President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

President Trump has suggested that the judiciary doesn't have the authority to question him. He was a very early proponent of nuking the filibuster for Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. And he recently raised eyebrows by congratulating Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the expansion of his presidential powers — echoing his previous admiration for strongman leaders.

Now Trump is talking about consolidating his own power.

In an interview with Fox News that aired Friday night, Trump dismissed the “archaic” rules of the House and Senate — using that word four times — and suggested they needed to be streamlined for the good of the country.

A sampling:

• “We don't have a lot of closers in politics, and I understand why: It's a very rough system. It's an archaic system.”
• “You look at the rules of the Senate, even the rules of the House — but the rules of the Senate and some of the things you have to go through — it's really a bad thing for the country, in my opinion. They're archaic rules. And maybe at some point we're going to have to take those rules on, because, for the good of the nation, things are going to have to be different.”
• “You can't go through a process like this. It's not fair. It forces you to make bad decisions. I mean, you're really forced into doing things that you would normally not do except for these archaic rules.”

Analysis | Trump is now talking about consolidating his power

 

Yup. Next up, the Reichstag fire.

 

A deliberative body without the deliberation. What better present for 21st century America?

If it weren't for all the people getting hurt as a result, I'd say our vapid society deserves the shit sandwich it is being fed. All hail the rule of the moron class.

 

Quick wager: If somebody put a piece of paper in front of Fucko and told him to spell the word "archaic," how many tries do you think it would take him to get it right?

Of course the first three or four attempts, where he's holding the wrong end of the pen/pencil/crayon and rips holes in the paper, don't count.

 

I bet you're a beast in the gym.

 

Shit. He should have asked for the county-by-county map. That's the one that looks impressive at first glance.

 

"We can't have archaic and eat it, too!"

 

Yeah, I was 40 years ago. But I wouldn't have had to be if I hadn't been chowing down on pizza every day in the school cafeteria.

 

My daily utterance of "Oh for fuck's sake."

Should I have faith even republicans will tell him to eff off on anything like this?

 

No. They're gutless hypocrites who claim to be the one and only party of America but who put party before country every day.

 

I thought you Socialists were all good with...

• Infecting Western Civilization with Sharia
• Obama ignoring separation of powers
• Dingy Harry changing Senate rules

 

Trumps behaving 'like a royal family', says German foreign minister

“There are things that are strange to me, for example the visit of his daughter to Germany, which was treated almost like a world event. This mix of politics with family and business smacks of nepotism and would be unimaginable here. It always bothers me when members of a family, who have never been elected, show up suddenly as official state representatives and are treated almost as if they were members of a royal family.”
– Sigmar Gabriel, foreign minister of Germany