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Miller would be great, losing his poo poo every time he sees a black reporter. Imagine how much uglier he'll get as the job ages him and takes the last of his thinning, greasy hair.
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Whoever replaces Spicey is going to be just as awful since the job essentially entails doing the impossible on a daily basis. They probably won't even last 5 months.
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Timeless Appeal posted:Beyond the fact the polls actually were mostly correct at least on a national level, but were slightly off on a state level (Remember Clinton's loss was by incredibly slim margins in the states that ended up mattering), we also have to remember that different polls mean different things. An election poll is predicting future behavior. And that's not going to be an exact science because opinions change and some people just don't vote. Polls regarding approval ratings are a completely different story because they're not predicting future behavior. They are literally just asking people what they currently believe. This is one of the odd things about the Rasmussen approval polls - they poll "Likely Voters" whereas traditionally all adults are randomly polled instead.
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I wonder how much of Spider remaining in the admin is because of Preibus
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:They won't appoint a new press sec and will use it as an excuse not to hold press conferences. Until sweeps.
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There Bias Two posted:https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-06-19/sean-spicer-to-lead-communications-office-searches-for-new-press-secretary 
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:They won't appoint a new press sec and will use it as an excuse not to hold press conferences. Lol yeah I mean, not really lol, but, I don't have an appropriate reaction to anything anymore
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Which one do you think Trump will pick??? or 
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:They won't appoint a new press sec and will use it as an excuse not to hold press conferences. maybe. no audio or video allowed at today's presser. pray for mueller to hurry this poo poo up.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Which one do you think Trump will pick??? Well I think the Wall Street guy is much more likely to give him a blowjob, so I'll put my money on that one.
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Party Plane Jones posted:twitter blast
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Whoever replaces Spicey is going to be just as awful since the job essentially entails doing the impossible on a daily basis. They probably won't even last 5 months. It sucks because they could eventually hire someone that is actually good at bullshitting and redirecting instead of a mumbley laughingstock.
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MickeyFinn posted:No, the Office of the Secretary is reviewing all funding in the department and putting as much of it on hold as he can while that "review" happens. It helps to understand that Rick Perry has no real convictions besides lining his pockets. He ran Texas government as a graft and personal favors machine for pretty much his entire governorship. He made sure to install buddies at every level of government and used them to direct grants, contracts, and tax exemptions to donors and other people who might be convinced to become donors in the future. The main reason he never got nailed for it was that his administration was meticulous about doing everything via in person meetings (even though those are insanely inconvenient in Texas) and never ever writing anything down. He's probably planning to do similar at the DoE just because that's all he knows. I'm sure that after the "review" is complete that spending to his buddies will be found to be useful and other expenses will be cut to the bone. He just seems less dangerous than the tea party idiots because he knows that there needs to be a government for you to have government corruption.
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My one hope is once this is all over, Spicer can do an interview were he lets the facade down and can be all, "That was messed up! He told me to lie! Straight to the press! What was I supposed to do? How embarrassing. Oh man, that was a crazy time."
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JasonV posted:My one hope is once this is all over, Spicer can do an interview were he lets the facade down and can be all, "That was messed up! He told me to lie! Straight to the press! Wait.. Did I really say that? How embarrassing. Oh man, that was a crazy time."  If you think Trump didn't make every last one of his staff members sign an NDA.
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Z. Autobahn posted:Let's not revise history and say that it was a bunch of dummies who thought that, and not, you know, pretty much everyone in this forum. The problem in 2016 wasn't that a bunch of dumb people pretended 30% meant 0%, it's that a whole bunch of smart people did too. Basically everybody in the whole world who wasn't named Nate Silver
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I merely hope that the next administration takes a moment out of each day to publicly shame and repudiate this admin and the GOP as a whole. Like, VERY public and daily reminders of Republicans awfulness
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Spicer will be found dead tomorrow in his old easter bunny suit. "Why don't they love me like they used to?," his suicide note will read. "Everyone wanted a hug from Happy Sean, who loved all good girls and boys. Sean just wants a hug. Why won't anyone hug Happy Sean?"
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oh hey (loud voice) RICK PERRY IS A PIECE OF poo poo AND BAD FOR THE DOE https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/876983160143323137
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pepito sanchez posted:I might be. It's just seemed surreal since Trump won the presidency. Something failed, whether it was polls, or something as big as the electoral college. It's making me go nuts, and I'm not even in USA. What failed was the two party system. The two parties put up two essentially unacceptable candidates, and chaos resulted.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:It sucks because they could eventually hire someone that is actually good at bullshitting and redirecting instead of a mumbley laughingstock. But that's the thing. My brother knew Sean Spicer personally and kept saying 'Holy poo poo, he isn't that guy, is he?' whenever he saw him on TV. Spicer was supposed to be the guy good at bullshitting and a reasonably respected Republican partisan rear end in a top hat. The job reduced him to this. It'll do the same to anyone else.
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Speaking of former Trumpers... https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/876984676300279810 This should go really well for him.
