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Incandenza wrote: His brain is rotting.

He is ill no doubt. And no doubt not ill enough (unless forced to sit a psych eval) for any Govt medical authority to declare him unfit for office (is there a provision for declaring the president mentally unfit through a psychological illness, as opposed to being incapable through coma or whatever?).

What gets me is the unnamed aide constantly talking over Trumpo. I'd have thought that's the surest way to end up on the Enemies List when dealing with a maniac elderly child like that. Unless it was Ivanka.

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Daniel Dale loves that shit. He was a thorn in Rob Ford's side for years, and was part of the team that exposed the crack video.

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That reads like an old NME interview with some pilled-up early 90s bullshitter musician. Absolute contradictory garbage at every turn.
At least the musical morons didn't have the nuclear codes.

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Although The Nuclear Codes sounds exactly like the kind of thing a sub-Oasis coked up Ladrock band who thought they were political and edgy would call themselves.

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Paxman now being scathing on Panorama - Trump's first 100 days.

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'BLACKS FOR TRUMP!'

'WOMEN FOR TRUMP!'

It's just too funny.

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Satchmo Distel wrote: Trump has a tricky week ahead on the budget where he'll need all the congressional support he can muster so can't look cravenly pro-Russian at this point, even leaving aside his various policy spins over Syria.

Won't be that tricky. "Tax cuts will pay for themselves". People believe that.

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Lang Spoon wrote:

His brain is rotting.

He is ill no doubt. And no doubt not ill enough (unless forced to sit a psych eval) for any Govt medical authority to declare him unfit for office (is there a provision for declaring the president mentally unfit through a psychological illness, as opposed to being incapable through coma or whatever?).

Yup. Section 4 of the 25th Amendment doesn't define his medical condition beyond "being unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office." Ursus has reckoned this as the best bet to remove him for some time. It'll take Pence and Congress to get the job done though (see below.)

" Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office."

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No one cared enough about his speech for Holocaust remembrance to come up with something original, so they plagiarized the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Introduction to the Holocaust" page:

President Trump’s Holocaust remembrance remarks use similar wording to the Holocaust Museum website’s “Introduction to the Holocaust” page.

“The Holocaust was the state-sponsored systematic persecution and attempted annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazi regime and its collaborators,” a Monday release from the White House reads.

The museum's introduction page is nearly identical. "The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators," it reads.

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We had uproar over here when Gordon Brown "disrespected" a family of a dead soldier by misspelling his (unusual) surname in a handwritten letter.

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He started his speech for Holocaust Day by pointing out that someone (another great, great friend) had predicted he, Trump, would win the election, and he had.

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Tubby Isaacs wrote: We had uproar over here when Gordon Brown "disrespected" a family of a dead soldier by misspelling his (unusual) surname in a handwritten letter.

Brown? Brown is unusual? What silent letter has the Great White Kirkcaldy Whale hidden from the Great British Public now, eh? Not enough he took all my cash when he broke the world economy, now the Jock twat is hoarding silent letters like a French cunt on his surname.

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"“Would you be for a preemptive strike?” Today Show host Willie Geist asked the South Carolina Republican. "If that's what it would take,” Graham replied resolutely.

"It would be terrible but the war would be over here (there), wouldn't be here," Graham continued. "It would be bad for the Korean Peninsula. It would be bad for China. It would be bad for Japan, be bad for South Korea. It would be the end of North Korea. But what it would not do is hit America and the only way it could ever come to America is with a missile."

Graham also mentioned that he had previously raised this issue with President Trump.

"I said, 'Do you want on your resume that during your presidency the North Koreans developed a missile that could hit the American homeland with a nuclear weapon on top of it?’,” Graham recalled, adding that President Trump replied at the time ‘absolutely not.’”

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If they didn't have the balls to stop him getting nominated and elected, which they could have done had they put country before party, there's no way they'll invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, even if he's walking across the White House lawn with his finger poised over the red button.

