President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

"So much time and money on the impeachment" lol but killing Iran's No. 2 probably only cost 50-60 bucks tops.

 

Wasp nests and rocks.

 

War criminal gotta keep war criminaling.

 

Isn't targeting cultural sites terrorism?

 

$28 billion over two years, and none of it was appropriated or voted on.



"I was surprised that it didn't attract more attention," says Joe Glauber, the USDA's former chief economist, who's now a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.

Glauber says it deserves more attention, for a whole collection of reasons.

For one thing, it's an enormous amount of money, more than the final cost of bailing out the auto industry during the financial crisis of 2008. The auto industry bailout was fiercely debated in Congress. Yet the USDA created this new program out of thin air; it decided that an old law authorizing a USDA program called the Commodity Credit Corp. already gave it the authority to spend this money.

"What's unique about this is, [it] didn't go through Congress," Glauber says. Some people have raised questions about whether using the Commodity Credit Corp. for this new purpose is legal.

Glauber sees a risk of "moral hazard" — a situation in which someone is shielded from the consequences of poor decisions. The decision to start the trade war was costly, he says, and the Trump administration, by tapping the federal Treasury, is avoiding the political fallout from that decision. "The sector that is hurt the most, and which would normally complain, all of a sudden it's assuaged by these payments. To me, that's a problem," he says."

 

Vigorous jacking-off GIF.

 

Why, yes it is! You've won a no-expense trip to The Hague!

 

Here's Beau on the assassination. He thinks Trump has bitten off far more than he's going to want to chew.

 

At this point the true flags might be clamoring for attention too.