Would you expect anything else?
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Iām sure thisāll turn out well.
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What if there was a vain, dangerous, narcissist given astonishing power? One who refuses to speak to legit media queries or be held to account?
And on one day soon he suddenly lost his twitter followers? Given the ridiculous vanity shown over the imaginary crowds at #inaugurationfail I suspect this could be his worst nightmare.
Couldnāt we turn our back on his 50 characters or less bile and just well ignore him?
If the media joined too wouldnāt he be forced to speak to them like an adult instead of sulking via tweet like a 15 year old?
Journalists are the voice of the people that hold power to account.
Mr Trump, I donāt follow you.
#Idontfollowyou #turnourbacks #nonviolentresistance
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Including this because soon your domestic news will not be very clear about these sorts of things.
Note also a ban on dumping coal mining debris into streams has been lifted.
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Iāll need to dig up all of the things Trump called Obama, the UN, etc. for taking pretty much the same position.
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Some interesting thoughts on Trump from an actual friend of his (who didnāt vote for him), Howard Stern.
Howard basically says that he tried to convince Trump not to run; he says he fears that all of the pressure and anger from the public will be ādetrimental to the mental healthā of a guy who thrives on approval and celebrity. Howard says he was dismayed at all of Trumpās flip-flops to ultra-right-wing politics (given that they became friends when Trump was a liberal Democrat supporting Hillary) and is convinced that Trump only entered the race to boost āApprenticeā ratings and is āstill pissedā that he won ā his theory is that heās essentially trying to throw his Presidency to give it back to Hillary.
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Alsoā¦ water is wet and the sky is blue.
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48 hrs after former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson was sworn in as SoS, the Senate passed a resolution to scrap the āextraction ruleā. This now allows Exxon to make unlimited payments to foreign governments without any disclosure.
Coincidence, Iām sure.
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On that, Xeni retweeted this:
Can anyone confirm? Iām a bit wary of legal twitter hot-takes.
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So, yesterday there were some dramatic Secret Service management things?
but the guy writing about it is on an airplane at the moment.
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Sounds like it wasnāt Secret Service per se, but the Chief Information Security Officer and staff of the cybersecurity division that works with the SS who were forced to resign, according to this fella.
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last time I looked he was on the plane! Will have to catch up.
ETA: not Secret Service, some sort of White House ācyberā type. Great.
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I do wonder how much of this is just putting his own people in place but Trump is under such a microscope everything is being intensely scrutinized.
Maybe this will end up being the most transparent administration, because nobody is going to let them do anything on the quiet.
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And Nixon actually did some good for the country as a whole.
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I thought according to the injunctions Trump wasnāt allowed to cancel any visas? Or was this signed before the injunction took effect? Itās getting so hard to keep track.
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Itās incredibly confusing and hard to keep track. But as I understand it, the injunction specifically protected people in transit to the US with valid visas and green cards, as well as those detained at airports. If the reports from the VA courtroom are correct, the original EO he signed cancelled all visas held by people from the countries specified.
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