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Trump

Having provoked China by chatting with the president of Taiwan on the phone, Trump has taken to needling them on Twitter. Saints preserve us.

Ivanka and Jared are moving to DC. Still not elected or appointed officials. Still illegal for them to hold government positions.

Transition Team & Cabinet Appointees

Ben Carson has some weird ideas about housing and segregation. He also admitted that Trump promised him a job… which is illegal.

Voting

At least one Texas elector will not vote for Trump.

Michigan’s new voter suppression bill “has a provision tucked into it that would make it impossible to repeal via a popular referendum.” Charming. New laws are being pushed in Texas and New Hampshire as well.

The Michigan recount is on… immediately. Hope they had plenty of volunteers ready and waiting.

The Supreme Court is hearing gerrymandering cases from North Carolina and Virginia today.

…the Supreme Court has generally tolerated legislative maps that are drawn to advantage one party or the other, while simultaneously treating racial gerrymanders with much greater skepticism. As a result, North Carolina’s brief defending its maps is an odd spectacle. It openly admits that the consultant hired by Republican lawmakers to draw the states congressional maps was instructed “to draw maps that were more favorable to Republican candidates.” And brags that “Republicans turned a 7–6 Democratic advantage” in the state’s congressional delegation “into a 9–4 Republican advantage” with the maps at issue in McCrory. The state, and its attorneys, apparently believe that the Court is so unconcerned about partisan gerrymanders that litigants can safely make such admissions in their briefs.

Protests

Energy Transfer Partners says they plan to continue building the DAPL

and calls the Native American owners of the land “a narrow and extreme political constituency.”

General Fascist Nonsense

Washington Post reporters were threatened after posting the story about the pizzeria shooting in DC

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dimbosama:

fiddleabout:

shitrichcollegekidssay:

Them: Donald Trump is actually a really good guy for refusing to take the president’s 400K salary. See he’s really not in it for himself or the money!

Reality: Because Melania and Barron Trump will remain in Manhattan and Donald Trump himself will be staying at Trump Tower as much as possible during his presidency, one floor of Trump Tower may be converted into a round-the-clock command post for the Secret Service. This safety precaution will cost the government roughly $1.5 million per year and the money will be pocketed by Donald Trump’s own company. 

#this is not normal #you fucking nitwits#the president’s salary is to remind them#that they are a PUBLIC SERVANT#that they are paid to do a job not rule as king#that he’s doing this is spitting upon that very ideal#that is fucking baked into the concept of the presidency#you absolute fucking morons

It’s also literally something Hitler did.

“… it was clear that Hitler had little use for the modest salary of 45,000 Reichsmarks he earned as Reich Chancellor, or for the annual expense allowance of 18,000 Reichsmarks; early in his Chancellorship, therefore, he publicly renounced both salary and allowance in a propagandistic gesture designed to advertise the spirit of selfless dedication in which he ruled the country.” Richard Evans - The Third Reich in Power