name on it?)

Everybody knows that Obamacare was awful but the ACA is great! (sarcasm).

 

[detrius]

The Guardian: Who can tame Trump? An unlikely candidate is emerging: the Catholic church

[...]
My bet? The next fracture is between the old-guard moral-panic conservatives—the performative/so-called “family values” crowd—and the neo-authoritarian, loyalty-only, government-mafia faction that Thunder Rumpus, Miller, Heritage, and company have threaded through the federal apparatus.
[...]

Speaking of the Catholic Church and old-guard moral panic conservatives, look at who's trying to be relevant again:

A Bizarre Catholic Website Is Trying to Justify Megyn Kelly’s Gross Comments on Pedophilia

These people are getting way too defensive about child abusers.

Who rolled back the stone and let this guy out again? From the Catholic League, which consists of a mailing list in this guy’s medicine cabinet behind the cobwebbed Right Guard Speed Stick:
[...]

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a69458871/catholic-league-megyn-kelly-epstein-defense/

As someone else described it: Bill Donahue (not dead yet) probably has some sort of spider sense that tingles whenever someone talks about pædophiles, so he can rush to their defense.

He really, really could just have said nothing, but he absolutely had to remind people of the fact that he would have been one of Epstein's most fervent defenders if Epstein hadn't been Jewish.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

They're dipping into the Austin Powers names, or James Bond villain henchmen.

Like Xenia Onatopp who killed people with her thighs.

 

[Free]

They're going after the Scouts. Is nothing sacred to them? (That's a rhetorical question.)

U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'

The century-old partnership between the U.S. military and Scouting could be coming to an end.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning for the military to sever all ties with Scouting America, saying the group once known as the Boy Scouts is no longer a meritocracy and has become an organization designed to "attack boy-friendly spaces," according to documents reviewed by NPR.

In a draft memo to Congress, which sources shared with NPR but which has not yet been sent, Hegseth criticizes Scouting for being "genderless" and for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

They're going after the Scouts. Is nothing sacred to them? (That's a rhetorical question.)

U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'

Yep, I saw that story too, figured someone would mention it here.

Some of the reasons the Scouts decided to bring in girls were:

1. To reduce accusations of too many boy-centric predators in scout leadership. They figured with girls around and some women in leadership, boy-target predators might be more likely to leave leadership or not become part of Scout leadership in the first place.
2. To appeal to conservatives who thought the girl scouts were too liberal for their girls to join.
3. To increase membership numbers which have been in decline for decades.

The Scouts should realize that trying to appeal to conservatives is a fool's game that comes back to bite you.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

As to Megan Kelly's comments on pedophilia, English law makes a clear distinction between sexual offences committed against children under 13, whom the law views as developmentally incapable of understanding or agreeing to sexual activity in any meaningful way, and those committed against children 13 or older but under 16, whom the law regards as capable of understanding sexual activity and as developing autonomy, at least to a degree, but nevertheless as needing protection because they lack the maturity meaningfully to consent.

Consequently, there are two separate sets of charges available to the prosecutor, depending on whether the child is under 13 or under 16. UK sexual offences law also prohibits sexual activity children under 18 in particular circumstances (the general age of consent is 16), where the adult is in a position of trust or authority, just as it protects in various ways and circumstances adults who, because of mental or developmental difficulties, are incapable of proper informed consent.

I don't see what's wrong with this. It seems to me to recognise the difference between developmental stages, and it works well enough in practice.

But neither do I see why this distinction is particularly important outside the legal context. Sexual activity with a child under 16 is still a very serious criminal offence. It's just somewhat less serious, when it comes to sentencing, than rape or sexual assault of a child under 13. It's not as if the fact the victim was 13 or older excuses the defendant in any way.

ETA: I think it may be that people on the right would rather think in terms of perverts vs normal decent people like us than in terms of people who respect the autonomy and consent of others and those who don't.

 

[Beebo Brink]

ETA: I think it may be that people on the right would rather think in terms of perverts vs normal decent people like us than in terms of people who respect the autonomy and consent of others and those who don't.

That's in keeping with conservative paradigms that see so many issues in binary terms. Nuance and gray areas just don't exist for them. Man/woman, gay/straight, black/white, good/evil. It's why they are drawn to authoritarians and rigid hierarchical power structures.

 

[Free]

More nonsense about the Whitehouse ballroom. Trump apparently thinks it's not big enough.

Trump, 79, Feuds With His White House Ballroom Architect Over Bonkers Demand

The president and architect James McCrery II have butted heads, insiders claim.

www.thedailybeast.com

President Donald Trump is reportedly locked in a bizarre standoff with the architect he personally tapped to design a new White House ballroom—because the president wants it even bigger than the White House itself.

Only in Trump’s second-term makeover could a 90,000-square-foot ballroom—already larger than the 55,000-square-foot mansion it’s attached to—be considered too small, and architect James McCrery II has urged restraint, the insiders said.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

More nonsense about the Whitehouse ballroom. Trump apparently thinks it's not big enough.

Trump, 79, Feuds With His White House Ballroom Architect Over Bonkers Demand

The president and architect James McCrery II have butted heads, insiders claim.

www.thedailybeast.com

I mean, he does have a lot to compensate for.

 

[Casey Pelous]

They're going after the Scouts. Is nothing sacred to them? (That's a rhetorical question.)

U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'

Thank goodness there will finally be a space where men and boys can be safe from the oppression of the all-powerful Wimmenzes. Maybe some day they can even have equal pay with Wimmenzes!

 

[Free]

I'd start using the word "Wimmenzes," but I'm afraid people will think I'm talking about a new European electric bike.

 

[detrius]

More nonsense about the Whitehouse ballroom. Trump apparently thinks it's not big enough.

Trump, 79, Feuds With His White House Ballroom Architect Over Bonkers Demand

The president and architect James McCrery II have butted heads, insiders claim.

www.thedailybeast.com

If you think that's bonkers, just wait until you see his ideas for the new Capitol Building:

 

[Innula Zenovka]

If you think that's bonkers, just wait until you see his ideas for the new Capitol Building:

I thought of that building, too. The whole planned redevelopment, in fact.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

When President "Max Bialystock" leaves The White House for the last time, (either feet first or by escaping on Air Force One to a nation without an extradition treaty)... his gold-plated "Beige Butt Awful Bawlzroom" will -seem- 10%-20% complete, but the foundation and infrastructure will violate so many building codes that there's no possible way to finish the project safely enough to allow it to be actually used by anyone.

Maybe someday I'll acclimate to the howling void of cynicism that perpetually rings in my head like inescapable tinnitus. Today is not that day.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Trump fined nearly $1 million after court calls lawsuit against Hillary Clinton ‘harassment’

Oh snap! Dance, Hillary, dance!