It’s hard not to attribute malice because I can’t state the counterpoint argument for these actions. I was a person who during the election could find positive arguments for both candidates and in my usual asshole way, loved being the contrarian to whomever I was hanging out with and argue against their candidate. A…

...there are some unusual aspects of this.

For one, Obama and Bush both jumped on the appointee train long before the new year. They both tried to get as many appointees in hearings and approved before they took office as possible. While neither had everyone appointed as there are something like 400-600 minor and major positions to be filled most of their…

I grew up in LA in the 90s and it was like that too, although improving. Compared to then, it’s leagues better now. I love my cars and spend dearly to modify them, but I think the EPA does a great job and that’s why I keep smog controls on my cars.

Nah...just cut the regulations. Faster and it puts more profit in companies’ pockets since they’re now free to dump waste wherever they want. Nothing stops the profit train. Nothing!

While it is true that it is very common for the President to temporarily shut things down during the transition there are some unusual aspects of this.

That will be a hilarious wake up call. If there is one thing that is absolutely certain, it is that Americans like their Sports and Athletes a whole lot more than they like politics and their politicians.

Over the weekend, not just the NYT but also NPR used the word “lie” repeatedly. Hopefully that will continue so long as the lies continue.

“His name ends in “vich” so he must be a Jew!”

Eh, they’ll just say he’s pandering to all the “Urban Black Thugs who watch the NBA who are butt hurt that Kenyan Socialist Muslim President Obummer lost the election (just go with it, they’re on a roll) and can’t get over it #MAGA!!1!”

I would wager the majority of sports fans are conservative-leaning. After all, it presents the world in absolutes (us against them) when in truth everything is shades of gray.

Spicer graduated from my high school a year or two before I started. It’s fun to watch a Catholic school’s PR tie itself in knots on Facebook about how to promote themselves without associating themselves.

This is why the Dallas Stars’ scoreboard was hilarious. The scoreboard posted: “Tonight’s Attendance 1.5 million”. That wasn’t a sports talking head, a coach, or a player that did that. And it was spread on social media by far more than just hockey fans.

Ohhh, but that bursts their “manly men!” bubble. They pretend to like strength, so insulting stronger men for having opinions goes against their credo.

You can actually pee on a Trumpie’s leg, tell them its raining, and their response would be there is no proof Russia had anything to do with the election.

And also, it needs to be less “elite” smart guys.

Exactly. The “stick to sports” idiots are looking for a place where they don’t have to face the reality of what they’ve done.

I think they’ll just start shitting on the athletic figures.

Exactly what I was thinking. If this is something the normal elite media Twitter bubble is tittering about, Trump’s people really don’t give a shit at all. “Let them mock us,” Bannon must be thinking. But if this becomes a meme in the broader popular culture that everyone jokes about — how blatantly and stupidly they…

On a serious note, the more sports people who talk about Spicer and the administration’s lying (let’s call it what it is, lamestream media), the less it can be ignored and explained away by Trump’s base.