January 20th, 2017 - January 20th, 2017. 432-432 days since the Nov 8, 2016, election of some rich asshole, no.45, and 362-362 days since the Jan 20th inauguration.
Nerves fray as shutdown talks at impasse
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 01/20/18 09:36 PM EST
Talks between Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and congressional Republican leaders have broken down, raising anxieties among lawmakers on both sides of the aisle about finding a way to end the government shutdown.
Schumer had not spoken to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) or Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as of 8 p.m. Saturday evening, the shutdown’s first day.
Neither side showed any signs of backing down when the Senate adjourned Saturday evening without a deal in sight.
While both sides are furiously playing the blame game, McConnell thinks he has the upper hand and plans to raise pressure on Democrats by forcing votes on resolutions to reopen the government.
He has introduced a three-week stopgap measure funding the government until Feb. 8, a week shorter than the House-passed spending bill that failed Friday evening.
“Fewer than half of Democrats say that dealing with DACA is more urgent than keeping the government open,” McConnell said in a floor speech, pointing to a recent CNN survey about the shutdown and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which President the rich asshole ended last year. The program shields certain immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children from deportation.
“I think our friends on the other side took some bad advice, really bad advice. I would hate to have to be trying to explain this myself,” he argued in another floor statement.
There are doubts within each party over who is winning the fight for public opinion, however, which could have lasting implications for this fall’s midterms.
Five Democrats running for reelection in states won by the rich asshole in 2016 voted against their party in a Friday night vote to keep the government open.
“I think it’s a loser for everybody, but it’s probably more of a loser if you’re in control,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), acknowledged to The Washington Post earlier this month.
Schumer has also struck a bold posture, assuring his nervous colleagues that Republicans will get the blame for a shutdown.
But some Democrats are getting nervous about using a tactic that traditionally has been associated with Republicans: forcing a government shutdown to win a major policy concession.
“I really hate the idea of closing the government,” said one Democratic senator, who nevertheless argued that the risky tactic was necessary.
“We need to do it with this cast of characters,” the lawmaker said, referring to the rich asshole and GOP leaders in Congress. “the rich asshole has shown he’s perfectly willing to let immigrants become collateral damage.”
Democratic anxiety has been heightened by the refusal of GOP leaders to give any ground. Schumer called for a meeting between the rich asshole and the top-ranking leaders in both chambers to resolve the impasse swiftly, but was met with silence.
“I’m concerned that we don’t have an exit strategy,” a Democratic aide told NBC News on Saturday. “I think that it seems naive to think that Republicans will do the right thing here and compromise.”
Now some Democrats worry the shutdown may stretch out for days, if not weeks.
Faced with a startling lack of progress on the leadership level, rank-and-file senators in both parties tried to take things into their own hands.
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) shuffled between Schumer’s and McConnell’s offices in a stab at shuttle diplomacy.
They hope McConnell will promise to take up an immigration reform bill under an open amendment process next month, paving the way for a deal to reopen the government.
“He’s made a commitment for the first time to include immigration in the list of things we’ll take up. He says we’re close. I agree with him,” Graham said of the GOP leader.
Several Senate Democrats on Saturday said they would be willing to accept a government funding measure that does not include language to protect an estimated 800,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, known as "Dreamers," from deportation.
But they insist that Republicans must agree to more funding for community health centers, increased money for disaster relief and higher federal spending caps.
Sen. Jon Tester (D), who faces a tough reelection this year in Montana, a state the rich asshole won by 20 points, said he would be willing to pass a stopgap measure if Republicans commit to take up immigration legislation, but warned that: “there has to be more to it than that.”
“There also needs to be commitment to a budget that goes to Sept. 30 and there are some health-care issues and some southern border issues … that need to be dealt with,” said Tester, who voted to block the stopgap measure Friday night that was approved by the House.
Another Democratic senator, who requested anonymity to discuss internal caucus negotiations, said a potential deal could reopen the government, provide more money for community health centers, boost disaster relief for California, Colorado and Puerto Rico and increase spending caps for defense and nondefense programs.
But the lawmaker warned that the party would be divided by a government funding deal that gave Democrats a variety of concessions on fiscal issues but did not protect immigrants exposed by the repeal of DACA.
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), a leading player in the immigration talks, said a spending bill that does not help Dreamers would not end the standoff.
“I don’t think that’s adequate to end it, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction,” he said of the prospect of Republicans providing more money for Democratic priorities and a promise to debate an immigration bill next month.
the rich asshole rescinded the Obama-era DACA program in September and gave Congress a March 5 deadline to replace it.
Senate Democrats discussed their next steps at a lunchtime meeting off the Senate chamber.
While some Democrats expressed potential support for a deal that set immigration aside, others voiced their opposition — dampening the prospect of reaching a compromise with Republicans anytime soon.
“We want to keep as unified as possible,” said the Democratic senator.
A bipartisan group of moderates met in the office of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) later in the day to discuss a deal to reopen the government that could be presented to Republican and Democratic leaders.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who voted for the four-week stopgap measure on Friday and faces reelection in a state the rich asshole carried by 42 points, told reporters that the group of moderates hope to present a plan to leaders on Sunday.
He said that as many as 18 or 19 senators may sign onto the proposal.
“We’re trying to see if we can talk to the leadership on both sides and tell them what we think is a path forward,” Manchin told Bloomberg News.
He said that immigration would have to be “part of the package.”
Shutdown fight turns ugly as both sides dig in
BY SCOTT WONG,MIKE LILLIS AND CRISTINA MARCOS - 01/20/18 03:17 PM EST
Republican and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill lashed out at each other on Day One of the government shutdown Saturday, trading barbs and casting blame as a resolution to the funding impasse seemed nowhere in sight.
The rhetoric took a harsh turn, with Democrats complaining that President the rich asshole is an erratic, unreliable negotiating partner and Republicans bemoaning Democrats’ intransigence over what the GOP sees as unreasonable immigration demands.
