A round up of Trumpian events 🖕🍊🤡

[armozel]

Welly welly well… That’s a federal crime right there. Too bad the Senate won’t do anything about it. But it’s public so who knows what’ll happen when the Senate flips (if it does, tbh).

[Akimbo_NOT]

" …federal regulations allow candidates to put campaign money into their own businesses only if they pay going rates. Given the varying opinions on whether $3,000 a month constitutes a fair price, however, it seems unlikely that the payments will spark an investigation by the Federal Election Commission."

White Collar Crime, why bother? /s

[anon50609448]

If I were in college I would be all over this. Every damned minute some asshole with a thin rationalization took up on the public stage I’d be demanding my minute. And I don’t mean I’d propose counter arguments in good faith. I’m just imagining the things I could say.

[armozel]

So it is okay if I waltz up to the local uni and espouse the virtues of anarchism now? I’d love to see these conservatives have a Scanners moment when they realize the sword cuts both ways.

[RickMycroft]

@Akimbo_NOT

Donald Trump has charged his own reelection campaign $1.3 million for rent,

Has anyone checked to see if he’s put White House rooms up on AirBnB?

[Akimbo_NOT]

fyi

Trump’s new executive order on campus free speech is more symbolism than...

But don’t let me stop you from well, marching into say, Liberty Univ to make your point.

[Wanderfound]

@Wanderfound

The purpose of the Russiagate investigations is (a) to distract from the corruption and incompetence of the Dem establishment, and (b) electoral marketing. They never intended to impeach.

@Margaret Kimberley

Dems don’t want resolution of Russiagate. They want to use it to substitute for fighting for their voters. They want to draw it out as long as possible and run against Vladimir Putin.

POLITICO Playbook: Why Mueller’s end is only the beginning

IF YOU TALK TO CAPITOL HILL DEMOCRATS PRIVATELY, you will hear something surprising about what they expect from ROBERT MUELLER: Many of them expect absolutely nothing. Several top Democratic lawmakers and aides tell us privately that they are certain the report will be a dud.

IF THAT’S THE CASE, the White House will immediately make the argument that it’s time for Congress to shutter its investigations into the president. But Democratic probes into PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP are going to drag on regardless of the Mueller report. The committees are looking into things that have nothing to do with Russian interference – the president’s company, security clearances, handling of classified information, decision-making in the White House and Cabinet scandals, for example.

FRANKLY, DEMOCRATS believe even if Mueller releases a report with nothing spectacular, that’s only the beginning for the Hill.

[Faffenreffer]

Is this just unenforceable fodder for Trump’s extremist base, or is it an attempt to chill dissent by causing academic institutions to silence all political speech rather than face federal litigation?

[Wanderfound]

Siva Vaidhyanathan🗽🤘🏽 (sivavaid)

[Mindysan33]

Does Liberty get federal grant money anyways? That would be a yes (more than NPR gets):

Evangelical Liberty University received half a billion dollars in federal aid...

I wonder if they’d shut down an atheist or an LGBQT activist…

[Akimbo_NOT]

@Faffenreffer

Is this just unenforceable fodder for Trump’s extremist base, or is it an attempt to chill dissent by causing academic institutions to silence all political speech rather than face federal litigation?

The Vox editor who wrote the article posted above seems to think: “…the executive order won’t do much more than reiterate the Trump administration wants schools to follow existing laws on free inquiry and direct the federal agencies that fund research to make sure that they’re doing so. It’s a largely a symbolic move meant to satisfy a key demand of Trump’s conservative base.” But, why not both? It falls inline with trumpian thought. Squashing dissent.

[Akimbo_NOT]

terrorist threat by white supremacists

unHoly Fuck.

"The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that a person claiming to be a student at Charlottesville High School, one of the region’s largest schools, warned white students to stay at home so they could shoot dead non-white students in an act of “ethnic cleansing.”

[Wanderfound]

@Akimbo_NOT

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday requiring U.S. colleges to protect free speech on their campuses or risk losing federal research funding.

https://twitter.com/omanreagan/status/1108891615320399873?s=21

Data shows a surprising campus free speech problem: left-wingers being fired...

[RickMycroft]

@Faffenreffer

or is it an attempt to chill dissent by causing academic institutions to silence all political speech rather than face federal litigation?

I think it’s a continuation of the efforts of groups like Young America’s Foundation and Turning Point USA to air-drop the most objectionable far right speakers possible onto targeted campuses in order to provoke a reaction. When the next MILO is dropped on them, university admins will be less likely to say “Aw HELL NO!”, putting them in a fork attack of having to provide expensive security or face violent protests. (Look for staged victims wearing corn syrup blood.)

[docosc]

That is right across the mountain from me. Fuck. I hate Nazis.

[armozel]

All I can say is…

[Mindysan33]

I hope someone tests this hypothesis very soon!

[anon61833566]

WTF is with this bullshit…

Pompeo agrees it's possible God raised Trump to protect Israel from Iranian...

[armozel]

Typical Kansas Republican nonsense. Sorry, my home state doesn’t seem to raise the brightest or most rational folks.

[TobinL]

@armozel

Sorry, my home state doesn’t seem to raise the brightest or most rational folks.

Well it does. Just that they take a look around and go NOPE. Then head out for saner areas.