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Botany's JournalNY Times Editoral Today .... The dam is broken .... The Republicans Guide to Presidential Behavior
It wasn’t so long ago that Republicans in Congress cared about how a president comported himself in office. They cared a lot! The president is, after all, commander in chief of the armed forces, steward of the most powerful nation on earth, role model for America’s children — and he should act at all times with the dignity his station demands. It’s not O.K. to behave in a manner that demeans the office and embarrasses the country. Shirt sleeves in the Oval Office? Disrespectful. Shoes on the Resolute desk? Even worse. Lying? Despicable, if not impeachable.
Now seems like a good moment to update the standards. What do Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and other Republican leaders think a president may say or do and still deserve their enthusiastic support? We offer this handy reference list in hopes of protecting them from charges of hypocrisy in the future. They can consult it should they ever feel tempted to insist on different standards for another president. So, herewith, the Congressional Republican’s Guide to Presidential Behavior.
If you are the president, you may freely (accept):
• occupy the White House with the help of a hostile foreign power
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/opinion/sunday/the-republicans-guide-to-presidential-behavior.html?_r=0
Trump is crazy .... just last week ..... 3 examples
Donald J. Trump?Verified account @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago More China just agreed that the U.S. will be allowed to sell beef, and other major products, into China once again. This is REAL news!
9,885 replies 11,584 retweets 41,690 likes
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In 2016 the US exported $21.4 billion in ag products to China. USDA figures
https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/infographic-us-agricultural-exports-china-2016
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Trump wants 'goddamned steam catapults on new aircraft carriers
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/333040-trump-wants-goddamned-steam-catapults-on-new-aircraft-carriers#
President Trump said he has told the Navy to return to decades-old steam-powered catapult technology to launch aircraft from the new Gerald Ford-class aircraft carriers, rather than use a new digital launch system.
Trump’s comments came during an interview with Time magazine, released in excerpts Thursday, where he bashed the new Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and said the Navy would instead be “going to goddamned steam.”
“I said, ‘You don’t use steam anymore for catapult?’ ‘No sir.’ I said, ‘Ah, how is it working?’ ‘Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s planes thrown in the air,’” Trump said in the interview.
“It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said—and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said, ‘What system are you going to be—‘ ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said, ‘No you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.’
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Trump tells The Economist he invented the phrase 'priming the pump'
Source: The Hill
President Trump in an interview published Thursday said he invented the phrase “priming the pump,” a common saying used in economics.
“Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just… I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good. It’s what you have to do,” Trump said during an interview with editors for The Economist.
The president also cited the phrase “priming the pump” when answering a question about his tax plan increasing the deficit.
“Well, it actually did,” Trump answered, disagreeing with the editors who said the Reagan tax plan did not increase the deficit.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/332889-trump-tells-economist-he-invented-the-phrase-priming-the-pump
Merriam-Webster's Twitter account has corrected Trump:
Merriam-Webster ✔@MerriamWebster
The phrase 'priming the pump' dates to the early 19th century.
Tomato List 2017
Jet Star
Black Krim
Cherokee Purple
Better Boy
Sun Gold
Brandwine
Lemon Boy
Serrano peppers
CA Wonders Bell Pepper
Red Chili cayenne
herbs
Paresely
It. Basel
Cinnamon basil
leaf stuff
Swiss Cahard
I have room for 1 or 2 more Toamtoes
AK Traveler, old German, Hillbilly, or Mr. Stipey ?????
He is crazy .... latest tweet .... Trump, China will now important US Ag. Products
https://twitter.com/AynRandPaulRyan/status/863021439028305920Donald J. Trump?Verified account @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago
More
China just agreed that the U.S. will be allowed to sell beef, and other major products, into China once again. This is REAL news!
9,885 replies 11,584 retweets 41,690 likes
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In 2016 the US exported $21.4 billion in ag products to China. USDA figures
https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/infographic-us-agricultural-exports-china-2016
Donald Trump Continues to Eat Like a Middle Schooler Whose Parents Are Working Late
http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/05/president-donald-trump-demands-two-scoops-of-ice-cream-with-dessert.htmlPresident Trump’s dietary preferences have been well documented — this is the man who eats KFC on private jets and who replaced President Obama’s apples and almonds with Lay’s potato chips. And it seems the White House staff is already attuned to Trump’s needs; according to a Time report published Thursday, he gets special treatment at mealtimes.
The waiters know well Trump’s personal preferences. As he settles down, they bring him a Diet Coke, while the rest of us are served water, with the Vice President sitting at one end of the table. With the salad course, Trump is served what appears to be Thousand Island dressing instead of the creamy vinaigrette for his guests. When the chicken arrives, he is the only one given an extra dish of sauce. At the dessert course, he gets two scoops of vanilla ice cream with his chocolate cream pie, instead of the single scoop for everyone else. The tastes of Pence are also tended to. Instead of the pie, he gets a fruit plate.
