US Politics Thread 2016-2020

[Rockstar]

why does this keep happening? somebody do something!

[Mr Quatro]

Wow! I suppose it is necessary ... seeing how we are the best country in the world. Is that too uppity?

“With #POTUSinAsia we couldn’t very well leave The Beast behind!” the Secret Service tweeted on Saturday with two photos showing Trump’s motorcade inside a C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft.

“The Beast” is the Cadillac limousine the agency uses to transport the president from place to place. It operates out of the Secret Service’s classified motor pool. The vehicle is heavily armed against ballistic, IED and chemical weapons attacks, and is fitted with advanced communications and emergency medical equipment.

[Dowly]

Trump administration releases report finding ‘no convincing alternative explanation’ for climate change

The Trump administration released a dire scientific report Friday calling human activity the dominant driver of global warming, a conclusion at odds with White House decisions to withdraw from a key international climate accord, champion fossil fuels and reverse Obama-era climate policies.

Syria signs Paris Agreement - leaving US only country in the world to refuse climate change deal

Syria has become a signatory of the Paris climate agreement, leaving the US as the only country in the world not to support the framework deal to combat greenhouse gas emissions.

#MAGA

[August]

Originally Posted by Dowly

#MAGA

Blame Obama for making agreements but never getting them ratified by the Senate. Hope and change.

[u crank]

Syria signs Paris Agreement. Really? A country that uses chemical weapons on its' own citizens, signs a non binding, unenforceable agreement.

[ikalugin]

It does make some people feel good though?

[u crank]

Originally Posted by ikalugin

It does make some people feel good though?

There is that.

[Gerald]

Update:US leader Donald Trump warns North Korea: 'Do not try us'

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41910167

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by u crank

Syria signs Paris Agreement. Really? A country that uses chemical weapons on its' own citizens, signs a non binding, unenforceable agreement.

I don't think climate change believers and scientists classify chemical weapons as a greenhouse gas or environmental threat.

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

I don't think climate change believers and scientists classify chemical weapons as a greenhouse gas or environmental threat.

I believe you are right. They are both things that can kill you apparently. One works considerably quicker than the other.

[Mr Quatro]

I think Trump is in bigger trouble than his lies indicate ... He's going to have to confess that he doesn't even know how to be the POTUS.

The truth will come out when he has accomplished absolutely nothing, zero point zero with the health care bill and or the tax reform bill don't go forward this year which only has about 6 weeks left.

Trump said that Papadopoulos was just a low-level volunteer ... not so

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...stephen-miller

The Trump campaign aide who suggested that President Trump journey to Russia to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the campaign was in regular contact with now-White House aide Stephen Miller, The New York Times reported Friday.

George Papadopoulos was in regular contact with Miller during the spring of 2016, a period during which Papadopolous also helped edit a major foreign policy speech Trump delivered, according to the Times.

In late October, Trump referred to Papadopoulos as a "low-level volunteer" on his campaign after it was revealed that Papadopoulos had pleaded guilty to lying to federal officials about his Russian contacts.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders also said Papadopoulos had a "limited" role in the campaign.

In fact Donald Trump might not have the GOP majority for much longer ... a GOP majority that can't even agree on tax reform pr a health bill no less.

(CNN)Unified governments are rare and fleeting in the US, and Republicans don't have much time to make the most use of theirs. That doesn't pertain just to this class of Republicans -- it's a pattern of recent history.

Right now, the GOP controls every lever of power in Washington -- the White House and both houses of Congress.

[Dowly]

Yup, as usual the White House's answer was simply to lie. The fact that Papa sat at the same table with Trump, Sessions and others as part of Trump's national security team pretty much confirms he wasn't just another low level volunteer among thousands of other volunteers.

[Rockstar]

In fact Donald Trump might not have the GOP majority for much longer ... a GOP majority that can't even agree on tax reform pr a health bill no less.

Actual spending cuts and reducing taxes, now that would be nice. Unfortunately without a budget, tax reform isn't really much more than just shuffling the existing burden around to different tax payers. Nothing really changes.

[Dowly]

[August]

John Oliver is a Trump hating liberal. You can't believe anything he says.