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I don't think they'll invoke the 25th either, at least not yet. Pence is getting a high public profile though, especially on foreign matters. He also understands how Congress works. As long as Trump never leaves the golf course or oval office, and relies on his VP to do the nitty-gritty stuff he, potentially, becomes more vulnerable to a congressional coup.

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But the healthcare bill is needed to pay for the tax cuts. They have successfully tied themselves in knots. They want to repeal, but now they realize they need to keep the coverage through Medicaid (or at least something), though that is where the tax cuts were coming from.

Add to that the crazy boost to military funded by cutting the government to a point that is threadbare... it is going to be tricky to deliver material tax cuts without encountering a place which makes fiscal conservatives real awkward.

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Wife of unelected king and daughter of sexist president meet at summit of self-appointed powerful countries to discuss women's rights

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Yes, that is feasible - the reform needs to be neutral, though tax cuts can be tax cuts. But given the split across the Republicans I hope some would resist the idea of screaming blue murder about the deficit and then letting the thing go crazy for the sake of tax cuts. Plus it is contrary to Trump's (crazy) pledge to get rid of the whole being in debt situation.

I see the freedom caucus are ok with sending the national debt to the moon. Great.

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Cohn and Mnuchin are now bigging up "dynamic scoring", ie tax cuts will pay for themselves, to justify blowing up the deficit, but apparently they can't rely on that for Congressional rules.

The revenue effect of any tax plan would be evaluated under what’s called “dynamic scoring,” which means the impact of the tax policies on economic growth and consumer well-being would be taken into account. The process can be controversial, in that economists use differing models to gauge such outcomes. Mnuchin made clear that Trump administration officials “fundamentally believe in dynamic scoring.”

Cohn also emphasized the importance of dynamic scoring -- saying it might help the administration’s plan avoid the pitfall of expiring after 10 years. “Using dynamic scoring may allow us to get to a permanent solution,” he said.

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Bruno wrote:

I don't think they'll invoke the 25th either, at least not yet. Pence is getting a high public profile though, especially on foreign matters. He also understands how Congress works. As long as Trump never leaves the golf course or oval office, and relies on his VP to do the nitty-gritty stuff he, potentially, becomes more vulnerable to a congressional coup.

But if they can contain him on the golf course, that's the more preferable and Reaganesque solution. Why go a step farther and blow it up? Would it help them politically? Trump isn't popular nationally but he owns their base. His approval rating as of a couple days ago was an astonishing 42%, which is a lot of votes.

No it wouldn't help them now, as I said amendment 25 is a down-the-line possibility. However, for whatever reason, Trump doesn't like travel, nor talking to politicians. He hasn't visited another country yet, nor has appeared in public in any US states where he doesn't have overwhelming support. Outside his immediate family he doesn't appear to trust any of his appointees for very long. He's clearly uncomfortable in the environment he's found himself in, which makes him increasingly isolated and dangerous. At some point, either constitutionally (Am 25), or informally (Kushner?) a surrogate is likely to take his place.

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2020's a loooooong way off. Given what's happened his first 100 days, I wouldn't make any assumptions about what he'll do, or say, in three weeks never mind three years.

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My money is still on incest.

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Well he's definitely thought about it, judging by his gropey shenanigans on the campaign stump. Short of a staffer catching them inflagrante in the Prez's bed though, can't see it flying. She'd probably have to testify against him for any accusations to have legs otherwise, and I'm guessing she'd put up with his wandering hands if the pay-off was a Trump Trump ticket in 2020 or whatever else she's in this for (to get massively, Yeltsin daughter rich, I'd imagine - though being next Prez/VP reduces the chances of having all the lovely money back)

If he was fucking around in public view with Ivanka some paparazzo would have got the goods by now.

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Those fucking Guy Fawkes masked avengers have been very very quiet about all the evil shit on Trump they were going to release to the world. Fuck sake lads, get busy.

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US imposes a 20%+ duty on Canadian lumber. The US lumber lobby has claimed for years that the Canadian industry is government subsidised, however a NAFTA arbitration panel has ruled on three occasions that countervailing US duties are out of order. The timber industry is Canada's biggest employer. A third of the wood used in the US construction industry comes from here. This is gonna get tasty.