Month: April 2017

 
via Nancy LeTourneau:
 

BREAKING: Trump announces that as soon as he's done bringing coal jobs back, he plans to get Fotomat workers back to developing film. pic.twitter.com/ad8siC63fF

— Dab Aggin (@DabAggin) March 30, 2017

Wondering why a few conservative friends are less than impressed.

• Hard to believe, but it’s true. Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has discovered a nationally known political figure who is less popular than Donald Trump.
   
• The Trump administration has made cynics of us all. Green Eagle points to a suspicious 180 turn of US policy in the Middle East. Putin, anyone?
   
• At The Moderate Voice military affairs columnist Dorian de Wind documents a new multiplication of civilian deaths, and speculates on whether this is due to changes in tactics or a simple change in how civilians are valued. After all, those children were just Muslim kids, right?
   
• Right after the election, Jon Perr at PERRspectives graciously conceded to Trump supporters, and made some predictions about Trumpcare. A third of a year later, he is too much the gentleman to say that those who disagreed were completely wrong, but it does turn out that he was completely right.
   
• Last Of The Millenniums revives a 45 year old question about about one President and asks it about another.
   
• Tommy Christopher watches Trump press sec Sean Spicer go to pieces when asked if Trump ordered Nunes to join a coverup.
   
• The Big Empty suggests a good career move for Representative Nunes.
   
• Jonathan Bernstein looks at the level of public enthusiasm for the Supreme court and parliamentary procedure and concludes that, whatever approach they choose, Democrats have room to maneuver.
   
• At The Onion, the NRA continues to fight for firearm safety, asking responsible gun owners to secure small children in locked safes.
   
• The Journal of Improbable Research reviews research published in the Journal of Financial Markets on how death and destruction by infectious disease results in dramatic surges in Wall Street.
   
• North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz addresses the loathing and obsession by evangelical men toward sex.
   
• Darcwonn is finally back (Yay!) at The Intersection of Madness and Reality, expressing a bit of anger at the treatment of Colin Kaepernick, who, in support of Black Lives Matter, did not stand during the National Anthem.
   
• driftglass goes back a few years to remember the mindless resentments of Joe Lieberman.
   
• This week in Trump “alternative facts”, Teen Vogue, a fashion and entertainment magazine, takes a break from beauty to pick out and explore 3 new administration falsehoods.
   

Two Presidents, Two Confrontations, One Winner

One President faced a hostile audience and emerged a winner. The other faced friends and turned them to opponents.

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