“Both sides are dug in. … I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re here tomorrow,” Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) told The Hill after huddling with fellow House Democrats in the basement of the Capitol.
Both chambers are in session Saturday — a rare weekend workday when many lawmakers were griping about risking vacation plans and overseas trips. But no votes are scheduled to reopen the government as the sides continue to air their grievances in press conferences and on cable news shows.
With neither Republicans nor Democrats willing to budge, congressional leaders let the insults fly on Capitol Hill and it increasingly looked like the shutdown would run into the work week, furloughing hundreds of thousands of workers.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters trying to work out a deal with the rich asshole was like “negotiating with Jell-O,” while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) used a floor speech to decry the rich asshole’s “all-around incompetence” and “inefficiency.”
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), meanwhile, placed blame for the shutdown solely at the feet of Senate Democrats: “One party in one house of this Congress is deliberately holding this government hostage.”
Added the rich asshole on Twitter: “Democrats are holding our Military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration. Can’t let that happen!”
After the House Democratic Caucus meeting, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said he’s increasingly “pessimistic about reopening the government in any kind of expeditious way.”
The reason?
“Largely because of the intransigence of Republican leadership,” he said.
Neither party appeared to even agree on what should be the first step to ending the government shutdown.
Republicans insisted that the government needed to reopen before they would resume negotiations on immigration. Members of both parties have been in talks about shielding immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children from deportation in exchange for enhanced border security.
The rich asshole administration first made plans to rescind the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which granted temporary work permits for some of those immigrants, last year.
“We want to address the issue of the DACA recipients and the reforms necessary to close loopholes and make sure our borders are secure. But it’s got to be done in an environment where somebody isn’t holding people hostage over that,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.).
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who has been in talks with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), said “we’ll go back to the table when the government’s back open."
GOP leaders, particularly Ryan, have been adamantly opposed to attaching any DACA provision to a spending bill, saying it’s an independent issue that should be addressed separately.
“We have been, and we continue to be, willing to work together in good faith on immigration,” Ryan said Saturday on the House floor.
Pelosi, meanwhile, insisted that lawmakers need to agree on parity between defense and nondefense spending, disaster relief, a path for DACA and other priorities before supporting another stopgap measure, or continuing resolution (CR).
“It’s no use having another CR unless we have the terms of engagement of how we go forward on the … parity, on the pay-fors, on the pensions, on the DACA and on the border security,” Pelosi said at a press conference in the Capitol.
The three-week spending proposal offered by Senate GOP leaders includes a promise to vote on a DACA bill by Feb. 8. But many Democrats are quick to note that a vote in the upper chamber is no guarantee that Ryan would take it up. Indeed, the Speaker has said he won’t support any measure that doesn’t have the backing of the president, and the rich asshole last week rejected the bipartisan DACA deal secured by Durbin and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
Many House Democrats are hinging their support for a CR on stronger assurances that DACA protections become law.
“Let’s say they give them a vote in the Senate. It doesn’t solve the impasse if Republicans in the House [don’t follow suit],” Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) said Saturday.
“This is going to take Speaker Ryan to say, ‘I will give them a vote.’ ”
Alexander Bolton contributed
BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 01/20/18 02:59 PM EST
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney fired back at Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Saturday after the senator said negotiating with the president was like "negotiating with Jell-O."
"Mr. Schumer has to up his game and be more honest with the president of the United States if we are going to be seeing progress on that front," Mulvaney told reporters at the White House.
Mulvaney was referencing Schumer's claim that he offered to put President the rich asshole’s request for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border “on the table” at a White House meeting on Friday.
"Chuck Schumer actually had the gall to look at the president and said 'I am giving you everything you asked for the wall' and then, when pressed, he admitted that he was not doing it," he said.
"That's the type of the negotiation that Mr. Schumer has been engaged in with the president. You have to ask yourself, at what point does it become profitable to work with somebody like that?" he continued.
Schumer said the president agreed to try for a four- or five-day government stopgap spending measure to give him and congressional leaders just enough time to reach a deal.
the rich asshole changed his mind, however, according to Schumer.
"Several hours later he called back. He said, ‘So, I hear we have a three-week deal.’ I said, 'No, Mr. President, no one is even talking about a three-week deal,' ” the minority leader said.
Schumer's communications director, Matt House, fired back at Mulvaney after the press briefing on Saturday and accused him of lying.
Director Mulvaney was not in the lunch, and is not telling the truth.
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Schumer: Negotiating with the rich asshole 'like negotiating with Jell-O'
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 01/20/18 01:34 PM EST
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) on Saturday blasted President the rich asshole as an unreliable negotiating partner, fuming that working with him is “like negotiating with Jell-O" after a failure to secure a deal to avert a government shutdown.
“I told the president we Democrats were willing to fund the military at the highest levels in history, far above even his budget request,” said Schumer, who said he also offered to put the rich asshole’s request for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border “on the table” at a White House meeting on Friday.
Schumer said the rich asshole agreed to try for a four- or five-day government stopgap spending measure to give him and congressional leaders just enough time to reach a deal.
But then, Schumer said, the president changed his mind.
“Several hours later he called back. He said, ‘So, I hear we have a three-week deal.’ I said, 'No, Mr. President, no one is even talking about a three-week deal,' ” Schumer recounted.
“Then a few hours later they called back again, ‘Well we’re going to need this, this, this in addition,’ ” Schumer said. “Things they knew were far, far right and off the table.”
“Negotiating with this White House is like negotiating with Jell-O,” Schumer said, drawing a comparison to the wobbly gelatin dessert.
“It’s next to impossible. As soon as you take one step forward, the hard-right forces the president three steps back,” Schumer said.
Schumer's comments came as lawmakers searched for a deal on Saturday to fund the government after Congress missed the deadline Friday night to prevent a shutdown.
