A round up of Trumpian events 🖕🍊🤡

[dfaris]

Except Chief-of-Staff is nowhere in the standard line of succession. If he really wants to secure a dynasty, Ivanka needs to replace Pence.

[RickMycroft]

@dfaris

If he really wants to secure a dynasty, Ivanka needs to replace Pence.

Flash her tits, and he’ll probably do the Nazi head-melting thing.

[Gyrofrog]

I’m reminded of this Steve Martin bit: “I forgot armed robbery is illegal”

[docosc]

Give them a little time and watch.

[Akimbo_NOT]

Flash her tits and trump will marry his daughter.

[Gyrofrog]

I got one! Maybe it was a copycat. Someone sent it to an email address that I’ve only ever used to register my website. I happened to check the spam folder and there it was.

[Garymon]

@dfaris

Except Chief-of-Staff is nowhere in the standard line of succession. If he really wants to secure a dynasty, Ivanka needs to replace Pence.

Well that explains why Pence keeps asking Mother to taste his food first,

[Wanderfound]

'We' Did Not Miss the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism. You Did.

Now that the full scope of this administration*'s political vandalism and base criminality is largely being copped to in broad daylight in various federal courthouses, a good chunk of the elite political press is moving into the Hoocoodanode? stage of political journalism. This is best exemplified by Thursday’s New York Times podcast, the headline of which— " The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, and How We Missed It" — got dragged like Hector’s corpse all over the electric Twitter machine until someone at the Times sharpened up and changed the last half of it to "… and How Law Enforcement Ignored It," which is a little better, but not much.

To take the simplest argument first, “we,” of course, did no such thing, unless “we” is a very limited—and very white—plural pronoun. The violence on the right certainly made itself obvious in Oklahoma City, and at the Atlanta Olympics, and at various gay bars and women’s health clinics, and in Barrett Slepian’s kitchen, and in the hills of North Carolina, where Eric Rudolph stayed on the lam for five years and in which he had stashed 250 pounds of explosives for future escapades.

It’s not “our” fault that the NYT hired Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat, and not Dave Neiwert or JJ McNab, to write for their Opinions section. It’s not “our” fault that the NYT and other elite political media outlets hand-waved the fact that allegedly respectable Republican politicians, national ones as well as the local variety, attached themselves to various “respectable” extremist outfits like the Wise Users out west and the Council of Conservative Citizens, the modern manifestations of the Citizens Councils that were the polite face of American apartheid during the Jim Crow era in the South.

It’s not “our” fault that the prion disease spread so wildly on AM radio and on television and, ultimately, on social media as well. It’s not “our” fault that white supremacy and outright fascism has become fashionable in pockets of our military, and in our militarized local police forces. And it’s certainly no surprise to “us” that the election of an African American president sent the well-nurtured crazies into dangerous hysterics.

And, in 2009, when the Department of Homeland Security released a report describing how rightist extremism was spreading into the military and law enforcement, “we” weren’t shocked—nor were “we” shocked when the right-wing media machine went to DefCon1 and, eventually, got DHS to pull the report.

[ficuswhisperer]

I love this developing narrative from “it didn’t happen” to “maybe it did but I had no knowledge of it” to “it did but it’s their doing” to “it’s not anything criminal” to Giuliani saying today “it’s just minor crimes”.

Also somebody should tell Trump that being ignorant of the law doesn’t made you immune from prosecution. This is one of the first things they teach you when studying the law. (INAL but I was studying to be one for a time.)

[dfaris]

The logical conclusion will be “He did it. What are you going to do about it?”

[sosumi]

The Trump administration paid a private company $13.6 million to recruit...

Hey CBP, I got two for you right here.

[emo_pinata]

Not in the US where a political dynasty is just a family lineage voted into power across generations - like the Kennedys. Having family in office means they can run for senate even if the Trump presidential runs folds. It’s not like their agenda would change with Ivanka in office, even if their proposed policy does.

Otherwise succession in the autocrat world doesn’t care about what’s written down but we have worse problems if things went that far.

[RickMycroft]

Hatch says he regrets his 'I don't care' comment about Trump allegations

Why would he regret that? It’s been the Republican Party position for years.

[Wanderfound]

Horrifying video of cops trying to pry baby away from mom all because she sat on the floor

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/10/horrifying-video-of-cops-tryin.html …

No punishment for officers in Jazmine Headley arrest

[RickMycroft]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-us-gulen/turkey-says-trump-working-on-extraditing-wanted-cleric-gulen-idUSKBN1OF0BM

Gulen denies any involvement in the failed putsch. Trump said last month he was not considering extraditing the preacher as part of efforts to ease Turkish pressure on Saudi Arabia over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.

But last month is a different world.

[mr_raccoon]

Trump Goes After NBC and ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Says Content ‘Should Be Tested...

Sure, keep pointing out how weak you look to everyone by doing shit like that.

[Mindysan33]

Who cares about what Hatch regrets. The GOP made their bed, now they can lie in it.

[dfaris]

Speaking of which…

Judge Reed O’Connor’s Obamacare ruling poses new problems for GOP

[Faffenreffer]

Republican Party: It’s kinda lookin’ like we shot ourselves in the foot with all our anti immigration fear mongering, useless to the middle class tax cuts, and misogynistic policies.

Texas Judge: yep, y’all are right about that. Let’s not do that again… better stick out yer other foot an’ hold ‘er up high, I don’t see too good no more.

[ficuswhisperer]

There’s speculation that an ACA repeal would be a good thing because it could remove a huge obstacle to Medicare for All. Which may be true but FFS these are people’s lives in the balance here.