All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!

[Darkspellmaster]

Michael Flynn's tenure was so pathetic, if he was President William Henry Harrison's National Security Adviser, even he could have appointed a replacement before dying of pneumonia a week later.

Trump is going "Apprentice" again, and one of his three new NSA candidates is General Petraeus, who still is on probation for mishandling classified documents.

But Donald only hires the best people, you guys.

Seriously? Petraeus? Might as well start looking for really good organizers to handle keeping track of everything. better watch out that all the most important documents don't vanish.

[Gray Lensman]

Petraeus at least had displayed talent before letting his smaller head do the thinking. I'm less worried about him than most other people Trump might pick - having a once promising career derailed by lust is something that can be learned from, unlike a dedication to bigotry and conspiracy theories like most of Trump's other people. The latter is pretty much incurable.

[Malvolio]

Michael Flynn's tenure was so pathetic, if he was President William Henry Harrison's National Security Adviser, even he could have appointed a replacement before dying of pneumonia a week later.

Trump is going "Apprentice" again, and one of his three new NSA candidates is General Petraeus, who still is on probation for mishandling classified documents.

But Donald only hires the best people, you guys.

"I'm appointing General Admission as my NSA adviser. Super guy. Really good about comping tickets to concerts."

[numberthirty]

It's going to be a tough week to be Press Secretary.

[Darkspellmaster]

Petraeus at least had displayed talent before letting his smaller head do the thinking. I'm less worried about him than most other people Trump might pick - having a once promising career derailed by lust is something that can be learned from, unlike a dedication to bigotry and conspiracy theories like most of Trump's other people. The latter is pretty much incurable.

True enough, and I'd rather have him then some of the other choices over all, but still. Even if he's learned to avoid the lust, there's still a chance that he could be tempted again.

"I'm appointing General Admission as my NSA adviser. Super guy. Really good about comping tickets to concerts."

XDDDDD OH I needed that laugh.

[Iron Maiden]

"I'm appointing General Admission as my NSA adviser. Super guy. Really good about comping tickets to concerts."

There's that guy General Mills too and he makes good breakfast cereal.

[Gray Lensman]

There's that guy General Mills too and he makes good breakfast cereal.

"Helps employ lots of people in the heartland. Excellent people. Smart enough to Vote Trump"

[jeanvaljean]

Holy, 99% of the corn imported by Mexico comes from the United States.

article is in Spanish.

http://www.viu.es/99-del-maiz-import...stados-unidos/

What Mexico does is that they pay for the corn in advance, before is cultivated.

That probably means they could pay other countries, there just would be a year or so before this trade war Trump caused would take full effect.

[jeanvaljean]

But with Flynn no longer associated with the White House we can't get Trump on treason charges.

The questions "what did the president know, and when did he know it" did not go out the door with Flynn.

[Gray Lensman]

The questions "what did the president know, and when did he know it" did not go out the door with Flynn.

As if anyone in the majority party will care outside of McCain and Graham.

[jeanvaljean]

As if anyone in the majority party will care outside of McCain and Graham.

Well, if voters decide to give Democrats back Congress in 2018, there would be quite a few people to investigate:

[numberthirty]

The questions "what did the president know, and when did he know it" did not go out the door with Flynn.

I get the feeling that they might as well have.

[numberthirty]

Well, if voters decide to give Democrats back Congress in 2018, there would be quite a few people to investigate:

"Investigate" doesn't have a track record of amounting to much in that branch.

[jeanvaljean]

"Investigate" doesn't have a track record of amounting to much in that branch.

Well yeah, if you're investigating things like Benghazi. When they investigate things like Watergate...

[worstblogever]

Two years ago today we ran our profile of Greg Colett, a three-time losing candidate for the Idaho State Senate who has the chutzpah to campaign against the Affordable Care Act and government being involved with insurance while simultaneously having his ten children on Medicaid. He responded to criticism for this from both the right, and the left, by going online to cite Mormon doctrine to defend his stunning hypocrisy. Not to be limited to kooky on just one issue, Collett also claims that "public education is one of the planks of the Communist Manifesto". After quickly making himself the butt of many jokes, he faded from view in Idaho politics.



It was one year ago that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” had its first profile of Andrew Koenig, a member of the Missouri House of Representatives who should still not be confused with the actor who played Boner on the TV show "Growing Pains" and then would eventually take his own life in 2010.) In his eight years in the Missouri state legislature, Koenig has been involved in some of the dumbest efforts that body has seen in that time frame, first as one of the co-sponsors of HB 283, Missouri's "Birther Bill" back in 2011, hanging out with Orly Taitz and later Koenig also supported a bill to prohibit compliance with the United Nations Agenda 21 environmental treaty a few years ago,apparently because he's another one of those conservatives who believe it's a secret plot for global domination. In May 2014, that Koenig sponsored HB 1587, a bill to prevent teachers from misinforming students about "scientific controversies," specifically citing "the theory of biological and hypotheses of chemical evolution" as controversial. That got him mentioned on the Colbert Report... but believe it or not, that' not he only time Koenig was raked over the coals by Colbert, as he also did in 2012 for trying to place a ban on school teachers from talking about being gay, at all.

Hell, Koenig's response to the civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri after the shooting death of Michael Brown was to vote for a bill to make it easier for police officers to declare their use of deadly force was justified. But don't worry, he doesn't want the police state to get to restrictive, as he also put out a nullification bill that would prohibit Missouri law enforcement from enforcing federal firearms laws. Speaking of nullification, Koenig is a huge fan, because he also co-sponsored and voted for legislation to try and have Missouri prohibit implementation of the Affordable Care Act, apparently showing he doesn't know how the Civil War started, but thinking fighting against socialized healthcare is worth that kind of conflict happening again. And no, Andrew Koenig still continues to ignore basic facts to push forth partisan bills. Like how after the Planned Parenthood videos were debunked was strategically edited, and widely misleading frauds by a pro-life group, he still insisted on trying to create legislation to assure that any fetal remains are destroyed in an incinerator, rather than be used for stem cell research, or any other scientific endeavor, or perhaps even allowing investigators to just perform surprise inspections of clinics whenever they want without a warrant, because the 4th Amendment shouldn't apply to them. And you'd think he would know Planned Parenthood was found innocent of any wrongdoing, considering he led the witch hunt by chairing the Missouri House Committee that was looking for any kind of evidence they could to justify that. He’s also co-sponsored legislation to create stricter Voter Identification laws and legislation to attempt to drug test people on welfare.

Over the past year as a legislator, Koenig continued pushing for even more strict Voter ID legislation, and made another attempt at getting a ban on fetal tissue donation passed. Koenig was term-limited in 2016, and could not run for MIssouri's House of Representatives for a fifth term... so instead, he's made a run for Missouri State Senate, where he barely advanced out of the GOP Primary against Rick Stream, winning with 53% of the vote. He then coasted past Democrat Stephen Eagleton in the general election, and earned the right to continue to be a seaworthy douche-canoe upper chamber of the Missouri state legislature for at least the next 4 years.