‘How broke that brain?’: SNL lampoons the rich asshole’s physical exam in hilarious ‘press conference’
SNL's Beck Bennett as Dr. Ronny Jackson (Screen capture)
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This week, “Saturday Night Live” opened with cast-member Aidy Bryant as White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders facing down a hostile press pool with the results of President some rich asshole’s physical exam.
White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson — played by SNL’s Beck Bennett — said the rich asshole has a “gorgeous 44-inch Coke bottle waist” and a “rockin’ bod with the perfect amount of cushion for the pushin’.”
Jackson conceded that the president takes Crestor for cholesterol, “which is normal” and “takes Propecia as an inside joke.”
Kate McKinnon stood up as a member of the press corps and asked the question on everyone’s mind, “How broke that brain?”
Jackson insisted that the rich asshole is fully functioning and that when he took a sexuality test, “He blew the doors off that sucker. He nailed every position perfectly.”
When the president was done, Jackson said, “There wasn’t a dry eye in the house.”
“You don’t expect us to really believe this, right?” another reporter asked.
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January 20, 2018
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Posted with permission from DeepStateNation.com
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), an Iraq war veteran who suffered severe combat wounds, losing both of her legs and damage to her right arm, tore into ‘cadet bone spurs' for lecturing Democrats on the military.
"Does he even know that there are service members who are in harm's way right now, watching him, looking for their commander-in-chief to show leadership, rather than [trying] to deflect blame?" Duckworth said. "Or that his own Pentagon says that the short-term funding plans he seems intent on pushing is actually harmful to not just the military, but to our national security?"
"I spent my entire adult life looking out for the well-being, the training, the equipping of the troops for whom I was responsible," she continued. "Sadly, this is something that the current occupant of the Oval Office does not seem to care to do – and I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft-dodger."
"And I have a message for cadet bone spurs: If you cared about our military, you'd stop baiting Kim Jong-Un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops, and millions of innocent civilians, in danger."
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Reminder: Trump once said avoiding social diseases was his “personal Vietnam.” huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-mi…
!!@SenDuckworth: "I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft-dodger. And I have a message for cadet bone spurs: If you cared about our military, you'd stop baiting Kim Jong-Un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops .. in danger." pic.twitter.com/BBXVna819m
Duckworth's comments follow Republicans trying to blame Democrats for the shutdown.
On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, "They will see which senators vote to shove aside veterans, military families, and vulnerable children to hold the entire country hostage." But on Saturday, he killed a resolution by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) that would have ensured that the military and widows would be paid during the shutdown.
Democrats are holding our Military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration. Can’t let that happen!
On Saturday morning, Trump tweeted, "Democrats are holding our Military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration. Can't let that happen!"
Trump knows nothing about sacrifice. The former reality show star once said that avoiding social diseases was his "personal Vietnam."
Does ‘Fire and Fury’ passage about Nikki Haley imply she and the rich asshole are having an affair?
some rich asshole and Nikki Haley (Wikimedia Commons)
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On Friday night, author Michael Wolff set tongues wagging and pages turning by implying to “Real Time” host Bill Maher that President some rich asshole is currently having an affair and that the clues to who are in his book Fire and Fury: Inside the rich asshole White House.
Slate.com pointed to a paragraph in Fire and Fury that reads, “By October, however, many of the president’s staff took particular notice of one of the few remaining the rich asshole opportunists: Nikki Haley, the UN ambassador. Haley — ‘as ambitious as Lucifer,’ in the characterization of one member of the senior staff — had concluded that the rich asshole’s tenure would last, at best, a single term, and that she, with the requisite submission, could be his heir apparent.”
However, it’s the next paragraph that would appear to be more damning.
“The president has been spending a notable amount of private time with Haley on Air Force One and was seen to be grooming her for a national political future,” Wolff said. “Haley, who was much more of a traditional Republican, one with a pronounced moderate streak — a type increasingly known as a Jarvanka Republican — was, evident to many, being mentored in Trumpian ways. The danger here, offered one senior Trumper, ‘is that she is so much smarter than him.'”
Haley was accused of having an adulterous relationship with political blogger Will Folks in 2007 prior to assuming the office of governor.
Folks published salacious details of the alleged affair on his blog, but later backtracked and took down the blog posts.
Haley has denied the affair.
‘Suspicious transactions’: Deutsche Bank flags Kushner deals and offers records to Mueller probe
Jessica Kwong
Posted with permission from Newsweek
A German bank reportedly has evidence of “suspicious transactions” related to Jared Kushner’s family accounts and is willing to hand the information over to Russia probe special counsel Robert Mueller.
The board chairman of the banking giant Deutsche Bank, Paul Achleitner, called for an internal investigation and found troubling results, German business magazine Manager Magazin reported in its print edition released on Friday.
Deutsche Bank—a major lender to President Donald Trump and his son-in-law and senior White House advisor Kushner, according to Mother Jones—provided the results to the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, which is Germany’s bank regulatory agency and referred to as BaFin.
“Achleitner’s internal detectives were embarrassed to deliver their interim report regarding real estate tycoon Kushner to the financial regulator BaFin,” states the Manager Magazin story translated from German to English. “Their finding: There are indications that Donald Trump’s son-in-law or persons or companies close to him could have channeled suspicious monies through Deutsche Bank as part of their business dealings.”
No details on the suspicious money transfer were reported. The bank is worried about what the results will mean for its image, according to Manager Magazin.
“What BaFin will do about [the bank’s findings] is not the bank’s greatest concern,” the German magazine reported. “Rather, it’s the noise that U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller … will make in his pursuit of Trump. For he will likely obtain this information—a giant risk to [the bank’s] reputation.
The bank’s investigation into Kushner and his family business are ongoing and have been complicated by technical issues internally, the magazine story states.
Neither Kushner’s personal attorney nor the bank have commented.
Kushner is already wrapped in problems with Deutsche Bank.
Federal prosecutors last month reportedly subpoenaed the bank for records relating to Kushner Companies, his family-run business. It was not known if the records involve Kushner or are tied to Mueller’s probe into possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russians in the presidential election.
