patrick.net

Why this story matters is that typically, after a scandal pushes a cabinet member out, you would want your replacement to be willing to take the role before you ever let it be known you considered them for the role.

The story right now, incase people haven't noticed, is that the administration is beset by conflict, disorganization, and instability. Harward's decision is apparent confirmation of that narrative.

When will Trump be able to turn this back toward policy and competency? Maybe the new communication director helps?

(popcorn and giggles while we wait)

PCGyver says

So you are saying Trump likes to stab people in the back?

I think Ironman believes there are insidious Obama leftover forces trying to take down every Trump appointee possible.

I think there are definitely establishment forces looking for opportunities. There is no great allegiance to Trump. Trump isn't a bridge builder. He isn't a coalition and faith creator. He has proven to slander and attack anything of opportunity to elevate the myth that he actually has any validity being the President at all. (Edit: validity is the wrong word choice, competency is more true, but I'm overusing the term. Synonym hunting I go.)

Watch as he runs toward trying to stoke the fervor in his diminishing supportive base now.

Remember, 306 electoral college votes. (yawn) What now Mr. President? You won it. Let's see if you can drive it. So far, defeats all around, and other countries are not quaking in fear, they are taking advantage of our weakness.

Rew says

The story right now, incase people haven't noticed, is that the administration is beset by conflict, disorganization, and instability. Harward's decision is apparent confirmation of that narrative.

That's the narrative for sure. I think Scott Adams predicted this before it happened. "Chaos".

Let's review the narrative so far:

Are you trying to say that a thing and its opposite cannot simultaneously be true?

That's patriarchal logic!
My wife believes two mutually conflicting and exclusive things all the time: mostly involving why something I did was wrong until we find out it was actually her.
All the women in my life have demonstrated this superpower that mere mortal and logical men lack. It has something to do with 'feelings'.

WaPoIsHitler Lipsovitch says

Ah, incompetent now. No more Hitler? Or is it Incompetent anti-semitic misogynist Hitler Russian-Puppet?

How did Obama's insistence that Bibi stop settlements for months - which he did beyond the period Obama requested - help the Peace Process? What was the result?

What? Settlement building clearly hinders any potential peace process, so... And as I said, I don't recall Obama walking back a several decades long US foreign policy in a couple of befuddled sentences unlike Trump. If Obama had done that, the press would have obviously pulled him up on it.

WaPoIsHitler Lipsovitch says

Then, as a parting gesture, against the platform of BOTH Dem and Rep parties, in the last days of his office, colluded with the Palestinians not to veto a one-sided anti-Israel UN resolution for the first time in 50 years. The media covered this huge Norm Violation only superficially.

The US abstains from a motion condemning Israeli settlement building, a motion which was supported by every single other member of the Security Council. That isn't changing what the US government had demanded, that is finally standing up for what it had been demanding all along whilst not being mealy-mouthed about it anymore by never voting against Israel. And that abstention, by the way, got a huge amount of coverage.

jazz music says

RealEstateIsBetterThanStocks now if you want to point the finger at 24kt trash look at viralliberty.com wow. --it's like some overly aggressive porno site.

Hmmm, nice formatting.

But the content does look calculated to whip up the right. Not about free speech.

Tim Aurora says

Testing if my postings are visable

They are, unfortunately...

Believe it or not, this is a perfectly civil post, because it does not attack any other patrick.net users personally.

I have 20 cases of this stuff if anybody's interested. Everything is in date...

Not to worry. I've flagged the above as 'ad hominem'...

rando says

Believe it or not, this is a perfectly civil post, because it does not attack any other patrick.net users personally

I believe it AF is good that way masterfully mixing the pejorative with the sesquipedalia

indigenous says

sesquipedalia

You got me, had to look it up:

sesquipedalia
n. a very long word (a foot and a half long)

Hater says

He'll never get the republican nomination!

well done!

I'd rather impeach all other clowns in government who are screwing us all so much every year.

At least Trump is on our side.

Those government assholes on the other hand got modern day slavery going full speed. Cheap labor from overseas, cheap illegals, prison labor... all just to replace American workers and fuck us all over so they can make bigger profits. Unpatriotic criminals!

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

Polls: 46 Percent of Americans Now Want to Impeach PRECEDENT FUCKFACE von CLOWNSTICK

Polls: 80% of americans are going to vote for Hillary for president.

This is not news. 46% of population either lives off a government check or has a union doing all their work for them.

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

Polls: 46 Percent of Americans Now Want to Impeach PRECEDENT FUCKFACE von CLOWNSTICK

To be fair, they wanted to impeach him before he was elected, and for largely just cause.

Running for President against a female liberal and tearing down political correctness are both amongst his many impeachable crimes, even before he was in office.

He's threatening to put Soros' journalists in jail, watching re-runs of The Apprentice until they blind themselves and scream for death.

If by that you mean they ratted the institution out.
I think the phrase you are looking for.
"President Trump owes Putin a Congressional medal of honor."

I don't see how Putin stumped for Trump.
We're not innocent in meddling in foreign elections. My guy won, so NO!
Putin deserves a prize, and Trump deserves respect.

