General Trump hilarity free-for-all thread

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

it occurs to me that there may be a method to his madness, albeit an insane one. He promised to "make America great again" and obviously in order to do that he first has to ruin it.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

If nothing else, the next 6-18 months are going to make it very clear where everyone's alleigances lie.  Trump doesn't have a power base and hasn't played the game...he's dead meat and he doesn't even know it.

I think it'd be worth all this just to see Trump get ousted and humiliated. Ryan's rough, but it seems like he's the type that's easier to counter because he has a plan and certain interests. Trump really only has his own interests and is too unpredictable to counter, clearly.

If we can get the damn voters off their asses, we can re-take Congress in 2018, and even if Ryan ends up in office we'll be able to lame duck him until 2020. Problem is, there's a good long stretch before 2018. Well, and the other problem is that an awful  lot of voters seem to have no idea how politics work or why midterm elections are important.

If there's an election in 2018....

[P3nT4gR4m]

Of course there'll be an election in 2018. It'll be yuuuge. All six surviving americans will vote. 100% turnout. Biggest percentage voter turnout in history. Best election ever.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So, Trump has said he is going to get America to pay for building the wall, and make Mexico reimburse it.

Mexico has said "lol no", and called off a meeting with Trump in protest.

Trump has said today that he will pass a 20% import tax on all Mexican goods to pay for the wall.  Presumably, none of his advisers have explained to him how this is, yet again, making Americans pay for the wall.

LOL, how does he think import taxes work? Does he think the country exporting the goods pays them?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Some people have also mentioned that to pass such a tariff, the US would have to leave NAFTA

Not actually funny, but what is there to do other than laugh and protest?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Ryan just admitted that there will be no replacement for the ACA.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

HAW HAW HAW

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-targets-landmark-endangered-species-act-big-changes-063525152.html

[Cain]

So, who wants to know about Trump's source for the "3 million illegal votes thing"?  Of course you do.

Today, Trump revealed his name was Gregg Phillips in a tweet.  Gregg is the owner of "VoteStand", an app which allows people to report "suspected illegal voting activities as they happen".  He claims that he has matched complaints made to him on election day with the US voter roll and found over 3 million irregularities - but he has refused thus far to show his work.

He also owed more than $100,000 in unpaid tax, associated with the Tea Party, has claimed that Israelis impersonated the Russians behind the DNC hacking, claimed that the Department of Health and Human Services under Obama "hacked" the election, compared Pelosi to Hitler and doesn't like Islam much.

So, yeah.

[Cain]

Unconfirmed reports (but from a normally credible source) that green card holders coming back into America from countries under the "Muslim ban" were handcuffed, had their social media reviewed and were asked their views on Trump.

[Cain]

It gets even worse  http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-visa-ban-also-applies-to-citizens-with-dual-nationality-state-department-says-1485628654

It also applies to people who originally hail from those countries but are traveling on a passport issued by any other nation, the official said. That means Iraqis seeking to enter the U.S. on a British passport, for instance, will be barred, according to a U.S. official. British citizens don't normally require a visa to enter the U.S.

"Travelers who have nationality or dual nationality of one of these countries will not be permitted for 90 days to enter the United States or be issued an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa," a State Department official said. "Those nationals or dual nationals holding valid immigrant or nonimmigrant visas will not be permitted to enter the United States during this period. Visa interviews will generally not be scheduled for nationals of these countries during this period."

The dual-citizenship ban doesn't apply to U.S. citizens who are also citizens of the seven nations singled out by Mr. Trump.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/28/politics/white-house-holocaust-memorial-day/index.html

Trump has no comment on Jewish victims of the holocaust because "other people died, too."

[Cain]

Words are a limited commodity, there's no way he could say Jews, Roma, gays and Communists...it would deplete the National Strategic Word Reserve.

[Cain]

Oh, and Steve "platform for the alt-right" Bannon has been put on the NSC.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

Words are a limited commodity, there's no way he could say Jews, Roma, gays and Communists...it would deplete the National Strategic Word Reserve.

You left out disabled people.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I wonder how many Trump voters are finally starting to comprehend why so many people kept saying that supporting Trump is racist as fuck? I mean, I keep seeing all these regret posts about voting for the guy, and I'm like, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HE PROMISED, DUMBASS.