Deutsche Bank is investigating suspicious money transfers of Kushner and his companies. m.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/ba…
The board chairman of the banking giant Deutsche Bank, Paul Achleitner, called for an internal investigation and found troubling results, German business magazine Manager Magazin reported in its print edition released on Friday.
Deutsche Bank—a major lender to President Donald Trump and his son-in-law and senior White House advisor Kushner, according to Mother Jones—provided the results to the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, which is Germany’s bank regulatory agency and referred to as BaFin.
“Achleitner’s internal detectives were embarrassed to deliver their interim report regarding real estate tycoon Kushner to the financial regulator BaFin,” states the Manager Magazin story translated from German to English. “Their finding: There are indications that Donald Trump’s son-in-law or persons or companies close to him could have channeled suspicious monies through Deutsche Bank as part of their business dealings.”
No details on the suspicious money transfer were reported. The bank is worried about what the results will mean for its image, according to Manager Magazin.
“What BaFin will do about [the bank’s findings] is not the bank’s greatest concern,” the German magazine reported. “Rather, it’s the noise that U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller … will make in his pursuit of Trump. For he will likely obtain this information—a giant risk to [the bank’s] reputation.
Deutsche Bank is investigating suspicious money transfers of Kushner and his companies. m.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/ba…
The bank’s investigation into Kushner and his family business are ongoing and have been complicated by technical issues internally, the magazine story states.
Neither Kushner’s personal attorney nor the bank have commented.
Kushner is already wrapped in problems with Deutsche Bank.
Federal prosecutors last month reportedly subpoenaed the bank for records relating to Kushner Companies, his family-run business. It was not known if the records involve Kushner or are tied to Mueller’s probe into possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russians in the presidential election.
the rich asshole biographer: ‘Season Two of the rich asshole White House Reality Show’ is turning into a dark comedy
Author and the rich asshole biographer David Cay Johnston on MSNBC (Screen capture)
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Biographer of President some rich asshole — and author of the new book It’s Even Worse than You Think: What the the rich asshole Administration Is Doing to America— David Cay Johnston told Joy Reid on Saturday that a cornered the rich asshole is going to become more erratic and unpredictable.
Reid and Johnston had a chuckle over the rich asshole’s misguided tweet from Saturday morning in which he tried to take credit for the women marching all over the country.
“Is he just deluding himself?” Reid asked.
“It’s hard to know exactly what he’s doing,” Johnston said, before noting that the rich asshole’s rationale for the Democrats being responsible for the government shutdown is just a “farce.”
“Season Two of the some rich asshole White House Reality Show is turning into a farce,” he said. It could just be that the president “simply doesn’t know what’s going on out there,” but the rich asshole is acting genuinely bizarre.
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the rich asshole touts 'unprecedented economic success' in Women's March tweet
BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 01/20/18 02:09 PM EST
President the rich asshole on Saturday acknowledged the thousands of people taking part in Women's March demonstrations across the country, saying it was a "beautiful" day for people to "celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success" under his term.
In a tweet acknowledging the marches, which were planned for the one-year anniversary of the rich asshole entering office and aimed primarily at protesting his rhetoric and policies, the rich asshole urged people to focus on economic successes since he became president.
"Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years!" the rich asshole tweeted.
Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years!
People took to the streets in cities across the U.S. on Saturday, including Washington, D.C., to protest the president's past rhetoric and policies regarding women and civil rights.
The marches were modeled after the demonstrations that took place a day after the rich asshole entered office last year, which attracted millions of people around the world.
The past year has proven to be a landmark year for women in the fight for gender equality.
Women from Hollywood to Capitol Hill came forward to accuse various high-profile men of sexual misconduct.
Numerous women accused the rich asshole of sexual misconduct before he entered office and have cited his remarks on the 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape, in which he openly bragged about grabbing women without their consent.
BY MELANIE ZANONA - 01/20/18 08:45 PM EST
Lawmakers in both parties are fighting hard for an edge in the blame game over the government shutdown, courting public opinion that may be critical in ending the impasse.
Republicans are branding it the “Schumer Shutdown,” in reference to Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), and think they have a strong hand because Senate Democrats rejected a bill passed by the House that would have kept the government open.
In arguments echoed by the White House and Speaker’s office, they say Democrats are holding the government hostage.
The Democratic argument, pointedly raised by Schumer on Saturday, is all about President the rich asshole.
Democrats can't negotiate a deal with a president who changes his position from hour to hour and is beholden to right-wing supporters above his own priorities, he says. If the shutdown continues, Schumer says it is because of the rich asshole.
The finger-pointing comes as a deal to reopen the government is nowhere in sight, and a routine House procedural vote on Saturday devolved into a bitter partisan fight over whether a Republican poster adhered to the chamber’s rules.
There is reason for both sides to think their arguments can carry the day.
A CNN poll shows that 31 percent of Americans would hold congressional Democrats responsible for the shutdown, while 26 percent would fault Republican lawmakers and 21 percent would blame the rich asshole.
Even before the government officially shut down in the early hours of Saturday morning, both sides were eager to pin the blame on the other.
Dozens of Republican offices have blasted out press releases about “Schumer’s shutdown,” while GOP leaders ticked off a list of newspaper headlines on Saturday that said Senate Democrats blocked a stopgap funding bill on Friday night.
“The New York Times, not exactly the bastion of right-wing sentiment, put the blame exactly where it belongs,” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor.
The GOP messaging strategy has centered on how the funding lapse will hurt the military. Republican leaders and lawmakers have been saying all week that Democrats are prioritizing immigrants who came to the country illegally over the troops and holding the military hostage to their immigration demands — a sentiment they believe will be a winning message with the American public.
The CNN poll shows that 56 percent of Americans think that keeping the government open is more important than coming up with a solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
“Democrats are holding our Military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration,” the rich asshole tweeted Saturday. “Can’t let that happen!”
