Daily Archives: May 5, 2017

Misadventures of a minority-elect President 83

Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

What a semester of history lessons would be like under our minority-elect President, even Trump’s home doesn’t want him there, the GOP’s piece of shit Obamacare replacement bill is worse than previously thought, it’s appearing more and more like Bannon is the President – not our illegitimate Liar-in-Chief, Trump praises Australia’s single payer healthcare after passage of dubious Trumpcare, Trump’s first hundred days of incompetent lawyering and attempts to delegitimate dissent, Trump orders FDA to switch TV from CNN to Fox faux News, more on the draconian Obamacare replacement bill ramrodded through the House, so many promises broken by Trump, Trump would get sued into oblivion over his fake news and propaganda if he loosened libel laws, Trump’s silent but not forgotten Russia scandal is about to rear its ugly head again, how Trump is a master of deception, study shows 1 thing Trump wins at: being mocked on late night TV, Democratic groups raising millions courtesy of GOP’s latest chicanery, the Presidential edition of Donald Trump scandals, the list of networks refusing to air Trumps fake news and propaganda about his failed first 100 days getting bigger and much more.

A Trump History Lesson article from US News. –
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2017-05-02/a-donald-trump-history-course-syllabus-to-follow-civil-war-jackson-remarks

Imagining what a semester of a history course taught by our Ignoramus-in-Chief would be like

‘He’s an embarrassment’: hostile welcome for Trump on return to New York article from The Guardian. –
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/05/hes-an-embarrassment-hostile-welcome-for-trump-on-return-to-new-york

The GOP’s Latest Health Care Replacement Bill Is Even More Heartless Than First Thought article from AlterNet. –
http://www.alternet.org/economy/gops-latest-health-care-replacement-bill-even-more-heartless-first-thought

The GOP’s Obamacare replacement IS worse than previously thought.

Yes, It Really Is ‘President Bannon.’ article from The Daily Kos. –
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/3/1658431/-Yes-It-Really-Is-President-Bannon

“If there was any doubt that this country is now being effectively run by a white supremacist rather than the Reality TV con-man voted into office last November, a photograph taken yesterday inadvertently revealing White House Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor Stephen Bannon’s odious “blueprint” for the country should put that doubt to rest.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a rightwing orthodox Jew and hardline supporter of Israeli policies (who has become Trump’s primary go-to mouthpiece on all things Jewish) visited the White House yesterday for an “Israel Independence Day” celebration. The Twitter-friendly Boteach sought photographs of himself in tandem with every White House personage he could find, including, curiously, the anti-Semitic, white “nationalist” champion Bannon. While the pair made a curious combination for that reason alone, it was the scribbled-on whiteboard in the background of the photograph that was far more interesting:

As the Washington Post notes, this “whiteboard” lists Bannon’s personal policy goals, with an outsize focus on rabidly xenophobic, anti-immigrant policies. “Repeal and Replace Obamacare” is at the top left (another goal Bannon lists is lowering the corporate tax rate to a specific 15%, which Trump actually proposed just last week). The fact that Bannon has the Board so publicly displayed is also indicative of how proud he is to display his goals to the rest of us.

Behind Boteach and Bannon (and, in one photo, Boteach’s wife Debbie) is a handwritten whiteboard list that apparently shows the goals that Bannon is working toward at the White House. Broken out into categories, many are obscured by the people in the foreground. Some have check marks next to them, apparently meant to indicate completion. What’s more, it’s my understanding that this is a subset of the goals publicly presented in Bannon’s office, so we’re looking only at a subset of what Bannon hopes to achieve…”

The Destructive Ignorance of Donald Trump’s Supporters Appears to Know No Limits article from AlterNet. –
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/destructive-ignorance-donald-trumps-supporters-appears-know-no-limits-0

It seems Trump supporters are completely unaware that he wants to completely destroy their healthcare.

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