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CannonFodder posted:5 bucks says CT starts to toll all tractor-trailers driving through the state, much like Rhode Island. There was a proposal in the House to start installing tolls a month or two ago, but it was shelved indefinitely since it wouldn't do anything to help with the current budget shortfall and also because Republicans are only interested in service cuts. The transportation fund has, like, a year or two of solvency left so something's going to have to be done.
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Turned on CNN, turns out their running ads of Scalise getting pulled out of an ambulance with lines like "The unhinged left is applauding the shooting of Republicans." Yeah, that shooting is definitely going to turn that election R and embolden them to pass the AHCA.
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Paracaidas posted:Speaking of former Trumpers... What's sad is that, potential for fissile material falling off a cart somewhere aside, building alternative energy sources for the ME is a good idea. But of course who knows if it was on the up and up. My heart tells me gently caress no.
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Night10194 posted:But that's the thing. My brother knew Sean Spicer personally and kept saying 'Holy poo poo, he isn't that guy, is he?' whenever he saw him on TV. Spicer was supposed to be the guy good at bullshitting and a reasonably respected Republican partisan rear end in a top hat. He was clearly super bad at his job. It's probably not possible for anyone to be good at the job with it's impossible requirements but eventually they will hire an entertainer who is a lot better at adlibbing and redirecting. Someone with charm that can work a crowd instead of a guy that looks like a slug and stammers out that the holocaust is fake accidently and instead makes some light joke that doesn't answer the question but gets a good laugh or whatever.
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Paracaidas posted:Speaking of former Trumpers... I'm so amped for the race to turn cooperating witness between him and manafort. or race to escape the US, that's the other game manafort might play.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:He was clearly super bad at his job. It's probably not possible for anyone to be good at the job with it's impossible requirements but eventually they will hire an entertainer who is a lot better at adlibbing and redirecting. Someone with charm that can work a crowd instead of a guy that looks like a slug and stammers out that the holocaust is fake accidently and instead makes some light joke that doesn't answer the question but gets a good laugh or whatever. But that's the thing. You're up against the wall and you're not performing for the press corps, you're performing for an insecure, whiney brat who is tivoing your every appearance and throwing his poo poo at you every time his approval takes a hit, and who absolutely micromanages and demands you be seen visibly pushing back on things you know you should stay silent on. I don't think there's room to be an entertainer there.
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I will never forget Spicers first conference, openly yelling at the press that Trumps inaugural crowd was the largest ever. What a day.
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There Bias Two posted:https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-06-19/sean-spicer-to-lead-communications-office-searches-for-new-press-secretary Before I laugh what would Press Secretary->Communications Director be considered? How important is the Communications Director?
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Paradoxish posted:Malloy is all but handing this state to the GOP on a silver platter, but the real problem with CT is that we're in the endgame of decades of business friendly government policy. It turns out that kowtowing to business interests only works for so long and sooner or later you need those businesses to actually pay taxes rather than just rely on neverending growth. I look forward to becoming Kansas 2.0: Northeast Edition. There are two enormous issues that Malloy can't control and a GOP moron at the helm will only make worse: 1) a pension funding gap that started in 1939 2) the economy being driven by large cities and not suburbs. CT is screwed simply because people and businesses aren't fleeing to the suburbs in huge numbers anymore. GE moved to Fairfield when that was the cool thing to do. Now they're moving to Boston. That's where the talent is. CT only has so many Stamfords and Danburys. The state is also small. If we enact any policy that makes a business even slightly uncomfortable, they can just drive fifteen minutes in any direction and be over the border and still have their same market. Not to mention New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island have been circling like vultures. We'd better start tolling trucks on 95 and 84. I don't want to hear about how awful it is.
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Night10194 posted:But that's the thing. You're up against the wall and you're not performing for the press corps, you're performing for an insecure, whiney brat who is tivoing your every appearance and throwing his poo poo at you every time his approval takes a hit, and who absolutely micromanages and demands you be seen visibly pushing back on things you know you should stay silent on. I imagine it's possible to get somewhere where the scandal is that they ignored a direct question and told a joke instead (but it was a pretty funny joke) instead of having a guy where the scandal is stuff like that he said the holocaust isn't real by accident.
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Electric Phantasm posted:How important is the Communications Director? In a Trump administration? 
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Covok posted:Turned on CNN, turns out their running ads of Scalise getting pulled out of an ambulance with lines like "The unhinged left is applauding the shooting of Republicans." Yeah, that shooting is definitely going to turn that election R and embolden them to pass the AHCA. "an ad existing means that it will be effective" good thing all of Hillary's ads really stuck to trump
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OctaMurk posted:Perry is better for the DOE and America than Tillerson. He apparently has been a pretty hands-off administrator and has focused more on working on behalf of his subordinates and taking their advice seriously, rather than micromanaging them. Honestly, it's probably better to have someone like him in charge of the DOE to lobby for its importance and navigate Congress rather than some physicist. http://www.salon.com/2017/06/18/rick-perrys-plan-to-kill-funding-for-wind-and-solar-power/
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https://twitter.com/GovPenceIN/status/7720153887 https://twitter.com/RepTomPrice/status/7764456390
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