Republicans claim Senate Democrats are the only ones who have the power to reopen the government because they are the ones who rejected a four-week funding bill late Friday night. The measure, which would have kept the government's lights on through Feb. 16, failed a procedural hurdle in a 50-49 vote, with the help of four Republicans.
“Senate Democrats shut down this government, and now Senate Democrats need to open this government back up,” Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Saturday.
A website dubbed “Schumer Shutdown” also sprang up this week, displaying a countdown clock to show exactly how long the government has remained closed.
“'Schumer Shutdown' has a nice little ring to it,” Mick Mulvaney, the rich asshole’s budget director, said during a press briefing on Saturday afternoon.
But it was actually the hashtag that included the commander in chief’s name — #TrumpShutdown — that shot to the top of Twitter’s “Worldwide” trending topics on Friday night.
Democrats have spent the past 24 hours putting the blame squarely on the rich asshole’s shoulders, saying his constantly shifting positions have made it impossible to strike a deal to keep the government open.
Speaking on the Senate floor, Schumer went into detail about how he met with the rich asshole at the White House on Friday and offered to give him full border wall funding in exchange for a DACA fix — which he said the president was open to.
But a few hours later, Schumer says, the negotiations fell apart when John Kelly, the rich asshole’s chief of staff, said they needed more concessions in the deal.
“Negotiating with this White House is like negotiating with Jell-O,” Schumer said.
Schumer’s tale about his meeting with the rich asshole is similar to last week, when the rich asshole rejected a bipartisan DACA deal from a group of senators, even though the president suggested days earlier he would sign anything they put on his desk.
“The shelf life of these understandings and agreements is minutes at this point. How do you negotiate? What do you do?” said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.).
Democrats have also hammered the point that Republicans control all three levers of power in Washington, and that this is the first modern shutdown to occur under a fully unified government.
They point out that legislation needs 60 votes in the Senate, so Republican leaders can’t cut Democrats out of the bill-writing process and then complain when it doesn’t have their support for passage.
While Republicans have been generally unified in assigning blame to the Democrats, at least some Republicans are worried that the Democratic arguments could stick.
And the White House has taken steps to ensure that the impacts of a shutdown are minimal, which could help Republicans escape some of the heat if the responsibility winds up on their doorstep.
“There’s a lot of blame to go around on all sides. We’re in the majority, we control all three branches,” said Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee. “So we’re going to get blamed, whether we deserve it or not. Just the way it is.”
BY JOSH DELK - 01/20/18 04:07 PM EST
President Trump did not approve an outline of his immigration policy crafted by top Homeland Security staff at a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers on immigration two weeks ago.
A lawmaker who attended the televised meeting earlier this month tells The Washington Post that after Trump ordered cameras out of the room, the president reacted in surprise and shock to the summary of his policy positions on immigration that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and her staff passed out.
Trump reportedly outwardly expressed frustration that he was unaware of the outline until the meeting, saying he disagreed with the four-page document's "must haves" and proposals for an immigration deal.
The president told lawmakers gathered in the meeting to disregard the outline, which listed several of his key proposals, including $18 billion in funding for a border wall.
“It’s like the wedding where someone actually stands up and objects to the wedding,” the lawmaker told the Post. “It was that moment.”
During the televised portion of the meeting, Trump said that any legislative solution for the thousands of "Dreamers," immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children, should be a "bill of love."
Democrats pushed for a legislative fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that was ultimately stonewalled by Trump and Republican leaders in the Senate, resulting in a federal shutdown at midnight on Friday.
‘Cash before Christ’: Bishop William Barber accuses Franklin Graham of being ‘bought off’ to defend the rich asshole
MSNBC anchor Joy Reid and the Rev. Dr. William Barber.
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The Rev. Dr. William Barber blasted Rev. William Franklin Graham III, the son of evangelical televangelist Billy Graham, for defending President some rich asshole’s year in office. Barber admonished Graham to “stop lying” during an appearance on “AM Joy” with MSNBC anchor Joy Reid.
“What we see here is a mass coverup by so-called white evangelicalism that’s more about, as I’ve said before, cash than Christ,” Barber explained. “It’s heavily funded, you see Franklin Graham saying we have a sin problem. We do. But it’s not what they’re talking about.”
“We see 365 days of attacks on voting rights, that’s sin, attacks on Muslims, that’s sin, attacks on the LGBT community, that’s sin, attacks on health care, attacks on living wages, giving the greedy and the wealthy tax breaks on the backs of the poor and the working poor,” Barber said. “Wherever you look in the scripture, that’s sin. Anyone who attempts to justify that is engaging in a modern day form of heresy.”
“It’s just wrong what he’s saying. Actually, I would say to my brother Franklin Graham, he needs to stop lying, tell the truth and not being bought off or paid or whatever is causing him to misrepresent the faith like that.”
“It is just wrong. It is just wrong,” Barber repeated.
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the rich asshole administration tries to keep agencies open — but only to deflect bad PR from shutdown
President some rich asshole complains about the inadequacies of libel laws shortly before a cabinet meeting (Screen cap).
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President some rich asshole’s White House is trying to keep key federal agencies running in spite of the government shutdown, but only because they want to blunt the political impact against the administration.
Politico said on Saturday that White House political operatives are fretting that Democrats could “weaponize” the shutdown against the administration and use that momentum to score momentous victories in the November, 2018 midterm elections.
The Department of the Interior and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will remain open until they run out of funds and many federal employees have been asked to report to work on Monday for a few hours to close up shop, wrote Politico‘s Lorraine Woellert.
In 2013, then-President Barack Obama ordered that the shutdown should be complete and include popular services like the National Part program so that Republicans would bear the brunt of their decision to shut down the government.
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney on Friday that the the rich asshole administration is trying to prevent Democrats from “weaponizing” the shutdown against the GOP.