The wisdom of Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
“Well, I can speak to my own personal experience,” she said. “I’ve heard from countless members of the FBI that are grateful and thankful for the president’s decision and I think that we may have to agree to disagree. I’m sure there are some people that are disappointed, but I’ve certainly heard from a large number of individuals and that’s just myself, and I don’t even know that many people in the FBI.”
https://thinkprogress.org/sarah-huckabee-sanders-countless-fbi-agents-comey-f74b5dec8721 audio @ link
The Nation: We may be witnessing the unraveling of Donald Trump's Presidency
In his paranoia about his legitimacy as president, Trump is pushing us to the brink of a constitutional crisis.
By Joan Walsh
https://www.thenation.com/article/we-may-be-witnessing-the-unraveling-of-donald-trumps-presidency/
Donald Trump began his presidency in a troubling crisis of legitimacy, given charges
that Russia meddled in the election to help him defeat Hillary Clinton, and that Clinton
won the popular vote nonetheless. This crisis is now devouring him.
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Trump’s cover story for Comey’s dismissal—that brand new deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein wanted him gone, ironically due to his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email practices last year—has completely come undone in 24 hours. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Comey told Congressional leaders that days before his firing he’d submitted to Rosenstein a request for resources to expand the Russia probe. By Thursday morning, a half-dozen major news outlets produced deeply reported pieces, some based on as many as 30 sources, revealing that Trump has been seething over Comey’s handling of the investigation into alleged collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russian government officials—and that his anger hardened into a plan to fire him last week. The Washington Post reported that Rosenstein threatened to resign, angry at being falsely depicted as the person behind Comey’s firing. (The Justice Department is denying that report.)
It seems that on May 3, Comey committed his unforgivable sin while testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Trump signaled his anxiety with a tweetstorm the day before. “The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?” one tweet read. Comey sealed his fate when he acknowledged his actions might have played a role in Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton. It made him “mildly nauseous,” he said, to think he tipped the race to the Republican. Comey himself was confirming Trump’s darkest fear, the font of his angsty, crazy late night and early morning tweets: that he hadn’t won the presidency legitimately.
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If there’s any remaining doubt that his personal legitimacy crisis is driving his crazy behavior, Trump is dispelling it by choosing today to sign an executive order establishing a commission to investigate (false) charges of voter fraud, headed by ace voter-suppressor Kris Kobach. Trump seems so comfortable with the rule-breaking and corruption he mastered in the private sector, he doesn’t completely understand that he might want to shield his personal motivations more artfully. He’s claimed Clinton built her popular vote margin with illegal voters; now that he’s dispatched with Comey, he’ll use Kobach to slay his other legitimacy phantom.
The wisdom of Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
"Any person of legal mind and authority knows what a big deal that is, particularly in the Department of Justice; particularly for somebody like the deputy attorney general who has been part of the Justice Department for 30 years and is such a respected person,"
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/10/politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-james-comey-atrocities/
Russian foreign minister jokes about Comey in Washington: 'Was he fired?'
Source: CNBC
Russian foreign minister jokes about Comey in Washington: 'Was he fired?'
Russia's foreign minister came to Washington on Wednesday amid a political firestorm over the surprise ouster of FBI Director James Comey, and greeted questions about the topic with humor.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have questioned the timing of President Donald Trump's decision to remove Comey, which the White House said was due to the FBI chief's conduct during the probe into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information last year. Democrats, in particular, said the move came as the FBI investigates Russia's alleged meddling in the election, including possible ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
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"Was he fired? You're kidding," Lavrov said in a deadpan before shrugging and turning to walk away next to Tillerson.
Lavrov will meet with Trump at the White House later Wednesday morning.
Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/10/comey-fired-lavrov-jokes-about-fbi-director-was-he-fired.html
Does Trump even have any staff that knows how bad this meeting looks and they
are doing it now?
Video @ link.
Both McConnell and Ryan were involved with this Russian/Turmp coup too.
How did McConnell know if he waited until after the election he would have
somebody else to vote for for SCOTUS?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028671176 (NY Times Article)
Paul Ryan & Republican Establishment Used Hacked Info From Russia Against Democrats:
Let's not forget that a super PAC tied to Paul Ryan used material provided by Russia's hacking of the DNC and DCCC.
It was known that Russia had stolen material from the DNC and DCCC and a Paul Ryan Super PAC and as well as other Republican groups used it.
It wasn't just Hillary Clinton being attacked. It wasn't just Trump benefiting. There's potentially more collusion than just that between Trump's team and Russia.
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BTW both Sessions and Pence are up to their eyeballs in this crap too. I have some questions about Chaffitz too.
It was a coup and we had treason.
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