Tangentially related (sort of), but along the lines of my biggest gripe with the “give Trump time, he’s an outsider” crowd right after inauguration. No. This is the office of the President of the United States, not a fucking serve job at Shenaniganz. You don’t get orientation day. When you are sworn in it’s go time.

“I spent the whole ride yelling at my Uber driver that he was doing it wrong, and then he handed me the keys — but I don’t know how to drive a stick-shift”

That’s not from them actually being the opposition party though. That was a strategy of their own making—a choice. If Ryan phrased it that way, kudos. He won’t though, which makes it lying.

Plus the House was the easy part. The Senate has a much smaller margin which depending on your sources already has a few firm no’s and around 10 no’s as it stands.

Flynn definitely. I think he deleted his Twitter profile but it was fully viewable before he was nominated and it should have been instantaneously disqualifying by itself, much less public statements he has made.

Hopefully they call out Ryan’s horseshit excuse that they have been the opposition party for the better part of a decade and are learning how to govern. Dude, no. Not controlling the executive branch doesn’t automatically make you the opposition party. It wasn’t Democrats ramming through repeal bills and blocking the…

and multiple times said they’d spent the last decade being the opposition party.

Don’t worry, it’ll be Obama’s fault somehow in the near future. And not something praiseworthy either, like foresight, cleverness, or thoroughness. Something dastardly like mind control, blackmail, or time travel.

Which is still somehow less cynical than what some house members were pitching which was to just pass repeal now and let things get so shitty they could attack Democrats for not agreeing to their “fix”.

It’s like they didn’t say what they meant when they had their evil meeting. When they decided they could no longer run on just repeal and had to run on repeal and replace, some took it with a wink and nod that that was what they would say in public and then just do repeal, while others took it literally.

Just saw some interviews from Republican congressmen, looks like their new diversion is going to be talking about how Democrats aren’t participating as I have heard several make offhand comments about it since the vote got pushed

You have a bit more redacting to do. Trump only got 304 electoral votes, there were two faithless electors.

Can this become a regular thing? You guys have unpaid interns, right?

It does and it doesn’t. Political parties didn’t just spring up out of nowhere and remain unchanging until present day. They are ever changing entities, beasts of compromise composed of non-conflicting ideologies—until enough change occurs for them to conflict. It’s why I have a hard time relating to people who are…

What if McIntosh had been a minority student instead of a white male? What if Brooks had been the candidate disqualified? Would the administration and the student body have allowed the first gay student body president to be voided for using charity glow sticks? Would the student body have allowed a black student…

That’s the worst part of all of this to me. I don’t excuse Russia. They violated our sovereignty, and fuck them sideways for doing so, but you know what? What they did should have been akin to throwing a glass bottle at a brick wall. Yes it’s an attack, but I shouldn’t be worried about any actual damage.

Especially because he said it didn’t have anything to do with Russia, and a perfect illustration of why Trump’s wiretapping bullshit shouldn’t have been rolled into the Russian congressional hearings in the first place. I didn’t catch who the reporter was, but one of them asked point blank if there would then be a…

I would’ve sent a reply with sarcastic empathy and then offered to have him contract the work out to me at a rate significantly higher rate than what my salary/wage was to drive the point home. Your way was probably better in the grand scheme.

But he had a very presidential tweet yesterday for #Nationalagday without any ALLCAPS, one word declarations (sad!), or calling anyone dishonest, failing, or a loser. Some people think this was the tweet where he became President of the US. Surely it will offset any conerns they may have.