“The Obama administration weaponized the shutdown in 2013,” Mulvaney said. “The only conclusion I can draw is they did so for political purposes. So it will look different this time around.”
“They did not encourage agencies to use carry forward funds, funds that they were sitting on, nor did they encourage agencies to use transfer authority,” Mulvaney continued. “They could have made the shutdown in 2013 much less impactful, but they chose to make it worse.”
Politico said that many agencies have been thrown into turmoil by the uncertainty and that the administration does not appear to have a coherent strategy for the shutdown, which comes a year to the day after Pres. the rich asshole’s inauguration.
Many Republicans are worried that their party will be blamed for the shutdown and further damage their chances against an anticipated “blue tsunami” of Democratic victories in the 2018 midterm elections. Mulvaney and others in the White House are wary of the political bind facing the administration. By appealing to the rich asshole’s base of voters, they are alienating themselves from the rest of the country.
The CDC announced on Friday that it cannot bring itself to shut down in the midst of the worst flu season the U.S. has experienced in a generation.
Other agencies will operate on the budgets they have, leaving a patchwork of federal agencies closed and others open. Mulvaney insisted to the media that the country will continue to function as normal.
“The military will still go to work. They will not get paid. The border will still be patrolled. They will not get paid. Folks will still be fighting the fires out West. They will not get paid. The parks will be open. People won’t get paid,” he said. “We are going to manage the shutdown differently. We are not going to weaponize it. We’re not going to try and hurt people, especially people who happen to work for this federal government.”
‘It just sounds so crazy!’: MSNBC’s Jean-Pierre wipes out conservative’s defense of GOP shutdown tactics
Karine Jean-Pierre hits her limit with conservative talking points (Screen capture)
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Pundit Karine Jean-Pierre acted like she couldn’t believe her ears on Saturday when Washington Times writer Jen Kerns said that for the Democratic Party to hew to the cause of the Dreamers is “identity politics” and that it will cost them independent voters in the 2018 midterm elections.
“It just sounds so crazy,” said Jean-Pierre. “That makes no sense at all. How is it that Democrats are responsible for this? The Republicans own everything in Washington. This is a basic civics lesson.”
“Which branch of government do the Democrats run?” she demanded. “None. Which branch of the government does Chuck Schumer run?”
“It just doesn’t make any sense,” she continued, then Kerns tried to interrupt.
“Wait, no, let me finish,” Jean-Pierre said. “You just went off on this ‘What you thought Democrats would need to be worried about, let me finish, here.”
She pointed out that if Republicans cared about the kids whose healthcare they’re threatening, they could have voted on it “months ago,” but instead they’ve chosen to “take those 9 million CHIP kids hostage.”
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Prominent Russian insiders attended the rich asshole inaugural and mingled with administration officials: report
Donald and Melania the rich asshole walk amongst sparse crowds on the way to his January 20, swearing in. Source: Department of Homeland Security.
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Wealthy Russian political and business leaders flocked to Washington, DC — and the lobby of the rich asshole International Hotel — during last year’s inauguration festivities, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
“As questions about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election were beginning to percolate publicly, prominent business leaders and activists from that country attended inaugural festivities, mingling at balls and receptions — at times in proximity to key American political officials,” The Post reported.
“Their presence caught the attention of counterintelligence officials at the FBI, according to former U.S. officials, although it is not clear which attendees drew U.S. government interest,” The Post continued. “FBI officials were concerned at the time because some of the figures had surfaced in the agency’s investigation of the rich asshole campaign’s ties to Russia, the officials said.”
Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer whose June 2016 meeting at the rich asshole Tower is being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller, attended a black-tie party hosted by Rep. Dana Rohrahbacher (R-CA). Rep. Rohrabacher has been nicknamed, “Putin’s favorite congressman.”
Other guests included tycoon Viktor Vekselberg and Russian politician Boris Titov.
“It’s strange,” noted ex-Russia ambassador Michael McFaul, who didn’t remember Russians attending former President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Alexey Repik, a wealthy Russian pharmaceutical executive, documented his adventures on Facebook, including a photo taken with Mike Pompeo, the Kansas Republican who was eventually chosen by the rich asshole to head up the CIA.
Repik allegedly also met Eric the rich asshole, Vice President Mike Pence and the rich asshole chief of staff Reince Priebus.
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The Memo: How the rich asshole changed everything
BY NIALL STANAGE - 01/20/18 09:35 AM EST
One year into the rich asshole presidency, supporters and critics agree on a single thing: America has never seen anything like it.
To his detractors, President the rich asshole is a reckless and uncouth figure, out of his depth at best and, at worst, putting American democracy at risk.
To his backers, the 45th president is delivering on his promises, especially on the economy. He is staying true to himself as the ultimate outsider in the face of a hostile media and political establishment.
Either way, the rich asshole is altering the face of politics.
During his campaign, the rich asshole “struck at the heart of the two-party establishment and he totally upended this long-held notion that the candidate with the most money prevails,” presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway asserted to The Hill. In power, she added, “on the things that matter to Americans, he has achieved mightily.”
A diametrically opposite case is made by Allan Lichtman, an American University professor who went against the grain by predicting the rich asshole’s victory in 2016. In April 2017, Lichtman published a new book, “The Case for Impeachment.”
“On balance, the rich asshole presidency has been very dangerous for our country,” Lichtman said. “One of the most important requirements of a president is to try to bring us together … some rich asshole has seemed intent upon dividing us. He has demeaned people based upon their race, their religion, their nationality, their gender. That hearkens back to some of the most dangerous elements in American history.”
the rich asshole’s propensity to polarize is seen over and over again in opinion polls. They show that the rich asshole has historically low approval ratings with the public at large, but very solid numbers with Republicans.
A new Marist poll released Thursday indicated that 53 percent of Americans see the president’s first year in office as a failure, while only 40 percent view it as a success. But 87 percent of Republicans see the rich asshole’s first year as a success, the poll found.