Tim Aurora says

If you want US to pander to a murderer and an autocrat

Bullcrap! Saying Putin is mean does not make him mean. It don't work that way.
Rusia is not America and will never be. No country on the planet will ever be what America is. Not our government not our culture, not our Democracy. It fails every time it is used as a model in other countries, that didn't already have their own democratic or republic society. It works for us because there will always be people like me to make sure it always does. Russians have had strong allegiance to their Czars and rulers.
Putin hasn't been shown to be a murderous autocrat as you say. In fact he is protecting his country and neighboring countries that still demand their right to identify as Baltic and Russian not EU. We've seen the effects of Soros and Global Establishment meddling. You can't predicate your opinion about what wen't on in Russia based on our Media biased reporting. Some see it as Putin saving those regions from Soros having his way.
There won't be any peace in the world until George is stripped of his Billions, and imprisoned then extradited to a country that will hang or send him before the firing squad.

The world is not these bastards petri dish for political socioeconomic experiments

And countries have the right to reject them.

Tenpoundbass says

Putin hasn't been shown to be a murderous autocrat as you say. In fact he is protecting his country and neighboring countries that still demand their right to identify as Baltic and Russian not EU. We've seen the effects of Soros and Global Establishment meddling.

May not be saint, but better than the mafia oligarchs he put in prison like khodorkovsky

What do you call that, AutoOrangeLingus?

One that started with "Clinton". The rest totally beg the question altogether. How am I doing so far?

blaming Trump for Russian's hacking is the height of stupidity.

it's not Trump's fault you democrats had a dumb nigger and a stupid bitch for leadership and no one respected them.

Read what?

Sadly, I think most readers will just continue to chase their tail in finding the truth. The truth is a slippery wet fish you will never get your hands on.

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

Trumpligula calls it "the best sex I ever had"

Of course. It's sex with the person he loves the most.

He's only insane if you don't follow his logic, which is, well, insane.

Strategist says

The number I am looking at is $1 million turned into $10 billion. A remarkable achievement by any standard.

So you are saying he inherited nothing? Want to back that up with something. Anything?

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

Poll: Without Daddy's Money, Effeminate Trust-Fund Twit Donald Trump Would Be:

Sounds like a scientific poll; in other news, if my grandmother had a dick, she'd be my grandfather

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

EPORT: Psychiatrists Pretend There is Any Doubt That Kremlin Chew Toy TRUMPLIGULA! Is a Face-Biting, Tongue-Lolling Fruitcake

Psychiatrists need to show that they are above pharma money to do more honest studies on the link between SSRI and mass shootings/suicide ideation .

What amazes about psychiatry is the lack of objectivity regarding tools of trade. If they can't get that right, why should anyone consider seriously the opinion of some political hack from Johns Hopkins?

I guess it takes mentally ill people to recognize it others; actually not, but psych docs tend to have more mental illness than average Med student.

Also psych is barely a real doc since they use the least amount of their medical education in their day to day jobs than any other type of MD/DO

Even their DSM is horribly corrupted by drug company influence.

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

Trumpligula calls it INNOVATION! and, since HE! won, it is an act of unparalleled patriotism!

Since most politicians are dirtbags and presumably no one else in the US has attempted, let alone succeeded at such a stunt, is it not creative?

Wasn't fake news coined by the left??????

Because he doesn't.

MMR says

You're basing whether or not to leave based on what people on an online forum say?

If you have enough money to live comfortably in another country, why would you care what people on an online forum think?

Macropodia says

You can't bitch about one law not being enforced if you are not willing to enforce them all.

People who enter this country illegally are breaking the law.

Enforce that one, or change it. Then we can talk about all the rest.

Obama doubled the budget for border patrol, doubled the budget for ICE, increased agents by 25%.. https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/the-cost-of-immigration-enforcement-and-border-security

What in your strange world would enforcing the law look like?

So Russia is responsible for screwing over Bernie?

Because he was the only hurdle Trump faced to the presidency. Hillary never had a chance

All that crap was just for show and tell...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/10/border-patrol-ordered-to-release-illegals-still-so/

Give all the agencies more money to enforce the border, then tell them to stand down...LOL...

bob2356 says

Macropodia says

You can't bitch about one law not being enforced if you are not willing to enforce them all.

People who enter this country illegally are breaking the law.

Enforce that one, or change it. Then we can talk about all the rest.

Obama doubled the budget for border patrol, doubled the budget for ICE, increased agents by 25%.. https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/the-cost-of-immigration-enforcement-and-border-security

What in your strange world would enforcing the law look like?

Macropodia says

All that crap was just for show and tell...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/10/border-patrol-ordered-to-release-illegals-still-so/

Give all the agencies more money to enforce the border, then tell them to stand down...LOL...

From your article
“The U.S. Border Patrol has not issued any stand-down order to agents,” the agency said in a statement to The Washington Times. “The Border Patrol’s enforcement posture and operation is the same as it was in 2014 and 2015, agents are issuing Notices to Appear consistent with law, regulation, and enforcement priorities.”

Want to produce a copy of the actual stand down order? I notice it's not in the article. What a surprise. I'll wait, and wait and wait and wait.

Isn't the washington times the mooney paper that went digital because they couldn't give away enough copies to use as toilet paper in the dc subways? Yea that was the one.