As of Saturday morning, the rich asshole’s job performance earned a thumbs-up from 40.1 percent of the public while 55.2 disapproved, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average.
Those numbers disconcert plenty of Republicans — as do recent election results. The brightest warning flare for the GOP came in Alabama, where Democrat Doug Jones won a Senate seat in one of the nation’s most conservative states in December, defeating the rich asshole-backed and scandal-tarred Republican Roy Moore.
But there have been other examples, including a surprise loss in a Wisconsin statehouse election on Tuesday. In that instance, the Republican candidate lost, by about 10 points, a district the rich asshole carried by 17 points in 2016.
Even Republican insiders who are broadly supportive of the president wonder what kind of verdict the voters will render in November’s midterm elections.
“The midterms will be a good report card in terms of what the electorate feels,” said Brad Blakeman, who served on President George W. Bush’s senior White House staff.
Blakeman praised the rich asshole for “bluntness and directness” but also argued he could have “more finesse” in his approach.
Democrats are desperate to make big inroads in November. If they seize the majority in the House, which is less of an uphill climb than taking the Senate, they could block the rich asshole’s legislative agenda. They would also have the power — theoretically at least — to start impeachment proceedings.
Democratic leaders have suggested the time is not yet right for impeachment, but high-profile members of the party have rained down criticism on the president.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has called him a “racist bully.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has labeled him a “pathological liar.” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who accused the rich asshole of a “sexist smear” against her during a December spat, is one of several Democrats who have called for the president to resign.
Democrats say their abhorrence of the rich asshole is not merely a matter of yawning ideological differences. They assert that the rich asshole has vaporized important norms.
They cite his willingness to engage in bellicose language, both in person and in tweets; his conduct of foreign policy (calling North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “Little Rocket Man,” for instance); his ferocious attacks on the media; and the probe into allegations of collusion with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
The last issue — especially the events surrounding the rich asshole’s firing of FBI Director James Comey in May 2017 — is explosive. Special counsel Robert Mueller is reported to be investigating whether the president obstructed justice.
Whatever Mueller’s verdict, some the rich asshole critics worry that permanent damage has been done; that the norms won’t snap back into place whenever his time in the White House is over.
“What started out as buffoonery and burlesque has become darker and more serious,” said Harry Litman, a deputy assistant attorney general during President Clinton’s administration. “The debasement of the political culture, and the penetration of the wall between politics and the White House on one hand, and prosecutors and law enforcement on the other … I’m concerned it will be hard to step all the way back from that.”
Such criticisms are not confined to Democrats. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), an increasingly strident the rich asshole critic, on Wednesday drew parallels between the rich asshole’s rhetoric against the media and the terminology employed by Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
In an earlier speech in October announcing he would not seek reelection, Flake bemoaned a political culture riven with “personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms and institutions, the flagrant disregard for truth and decency.” Few observers doubted he was talking about the rich asshole.
But the rich asshole loyalists have a ready response to figures like Flake: How do the naysayers fare with voters?
Flake’s approval rating among Arizonans last summer stood at just 18 percent, according to one poll. His decision not to seek a new term came in the face of near-certain defeat.
Where the rich asshole critics see a president flagrantly flouting standards, supporters delight in his transgressions — apparently seeing them as a refusal to bend before the forces of the hated establishment.
Jenny Beth Martin, a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, said her members would give the rich asshole an “A” grade for his performance so far. But that was not a blank check, she added.
“We are constantly watching and reminding him of what he promised to grass-roots voters around the country,” she said. “We want him to keep those promises, despite the pressure from the establishment.”
Asked how she and her fellow activists feel about instances where the rich asshole is accused of having gone too far in his language or deeds, she replied, “The things I’ve heard from our supporters, oftentimes, is ‘We voted for somebody who is not a politician, somebody who wanted to do things differently.’ ”
Conway made a similar point in a different way. Many the rich asshole critics, she insisted, had failed to grasp the public appetite for someone who was “an outsider but with lots of experience.”
Those critics “still fail to understand who he is and how he communicates,” she added. “Very few people, including working journalists, have stopped to really learn him, to learn his decision-making process, to understand,” she said.
On the other side of the divide, dissenters insist they understand all too well. They see the rich asshole as an aberration. And they wonder if the country will recover, or if he has wrought permanent change.
“He has shattered reality itself,” said Lichtman, the American University professor. “There is no such thing as reality in the world of the rich asshole.”
some rich asshole, after just one year, is already a transformative president.
The big question is whether the transformation is for good or ill.
The Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage, primarily focused on some rich asshole’s presidency
WATCH: Republican Rep goes down in flames for trying to blame shutdown on Barack Obama
Rep. Diane Black, R-TN, on MSNBC (Screen capture)
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MSNBC White House reporter Kristen Welker didn’t let Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) blame the government shutdown on former President Barack Obama on Saturday and reminded the congresswoman that the shutdown is taking place when her party is currently in control of all three branches of government.
Black said that the “root cause” of the shutdown mess was that then-President Barack Obama exceeded his authority by writing and passing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA), which granted a path to citizenship for undocumented people who were brought to the U.S. as children.
DACA, Black said, “was not under his jurisdiction. It is under the House and Senate’s jurisdiction. It’s the legislature that makes that decision.”
“Congresswoman, the fact does remain that the Republicans have control of the White House, the House and the Senate,” said Welker. “So how does your party not bear responsibility for this shutdown?”
Black said that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) bears the blame for imposing a deadline, calling the shutdown the “Schumer shutdown.”
Welker went on to ask whether the president shouldn’t be meeting with lawmakers right now to try to forge a deal. Instead he has ended White House business for the day, meaning that even if Congress reaches a deal, the rich asshole will not see it until Sunday at the earliest.
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Shutdown begins as budget office sends memo to government
BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 01/20/18 01:34 AM EST
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney sent agencies a memo on Saturday directing government agencies to conduct an "orderly shutdown" after the Senate failed to reach a deal to fund the government.
"Agencies should now execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations," the letter said.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said it would offer agencies additional guidance as appropriate.
The government shutdown began early Saturday after senators missed the midnight deadline to reach an agreement on funding.
OMB said on Friday that the administration was aiming to lessen the effects of a shutdown, and pointed out that the impact of the shutdown will not necessarily be felt immediately due to it beginning on a Saturday.
Mulvaney said the Transportation Security Administration, parks and post offices will remain open through the shutdown.
Other agencies, such as the Federal Communications Commission, will remain open for a few days due to additional funding.
However, hundreds of thousands of federal employees that are considered “nonessential” either won't be allowed to report to work on Monday or will show up briefly to prepare their offices for the furlough.
Federal courts only have enough money to remain open until Feb. 9 and the Food and Drug Administration will be unable to conduct food safety inspections.
the rich asshole, aides seek to resolve shutdown with congressional leaders
BY JORDAN FABIAN - 01/20/18 11:45 AM EST
President the rich asshole spoke with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Saturday to discuss measures to end the government shutdown.
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told reporters the two leaders spoke in the morning, but did not provide other details about the call.
the rich asshole also spoke with Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) around midday, according to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Chief of staff John Kelly is reaching out to members of Congress by phone from the White House and legislative director Marc Short and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with congressional leaders.
The shutdown has cast a cloud over the first anniversary of the rich asshole’s inauguration.
Gidley said the president will remain in Washington as long as the government is closed, meaning he will likely miss a high-dollar anniversary fundraiser on Saturday night at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.
Back in Washington, the shutdown triggered a partisan blame game.
The president and his GOP allies say Democrats are responsible, accusing them of holding government funding hostage in order to extract legal protections for roughly 700,000 immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children.
The White House has said it will not negotiate on immigration until the government reopens.
the rich asshole on Saturday morning blamed Democrats for the shutdown, saying they "could have easily made a deal."
Democrats have rejected that argument, saying Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the White House. The last time government funding lapsed under single-party rule was during Jimmy Carter's presidency.
They also said the “Art of the Deal” author has been an unreliable negotiator. Days after the rich asshole said he would “take the heat” to back an immigration deal, he rejected a bipartisan agreement to address the fate of young immigrants and bolster border security.
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‘He’s too illiterate to read the signs’: the rich asshole praised himself in tweet to the Women’s March — and then got pounded
some rich asshole during CNN debate (Photo: Screen capture via video)
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As hundreds of thousands of women across America take to the streets to denounce his administration, President some rich asshole took to Twitter to praise the protesters against him.
Twitter was both appalled and unsurprised that President the rich asshole would praise himself for the issues he wished he would be judged upon.
Here are some of the best reactions:
Playing it this way would actually be sort of funny if we didn't all know the televised images—reminders of his Inauguration humiliations— are absolutely infuriating Trump, all while he's sitting around stewing over missing his big party. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Who wants to tell him? twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Lmao I will never get close to your level of trolling. Fucking amazing.
A+ troll game, I have to admit. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Are you really that out of touch with what is happening? What you speak of has absolutely nothing to do with why they march. #WomenMarch2018
Do my eyes deceive me, or is he trying to gaslight the entire #WomensMarch twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
I think President Trump is confused about his role in inspiring the #WomensMarch. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Generations to come will scarce believe that a trolling God such as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth
twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Nice try,We are marching against you & your fellow republicans who would like nothing more than to go back to the 50s when women knew their place. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Last year, the Trump WH made no public comment about the women's march a day after his inauguration washingtonpost.com/politics/on-fi… twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
‘Wake up and smell the Kremlin’: Here are the best and most hilarious signs from the 2018 Women’s March
Women's March activist with a 'Grab 'em by the midterms' sign (Twitter).
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Hundreds of thousands took part in festive Women’s Marches held across the country, with signs proclaiming “I’ve seen smarter cabinets at Ikea” and “Keep the Kids – Deport the Racist.”
In Sacramento, California a woman featured an elephant in a cone of shame reading, “Wake up and smell The Kremlin.”
Sacramento Women’s March, photo by Lori Baldwin.
Here are some of the most powerful images of the Women’s Marches marking the anniversary of President some rich asshole’s inauguration:
Shoutout to @marcus_mindy's LOVELY daughter and her killer sign as they make their way to the #WomensMarchNYC...MAKE US PROUD GIRLS!#WomensMarch2018
"If I make my uterus a corporation, will y'all stop regulating it?" #WomensMarch2018 signage in Cleveland, OH is@ProChoiceOH @acluohio #WomensMarchCLE #WomensMarch
A woman after our own heart.#WomensMarchChi #WomensMarchChicago #WomensMarch2018 #WomensMarch @womensmarch
Sacramento Women’s March, photo by Lori Baldwin.
Sacramento Women’s March, photo by Lori Baldwin.
Sacramento Women’s March, photo by Lori Baldwin.
Sacramento Women’s March, photo by Lori Baldwin.
Sacramento Women’s March, photo by Lori Baldwin.
WATCH: Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff tells Bill Maher the rich asshole is having an affair ‘right now’
Michael Wolff (Screengrab)
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On Friday, Michael Wolff — author of the book Fire and Fury: Inside the the rich asshole White House — insinuated to Bill Maher that President some rich asshole is having an affair “right now” and that if readers know what to look for, the evidence is in the book.
The “Real Time” host asked Wolff if there’s anything in the book that he wishes people would ask him about.
“There is, but I can’t tell you about it,” Wolff said coyly, according to The Daily Beast.
“Well, f*ck you, Mike,” Maher quipped.
There was one thing he wanted to put in, Wolff said, but told Maher, “I didn’t have the blue dress.”
“It’s about somebody’s he’s f*cking right now?” asked Maher asked.
“Yes,” Wolff said. “You just have to read between the lines.”
“Now that I’ve told you, when you hit that paragraph, you’ll say, ‘Bingo,’” he added.
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